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1300084

registered interest
date	08/03/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Public Sector: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect of a pay freeze on the (a) retention and (b) recruitment of public sector workers.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	164603
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2021 answer text <p>Covid-19 has had an unprecedented impact on the private sector labour market, with unemployment and redundancies rising, and those on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme seeing a significant fall in earnings. The public sector has been shielded from these effects.</p><p> </p><p>Later this year, the independent Pay Review Bodies (PRB’s) will publish evidence and commentary on recruitment and retention for ten of the largest public sector workforces including: armed forces, teachers, police officers, the National Crime Agency, prison officers, doctors and dentists, Agenda for Change NHS non-medical staff, the Judiciary, senior civil servants and senior military personnel.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will reassess public sector pay policy ahead of the 2022/23 Annual Pay Round when the impact of Covid-19 on the wider labour market will be clearer.</p><p> </p><p>Latest data shows that recruitment and retention in some of our largest workforces remains strong. We have recruited over 41,000 new trainee teachers this year – 23% more than last year – and postgraduate recruitment is at its highest level since 2010/11.</p><p>In the NHS joiner rates are higher than last year at 13.8%, and leaver rates have fallen since 2017/18. UCAS end of cycle data shows 25,100 student nurses enrolled on courses in 2020/2, a 27% increase at English providers compared to the previous year.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Steve Barclay question first answered 16/03/2021 13:16:39 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1300112

registered interest
date	08/03/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Broadband: Capital Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether investment in the laying of fibre cables as part of the UK's broadband rollout will qualify for the Super Deduction on capital expenditure announced in Budget 2021.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	164465
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2021 answer text <p>Budget 2021 announced that from 1 April 2021 until 31 March 2023, companies investing in qualifying new plant and machinery assets will benefit from both the 130% super-deduction and a 50% first-year capital allowance.</p><p> </p><p>Expenditure on qualifying plant and machinery capital investments used by a company in the course of a trade can qualify for the relevant first-year allowance, including fibre cables. Software can also qualify for the super-deduction, provided the company makes an election to remove software from the intangible fixed assets regime. Expenditure on the learning and development of staff does not qualify for the super-deduction but is already an allowable expense for tax purposes.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 164468 question first answered 11/03/2021 14:34:39 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1300114

registered interest
date	08/03/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Publications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on what date the erroneous graph on page 19 of the Build Back Better budget document was corrected to show the UK has a higher than average employment rate than the EU, G7 and OECD.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	164466
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2021 answer text <p>On 3<sup>rd</sup> March 2021, HMT published <em>Build Back Better: our plan for growth, </em>a publication setting out the government’s plans to support economic growth through significant investment in infrastructure, skills and innovation.</p><p> </p><p>Due to a technical error when creating the web accessible document, some of the charts generated for the original web accessible version either contained an error or did not match the layout of the charts in the main print version. The web accessible version was corrected on 4<sup>th</sup> March 2021 to ensure consistency with the print version.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 16/03/2021 11:09:56 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1300119

registered interest
date	08/03/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Capital Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the Super Deduction capital allowance introduced in Budget 2021 on investment in people and skills.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	164468
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2021 answer text <p>Budget 2021 announced that from 1 April 2021 until 31 March 2023, companies investing in qualifying new plant and machinery assets will benefit from both the 130% super-deduction and a 50% first-year capital allowance.</p><p> </p><p>Expenditure on qualifying plant and machinery capital investments used by a company in the course of a trade can qualify for the relevant first-year allowance, including fibre cables. Software can also qualify for the super-deduction, provided the company makes an election to remove software from the intangible fixed assets regime. Expenditure on the learning and development of staff does not qualify for the super-deduction but is already an allowable expense for tax purposes.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 164465 question first answered 11/03/2021 14:34:39 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1300136

registered interest
date	08/03/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Levelling Up Fund and UK Community Renewal Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he had sight of the lists of areas for priority funding from the (a) Levelling Up Fund and (b) UK Community Renewal Fund prior to the publication of those lists.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	164492
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2021 answer text <p>On the Levelling Up Fund, Ministers approved metrics at the design stage based on alignment with the policy goals of the Fund. Ministers did not see a list of specific places before agreeing the list of metrics. At no point did Ministers make changes to the index, weightings or metrics recommended by officials.</p><p>On the Community Renewal Fund, the design of the fund, including the allocation process was led by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 12/03/2021 14:37:10 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1300142

registered interest
date	08/03/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Protective Clothing: VAT Zero Rating
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of extending the VAT exemption on personal protective equipment available for (a) funeral homes and (b) other businesses.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Zarah Sultana
uin	164644
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2021 answer text <p>The temporary zero rate was an extraordinary measure introduced to help affected sectors such as hospitals and care homes during the initial acute period of the COVID-19 crisis, when global supply of PPE did not meet demand and PPE was procured directly from the open market.</p><p> </p><p>Companies in the funeral sector source their own PPE through their normal supply routes. In extreme circumstances, there is provision for them to approach their Local Resilience Forum (LRF) or local authority, where the LRF has stood down, to discuss access to an emergency supply. Given this, there are no plans to review the VAT treatment of PPE.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 11/03/2021 12:47:18 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4786 label Biography information for Zarah Sultana

1300173

registered interest
date	08/03/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Self-employment Income Support Scheme
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 Self-Employment Income Support Scheme to include people who did not return a self-assessment form before 3 March 2021.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	164380
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2021 answer text <p>At the Budget on 3 March, the Government announced the details of two further rounds of the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS). Alongside this, the Government announced that HMRC will now use 2019-20 tax returns to determine the eligibility and award for the SEISS, provided these returns were submitted by 2 March.</p><p> </p><p>This means that more than 600,000 people, many of whom became self-employed in 2019-20, may now be able to claim the fourth and fifth grants, bringing the total number of people who could be eligible to 3.7 million.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has already given self-employed people more than a month after the statutory deadline to submit their returns without penalty. HMRC waived late filing penalties until 28 February. Self-employed individuals who did not file by 31 January will, where possible, have received a notification from HMRC that their return was late.</p><p> </p><p>Allowing returns submitted on or after the terms and criteria of the SEISS grants were announced on 3 March would create a significant incentive for fraud.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 16/03/2021 13:19:30 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1300182

registered interest
date	08/03/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Packaging: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of publishing an exhaustive list of the items to be included in the Plastic Packaging Tax that will take effect from April 2022.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Zarah Sultana
uin	164650
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2021 answer text <p>The Government is currently in the early stages of implementing the tax via the primary legislation, which by its nature, only provides relatively high-level definitions as a foundation for the tax. As the Government moves to the next stage of implementing the tax, it will work with industry to develop regulations and guidance to provide clarity on how businesses determine the types of product that will be taxable.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 16/03/2021 16:42:04 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	4786 label Biography information for Zarah Sultana

1300184

registered interest
date	08/03/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Corporation Tax: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of increasing corporation tax now for those companies with a higher profit margin during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Zarah Sultana
uin	164652
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2021 answer text <p>It is right that businesses share in the burden of restoring the public finances to a sustainable footing; that is why the Government announced an increase in the rate of Corporation Tax at Budget. The rate increase will not come into force until April 2023, by which time GDP is forecast to have recovered to its pre-pandemic level.</p><p> </p><p>Companies that have made profits during the pandemic have continued to pay Corporation Tax on those profits as normal. Corporation Tax is charged in line with the level of a company’s profits, so more profitable companies will have contributed more.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 16/03/2021 13:20:51 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4786 label Biography information for Zarah Sultana

1300213

registered interest
date	08/03/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Freeports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the announcement of eight freeports as part of Budget 2021, whether the Government plans to designate any further freeports in England, on the basis of bids submitted in advance of the 5 February 2021 bid deadline.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	164428
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2021 answer text <p>The government has no plans to designate further Freeports in England beyond those allocated at this time.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Steve Barclay question first answered 11/03/2021 15:06:02 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson