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420946

registered interest
date	13/10/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Pensions: Advisory Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to promote Pension Wise.
tabling member constituency	Pontypridd
tabling member printed	Owen Smith
uin	11777
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2015 answer text <p>The government launched a comprehensive nationwide marketing campaign in late August. This will ensure that more people are aware of Pension Wise, of how it can help them, and that they can – and do – access high-quality, impartial guidance on making the most of the new pension flexibilities.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 21/10/2015 13:42:05 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	4042 label Biography information for Owen Smith

420947

registered interest
date	13/10/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Financial Services: Regulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to better regulate financial service providers working in the UK (a) in general and (b) specifically those selling off-shore services and investment opportunities; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	11736
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2015 answer text <p>The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is responsible for the regulation of financial services in the UK.</p><p>This is therefore a matter for the FCA, who are operationally independent from Government.</p><p>The question has been passed on to the FCA. The FCA will reply directly to the honourable member by letter. A copy of the letter will be placed in the Library of the House.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 16/10/2015 13:35:05 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

420948

registered interest
date	13/10/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Help to Buy Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many Help to Buy mortgages have been refused by the Government despite being accepted by the participating bank.
tabling member constituency	Hyndburn
tabling member printed	Graham Jones
uin	11741
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2015 answer text <p>The Government has established a criteria of eligibility for Help to Buy mortgages for participating banks to uphold. The responsibility of approving or rejecting a Help to Buy mortgage is given to participating banks.</p><p>There are currently two existing Help to Buy schemes; the Help to Buy: mortgage guarantee scheme and the Help to Buy: equity loan scheme. The eligibility criteria for each of these schemes can be found on the Help to Buy website: <a href="http://www.helptobuy.org.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.helptobuy.org.uk</a></p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 16/10/2015 13:36:48 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	3999 label Biography information for Graham P Jones

420949

registered interest
date	13/10/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Help to Buy Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many Help to Buy mortgages have been declined on the basis of a poor credit rating.
tabling member constituency	Hyndburn
tabling member printed	Graham Jones
uin	11739
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2015 answer text <p>The Government does not collect information on the number of Help to Buy mortgage applications declined on the basis of a poor credit rating.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 16/10/2015 13:30:46 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	3999 label Biography information for Graham P Jones

420950

registered interest
date	13/10/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Valuation Office Agency
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the (a) efficiency of the Valuation Office Agency (VOA) and (b) potential merits of providing emergency payments to councils who face budgeting difficulties due to the time taken by the VOA to re-assess business rates.
tabling member constituency	Wyre Forest
tabling member printed	Mark Garnier
uin	11512
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2015 answer text <ol><li>By July 2015 the Valuation Office Agency had cleared over 94% of outstanding business rates appeals as of 30 September 2013 in England. The Agency continues to focus on clearing outstanding appeals. In order to further improve the efficiency of the Agency, the Government will introduce a more structured, rigorous and transparent appeals system as part of this session’s Enterprise Bill. <br></li><li>The business rates retention scheme in England is providing real incentives for councils to support enterprise and economic growth. In 2015-16, 362 authorities expect to retain an extra £544 million in business rates above baseline funding. Under the scheme, local authorities or pools of local authorities are protected against significant declines in business rates income through a safety net that guarantees income at 92.5% of baseline funding. And in a radical reshaping of the state we will ensure that by the end of the Parliament the local government sector will retain 100% of local taxes to spend on local government services.</li></ol> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 21/10/2015 16:06:14 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	4074 label Biography information for Mark Garnier

420951

registered interest
date	13/10/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Public Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to principle 7 in paragraph 3.2 of his Department's publication, Funding the Scottish Parliament, National Assembly for Wales and Northern Ireland Assembly: Statement of Funding Policy, published in October 2010, which areas of self-financed expenditure of the Scottish Parliament are included in that principle.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	11496
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2015 answer text <p>Principle 3.2.7, as set out in the 2010 edition of the Statement of Funding Policy, encompassed business rates income and council tax revenues collected by Scottish local authorities.</p><br /><p>The Statement of Funding Policy is reviewed and updated periodically. The devolved administrations have been informed that the Treasury expects to publish a revised version on 25<sup>th</sup> November to coincide with the Spending Review announcement.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands grouped question UIN 11497 11498 question first answered 21/10/2015 13:37:27 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

420952

registered interest
date	13/10/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Public Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 2.25 of his Department's publication, Funding the Scottish Parliament, National Assembly for Wales and Northern Ireland Assembly: Statement of Funding Policy, published in October 2010, when he expects the statement of funding policy to be next updated.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	11497
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2015 answer text <p>Principle 3.2.7, as set out in the 2010 edition of the Statement of Funding Policy, encompassed business rates income and council tax revenues collected by Scottish local authorities.</p><br /><p>The Statement of Funding Policy is reviewed and updated periodically. The devolved administrations have been informed that the Treasury expects to publish a revised version on 25<sup>th</sup> November to coincide with the Spending Review announcement.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands grouped question UIN 11496 11498 question first answered 21/10/2015 13:37:27 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

420953

registered interest
date	13/10/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Public Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to principle 7 in paragraph 3.2 of his Department's publication, Funding the Scottish Parliament, National Assembly for Wales and Northern Ireland Assembly: Statement of Funding Policy, published in October 2010, whether he plans to include that principle in an updated statement of funding policy.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	11498
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2015 answer text <p>Principle 3.2.7, as set out in the 2010 edition of the Statement of Funding Policy, encompassed business rates income and council tax revenues collected by Scottish local authorities.</p><br /><p>The Statement of Funding Policy is reviewed and updated periodically. The devolved administrations have been informed that the Treasury expects to publish a revised version on 25<sup>th</sup> November to coincide with the Spending Review announcement.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands grouped question UIN 11496 11497 question first answered 21/10/2015 13:37:27 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

420954

registered interest
date	13/10/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Royal Family: Travel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the schedule of comparable programme objects in his Department's publication, Funding the Scottish Parliament, National Assembly for Wales and Northern Ireland Assembly: Statement of Funding Policy, published in October 2010, what the total cost was of royal travel between May 2010 and May 2015.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	11499
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2015 answer text <p>Information relating to the total cost of Royal travel is readily available in the annual financial reports. They include a full breakdown of costs for Royal Travel for each of the years in question.</p><br /><p><a href="http://www.royal.gov.uk/TheRoyalHousehold/Royalfinances/AnnualFinancialReports/Annualfinancialreports.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.royal.gov.uk/TheRoyalHousehold/Royalfinances/AnnualFinancialReports/Annualfinancialreports.aspx</a></p><br /><p>The Statement of Funding Policy no longer contains information on Royal Travel costs.</p><p><br></p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 21/10/2015 13:59:15 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

420955

registered interest
date	13/10/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Public Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the schedule of comparable programme objects in his Department's publication, Funding the Scottish Parliament, National Assembly for Wales and Northern Ireland Assembly: Statement of Funding Policy, published in October 2010, what projects were funded by the PFI Special Grant; and what the total capital cost was of each of those projects.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	11500
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2015 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally by HM Treasury and the cost of providing it would exceed the disproportionate cost threshold.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 21/10/2015 13:38:11 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown