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date	20/10/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Income Tax: Tax Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to raise the income tax personal allowance during this Parliament.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	12640
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2015 answer text <p>The government has committed to raising the income tax personal allowance to £12,500 by the end of this parliament, alongside our commitment to raise the higher rate threshold to £50,000. These changes will benefit over 30 million individuals.</p><br /><p>Summer Budget 2015 set out the first step in meeting this commitment. The personal allowance will increase from £10,600 in 2015-16 to £11,000 in 2016-17, and £11,200 in 2017-18.</p><br /><p>These changes will benefit over 29 million individuals and take 570,000 individuals out of income tax altogether by 2016-17. This will increase to over 660,000 by 2017-18. A typical basic rate taxpayer will see their income tax bill reduced by £905 by 2016-17, compared to 2010.</p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 28/10/2015 17:32:25 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

422585

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date	20/10/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Crawley
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans the Government has to meet the demand for school places in Crawley.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	12504
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2015 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for planning and securing sufficient school places in their area, and supporting them in doing so is one of this Government’s top priorities. We allocate basic need funding to local authorities to help create new school places where they are needed. West Sussex has been allocated £57 million of basic need funding for the period 2015-18. West Sussex also received £113 million between 2011 and 2015, helping to create 8,565 new school places between 2010 and 2014. In addition to this, the Gatwick School, an all-through free school that opened in September 2014, is due to provide 1,020 additional places once at full capacity.</p><br /><p>Information on basic need allocations can be found online at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/basic-need-allocations-2015-to-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/basic-need-allocations-2015-to-2018</a></p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 28/10/2015 17:02:59 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

420332

registered interest
date	09/10/2015
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Bullying: Homophobia
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle homophobic bullying in schools.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	10757
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2015 answer text <p>Tackling all forms of bullying is a top priority for this Government. All schools are required by law to have a behaviour policy with measures to prevent all forms of bullying. The Government has taken a number of steps to help schools address bullying, including by providing advice on how to prevent and tackle bullying and how schools should support children who are bullied.</p><br /><p>We are providing £1.3 million this year to anti-bullying charities to tackle all forms of bullying, on top of the £4 million provided in 2013-2015. We have also launched a specific programme in 2015-2016 to prevent and tackle homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying in schools. £2 million has been awarded to projects to work with schools through classroom-based activities, use of positive role models and specific training for teachers to understand and address this issue effectively. We will share the learning from these projects more widely, so all schools have the tools and knowledge to take appropriate action.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 19/10/2015 11:15:47 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith