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821466

	registered interest
	date	12/01/2018
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Off-payroll Working
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will prioritise a review of the accuracy of the IR35 Digital Tool known as CEST as part of his Department's proposed consultation on off-payroll working rules in the private sector.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	122384
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC)’s Check Employment Status for Tax (CEST) service has been tested for accuracy against known case law and settled cases. It provides an answer for 85 percent of uses, and HMRC will stand by the result given unless a compliance check finds the information provided isn’t accurate.</p><p> </p><p>Feedback from customers shows the CEST service is helping to ensure that, for most situations, decisions on whether a worker is in scope of the intermediaries legislation (known as IR35) are simple and quick. HMRC will continue to work with customers to enhance the service, and holds tax guidance on employment status under review.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 22/01/2018 14:48:55 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

808924

	registered interest
	date	18/12/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Self-employed: Tax Allowances
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will bring forward proposals to allow tax-deductions for training courses for the self-employed that develop (a) digital training and (b) other new skills.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	120033
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2017 answer text <p>Expenditure on training to maintain or update existing skills, including digital skills, is already tax deductible for self-employed individuals when it is wholly and exclusively for the purposes of the business.</p><p> </p><p>As announced at Autumn Budget 2017, the government will consult in 2018 on extending the scope of tax relief currently available to employees and the self-employed for work-related training costs. This consultation will cover the tax treatment of new skills.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 120032 question first answered 20/12/2017 17:20:26 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

808892

	registered interest
	date	18/12/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Banks: Capital Investment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will conduct an inquiry into the effect on the viability of small to medium sized business of banks’ efforts to improve their own capital ratios.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	120001
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>The Government established an independent Financial Policy Committee (FPC) to identify, monitor and take action to remove or reduce systemic risks with a view to protecting and enhancing the resilience of the UK financial system. In March 2017 the FPC judged the appropriate Tier 1 capital requirement for the UK banking system, in aggregate and net of any countercyclical capital buffer, to be 13.5% of risk-weighted assets, as currently measured. The FPC’s judgement of the appropriate level of capital for the banking system was calibrated such that banks could absorb the cumulative losses in historical stress episodes and continue to provide essential services to the real economy.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is supporting lending to SMEs in a variety of ways, including: establishing the British Business Bank to make finance markets work better for small businesses; supporting challenger banks; introducing a bespoke regime for peer-to-peer lending; and structural interventions such as the bank referral scheme and the SME credit data sharing scheme.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 21/12/2017 11:05:51 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

821465

	registered interest
	date	12/01/2018
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Off-payroll Working
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will ensure that his Department's proposed consultation on off-payroll working rules in the private sector includes proactive consultation with UK businesses, people and organisations directly affected by those rules.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	122383
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>As announced at Autumn Budget 2017, the government will carefully consult on how to tackle non-compliance with the off-payroll working rules in the private sector, to ensure individuals who work like employees are taxed like employees, even if they work through their own company. The timing of the consultation will be announced in due course.</p><p> </p><p>This consultation will draw on the experience of recent reform in the public sector, including through external research already commissioned by the government and due to be published in 2018, and will seek the views of people and organisations who would implement any change.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 122381 question first answered 22/01/2018 14:51:53 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

808923

	registered interest
	date	18/12/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Self-employed: Tax Allowances
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will establish a new tax allowance covering digital training costs incurred by self-employed businesses.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	120032
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2017 answer text <p>Expenditure on training to maintain or update existing skills, including digital skills, is already tax deductible for self-employed individuals when it is wholly and exclusively for the purposes of the business.</p><p> </p><p>As announced at Autumn Budget 2017, the government will consult in 2018 on extending the scope of tax relief currently available to employees and the self-employed for work-related training costs. This consultation will cover the tax treatment of new skills.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 120033 question first answered 20/12/2017 17:20:26 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

808804

	registered interest
	date	18/12/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Bank Services: Small Businesses
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to expand the role of the Financial Services Ombudsman to allow all small and medium sized businesses to make complaints on banking services.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	119913
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>The remit of the Financial Ombudsman Services (FOS) is a matter for the Financial Conduct Authority, which is operationally independent of Government. The FCA indicated in the April 2017 Feedback Statement on their Mission consultation that they intend to consult on widening the remit of the FOS.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 21/12/2017 10:52:20 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

821464

	registered interest
	date	12/01/2018
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Off-payroll Working
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to review entitlement to employee benefits as part of his Department's proposed consultation on off-payroll working rules in the private sector.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	122382
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>Falling within the off-payroll tax rules does not change an individual’s status for employment rights, as there is no direct link between employment taxes and these rights. In response to the Matthew Taylor review of Employment Practices in the Modern Economy, the Government will consult on the rules that determine an individual’s employment status for both employment rights and tax.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 22/01/2018 14:47:49 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

821463

	registered interest
	date	12/01/2018
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Off-payroll Working
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what progress has been made by his Department on its proposed consultation on off-payroll working rules in the private sector; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	122381
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>As announced at Autumn Budget 2017, the government will carefully consult on how to tackle non-compliance with the off-payroll working rules in the private sector, to ensure individuals who work like employees are taxed like employees, even if they work through their own company. The timing of the consultation will be announced in due course.</p><p> </p><p>This consultation will draw on the experience of recent reform in the public sector, including through external research already commissioned by the government and due to be published in 2018, and will seek the views of people and organisations who would implement any change.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 122383 question first answered 22/01/2018 14:51:53 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

805109

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Tobacco: Smuggling
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will introduce legislative proposals to introduce licensing for tobacco manufacturing machinery in accordance with the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Illicit Trade Protocol.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	118781
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2017 answer text <p>Legislation for the licensing of tobacco manufacturing machinery in accordance with the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Illicit Trade Protocol was included in the Finance (No 2) Act 2017. Draft implementing regulations were published for consultation on 7 November 2017 and will be laid before Parliament in the new year.</p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 20/12/2017 16:57:02 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

819794

	registered interest
	date	10/01/2018
	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	Local Government: Equality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what plans she has to enforce Section 1 of the Equality Act 2010 for Local Authorities.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	121866
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2018 answer text <p>This Government is committed to creating a country that works for everyone, where success is based on merit, not privilege, and where everyone has the chance to go as far as their talents and hard work will take them. That is why the Government has in place a number of strategies to address social mobility and improve outcomes for those who experience disadvantage.</p><p>Section 1 of the Equality Act 2010 is the public sector duty regarding socio-economic inequalities, which has not been commenced. The Government has no plans to commence or enforce the duty because we believe that specific programmes designed to address social mobility problems in particular areas will be a more effective approach than blanket legislation of this type.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 24/01/2018 11:27:10 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day