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943845

registered interest
date	18/07/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	State Visits: USA
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reasons his Department agreed to provide funding for the policing costs of the recent visit by President Donald Trump to Police Scotland; and whether an assessment was made of providing such funding for police forces in England and Wales.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	165642
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2018 answer text <p>Policing is a devolved matter for the Scottish Government. However, President Trump’s visit to the UK was at the invitation of the UK Government. Given this, the UK Government exceptionally agreed to offer additional funding, if required, to support Police Scotland and the Scottish Government deliver this visit.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 23/07/2018 13:30:08 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

806134

registered interest
date	13/12/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Concentrix: Compensation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 15 November 2017 to Question 113211, for what reason the total figure for compensation payments differs from the total figure in National Audit Office report on the Concentrix Contract published in January 2017.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	119335
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2017 answer text <p>The answer provided to Question 113211 included payments for costs, actual financial loss or reimbursement as at 15 November 2017. The payments in the National Audit Office report were up to and including 14 December 2016.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 18/12/2017 14:59:32 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

795836

registered interest
date	28/11/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Apprentices: Wales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much funding has been raised by the Welsh police forces from the apprenticeship levy in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	116171
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2017 answer text <p>The Apprenticeship Levy was introduced on a UK wide basis from 6 April 2017. Employers are charged at 0.5% of their pay bill over £3 million. Information on how much Apprenticeship Levy individual employers pay, such as Welsh Police forces, cannot be made publicly available because of tax payer confidentiality. Skills policy is devolved and the devolved administrations will receive a population share of the Office for Budget Responsibility’s March 2016 forecast of revenue from the levy. In 2017-18, the Welsh Government will receive £128 million.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 116172 question first answered 06/12/2017 15:35:28 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

795837

registered interest
date	28/11/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Apprentices: Wales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he plans to pass on the funding raised from Welsh police forces from the Apprenticeship Levy to the Welsh Government
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	116172
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2017 answer text <p>The Apprenticeship Levy was introduced on a UK wide basis from 6 April 2017. Employers are charged at 0.5% of their pay bill over £3 million. Information on how much Apprenticeship Levy individual employers pay, such as Welsh Police forces, cannot be made publicly available because of tax payer confidentiality. Skills policy is devolved and the devolved administrations will receive a population share of the Office for Budget Responsibility’s March 2016 forecast of revenue from the levy. In 2017-18, the Welsh Government will receive £128 million.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 116171 question first answered 06/12/2017 15:35:28 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

789985

registered interest
date	15/11/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Concentrix
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much compensation HM Revenue and Customs paid to tax credit claimants who incurred a financial loss due to actions taken by Concentrix during the course of its contract in relation to error and fraud in the tax credits system.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	113211
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) will consider offering redress if a customer has incurred a financial loss. As at 15 November 2017, HMRC had paid a total of £18,035 in payments for costs, actual financial loss or reimbursement due to actions taken by Concentrix during the course of its contract.</p><p> </p><p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) will consider offering redress if a customer has incurred a financial loss. As at 15 November 2017, HMRC had made 1,271 payments for costs, actual financial loss or reimbursement due to action taken by Concentrix during the course of its contract.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 113212 question first answered 20/11/2017 13:48:19 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

789986

registered interest
date	15/11/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Concentrix
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many claimants have received a compensation payment from HM Revenue and Customs as a result of an actual financial loss caused by the actions of Concentrix during its contract in relation to the tax credits system.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	113212
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) will consider offering redress if a customer has incurred a financial loss. As at 15 November 2017, HMRC had paid a total of £18,035 in payments for costs, actual financial loss or reimbursement due to actions taken by Concentrix during the course of its contract.</p><p> </p><p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) will consider offering redress if a customer has incurred a financial loss. As at 15 November 2017, HMRC had made 1,271 payments for costs, actual financial loss or reimbursement due to action taken by Concentrix during the course of its contract.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 113211 question first answered 20/11/2017 13:48:19 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

693653

registered interest
date	23/02/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Yorkshire and the Humber
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what alternative office locations were considered for use in Yorkshire by HM Revenue and Customs as part of its transformation programme.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	65401
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2017 answer text <p>As part of its Building our Future Locations programme, originally announced in November 2015, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) considered a number of possible locations for its regional centres.</p><p>In Yorkshire, HMRC considered three locations – Leeds, Bradford and Sheffield – before deciding that Leeds met its location principles more comprehensively than the other two locations.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 28/02/2017 14:58:12 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

686959

registered interest
date	08/02/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many employees at (a) Bradford Centenary Court, (b) Bradford The Interchange, (c) Grimsby Imperial House, (d) Harrogate Victoria Avenue, (e) Hull Cherry Court, (f) Leeds Munroe Court, (g) Leeds Castle House, (h) Leeds Peter Bennett House (i) Leeds Windsor House, (j) Sheffield Concept House, (k) Shipley Accounts Office and (l) York Swindon House have (i) left or (ii) signalled their intention to leave the employment of HM Revenue and Customs as a result of the estate transformation programme.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	63689
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2017 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) gathers information about who is within reasonable daily travel of the regional centres through one-to-one meetings which take place about a year before office closure. HMRC is committed to retaining all staff who can travel to another office where there is a skills match or that can be achieved through retraining, if that is right for the individual and the business. It aims to keep the number of exits to a minimum, but will fully support staff who leave the department.</p><p>Except for Victoria Avenue, Harrogate, the offices listed are not due to close until 2019/20 or 2020/21, and so one-to-one meetings have not yet taken place.</p><p>17 people based at Harrogate have left HMRC employment; 15 left on Voluntary Exit terms on 31 October 2016 and two left on Voluntary Redundancy Terms on 21 December 2016.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 20/02/2017 15:21:33 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

677949

registered interest
date	24/01/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Digital Technology: Infrastructure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish a roadmap for the roll-out of the new Digital Infrastructure Investment Fund.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	61297
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2017 answer text <p>The Chancellor announced at Autumn Statement 2016 that the government will commit £400m for a new Digital Infrastructure Investment Fund, at least matched by private finance, to invest in new fibre networks over the next 4 years.</p><p> </p><p>The fund will be managed independently by a private sector fund manager or managers, who will evaluate investment opportunities and make decisions on a commercial basis. The process to appoint a fund manager and launch the fund will be completed in due course.</p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 01/02/2017 16:06:19 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

670681

registered interest
date	10/01/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Leeds
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish the evidential basis for the decision to establish the regional centre for HM Revenue and Customs in Leeds.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	59404
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2017 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs has based the locations of its regional centres on a number of key principles that will enable it to deliver a better and more modern service at lower cost to the taxpayer. They include the quality of local transport links, the local labour market and future workforce supply and retention of staff and skills it needs to continue its transformation.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 13/01/2017 11:48:56 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh