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registered interest
date	16/07/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Business: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people were employed by HM Revenue and Customs in the Large Business Service (LBS) in (a) 2013-14 and (b) 2014-15 to date; and how many companies the LBS worked with in each of those years.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	206356
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p>In 2013-14 HMRC’s Large Business Service (LBS) dealt with the tax affairs of the 800 largest businesses in the UK. At 31 March 2014, HMRC employed 1,303 staff in LBS, equivalent to 1,198 full time posts.</p><p> </p><p>From 1 April 2014 HMRC’s new Large Business (LB) directorate deals with the tax affairs of the 2,100 largest businesses in the UK.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 22/07/2014 08:26:38 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

77861

registered interest
date	15/07/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Tax Evasion
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 10 February 2014, Official Report, column 438W, on tax evasion, what recent progress has been made by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) in initiating proceedings against all current HMRC fugitives; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	206010
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/09/2014 answer text <p>HMRC continues to work towards bringing all current HMRC Fugitives facing legal proceedings before the UK Courts. They use all available systems and resources to locate and trace individuals. This includes working closely with HMRC’s Fiscal Liaison Officers based overseas, Crown Prosecution Service, National Crime Agency, Interpol and other International Partners.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>HMRC will publish an update in due course.</p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 01/09/2014 16:32:03 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

77920

registered interest
date	15/07/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Studio Schools
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many studio colleges have fulfilled the terms of their funding agreements for student recruitment targets.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	205789
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p>Post-opening student recruitment targets are only included in funding agreements for studio schools where there has been concern about potential pupil recruitment prior to the school opening.</p><p>Five studio schools have specific termination clauses relating to post-opening student recruitment targets in their funding agreements. One school closed on 31 August 2013 and another is due to close on 31 August 2014 because they did not fulfil the funding agreement criteria in respect of the pupil recruitment target. Neither school was given an extension of time to meet the target. The other three schools have not yet reached the deadlines for their pupil recruitment targets.</p><p>The majority of studio schools opening in September 2013 and all those due to open in September 2014 have pre-opening targets for student recruitment included in their funding agreements to ensure that the schools will be financially viable upon opening.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 205787 205788 question first answered 21/07/2014 15:31:47 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

77921

registered interest
date	15/07/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Studio Schools
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many studio colleges that have fallen behind or failed to meet their student recruitment numbers have been given an extension of time to make further progress to achieve the numbers of students set out in their funding agreements; and what the average additional time given to those colleges to recruit enough students to fulfil funding agreement criteria was.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	205787
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p>Post-opening student recruitment targets are only included in funding agreements for studio schools where there has been concern about potential pupil recruitment prior to the school opening.</p><p>Five studio schools have specific termination clauses relating to post-opening student recruitment targets in their funding agreements. One school closed on 31 August 2013 and another is due to close on 31 August 2014 because they did not fulfil the funding agreement criteria in respect of the pupil recruitment target. Neither school was given an extension of time to meet the target. The other three schools have not yet reached the deadlines for their pupil recruitment targets.</p><p>The majority of studio schools opening in September 2013 and all those due to open in September 2014 have pre-opening targets for student recruitment included in their funding agreements to ensure that the schools will be financially viable upon opening.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 205788 205789 question first answered 21/07/2014 15:31:46 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

77922

registered interest
date	15/07/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Studio Schools
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many studio colleges have fallen behind or failed to meet the levels of student recruitment required for them to meet the terms of their funding agreements.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	205788
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p>Post-opening student recruitment targets are only included in funding agreements for studio schools where there has been concern about potential pupil recruitment prior to the school opening.</p><p>Five studio schools have specific termination clauses relating to post-opening student recruitment targets in their funding agreements. One school closed on 31 August 2013 and another is due to close on 31 August 2014 because they did not fulfil the funding agreement criteria in respect of the pupil recruitment target. Neither school was given an extension of time to meet the target. The other three schools have not yet reached the deadlines for their pupil recruitment targets.</p><p>The majority of studio schools opening in September 2013 and all those due to open in September 2014 have pre-opening targets for student recruitment included in their funding agreements to ensure that the schools will be financially viable upon opening.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 205787 205789 question first answered 21/07/2014 15:31:46 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

47159

registered interest
date	07/04/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the cost to the Exchequer of raising the £325,000 inheritance tax threshold to (a) £1 million and (b) £500,000 in each of the next five financial years.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	195626
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2014 answer text <p>This Government has no current plans to increase the inheritance tax threshold.</p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 30/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

47311

registered interest
date	07/04/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) first-tier and (b) upper-tier tax tribunal (i) judges and (ii) expert panel members there were as of April 2014; for how many days (A) first-tier and (B) upper-tier tax tribunal panel members sat in 2013-14; and how much was paid to tax tribunal panel members in 2013-14.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	195472
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>I refer the Honourable Member to the answers provided in January which can be viewed on the Official Report 10 February 2014: Column 491W which contain the most up to date information on Judicial Numbers. Data for later periods will be contained in the next publication of the data on total numbers of the judiciary and their background.</p><p> </p><p>For the period April 2013–December 2013 panel members sat in the First-tier Tribunal Tax Chamber for a total of 964.50 days. Members do not sit on Tax cases in the Upper Tribunal.</p><p><em>This figure is taken from internal Management Information and as such has not been quality checked to the same level as official statistics.</em></p><p> </p><p>In the financial year 2013/14, judicial expenditure for all fee-paid judicial Office holders within the Tax jurisdiction was £1.8 million.</p><p><em>This figure is still subject to internal audit processes and will be incorporated into overall Judicial spend figures in the HMCTS Annual report and Accounts which will be published later this year. </em></p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 10/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood