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1203278

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date	12/06/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Travel Agents: Repayments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will take steps to ensure that travel agents are eligible for full refunds for transaction fees in the event that holidays are cancelled as a result of the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	North Ayrshire and Arran
tabling member printed	Patricia Gibson
uin	59234
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2020 answer text <p>The Government remains committed to helping businesses and workers through the present very difficult time, and has announced unprecedented support, including a range of grant and tax deferral schemes, and £300 billion of guarantees, equivalent to 15 per cent of UK GDP.</p><p> </p><p>The terms on which transaction fees for card purchases may be refunded are a commercial arrangement between businesses and their acquirers (the financial services firms which process card payments on behalf of businesses). Some acquirers are taking voluntary measures to support their business customers, for example through waiving fees, and the Government welcomes such action.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 17/06/2020 11:30:30 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4435 label Biography information for Patricia Gibson

1203286

registered interest
date	12/06/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Public Houses: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions he has had with representatives from pub companies on financial support for pub tenants during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Newport East
tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
uin	59198
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2020 answer text <p>The Government has announced unprecedented support for business and workers to protect them against the current economic emergency including almost £300 billion of guarantees – equivalent to 15% of UK GDP. The hospitality sector continues to have access to a range of government support measures including, but not limited to:</p><p> </p><ul><li>A 12-month business rates holiday for all eligible retail, leisure and hospitality businesses in England</li><li>Small business grant funding (SBGF) of £10,000 for all business in receipt of small business rate relief or rural rate relief</li><li>The retail, hospitality and leisure grant fund (RHLGF)</li><li>A Discretionary Grant Fund in England</li><li>The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS)</li><li>The Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS)</li><li>The Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS)</li><li>The Bounce Back Loan Scheme (BBL) for small and micro enterprises</li><li>VAT deferral for up to 12 months</li><li>Protection for commercial leaseholders against automatic forfeiture for non-payment until June 30, 2020</li></ul><p> </p><p>We continue to engage with businesses and value their feedback. Support measures for businesses, including pubs, remains under constant review.</p><p> </p><p>The Business Support website provides further information about how businesses can access the support that has been made available, who is eligible and how to apply - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/business-coronavirus-support-finder" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/business-coronavirus-support-finder</a>.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 17/06/2020 16:07:28 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden

1203295

registered interest
date	12/06/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Supply Teachers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether agency supply teachers will be eligible for the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme during the school summer holiday period.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	59223
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2020 answer text <p>Agency supply teachers are eligible for the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme during the school summer holiday period, where they are otherwise eligible for the scheme.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 17/06/2020 13:10:20 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1203309

registered interest
date	12/06/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Private Rented Housing: Coronavirus
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 support people who rely solely on rent from tenants for income during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Clwyd South
tabling member printed	Simon Baynes
uin	59263
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2020 answer text <p>The Chancellor has announced unprecedented support for businesses affected by Coronavirus including giving them access to cash to pay their rent, salaries or suppliers. The Government has also taken steps to protect commercial tenants from eviction and is working with the sector to publish a Code of Practice to guide and encourage all parties to work together to protect viable businesses and ensure a swift recovery.</p><p> </p><p>In the residential sector, we recognise the pressures which residents and landlords are facing. That is why the Government has extended the suspension of evictions from social or private rented accommodation for a further 2 months and included Buy-to-let mortgages in the extension to the window for applying for a mortgage holiday until 31 October 2020.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 17/06/2020 16:08:52 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	4800 label Biography information for Simon Baynes

1203310

registered interest
date	12/06/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Government Assistance: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and Self-Employment Income Support Scheme, what the average furlough payments were to (a) employees and (b) self-employed people in Northern Ireland in the first month after the commencement of those schemes.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	59189
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2020 answer text <p>The average payment for the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme per furloughed employee in Northern Ireland is not available.</p><p> </p><p>Payments for the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) covered a period of three months. As of 31 May 2020 the average payment from the SEISS to individuals in Northern Ireland was £2,900.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 17/06/2020 13:20:24 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1203311

registered interest
date	12/06/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	World Economy: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions he has had with his (a) G8, (b) G20 and (c) other international counterparts on (i) the global recession as a result of covid-19, ii) potential cancellation of world debt and (c) plans to support recovery of the global economy.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	59236
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2020 answer text <p>The UK Government continues to engage very closely and regularly with the international community, including the G7, G20, and various international organisations, to respond to the economic impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. G7 Finance Ministers continue to convene regularly to work together on critical economic issues. G20 Finance Ministers last met on April 15 and will next meet on July 18 to continue to coordinate the international response to the pandemic and support the global recovery.</p><p> </p><p>The UK recently led the development of the G20 Action Plan, which brings together ambitious and wide-ranging commitments to address the economic impact of the virus, including to work with international counterparts to secue a strong global economic recovery. Additionally, as part of this, the Chancellor and his G20 counterparts agreed to a temporary suspension on debt service repayments from the poorest countries. We are working closely with G20 partner countries and international organisations to monitor the implementation of the Action Plan and ensure it maintains efficacy. The UK Government will also work through the G20 and Paris Club of official creditors to closely monitor sovereign debt vulnerabilities in developing countries.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 17/06/2020 11:32:14 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1203316

registered interest
date	12/06/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Food: Wholesale Trade
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending the (a) Business Rates Relief and (b) Hospitality, Retail and Leisure Grant to the food and drink wholesale sector; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Broxbourne
tabling member printed	Sir Charles Walker
uin	59191
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2020 answer text <p>The Government recognises that this is a very challenging time for businesses in a wide variety of sectors.</p><p> </p><p>Businesses occupying properties for retail, hospitality or leisure purposes are likely to have been particularly affected by COVID-19 due to their reliance on customer footfall. The Government has provided enhanced support to these businesses through a twelve-month business rates holiday. The Government also recognises that small businesses in the retail, hospitality and leisure sectors are less likely than larger businesses to have sufficient cash reserves to meet their high fixed property-related costs. To help these small businesses, the Government created the Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Grant Fund, which gives grants of up to £25,000 to businesses which occupy properties used for these purposes with a rateable value below £51,000.</p><p> </p><p>Local Authorities (LAs) can choose to make discretionary grants to businesses in retail, hospitality and leisure supply chains, like the wholesale food and drink sector, if they feel there is a particular local economic need. The Government has allocated up to an additional £617 million to LAs to enable them to give discretionary grants. While food and drink wholesalers are not one of the priority groups which Government has asked LAs to focus on, LAs may choose to make payments to businesses outside of these priority groups, so long as the business was trading on 11th March, and has not received any other cash grant funded by central Government (with the exception of grants from the SEISS).</p><p> </p><p>Small businesses which are not eligible for business grants should still be able to benefit from other elements of the Government’s unprecedented package of support. The Business Support website provides further information about how businesses can access the support that has been made available, who is eligible, when the schemes open and how to apply - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/business-coronavirus-support-finder" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/business-coronavirus-support-finder</a>.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 17/06/2020 16:14:25 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker

1202806

registered interest
date	11/06/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Public Expenditure: Falkirk
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much funding the Government has allocated to (a) public services and (b) capital projects in Falkirk constituency in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Falkirk
tabling member printed	John McNally
uin	58730
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2020 answer text <p>Falkirk benefits from UK-wide spending by the UK Government in reserved policy areas, but this is not generally managed on a constituency basis.</p><p> </p><p>Falkirk will also benefit from a Growth Deal which builds on the UK Government’s commitment for 100% coverage of City and Growth deals across Scotland.</p><p> </p><p>In devolved policy areas the UK Government funds the Scottish Government via the Barnett formula. It is for the Scottish Government to allocate its funding on devolved public services and infrastructure across Scotland, including Falkirk.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Steve Barclay question first answered 19/06/2020 10:20:20 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4424 label Biography information for John McNally

1202824

registered interest
date	11/06/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Arts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make available support provided by the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme for workers, such as those employed in post-production in the creative industries, whose employment will not be impacted by the covid-19 outbreak until later in the year once their pre-existing projects have been completed.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Daisy Cooper
uin	58800
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2020 answer text <p>The Government is aware that different employers and sectors will face different challenges in getting up and running again. However, it would be challenging to target the CJRS to specific sectors in a fair and deliverable way, and it may not be the case that this is the most effective or sensible way to provide longer term support for those sectors most affected by coronavirus. It is the case that some firms will be affected by coronavirus for longer than others, and the Government will seek to support these firms, and their workers, appropriately.</p><p>The CJRS is just one form of support on offer to employers and employees during this difficult period. The Government will continue to engage with businesses and representative groups with the aim of ensuring that the support provided is right for individual sectors and for the economy as a whole.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 16/06/2020 11:24:02 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4769 label Biography information for Daisy Cooper

1202881

registered interest
date	11/06/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Visas: Turkey
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many grants under the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme have been issued to applicants that hold a Turkish Businessperson visa.
tabling member constituency	Edmonton
tabling member printed	Kate Osamor
uin	58750
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2020 answer text <p>Applications for the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) opened on 13 May. By 11 June 2020, HMRC had received:</p><ul><li>2.1m claims representing a total of £6.1bn in England;</li><li>146k claims representing a total of £425m in Scotland;</li><li>102k claims representing a total of £273m in Wales; and</li><li>69k claims representing a total of £198m in Northern Ireland.</li></ul><p> </p><p>HMRC have published tables showing the number of individuals claiming the SEISS by 31 May 2020 which can be found at</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/self-employment-income-support-scheme-statistics-june-2020" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/self-employment-income-support-scheme-statistics-june-2020</a>.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC do not hold data on whether SEISS applicants hold a Turkish Businessperson visa and so cannot provide this information.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 16/06/2020 10:51:19 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4515 label Biography information for Kate Osamor