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1175765

registered interest
date	03/02/2020
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Social Security Benefits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of expenditure on welfare benefits payments was classified as overpaid in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	11468
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2020 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions administers over 25 benefits, ensuring that the very different conditions of entitlement are met in each individual instance. We publish annual figures on the amount we estimate has been overpaid under the title ‘Fraud and Error in the Benefit System’.</p><p> </p><p>The percentage of benefit expenditure estimated to have been overpaid for each of the last 10 years can be found in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Amount overpaid as a percentage of the Department’s expenditure</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>2.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>2.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>2.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>2.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>2.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>1.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>1.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>2.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>2.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>2.2%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The Department for Work and Pensions has worked hard to deliver major welfare reform during much of this period, all whilst limiting fraud and error to 2.2% or less.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>We continue to focus on preventing loss before it occurs, which is in everyone’s interest. Sophisticated data matching rules are increasingly allowing us to cross check what claimants tell us, with potential discrepancies being routed to our fraud investigators.</p><p> </p><p>We are constantly exploring the use of new data sources, which will improve this process still further.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 11/02/2020 14:23:23 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1175766

registered interest
date	03/02/2020
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Terrorism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of removing entitlement to benefits from people convicted of terrorism offences.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	11469
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2020 answer text <p>The Government’s assessment is that someone who has been convicted of a crime and is serving a custodial sentence should not be receiving benefits. That is why the Department’s policy is to stop benefits where people have been convicted and go to prison. This includes convictions for acts of terrorism.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 11/02/2020 14:28:51 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1175767

registered interest
date	03/02/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the criteria are for people subject to terrorism prevention and investigation measure to be charged for offences.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	11470
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2020 answer text <p>1) A TPIM notice imposes certain conditions on an individual. Breach of any of those conditions is a criminal offence. Individuals subject to a TPIM are treated in the same way as anyone else who is charged with an offence.</p><p> </p><p>2) Home Office Ministers have regular meetings with Ministerial colleagues and others as part of the process of policy development and delivery. As was the case with previous administrations, it is not the Government's practice to provide details of all such meetings.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis grouped question UIN 11471 question first answered 11/02/2020 15:24:52 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1175768

registered interest
date	03/02/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with the Director of Public Prosecutions on the prosecution of people subject to terrorism prevention and investigation measures.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	11471
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2020 answer text <p>1) A TPIM notice imposes certain conditions on an individual. Breach of any of those conditions is a criminal offence. Individuals subject to a TPIM are treated in the same way as anyone else who is charged with an offence.</p><p> </p><p>2) Home Office Ministers have regular meetings with Ministerial colleagues and others as part of the process of policy development and delivery. As was the case with previous administrations, it is not the Government's practice to provide details of all such meetings.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis grouped question UIN 11470 question first answered 11/02/2020 15:24:52 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1175769

registered interest
date	03/02/2020
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Israel: Palestinians
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has made representations to the Palestinian Authority on accepting the peace plan recently proposed by Israel.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	11472
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2020 answer text <p>The Foreign Secretary called President Abbas on 27 January. He emphasised the UK hope that the plan would encourage a return to negotiations. We will continue to encourage all parties to resume dialogue.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 11/02/2020 16:16:55 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1175770

registered interest
date	03/02/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Counter-terrorism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding her Department has allocated to police forces in England and Wales in relation to the Prevent strategy in each of the last five financial years.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	11473
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2020 answer text <p>It is important that we ensure counter-terrorism policing has the resources needed to deal with the threat we face. That is why we are increasing the budget for counter-terrorism policing in 2020-21 by £90m (year-on-year), taking CT police funding to over £900m for the first time.</p><p> </p><p>The total CT policing funding figure is published annually as part of the Police Settlement. We do not disclose the breakdown of this figure down for security reasons.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 11/02/2020 15:21:56 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1175771

registered interest
date	03/02/2020
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Syria: Military Intervention
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent diplomatic steps he has taken to de-escalate the security situation in north-west Syria.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	11474
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2020 answer text <p>We are active diplomatically to call on all parties to the conflict in Idlib to adhere to agreed ceasefires and abide by their obligations under International Humanitarian Law. We have repeatedly raised the issue at the UN Security Council. The Prime Minister discussed the situation in Idlib with President Erdogan, President Macron and Chancellor Merkel at their meeting on 3 December 2019. Senior officials have since discussed the situation there with their counterparts in Turkey and the UN Special Envoy, as well as raising serious concerns about the Idlib offensive with Russian counterparts. On 28 January, the UK hosted a meeting of Special Envoys of the Small Group on Syria (Egypt, France, Germany, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom and the United States) to discuss the situation in Syria, including the need for de-escalation in Idlib. On 5 February, I visited Ankara and discussed the situation in Idlib with Turkish Government Ministers.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 11/02/2020 17:29:24 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1175772

registered interest
date	03/02/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Tax Avoidance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to stop the promotion of payroll loan schemes.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	11475
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2020 answer text <p>The Government and HMRC are determined to continue to tackle promoters of tax avoidance schemes.</p><p> </p><p>In December 2019 the Government announced in its response to the Independent Loan Charge Review further measures to tackle promoters of avoidance schemes, measures will reduce the scope for promoters to market tax avoidance schemes.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will:</p><p> </p><p>• Ensure HMRC can more effectively issue stop notices to promoters to make it harder to promote schemes that do not work;</p><p> </p><p>• Prevent promoters from abusing corporate entity structures that sell schemes to avoid their obligations under the Promoters of Tax Avoidance Scheme (POTAS) rules;</p><p> </p><p>• Ensure HMRC can obtain information about the enabling of abusive schemes as soon as they are identified, and enabler penalties are felt without delay when a scheme has been defeated at tribunal;</p><p> </p><p>• Ensure that HMRC can act decisively where promoters fail to provide information on their avoidance schemes; and</p><p> </p><p>• Make further technical amendments to the POTAS regime so that it continues to operate effectively and to ensure that the General Anti Abuse Rule (GAAR) can be used to counteract partnerships as intended.</p><p> </p><p>Further detail on these measures will be set out at the Budget.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 11477 question first answered 11/02/2020 08:56:27 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1175773

registered interest
date	03/02/2020
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Lebanon: Economic Situation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the UK plans to provide additional assistance to Lebanon to tackle its financial crisis.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	11476
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2020 answer text <p>I spoke with new Lebanese Foreign Minister Dr. Nassif Hitti on 28 January to discuss the pressing economic situation. The UK and other members of the International Support Group for Lebanon have urged the new government to move forward with reforms that are needed in order to halt the deteriorating economic situation, restore fiscal balance and financial stability and address long standing structural deficiencies in the Lebanese economy. We stand ready to support Lebanon but look to this government to demonstrate its commitment to reform.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 11/02/2020 16:12:59 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1175774

registered interest
date	03/02/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Tax Avoidance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Independent Loan Charge Review, published in December 2019, what steps his Department is taking to tackle (a) people and (b) companies that promoted payroll loan schemes.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	11477
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2020 answer text <p>The Government and HMRC are determined to continue to tackle promoters of tax avoidance schemes.</p><p> </p><p>In December 2019 the Government announced in its response to the Independent Loan Charge Review further measures to tackle promoters of avoidance schemes, measures will reduce the scope for promoters to market tax avoidance schemes.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will:</p><p> </p><p>• Ensure HMRC can more effectively issue stop notices to promoters to make it harder to promote schemes that do not work;</p><p> </p><p>• Prevent promoters from abusing corporate entity structures that sell schemes to avoid their obligations under the Promoters of Tax Avoidance Scheme (POTAS) rules;</p><p> </p><p>• Ensure HMRC can obtain information about the enabling of abusive schemes as soon as they are identified, and enabler penalties are felt without delay when a scheme has been defeated at tribunal;</p><p> </p><p>• Ensure that HMRC can act decisively where promoters fail to provide information on their avoidance schemes; and</p><p> </p><p>• Make further technical amendments to the POTAS regime so that it continues to operate effectively and to ensure that the General Anti Abuse Rule (GAAR) can be used to counteract partnerships as intended.</p><p> </p><p>Further detail on these measures will be set out at the Budget.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 11475 question first answered 11/02/2020 08:56:26 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell