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1471559

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2022
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Bureaux de Change
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to require currency exchange services for consumers to display both (1) the live interbank exchange rate, and (2) the commission charged, following the UK’s departure from the EU.
	tabling member printed	Lord Birt
	uin	HL1077
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2022 answer text Where currency conversion is provided as part of a payment transaction, the Payment Services Regulations 2017 make requirements on UK payment service providers regarding disclosure of fees and charges to the payer, for example, the exchange rate used for a currency conversion transaction. Provisions under the Cross Border Payments Regulation, which continue to apply in the UK as part of retained EU law, also contribute to price transparency, with further requirements regarding how foreign exchange costs are communicated before a payment is made. The Government has no plans at this time to amend the requirements on firms, but keeps all policy under review.<p><strong> </strong></p>The Government recognises the importance of transparency of fees and charges in ensuring effective competition between payment service providers. These regulations, amongst other things, are intended to enable consumers to make informed decisions when making use of payment services including where currency conversion is offered as part of a payment transaction. answering member printed Baroness Penn question first answered 28/06/2022 15:28:52 answering member 4726 label Biography information for Baroness Penn
	tabling member	2533 label Biography information for Lord Birt

1471558

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2022
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Duke of Sussex: Charter Flights
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they funded the return charter flight for the Duke of Sussex from the United States to the UK for the Queen's Jubilee celebrations.
	tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
	uin	HL1076
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2022 answer text No public money was used for the charter flight for the Duke of Sussex from the United States to the UK.<p><strong> </strong></p>The Government provides financial support to the Queen known as the Sovereign Grant, to fund The Queen's official duties and maintain the Occupied Royal Palaces. Funding from the Sovereign Grant only covers expenses incurred by other Members of the Royal Family when they undertake official duties on behalf of Her Majesty. answering member printed Baroness Penn question first answered 28/06/2022 15:18:49 answering member 4726 label Biography information for Baroness Penn
	tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

1471575

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2022
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Truphone
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to monitor the sale of Truphone to ensure that it does not undermine (1) the UK's sanctions relating to Russia, or (2) the UK's national security.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Pidding
	uin	HL1097
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2022 answer text <p>Truphone Limited are not currently subject to financial sanctions.</p><p> </p><p>Financial sanctions restrictions apply to any entity that is itself designated, or is owned or controlled directly or indirectly by a designated person. This includes where that person holds (directly or indirectly) more than 50% of the shares or voting rights in an entity, has the right (directly or indirectly) to appoint or remove a majority of the board of directors of the entity, or it is reasonable to expect that the person would be able to ensure the affairs of the entity are conducted in accordance with the person’s wishes.</p><p> </p><p>If any sanctioned individuals are due to receive funds as a result of the sale of a company which is not subject to financial sanctions restrictions, any funds they receive from a UK company or into a UK bank account will need to be frozen. A licence from the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) in HM Treasury would then be needed for any onward movement of such funds, otherwise breaches of financial sanctions restrictions may occur. Any suspected breach of financial sanctions should be reported to OFSI.</p><p> </p><p>OFSI is the competent authority for implementing and enforcing the UK’s financial sanctions. The maintenance of national security is a cross-departmental effort and any activity to monitor and intervene in matters of national security may be undertaken by departments other than HMT.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Penn question first answered 28/06/2022 15:22:55 answering member 4726 label Biography information for Baroness Penn
	tabling member	4552 label Biography information for Baroness Pidding

1472831

	registered interest
	date	23/06/2022
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Care Workers: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to provide a pay increase to care workers that would help tackle (a) retention and (b) recruitment needs in the sector.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	23772
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2022 answer text <p>The vast majority of care workers are employed by private sector providers who ultimately set their pay, independent of central government.</p><p> </p><p>The Government recently increased the rate of the National Living Wage, meaning many of the lowest paid care workers benefitted from a 6.6% pay rise effective from April 1<sup>st</sup> 2022. We have also set a target for the National Living Wage to increase further, to reach two-thirds of median earnings by 2024 for workers aged over 21, taking economic conditions into account.</p><p> </p><p>We have announced an unprecedented investment of at least £500 million in the adult social care workforce, which will transform jobs in social care. We will deliver a vision where people can experience a rewarding career with opportunities to develop and progress, where they are recognised for the vital work they do and where they feel their wellbeing is prioritised.</p> answering member constituency Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland answering member printed Mr Simon Clarke question first answered 28/06/2022 13:39:02 answering member 4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1484095

	registered interest
	date	28/06/2022
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Employment Schemes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Plan for Jobs in supporting people into work.
	tabling member constituency	Preseli Pembrokeshire
	tabling member printed	Stephen Crabb
	uin	900775
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2022 answer text <p>The success of our Plan for Jobs is playing a key role in spreading opportunity across the country.</p><p> </p><p>The Government protected 11.7 million jobs through the pandemic, as well as moving millions of job seekers into work and supporting young people through programmes like kickstart and our apprenticeships offer.</p><p> </p><p>It’s clear our plan is working. 2 million fewer people are out of work than originally feared, and the unemployment rate remains close to a near 50 year low.</p><p> </p><p>We will continue to build on this success with our Way to Work campaign, which aims to support 500,000 jobseekers into work by the end of June.</p> answering member constituency Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland answering member printed Mr Simon Clarke question first answered 28/06/2022 14:08:54 answering member 4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke
	tabling member	1554 label Biography information for Stephen Crabb

1472830

	registered interest
	date	23/06/2022
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Public Sector: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will take steps to ensure that his public sector pay remits focus on poverty reduction.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	23771
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2022 answer text <p>The government is providing over £15bn of additional support, to address global inflationary pressures, targeted particularly on those with the greatest need. This package builds on the over £22bn announced previously, with government support for the cost of living now totalling over £37bn this year.</p><p>Millions of the most vulnerable households will receive at least £1,200 of one-off support in total this year to help with the cost of living.</p><p>For households that are not eligible for Cost of Living Payments or for families that still need additional support; the government is providing an extra £500 million of local support, via the Household Support Fund. The Fund will be extended from this October to March 2023, bringing total funding for the scheme to £1.5 billion.</p><p>The government is also committed to tackling the underlying, long-term factors driving cost of living challenges. This includes: helping people into work and supporting them to keep more of what they earn; solidifying our supply chains and boosting our energy security; and driving economic growth through a lower tax, dynamic market economy.</p><p>Pay for most frontline workforces – including nurses, teachers, armed forces and police officers - is set through an independent Pay Review Body process. The Pay Review Bodies will consider a range of evidence when forming their recommendations.</p><p> </p><p>Spending Review 2021 confirmed that public sector workers will see pay rises across the whole Spending Review period (22/23-24/25).</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland answering member printed Mr Simon Clarke question first answered 28/06/2022 14:10:51 answering member 4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1472834

	registered interest
	date	23/06/2022
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Public Sector: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what comparative assessment he has made of the impact of percentage increases in pay for (a) low earning and (b) other public sector staff; and if he will make it his policy to prioritise the largest public sector pay increases for the lowest earners, in the context of the rise in the cost of living.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	23774
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2022 answer text <p>The government is providing over £15bn of additional support, targeted particularly on those with the greatest need. This package builds on the over £22bn announced previously, with government support for the cost of living now totalling over £37bn this year.</p><p>Millions of the most vulnerable households will receive at least £1,200 of one-off support in total this year to help with the cost of living.</p><p>For households that are not eligible for Cost of Living Payments or for families that still need additional support; the government is providing an extra £500 million of local support, via the Household Support Fund. The Fund will be extended from this October to March 2023, bringing total funding for the scheme to £1.5 billion.</p><p>The government is also committed to tackling the underlying, long-term factors driving cost of living challenges. This includes: helping people into work and supporting them to keep more of what they earn; solidifying our supply chains and boosting our energy security; and driving economic growth through a lower tax, dynamic market economy.</p><p>Pay for most frontline workforces – including nurses, teachers, armed forces and police officers - is set through an independent Pay Review Body process. The Pay Review Bodies will consider a range of evidence when forming their recommendations.</p><p>Spending Review 2021 confirmed that public sector workers will see pay rises across the whole Spending Review period (22/23-24/25).</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland answering member printed Mr Simon Clarke question first answered 28/06/2022 13:46:27 answering member 4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1472798

	registered interest
	date	23/06/2022
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Health Professions: Tax Allowances
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Answer of 16 June 2022 to Question 15398 on Tax Allowances: Health Professions, what the Government's policy is on the validity of medics incurring tax charges albeit managed via scheme pays, for inadvertently exceeding annual allowances due to inflation.
	tabling member constituency	North Down
	tabling member printed	Stephen Farry
	uin	23816
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2022 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring that hard-working NHS staff do not find themselves reducing their work commitments due to the interaction between their pay, their pension, and the relevant tax regime.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS pension scheme is one of the most generous schemes available, and protects pensions in payment by increasing them by CPI and revalues accrued CARE benefits by CPI+1.5% each year.</p><p> </p><p>Pensions tax relief one of the most expensive reliefs in the personal tax system. In 2019/20 Income Tax relief on total contributions and National Insurance relief on employer contributions for pension savings cost the Exchequer £61 billion, with around 60 per cent of Income Tax relieved at the Higher and Additional rates. The annual allowance helps to ensure that the highest earning pension savers do not receive a disproportionate benefit.</p><p> </p><p>99 per cent of pension savers make annual contributions below £40,000, the level of standard annual allowance which has applied from 2014/15. Individuals who breach the annual allowance on tax-relieved pension savings can also use an option called ‘scheme pays’, under which they can require their pension scheme to pay their annual allowance tax charge now (in return for an actuarially fair reduction in their pension), provided that the annual allowance charge is at least £2,000 and they have exceeded the annual allowance of £40,000. In England and Wales, the NHS Pension Scheme goes further, allowing Scheme Pays to be used on any annual allowance charges relating to accrual in that scheme.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 28/06/2022 13:32:34 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
	tabling member	4856 label Biography information for Stephen Farry

1484097

	registered interest
	date	28/06/2022
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Offshore Industry: Taxation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the energy profits levy on investor confidence in the North Sea energy sector.
	tabling member constituency	West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
	tabling member printed	Andrew Bowie
	uin	900779
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2022 answer text <p>The Energy Profits Levy is a temporary measure, the revenues from which will help to provide vital support for households facing cost of living pressures.</p><p>The government expects the combination of the Levy and its investment allowance to lead to an overall increase in investment.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 28/06/2022 15:06:42 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4601 label Biography information for Andrew Bowie

1472327

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2022
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Charities: Tax Allowances
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how much tax is forgone annually by HM Treasury as a result of the tax exemptions for charities’ (1) donations, (2) investment income, and (3) gains on capital investments.
	tabling member printed	Lord Vinson
	uin	HL1178
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2022 answer text <p>Tax relief is available on donations to charity by individuals and organisations, and to charities for their activities, including investment income.</p><p>Estimates for tax reliefs on charitable donations by individuals are published in “UK charity tax relief statistics”. The table below is an extract from the latest edition, showing these estimates for the previous 5 tax years.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Extract from Table 1 and 2:</strong> Estimates for UK charities tax reliefs. Updated November 2021</p><p>Restricted to those reliefs for which accurate figures can be estimated</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>£m</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>Reliefs paid to charities</p></td><td colspan="4"><p>Reliefs paid to individuals</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tax Year</p></td><td><p>Gift Aid</p></td><td><p>Gift Aid Small Donations Scheme</p></td><td><p>Interest, royalties, trust donations etc</p></td><td><p>Inheritance Tax</p></td><td><p>Payroll Giving</p></td><td><p>Gifts of shares and property</p></td><td><p>Higher Rate Relief on Gift Aid</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>1,270</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>660</p></td><td><p>40</p></td><td><p>60</p></td><td><p>410</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>1,260</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>700</p></td><td><p>40</p></td><td><p>60</p></td><td><p>480</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>1,350</p></td><td><p>40</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>800</p></td><td><p>40</p></td><td><p>70</p></td><td><p>500</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>1,400</p></td><td><p>40</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>840</p></td><td><p>40</p></td><td><p>70</p></td><td><p>490</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020-21</p></td><td><p>1,380</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>860</p></td><td><p>40</p></td><td><p>70</p></td><td><p>490</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Information about tax relief on charities’ investment income, and on charitable donations by organisations is not readily available.</p> answering member printed Baroness Penn question first answered 28/06/2022 15:26:13 answering member 4726 label Biography information for Baroness Penn
	tabling member	1807 label Biography information for Lord Vinson