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844043

registered interest
date	19/02/2018
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Instalment Credit: Regulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Financial Conduct Authority's decision on BrightHouse, announced on 24 October 2017, whether his Department plans to bring forward legislative proposals to (a) further regulate the rent-to-own market and (b) introduce a price cap on rent-to-own goods.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	128392
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2018 answer text <p>The government transferred the regulation of consumer credit, including rent-to-own, to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in 2014. The Government has given the FCA strong powers to protect consumers, as demonstrated by the FCA announcement in October 2017 that BrightHouse, a rent-to-own firm, would pay over £14.8 million in redress to 249,000 customers in respect of agreements which may not have been affordable, and payments which should have been refunded.</p><p> </p><p>The government has also given the FCA the power to cap all forms of credit, and the FCA can do so if it thinks it is necessary to protect consumers.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The government welcomes the ongoing work of the FCA to review the high-cost credit market, including the rent-to-own sector. The FCA aims to consult on proposed remedies in Spring 2018.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 27/02/2018 15:26:24 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

844054

registered interest
date	19/02/2018
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Cash Dispensing: Fees and Charges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 8 February 2018 to Question 126599, on Cash Dispensing: Fees and Charges, if he will make the correspondence between his Department and LINK on proposals to reduce the interchange fee available to those Members who request it.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	128399
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2018 answer text <p>It is not the Department’s policy to make copies of correspondence relevant to ongoing policy formation available to Members.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 27/02/2018 14:43:29 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

837480

registered interest
date	05/02/2018
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Cash Dispensing: Fees and Charges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will place in the Library, copies of the correspondence between his Department and LINK on proposals to reduce the interchange fee.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	126599
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2018 answer text <p>It is not the Department’s policy to place copies of correspondence between it and third parties in the Library.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 08/02/2018 17:30:42 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

824530

registered interest
date	17/01/2018
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Cash Dispensing: Fees and Charges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has made an assessment of the effect on free access to cash of LINK’s upcoming decision on the ATM interchange fee on (a) rural areas and (b) inner-city communities.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	123331
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2018 answer text <p>The Government recognises that widespread free access to cash remains extremely important to the day-to-day lives of many consumers and businesses in the UK. Government has been engaging and will continue to engage with industry, including LINK, to ensure that this access is maintained.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has not made any formal assessment of the potential effect of LINK’s proposals to change the interchange fee rate. However, the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR), which Government set up as an independent regulator in 2015 with a statutory objective to ensure that the UK’s payment systems work in the interests of their users, is monitoring developments within ATM provision, and is conducting ongoing work on the impact that changes may have. The PSR has recently published a summary of their work to date, which can be found at https://www.psr.org.uk/psr-focus/the-UK-ATM-network</p><p> </p><p>The PSR has committed to using its powers to act should any of the firms it regulates behave in a way that conflicts with its statutory objectives.</p><p> </p><p>LINK has assured us and the PSR that industry is committed to maintaining an extensive network of free-to-use cash machines, and to ensuring that the present geographical spread of ATMs is maintained. LINK intends to bolster its Financial Inclusion Programme, which ensures the provision of ATMs in areas of deprivation, where demand would not otherwise make one viable, and has also committed to protecting all free-to-use ATMs which are a kilometre or more from the next nearest free-to-use ATM.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen grouped question UIN 123332 123333 question first answered 24/01/2018 13:44:58 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

824531

registered interest
date	17/01/2018
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Cash Dispensing: Fees and Charges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has (a) made to LINK or (b) received from LINK any representations on proposed changes to the ATM interchange fee in the last six months.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	123332
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2018 answer text <p>The Government recognises that widespread free access to cash remains extremely important to the day-to-day lives of many consumers and businesses in the UK. Government has been engaging and will continue to engage with industry, including LINK, to ensure that this access is maintained.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has not made any formal assessment of the potential effect of LINK’s proposals to change the interchange fee rate. However, the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR), which Government set up as an independent regulator in 2015 with a statutory objective to ensure that the UK’s payment systems work in the interests of their users, is monitoring developments within ATM provision, and is conducting ongoing work on the impact that changes may have. The PSR has recently published a summary of their work to date, which can be found at https://www.psr.org.uk/psr-focus/the-UK-ATM-network</p><p> </p><p>The PSR has committed to using its powers to act should any of the firms it regulates behave in a way that conflicts with its statutory objectives.</p><p> </p><p>LINK has assured us and the PSR that industry is committed to maintaining an extensive network of free-to-use cash machines, and to ensuring that the present geographical spread of ATMs is maintained. LINK intends to bolster its Financial Inclusion Programme, which ensures the provision of ATMs in areas of deprivation, where demand would not otherwise make one viable, and has also committed to protecting all free-to-use ATMs which are a kilometre or more from the next nearest free-to-use ATM.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen grouped question UIN 123331 123333 question first answered 24/01/2018 13:44:58 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

824532

registered interest
date	17/01/2018
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Cash Dispensing: Fees and Charges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department will ask the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) to intervene following LINK's proposal on the interchange fee should changes to that fee have a detrimental effect on the long-term sustainability of the ATM network and (b) LINK’s Financial Inclusion Programme fails to protect access to ATMs in areas which already face financial exclusion.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	123333
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2018 answer text <p>The Government recognises that widespread free access to cash remains extremely important to the day-to-day lives of many consumers and businesses in the UK. Government has been engaging and will continue to engage with industry, including LINK, to ensure that this access is maintained.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has not made any formal assessment of the potential effect of LINK’s proposals to change the interchange fee rate. However, the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR), which Government set up as an independent regulator in 2015 with a statutory objective to ensure that the UK’s payment systems work in the interests of their users, is monitoring developments within ATM provision, and is conducting ongoing work on the impact that changes may have. The PSR has recently published a summary of their work to date, which can be found at https://www.psr.org.uk/psr-focus/the-UK-ATM-network</p><p> </p><p>The PSR has committed to using its powers to act should any of the firms it regulates behave in a way that conflicts with its statutory objectives.</p><p> </p><p>LINK has assured us and the PSR that industry is committed to maintaining an extensive network of free-to-use cash machines, and to ensuring that the present geographical spread of ATMs is maintained. LINK intends to bolster its Financial Inclusion Programme, which ensures the provision of ATMs in areas of deprivation, where demand would not otherwise make one viable, and has also committed to protecting all free-to-use ATMs which are a kilometre or more from the next nearest free-to-use ATM.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen grouped question UIN 123331 123332 question first answered 24/01/2018 13:44:58 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

800760

registered interest
date	04/12/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of Treasury employees are paid through trusts rather than through PAYE.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	117381
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2017 answer text <p>No HM Treasury employees are paid through trusts rather than through PAYE.</p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 12/12/2017 17:01:35 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

794405

registered interest
date	23/11/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Energy: Capital Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the capital allowance treatment is of (a) solar power, (b) Good Quality gas CHP, (c) solar thermal, (d) battery storage technologies, (e) biomass boilers and (f) heat pumps.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	115378
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2017 answer text <p>Capital Allowances are tax reliefs available for qualifying expenditure by businesses which comply with the conditions of the schemes.</p><p> </p><p>The rate of Capital Allowances available for:</p><p>(a) Solar power is 8%</p><p>(b) Gas CHP is 100%</p><p>(c) Solar thermal is 100%</p><p>(d) Battery storage technologies is 18%</p><p>(e) Biomass boilers is either 100% or 18%</p><p>(f) Heat pumps is 100%</p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 01/12/2017 13:12:40 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

794414

registered interest
date	23/11/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Civil Servants: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of Government employees are paid through trusts rather than through PAYE.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	115387
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 01/12/2017 14:19:32 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff