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984758

registered interest
date	10/10/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Air Passenger Duty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will model the effect on the UK economy of (a) a 50 per cent reduction in and (b) the abolition of Air Passenger Duty.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	177668
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2018 answer text <p>The government monitors all taxes, including Air Passenger Duty. The aviation sector in the UK continues to grow, with passenger numbers up by over 15% since 2010.</p><p> </p><p>APD raises over £3 billion in revenue every year. Abolishing or cutting APD would put pressure on the government to increase taxes elsewhere.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 19/10/2018 10:23:46 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

984759

registered interest
date	10/10/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Air Passenger Duty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an assessment of the implications for his policies of the Frontier Economics report finding that Britain’s airports could gain up to 65 connections in the event that air passenger duty is abolished.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	177669
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2018 answer text <p>The government takes new evidence into consideration when making policy decisions. The aviation sector in the UK continues to grow, with passenger numbers up by over 15% since 2010.</p><p> </p><p>APD raises over £3 billion in revenue every year. Abolishing or cutting APD would put pressure on the government to increase taxes elsewhere.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 19/10/2018 10:32:56 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

984785

registered interest
date	10/10/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Beer: Excise Duties
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will undertake a review of the Small Brewer Relief scheme to remove barriers to growth for small and medium sized brewers.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
uin	177747
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2018 answer text <p>The government is aware of the challenges that Small Brewers Relief currently poses to growing brewers and we have engaged extensively with the industry in this regard.</p><p> </p><p>We are ready to assist but industry must take the lead in agreeing reforms it thinks would be effective in encouraging growth and avoiding market distortion, whilst limiting costs to the public finances.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 19/10/2018 10:13:33 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper

984786

registered interest
date	10/10/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Beer: Excise Duties
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will review the progressive beer duty regime to ensure that the excise duty system supports growth in British beer exports.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
uin	177748
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2018 answer text <p>The government is engaging with industry on Small Brewers Relief, but any action to encourage exports must be part of a wider, industry-led reform of the Relief and must respect our obligations under the relevant European Union law.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 19/10/2018 10:12:17 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper

984791

registered interest
date	10/10/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Credit: Interest Rates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what Steps his Department is taking to ensure that the Financial Conduct Authority enforces rules on affordability checks for payday loans.
tabling member constituency	Inverclyde
tabling member printed	Ronnie Cowan
uin	177763
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2018 answer text <p>The Government has fundamentally reformed regulation of the consumer credit market, transferring regulatory responsibility to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) on 1 April 2014.</p><p> </p><p>Although the Treasury sets the legal framework for the regulation of financial services, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is an independent body.</p><p> </p><p>The FCA has tough enforcement powers – criminal, civil and regulatory – to protect consumers and to take action against firms and individuals that do not meet its standards. In 2017, the FCA issued total fines of £229 million. Since the transfer, the FCA has taken a proactive approach on consumer credit, to ensure that all consumers who use high-cost credit products are treated fairly.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 19/10/2018 10:38:07 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4465 label Biography information for Ronnie Cowan

984796

registered interest
date	10/10/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Electric Vehicles
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of incentives to increase the uptake of electric vehicles.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	177586
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2018 answer text <p>The government currently offers a range of incentives to support the shift to ultra low emission vehicles (ULEVs). Today there are more than 160,000 ULEVs in the UK and, in 2017, the UK was the second largest market for ULEVs in the EU.</p><p> </p><p>The vehicle tax system incentivises the uptake of cars with low CO<sub>2</sub> emissions with favourable rates of Vehicle Excise Duty and company car tax. We are also investing nearly £1.5 billion to support the uptake of ULEVs. This investment includes grants for cars, vans, lorries, buses, taxis and motorcycles, and schemes to support charge point infrastructure at homes and workplaces and on residential streets.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 19/10/2018 10:19:24 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

984822

registered interest
date	10/10/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Loans: Disclosure of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the UK plans to (a) support and (b) seek a G20 commitment to provide transparency and disclosure of all loans made by governments and multilateral institutions.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	177587
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2018 answer text <p>The UK strongly supports the transparent and sustainable lending practices to sovereigns, particularly low-income countries (LICs).</p><p> </p><p>In 2017, the G20 agreed Operational Guidelines for Sustainable Financing to promote transparent and sustainable lending to LICs from G20 members. The UK is working with G20 partners to ensure the ongoing implementation of the Guidelines.</p><p> </p><p>In April 2018, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Group (WBG) announced a joint multi-pronged approach to promote debt transparency and sustainability in LICs. The UK will continue to work with other G20 members to monitor the progress of this work programme which is led by the multilateral institutions.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 19/10/2018 10:17:55 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

984841

registered interest
date	10/10/2018
answering body	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 the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 27 February 2018 to Questions 129224, 129229, 129231 on Childcare Vouchers Wakefield, when he plans to make that information by constituency available.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
uin	177665
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2018 answer text <p>We have no plans to publish information on the use of childcare vouchers or eligibility for tax free childcare by constituency as we do not hold this information.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 15/10/2018 13:04:34 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh

984865

registered interest
date	10/10/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and which (a) Ministers and (b) officials in his Department have visited the Irish border in the last 12 months; when those visits took place; and how long they spent at the border in each of those visits.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	177811
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2018 answer text <p>Treasury Ministers have undertaken a wide range of visits across the United Kingdom, including to Northern Ireland, in the last 12 months.</p><p> </p><p>Treasury officials have also visited Northern Ireland, including the land border with Ireland, to help further develop Government policy.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 18/10/2018 13:05:15 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

984891

registered interest
date	10/10/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he plans to publish his Department's preparations for no deal.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	177702
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2018 answer text <p>We firmly believe it is in the interests of both the EU and the UK to strike a deal. That remains the goal on both sides and we are confident that this will be achieved. But it is the job of a responsible Government to prepare for all scenarios, so we have already carried out very significant ‘no deal’ preparations for the unlikely event that we reach March 2019 without agreeing a deal.</p><p> </p><p>We have already published over 100 technical notices so that businesses and citizens have time to prepare in the event of a 'no deal' scenario. These include notices outlining HMT and HMRC’s preparations on:</p><ul><li><p>Banking, insurance and other financial services</p></li><li><p>VAT for businesses</p></li><li><p>The Government’s guarantee for EU-funded programmes</p></li><li><p>Trading with the EU</p></li><li><p>Classifying your goods in the UK Trade Tariff</p><p> </p><p>These are available on gov.uk in a centralised location that is easy for people to access and use.</p><p> </p></li></ul> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 15/10/2018 16:40:02 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra