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754494

	registered interest
	date	20/07/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Fire and Rescue Services: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how the Government's estimates for 2017-18 as set out in the Supply and Appropriations (Main Estimates) 2010 will accommodate any increased pay offer to the Fire and Rescue Services.
	tabling member constituency	Hayes and Harlington
	tabling member printed	John McDonnell
	uin	6554
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2017 answer text <p>Central Government does not play a role in the pay negotiation process for firefighters. It is the responsibility of the National Joint Council (NJC) to consider what pay award is appropriate, taking into account views of fire and rescue authorities and the budgets available.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 06/09/2017 13:38:46 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	178 label Biography information for John McDonnell

786769

	registered interest
	date	10/11/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Local Government: Pay
	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 local authorities of a public sector pay award in line with (a) CPI and (b) RPI after taking account of (i) income tax and (ii) employee and employer national insurance contributions.
	tabling member constituency	Hayes and Harlington
	tabling member printed	John McDonnell
	uin	112228
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>The cost of such a pay award to local authorities would depend on a range of factors including the scope of the local government workforce, what specific measure of inflation is used and over what period, as well as the implementation date for the pay award. The paybill for various workforces within the local government sector can be found on page 20 of the published Local Government Finance Statistics England: <strong><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/627895/LGFS27" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/627895/LGFS27</a>.</strong></p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 20/11/2017 10:37:48 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	178 label Biography information for John McDonnell

786770

	registered interest
	date	10/11/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Local Government: Employers' Contributions
	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 local authorities of the 3.4 per cent increase in employer national insurance contributions that took effect from April 2016 for each financial year from 2016-17 to 2021-22.
	tabling member constituency	Hayes and Harlington
	tabling member printed	John McDonnell
	uin	112229
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>The new State Pension was introduced in April 2016. As a result, the additional State Pension was abolished, and the Class 1 National Insurance contracted out rebate removed from the NICs system.</p><p> </p><p>At Budget 2016, the Government assessed the cost to public sector employers of removing the contracted-out rebate as £2740, £2740, £2815, £2885, £2975 million from 2016-17 to 2020-21. This information can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/budget-2016-documents/budget-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/budget-2016-documents/budget-2016</a>. A more detailed breakdown is not available.</p><p> </p><p>The impacts for each department were factored in to departmental settlements, including DCLG, at the Spending Review. DCLG’s settlement allocates money fairly amongst all councils to address service pressures and financial risks – including those under the greatest cost pressures and those with smaller tax bases. Over the Spending Review period councils in England will have available more than £200 billion to spend on local services.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 20/11/2017 15:59:34 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	178 label Biography information for John McDonnell

786768

	registered interest
	date	10/11/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Public Sector: Pay
	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 public purse of a public sector pay award in line with (a) CPI and (b) RPI taking account of (i) income tax, (ii) national insurance contributions and (iii) employee and employer public sector pension contributions.
	tabling member constituency	Hayes and Harlington
	tabling member printed	John McDonnell
	uin	112227
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>The cost of such a pay award would depend on a range of factors including the size and shape of the public sector workforce, what specific measure of inflation is used and over what period, as well as the implementation date for the pay award for each workforce. The paybill for the public sector can be found in the published ONS Blue Book and totalled £179bn in 2016-17: <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/grossdomesticproductgdp/datasets/bluebook" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/grossdomesticproductgdp/datasets/bluebook</a></p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 20/11/2017 10:36:30 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	178 label Biography information for John McDonnell

754531

	registered interest
	date	20/07/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Public Sector: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of pay of public sector workers since 2010; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Hayes and Harlington
	tabling member printed	John McDonnell
	uin	6558
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2017 answer text <p>The Government’s pay policy has always been designed to strike the right balance between being fair to public servants and being fair to all those, including public sector workers themselves, whose taxes pay for them.</p><p> </p><p>That approach has not changed, and the Government continually assesses that careful balance. The current assessment is that salaries in the public sector are, on average, comparable to those in the private sector with the additional benefit of higher pension entitlements in many cases.</p><p> </p><p>Further details were made available in the House libraries in response to a written question from the Baroness Neville-Rolfe on 19 July 2017.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 08/09/2017 12:46:52 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	178 label Biography information for John McDonnell

754491

	registered interest
	date	20/07/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Public Sector: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what distributional analysis his Department has carried out on the pay of public sector workers who are not covered by a pay review body; and if he will place in the Library a copy of that analysis.
	tabling member constituency	Hayes and Harlington
	tabling member printed	John McDonnell
	uin	6556
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2017 answer text <p>It is the responsibility of the relevant departments and employers to consider how to distribute the funds available for their annual pay awards.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 06/09/2017 13:42:40 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	178 label Biography information for John McDonnell

754493

	registered interest
	date	20/07/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Public Sector: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what distributional analysis his Department has carried out on the public sector pay cap; and if he will place in the Library a copy of that analysis.
	tabling member constituency	Hayes and Harlington
	tabling member printed	John McDonnell
	uin	6553
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2017 answer text <p>It is the responsibility of the relevant departments to consider how to distribute the funds available for their annual pay awards.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 08/09/2017 12:50:44 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	178 label Biography information for John McDonnell

754495

	registered interest
	date	20/07/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Public Sector: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what equality impact assessment his Department has carried out on the pay of public sector workers who are not covered by a pay review body; and if he will place in the Library a copy of that assessment.
	tabling member constituency	Hayes and Harlington
	tabling member printed	John McDonnell
	uin	6555
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2017 answer text <p>It is the responsibility of relevant departments to consider equalities implications for their workforces.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 06/09/2017 13:39:40 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	178 label Biography information for John McDonnell

754535

	registered interest
	date	20/07/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Public Sector: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what equality impact assessment on gender and other protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010 his Department has undertaken with regards to the public sector pay cap; and how it has affected the remit of pay review bodies.
	tabling member constituency	Hayes and Harlington
	tabling member printed	John McDonnell
	uin	6730
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2017 answer text <p>In line with their duties under equalities legislation, Ministers fully considered equalities impacts and implications when setting the Government’s pay policy.</p><p> </p><p>The remit of the Pay Review Bodies continues to be to provide evidence-based advice to help the government achieve the right balance between being fair to public servants and being fair to all those, including public sector workers themselves, whose taxes pay for them.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 08/09/2017 12:51:49 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	178 label Biography information for John McDonnell

754540

	registered interest
	date	20/07/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Research: Expenditure
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of UK research and development spending for 2016; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Hayes and Harlington
	tabling member printed	John McDonnell
	uin	6593
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2017 answer text <p>Statistics on R&amp;D are collected and published annually by the Office of National Statistics. The latest data available shows that in 2015, expenditure on R&amp;D performed in the UK was £31.6 billion – its highest level on record. This is the equivalent of 1.7% GDP.</p><p>Government will spend an additional £2bn per year by 2020-21, around a 20% increase in total annual government R&amp;D spending. In addition to public investment in R&amp;D – each £1 of public expenditure on R&amp;D leverages an average of £1.36 of private investment across the economy – many other factors encourage private sector investment. These include our competitive tax system and business environment – the government also increased the rate of business R&amp;D tax credits, providing £2.45bn of relief to 21,000 business in 2014-15 – and our ongoing commitment to improving the nations skills, including in STEM subjects.</p><p>Information on international spending is published regularly by the OECD and the European Commission is available online. The government’s increased spending signals that the UK remains committed to being at the forefront of global science, research and innovation.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 6548 6731 question first answered 06/09/2017 13:37:48 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	178 label Biography information for John McDonnell