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226583

registered interest
date	11/03/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Treasury Board
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, who the members of the Treasury Board have been in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	227351
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p>The membership of the Treasury Board is set out each year in the Treasury’s Annual Report and Accounts, which is published on the gov.uk website.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 16/03/2015 17:14:09 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

226589

registered interest
date	11/03/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Equitable Life Assurance Society: Compensation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will increase the level of funding available to the Equitable Life Payments Scheme.
tabling member constituency	York Outer
tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
uin	227222
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p>The Government has no plans to change the funding available to the Equitable Life Payment Scheme.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The focus remains on finding and paying those policyholders who remain untraced.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 16/03/2015 17:36:18 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

226591

registered interest
date	11/03/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Child Benefit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people who submitted applications for child benefit to the Child Benefit Office in the last 12 months were subsequently told by that office that their application was not received.
tabling member constituency	Beverley and Holderness
tabling member printed	Mr Graham Stuart
uin	227164
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p>HMRC do not hold the requested data.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 16/03/2015 16:41:17 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart

226223

registered interest
date	10/03/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Air Passenger Duty: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions he has had with the Northern Ireland Executive on air passenger duty.
tabling member constituency	South Antrim
tabling member printed	Dr William McCrea
uin	227088
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2015 answer text <p>Treasury Ministers and officials have regular discussions with Northern Ireland Executive Ministers and officials on a wide variety of topics.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Any further devolution of air passenger duty to Northern Ireland, as a means to achieve a reduction in rates, would need to be funded by the Northern Ireland Executive.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 13/03/2015 12:19:48 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	655 label Biography information for Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown

226224

registered interest
date	10/03/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent forecast he has made of the number of parents with children who will be claiming tax credits in April 2016.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	226979
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p>The information requested could only be provided at a disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 16/03/2015 16:59:28 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

226226

registered interest
date	10/03/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much has been overpaid in child tax credit and working tax credit as a result of technical and administrative errors by his Department; and how much of that overpayment has been written off in (a) the UK, (b) Scotland and (c) East Lothian constituency in each year since that scheme's inception.
tabling member constituency	East Lothian
tabling member printed	Fiona O'Donnell
uin	226903
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p>I refer the Member to the answer I provided on the 19 December 2014 to Question 218750:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=AllQuestions&amp;house=commons%2clords&amp;member=3909&amp;keywords=overpayments" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=AllQuestions&amp;house=commons%2clords&amp;member=3909&amp;keywords=overpayments</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 16/03/2015 17:05:28 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	3964 label Biography information for Fiona O'Donnell

226228

registered interest
date	10/03/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Financial Services: Advisory Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to ensure that money and debt advice is available to people who do not have access to the internet.
tabling member constituency	North Swindon
tabling member printed	Justin Tomlinson
uin	226917
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p>The Government believes that everyone, regardless of circumstance, should have access to money and debt advice. The Money Advice Service (MAS) was set up to give people the support they need to manage their money well; it provides information on money matters via telephone and face-to-face channels, as well as online. MAS took on statutory responsibility for coordinating provision of debt advice in 2012 – funding for debt advice principally goes to support face-to-face debt advice.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Independent Review of MAS, due to be published soon, was tasked with considering how MAS can most effectively and efficiently meet the need for money and debt advice.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 16/03/2015 17:18:24 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson

226231

registered interest
date	10/03/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Poverty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps the Government is taking to reduce the divide between the rich and the poor.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	226891
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p>The Government has taken a number of steps to reduce poverty and inequality, and income inequality is now lower than when this Government came into office.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>By introducing Universal Credit, the Government will ensure that it always pays to be in work. Those in low paid jobs continue to be supported by the Minimum Wage, and in 2014, the Government increased the Minimum Wage in real terms for the first time since 2007. For those at the top, the Government is committed to ensuring that the richest pay a fair contribution: in the last year, the top 1% of income tax payers paid 28% of income tax revenue, a higher proportion than at any time under the previous Government.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 16/03/2015 17:06:56 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

225865

registered interest
date	09/03/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Fuels: Tax Evasion
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many illegal diesel plants have been discovered in Northern Ireland in the last five years; and where such plants were located.
tabling member constituency	South Down
tabling member printed	Ms Margaret Ritchie
uin	226690
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2015 answer text <p>In the last five complete years for which figures are available HM Revenue &amp; Customs (HMRC) dismantled the following numbers of fuel laundering sites in Northern Ireland:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>2009-10: 16</p><p> </p><p>2010-11: 20</p><p> </p><p>2011-12: 29</p><p> </p><p>2012-13: 22</p><p> </p><p>2013-14: 38</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>HMRC does not split its reporting data by specific location. Normally it records and reports data as a national statistic but, due to unique factors relating to oils fraud, it does separate out figures for Northern Ireland for oils offences.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>HMRC fights fraud on a wide range of fronts, from special units performing thousands of roadside checks to raiding laundering plants. The UK has recently announced, jointly with Ireland, an improved new marker for rebated fuel, which will make it much harder to launder marked fuel and sell it at a profit.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 13/03/2015 12:20:46 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4130 label Biography information for Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick

225869

registered interest
date	09/03/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Child Benefit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of people affected by the higher income child benefit charge who have failed to declare it to HM Revenue and Customs.
tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
tabling member printed	Mr David Burrowes
uin	226711
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text Of 1.1 million individuals expected to be affected in the first year, 2012/13, 45,000 did not register for Self Assessment to pay the charge. HMRC is contacting people who have not complied to ensure the charge is paid.<p> </p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 16/03/2015 17:20:29 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	1518 label Biography information for Mr David Burrowes