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809580

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date	19/12/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Private Finance Initiative: Corporation Tax
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has conducted an impact assessment on the changes to corporation tax rates between 2008 and 2020 on the tax receipts predicted by the value for money assessments in private finance contracts.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	120238
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>Private finance contracts are assessed for Value for Money using the Green Book before the contract is agreed. Any privately financed option will only be pursued if it is value for money.</p><p> </p><p>Private finance contracts are designed to pass on a number of risks to the private sector, including the risk of a policy change in the corporation tax rates. The private sector takes this risk for the duration of the contract and it is not reassessed once the contract has been entered into.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 08/01/2018 17:03:39 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

809584

registered interest
date	19/12/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Private Finance Initiative: Corporation Tax
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the rates of corporation tax paid by private sector contractors are included in the value for money assessment in private finance and private finance 2 contracts.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	120242
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>The value for money assessment for a Public Private Partnership follows the Green Book in the same way as all other central government investment decisions, including where changes in tax may make a material difference to the decision.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 21/12/2017 13:30:16 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

809585

registered interest
date	19/12/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Public Private Partnerships
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 5 September 2017 to Question 5727, on Department of Health: Private Finance Initiative, when the revised value for money guidance on public private partnerships will be published.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	120243
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>Public Private Partnerships should be assessed in line with The HM Treasury’s Green Book, which is currently being revised and will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 08/01/2018 15:09:48 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

809616

registered interest
date	19/12/2017
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	Credit Cards: Debts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the contribution of credit card debt to personal insolvency over the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	120254
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>The Insolvency Service regularly assesses how changes in debt levels impact on the number of personal insolvencies. It considers a wide range of economic indicators to determine which has the greater impact on levels of personal insolvency. Over the last five years, the analysis has shown that total household debt is a better indicator of personal insolvency movements than levels of credit card debt.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 08/01/2018 15:45:16 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

794066

registered interest
date	22/11/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Tax Avoidance: Luxembourg
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether it is his policy that gains made by non UK residents on sales of UK immovable property which are held by offshore companies held by Luxembourg companies will be subject to UK tax.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	115154
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2017 answer text <p>In April 2015, the government introduced a charge on non-residents’ gains on the direct disposal of UK residential property.</p><p> </p><p>At Autumn Budget 2017, the government announced that a charge would be extended to gains made on disposals of all UK residential and commercial property by non-residents, including disposals made indirectly through the sale of shares in a property rich company.</p><p> </p><p>A technical consultation was launched at Budget. This is focused on the detailed implementation of this policy, and does not solicit views on wider changes to the UK property tax regime.</p><p> </p><p>It is the government’s policy that all double taxation treaties should permit gains on the direct and indirect disposal of UK immovable property to be taxed in the UK. An avoidance rule was introduced with immediate effect from Autumn Budget 2017 to prevent non-residents from abusing existing treaties to avoid the new charge.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 115156 115157 115158 question first answered 27/11/2017 17:27:06 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

794068

registered interest
date	22/11/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Tax Avoidance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Autumn 2017, whether he is consulting on how to ensure non UK residents are not able to avoid paying tax on gains made by the sale of immovable property by declaring these disposals as indirect.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	115156
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2017 answer text <p>In April 2015, the government introduced a charge on non-residents’ gains on the direct disposal of UK residential property.</p><p> </p><p>At Autumn Budget 2017, the government announced that a charge would be extended to gains made on disposals of all UK residential and commercial property by non-residents, including disposals made indirectly through the sale of shares in a property rich company.</p><p> </p><p>A technical consultation was launched at Budget. This is focused on the detailed implementation of this policy, and does not solicit views on wider changes to the UK property tax regime.</p><p> </p><p>It is the government’s policy that all double taxation treaties should permit gains on the direct and indirect disposal of UK immovable property to be taxed in the UK. An avoidance rule was introduced with immediate effect from Autumn Budget 2017 to prevent non-residents from abusing existing treaties to avoid the new charge.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 115154 115157 115158 question first answered 27/11/2017 17:27:06 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

794069

registered interest
date	22/11/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Tax Avoidance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if the Government will extend its consultation on tax gains made by non UK residents on UK immovable property sales to include applying stamp duty land tax to offshore investors who hold real estate through special purpose offshore companies and sell shares in those companies.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	115157
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2017 answer text <p>In April 2015, the government introduced a charge on non-residents’ gains on the direct disposal of UK residential property.</p><p> </p><p>At Autumn Budget 2017, the government announced that a charge would be extended to gains made on disposals of all UK residential and commercial property by non-residents, including disposals made indirectly through the sale of shares in a property rich company.</p><p> </p><p>A technical consultation was launched at Budget. This is focused on the detailed implementation of this policy, and does not solicit views on wider changes to the UK property tax regime.</p><p> </p><p>It is the government’s policy that all double taxation treaties should permit gains on the direct and indirect disposal of UK immovable property to be taxed in the UK. An avoidance rule was introduced with immediate effect from Autumn Budget 2017 to prevent non-residents from abusing existing treaties to avoid the new charge.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 115154 115156 115158 question first answered 27/11/2017 17:27:06 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

794070

registered interest
date	22/11/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Tax Avoidance
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 prevent people from avoiding capital gains tax and corporation tax paid by non UK residents on UK immovable property by using the provisions of double taxation treaties.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	115158
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2017 answer text <p>In April 2015, the government introduced a charge on non-residents’ gains on the direct disposal of UK residential property.</p><p> </p><p>At Autumn Budget 2017, the government announced that a charge would be extended to gains made on disposals of all UK residential and commercial property by non-residents, including disposals made indirectly through the sale of shares in a property rich company.</p><p> </p><p>A technical consultation was launched at Budget. This is focused on the detailed implementation of this policy, and does not solicit views on wider changes to the UK property tax regime.</p><p> </p><p>It is the government’s policy that all double taxation treaties should permit gains on the direct and indirect disposal of UK immovable property to be taxed in the UK. An avoidance rule was introduced with immediate effect from Autumn Budget 2017 to prevent non-residents from abusing existing treaties to avoid the new charge.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 115154 115156 115157 question first answered 27/11/2017 17:27:06 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

793116

registered interest
date	21/11/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 20 November to Question 113181, how much her Department has spent on planning for scenarios related to the UK leaving the EU in the 2017-18 financial year; and from which budget lines that spending has been allocated from.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	114901
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2017 answer text <p>As set out in my answer of 20 November, the Department for Education has reprioritised from within its Resource Departmental Expenditure Limit administrative budget in the 2017-18 financial year to ensure our staff are working in the right areas to be suitably prepared for scenarios related to the UK leaving the EU. The department has not reprioritised any funding away from either our front-line programme or capital budgets for planning for scenarios related to the UK leaving the EU.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 27/11/2017 16:53:23 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

790051

registered interest
date	15/11/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what contingency funding her Department has allocated in relation to the Government's negotiations on the UK leaving the EU for the (a) 2017-18, (b) 2018-19 and (c) 2019-20 financial years.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	113181
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>Like all departments, the Secretary of State for Education is planning for a number of EU Exit scenarios to make sure we are ready on Day 1.</p><p>We have reprioritised during this financial year as necessary, whilst the costs of EU Exit in 2018-19 and 2019-20 will be affected by negotiations over the coming months.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 20/11/2017 17:14:04 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy