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1126032

	registered interest
	date	13/05/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Doctors: Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care and the Secretary of State for Defence on the annual tapered allowance and its effect on the recruitment and retention of doctors in the NHS and armed forces.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	253507
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2019 answer text The Government is committed to public service pensions which are fair to workers and fair to other taxpayers. The tapered annual allowance is focussed on the highest earning pension savers, to ensure that the benefit they receive is not disproportionate. The Government is aware of specific concerns raised by some high-earners impacted by annual allowance tax charges. All public sector pay and pensions policies are kept under constant review and discussed with relevant departments. answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 16/05/2019 13:19:35 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1125587

	registered interest
	date	09/05/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Cash Dispensing: Fees and Charges
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will call a summit with industry representatives, with the objective of ensuring the continued provision of free cash withdrawals at ATMs in deprived communities.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	252493
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2019 answer text <p>Last year, the Government initiated a discussion on payment methods through a Call for Evidence on Cash and Digital Payments in the New Economy. This sought to gather evidence from industry and the public alike on how changing preferences for cash and digital payments impact on different sectors, regions and demographics.</p><p> </p><p>A formal Summary of Responses to this Call for Evidence was published in May 2019. This response set out the Government’s commitment to supporting digital payments, whilst safeguarding access to cash for those who need it. It also highlighted that the Treasury would set up and chair a Joint Authorities Cash Strategy Group, made up of regulators and the Bank of England, to facilitate further co-ordination between the authorities and provide comprehensive oversight of the overall cash infrastructure.</p><p> </p><p>The Government-established Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) is closely monitoring developments in ATM provision, including those that are free-to-use. The PSR regulates LINK, the scheme which runs the UK’s ATM network, and has used its powers to hold LINK to account over LINK’s commitments to preserve the broad geographic spread of free-to-use ATMs.</p><p> </p><p>LINK has put in place specific arrangements to protect free-to-use ATMs more than 1 kilometre away from the next nearest free-to-use ATM. LINK has also enhanced its Financial Inclusion Programme by tripling the funding available for free-to-use ATMs in the most deprived areas of the UK.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 14/05/2019 12:30:18 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1124367

	registered interest
	date	01/05/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Child Benefit: British Nationals Abroad
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of child benefit paid for children who do not reside in the UK; how many such children there were; and in which countries those children resided in the most recent financial year for which data are available.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	249899
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2019 answer text <p>Total Child Benefit payments in 2018-19 amounted to £11.6 billion. It is estimated that approximately £15 million was paid for children resident in another EEA country or Switzerland. The number of children these payments relate to, broken down by the country they reside in, is provided in Table 1 below.</p><p> </p><p>Table 1: Estimated number of children for whom Child Benefit is received where European Community regulations apply, as at February 2019</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Country</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of children</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Austria</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Belgium</p></td><td><p>40</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bulgaria</p></td><td><p>415</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Croatia</p></td><td><p>45</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cyprus</p></td><td><p>40</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Czech Republic</p></td><td><p>165</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Denmark</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Estonia</p></td><td><p>35</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Finland</p></td><td><p>25</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>France</p></td><td><p>605</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Germany</p></td><td><p>165</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greece</p></td><td><p>55</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hungary</p></td><td><p>150</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Iceland</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Italy</p></td><td><p>170</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Latvia</p></td><td><p>700</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Liechtenstein</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lithuania</p></td><td><p>790</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Luxembourg</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Malta</p></td><td><p>25</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Norway</p></td><td><p>40</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Poland</p></td><td><p>10,975</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Portugal</p></td><td><p>230</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Republic of Ireland</p></td><td><p>1,945</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Romania</p></td><td><p>1,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Slovakia</p></td><td><p>575</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Slovenia</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Spain</p></td><td><p>625</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sweden</p></td><td><p>30</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Switzerland</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Netherlands</p></td><td><p>215</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>19,120</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Footnote: Figures have been rounded to the nearest 5. Figures under 5 have been suppressed and shown as ‘-’.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 13/05/2019 16:27:35 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1124728

	registered interest
	date	03/05/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Freeports
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the Government expects to publish its policy paper on free ports.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	250757
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2019 answer text <p>The Government receives a wide range of representations from stakeholders on all matters of fiscal policy, including free ports. We consider all of them in the normal process at fiscal events.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 09/05/2019 13:31:29 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1109041

	registered interest
	date	02/04/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Food: Charitable Donations
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps the Government is taking to encourage more (a) food retailers and (b) food manufacturers to claim tax relief on donating trading stock to charity.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	239888
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2019 answer text <p>Companies can claim relief for the cost of donating their trading stock to charities, including food banks, from their taxable profits. The Government promotes awareness and understanding of the relief available for corporate charitable donations through publishing guidance on GOV.UK and actively engages with businesses and charities to ensure the tax code is supporting them to meet their charitable objectives.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 08/04/2019 14:03:01 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1109040

	registered interest
	date	02/04/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Food: Charitable Donations
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of (a) the number of businesses that have claimed tax relief on donating food stock to charity and (b) the total value of tax relief granted for this purpose, in each of the most recent five years for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	239887
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2019 answer text <p>The Government does not have this information available. If a company donates its trading stock to a charity, it does not have to include anything in its sales income for the value of the gift.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 08/04/2019 14:00:24 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1063663

	registered interest
	date	18/02/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Royal Bank of Scotland
	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 potential merits of maintaining majority ownership of Royal Bank of Scotland.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	222650
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government believes that, as a matter of principle, firms best succeed under private ownership. Returning RBS to the private sector is the right policy for taxpayers, customers, and the wider economy.</p><p> </p><p>The Government intervened in RBS to maintain stability at the height of the financial crisis. RBS was never a speculative investment made to generate a profit, and it is right that private investors, not taxpayers, should bear the risk of companies such as RBS.</p><p> </p><p>The Government’s policy remains to return the financial sector assets acquired during the crisis to private ownership, when it represents value for money to do so, and market conditions allow.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 26/02/2019 15:59:10 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1059794

	registered interest
	date	12/02/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	No-interest Loans Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much funding has been allocated to the provision of interest-free loans as announced in Budget 2018; and when the first such loans will be made available.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	220096
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2019 answer text <p>At Budget 2018, the Government announced that it will carry out a study into the feasibility of establishing a no-interest loans scheme in the UK, and design a pilot.</p><p> </p><p>The feasibility study, which will be launched this year, will examine issues such as access, eligibility and funding models and help to determine how a pilot could work.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 18/02/2019 15:49:42 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1056823

	registered interest
	date	06/02/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Debt Respite Scheme
	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 merits of including debts which can be deducted directly from universal credit in the statutory Breathing Space scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	218209
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government published a consultation on a single policy proposal for the breathing space scheme in October 2018. The consultation proposed that the widest range of an individual’s personal debts as possible would be included in the scheme.</p><p> </p><p>The consultation closed on 29 January and the Government intends to confirm its approach to these aspects of the scheme in its response.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 14/02/2019 14:31:03 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1052201

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Equitable Life Assurance Society: Compensation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps the Government is taking to ensure all unpaid debts to Equitable Life pensioners are settled as quickly as possible.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	215102
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>Since 2010, we have taken more action than any previous government to resolve this issue by allocating up to £1.5bn, tax free, for payment to affected policyholders. There are no plans to allocate any further funds to the Equitable Life Payment Scheme.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 07/02/2019 15:36:17 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead