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1696335

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date	14/03/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Windsor Framework: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether recurring financial provision will be made to implement the Windsor Framework; and, if so, what quantum they are expecting.
tabling member printed	Lord Empey
uin	HL3281
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2024 answer text <p>As set out in the Statement of Funding Policy, the UK Government will fund the direct costs associated with reaching the required level of compliance to implement the UK Government’s obligations under the Windsor Framework. Funding will continue to be provided to the Northern Ireland Executive for this purpose through the Estimates process.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 27/03/2024 12:59:39 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	4216 label Biography information for Lord Empey

1688715

registered interest
date	08/02/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	UK Trade with EU: Customs
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government which parts of the European Union Customs Code applies in the United Kingdom.
tabling member printed	Lord Empey
uin	HL2321
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2024 answer text <p>The United Kingdom left the EU on 31 January 2020.</p><p> </p><p>The Windsor Framework, formally adopted by the United Kingdom and the European Union on 23 March 2023, and the ‘Safeguarding the Union’ Command Paper, published on 31 January 2024, set out the arrangements in respect of goods movements into and out of Northern Ireland.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 21/02/2024 12:02:46 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	4216 label Biography information for Lord Empey

1655031

registered interest
date	24/07/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Public Expenditure: Northern Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what Barnett consequentials were made available to the Northern Ireland Executive in the last three years for which figures are available.
tabling member printed	Lord Empey
uin	HL9615
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/08/2023 answer text <p>Spending Review 2021 set the largest annual block grants, in real terms, of any spending review settlement since the devolution Acts. This provided £15 billion per year for the Northern Ireland Executive.</p><p> </p><p>The Block Grant Transparency document details the Barnett consequentials that have been provided to the Northern Ireland Executive in the last three years, as well as other changes to the block grant including surrenders<sup>1</sup>. The Northern Ireland Executive received the following Barnett consequentials: £2.3 billion in 2021-22, £1.8 billion in 2022-23 and £2 billion in 2023-24.</p><p> </p><p>The Northern Ireland Executive can utilise Budget Exchange at Supplementary Estimates each financial year to move planned or unexpected underspends between years. The Northern Ireland Executive accessed £40m of Budget Exchange in 2020-21, £134m in 2021-22, and £130m in 2022-23. This mechanism means that typically no, or very little, general resource or capital funding is returned to the Treasury at the end of the year. There was an increase in capital underspends during the COVID years and underspends in ringfenced resource spending are more common given the terms of those funding streams.</p><p> </p><p>The Northern Ireland Executive are well funded to deliver all their devolved responsibilities, receiving at least 20% more funding per person than equivalent UK Government spending in other parts of the UK.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><ol><li><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/block-grant-transparency-july-2023#:~:text=The%20Block%20Grant%20Transparency%20sets,Northern%20Ireland%20Executive%20are%20calculated." target="_blank">Block Grant Transparency: July 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></li><li><a href="https://www.finance-ni.gov.uk/publications/estimates-publications" target="_blank">https://www.finance-ni.gov.uk/publications/estimates-publications</a></li></ol> answering member printed Baroness Penn grouped question UIN HL9616 question first answered 07/08/2023 14:49:47 answering member 4726 label Biography information for Baroness Penn
tabling member	4216 label Biography information for Lord Empey

1655079

registered interest
date	24/07/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Public Expenditure: Northern Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how much unspent money were returned to HM Treasury by the Northern Ireland Executive in the last three years for which figures are available.
tabling member printed	Lord Empey
uin	HL9616
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/08/2023 answer text <p>Spending Review 2021 set the largest annual block grants, in real terms, of any spending review settlement since the devolution Acts. This provided £15 billion per year for the Northern Ireland Executive.</p><p> </p><p>The Block Grant Transparency document details the Barnett consequentials that have been provided to the Northern Ireland Executive in the last three years, as well as other changes to the block grant including surrenders<sup>1</sup>. The Northern Ireland Executive received the following Barnett consequentials: £2.3 billion in 2021-22, £1.8 billion in 2022-23 and £2 billion in 2023-24.</p><p> </p><p>The Northern Ireland Executive can utilise Budget Exchange at Supplementary Estimates each financial year to move planned or unexpected underspends between years. The Northern Ireland Executive accessed £40m of Budget Exchange in 2020-21, £134m in 2021-22, and £130m in 2022-23. This mechanism means that typically no, or very little, general resource or capital funding is returned to the Treasury at the end of the year. There was an increase in capital underspends during the COVID years and underspends in ringfenced resource spending are more common given the terms of those funding streams.</p><p> </p><p>The Northern Ireland Executive are well funded to deliver all their devolved responsibilities, receiving at least 20% more funding per person than equivalent UK Government spending in other parts of the UK.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><ol><li><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/block-grant-transparency-july-2023#:~:text=The%20Block%20Grant%20Transparency%20sets,Northern%20Ireland%20Executive%20are%20calculated." target="_blank">Block Grant Transparency: July 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></li><li><a href="https://www.finance-ni.gov.uk/publications/estimates-publications" target="_blank">https://www.finance-ni.gov.uk/publications/estimates-publications</a></li></ol> answering member printed Baroness Penn grouped question UIN HL9615 question first answered 07/08/2023 14:49:47 answering member 4726 label Biography information for Baroness Penn
tabling member	4216 label Biography information for Lord Empey

1604673

registered interest
date	15/03/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Corporation Tax: Northern Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether the Northern Ireland Assembly will be permitted to alter the rate of Corporation Tax applying in Northern Ireland; and if so, what financial consequences will arise from that decision following the UK's departure from the EU.
tabling member printed	Lord Empey
uin	HL6520
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2023 answer text <p>The Stormont House Agreement between the UK Government and the Northern Ireland Executive agreed, in principle, for the power to set the rate of Corporation Tax in Northern Ireland on certain trading profits to be devolved to the Northern Ireland Assembly.</p><p> </p><p>It was agreed that the Executive would need to demonstrate that its finances were on a sustainable footing before devolution of this power could be undertaken, and that the Executive’s block grant would need to be adjusted to reflect the Corporation Tax revenues foregone if the devolved power were exercised.</p> answering member printed Baroness Penn question first answered 29/03/2023 10:10:26 answering member 4726 label Biography information for Baroness Penn
tabling member	4216 label Biography information for Lord Empey

1465601

registered interest
date	24/05/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Freezing of Assets: Libya
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the article ‘Libya’s Central Bank says no assets have been frozen in Britain’, published in the Libya Observer on 22 May, what assessment they have made of the accuracy of the statement made by the management of the Central Bank of Libya that no Libyan assets have been frozen in Britain.
tabling member printed	Lord Empey
uin	HL483
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2022 answer text <p>The Central Bank of Libya is not designated for financial sanctions by the UN or UK. There are therefore no frozen assets in the UK belonging to Central Bank of Libya.</p> answering member printed Baroness Penn question first answered 07/06/2022 11:16:25 answering member 4726 label Biography information for Baroness Penn
tabling member	4216 label Biography information for Lord Empey

1402110

registered interest
date	11/01/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Freezing of Assets: Libya
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether any (1) capital,(2) interest, or (3) dividend revenues arising from frozen Libyan assets held in the UK have been distributed since the invocation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1970 in 2011.
tabling member printed	Lord Empey
uin	HL5307
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2022 answer text <p>Each year OFSI carries out an annual review of frozen assets held by UK institutions. £11.53 billion of Libyan frozen funds were reported to be held by UK businesses in OFSI’s 2020-21 Annual Review. This includes interest and other earnings accrued to frozen assets.</p><p> </p><p>As set out in UN Security Council Resolution 2009 (2011), a key aim of the Libya financial sanctions regime is “to ensure that assets frozen pursuant to resolutions 1970 (2011) and 1973 (2011) shall as soon as possible be made available to and for the benefit of the people of Libya”.</p><p>Until that time, HM Treasury may only license the release of frozen funds according to the derogations set out in the Libya sanctions regime regulations. The Annual Review includes information about licences granted by OFSI under financial sanctions regimes.</p><p> </p><p>Under the terms of the Libya financial sanctions regime, frozen assets continue to belong to the sanctioned entity or individual. However, the use of any frozen assets, or profits arising from those assets, is tightly constrained by the Libya financial sanctions regime.</p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 25/01/2022 17:02:24 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
tabling member	4216 label Biography information for Lord Empey

1364509

registered interest
date	28/10/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Taxation: Northern Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the tax changes proposed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in his Budget statement on 27 October will apply to Northern Ireland.
tabling member printed	Lord Empey
uin	HL3519
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2021 answer text <p>As set out in our Command Paper in July, we are seeking a more flexible settlement with regard to the Northern Ireland Protocol to ensure all of the UK can benefit from tax changes such as the alcohol duty reforms announced at Budget. The Government will continue to discuss the application of the alcohol duty reforms to Northern Ireland with the EU.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 10/11/2021 12:02:11 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	4216 label Biography information for Lord Empey

1285836

registered interest
date	10/02/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Public Expenditure: Northern Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the Northern Ireland Executive Minister of Finance has asked to roll over unspent resources from the current financial year into the next financial year; and if so, (1) when they received this request, and (2) what, if any, indication the Minister gave of the amount of unspent resources.
tabling member printed	Lord Empey
uin	HL13256
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2021 answer text <p>As set out in the Statement of Funding Policy, the Northern Ireland Executive are able to move funding between financial years through Budget Exchange. The total level of 2020-21 underspends will not be known until the end of the financial year and normal practice would be for the NIE to notify HMT of how it intends to use it’s budget exchange flexibilities at Supplementary Estimates 2021-22.</p><p> </p><p>However, due to the exceptional circumstances this year, HM Treasury has worked closely with all three devolved administrations to provide additional flexibility. As a result the Northern Ireland Executive can now carry forward into 2021-22 over £300m of Barnett-based funding, as well as any business rates relief repaid, on top of Budget Exchange.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 24/02/2021 12:08:40 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	4216 label Biography information for Lord Empey

1253363

registered interest
date	18/11/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Northern Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what additional VAT will be paid by consumers in Northern Ireland who buy second-hand vehicles transported from Great Britain after the end of the transition period for the UK's departure from the EU.
tabling member printed	Lord Empey
uin	HL10472
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2020 answer text <p>The VAT paid by consumers buying second-hand vehicles will depend on the circumstances of the transaction and the seller of the vehicle.</p><p> </p><p>The Northern Ireland Protocol frames the approach to VAT on goods, including the second-hand margin scheme, in Northern Ireland. As is the case for tax policy generally, the Government is keeping this under review.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 04/12/2020 11:12:18 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	4216 label Biography information for Lord Empey