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1091232

registered interest
date	19/03/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Consultants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many consultants his Department has hired in each year since 2016; and what the cost of that process has been to the public purse.
tabling member constituency	Bootle
tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
uin	234204
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2019 answer text <p>The information is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p>Details of HM Treasury’s spending on consultancy for each financial year is published in the Annual Report and Accounts which can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications</a></p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 22/03/2019 08:36:22 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

1091243

registered interest
date	19/03/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff are employed by HMRC; and how many additional staff have been employed by HMRC as a result of preparations for the UK leaving the EU.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	234212
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2019 answer text <p>HMRC currently employs 58,058 full-time equivalent staff (at end of February). HMRC has used a variety of methods to resource work on issues relating to the UK’s withdrawal from the EU including, but not exclusively, employing additional staff. Information is not segmented to show how many additional staff have been employed, as opposed to any other method of resourcing, to work on EU Exit.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 22/03/2019 14:05:20 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1091246

registered interest
date	19/03/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Borders: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps the Government is taking to (a) stop goods subject to tariffs flowing freely from the Republic of Ireland to Northern Ireland and (b) stop those goods being smuggled into the rest of the UK in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	234071
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2019 answer text <p>The UK Government’s priority in relation to Northern Ireland is meeting its commitment to avoid a hard border and ensure no new physical infrastructure or related checks and controls. Therefore, under the temporary approach to the NI border announced by the Government in the event of no deal, consignments from Ireland will not be subject to a tariff when entering Northern Ireland. This approach reflects the unique circumstances of the land border and the Government’s commitment to preserving the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement in full.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC will support businesses who are moving goods across the border legitimately, including businesses that continue to use the routes they use today. For goods entering Northern Ireland from Ireland, including where the ultimate destination is Great Britain, provided traders choose routes for commercial reasons not connected with an avoidance purpose, tariffs will not be due and tariff rate quotas will not apply.</p><p> </p><p>However, if traders divert goods through Ireland and Northern Ireland with the main purpose of avoiding customs duty HMRC will have the power to require them to pay the UK’s tariff, wherever the goods are from. HMRC will continue to enforce compliance on an intelligence-led basis to ensure trade is consistent with the requirements set out in legislation.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC remains committed to promoting compliance and tackling avoidance and evasion and would take steps to ensure that this temporary arrangement is not abused.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 22/03/2019 14:09:30 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

1091247

registered interest
date	19/03/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions the Government has held with the EU on the steps the EU will need to take to (a) protect the integrity of the Single Market, (b) protect revenue collection in the Republic of Ireland and the rest of the EU and (c) avoid breaking EU law in a no deal scenario when the UK applies zero tariffs to certain goods being imported into the UK.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	234072
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2019 answer text <p>It is for the EU to decide what steps it needs to take in a no deal scenario, including in relation to the operation of tariffs and revenue collection in the Republic of Ireland.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 22/03/2019 14:03:21 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

1091272

registered interest
date	19/03/2019
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much the marriage tax allowance has cost the public purse; how many married couples have been eligible for it; and how many and what proportion of eligible married couples have benefitted from it in each year since it was introduced.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	234220
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2019 answer text <p>HMRC publishes the estimated cost of tax reliefs annually and the latest estimate can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/main-tax-expenditures-and-structural-reliefs" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/main-tax-expenditures-and-structural-reliefs</a></p><p> </p><p>HMRC’s projection of the cost of the Marriage Allowance include the anticipated full take up of the allowance after all retrospective claims have been made, as the allowance can be claimed retrospectively for up to four years:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>£ million</p></td><td><p><strong>2015-16</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016-17</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017-18</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Marriage Allowance</strong></p></td><td><p>680</p></td><td><p>735</p></td><td><p>835</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p>. Around 4.2 million couples are estimated to be eligible to claim the marriage allowance. The table below shows the approximate proportion of those who are eligible and are estimated to have made a claim for marriage allowance.<p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>%</p></td><td><p><strong>2015-16</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016-17</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017-18</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Marriage Allowance</strong></p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>44</p></td><td><p>67</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 27/03/2019 14:04:35 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

1091277

registered interest
date	19/03/2019
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what data his Department holds on the ages of people who claim married couple's allowance.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	234225
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2019 answer text <p>The Married Couple’s Allowance (MCA) is available for couples where at least one of the partners was born before 6th April 1935. For the current tax year, at least one of the partners would have to have been at least 83 years old as of 6th April 2018.</p><p> </p><p>For 2018-19, the average age of claimants of MCA is around 87 years old.</p><p> </p><p>This estimate is based on the 2015-16 Survey of Personal Incomes projected using economic assumptions consistent with the OBR’s October 2018 Economic and Fiscal Outlook.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 22/03/2019 14:12:06 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

1091279

registered interest
date	19/03/2019
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much funding his Department has allocated to the married couple's allowance in each of the next three financial years.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	234227
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2019 answer text <p>HMRC publishes the estimated cost of the Married Couples Allowance (MCA) for the years up to the current tax year in their “Estimated costs of principal tax reliefs” publication, available here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/main-tax-expenditures-and-structural-reliefs" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/main-tax-expenditures-and-structural-reliefs</a></p><p> </p><p>The estimated cost of the MCA is:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>£m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>2018-19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>345</p></td><td><p>330</p></td><td><p>290</p></td><td><p>240</p></td><td><p>195</p></td><td><p>165</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>In 2018-19 there are estimated to be around 270,000 claimants of MCA. HMRC does not hold estimates of the total number of married couples. Reliable estimates of the numbers in receipt of MCA are not available at local authority or constituency level due to insufficient sample size.</p><p> </p><p>The published estimates are based on the 2015-16 Survey of Personal Incomes projected using economic assumptions consistent with the OBR’s October 2018 Economic and Fiscal Outlook.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 234230 question first answered 27/03/2019 14:46:45 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

1091282

registered interest
date	19/03/2019
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of married couples are (a) eligible for and (b) in receipt of the married couples tax allowance in each (i) local authority and (ii) parliamentary constituency.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	234230
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2019 answer text <p>HMRC publishes the estimated cost of the Married Couples Allowance (MCA) for the years up to the current tax year in their “Estimated costs of principal tax reliefs” publication, available here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/main-tax-expenditures-and-structural-reliefs" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/main-tax-expenditures-and-structural-reliefs</a></p><p> </p><p>The estimated cost of the MCA is:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>£m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>2018-19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>345</p></td><td><p>330</p></td><td><p>290</p></td><td><p>240</p></td><td><p>195</p></td><td><p>165</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>In 2018-19 there are estimated to be around 270,000 claimants of MCA. HMRC does not hold estimates of the total number of married couples. Reliable estimates of the numbers in receipt of MCA are not available at local authority or constituency level due to insufficient sample size.</p><p> </p><p>The published estimates are based on the 2015-16 Survey of Personal Incomes projected using economic assumptions consistent with the OBR’s October 2018 Economic and Fiscal Outlook.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 234227 question first answered 27/03/2019 14:46:46 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

1091307

registered interest
date	19/03/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Self-assessment: Child Benefit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps HMRC takes to notify Child Benefit claimants that start to receive a salary which effects their entitlement of their responsibility to complete a tax self-assessment.
tabling member constituency	Inverclyde
tabling member printed	Ronnie Cowan
uin	234240
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2019 answer text <p>The High Income Child Benefit Charge (HICBC) applies to anyone with an income over £50,000 who claims Child Benefit, or whose partner claims Child Benefit.</p><p>Those who continue to receive Child Benefit must register for Self Assessment to declare their Child Benefit payments and pay the tax charge through their tax return.</p><p>HMRC makes information on HICBC, and the need to declare and pay HICBC via Self Assessment widely available. Guidance is published on gov.uk, which lists HICBC among the criteria for those who must file a Self Assessment return, and HMRC uses social media and marketing campaigns to increase awareness.</p><p>HMRC also writes to individuals to remind them to check whether they need to register for Self Assessment to declare their Child Benefit payments, where it is aware that individuals may have become liable for HICBC.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 25/03/2019 14:02:39 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4465 label Biography information for Ronnie Cowan

1091327

registered interest
date	19/03/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	NHS: Drugs
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 equalize VAT between privately-owned companies and the NHS in relation to pharmaceutical procurement.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	234250
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2019 answer text VAT is charged on the sale of pharmaceutical products, regardless of whether the purchaser is a privately-owned company or the NHS. The central funding the NHS receives from the Treasury is intended to cover the costs NHS bodies incur in providing free healthcare, including VAT costs. answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 22/03/2019 14:06:40 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan