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808804

registered interest
date	18/12/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Bank Services: Small Businesses
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to expand the role of the Financial Services Ombudsman to allow all small and medium sized businesses to make complaints on banking services.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	119913
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>The remit of the Financial Ombudsman Services (FOS) is a matter for the Financial Conduct Authority, which is operationally independent of Government. The FCA indicated in the April 2017 Feedback Statement on their Mission consultation that they intend to consult on widening the remit of the FOS.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 21/12/2017 10:52:20 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

808923

registered interest
date	18/12/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Self-employed: Tax Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will establish a new tax allowance covering digital training costs incurred by self-employed businesses.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	120032
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2017 answer text <p>Expenditure on training to maintain or update existing skills, including digital skills, is already tax deductible for self-employed individuals when it is wholly and exclusively for the purposes of the business.</p><p> </p><p>As announced at Autumn Budget 2017, the government will consult in 2018 on extending the scope of tax relief currently available to employees and the self-employed for work-related training costs. This consultation will cover the tax treatment of new skills.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 120033 question first answered 20/12/2017 17:20:26 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

808924

registered interest
date	18/12/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Self-employed: Tax Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will bring forward proposals to allow tax-deductions for training courses for the self-employed that develop (a) digital training and (b) other new skills.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	120033
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2017 answer text <p>Expenditure on training to maintain or update existing skills, including digital skills, is already tax deductible for self-employed individuals when it is wholly and exclusively for the purposes of the business.</p><p> </p><p>As announced at Autumn Budget 2017, the government will consult in 2018 on extending the scope of tax relief currently available to employees and the self-employed for work-related training costs. This consultation will cover the tax treatment of new skills.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 120032 question first answered 20/12/2017 17:20:26 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

805109

registered interest
date	12/12/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Tobacco: Smuggling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will introduce legislative proposals to introduce licensing for tobacco manufacturing machinery in accordance with the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Illicit Trade Protocol.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	118781
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2017 answer text <p>Legislation for the licensing of tobacco manufacturing machinery in accordance with the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Illicit Trade Protocol was included in the Finance (No 2) Act 2017. Draft implementing regulations were published for consultation on 7 November 2017 and will be laid before Parliament in the new year.</p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 20/12/2017 16:57:02 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

805110

registered interest
date	12/12/2017
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	Nabeel Rajab
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 his Bahraini counterpart on the Bahraini court’s rejection of Nabeel Rajab’s appeal against a two-year prison sentence for speaking to journalists; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	118782
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2017 answer text <p>​We have raised this case with the Bahraini Government at senior levels. The UK continues to encourage the Bahraini Government to deliver on its international and domestic human rights commitments.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 19/12/2017 13:09:31 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day