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171778

registered interest
date	02/01/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what progress HM Revenue and Customs has made in developing an online childcare support calculator to replace its current calculator; and whether the proposed new calculator will be ready by September 2015.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	219642
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2015 answer text <p>HMRC are currently developing an online childcare calculator. This will be introduced in good time before the launch of Tax-Free Childcare and will replace existing online calculators that perform similar functions.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom grouped question UIN 219643 question first answered 09/01/2015 12:34:58 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

171779

registered interest
date	02/01/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if HM Revenue and Customs will include the childcare element of universal credit in the online calculator it is developing alongside the tax-free childcare scheme; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	219643
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2015 answer text <p>HMRC are currently developing an online childcare calculator. This will be introduced in good time before the launch of Tax-Free Childcare and will replace existing online calculators that perform similar functions.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom grouped question UIN 219642 question first answered 09/01/2015 12:34:58 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

171780

registered interest
date	02/01/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Non-domestic Rates: Valuation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of removing free to use cash machines from the rating list on access to banking and money; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Worcester
tabling member printed	Mr Robin Walker
uin	219652
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2015 answer text <p>The government has reduced the burden of business rates for all ratepayers, including free to use cash machines, in 2014-15 and 2015-16. However, the rating list does not distinguish free to use cash machines and no assessment has been made of removing them.</p><p> </p><p>The availability of free cash machines across the country is at an all-time high, with 97% of all cash withdrawals made by UK cardholders in the UK charging no costs to customers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 08/01/2015 11:03:41 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker

171781

registered interest
date	02/01/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Solar Power: North Africa
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will provide funding for the import of concentrated solar power from North Africa.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
uin	219617
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2015 answer text <p>Under Electricity Market Reform, the Government’s Contract for Difference (CfD) scheme is the primary mechanism to support large scale electricity generation in the UK. Concentrated Solar Power is not currently an eligible technology for support from UK CfDs.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Under this scheme projects outside the UK are not currently eligible. The Government has been considering the benefits of supporting projects outside of the UK and published a paper in August 2014 setting out indicative areas of work that would need to be addressed to open the UK CfD scheme to eligible non-UK projects. This paper can be found here:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cfds-for-non-uk-renewable-electricity-projects" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cfds-for-non-uk-renewable-electricity-projects</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey answering member printed Danny Alexander question first answered 09/01/2015 14:58:16 answering member 1535 label Biography information for Danny Alexander
tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile

171782

registered interest
date	02/01/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Local Government: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will take steps to limit the use by local authorities of personal service limited companies for hiring personnel.
tabling member constituency	Wells
tabling member printed	Tessa Munt
uin	219604
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2015 answer text <p>The government is committed to tackling all forms of tax avoidance and evasion and to ensuring that everyone pays their fair share of tax.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Off-payroll workers including those working for limited companies play an important role in helping public sector organisations meet short term needs for specialist advice and interim services. However, it is essential that these workers are meeting their tax obligations.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Decisions on recruitment are a matter for individual Local Authorities. However, the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government published guidance in 2012 and 2013 which said local authorities should actively review their use of arrangements which could be seen to minimise tax payments.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Government has made it increasingly difficult for payments made to sole traders or contractors working in local government to be hidden from the public. The Transparency Code 2014 now means authorities are legally bound to disclose information on all payments of £500 or more to bodies acting in a business capacity.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>New tighter rules governing ‘off-payroll’ appointments in central government were established in May 2012 when the Chief Secretary to the Treasury published the Review of the Tax Arrangements of Public Sector Appointees. The recommendations of the Review mean that the most senior staff must go on the payroll, and departments will be able to seek assurance in relation to the tax arrangements of their long-term, high paid contractors.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 15/01/2015 17:39:55 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	4089 label Biography information for Tessa Munt

171783

registered interest
date	02/01/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Foreign Companies: VAT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the cost to the economy of overseas firms not registering for VAT in the UK; and what steps he plans to take to ensure that such companies do register for VAT.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
uin	219584
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2015 answer text <p>HM Revenue &amp; Customs (HMRC) uses a range of information sources to identify overseas businesses that are making supplies in the UK which make them liable to account for VAT here.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 08/01/2015 16:15:13 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

171784

registered interest
date	02/01/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Small Businesses: VAT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to introduce (a) VAT mini one stop shops and (b) new VAT rules affecting small and micro businesses.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	219630
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2015 answer text <p>From 1 January 2015, for all digital supplies to EU consumers, VAT is due in the Member State of consumption rather than the country where the supplier is based. The VAT Mini One Stop Shop (MOSS) allows businesses to account for all the VAT due throughout the EU via a single registration in one Member State. HMRC’s UK MOSS went live in October 2014 and can be utilised by all UK businesses, including those below the VAT registration threshold.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 08/01/2015 11:36:36 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe