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1247767

registered interest
date	02/11/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Self-employment Income Support Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many applications to the Self Employment Income Support Scheme from self-employed workers have been refused.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hodge Hill
tabling member printed	Liam Byrne
uin	110062
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2020 answer text <p>The SEISS continues to be one of the most generous self-employed COVID-19 support schemes in the world.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC do not refuse applications for the scheme. People are either eligible to apply for SEISS and, based on the information held by HMRC given access to the service, or they are ineligible and not given access. Eligibility is based strictly on the criteria set by the Chancellor.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, HMRC actively monitor claims for evidence of risk/fraudulent behaviour. Where HMRC sees this type of compliance risk, HMRC rejects the claim.</p><p> </p><p>The Winter Economy Plan set out a package of targeted measures in response to the current economic context, which will enable businesses to protect jobs, and manage their finances in the face of reduced or uncertain demand. This includes the extension of the temporary VAT reduced rate for hospitality and tourism, extending the application window of the access to finance schemes, and further support for employees and the self-employed, through a Job Support Scheme and the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) Grant Extension.</p><p> </p><p>The SEISS is one element of a comprehensive package of support for individuals and businesses. This package includes Bounce Back loans, tax deferrals, rental support, mortgage holidays, and other business support grants. On 8 July, the Government also introduced the new Plan for Jobs which will make available up to £30 billion to assist in creating, supporting and protecting jobs.</p><p> </p><p>More information about the full range of business support measures is available at www.gov.uk/government/collections/financial-support-for-businesses-during-coronavirus-covid-19.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 10/11/2020 15:29:25 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	1171 label Biography information for Liam Byrne

1199632

registered interest
date	02/06/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Mayor of the West Midlands
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many times the Mayor of the West Midlands has written to him since 23 March 2020.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hodge Hill
tabling member printed	Liam Byrne
uin	53318
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2020 answer text <p>Andy Street has written to the Chancellor four times since 23 March 2020.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 08/06/2020 15:47:14 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	1171 label Biography information for Liam Byrne

1192343

registered interest
date	01/05/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many workers are receiving support from the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, by region.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hodge Hill
tabling member printed	Liam Byrne
uin	41906
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2020 answer text <p>Applications for the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme opened on Monday 20 April. By close 3 May, HMRC had received 800,000 claims representing 6.3m furloughed employments and £8bn.</p><p> </p><p>This is a new scheme and HMRC are currently working through the analysis they will be able to provide based on the data available. HMRC will make the timescales for publication and the types of data available in due course.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 06/05/2020 13:30:31 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	1171 label Biography information for Liam Byrne

1186484

registered interest
date	19/03/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the procedure is for small firms to apply for access to (a) Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme and (b) cash grants of £25,000 to the smallest businesses in the (i) retail, (ii) hospitality and (iii) leisure sectors and (c) £10,000 for all business in receipt of Small Business Rates Relief and Rural Rates Relief.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hodge Hill
tabling member printed	Liam Byrne
uin	32066
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2020 answer text <p>Officials are working at pace to deliver the measures for small businesses as announced by the Chancellor. The Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme, which will provide financing facilities for SMEs of up to £5 million, was launched Monday 23 March. The Business Secretary will write to all Local Authorities by the end of the week with information on the small business grant scheme, and to encourage them to prepare to deliver this quickly. Detailed guidance for Local Authorities will follow by 1st April, and Local Authorities will then write to all eligible businesses with information on how to claim this grant.</p><p>We will give small businesses in the retail, hospitality or leisure sectors a higher grant of £25,000 per business if they have a property that has a rateable value between £15,000 and £51,000. Properties in those sectors with a rateable value of £15,000 or less will receive a £10,000 grant even if they are not eligible for small business rates relief. It will be administered in the same way as the small business grant scheme.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 24/03/2020 16:50:13 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	1171 label Biography information for Liam Byrne

1108994

registered interest
date	02/04/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Public Sector: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the value of procurement of goods and services by public authorities in the West Midlands Metropolitan Area for the last 12 months for which data are available.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hodge Hill
tabling member printed	Liam Byrne
uin	239890
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2019 answer text <p>Procurement data that is collected by Government is published in the annual Whole of Government Accounts. It is compiled on a national level and a local authority level split is not available.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 08/04/2019 14:06:03 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	1171 label Biography information for Liam Byrne

1088221

registered interest
date	13/03/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Optical Fibres: Non-domestic Rates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of extending full fibre relief from five years to (a) 10 years, (b) 15 years and (c) 20 years by financial year.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hodge Hill
tabling member printed	Liam Byrne
uin	231921
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2019 answer text <p>Estimates of the Exchequer effect of extending full fibre relief are not available.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 18/03/2019 15:44:21 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	1171 label Biography information for Liam Byrne

1064759

registered interest
date	21/02/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Homelessness: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to classify as a priority in the next Spending Review, funding to reduce rough sleeping and homelessness.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hodge Hill
tabling member printed	Liam Byrne
uin	224477
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2019 answer text <p>The government is committed to tackling homelessness and rough sleeping. We have provided £1.2bn of funding to address homelessness. In August, we announced a £100m Rough Sleeping Strategy to begin progress to meet the commitment to halve rough sleeping by 2022, and eliminate it by 2027.</p><p> </p><p>All long-term decisions on public spending will be taken at the Spending Review this year, when the Chancellor will set out his approach for the future.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 26/02/2019 12:02:16 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	1171 label Biography information for Liam Byrne

1023300

registered interest
date	11/12/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Research: Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of UK expenditure on research and development as a proportion of GDP in 2017-18; and how that level of expenditure compares to (a) other G7 countries and (b) the EU.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hodge Hill
tabling member printed	Liam Byrne
uin	201140
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2018 answer text <p>The latest ONS data estimates that overall gross R&amp;D expenditure in the UK was £33.1bn in 2016, which was 1.7% of GDP in that year. 2017 data is due to be released in March 2019. The latest OECD international comparison of R&amp;D expenditure ranked the UK 5<sup>th</sup> in the G7 and 10<sup>th</sup> among EU nations in 2016.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 17/12/2018 11:29:11 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	1171 label Biography information for Liam Byrne

1023303

registered interest
date	11/12/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Foreign Investment in UK
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of Foreign Direct Investment in the UK in 2017-18 was represented by (a) acquisitions, mergers and joint ventures and (b) new investments or expansions.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hodge Hill
tabling member printed	Liam Byrne
uin	201143
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2018 answer text <p>The proportion of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) attributable to merger and acquisition (M&amp;A) activity can vary substantially from year to year. For instance, almost all of the inward FDI flows in 2016 can be attributed to a small number of high value deals. In 2017, the ONS recorded that 23.8% of FDI flows into the UK were due to mergers and acquisitions (net of disposals). The remainder can include acquisition of equity (share ownership), reinvested earnings and inter-company loans. However, we cannot ascertain how much new investment or expansions contributed to this remainder.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 19/12/2018 15:50:13 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	1171 label Biography information for Liam Byrne

1020747

registered interest
date	06/12/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Training: Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much the UK spent as a proportion of GDP on in-work training for 2017-18; and how that figure compares to the average spends within the (a) G7 and (b) EU.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hodge Hill
tabling member printed	Liam Byrne
uin	199786
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The Employer Skills Survey 2017, published in August 2018, states that UK employer expenditure on training and development in 2017 was £44.2bn, which represented approximately 2.2% of GDP.</p><p> </p><p>The primary government support for in-work training is the Apprenticeship Programme, which is funded by a 0.5% levy on all UK businesses with a wage bill over £3m each year. In 2017/18, the levy raised around £2.6bn, which was made available to the Department for Education to fund apprenticeships and skills training in England, and the devolved administrations, who received their share of the levy in the normal way to spend on their priorities.</p><p> </p><p>HM Treasury does not collect or hold direct international comparisons for these statistics.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 11/12/2018 14:35:29 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	1171 label Biography information for Liam Byrne