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999748

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date	01/11/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Married People: Tax Allowances
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what projections they have made for expenditure on the Marriage Allowance in 2019–20, following changes to the basic and higher rates of personal tax allowance.
tabling member printed	Lord Farmer
uin	HL11193
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2018 answer text <p>The estimated cost of Marriage Allowance is shown annually in the HMRC publication ‘Estimated costs of principal tax reliefs’ up to the current tax year and will be available for 2018-19 in the next publication (in early 2019). An estimate of future years cost is not provided as there is still uncertainty around the increase in take-up by the end of 2019-20.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 15/11/2018 17:29:04 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	4321 label Biography information for Lord Farmer

999767

registered interest
date	01/11/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Credit
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they have made to the Financial Policy Committee of the Bank of England regarding the case for (1) stress testing the capacity for open ended credit funds to withstand a credit shock, and (2) a review of the options available in the event of a significant decline in market liquidity.
tabling member printed	Lord Myners
uin	HL11212
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2018 answer text <p>The Financial Policy Committee (FPC) is an independent body responsible for monitoring and taking action to remove systemic risks to the financial system. The Chancellor sets a remit for the Committee each year related to its objectives. On 29 October the Chancellor set out the latest remit in a letter to the Governor of the Bank of England. Alongside the Prudential Regulation Committee (PRC), the FPC introduced an annual stress test of the largest UK banks and building societies in 2014. The FPC will conduct a comprehensive resilience assessment as part of the 2018 stress test at its meeting on 28 November. The Government supports the use of stress tests as a tool to ensure the ongoing resilience of the financial system.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 14/11/2018 16:51:35 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	3869 label Biography information for Lord Myners

999770

registered interest
date	01/11/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Taxation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they anticipate that current Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development rules relating to tax residency will be adhered to following Brexit.
tabling member printed	Viscount Waverley
uin	HL11215
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2018 answer text <p>The UK will continue to adhere to the OECD’s tax standards after Brexit. These include the provisions relating to residence in the OECD model treaty.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 15/11/2018 17:22:05 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	1744 label Biography information for Viscount Waverley

998907

registered interest
date	31/10/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Small Businesses: VAT
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many small businesses participate in the VAT Flat-Rate Scheme.
tabling member printed	Lord Harris of Haringey
uin	HL11158
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2018 answer text <p>The latest published statistics show that in the last year for which figures are available (2016-17), there were 358,270 businesses operating the VAT Flat Rate Scheme (FRS).</p><p> </p><p>There is no separate impact assessment relating to businesses participating in the FRS. An overall Impact Assessment was published on 1 December 2017.</p><p> </p><p>MTD is intended to help businesses meet their tax obligations as simply as possible, regardless of whether they operate standard or specialist schemes. While HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) cannot recommend specific software products, they have published details of compatible software on GOV.uk.</p><p> </p><p>This will be updated regularly as more MTD software products become available. HMRC has also published guidance within its recent VAT Notice 7/22 on GOV.UK on how to account for the FRS on software that does not have it as a feature.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates grouped question UIN HL11159 HL11160 question first answered 14/11/2018 16:51:00 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	2671 label Biography information for Lord Harris of Haringey

998908

registered interest
date	31/10/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	VAT: Electronic Government
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they conducted an equality impact assessment on the decision to apply Making Tax Digital to small businesses paying VAT using the VAT Flat-Rate Scheme; and if so, whether they will publish that assessment.
tabling member printed	Lord Harris of Haringey
uin	HL11159
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2018 answer text <p>The latest published statistics show that in the last year for which figures are available (2016-17), there were 358,270 businesses operating the VAT Flat Rate Scheme (FRS).</p><p> </p><p>There is no separate impact assessment relating to businesses participating in the FRS. An overall Impact Assessment was published on 1 December 2017.</p><p> </p><p>MTD is intended to help businesses meet their tax obligations as simply as possible, regardless of whether they operate standard or specialist schemes. While HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) cannot recommend specific software products, they have published details of compatible software on GOV.uk.</p><p> </p><p>This will be updated regularly as more MTD software products become available. HMRC has also published guidance within its recent VAT Notice 7/22 on GOV.UK on how to account for the FRS on software that does not have it as a feature.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates grouped question UIN HL11158 HL11160 question first answered 14/11/2018 16:51:00 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	2671 label Biography information for Lord Harris of Haringey

998909

registered interest
date	31/10/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	VAT: Electronic Government
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government which commercial software available to small businesses using the VAT Flat-Rate Scheme are compliant with Making Tax Digital; and what are the costs of such software to those small businesses.
tabling member printed	Lord Harris of Haringey
uin	HL11160
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2018 answer text <p>The latest published statistics show that in the last year for which figures are available (2016-17), there were 358,270 businesses operating the VAT Flat Rate Scheme (FRS).</p><p> </p><p>There is no separate impact assessment relating to businesses participating in the FRS. An overall Impact Assessment was published on 1 December 2017.</p><p> </p><p>MTD is intended to help businesses meet their tax obligations as simply as possible, regardless of whether they operate standard or specialist schemes. While HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) cannot recommend specific software products, they have published details of compatible software on GOV.uk.</p><p> </p><p>This will be updated regularly as more MTD software products become available. HMRC has also published guidance within its recent VAT Notice 7/22 on GOV.UK on how to account for the FRS on software that does not have it as a feature.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates grouped question UIN HL11158 HL11159 question first answered 14/11/2018 16:51:00 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	2671 label Biography information for Lord Harris of Haringey

997087

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Bank Services: Hacking
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how much money UK banks have reported as having been stolen from customer accounts through hacking in each of the last three financial years.
tabling member printed	Lord Maginnis of Drumglass
uin	HL11091
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>UK Finance collects voluntary information on fraudulent transactions in the finance sector, which is published on their website.</p><p> </p><p>Gross losses from unauthorised fraudulent transactions going back to 2012 have been published in UK Finance’s “2017 Annual Fraud Update”.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 12/11/2018 17:48:05 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	648 label Biography information for Lord Maginnis of Drumglass