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registered interest
date	30/09/2019
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, if he will instruct the Payment Systems Regulator to take the necessary steps to prevent further reductions in access to free-to-use cash machines.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	292108
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 answer text <p>The Government recognises the continued importance of free access to cash to the day-to-day lives of many consumers and businesses in the UK. The Government is engaging, and will continue to engage, with the regulators and industry on this important topic.</p><p> </p><p>LINK, the scheme that runs the UK’s ATM network, has publicly committed to maintain the broad geographic spread of ATMs and has put in place specific arrangements to protect remote free-to-use ATMs one kilometre or further from the next nearest free-to-use ATM. More recently, LINK has committed to protecting free access to cash on high streets – where there is a cluster of five or more retailers – that don’t have a free-to-use ATM or a Post Office counter within 1 kilometre.</p><p> </p><p>UK Finance has also launched a Community Access to Cash Initiative, offering grants to local communities to improve cash access.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government established the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) in 2015, with robust powers and a statutory objective to ensure that the UK's payment systems work in the interests of their users. The PSR regulates LINK and is monitoring ATM market developments closely. The PSR has used its powers to hold LINK to account over their public commitments.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 03/10/2019 16:15:12 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1144350

registered interest
date	03/09/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Local Housing Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will reinstate local housing allowance rates to the 30th percentile.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	286109
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text The Government took the difficult decision to freeze LHA rates for 4 years from 2016-17 as part of efforts to bring welfare spending under control.<p> </p><p>The Government recognises that the impact of the freeze will differ across the country, and has recycled 50% of the savings from the LHA freeze to increase LHA rates in areas where rental growth has been strongest.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, as part of the 2019 Spending Round, the Chancellor announced an additional £40m in funding for Discretionary Housing Payments (DHP) in 2020-21 to help Local Authorities protect the most vulnerable claimants.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 09/09/2019 09:25:57 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1143176

registered interest
date	02/09/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Manufacturing Industries: Annual Investment Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many manufacturing firms have received help from the annual investment allowance in each year since that allowance was introduced; and what the total value of savings is accrued by those firms that have received such help.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	284596
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>By introducing the AIA, the Government has made tax simpler for the majority of UK businesses that invest in eligible plant and machinery below the AIA limit each year.</p><p> </p><p>The total value of capital allowances received by manufacturing firms making AIA claims in the period 2011-12 to 2016-17 inclusive is £11.2bn. Full information, including data for earlier years, is available in Table 11.10 of each year’s National Statistics Publication “Corporation Tax Statistics”, accessible online at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/analyses-of-corporation-tax-receipts-and-liabilities" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/analyses-of-corporation-tax-receipts-and-liabilities</a></p><p> </p><p>The total number of manufacturing companies claiming under the AIA each year is as follows: 32,110 (2011-12); 34,154 (2012-13); 34,418 (2013-14); 36,060 (2014-15); 36,807 (2015-16); 36,756 (2016-17).</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 09/09/2019 14:56:32 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1143327

registered interest
date	02/09/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Schools: Clothing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of removing VAT from all items of school and PE clothing after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	284634
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>The Government currently applies a zero rate of VAT on clothing and footwear which is designed for children under the age of 14. This is the maximum relief allowed under EU law.</p><p> </p><p>While there may be more flexibility in the future, introducing a VAT relief for all school uniforms and PE clothing would come at a cost to the Exchequer, and that cost would have to be balanced by increased taxes elsewhere, or reductions in government spending.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 09/09/2019 14:31:04 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1139275

registered interest
date	16/07/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Manufacturing Industries: Government Guaranteed Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the value was of credit guarantees provided by the Government to the manufacturing industry in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	277654
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government recognises the vital role that manufacturing plays in the UK economy. Therefore, we support the sector in a number of ways, including through the provision of several credit guarantee schemes.</p><p> </p><p>Please see below for an indication of the support made available to the manufacturing industry over the last 10 financial years through credit guarantee schemes. This includes data on the flow of credit guarantees from UK Export Finance, and the British Business Bank (since its establishment in 2014/15).</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Manufacturing £m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009/2010</p></td><td><p>1,930</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/2011</p></td><td><p>1,877</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/2012</p></td><td><p>1,798</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/2013</p></td><td><p>2,284</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/2014</p></td><td><p>1,044</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/2015</p></td><td><p>1,215</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/2016</p></td><td><p>554</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/2017</p></td><td><p>1,784</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/2018</p></td><td><p>1,297</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/2019</p></td><td><p>3,734</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>This data has been identified from credit guarantees to the manufacturing sector using the standard industrial classification (SIC) as used by the Office for National Statistics, where possible. This does not include other forms of credit support, such as the Repayable Launch Investments.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to manufacturing-specific support, the Government also supports various programmes to help businesses access the finance they need through the British Business Bank.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 22/07/2019 15:17:42 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead