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1108994

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	Public Sector: Procurement
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 value of procurement of goods and services by public authorities in the West Midlands Metropolitan Area for the last 12 months for which data are available.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hodge Hill
tabling member printed	Liam Byrne
uin	239890
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2019 answer text <p>Procurement data that is collected by Government is published in the annual Whole of Government Accounts. It is compiled on a national level and a local authority level split is not available.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 08/04/2019 14:06:03 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	1171 label Biography information for Liam Byrne

1088221

registered interest
date	13/03/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Optical Fibres: Non-domestic Rates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of extending full fibre relief from five years to (a) 10 years, (b) 15 years and (c) 20 years by financial year.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hodge Hill
tabling member printed	Liam Byrne
uin	231921
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2019 answer text <p>Estimates of the Exchequer effect of extending full fibre relief are not available.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 18/03/2019 15:44:21 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	1171 label Biography information for Liam Byrne

1064759

registered interest
date	21/02/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Homelessness: Finance
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 classify as a priority in the next Spending Review, funding to reduce rough sleeping and homelessness.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hodge Hill
tabling member printed	Liam Byrne
uin	224477
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2019 answer text <p>The government is committed to tackling homelessness and rough sleeping. We have provided £1.2bn of funding to address homelessness. In August, we announced a £100m Rough Sleeping Strategy to begin progress to meet the commitment to halve rough sleeping by 2022, and eliminate it by 2027.</p><p> </p><p>All long-term decisions on public spending will be taken at the Spending Review this year, when the Chancellor will set out his approach for the future.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 26/02/2019 12:02:16 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	1171 label Biography information for Liam Byrne

1023300

registered interest
date	11/12/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Research: Expenditure
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 UK expenditure on research and development as a proportion of GDP in 2017-18; and how that level of expenditure compares to (a) other G7 countries and (b) the EU.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hodge Hill
tabling member printed	Liam Byrne
uin	201140
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2018 answer text <p>The latest ONS data estimates that overall gross R&amp;D expenditure in the UK was £33.1bn in 2016, which was 1.7% of GDP in that year. 2017 data is due to be released in March 2019. The latest OECD international comparison of R&amp;D expenditure ranked the UK 5<sup>th</sup> in the G7 and 10<sup>th</sup> among EU nations in 2016.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 17/12/2018 11:29:11 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	1171 label Biography information for Liam Byrne

1020747

registered interest
date	06/12/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Training: Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much the UK spent as a proportion of GDP on in-work training for 2017-18; and how that figure compares to the average spends within the (a) G7 and (b) EU.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hodge Hill
tabling member printed	Liam Byrne
uin	199786
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The Employer Skills Survey 2017, published in August 2018, states that UK employer expenditure on training and development in 2017 was £44.2bn, which represented approximately 2.2% of GDP.</p><p> </p><p>The primary government support for in-work training is the Apprenticeship Programme, which is funded by a 0.5% levy on all UK businesses with a wage bill over £3m each year. In 2017/18, the levy raised around £2.6bn, which was made available to the Department for Education to fund apprenticeships and skills training in England, and the devolved administrations, who received their share of the levy in the normal way to spend on their priorities.</p><p> </p><p>HM Treasury does not collect or hold direct international comparisons for these statistics.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 11/12/2018 14:35:29 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	1171 label Biography information for Liam Byrne

1020748

registered interest
date	06/12/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Transport: Infrastructure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much the UK spent as a proportion of GDP on transport infrastructure in 2017-18; and what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the proportion of UK GDP spent on transport infrastructure compared with the average proportion spent by (a) the G7 and (b) the EU.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hodge Hill
tabling member printed	Liam Byrne
uin	199787
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>In 2017-18, the UK’s public sector expenditure was £20.5 billion on transport capital investment. This is roughly 1% of GDP – a 0.25 percentage point increase on 4 years ago.</p><p> </p><p>Reliable international comparisons for transport infrastructure spend are difficult due to data availability. Within the UK, the devolved administrations also have responsibilities for transport investment.</p><p> </p><p>However, this government is building on this investment with the £28.8 billion National Roads Fund announced at Budget to invest in English roads, £47.9 billion for the railway in England and Wales in Control Period 6 and undertaking one of the largest engineering projects in Europe – HS2.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 11/12/2018 14:33:34 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	1171 label Biography information for Liam Byrne

1005726

registered interest
date	12/11/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Digital Technology: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Office for Budget Responsibility's Economic and Fiscal Outlook published in October 2018, if he will list the thirty groups identified using the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development World Investment Report and the commercial ORBIS database that could be in scope for the Digital Services Tax announced in Budget 2018.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hodge Hill
tabling member printed	Liam Byrne
uin	190368
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2018 answer text <p>The groups cannot be disclosed for reasons of taxpayer confidentiality.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 15/11/2018 17:11:59 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	1171 label Biography information for Liam Byrne

1001973

registered interest
date	05/11/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Telecommunications: Non-domestic Rates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 31 October 2018 to Question 184372 on Optical Fibres: Non-domestic Rates, what estimate his Department has made of the income for the public purse from rates on (a) new build (b) the existing stock of all fixed and mobile telecommunications infrastructure for each year for which his Department has such projections.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hodge Hill
tabling member printed	Liam Byrne
uin	188011
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>The Treasury does not collect or hold data on business rates receipts by asset type.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 12/11/2018 17:34:32 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1171 label Biography information for Liam Byrne