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1360671

registered interest
date	18/10/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Schools: Uniforms
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 economic merits for families of abolishing the VAT on school-specific uniform items; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	58453
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2021 answer text <p>Under the current VAT rules, all children’s clothing and footwear designed for young children who are less than 14 years of age, including school uniforms, attract a zero-rate of VAT, meaning that no VAT is charged on the sale of these items.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Education plans to publish statutory guidance in Autumn 2021, which will aim to ensure that parents do not incur additional costs from sudden uniform changes.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately grouped question UIN 58454 58455 question first answered 25/10/2021 08:04:29 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1360673

registered interest
date	18/10/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Schools: Uniforms
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his Department's policy is on abolishing VAT applied to school-specific uniform items.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	58454
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2021 answer text <p>Under the current VAT rules, all children’s clothing and footwear designed for young children who are less than 14 years of age, including school uniforms, attract a zero-rate of VAT, meaning that no VAT is charged on the sale of these items.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Education plans to publish statutory guidance in Autumn 2021, which will aim to ensure that parents do not incur additional costs from sudden uniform changes.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately grouped question UIN 58453 58455 question first answered 25/10/2021 08:04:29 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1360674

registered interest
date	18/10/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Schools: Uniforms
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of abolishing the VAT on school-specific uniform items on families, particularly those on lower incomes.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	58455
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2021 answer text <p>Under the current VAT rules, all children’s clothing and footwear designed for young children who are less than 14 years of age, including school uniforms, attract a zero-rate of VAT, meaning that no VAT is charged on the sale of these items.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Education plans to publish statutory guidance in Autumn 2021, which will aim to ensure that parents do not incur additional costs from sudden uniform changes.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately grouped question UIN 58453 58454 question first answered 25/10/2021 08:04:29 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1356779

registered interest
date	20/09/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Consumers: Protection
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 adequacy of the description of the legal meaning of a duty of care set out in the FCA consultation proposing a new consumer duty, published on 14 May 2021.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	51780
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/09/2021 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring financial services consumers are appropriately protected.</p><p> </p><p>In accordance with the requirements set out in the Financial Services Act 2021, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a consultation on 14 May 2021 proposing a new ‘Consumer Duty’. The Consumer Duty seeks to clarify and raise expectations for the standard of care that should be provided by financial services firms to consumers. This aims to ensure consumers benefit from a higher level of care from financial services firms.</p><p> </p>As set out in paragraph 2.31 of the FCA’s consultation paper, the consultation’s proposals have been specifically designed to meet the requirements of the Financial Services Act 2021. The FCA, as an operationally independent regulator, is responsible for carrying out the consultation and for making any new rules which it considers appropriate following the consultation. It would therefore be inappropriate for the Government to comment further on the specifics of the consultation’s proposals. answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen grouped question UIN 51781 question first answered 27/09/2021 13:08:04 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1356785

registered interest
date	20/09/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Consumers: Protection
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 effectiveness of the consumer duty proposed by the Financial Conduct Authority in their 14 May 2021 consultation on meeting the objective of consumers being owed a duty of care by authorised persons as required by section 29 of the Financial Services Act 2021.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	51781
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/09/2021 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring financial services consumers are appropriately protected.</p><p> </p><p>In accordance with the requirements set out in the Financial Services Act 2021, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a consultation on 14 May 2021 proposing a new ‘Consumer Duty’. The Consumer Duty seeks to clarify and raise expectations for the standard of care that should be provided by financial services firms to consumers. This aims to ensure consumers benefit from a higher level of care from financial services firms.</p><p> </p>As set out in paragraph 2.31 of the FCA’s consultation paper, the consultation’s proposals have been specifically designed to meet the requirements of the Financial Services Act 2021. The FCA, as an operationally independent regulator, is responsible for carrying out the consultation and for making any new rules which it considers appropriate following the consultation. It would therefore be inappropriate for the Government to comment further on the specifics of the consultation’s proposals. answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen grouped question UIN 51780 question first answered 27/09/2021 13:08:04 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1350826

registered interest
date	18/08/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Cash Dispensing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of different models for providing people with access to cash.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	41035
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2021 answer text <p>The Government recognises the importance of cash to the daily lives of millions of people and businesses across the UK, including those who may be on low incomes or vulnerable. That is why at the March 2020 Budget, the Government committed to legislating to protect access to cash and ensuring that the UK’s cash infrastructure is sustainable in the longer term.</p><p> </p><p>On 1 July 2021, the Government published the Access to Cash Consultation, seeking views on proposals for new laws to make sure people only need to travel a reasonable distance to pay in or take out cash. The consultation will be open until 23 September and is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/access-to-cash-consultation.</p><p> </p><p>Under the Government’s proposals, firms would be able to use a range of solutions – including existing facilities - to provide access for the purpose of meeting geographic requirements, provided that they are judged to be delivering reasonable access by the responsible regulator.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 06/09/2021 13:08:50 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1349483

registered interest
date	22/07/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Cash Dispensing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has conducted a cost/benefit analysis of the potential merits of providing access to cash through cashback without purchase.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	38331
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2021 answer text <p>The Government’s view is that cashback without a purchase has the potential to be a valuable facility to cash users, and play an important role in the UK’s cash infrastructure. That is why the Government made legislative changes to support the widespread offering of cashback without a purchase by shops and other businesses as part of the Financial Services Act 2021. The financial services industry is already seeking to take advantage of these changes to the benefit of cash users; working with retailers to get this service rolled out to local communities.</p><p> </p><p>The Government does not intend to mandate the provision of cashback without a purchase, which could impose associated costs on business.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 06/09/2021 12:42:15 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1349237

registered interest
date	21/07/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Small Businesses: Bank Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions his Department has had with representatives of UK banks on the adequacy of the process for new small businesses to open business bank accounts.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	37529
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2021 answer text <p>Decisions about what products are offered to individual businesses remain commercial decisions for banks and building societies. It would be inappropriate for the Government to intervene in the processes that accompany such commercial decisions. However, the Government has always been clear - throughout the pandemic - that lenders should remain open to new customers where it is operationally feasible for them to do so.</p><p> </p><p>As you may be aware, the largest UK banks [NatWest, Lloyds, Santander, Barclays, HSBC and Metro bank] wrote to the Treasury Select Committee (TSC) on 24<sup>th</sup> May 2021 to publicly reaffirm their commitment to making bank account services available to small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 06/09/2021 13:11:38 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1349239

registered interest
date	21/07/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Small Businesses: Bank Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to support small business owners, who have established their business during the covid-19 outbreak, to open business bank accounts.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	37530
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2021 answer text <p>Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been unprecedented demand for banking services, this accompanied with working restrictions due to social distancing has meant banks have faced significant capacity pressures which has limited their ability to meet demand for their services. Banks are doing all they can to meet this demand in these difficult circumstances, and the Government has always been clear that lenders should open to new customers where it is operationally possible for them to do so.</p><p> </p><p>I sympathise with businesses opening their businesses during the pandemic, but decisions about which documentation is required from individual businesses remain commercial decisions for banks and building societies. It would be inappropriate for the Government to intervene in these decisions.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen grouped question UIN 37531 37532 question first answered 06/09/2021 12:47:32 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1349240

registered interest
date	21/07/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Small Businesses: Bank Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an assessment of the adequacy of procedures for new small businesses attempting to open a business bank account including the requirement to submit documentation not readily available, such as formal business contracts.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	37531
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2021 answer text <p>Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been unprecedented demand for banking services, this accompanied with working restrictions due to social distancing has meant banks have faced significant capacity pressures which has limited their ability to meet demand for their services. Banks are doing all they can to meet this demand in these difficult circumstances, and the Government has always been clear that lenders should open to new customers where it is operationally possible for them to do so.</p><p> </p><p>I sympathise with businesses opening their businesses during the pandemic, but decisions about which documentation is required from individual businesses remain commercial decisions for banks and building societies. It would be inappropriate for the Government to intervene in these decisions.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen grouped question UIN 37530 37532 question first answered 06/09/2021 12:47:32 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day