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166204

registered interest
date	26/11/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Financial Services
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have any plans to introduce legislation obliging financial companies to protect against cyberbreaches, money laundering and fraud.
tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
uin	HL3188
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2014 answer text <p>The UK already has a comprehensive anti-money laundering and counter financing of terrorism regime. The international money laundering standards set by the Financial Action Task Force form the basis of EU legislation, which is incorporated into various pieces of UK law, predominantly the Money Laundering Regulations (2007) and the Proceeds of Crime Act (2002), both of which apply to financial institutions.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The UK Government has no plans to introduce legislation obliging financial companies to protect against fraud. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), which regulates most financial institutions, expects firms within its supervisory remit to establish, implement and maintain adequate policies and procedures to reduce the risk that they may be used for financial crime. This includes money laundering, anti-bribery and corruption, and fraud.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government works very closely with the financial sector through such initiatives as the CISP (Cyber Security Information Sharing Partnership) and CERT-UK (the UK’s national Computer Emergency Response Team), and has participated in cyber security exercises with the sector to test defences, such as the Waking Shark II exercise held earlier this year. In addition, the Treasury is working with the relevant Government agencies, the Bank of England (including the Prudential Regulation Authority) and the FCA to respond to the Financial Policy Committee’s recommendation to work with core parts of the UK financial sector to put in place a programme of work to improve and test resilience to cyber attack.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Deighton question first answered 09/12/2014 17:50:42 answering member 4262 label Biography information for Lord Deighton
tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

166218

registered interest
date	26/11/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Self-employed
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what are the latest recorded (1) numbers of self-employed, (2) numbers of self-employed recorded in income tax records, and (3) annual turnover of self-employed in income tax records.
tabling member printed	Lord Christopher
uin	HL3202
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2014 answer text <p>The number of individuals filing a self-employment schedule in their Self Assessment tax returns for the year 2011-12 is estimated at 5.49 million.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The annual turnover of these individuals in 2011-12 is estimated at £296 billion.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>These estimates are based on the Survey of Personal Incomes (SPI) for the year 2011-12.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Further information about the self-employed is available in HMRC’s National Statistics Publications<sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup> Available at the following internet address: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/personal-income-by-tax-year" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/personal-income-by-tax-year</a></p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Deighton question first answered 10/12/2014 13:49:15 answering member 4262 label Biography information for Lord Deighton
tabling member	3395 label Biography information for Lord Christopher

166237

registered interest
date	26/11/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits
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 number of cases in which officials engaged in verifying the eligibility of applicants for tax credits where issues relating to their single status were an issue did not provide information advising how single status could be established in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Angus
tabling member printed	Mr Mike Weir
uin	216201
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2015 answer text <p>During 2013-14 the total number of interventions carried out on single person tax credit claims with a suspicion of an undeclared partner was 140,923. HMRC amended 28,516 awards as a result of these investigations. HMRC do not hold data on the number of applicants who failed to provide information relating to their single status.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 12/01/2015 13:20:56 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	1384 label Biography information for Mike Weir

166238

registered interest
date	26/11/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits
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 average total processing time of applications for tax credits where the assessing officer has issued a request for additional documentation in respect of single person status and tax credits have been suspended pending examination of that documentation.
tabling member constituency	Angus
tabling member printed	Mr Mike Weir
uin	216202
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2014 answer text <p>The vast majority of undeclared partner interventions are carried out at the post award stage and do not affect the processing time for new claims, therefore HMRC do not hold the data requested.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 02/12/2014 17:31:55 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	1384 label Biography information for Mike Weir

166239

registered interest
date	26/11/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what guidance is provided to officials processing applications for tax credits on the documentation necessary to verify an applicant's single status, where HM Revenue and Customs contends that there has been an unreported change of circumstances.
tabling member constituency	Angus
tabling member printed	Mr Mike Weir
uin	216199
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2014 answer text <p>The guidance issued to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMRC" target="_blank"><strong>HMRC</strong></a> compliance officers on undeclared partner interventions is published at Chapter 15 of the Claimant Compliance Manual. This manual is available at:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://home.inrev.gov.uk/ccmmanual/PP_ccm15000.htm" target="_blank"><strong>http://home.inrev.gov.uk/ccmmanual/PP_ccm15000.htm</strong></a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 02/12/2014 17:34:39 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	1384 label Biography information for Mike Weir

166240

registered interest
date	26/11/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Royal Bank of Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has received any information from UK Financial Investments Ltd in respect of the (a) operation by RBS of its Global Restructuring Group (GRC) as a profit centre for the bank and (b) implications of the operations of the GRC for small business customers of RBS.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	216223
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>We have not received information from UK Financial Investments (UKFI) relating to the operation of RBS’s Global Restructuring Group (GRG) as a profit centre for the bank.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Similarly, we have not received information from UKFI relating to the implications of the operations of GRG for small business customers.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As you are aware, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is currently investigating the operations of GRG in relation to its treatment of business customers in financial difficulty. If the FCA identifies issues which come within its remit, it will consider further regulatory measures.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 17/12/2014 17:45:07 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

166241

registered interest
date	26/11/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits
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 cases where applications for tax credits were (a) refused or (b) suspended because the applicant had failed to provide evidence of their status as a single person to the satisfaction of the assessing officer there were in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Angus
tabling member printed	Mr Mike Weir
uin	216200
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2014 answer text <p>This information is not available.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 05/12/2014 14:13:16 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	1384 label Biography information for Mike Weir

166242

registered interest
date	26/11/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Catering
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much his Department has spent on catering and hospitality since May 2010.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	216192
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2015 answer text <p>The provision of hospitality, at functions within HM Treasury for Treasury staff, other Whitehall civil servants and non-executive directors has been prohibited since 1 July 2010. Hospitality may be provided where external guests are present. The attendance of Treasury staff at such meetings is dependent on a necessary business need and their number should not exceed the number of external guests.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4"><p><em>£000 </em></p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p><em>HMT</em><sup>(<em> 1</em>)</sup></p></td><td><p><em>DMO</em><sup>(<em> 1</em>)</sup></p></td><td><p><em>APA</em><sup>(<em> 2</em>)</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2002-03</p></td><td><p>208</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>n/a</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2003-04</p></td><td><p>116</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>n/a</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2004-05</p></td><td><p>213</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>n/a</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005-06</p></td><td><p>256</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>n/a</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006-07</p></td><td><p>170</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>n/a</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007-08</p></td><td><p>125</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>n/a</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008-09</p></td><td><p>91</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>n/a</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>116</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p><sup>(1)</sup> Data for HM Treasury and DMO are only available from 2002-03 due to the introduction of a new accounting system in that year.<br> <sup>(2)</sup> APA was formed in December 2009.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 14/01/2015 17:02:28 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

166244

registered interest
date	26/11/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	European Space Agency
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills regarding UK financial commitments to the European Space Agency.
tabling member constituency	Hartlepool
tabling member printed	Mr Iain Wright
uin	216162
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2015 answer text <p><strong>I can confirm that at the December 2014 ESA Council of Ministers the Government successfully negotiated a £226m funding package for ESA programmes and, to enable this, the Chancellor agreed at Autumn Statement to provide £55m of new funding to the department for Business Innovation and Skills in 2015/16. </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>The package includes the UK taking the operational lead for first European rover mission to Mars, a further 6 years membership to the International Space Station and the leverage of significant industry investment into the UK’s satellite telecommunications sector.</strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey answering member printed Danny Alexander question first answered 21/01/2015 17:34:07 answering member 1535 label Biography information for Danny Alexander
tabling member	1478 label Biography information for Mr Iain Wright

166245

registered interest
date	26/11/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Venture Capital
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 amount of funding invested in small and medium-sized enterprises through venture capital trusts in (a) Northern Ireland and (b) the UK in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	South Antrim
tabling member printed	Dr William McCrea
uin	216116
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2014 answer text <p>The precise information requested is not available at reasonable cost. Venture Capital Trusts raised £440 million in 2013-14, £400 million in 2012-13 and £325 million in 2011-12 to fund their investments. HM Revenue &amp; Customs Statistics on VCTs are published annually and can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/venture-capital-trusts-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/venture-capital-trusts-statistics</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 02/12/2014 17:21:39 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	655 label Biography information for Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown