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1580780

registered interest
date	25/01/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	VAT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an assessment of instances where online (a) Government and (b) HMRC forms do not recognise valid business VAT numbers.
tabling member constituency	Falkirk
tabling member printed	John McNally
uin	132499
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2023 answer text <p>HMRC is not aware of any significant issues regarding the recognition of VAT numbers in Government or HMRC forms. If an IT issue does cause a VAT number not to be recognised, HMRC works with its IT delivery partners to support impacted customers and resolve the issue as soon as possible.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 02/02/2023 14:23:17 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4424 label Biography information for John McNally

1580806

registered interest
date	25/01/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the email correspondence of 25 January 2023 from the hon. Member for Falkirk, if he will take steps to help respond to his constituent, Hazel Fullard, regarding a decision on a tax credit payments.
tabling member constituency	Falkirk
tabling member printed	John McNally
uin	132509
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2023 answer text <p>The email has been passed to HM Revenue &amp; Customs (HMRC). HMRC aim to reply as quickly as possible.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 02/02/2023 14:03:09 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4424 label Biography information for John McNally

1546128

registered interest
date	28/11/2022
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Water Companies: Accountability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to hold incumbent water companies accountable for failures to address storm overflows and leakages.
tabling member constituency	Falkirk
tabling member printed	John McNally
uin	97618
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2022 answer text <p>The Government has made it clear that water companies must urgently tackle sewage overflows. This is set out in the Storm Overflows Reduction Plan, which represents the largest investment programme in water company history. Through increased monitoring and reporting requirements introduced in the Environment Act 2021, and priorities set through Ofwat as part of the Strategic Policy Statement to Ofwat, regulators and government will hold water companies to account. The Environment Agency and Ofwat have recently launched the largest criminal and civil investigations into water company sewage discharges ever, at over 2200 treatment works, following new data coming to light as a result of increased monitoring. Since 2015, the Environment Agency and Ofwat have brought 59 prosecutions against water companies, securing fines of over £144 million.</p><p>Water companies have performance commitments set by Ofwat that they need to meet. These include leakage and wastewater treatment work compliance. They face automatic financial penalties when these are missed. In November, Ofwat announced that almost £135 million would be returned to customers as a result of companies underperforming against their performance commitments.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 07/12/2022 12:33:17 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4424 label Biography information for John McNally

1546129

registered interest
date	28/11/2022
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Water Companies: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department is taking to increase the (a) transparency and (b) standardisation of incumbent water companies’ bulk supply and discharge tariffs.
tabling member constituency	Falkirk
tabling member printed	John McNally
uin	97619
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2022 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring that the water industry offers a stable, predictable and transparent charging regime for bulk supply and discharge.</p><p>We updated our charging guidance to Ofwat in 2016 and provided further supplementary guidance to the regulator in 2018. It can be found at <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fwater-industry-charging-guidance-to-ofwat&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cpqteam%40defra.gov.uk%7C4dd642632c374f54c12e08dad93e0c62%7C770a245002274c6290c74e38537f1102%7C0%7C0%7C638061157758836939%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=SJNCG9alASeUyVPWVrYWNLVa%2F2RjoFXh03mm%2B6%2FBYkU%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/water-industry-charging-guidance-to-ofwat</a></p><p>Ofwat, the independent economic regulator for the water industry in England and Wales, must have regard to our guidance in their regulation of water companies in England. They set out how they regulate bulk supply and discharge charges in their charging rules. Ofwat's charging rules were updated last year, taking effect in April 2022. These updates simplified the publishing deadlines for charges and introduced a new requirement on English water companies to use standardised terms and worked examples in their charging arrangements for developer services.</p><p>Bulk supply and discharge charging guidance is a devolved matter in Wales and Scotland. Welsh government’s charging guidance to Ofwat can be found at <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgov.wales%2Fwater-charging-guidance&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cpqteam%40defra.gov.uk%7C4dd642632c374f54c12e08dad93e0c62%7C770a245002274c6290c74e38537f1102%7C0%7C0%7C638061157758836939%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=CAwxvxudmf8LEcAfsqIWGl8KXzFe%2Bcx6Z4m8Dimzo7o%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Water charging guidance | GOV.WALES</a> <br> <br> Scottish government’s charging guidance is issued directly by Scottish Water, and can be found at <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.scottishwater.co.uk%2F-%2Fmedia%2FScottishWater%2FDocument-Hub%2FBusiness-and-Developers%2FLicensed-Providers%2F210222Part1WholesaleChargesScheme2022-23.pdf&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cpqteam%40defra.gov.uk%7C4dd642632c374f54c12e08dad93e0c62%7C770a245002274c6290c74e38537f1102%7C0%7C0%7C638061157758836939%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=uyFlOCcRaPlpLY5PLl93IeRN5mo30pF7twKd75D0FbE%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Microsoft Word - Part 1 Wholesale Charges Scheme 2022-23 - Non TC - Jan 4.2% (scottishwater.co.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 09/12/2022 14:28:07 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4424 label Biography information for John McNally

1541480

registered interest
date	11/11/2022
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Climate Change: Developing Countries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to help climate finance reach low-income communities vulnerable to climate change; and whether she has held discussions with her counterparts in high-income countries on this matter.
tabling member constituency	Falkirk
tabling member printed	John McNally
uin	84902
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2022 answer text <p>The UK's International Climate Finance delivered by BEIS, FCDO, and Defra, supports developing nations to adapt and build resilience to the effects of climate change including through improved protecting and restoring nature, improving food security, water management and preparedness against climate-related disasters. At COP27 the Prime Minister announced the UK will triple our funding on adaptation from £500 million in 2019 to £1.5 billion in 2025. In addition, in partnership with the Champions Group of Adaptation Finance, the UK and other climate finance providers are collaborating with low income climate vulnerable countries, to address barriers to increasing flows, quality, effectiveness and accessibility of adaptation finance, including to the poorest people and communities who are already suffering the most from climate change.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 21/11/2022 17:59:18 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4424 label Biography information for John McNally

1536787

registered interest
date	27/10/2022
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make it his policy to increase funding to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
tabling member constituency	Falkirk
tabling member printed	John McNally
uin	73032
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2022 answer text <p>Global health remains a high priority for the UK. We are a founding donor of the Global Fund and its third largest donor historically, investing over £4.4 billion to date. At the seventh replenishment pledging conference, the UK committed to remain a strong supporter of the Global Fund, continuing to provide significant financial and political leadership and to announce our pledge shortly.</p> answering member constituency Sutton Coldfield answering member printed Mr Andrew Mitchell question first answered 03/11/2022 17:06:15 answering member 1211 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Mitchell
tabling member	4424 label Biography information for John McNally

1520289

registered interest
date	11/10/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Fiscal Policy: Cost of Living
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of his recent fiscal policies on the cost of living for households.
tabling member constituency	Falkirk
tabling member printed	John McNally
uin	901561
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2022 answer text <p>On 8 September, government announced an ‘Energy Price Guarantee’, which means that a typical UK household will pay no more than £2500 a year on their energy bill over the next 2 years. This measure will save the average household around £1000 a year from October 2022.</p><p>In addition to this, the government has already announced £37 billion support for the cost of living this financial year – including a £400 discount for all households through the Energy Bills Support Scheme. The Chancellor has been clear that unleashing investment and growth is the only sustainable means of increasing living standards for all households.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 901568 question first answered 11/10/2022 15:22:08 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4424 label Biography information for John McNally

1519142

registered interest
date	10/10/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	NHS: Tax Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of creating a tax unregistered pensions scheme for senior NHS officials to help support the retention of NHS consultants who would otherwise retire early to avoid high tax costs.
tabling member constituency	Falkirk
tabling member printed	John McNally
uin	59295
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2022 answer text <p>Pensions tax relief is one of the most expensive reliefs in the personal tax system. In 2020/21 Income Tax and employer National Insurance Contributions relief cost £67.3 billion. The annual allowance helps to ensure that the highest earning pension savers do not receive a disproportionate benefit. 99 per cent of pension savers make annual contributions below £40,000, the level of standard annual allowance which has applied from 2014/15.</p><p> </p><p>An unregistered scheme for the NHS would not benefit the vast majority of NHS staff, as members would receive no tax relief on their contributions.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to ensuring that hard-working NHS staff do not find themselves reducing their work commitments due to the interaction between their pay, their pension, and the relevant tax regime.  On 22 September, the Government announced it will change elements of the NHS Pension Scheme to help retain doctors, nurses and other senior NHS staff, to increase capacity. These changes include:</p><ul><li>Changing pension rules regarding inflation</li></ul><ul><li>Encouraging NHS Trusts to explore local solutions for senior clinicians affected by pension tax charges, such as pension recycling</li><li>Implementing permanent retirement flexibilities and extending existing temporary measures to allow our most experienced staff to return to service or stay in service longer.</li></ul> answering member constituency Arundel and South Downs answering member printed Andrew Griffith question first answered 18/10/2022 16:43:15 answering member 4874 label Biography information for Andrew Griffith
tabling member	4424 label Biography information for John McNally

1519162

registered interest
date	10/10/2022
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: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessments she has made of the adequacy of disability benefits in supporting constituents with mortgage repayments.
tabling member constituency	Falkirk
tabling member printed	John McNally
uin	59136
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2022 answer text <p>Support for homeowners in receipt of income-related benefits, including disabled people on those benefits, is available in the form of Support for Mortgage Interest (SMI), an interest-bearing loan offered at the same rate it was as a benefit.</p><p> </p><p>SMI provides support for homeowners who are unable to meet their mortgage repayments due to illness, unemployment or other personal crisis or income shocks.</p><p> </p><p>The primary purpose of SMI is to help people meet their existing mortgage commitments so that they can stay in their homes without fear of repossession.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho question first answered 19/10/2022 11:36:41 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho
tabling member	4424 label Biography information for John McNally

1519163

registered interest
date	10/10/2022
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	Right to Buy Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Prime Minister announcement on Right to buy scheme extension on 9 June, what assessments he has made of the potential merits of allowing Housing Benefit to be counted towards mortgage costs.
tabling member constituency	Falkirk
tabling member printed	John McNally
uin	59139
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2022 answer text <p>Since the announcement on the 9 June, the department has begun looking at changing welfare rules so that people who receive housing support can use their benefit towards mortgage payments for a new mortgage instead of on rent.</p><p> </p><p>Further consideration of the merits of changing welfare rules to support homeownership will be completed as the policy is developed in line with steers from the new administration.</p><p> </p><p>A full equalities impact assessment will also be carried out in due course, and before any legislation is laid with the House.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 18/10/2022 13:12:16 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	4424 label Biography information for John McNally