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577437

registered interest
date	07/09/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Equitable Life Assurance Society: Compensation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will take steps to compensate Equitable Life policy holders who, to date, have not been eligible for compensation.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	45345
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>The Equitable Life Payment Scheme was set up in 2011 to make payments to all those affected by the government maladministration of Equitable Life identified by the Parliamentary and Health Services Ombudsman in her 2008 report.</p><p> </p><p>After making payments of over £1.1 billion to more than 900,000 policyholders, the Scheme has now closed.</p><p> </p><p>A final report on the Scheme’s achievements will be published shortly.</p> answering member constituency Brighton, Kemptown answering member printed Simon Kirby question first answered 12/09/2016 10:31:41 answering member 3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

577521

registered interest
date	07/09/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what mechanisms of accountability his Department has used when working with the Southern Health Trust.
tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
tabling member printed	Sir Nicholas Soames
uin	45541
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>The previous Minister of State for Health, Alistair Burt, met with the interim Chairman of Southern Health Trust on 16 May and 7 June. There are no current plans for any further meetings. NHS Improvement oversees NHS trusts and foundation trusts, and is accountable to the Department for this work and its other functions.</p> answering member constituency South West Surrey answering member printed Mr Jeremy Hunt grouped question UIN 45540 45542 question first answered 12/09/2016 08:29:38 answering member 1572 label Biography information for Jeremy Hunt
tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

577523

registered interest
date	07/09/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he next plans to meet the Chairman of the Southern Health Trust.
tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
tabling member printed	Sir Nicholas Soames
uin	45540
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>The previous Minister of State for Health, Alistair Burt, met with the interim Chairman of Southern Health Trust on 16 May and 7 June. There are no current plans for any further meetings. NHS Improvement oversees NHS trusts and foundation trusts, and is accountable to the Department for this work and its other functions.</p> answering member constituency South West Surrey answering member printed Mr Jeremy Hunt grouped question UIN 45541 45542 question first answered 12/09/2016 08:29:37 answering member 1572 label Biography information for Jeremy Hunt
tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

577524

registered interest
date	07/09/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Katrina Percy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions he has had with the Chairman and Board of the Southern Health Trust on Katrina Percy.
tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
tabling member printed	Sir Nicholas Soames
uin	45542
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>The previous Minister of State for Health, Alistair Burt, met with the interim Chairman of Southern Health Trust on 16 May and 7 June. There are no current plans for any further meetings. NHS Improvement oversees NHS trusts and foundation trusts, and is accountable to the Department for this work and its other functions.</p> answering member constituency South West Surrey answering member printed Mr Jeremy Hunt grouped question UIN 45540 45541 question first answered 12/09/2016 08:29:38 answering member 1572 label Biography information for Jeremy Hunt
tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

577926

registered interest
date	07/09/2016
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Natural Gas: Imports
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much Russian gas is directly imported into the UK; and what percentage of overall national gas consumption that represents.
tabling member printed	Lord Truscott
uin	HL1673
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>There are no pipelines that allow Russian gas to flow from Norway (our biggest source of imports) or via shipped Liquefied Natural Gas (which comes mainly from Qatar). Some gas of Russian origin may enter via pipelines from Belgium and the Netherlands. However Belgium has reported virtually no Russian gas imports over the past 3 years. The Netherlands does report some Russian imports, but we estimate Russian gas via this route would account for less than 1 per cent of the UK’s gas imports, and therefore much less than 1 per cent of our total gas supply.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 12/09/2016 11:10:32 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	3682 label Biography information for Lord Truscott

576724

registered interest
date	06/09/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Funerals: Insurance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will take legislative steps to prohibit funeral expenses insurance plans from paying out less to customers than has been paid in.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South
tabling member printed	Stewart Malcolm McDonald
uin	45188
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>Funeral expenses insurance is a commercial product and the Government does not believe it would be appropriate to interfere in the market in the way the Honourable Member for Glasgow South describes. The respective capabilities of insurers to assess risk is a key element on which they compete and helps to ensure there is a diversity of products and efficient pricing in the market.</p><p> </p><p>Insurance is a risk transfer mechanism. At a basic level insurers group together large numbers of people, who all face a similar risk, and collect money from each of them through premiums. This pooling principle lies behind funeral cover insurance policies. These protect policyholders from the risk of dying early and not having accumulated the level of savings they would wish to leave behind to cover the costs of their funeral. The premiums of those who live long enough to contribute more than they would receive in benefits from the policy are used to pay the shortfall from those who die earlier.</p><p> </p><p>Therefore it is possible for those with funeral cover insurance to pay more in premiums than they will receive in benefits. An alternative option to such insurance would be to save this money which would mean an individual would not receive less than they put in. However they would then face the risk that, should they die earlier than expected, they would not have accumulated as much in savings as they would have received in benefits from an insurance policy.</p><p>It is important that consumers understand the nature of their funeral cover insurance policies. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), which regulates the insurance industry, has produced an Insurance Conduct of Business Sourcebook (ICOBS) in order to set the standards required of insurance firms in relation to their business. ICOBS rules include a requirement that customers are given all the appropriate information required to make an informed decision ahead of purchasing an insurance product. The rules also state that communications should be clear, fair and not misleading. This means that where there is a possibility that a funeral plan may pay out less than was paid in, this must be clearly disclosed to the consumer before they purchase the product.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Brighton, Kemptown answering member printed Simon Kirby question first answered 12/09/2016 11:11:13 answering member 3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby
tabling member	4461 label Biography information for Stewart Malcolm McDonald

576725

registered interest
date	06/09/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Charities: Sports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many community amateur sports clubs have changed their status to a charity in the last two years.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent North
tabling member printed	Ruth Smeeth
uin	45171
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>Rather than prosecute Community Amateur Sports Clubs (CASCs) for operating incorrectly, any club that does not meet the new regulations, introduced in April 2015, will be de-registered by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and assessed for potential Capital Gains Tax charges on the deemed disposal and acquisition of assets.</p><p> </p><p>Statistics are not kept on former CASCs that set up a charity that they subsequently register with HMRC. These new charities are required to simply register the charity with HMRC in the normal way.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 45170 question first answered 12/09/2016 11:34:36 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4508 label Biography information for Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent

576726

registered interest
date	06/09/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many full-time and part-time staff HM Revenue and Customs employs in Northern Ireland; and how many such staff are planned to be employed there by 31 December 2017.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	45113
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>As at 31 August, there were 1,566 HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) staff in Northern Ireland. Of these, 1,023 are full time and 543 work part time, equating to 380 full-time equivalent (FTE). This gives a total workforce of 1,403 FTE in Northern Ireland. HMRC is still developing its departmental workforce plans for 2017/18 and through to 2021 and has not yet finalised the projected staff numbers in Northern Ireland as at 31 December 2017.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 12/09/2016 11:27:34 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

576727

registered interest
date	06/09/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Economic Situation: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate the Government has made of the potential economic cost to Scotland of leaving the EU.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
tabling member printed	Ian Murray
uin	45116
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>The United Kingdom will leave the European Union and we are going to make a success of it. While it is clear that we do now face some economic challenges as a result of the referendum decision, the UK economy does so from a position of strength.</p><p> </p><p>HM Government is monitoring economic developments closely and the independent Office for Budget Responsibility will produce an updated economic forecast alongside Autumn Statement 2016.</p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke grouped question UIN 45115 45117 question first answered 12/09/2016 10:07:56 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray

576728

registered interest
date	06/09/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Business: Edinburgh
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment the Government has made of the potential effect on businesses in Edinburgh of leaving the EU.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
tabling member printed	Ian Murray
uin	45117
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>The United Kingdom will leave the European Union and we are going to make a success of it. While it is clear that we do now face some economic challenges as a result of the referendum decision, the UK economy does so from a position of strength.</p><p> </p><p>HM Government is monitoring economic developments closely and the independent Office for Budget Responsibility will produce an updated economic forecast alongside Autumn Statement 2016.</p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke grouped question UIN 45115 45116 question first answered 12/09/2016 10:07:56 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray