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765175

registered interest
date	06/10/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Financial Services: Registration
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the Supervised Businesses Register was last updated; and how many firms are currently on that Register.
tabling member constituency	Barking
tabling member printed	Dame Margaret Hodge
uin	105555
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>HMRC’s Supervised Businesses Register is updated daily and includes details of businesses supervised by HMRC for anti-money laundering purposes. Management Information is collected at the end of each month. As of 30th September 2017 there were 27,060 businesses on the register.</p><p>HMRC does not intend to publish the information on the Supervised Business Register in an open data format. This is to prevent misuse of the data by third parties.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 105556 question first answered 16/10/2017 16:15:51 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	140 label Biography information for Dame Margaret Hodge

765176

registered interest
date	06/10/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Financial Services: Registration
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether information provided in the Supervised Businesses Register will be published in open data format.
tabling member constituency	Barking
tabling member printed	Dame Margaret Hodge
uin	105556
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>HMRC’s Supervised Businesses Register is updated daily and includes details of businesses supervised by HMRC for anti-money laundering purposes. Management Information is collected at the end of each month. As of 30th September 2017 there were 27,060 businesses on the register.</p><p>HMRC does not intend to publish the information on the Supervised Business Register in an open data format. This is to prevent misuse of the data by third parties.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 105555 question first answered 16/10/2017 16:15:51 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	140 label Biography information for Dame Margaret Hodge

760050

registered interest
date	13/09/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Tax Evasion
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many UK nationals have (a) been prosecuted and (b) received a prison sentence for offences related to the Panama Papers data leak.
tabling member constituency	Barking
tabling member printed	Dame Margaret Hodge
uin	10475
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>Since the last update to Parliament in November 2016, HMRC has tripled the number of criminal and civil investigations linked to the Panama papers.</p><p>To date, the work of the Panama Papers Taskforce has led to civil and criminal investigations into 66 individuals for suspected tax evasion, including high net worth individuals. As part of this HMRC has made four arrests; and carried out six interviews under caution.</p><p>Taskforce partners have made three arrests in relation to an organised crime group suspected of a £125m conspiracy to defraud pension investors, tax evasion and associated money laundering. They have also identified leads relevant to a major insider trading operation, in relation to which a number of individuals have been arrested and are on bail pending further activity.</p><p>UK law enforcement continues to interrogate and exploit Panama Papers related data, identifying previously unknown individuals, companies and properties, making links between them and providing intelligence and investigative opportunities.</p><p>The systems used to launder money and evade tax through offshore structures are complex and highly sophisticated. The Joint Financial Analysis Centre and HMRC’s expert analysts are using leading-edge technology to unpick these structures and trace them back to individuals. This work is painstaking and forensic and there are no easy shortcuts.</p><p>HMRC is not a prosecuting authority. Its focus is on building the strongest possible cases in order to secure convictions, and it expects to refer cases to the prosecuting authorities from autumn 2017 onwards.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 09/10/2017 15:05:18 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	140 label Biography information for Dame Margaret Hodge

760206

registered interest
date	13/09/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Advance Pricing Agreements
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 24 April 2017 to Question 70304, how many Advance Thin Capitalisation agreements were made in (a) 2014-15, (b) 2015-16 and (c) 2016-17; how long it took to reach each such agreement; how many such agreements are still in force; how many intra-group company bodies those agreements apply to; and what the average level of taxable profits was for those agreements.
tabling member constituency	Barking
tabling member printed	Dame Margaret Hodge
uin	10489
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has published Advance Thin Capitalisation Agreement (ATCA) statistics to 2016/17, as part of a wider publication of data relating to HMRC’s work on collecting tax owed to the UK. This is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/635330/Transfer_Pricing_and_Diverted_Profits_Tax_statistics.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/635330/Transfer_Pricing_and_Diverted_Profits_Tax_statistics.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 09/10/2017 15:07:15 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	140 label Biography information for Dame Margaret Hodge

720223

registered interest
date	13/04/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Advance Pricing Agreements
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many Advance Thin Capitalisation agreements were made in (a) 2014-15 and (b) 2015-16; how long it took to reach each such agreement; how many such agreements are still in force; how many intra-group company bodies apply to those agreements; and what the average level of taxable profits was for those agreements.
tabling member constituency	Barking
tabling member printed	Margaret Hodge
uin	70304
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2017 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) intends to publish Advanced Thin Capitalisation Agreement statistics in due course as part of a wider publication of data relating to HMRC’s work on collecting tax owed to the UK.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 24/04/2017 14:07:01 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	140 label Biography information for Dame Margaret Hodge

713766

registered interest
date	24/03/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Transfer Pricing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has discontinued the publication of annual transfer pricing statistics.
tabling member constituency	Barking
tabling member printed	Margaret Hodge
uin	69072
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2017 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs has not discontinued the publication of these statistics. The Department intends to publish the transfer pricing statistics shortly.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 03/04/2017 10:34:41 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	140 label Biography information for Dame Margaret Hodge

605803

registered interest
date	19/10/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Liability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 7.2, Heading contingent liabilities, page 176 of the Annual Report and Accounts 2015-16 of HM Revenue and Customs, published in December 2015, under what area of legislation are those cases of current liability.
tabling member constituency	Barking
tabling member printed	Margaret Hodge
uin	49498
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2016 answer text <p>The Trust Statement is prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards adapted or interpreted for public sector context.</p><p> </p><p>International Accounting Standard 37 – ‘Provisions, Contingent Liabilities and Contingent Assets’ is the standard that HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) follows when calculating the level of contingent liability to be included with the disclosure notes to the Trust Statement. The contingent liabilities relate to legal cases for which the outcome is uncertain and HMRC considers that there is only a possible rather than probable likelihood that they will be required to make a payment, or the amount cannot be reliably measured.</p><p> </p><p>These cases are not current liabilities – they are a possible obligation dependent on whether some uncertain future event occurs.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 27/10/2016 15:21:32 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	140 label Biography information for Dame Margaret Hodge

595398

registered interest
date	07/10/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Corruption: Unpaid Taxes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many times HM Revenue and Customs has commenced proceedings to recover unpaid tax claimed as deductible on payments that were subsequently found to involve foreign bribery since 2012.
tabling member constituency	Barking
tabling member printed	Margaret Hodge
uin	47276
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs does not record centrally information that may involve foreign bribery when dealing with proceedings to recover unpaid tax.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 17/10/2016 16:10:47 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	140 label Biography information for Dame Margaret Hodge

573578

registered interest
date	02/09/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Consultants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish a list of all secondees to (a) his Department and (b) HM Revenue and Customs from (i) PwC, (ii) Deloitte, (iii) Ernst and Young, (iv) KPMG and (v) other consulting firms in the last three financial years; and what the role was of each of those secondees.
tabling member constituency	Barking
tabling member printed	Margaret Hodge
uin	44319
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2016 answer text <p>As has been the case under successive administrations, the Treasury benefits from secondees from a wide variety of organisations.</p><p> </p><p>It is not possible to provide the names or current role of individual secondees, as to do so could breach data protection guidelines. However, information relating to the number of secondees to HM Treasury is as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Financial Year 2015/2016</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Organisation</p></td><td><p>Number of staff</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Boston Consulting Group</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Deloitte Touche</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ernst and Young</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Grant Thornton</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>KPMG</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>PriceWaterhouseCoopers</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Turner &amp; Townsend</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Financial Year 2014/2015</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Organisation</p></td><td><p>Number of staff</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ashurst LLP</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Deloitte Touche</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Grant Thornton</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Financial Year 2013/2014</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Organisation</p></td><td><p>Number of staff</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>AECOM</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Deloitte Touche</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>KPMG</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>PriceWaterhouseCoopers</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Turner &amp; Townsend</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>HM Revenue and Customs does not have any secondees from the firms mentioned, and can only answer the question on secondees for previous years at disproportional cost.</p> answering member constituency Brighton, Kemptown answering member printed Simon Kirby question first answered 09/09/2016 10:31:52 answering member 3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby
tabling member	140 label Biography information for Dame Margaret Hodge

573580

registered interest
date	02/09/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Consultants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many times (a) his Department and (b) HM Revenue and Customs has used the services of (i) PwC, (ii) Deloitte, (iii) Ernst and Young, (iv) KPMG and (v) other consulting firms in the last three financial years; and what (A) work was undertaken and (B) the cost to the public purse was on each such occasion.
tabling member constituency	Barking
tabling member printed	Margaret Hodge
uin	44320
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>HMT</p><p>The department always seeks to use internal resources whenever possible in order to fulfill its objectives, and procure external expertise only after internal and a civil service-wide recruitment exercise has been exhausted.</p><p>The cost to the public purse for using PwC, Deloitte, Ernst &amp; Young and KPMG for the last three financial years can be found in the tables below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Supplier</p></td><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Spend</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ernst &amp; Young LLP</p></td><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>185,715.00</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><p> </p></td><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>96,000.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>160,000.00</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Supplier</p></td><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Spend</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Deloitte LLP</p></td><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>233,692.00</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><p> </p></td><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>65,500.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>287,338.00</p></td></tr></tbody></table><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Supplier</p></td><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Spend</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Deloitte MCS Ltd</p></td><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>86,461.00</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><p> </p></td><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>105,674.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Supplier</p></td><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Spend</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>PwC</p></td><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>135,418.00</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><p> </p></td><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>101,755.00</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Supplier</p></td><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Spend</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>KPMG LLP</p></td><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><p> </p></td><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>585,600.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>34,429.00</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>As part of the government’s transparency agenda launched in 2010, the department publishes on a monthly basis, the amount spent on consultancy. However, it is only the amount spent, not the suppliers which is published. The time taken to collate spend with other suppliers for the requested time period could only be provided at disproportionate cost. The number of times used and the work undertaken by our consultants could also only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC</p><p> </p><p>HMRC do not maintain a central record of individual assignments therefore data is not available except at disproportionate cost. However HMRC can provide the annual spend with these companies for the last 3 financial years. It should be noted that this spend will cover a wide range of services.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Supplier</p></td><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>2015-16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>DELOITTE TOUCHE TOHMATSU</p></td><td><p>£1,566,218</p></td><td><p>£1,557,065</p></td><td><p>£599,286</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS</p></td><td><p>£591,360</p></td><td><p>£449,908</p></td><td><p>£216,885</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>ERNST &amp; YOUNG GLOBAL LIMITED</p></td><td><p>£18</p></td><td><p>£664,537</p></td><td><p>£34,150</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>KPMG INTERNATIONAL</p></td><td><p>£133,991</p></td><td><p>£177,665</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Brighton, Kemptown answering member printed Simon Kirby question first answered 12/09/2016 14:17:45 answering member 3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby
tabling member	140 label Biography information for Dame Margaret Hodge