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1733821

registered interest
date	14/10/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Private Education: VAT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Exchequer Secretary's oral contribution during the debate on VAT: Independent Schools of 8 October 2024, Official Report, column 171, if she will publish the Government's own analysis on the potential impact of adding VAT to school fees on pupils and their families across the state and private school sectors.
tabling member constituency	Huntingdon
tabling member printed	Ben Obese-Jecty
uin	8945
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2024 answer text <p>The government has carefully considered the impact these policies will have on pupils and their families across both the state and private sector, as well as the impact they will have on state and private schools. Following scrutiny by the independent Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), details of the Government’s assessment of the expected impacts of these policy changes will be published at the Budget on 30 October in the usual way.</p> answering member constituency Ealing North answering member printed James Murray question first answered 17/10/2024 16:10:10 answering member 4797 label Biography information for James Murray
tabling member	5089

1732760

registered interest
date	09/10/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Hotels and Tourism: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will take steps to allow local authorities to levy (a) hotel and (b) tourist taxes.
tabling member constituency	North West Essex
tabling member printed	Mrs Kemi Badenoch
uin	8193
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2024 answer text <p>The Government keeps all taxes under review and welcomes representations to help inform future decisions on tax policy. Any decisions on future tax policy will be announced by the Chancellor at a fiscal event.</p> answering member constituency Ealing North answering member printed James Murray question first answered 17/10/2024 07:50:40 answering member 4797 label Biography information for James Murray
tabling member	4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch

1732842

registered interest
date	09/10/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Ian Corfield
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will publish the declaration of interests of the International Investment Summit Adviser.
tabling member constituency	Salisbury
tabling member printed	John Glen
uin	8122
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2024 answer text <p>Declarations of interests have been made in the usual way. The Treasury does not comment on individual declarations of interests.</p> answering member constituency Ealing North answering member printed James Murray question first answered 18/10/2024 07:37:00 answering member 4797 label Biography information for James Murray
tabling member	4051 label Biography information for John Glen

1732335

registered interest
date	08/10/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Fuels: Excise Duties
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate her Department has made of the potential impact of changes in the level of fuel duty on food prices.
tabling member constituency	Daventry
tabling member printed	Stuart Andrew
uin	7748
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2024 answer text <p>Fuel duty applies to petrol, diesel and other fuels for road and non-road uses, such as construction. The Government carefully considers the impact of fuel duty on households and businesses, including haulage firms involved in food production and transportation.</p><p> </p><p>Following the spending audit, the Chancellor has been clear that difficult decisions lie ahead on spending, welfare and tax to fix the foundations of our economy and address the £22 billion hole the government has inherited. Decisions on how to do that will be taken at the Budget in the round; the Chancellor makes decisions on tax policy at fiscal events.</p> answering member constituency Ealing North answering member printed James Murray question first answered 15/10/2024 13:42:47 answering member 4797 label Biography information for James Murray
tabling member	4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew

1732442

registered interest
date	08/10/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Developing Countries: Debts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has had recent discussions with the International Monetary Fund on the Debt Sustainability Framework for Low Income Countries.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Abtisam Mohamed
uin	7969
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2024 answer text <p>The UK is engaging with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on the Debt Sustainability Framework for Low Income Countries (LIC-DSF) as part of the ongoing joint World Bank-IMF review of the Framework.</p><p> </p><p>We welcome the review, as it is an important exercise to ensure that the LIC-DSF remains fit for purpose in providing nuanced and balanced assessments of countries’ debt situations, and supporting sustainable management of debt.</p> answering member constituency Bristol North West answering member printed Darren Jones question first answered 16/10/2024 08:52:41 answering member 4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones
tabling member	5142

1731875

registered interest
date	07/10/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Developing Countries: Debts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the Institute of International Finance and OECD's debt transparency initiative; and whether she has had discussions with relevant stakeholders on the adequacy of the information on lending activities provided by private creditors to that Initiative.
tabling member constituency	North East Fife
tabling member printed	Wendy Chamberlain
uin	7550
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2024 answer text <p>The UK is a strong advocate for enhancing debt transparency including for private sector debt. As part of this, we supported the Institute of International Finance (IIF) and OECD Debt Transparency Initiative, set up in 2021, and the IIF’s Voluntary Principles for Debt Transparency, which underpinned it. The UK has taken a lead in ensuring its own lending is transparent and meets G20 best practice, publishing details of all new direct lending quarterly and the stock of debt owed to the UK annually.</p><p> </p><p>The UK continues to engage closely with the private sector and other relevant stakeholders through international fora, such as the Global Sovereign Debt Roundtable, to promote the importance of transparency, and to explore ways to build on and improve existing efforts.</p> answering member constituency Hampstead and Highgate answering member printed Tulip Siddiq question first answered 15/10/2024 16:25:25 answering member 4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq
tabling member	4765 label Biography information for Wendy Chamberlain

1731958

registered interest
date	07/10/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Chad: Debts Written Off
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what information her Department holds on how much debt relief Chad has received from external private creditors through the G20 Common Framework for Debt Treatments.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
uin	7552
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2024 answer text <p>Chad agreed a debt treatment with its official bilateral creditors and its main private creditor, Glencore, in November 2022.</p><p> </p><p>According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the treatment is consistent with the commitments made by Chad and parameters under its IMF-supported program. This is enabling Chad to restore its debt sustainability, while ensuring protection against the volatility of oil prices through contingent treatment mechanisms.</p><p> </p><p>The UK is not a creditor to Chad.</p> answering member constituency Bristol North West answering member printed Darren Jones question first answered 15/10/2024 16:20:22 answering member 4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones
tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson

1730113

registered interest
date	04/10/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Insurance: Competition and Monopolies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will take legislative steps to (a) increase competition and (b) reduce monopolies in the consumer insurance market.
tabling member constituency	The Wrekin
tabling member printed	Mark Pritchard
uin	5969
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2024 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring that the insurance industry operates on a fair and competitive basis.</p><p> </p><p>The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), as the independent regulator, has a primary objective to ensure relevant markets are functioning well and a secondary objective to promote effective competition in the interests of consumers.</p><p> </p><p>The FCA has robust powers to tackle anti-competitive practices, working with the Competition and Markets Authority where required. The Government is confident that both regulators are effective in their oversight of the insurance market.</p> answering member constituency Hampstead and Highgate answering member printed Tulip Siddiq question first answered 11/10/2024 10:27:49 answering member 4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq
tabling member	1576 label Biography information for Mark Pritchard

1730164

registered interest
date	04/10/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Widowed People: Workplace Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many surviving spouses in each public sector pension scheme have lost their pension because they have (a) remarried and (b) established a (i) legal and (ii) other partnership.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	5877
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2024 answer text <p>The data required to answer this question is not held centrally by HM Treasury, but some of the relevant data may be held by individual Public Service Pension Schemes (PSPSs). While the cessation of survivor pensions upon remarriage or cohabitation was a common feature across older legacy PSPSs, all active members of major PSPSs are now accruing pensions in reformed schemes that do not cease survivor pensions in the case of remarriage or cohabitation.</p> answering member constituency Bristol North West answering member printed Darren Jones question first answered 14/10/2024 16:12:51 answering member 4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

1730452

registered interest
date	04/10/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Excise Duties
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has undertaken literature reviews on the subject of vehicle excise duty.
tabling member constituency	Faversham and Mid Kent
tabling member printed	Helen Whately
uin	6354
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/10/2024 answer text <p>Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) is a tax on car ownership. The tax system encourages the uptake of cars with low carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to help meet the UK’s legally binding climate change targets. Cars first registered between 1 March 2001 and 31 March 2017 pay VED annually according to CO2 emissions. From 1 April 2017, a reformed VED system was introduced for new cars. Under the reformed VED system, zero emission models currently pay nothing on first registration, whilst the most polluting pay over £2,600. In subsequent years, most cars move to a standard rate, currently set at an annual rate of £190. However from April 2025, electric cars will begin to pay VED in the same way as petrol and diesel vehicles, whilst an incentive is maintained for electric cars at the point of purchase.</p><p> </p><p>Revenue from motoring taxes helps ensure we can continue to fund the vital public services and infrastructure that people and families across the UK expect. The Government annually reviews the rates and thresholds of taxes and reliefs to ensure that they are appropriate and reflect the current state of the economy. As with all taxes, the Government welcomes representations from the public on how the tax system can be improved.</p><p> </p><p>Following the spending audit, the Chancellor has been clear that difficult decisions lie ahead on spending, welfare and tax to fix the foundations of our economy and address the £22 billion hole the government has inherited. Decisions on how to do that will be taken at the Budget in the round.</p> answering member constituency Ealing North answering member printed James Murray grouped question UIN 6360 6361 6643 6644 question first answered 10/10/2024 11:58:34 answering member 4797 label Biography information for James Murray
tabling member	4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately