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1140550

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date	19/07/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Business: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department plans to undertake a review of the business taxation system.
tabling member constituency	High Peak
tabling member printed	Ruth George
uin	279435
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government has no plans at present to review business taxation.</p><p> </p><p>All aspects of the tax system are kept under review and are subject to change through the annual Budget, in the context of the wider public finances, with any future changes to the tax system being announced through this process.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 24/07/2019 11:34:16 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4662 label Biography information for Ruth George

1140551

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date	19/07/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Valuation Office Agency
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much the Valuation Office Agency budgeted for appeals against revaluations of business rate liabilities in each financial year since 2010-11; and how much of that budget was spent in each of those years.
tabling member constituency	High Peak
tabling member printed	Ruth George
uin	279436
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2019 answer text <p>The Valuation Office Agency does not hold data broken down in this way. The combined costs of delivering work on Business Rates and Council Tax, as published each year in the Agency’s Annual Report and Accounts, are set out below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Business Rates and Council Tax</p></td><td><p>Expenditure £m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>156.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>160.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>150.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>152.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>150.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>169.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>167.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>157.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>158.0</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 24/07/2019 07:14:34 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4662 label Biography information for Ruth George

1140579

registered interest
date	19/07/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Credit Unions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 9 July 2019 to Question 271336, for what reasons his Department does not offer a payroll deduction service to enable employees to join a credit union; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Harrow West
tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
uin	279369
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2019 answer text <p>HM Treasury explored the option of offering a credit union to staff, however due to lack of staff interest and other reward and benefit priorities it hasn’t been implemented.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 23/07/2019 14:20:42 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

1140592

registered interest
date	19/07/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Telephone Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the (a) longest and (b) average response time was to answer an HMRC helpline; and how many complaints about telephone response times to those helplines have been made in the last six months for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Newport East
tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
uin	279394
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2019 answer text <p>HMRC measure their telephony performance through average speed to answer and the percentage of customers needing to wait over 10 minutes.</p><p>In 2018-19, for customers who needed to speak to an adviser after going through the automated telephone system, HMRC’s average speed of answer was narrowly outside the five minute target at 5:14 mins. 19.7% of customers waited longer than ten minutes to be connected to an adviser, which is outside HMRC’s 15% target.</p><p>HMRC do not record complaints data broken down to this level of detail so the information requested is not readily available and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 24/07/2019 07:14:23 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden

1140617

registered interest
date	19/07/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	VAT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Guidance on how to prepare for Brexit if there's no deal, published by the Department for Exiting the European Union, what parts of the plan for VAT for businesses in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal have been implemented.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Chuka Umunna
uin	279466
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2019 answer text <p>As a responsible government, the Government has been preparing plans to minimise any disruption in the event of no deal for nearly three years.</p><p> </p><p>HM Revenue and Customs and HM Treasury are aware of the VAT policies that need to be delivered for exit day and the Government remains confident that all required SIs will be brought forward in good time.</p><p> </p><p>In light of the extension that has now been agreed, departments continue to advance their ‘no deal’ preparations and are making sensible adjustments on the timing and pace at which certain work is progressing, so that the Government is ready to implement necessary work in the lead-up to 31 October if needed.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 23/07/2019 16:09:01 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna