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636975

registered interest
date	15/11/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electoral Fraud Review
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when the Government plans to publish its response to the report by the right hon. Sir Eric Pickles on his review into electoral fraud.
tabling member constituency	Broxbourne
tabling member printed	Mr Charles Walker
uin	52949
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2016 answer text <p>The Government is committed to tackling fraud and making our electoral process more secure. We have welcomed Sir Eric Pickles’ report on his review into electoral fraud, and we are giving careful consideration to the findings and recommendations that the report sets out. We will publish our response in due course.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 18/11/2016 08:51:49 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker

636980

registered interest
date	15/11/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	House of Lords Appointments Commission
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the cost of funding the House of Lords Appointments Commission has been in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	53132
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2016 answer text <p>The House of Lords Appointments Commission (HoLAC) makes recommendations for the appointment of non-party-political members and vets for propriety other nominations to the House of Lords. HoLAC's costs are set out in its annual reports which are available on their website.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer grouped question UIN 53169 question first answered 18/11/2016 12:13:19 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

636986

registered interest
date	15/11/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Multinational Companies: Tax Avoidance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the European Commission's proposals for Eurozone public country-by-country reporting for tackling multi-national tax avoidance.
tabling member constituency	Don Valley
tabling member printed	Caroline Flint
uin	53035
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2016 answer text <p>The Government has set out its objective for a comprehensive and effective model of public country-by country reporting that is agreed on a multilateral basis.</p><p>The UK continues to play an active role in the discussions on the European Commission proposal with a view to delivering on that objective.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 18/11/2016 14:41:09 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	389 label Biography information for Caroline Flint

636987

registered interest
date	15/11/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Mortgages: Affordable Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to encourage mortgage providers to develop financial products which support shared equity affordable housing; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Peterborough
tabling member printed	Mr Stewart Jackson
uin	53048
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2016 answer text <p>The Government is committed to addressing the affordability of housing and making the aspiration of home ownership a reality for as many households as possible.</p><p> </p><p>Alongside this the Government is committed to increasing competition in banking and creating an environment in which firms compete to offer a range of products that suit the varying needs of their customers.</p><p> </p><p>Government also runs the Help to Buy: Equity loan through which Government lends up to 20% (40% in London) of the cost of a newly built home with buyers only needing a 5% cash deposit and a 75% mortgage to make up the rest. The loan is repaid when the property is sold, or after 25 years (whichever is sooner), with the amount repayable calculated as 20% of the value of the property at the point the loan is repaid (or 40% in London). There is also an annual fee payable on the loan after 5 years.</p><p> </p><p>Since Help to Buy: equity loan launched it has helped over 90,000 households buy a home, supporting first-time buyers in all parts of the country with 81% of purchases made through the scheme made by first time buyers.</p><p> </p><p>In October 2016 the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) released a report which highlighted that 15-20 firms are currently lending on shared ownership.</p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 18/11/2016 15:00:11 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	1551 label Biography information for Lord Jackson of Peterborough

636996

registered interest
date	15/11/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish details of the guidance given to HM Revenue and Customs staff on the offer of hardship payments to people who have had tax credit payments stopped in the last four months.
tabling member constituency	Ochil and South Perthshire
tabling member printed	Ms Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh
uin	52933
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2016 answer text <p>As part of the normal tax credits process HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is reviewing cases where a claimant has made a request for a mandatory reconsideration in light of decisions made by Concentrix.</p><p>HMRC received 32,358 mandatory reconsiderations from Concentrix from 14th September 2016 to 15th November 2016. Ordinarily, the vast majority of mandatory reconsiderations are upheld in the claimant’s favour because new information has come to light during the mandatory reconsideration process. This includes cases where the additional information requested was not originally provided. Of the mandatory reconsiderations processed from Concentrix, 26,990 have been closed with 24,219 (89.7%) of these being upheld in the claimant’s favour. 2,475 of the original 32,358 were wrongly classified as mandatory reconsiderations. The average time taken by HMRC to process mandatory reconsiderations related to tax credits decisions from the point of the request to the final decision between 1st August 2016 and 31st October 2016 was 35.13 days. This includes the time taken to receive any additional information which was not originally provided. HMRC will consider whether a hardship payment is appropriate where one is requested dependent on the circumstances of the specific case. As announced on 7th October, the National Audit Office will be conducting an investigation into HMRC’s contract with Concentrix.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 52934 52935 52936 question first answered 18/11/2016 14:37:18 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4427 label Biography information for Ms Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh

636997

registered interest
date	15/11/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Concentrix
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans his Department has to review all tax credit cases taken back in-house from Concentrix to ensure that policy and procedures have been correctly applied.
tabling member constituency	Ochil and South Perthshire
tabling member printed	Ms Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh
uin	52934
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2016 answer text <p>As part of the normal tax credits process HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is reviewing cases where a claimant has made a request for a mandatory reconsideration in light of decisions made by Concentrix.</p><p>HMRC received 32,358 mandatory reconsiderations from Concentrix from 14th September 2016 to 15th November 2016. Ordinarily, the vast majority of mandatory reconsiderations are upheld in the claimant’s favour because new information has come to light during the mandatory reconsideration process. This includes cases where the additional information requested was not originally provided. Of the mandatory reconsiderations processed from Concentrix, 26,990 have been closed with 24,219 (89.7%) of these being upheld in the claimant’s favour. 2,475 of the original 32,358 were wrongly classified as mandatory reconsiderations. The average time taken by HMRC to process mandatory reconsiderations related to tax credits decisions from the point of the request to the final decision between 1st August 2016 and 31st October 2016 was 35.13 days. This includes the time taken to receive any additional information which was not originally provided. HMRC will consider whether a hardship payment is appropriate where one is requested dependent on the circumstances of the specific case. As announced on 7th October, the National Audit Office will be conducting an investigation into HMRC’s contract with Concentrix.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 52933 52935 52936 question first answered 18/11/2016 14:37:18 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4427 label Biography information for Ms Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh

636998

registered interest
date	15/11/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Concentrix
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of mandatory reconsiderations of cases taken back by HM Revenue and Customs from Concentrix in the last three months have been upheld.
tabling member constituency	Ochil and South Perthshire
tabling member printed	Ms Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh
uin	52935
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2016 answer text <p>As part of the normal tax credits process HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is reviewing cases where a claimant has made a request for a mandatory reconsideration in light of decisions made by Concentrix.</p><p>HMRC received 32,358 mandatory reconsiderations from Concentrix from 14th September 2016 to 15th November 2016. Ordinarily, the vast majority of mandatory reconsiderations are upheld in the claimant’s favour because new information has come to light during the mandatory reconsideration process. This includes cases where the additional information requested was not originally provided. Of the mandatory reconsiderations processed from Concentrix, 26,990 have been closed with 24,219 (89.7%) of these being upheld in the claimant’s favour. 2,475 of the original 32,358 were wrongly classified as mandatory reconsiderations. The average time taken by HMRC to process mandatory reconsiderations related to tax credits decisions from the point of the request to the final decision between 1st August 2016 and 31st October 2016 was 35.13 days. This includes the time taken to receive any additional information which was not originally provided. HMRC will consider whether a hardship payment is appropriate where one is requested dependent on the circumstances of the specific case. As announced on 7th October, the National Audit Office will be conducting an investigation into HMRC’s contract with Concentrix.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 52933 52934 52936 question first answered 18/11/2016 14:37:18 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4427 label Biography information for Ms Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh

636999

registered interest
date	15/11/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the average time taken by HM Revenue and Customs staff was to process mandatory reconsiderations requested in relation to tax credit decisions from the point of the request to the final decision in the last three months.
tabling member constituency	Ochil and South Perthshire
tabling member printed	Ms Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh
uin	52936
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2016 answer text <p>As part of the normal tax credits process HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is reviewing cases where a claimant has made a request for a mandatory reconsideration in light of decisions made by Concentrix.</p><p>HMRC received 32,358 mandatory reconsiderations from Concentrix from 14th September 2016 to 15th November 2016. Ordinarily, the vast majority of mandatory reconsiderations are upheld in the claimant’s favour because new information has come to light during the mandatory reconsideration process. This includes cases where the additional information requested was not originally provided. Of the mandatory reconsiderations processed from Concentrix, 26,990 have been closed with 24,219 (89.7%) of these being upheld in the claimant’s favour. 2,475 of the original 32,358 were wrongly classified as mandatory reconsiderations. The average time taken by HMRC to process mandatory reconsiderations related to tax credits decisions from the point of the request to the final decision between 1st August 2016 and 31st October 2016 was 35.13 days. This includes the time taken to receive any additional information which was not originally provided. HMRC will consider whether a hardship payment is appropriate where one is requested dependent on the circumstances of the specific case. As announced on 7th October, the National Audit Office will be conducting an investigation into HMRC’s contract with Concentrix.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 52933 52934 52935 question first answered 18/11/2016 14:37:18 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4427 label Biography information for Ms Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh

637006

registered interest
date	15/11/2016
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Private Rented Housing: Energy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many properties there are in the private rented sector in each energy efficiency rating.
tabling member constituency	Don Valley
tabling member printed	Caroline Flint
uin	53045
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2016 answer text <p>Information on the energy efficiency of dwellings is collected through the English Housing Survey. The latest figures (2014) on the number of privately rented properties in each energy efficiency band can be found in AT2.6, published online here: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/501070/2014-15_Section_2_Housing_Stock_tables_and_figures_FINAL.xlsx</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon Central answering member printed Gavin Barwell question first answered 18/11/2016 13:29:55 answering member 3955 label Biography information for Lord Barwell
tabling member	389 label Biography information for Caroline Flint

637007

registered interest
date	15/11/2016
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Affordable Housing: Private Sector
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to enable private sector providers of affordable housing which are not housing associations to be permitted to supply shared equity and other non-traditional housing tenures; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Peterborough
tabling member printed	Mr Stewart Jackson
uin	53049
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2016 answer text <p>The Shared Ownership and Affordable Homes Programme 2016-21 prospectus was published on 13 April and opened up the programme for bids from private sector providers, including those which are not housing associations, for Shared Ownership. Bidding closed in September and the Homes and Communities Agency is currently considering the bids. Allocations to successful bidders will be announced shortly.</p> answering member constituency Croydon Central answering member printed Gavin Barwell grouped question UIN 53042 question first answered 18/11/2016 13:52:56 answering member 3955 label Biography information for Lord Barwell
tabling member	1551 label Biography information for Lord Jackson of Peterborough