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1643486

registered interest
date	09/06/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Civil Servants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of civil servants in his Department are based full-time in (a) London and (b) the Darlington Economic Campus.
tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
tabling member printed	Abena Oppong-Asare
uin	188793
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2023 answer text <p>Information on the number and proportion of roles in the Darlington Economic Campus will be published in HM Treasury’s Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23 in July 2023.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Gareth Davies question first answered 14/06/2023 10:58:27 answering member 4850 label Biography information for Gareth Davies
tabling member	4820 label Biography information for Abena Oppong-Asare

1643487

registered interest
date	09/06/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Darlington Economic Campus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of his Department's civil servants working at the Darlington Economic Campus were (a) recruited locally and (b) relocated from London.
tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
tabling member printed	Abena Oppong-Asare
uin	188794
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2023 answer text Whilst the information requested is not publicly available, we will publish information on civil servants working at the Darlington Economic Campus in HM Treasury’s Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23 in July 2023. answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Gareth Davies question first answered 14/06/2023 16:20:37 answering member 4850 label Biography information for Gareth Davies
tabling member	4820 label Biography information for Abena Oppong-Asare

1643488

registered interest
date	09/06/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Darlington Economic Campus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many civil servants are based full time at the Darlington Economic Campus at grades (a) Administrative Officer/Administrative Assistant, (b) Executive Officer, (c) Senior Executive Officer/Higher Executive Officer, (d) Grade 7, (e) Grade 6, (f) Senior Civil Servant 1, (g) Senior Civil Servant 2, and (h) Senior Civil Servant 3.
tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
tabling member printed	Abena Oppong-Asare
uin	188795
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2023 answer text <p>The Darlington Economic Campus comprises of the following civil service departments and agencies, HM Treasury, Department for Business and Trade, Department for Energy, Security and Net Zero, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, Office for National Statistics, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, Competition and Markets Authority, Department for Culture, Media and Sport.</p><p> </p><p>HM Treasury does not hold the information requested by grade across the campus.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Gareth Davies question first answered 14/06/2023 10:56:40 answering member 4850 label Biography information for Gareth Davies
tabling member	4820 label Biography information for Abena Oppong-Asare

1643489

registered interest
date	09/06/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Darlington Economic Campus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what progress his Department has made on securing a lease for a permanent Darlington Economic Campus at Brunswick House; and when he expects that site to open.
tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
tabling member printed	Abena Oppong-Asare
uin	188796
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2023 answer text <p>We announced on the 26 July 2022 that the Brunswick Street site would be the permanent home of the economic campus. Since then, the Government Property Agency have been working to finalise the commercial negotiations on the site.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Gareth Davies question first answered 14/06/2023 12:37:10 answering member 4850 label Biography information for Gareth Davies
tabling member	4820 label Biography information for Abena Oppong-Asare

1609733

registered interest
date	14/04/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Waste: Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment his Department has made of the economic impact of waste crime and landfill tax fraud.
tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
tabling member printed	Abena Oppong-Asare
uin	179866
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2023 answer text <p>Waste crime – including landfill tax fraud - is a blight on local communities, harms the environment and undermines legitimate businesses operating in the waste sector. The government is committed to tackling this issue, through a multi-agency response led by Defra and the Joint Unit for Waste Crime.</p><p> </p><p>The government regularly publishes an assessment of the tax gap across the tax system. HMRC has collected and protected over £800m in additional Landfill Tax since 2018 with ever closer collaboration between government departments to make this possible and lay the foundations for further strengthening the regime.</p><p><em> </em></p><p>As part of next steps on the Landfill Tax Review, the government will consider the impact of any potential changes to the tax on Landfill Tax fraud, evasion and waste crime and the interaction of potential changes with upcoming environmental regulatory reforms designed to improve compliance and tackle waste crime.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 19/04/2023 13:53:28 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	4820 label Biography information for Abena Oppong-Asare

1609734

registered interest
date	14/04/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	UK Infrastructure Bank
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the paragraph 3.26 of the Office for Budget Responsibility's Economic and fiscal outlook - March 2023, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of that report's findings that cumulative UK Infrastructure Bank outlays between 2022-23 and 2025-26 will be 37 per cent lower than the initial estimate.
tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
tabling member printed	Abena Oppong-Asare
uin	179867
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2023 answer text <p>The UK Infrastructure Bank (UKIB) was launched in June 2021 to increase investment into infrastructure and to tackle climate change and support regional and local economic growth across the UK.</p><p> </p><p>In its first Strategic Plan in summer 2022, UKIB set out that, subject to the pipeline of investible projects in each year, it aims to deploy up to £3 billion of debt and equity and £2.5 billion of guarantees a year, committing its initial £22 billion of financial capacity over five to eight years.</p><p> </p><p>To date, UKIB have announced 15 deals in total, investing approximately £1.4 billion and unlocking over £6 billion in private capital and supported over 4,700 jobs.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Arundel and South Downs answering member printed Andrew Griffith question first answered 19/04/2023 16:12:43 answering member 4874 label Biography information for Andrew Griffith
tabling member	4820 label Biography information for Abena Oppong-Asare

1609204

registered interest
date	30/03/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Economic Situation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the his Department's policy paper entitled Net Zero Review Final Report, published on 19 October 2021, what recent progress his Department has made on building macroeconomic modelling capability.
tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
tabling member printed	Abena Oppong-Asare
uin	177893
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/04/2023 answer text <p>As outlined in the Net Zero Review final report, HM Treasury is building its governance, capabilities and processes to support our transition to Net Zero. This includes developing a range of analytical approaches in order to develop our understanding of the many complexities of the economics of net zero and associated policy choices. Integrating the climate into macroeconomic models is an ongoing global effort and much of the international work is preliminary. HM Treasury is leading these discussions and will endeavour to use the best available evidence and analytical tools to carry out its economic assessment of net zero. Significant progress has already been made on building this analytical capacity.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 17/04/2023 13:42:45 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	4820 label Biography information for Abena Oppong-Asare

1609205

registered interest
date	30/03/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Carbon Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the his Department's policy paper entitled Net Zero Review Final Report, published on 19 October 2021, what recent progress his Department has made on developing the green book in line with environmental evidence.
tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
tabling member printed	Abena Oppong-Asare
uin	177894
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/04/2023 answer text <p>As outlined in the Net Zero Review final report, HM Treasury is building its governance, capabilities and processes to support our transition to Net Zero. The Green Book mandates the consideration of climate and environmental impacts in appraisal and provides detailed guidance on how to do so. There have been a range of recent updates to the Green Book and particularly on environmental appraisal to support best practice. This includes both net zero and appraising wider impacts on the environment.</p><p> </p><p>In January 2023, supplementary guidance to the Green Book on the appraisal and evaluation of energy use and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions was revised to improve its use for policymaking when applied to climate and environment.</p><p> </p><p>The Treasury requires all departments to adhere to the Green Book guidance when providing a business case for a policy, programme or project.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 17/04/2023 13:34:20 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	4820 label Biography information for Abena Oppong-Asare

1609207

registered interest
date	30/03/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Carbon Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the his Department's policy paper entitled Net Zero Review Final Report, published on 19 October 2021, what recent progress his Department has made with HMRC on strengthen the analytical approach to monitoring, evaluating and quantifying the environmental impacts of tax measures.
tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
tabling member printed	Abena Oppong-Asare
uin	177895
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/04/2023 answer text <p>As outlined in the Net Zero Review final report, HM Treasury is building its governance, capabilities and processes to support our transition to Net Zero.</p><p> </p><p>HM Treasury is committed to ensuring fiscal decision making is aligned with achieving net zero. To support this, climate assessments are included in advice to Ministers at fiscal events.</p><p> </p><p>HMT and HMRC consider climate change and environmental implications of relevant tax measures. Climate assessments are included in all relevant Tax Information and Impact Notes (TIINs). HMT and HMRC continue to work together to improve our approach to assessing the environmental impacts of tax measures.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 17/04/2023 13:31:14 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	4820 label Biography information for Abena Oppong-Asare

1609208

registered interest
date	30/03/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Carbon Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the his Department's policy paper entitled Net Zero Review Final Report, published on 19 October 2021, what recent progress his Department has made on developing a technology framework to support net zero innovation at fiscal events.
tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
tabling member printed	Abena Oppong-Asare
uin	177896
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/04/2023 answer text <p>In 2021, Government published the Net Zero Research and Innovation Framework which sets the research and innovation challenges across sectors over the next 5 to 10 years.</p><p> </p><p>The Net Zero Research and Innovation Delivery Plan 2022-2025, published on 30 March 2023, built on this Framework and set out the allocation of £4.2 billion in Government and Ofgem supported research and innovation funding for net zero. Projects were chosen to maximise strategic advantage for the UK, their contribution to carbon budget delivery and to retain optionality for different net zero pathways.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will continue to use evidence and the Framework to ensure that public spending on net zero innovation is supporting the transition in the most cost-effective way.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 17/04/2023 13:29:20 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	4820 label Biography information for Abena Oppong-Asare