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106214

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2014
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Income Tax
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people in work did not pay any income tax as a result of changes to the personal allowance threshold in each of the last three financial years.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	213291
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p>By April 2013, the cumulative effect of the Government's increases in the personal allowance for those aged under 65 years (born after 5 April 1948 from 2013-14 tax year) since 2010-11 had taken 2.8 million people out of income tax liability.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The year on year growth over the three years requested is shown in the table attached.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Tax Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Taken out of tax since 2010-11 by PA increases<br> (millions - cumulative)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2011-12</strong></p></td><td><p>1.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012-13</strong></p></td><td><p>1.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td><td><p>2.8</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 11/11/2014 17:04:51 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

106223

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2014
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Carbon Emissions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 2 September 2014 to Question 207058, if he will discuss with (a) the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change and (b) the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills the implications for his policies on financial stability of the statements given to the World Bank seminar on integrated reporting on 10 October 2014 by the Governor of the Bank of England on unburnable carbon and market failures; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	uin	213226
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p>I refer the hon. member to the answer [the Chancellor of the Exchequer] gave her on 2 September 2014, Official Report, column 221W</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 11/11/2014 16:40:06 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

106390

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2014
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Minimum Wage: Prosecutions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many successful prosecutions for breaches of national minimum wage legislation there have been since 1997.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	213421
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p>I refer my honerable friend to the response provide by the Solicitor General on 16 October 2014 <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=AllQuestions&amp;house=commons%2clords&amp;uin=209683" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=AllQuestions&amp;house=commons%2clords&amp;uin=209683</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 11/11/2014 17:11:04 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

106399

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2014
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Revenue and Customs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff HM Revenue and Customs employs; and how many and what proportion of such staff have been allocated to the enforcement of the national minimum wage in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	213375
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has responsibility for National Minimum Wage (NMW) policy and legislation and HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) enforces NMW on behalf of BIS. Staff across HMRC contribute to enforcing NMW, including people who work in legal advice, debt management, technical support and criminal investigation amongst others.</p><p> </p><p>ONS publishes staffing figures in the Annual Civil Service Survey reports</p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 11/11/2014 16:56:42 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

106400

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2014
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Minimum Wage
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 12 September 2014 to Question 205614, what proportion of the penalties imposed in each year have been successfully enforced; and how much of the amount of penalty imposed is outstanding.
	tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
	tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
	uin	213409
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p>The Government takes the enforcement of National Minimum Wage very seriously and has increased the financial penalty percentage from 50% to 100% of the unpaid wages owed to workers, and the maximum penalty from £5,000 to £20,000. These new limits are now in force where arrears are identified in pay reference periods on or after 7 March 2014. The Government will also bring in primary legislation as soon as possible so that the maximum £20,000 penalty can apply to each underpaid worker.</p><p> </p><p>The vast majority of employers pay penalties upon being issued with a Notice of Underpayment. Where they do not, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) will seek to recover through debt management processes. In the period 2009/10 - 2013/14 HMRC issued over 3,500 penalties totalling nearly £3m. Of these, 2 per cent are currently being pursued through debt management processes..</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 11/11/2014 16:55:22 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
	tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

106227

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2014
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Public Expenditure
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much was spent on collating, distributing and mailing the recently sent annual tax summary letter.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	213257
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p>The cost to print and post annual tax summaries sent to individual taxpayers is estimated to be around £5.3m.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 11/11/2014 17:13:30 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

106224

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2014
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Fuels: Excise Duties
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what effect changes to fuel duty have had on the price of petrol in the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	North Swindon
	tabling member printed	Justin Tomlinson
	uin	213242
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2014 answer text <p>Since 2011, the Government has abolished the previous government’s fuel duty escalator, cut fuel duty by 1 pence per litre in March 2011 and scrapped four planned increases over the parliament. As a result of this Government’s actions, average pump prices are currently 16 pence per litre lower than they would have been under the previous Government’s fuel duty plans, and will be nearly 20 pence per litre lower by the end of the parliament.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 07/11/2014 14:52:51 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson

106225

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2014
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Railways: Fares
	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 the Exchequer of increasing regulated rail fares by RPI in 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
	tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
	uin	213271
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2014 answer text <p>On 7 September the Government announced the government would extend the freeze on rail fares so that no regulated rail fares will increase by more than inflation.</p><p> </p><p>The Chancellor also announced that for 2015, train companies will no longer have the flexibility to increase some fares by 2% above the cap.</p><p> </p><p>As set out in the press release these measures will cost £100m by 2015/16.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey answering member printed Danny Alexander question first answered 19/11/2014 13:48:44 answering member 1535 label Biography information for Danny Alexander
	tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

106155

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2014
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Public Expenditure
	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 effect on the budgets of the Scottish Government, the Welsh Government and the Northern Ireland Executive of equalisation of public expenditure per head of population throughout the United Kingdom.
	tabling member printed	Lord Empey
	uin	HL2627
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p><strong>The Government has not made such an assessment. The leaders of the three main UK political parties have indicated that the Barnett formula will continue to operate. </strong></p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Deighton question first answered 17/11/2014 12:44:24 answering member 4262 label Biography information for Lord Deighton
	tabling member	4216 label Biography information for Lord Empey

106213

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2014
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Taxation: Scotland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 16 October 2014 to Question 210913, when he plans to begin public information campaigns in Scotland to inform taxpayers and businesses about changes to the tax system in Scotland.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
	tabling member printed	Margaret Curran
	uin	213287
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p><strong>The Scottish rate of income tax will be introduced from April 2016. HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) will contact individuals who will be affected by the introduction of the Scottish rate from autumn 2015. HMRC will continue to work with stakeholders and provide updates to businesses about the changes ensuring those affected will have the information and support they need in advance of the introduction of the Scottish rate.</strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 11/11/2014 17:01:11 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
	tabling member	3982 label Biography information for Margaret Curran