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420349

	registered interest
	date	09/10/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Child Tax Credit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reasons his Department has not published a distributional analysis showing the effect on families of the reduction of the higher income threshold for child tax credit from £16,105 to £12,125.
	tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
	tabling member printed	Ian Murray
	uin	10781
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2015 answer text <p>The Summer Budget offered a new deal for working people. It means Britain moving from a high welfare, high tax, low wage economy to a lower welfare, lower tax, higher wage society.</p><br /><p>A new National Living Wage for workers aged 25 and above, initially set at £7.20 per hour from April 2016, will directly benefit 2.7 million low wage workers, and up to 6 million could see a pay rise as a result of a ripple effect up the earnings distribution. The new National Living Wage will boost pay for those currently earning the National Minimum Wage by £4,800 a year by 2020 when the National Living Wage is expected to rise to over £9 per hour.</p><br /><p>To help working families keep more of what they earn, the personal allowance will increase to £11,000 in 2016-17 and £11,200 in 2017-18. The government has committed to increase the personal allowance to £12,500 by 2020 which will mean that a typical basic rate taxpayer will see their income tax cut by £1,205 a year compared to 2010.</p><br /><p>The government set out its assessment of the impacts of the Summer Budget policies in the Welfare Reform and Work Bill on 20<sup>th</sup> July 2015. Taken together, the introduction of the National Living Wage, increases in the personal allowance and welfare changes mean that 8 out of 10 working households will be better off as a result of the Summer Budget.</p><br /><p>In response to a request from the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee, the government has chosen to produce and release an impact assessment on the tax credit changes to the Committee. The impact assessment shows that 60% of the tax credit savings come from the half of tax credit claimants with the highest income.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 10782 10783 10784 question first answered 20/10/2015 11:19:13 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray

420351

	registered interest
	date	09/10/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Tax Credits (Income Thresholds and Determination of Rates) (Amendment) Regulations 2015
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reasons his Department has not undertaken and published an impact assessment for the Tax Credits (Income Thresholds and Determination of Rates) (Amendment) Regulations 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
	tabling member printed	Ian Murray
	uin	10783
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2015 answer text <p>The Summer Budget offered a new deal for working people. It means Britain moving from a high welfare, high tax, low wage economy to a lower welfare, lower tax, higher wage society.</p><br /><p>A new National Living Wage for workers aged 25 and above, initially set at £7.20 per hour from April 2016, will directly benefit 2.7 million low wage workers, and up to 6 million could see a pay rise as a result of a ripple effect up the earnings distribution. The new National Living Wage will boost pay for those currently earning the National Minimum Wage by £4,800 a year by 2020 when the National Living Wage is expected to rise to over £9 per hour.</p><br /><p>To help working families keep more of what they earn, the personal allowance will increase to £11,000 in 2016-17 and £11,200 in 2017-18. The government has committed to increase the personal allowance to £12,500 by 2020 which will mean that a typical basic rate taxpayer will see their income tax cut by £1,205 a year compared to 2010.</p><br /><p>The government set out its assessment of the impacts of the Summer Budget policies in the Welfare Reform and Work Bill on 20<sup>th</sup> July 2015. Taken together, the introduction of the National Living Wage, increases in the personal allowance and welfare changes mean that 8 out of 10 working households will be better off as a result of the Summer Budget.</p><br /><p>In response to a request from the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee, the government has chosen to produce and release an impact assessment on the tax credit changes to the Committee. The impact assessment shows that 60% of the tax credit savings come from the half of tax credit claimants with the highest income.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 10781 10782 10784 question first answered 20/10/2015 11:19:13 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray

573584

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2016
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Scotland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) offices in Scotland the Government plans to close by 2020; and what changes there will be in the total number of HMRC employees working in Scotland.
	tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
	tabling member printed	Ian Murray
	uin	44531
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2016 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) plans to create two new regional centres in Scotland in Glasgow and Edinburgh in 2019-20, accommodating between 5,700 and 6,300 full time equivalent posts by 2025. As work is transferred to the regional centres HMRC plans to close ten offices in Scotland by 2020. The changes are part of a ten-year transformation programme to deliver better public services at lower cost to the taxpayer. Scotland has 12 per cent of HMRC’s total workforce and that will not change with modernisation.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC believes that its responsibilities will be unaffected by the changes. Staff are receiving guidance and training to deal with any enquiries relating to the Scottish rate of income tax, as with any other tax issues.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 44529 question first answered 07/09/2016 14:58:28 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray

390698

	registered interest
	date	16/07/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Income Tax: Scotland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many officials in his Department are working on the Scottish rate of income tax.
	tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
	tabling member printed	Ian Murray
	uin	7754
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2015 answer text <p>HM Treasury regularly reviews and deploys its staff as appropriate to meet ministerial and departmental priorities. Appropriate resource is being allocated to work on the Scottish rate of income tax from within existing departmental budgets.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 21/07/2015 16:13:32 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
	tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray

391294

	registered interest
	date	20/07/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Pensions: Scotland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people in Scotland have made use of the new pension flexibilities introduced on 6 April 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
	tabling member printed	Ian Murray
	uin	7915
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2015 answer text <p>The July Budget document revealed that over 85,000 individuals had taken advantage of the new flexibilities for accessing pensions that were introduced in April 2015. Reliable data for Scotland is not available.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>HMRC plans to publish statistics on take up of pensions flexibility in the Autumn</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 09/09/2015 13:07:12 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray

391296

	registered interest
	date	20/07/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Pensions: Scotland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people in Scotland have received guidance from the Pension Wise guidance service (a) face-to-face, (b) by telephone and (c) online.
	tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
	tabling member printed	Ian Murray
	uin	7916
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2015 answer text <p>The pension freedoms introduced on 6 April mean that the 320,000 individuals retiring each year with defined contribution pension savings are able to access them as they wish, and around 2 million people aged over 55 now have more options when they retire. Data for the proportion of people who have used the freedoms following a Pension Wise appointment is not collected.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As announced on 21 July, nearly 18,000 free Pension Wise guidance appointments over the phone and face to face are being delivered and more than 925,000 people have used the Pension Wise website, with many people returning to the site regularly.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin grouped question UIN 7917 question first answered 09/09/2015 13:12:31 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray

391299

	registered interest
	date	20/07/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Pensions: Scotland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people in Scotland who have made use of the pension flexibilities introduced on 6 April 2015 received guidance from the Pension Wise guidance service (a) by telephone, (b) face-to-face and (c) online.
	tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
	tabling member printed	Ian Murray
	uin	7917
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2015 answer text <p>The pension freedoms introduced on 6 April mean that the 320,000 individuals retiring each year with defined contribution pension savings are able to access them as they wish, and around 2 million people aged over 55 now have more options when they retire. Data for the proportion of people who have used the freedoms following a Pension Wise appointment is not collected.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As announced on 21 July, nearly 18,000 free Pension Wise guidance appointments over the phone and face to face are being delivered and more than 925,000 people have used the Pension Wise website, with many people returning to the site regularly.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin grouped question UIN 7916 question first answered 09/09/2015 13:12:31 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray

418650

	registered interest
	date	14/09/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Devolution: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much Barnett consequential funding the Government has provided to each of the devolved administrations as a result of changes in funding provided to the Department for Transport in each year since 2010-11 to date; and with which programmes such changes in funding were associated.
	tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
	tabling member printed	Ian Murray
	uin	10192
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2015 answer text <p>As the Barnett Formula is applied at a departmental level at Spending Reviews, it is not possible to disaggregate the application of the Barnett Formula to changes in individual programmes in the Department for Transport’s funding at either Spending Review 2010 or Spending Round 2013.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 17/09/2015 15:07:16 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray

732289

	registered interest
	date	23/06/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	European Investment Bank: Scotland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much the European Investment Bank has invested in Scotland in each of the last 10 years; what direct investment there has been in Scottish infrastructure and small business; and what Scotland's share of European Investment Bank funding has been in UK-wide infrastructure projects.
	tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
	tabling member printed	Ian Murray
	uin	948
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2017 answer text <p>The future relationship between the UK and the EIB is something that will be determined as part of the negotiations on the UK’s exit from the EU and the Government will not be giving a running commentary on these negotiations.</p><p>The EIB publishes details of all their projects on their website. Financing details of all projects, including those in Scotland, for each of the past 10 years can be found in the link below :</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.eib.org/projects/loan/list/?region=1&amp;country=GB" target="_blank">http://www.eib.org/projects/loan/list/?region=1&amp;country=GB</a></p><p> </p><p>As part of the ongoing work on the UKs exit from the EU, HMT has been assessing the contribution EIB finance makes to the UK economy. In his Mansion House speech on 20 June, the Chancellor said that; “The European Investment Bank, and its offshoot, the European Investment Fund, have been an important source of funding for infrastructure investment and for growth businesses.”</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 910 949 950 question first answered 28/06/2017 16:50:02 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray

714661

	registered interest
	date	28/03/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Crossrail Line: Scotland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much the Scottish Government has received related to Barnett consequentials resulting from the London Crossrail Project; and what assessment has been made of the value of that project to Scottish businesses.
	tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
	tabling member printed	Ian Murray
	uin	69573
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2017 answer text <p>The Barnett formula is applied to all changes in funding for UK government departments in areas that are devolved. The Scottish Government has received Barnett consequentials from Crossrail in the usual way, as set out in the Statement of Funding Policy. These budgetary changes have been reflected in the Scottish Government’s own budget allocations.</p><p> </p><p>Crossrail is an example of how investment in big infrastructure projects creates jobs and business opportunities right across the UK, with a total of 15 suppliers based in Scotland supplying goods or services for Crossrail.</p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 18/04/2017 14:21:47 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
	tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray