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date	08/01/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	National Savings and Investments
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government on what grounds, and on whose authority, the National Savings and Investments Agency makes a decision to dishonour a cheque.
tabling member printed	Lord Tebbit
uin	HL238
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2020 answer text <p>National Savings and Investments (NS&amp;I) comply with the law relating to cheques. There are several circumstances in which NS&amp;I would reject a cheque. These include the cheque being unsigned by the customer, out of date, or defaced. The Director of Savings, who is also the Chief Executive Officer of NS&amp;I, is the authority responsible for administering this policy.</p><p> </p><p>Premium Bond prize warrants are legally similar to cheques. As with cheques, they can be rejected if a duplicate has been issued. Due to an administrative error, a number of duplicate Premium Bond prize warrants were issued to customers in the October 2019 prize draw. NS&amp;I have since updated their processes to prevent this error occurring in future prize draws.</p> answering member printed The Earl of Courtown question first answered 17/01/2020 13:10:16 answering member 3359 label Biography information for The Earl of Courtown
tabling member	952 label Biography information for Lord Tebbit

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registered interest
date	16/01/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Food: Import Duties
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what are the categories of food materials and products subject to import taxes or duties imposed by the EU.
tabling member printed	Lord Tebbit
uin	HL12919
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2019 answer text <p>The EU Common External Tariff applies to all EU members.</p><p>The Tariff is the name given to the combination of the nomenclature (or classification of goods) and the duty rates which apply to each category of goods. The duty rates differ from one kind of good to another depending on what they are and where they come from. The rates also depend on the economic sensitivity of the goods.</p><p> </p><p>The EU uses the World Customs Organisation’s Harmonised Commodity Description and Coding System (HS) as the basis for the Tariff. The HS comprises approximately 5,300 article/product descriptions that appear as headings and subheadings, arranged in 99 chapters, grouped in 21 sections.</p><p> </p><p>The EU Tariff contains the goods classification table which covers all categories of goods and the conventional import duty rates. The table is voluminous. It lists around 9500 classification codes. Food materials and products are found in Chapters 1 to 24. The type of product, the ingredients list or materials used to make it, the recipe and even the production method can affect the classification of a good.</p><p> </p><p>The EU Tariff is available to view on the EU Europa website. To get the full picture, the EU’s tariff database (TARIC) is also available to view and contains all the tariff preference and trade measures.</p><p> </p><p>In the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal the UK Trade Tariff, detailing the goods classification codes and duty rates for UK imports will be available, as now, on GOV.UK. Importers of goods into the UK will no longer use EU Tariff information published by the EU.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 30/01/2019 14:04:36 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	952 label Biography information for Lord Tebbit

167237

registered interest
date	02/12/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Parliament
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the total cost to the Exchequer of the operations of Parliament in (1) 2013–14, and (2) 1983–84.
tabling member printed	Lord Tebbit
uin	HL3338
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p>Although the costs of operations are met from the Exchequer, the House of Commons and House of Lords are not government departments and their budgets are a matter for each House rather than the government. The Clerk of the House of Commons and the Clerk of the Parliaments in the House of Lords, as the respective Accounting Officers, account for the expenditure of each House.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>For reference, the costs attributable to the operations of Parliament were £358.2 million in 2013/14 (on an accruals basis); and £22.9 million in 1983/84 (on a cash basis). It should be noted, however, that the latter amount does not include services, such as printing and works, paid for at the time out of government departmental budgets. This, along with the different basis of the two figures, means they are not comparable.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Deighton question first answered 16/12/2014 16:12:52 answering member 4262 label Biography information for Lord Deighton
tabling member	952 label Biography information for Lord Tebbit