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973305

	registered interest
	date	13/09/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Sanitary Products: VAT
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions his Department has had with the EU on the EU classification of sanitary items for VAT purposes.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	174836
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <p>The Government has continued to press at EU level for the flexibility to apply a zero rate of VAT to women’s sanitary products so that this can be introduced in the UK at the earliest opportunity.</p><p> </p><p>In January 2018, the European Commission brought forward a legislative proposal to enhance Member States’ flexibility to apply reduced and zero rates of VAT. This proposal remains under discussion and, if agreed to by Member States, would give the UK the legal ability to zero rate women’s sanitary products.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 09/10/2018 14:46:54 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

973299

	registered interest
	date	13/09/2018
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Large Goods Vehicles: Parking
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 4 May 2018 to Question 139598, what steps he has taken to improve the availability of safe, secure and appropriate parking facilities for heavy goods vehicles in terms of (a) planning, (b) the role of Highways England (c) setting standards for lorry parking facilities and (d) tackling illegal parking.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	174835
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <p>On the 24 July the Government issued a revised version of the National Planning Policy Framework that now indicates that the need for sufficient overnight lorry parking should be taken into account in planning policies and decisions. There are already various positive market developments, with operators coming forward with plans for new and expanded sites. In addition, Highways England are currently reviewing their landholdings in order to identify sites with the potential to be developed into lorry parks.</p><p> </p><p>On the 18 May the Department published a comprehensive survey of lorry parking in England, including in relation to welfare standards. On request the Department will share the underlying survey data relating to specific sites, in support of various existing market-led initiatives to improve the transparency around standards. There is a current trial of the use of new enforcement approaches in a part of Kent to deter inappropriate parking that has seen positive results to date. The Government is monitoring the outcomes of the 18-month trial with a view to informing future measures in relation to parking enforcement.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 09/10/2018 12:09:58 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

973313

	registered interest
	date	13/09/2018
	answering body	Department for Exiting the European Union
	answering dept id	203
	answering dept short name	Exiting the European Union
	answering dept sort name	Exiting the European Union
	hansard heading	Sanitary Products: VAT
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what discussions he has had with his EU counterparts on the classification of sanitary items for VAT purposes within the context of the EU withdrawal negotiations.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	174837
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <p>The Government has continued to press at EU level for the flexibility to apply a zero rate of VAT to women’s sanitary products so that this can be introduced in the UK at the earliest opportunity.</p><p>In January 2018, the European Commission brought forward a legislative proposal to enhance Member States’ flexibility to apply reduced and zero rates of VAT.</p><p>This proposal remains under discussion and, if agreed to by Member States, would give the UK the legal ability to zero rate women’s sanitary products.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 09/10/2018 12:23:52 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds