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459319

registered interest
date	10/03/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Sanitary Products: VAT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what progress he has made to date on negotiating with the European institutions for permission to apply a zero-rate of VAT on women's sanitary products.
tabling member constituency	Dewsbury
tabling member printed	Paula Sherriff
uin	30606
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2016 answer text <p>I have written to the European Commission and other Member States setting out our strong view that Member States should have full discretion over what rate of VAT they can apply to these products, and that this should be considered in the context of the Commission’s Action Plan on VAT.</p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 15/03/2016 17:28:35 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	4426 label Biography information for Paula Sherriff

459321

registered interest
date	10/03/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Tobacco: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of when the tax optimisation for cigarettes will be reached.
tabling member constituency	North Antrim
tabling member printed	Ian Paisley
uin	30626
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2016 answer text <p>The government believes that cigarette duty achieves a balance between its two fiscal goals on tobacco; to raise revenue and to protect public health.</p><p> </p><p>In considering fiscal impacts of duties, the illicit trade is an important consideration. The government is committed to tackling illicit tobacco, which undermines health and tax policy objectives and harms legitimate business. HMRC and Border Force have an established and effective strategy for tackling tobacco fraud which has seen the illicit market reduce significantly since the strategy was first launched in 2000. This has meant that, since the introduction of the tobacco duty escalator, the size of the illicit market has continued to fall.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 30627 question first answered 15/03/2016 16:29:22 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4129 label Biography information for Ian Paisley

459322

registered interest
date	10/03/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Tobacco: Excise Duties
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment the Government has made of the potential effect of future tobacco excise increases on the black market in tobacco products.
tabling member constituency	North Antrim
tabling member printed	Ian Paisley
uin	30627
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2016 answer text <p>The government believes that cigarette duty achieves a balance between its two fiscal goals on tobacco; to raise revenue and to protect public health.</p><p> </p><p>In considering fiscal impacts of duties, the illicit trade is an important consideration. The government is committed to tackling illicit tobacco, which undermines health and tax policy objectives and harms legitimate business. HMRC and Border Force have an established and effective strategy for tackling tobacco fraud which has seen the illicit market reduce significantly since the strategy was first launched in 2000. This has meant that, since the introduction of the tobacco duty escalator, the size of the illicit market has continued to fall.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 30626 question first answered 15/03/2016 16:29:22 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4129 label Biography information for Ian Paisley

459323

registered interest
date	10/03/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	VAT: EU Action
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he expects the European Commission to publish the VAT Action Plan; and what plans he has to respond to that plan.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	30608
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2016 answer text <p>The Action Plan is due to be published by the Commission shortly. It will be subject to the normal parliamentary scrutiny process.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 15/03/2016 17:21:51 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

459324

registered interest
date	10/03/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	EU Budget: Contributions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the (a) Government's net contribution to EU institutions and (b) UK's current account balance with those institutions in 2014; and what estimate the European Commission has made of that contribution and that account balance.
tabling member constituency	Bury North
tabling member printed	Mr David Nuttall
uin	30622
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2016 answer text <p>Both Government and European Commission outturn figures for the UK’s net contribution to the EU Budget in 2014 can be found in <em>European Union Finances </em>2015 (Cm 9167), Tables 3A and 3C respectively. Since outturn figures are available there is no estimate. The difference between the two figuresis primarily due to the fact that Government figures include only receipts administered by UK Government Departments. The European Commission figures include both these receipts and also those which are paid directly to UK private sector beneficiaries such as universities and small and medium sized enterprises.</p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 15/03/2016 17:20:57 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	4140 label Biography information for Mr David Nuttall

459325

registered interest
date	10/03/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he intends to answer the letter dated 12 January 2016 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Ms Sara Lyons, transferred from the Department for Work and Pensions.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Sir Gerald Kaufman
uin	30630
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2016 answer text <p>HMRC officials are looking into this case and the Right hon. Member will receive a reply in due course.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 14/03/2016 09:09:54 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	451 label Biography information for Sir Gerald Kaufman

459326

registered interest
date	10/03/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Whisky: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of jobs supported by the Scotch whisky industry in (a) Scotland and (b) the UK.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	30700
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2016 answer text <p>There is no alcohol duty payable on exported Scotch Whisky.</p><p> </p><p>The government is committed to supporting the Scotch Whisky industry. The duty on spirits was cut at March Budget 2015 and, to continue this support, Budget 2016 announced a duty freeze for spirits this year.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 30667 30701 question first answered 18/03/2016 11:59:45 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

459328

registered interest
date	10/03/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Financial Services: EU Law
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost to UK firms of implementing Capital Requirement Directive IV.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Mrs Anne Main
uin	30666
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2016 answer text <p>The Capital Requirements Directive IV (CRD IV) implements, in the EU, the prudential banking standards agreed by the international Basel Committee. The Government supports these global standards to ensure that we do not again face severe economic impacts as a result of inadequate banking regulation and would have implemented these with or without EU legislation.</p><p> </p><p>It is difficult to isolate the costs and benefits from other prudential banking measures introduced since the global financial crisis. And the benefits in particular are hard to capture as they take time to materialize. However, the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) stated in its cost-benefit analysis carried out 2013 that ‘the CRDIV package is net beneficial to the UK economy.’</p><p> </p><p>Taking all of the prudential measures together, the PRA has estimated that the net economic benefit is £8.25bn per annum.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 18/03/2016 12:01:18 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	1568 label Biography information for Mrs Anne Main

459332

registered interest
date	10/03/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Multinational Companies: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential costs and benefits of making available to the public country-by-country taxation reports submitted to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) by multinational companies; and whether HMRC plans to make those reports available to taxation authorities in other countries.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	30785
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2016 answer text <p>The UK supports efforts to improve tax transparency. We initiated the international work on country-by-country (CbC) reporting to tax authorities during our G8 Presidency in 2013, calling on the OECD to develop a template for this as part of the BEPS project. The UK was also the first to commit to implementing the OECD model with legislation in Finance Act 2015. We signed the OECD agreement to share the CbC reports with other tax authorities in January 2016 and issued our final CbC reporting regulations on 26 February 2016.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC is committed to sharing the information reported by MNEs with other relevant tax jurisdictions to assist in assessing international tax avoidance risks.</p><p> </p><p>The Government believes that there is scope for greater transparency by pressing the case for public CbC reporting on a multilateral basis. As the Chancellor has said, this is something that the UK will seek to promote internationally.</p><p> </p><p>The European Commission is preparing an impact assessment of public CbC reporting. We look forward to seeing the outcome of this analysis, which we expect to be published early next month, and will consider any proposal put forward by the Commission in due course.</p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 15/03/2016 17:27:19 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

459333

registered interest
date	10/03/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Alcoholic Drinks: Excise Duties
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the proportion of total duty paid on alcohol in the EU that is paid by people in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	30713
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2016 answer text <p>HM Treasury has made no such estimate.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 17/03/2016 16:13:49 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake