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61534

registered interest
date	12/06/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Succession
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether there is any regulation of heir hunters in the way they operate or the fees they charge beneficiaries; if not, whether they have plans to introduce such regulations; and, if not, why not.
tabling member printed	Lord Hoyle
uin	HL303
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2014 answer text <p>There is no regulation in place that specifically covers the way probate researchers operate or the fees they charge beneficiaries.</p><p> </p><p>Relationships between probate researchers and their clients are normally contractual arrangements and subject to contract law.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government is planning to introduce regulation of the activity of conducting private investigations, surveillance or inquiries, which could bring some probate and asset researchers into scope for statutory licensing by the Security Industry Authority.</p> answering member printed Lord Deighton question first answered 26/06/2014 15:17:01 answering member 4262 label Biography information for Lord Deighton
tabling member	1000 label Biography information for Lord Hoyle

61254

registered interest
date	10/06/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Taxation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have made any estimate of the likely financial consequences for taxpayers over the official retirement age of any merger of income tax and national insurance contributions into a single tax; and, if so, what was that estimate.
tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
uin	HL214
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2014 answer text <p>As set out by the Chancellor at Autumn Statement 2012, the Government will wait for further progress on planned operational changes to the tax system before formally consulting on the operational integration of income tax and National Insurance contributions (NICs).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The scope for the consultation was originally set out by the Chancellor at Budget 2011, and made it clear that the Government will not extend NICs to individuals above State Pension Age nor to other forms of income such as pensions, savings and dividends.</p> answering member printed Lord Deighton question first answered 23/06/2014 16:33:47 answering member 4262 label Biography information for Lord Deighton
tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon

61257

registered interest
date	10/06/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to bring their proposals to give HM Revenue and Customs power to remove money from bank accounts without prior judicial process for consideration or agreement by the House of Lords; and, if so, how.
tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
uin	HL217
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2014 answer text <p>The Government is consulting on the Direct Recovery of Debts until 29th July. This policy will modernise and strengthen HMRC's ability to recover tax and tax credit debts from those who are refusing to pay what they owe but have sufficient funds in their accounts.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government intends to publish a response document and draft legislation later this year. This draft legislation will be consulted on before it is included in next year's Finance Bill, where it will be subject to the usual Parliamentary scrutiny.</p> answering member printed Lord Deighton question first answered 23/06/2014 16:29:56 answering member 4262 label Biography information for Lord Deighton
tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon

61258

registered interest
date	10/06/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Cooperative Bank
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether any department, executive agency or non-departmental public body has a banking arrangement with the Co-operative Bank.
tabling member printed	Lord Rooker
uin	HL218
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2014 answer text <p>Treasury policy is to hold Exchequer funds safe and secure at the Bank of England and to minimise balances held with commercial banks. The Treasury has been working with departments in recent years to minimise balances held in commercial accounts.</p><p> </p><p>Government Departments and most public bodies bank with the Government Banking Service, which is a directorate within HM Revenue and Customs. GBS is a shared service which manages contracts and supports banking services to Government departments using cost-efficient and modern commercial banking platforms. The balances held by the Government Banking Service are utilised to reduce the Government's daily borrowing requirement and in turn its financing costs.</p><p> </p><p>In the rare circumstance where banking is required outside of the contract then the Department concerned must seek Treasury approval to open separate commercial accounts. This will normally be when third party-funds are being managed or the banking service requirement is complex. The Treasury provides an annual update to the Public Accounts Committee on monies held outside the Exchequer / Government Banking Service. The most recent update was published on 13th January 2014 and can be found at</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/270747/36048_Cm_8774.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/270747/36048_Cm_8774.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>From the information provided by departments we can confirm that the Forestry Commission and National Forest Company have a banking relationship with the Co-operative Bank.</p> answering member printed Lord Deighton question first answered 23/06/2014 16:35:25 answering member 4262 label Biography information for Lord Deighton
tabling member	302 label Biography information for Lord Rooker

61283

registered interest
date	10/06/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Taxation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how much money was repaid to taxpayers as a result of overcharging by HM Revenue and Customs in each of 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12 and 2012–13.
tabling member printed	Lord Howard of Rising
uin	HL243
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2014 answer text <p>The information is not available as HM Revenue and Customs does not collect information on amounts underpaid or overpaid.</p><p> </p><p>For many of the taxes that HM Revenue and Customs is responsible for such as income tax and corporation tax, taxpayers are required by law to make payments on account before the ultimate tax liability for the year is known. This can result in overpayments, in which case the taxpayer would be due a refund once the final liability was known. But it can also result in underpayments, in which case HMRC would seek to collect the additional amount owed.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In either case, interest may be due to HMRC or to the taxpayer according to the statutory rates.</p> answering member printed Lord Deighton question first answered 23/06/2014 16:32:14 answering member 4262 label Biography information for Lord Deighton
tabling member	3674 label Biography information for Lord Howard of Rising

60531

registered interest
date	09/06/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Infrastructure
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how much is being invested in national infrastructure in 2014, and how much planned over the next five years, as a percentage share of gross domestic product; and how that compares with the long-run Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development average.
tabling member printed	Lord Birt
uin	HL120
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2014 answer text <p>The Government's measure of total public infrastructure investment is public sector gross investment (PSGI). The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) forecast at the March 2014 Budget that this will be 3.0 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2014-15. Forecasts of government expenditure are generally made on a financial rather than a calendar year basis and are presently only available out to 2018-19.The figures to the end of the forecast period are as set out below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>2018-19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Public sector gross investment as % of GDP</p></td><td><p>3.0</p></td><td><p>2.9</p></td><td><p>2.9</p></td><td><p>2.8</p></td><td><p>2.8</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>PSGI measures the direct spending on infrastructure projects by the whole public sector, unlike other measures such as net investment which are adjusted to exclude certain elements of spending. Internationally comparable figures for PSGI are not readily available. The UK's fiscal framework is based around the entire public sector, many other countries only use a measure for general government that excludes public corporations so these are often the only comparative measures available. The OBR forecasts include some international comparisons of different investment measures. These can be found at the link below:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://budgetresponsibility.org.uk/economic-fiscal-outlook-march-2014/" target="_blank">http://budgetresponsibility.org.uk/economic-fiscal-outlook-march-2014/</a></p><p> </p><p>Neither PSGI nor the OBR figures include private investment in infrastructure which is an important element of overall infrastructure investment in the UK. The published infrastructure pipeline, which covers economic infrastructure only, provides an overview of planned public and private investment to 2020 and beyond, and can be found at the link below:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-infrastructure-plan-2013" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-infrastructure-plan-2013</a></p> answering member printed Lord Deighton question first answered 19/06/2014 15:26:43 answering member 4262 label Biography information for Lord Deighton
tabling member	2533 label Biography information for Lord Birt

60532

registered interest
date	09/06/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Economic Situation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the time taken for the United Kingdom economy to return to recovery in comparison to other leading countries; and what they consider to be the reasons for the differences in those timescales.
tabling member printed	Lord Birt
uin	HL121
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2014 answer text <p>UK GDP fell 7.2% between the first quarter of 2008 and the third quarter of 2009. Of the G7 economies Japan was the only one that had a deeper recession, and the depth of UK recession was almost twice that of the US.</p><p>Thanks to the government's long term economic plan, since the trough of the recession the UK has grown faster than France, Italy, Spain and the euro area as a whole. In the year to the first quarter of 2014 the UK grew faster than any other G7 economy, the deficit has fallen by over a third as a share of GDP since 2009-10 and there are more people in work than ever before. But the job is not yet done and the biggest risk now to the recovery would be abandoning the plan that is delivering a brighter economic future.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Deighton question first answered 17/06/2014 15:41:06 answering member 4262 label Biography information for Lord Deighton
tabling member	2533 label Biography information for Lord Birt

60557

registered interest
date	09/06/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	UK Membership of EU
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact on the European Union's balance of trade with the United Kingdom of any United Kingdom withdrawal from the European Union.
tabling member printed	Lord Stevens of Ludgate
uin	HL146
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2014 answer text <p>The Government has made no assessment of the impact on the European Union's balance of trade with the United Kingdom of any withdrawal from the European Union.</p><p> </p><p>The EU represents a market of over 500 million people with a combined GDP of around £10.5 trillion. It is the largest single market in the world.</p><p> </p><p>The EU is the UK's most important trading partner; 45% of our exports are destined for the EU and seven of the UK's top ten individual trading partners are EU member states.</p> answering member printed Lord Deighton question first answered 19/06/2014 15:15:15 answering member 4262 label Biography information for Lord Deighton
tabling member	2227 label Biography information for Lord Stevens of Ludgate

60575

registered interest
date	09/06/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Financial Services: Taxation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, following the dismissal of the United Kingdom's challenge to the proposed financial transaction tax at the European Court of Justice, whether they have any plans to re-examine the extent of European Union competence in respect of United Kingdom taxation; and whether they consider that the application of such a tax would trigger a referendum under the terms of the European Union Act 2011.
tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
uin	HL164
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2014 answer text <p>The Court of Justice of the European Union ruling on 30 April deemed the UK challenge to the FTT was premature, but confirmed that the Government could challenge a future FTT Implementing Directive.</p><p> </p><p>The introduction of the FTT under the Enhanced Cooperation Procedure would not be a relevant transfer of sovereignty or power for the purpose of the “referendum lock” in the UK's EU Referendum Act.</p><p> </p><p>The extent of European Union competence in respect of United Kingdom taxation was set out in the Balance of Competences Review, published 22 July 2013, and available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/taxation-report-review-of-the-balance-of-competences" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/taxation-report-review-of-the-balance-of-competences</a>.</p> answering member printed Lord Deighton question first answered 23/06/2014 16:23:04 answering member 4262 label Biography information for Lord Deighton
tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon

60577

registered interest
date	09/06/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Money Advice Service
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many calls per week on average were received by the Money Advice Service (1) before, and (2) after, the television advertising campaign; and how much has been spent on the campaign.
tabling member printed	Lord Moonie
uin	HL166
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2014 answer text <p>This matter is the responsibility of the Money Advice Service. I have asked the Chief Executive to respond and will arrange for a copy of the letter to be deposited in the Libraries of the House.</p> answering member printed Lord Deighton question first answered 23/06/2014 16:21:35 answering member 4262 label Biography information for Lord Deighton
tabling member	621 label Biography information for Lord Moonie