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1644231

	registered interest
	date	13/06/2023
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Capital Gains Tax: Income Tax
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact on tax receipts if the rate of capital gains tax rate was equal to the rate of income tax.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	189181
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2023 answer text <p>As set out in the Government’s response to the Office of Tax Simplification's report on Capital Gains Tax (CGT) on 30 November 2021, substantial reforms to CGT rates and allowances would involve a number of wider policy trade-offs and so careful thought must be given to the impact that they would have on taxpayers, as well as any additional administrative burden on HMRC.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will continue to keep the tax system under review to ensure it is simple and efficient.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 19/06/2023 15:43:52 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1641119

	registered interest
	date	02/06/2023
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	VAT: Registration
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the average time was for new businesses to have their VAT registration processed in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	187041
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2023 answer text <p>HMRC publishes monthly and quarterly performance data on GOV.UK</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fcollections%2Fhmrc-monthly-performance-reports&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cdavid.g.piper%40hmrc.gov.uk%7C0f72c1ec121d420a957408db4178b59c%7Cac52f73cfd1a4a9a8e7a4a248f3139e1%7C0%7C0%7C638175758910750247%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=wJMIGfkIFClOg3KtFAIjwYa8yYORS2f8nKWhltR0Sdc%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank"><em>https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmrc-monthly-performance-reports</em></a><em> </em></p><p><em> </em></p><p><a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fcollections%2Fhmrc-quarterly-performance-updates&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cdavid.g.piper%40hmrc.gov.uk%7C0f72c1ec121d420a957408db4178b59c%7Cac52f73cfd1a4a9a8e7a4a248f3139e1%7C0%7C0%7C638175758910750247%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=RUhDuMuJybYahjgWXcgzEmK8C7VY5OV56IFwNizDkXs%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank"><em>https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmrc-quarterly-performance-updates</em></a><em> </em></p><p /> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 12/06/2023 14:52:07 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1523031

	registered interest
	date	17/10/2022
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Treasury: Taxis
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much his Department spent on taxi cabs for (a) ministers and (b) civil servants in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	63952
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2022 answer text <p>HM Treasury’s taxi cabs spend for 2019-20 to 2021-22 can be found in the table below</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial Year</p></td><td><p>Spend</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>£81,250.84</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020/21</p></td><td><p>£29,276.24</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021/22</p></td><td><p>£42,529.55</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The provision of our taxi contract does not differentiate between ministers and officials, so we do not have that level of detail.</p><p> </p><p>Taxis are defined as a car available with a driver for hire, including a minicab.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kensington answering member printed Felicity Buchan question first answered 25/10/2022 15:10:00 answering member 4821 label Biography information for Felicity Buchan
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1521320

	registered interest
	date	12/10/2022
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Treasury: Railways
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much his Department spent on first class train travel for (a) ministers and (b) civil servants in (i) 2020, (i) 2021 and (iii) 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	61745
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2022 answer text <p>HMT has spent the below totals on first class travel for (a) ministers &amp; (b) civil servants in (i) 2020, (ii) 2021 &amp; (iii) 2022. The figures below only contains first class travel booked through our travel booking portal.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>(a) Ministers</p></td><td><p>(b) Civil Servants</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(i) 2020</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(ii) 2021</p></td><td><p>£295</p></td><td><p>£6,570</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(iii) 2022 (Jan-Sep)</p></td><td><p>£106</p></td><td><p>£3,834</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Kensington answering member printed Felicity Buchan question first answered 21/10/2022 15:09:20 answering member 4821 label Biography information for Felicity Buchan
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1491465

	registered interest
	date	21/07/2022
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Treasury: Agency Workers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much his Department has spent on (a) agency workers and (b) agency retainer fees in (i) 2020, (ii) 2021 and (iii) 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	41943
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2022 answer text <p>A - Agency workers:</p><p> </p><p>Agency workers (more commonly referred to as “Contingent Labour” or “Temporary Workers”) are subject to a Cabinet Office controls framework to ensure robust governance of spending in this area. This framework can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/contingent-labour-spend-control" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/contingent-labour-spend-control</a></p><p> </p><p>Commentary on Contingent Labour usage, if applicable, is available in departmental annual reports: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/annual-reports-and-accounts-for-central-government-departments" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/annual-reports-and-accounts-for-central-government-departments</a></p><p> </p><p>The Crown Commercial Service provides two frameworks specifically for the supply of Contingent Labour which are used by central government departments. These are:</p><p> </p><p>RM3749 - Public Sector Resourcing <a href="https://www.crowncommercial.gov.uk/agreements/rm3749" target="_blank">https://www.crowncommercial.gov.uk/agreements/rm3749</a>, which provides a managed service for departmental use including low supplier margins, regular pay rate benchmarking, comprehensive tracking and reporting of contingent labour assignments, full time sheeting and approvals technology and onboarding, contracting and payroll services.</p><p> </p><p>RM6160 - Non Clinical Temporary and Fixed Term Staff <a href="https://www.crowncommercial.gov.uk/agreements/RM6160" target="_blank">https://www.crowncommercial.gov.uk/agreements/RM6160</a>, which provides access to a range of generalist, specialist and niche contingent labour agencies offering a wide range of suppliers, maximum margins, free transfer to permanent after 12 weeks and onboarding, contracting and payroll services.</p><p> </p><p>Use of these frameworks provides robust governance, visibility, value for money and flexibility in meeting departmental contingent labour needs.</p><p> </p><p>HM Treasury has spent the following on agency workers:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Value (£)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>783,224</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>1,029,471</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022 (up to June)</p></td><td><p>289,177</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>B - Agency retainer fees:</p><p> </p><p>We have interpreted your reference to agency retainer fees as the fees charged at the commencement of the provision of a search recruitment service, this is only applicable when recruiting for a permanent or fixed term post.</p><p> </p><p>Agency retainer fees are not applicable to the contingent labour market.</p><p> </p><p>HM Treasury has spent the following on agency retainer fees:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Value (£)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>6,300</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>117,038</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>165,851</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The vast majority of HM Treasury’s agency retainer fees relate to the setup of the UK Infrastructure Bank.</p> answering member constituency Havant answering member printed Alan Mak question first answered 05/09/2022 07:24:53 answering member 4484 label Biography information for Alan Mak
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1488901

	registered interest
	date	13/07/2022
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Treasury: Aviation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much their Department has spent on air travel for (a) Ministers and (b) officials in (i) 2020, (ii) 2021 and (iii) 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	35853
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2022 answer text <p>The air travel spend for HMT in each calendar year respectively is as follows: 2020: £343,886.61, 2021: £126,748.95 and 2022: £332,222.72. We are unable to provide the split between Ministers and Officials as the information is not held in that format in our systems.</p><p> </p><p>However, Ministers international commercial air travel is captured in departmental quarterly transparency returns and published on gov.uk at the following location: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/transparency-data-hmt-ministers-meetings-hospitality-gifts-and-overseas-travel-1-april-to-30-june-2021" target="_blank">Transparency data HMT ministers' meetings, hospitality, gifts and overseas travel: 1 April to 30 June 2021 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p> answering member constituency Havant answering member printed Alan Mak question first answered 21/07/2022 07:06:06 answering member 4484 label Biography information for Alan Mak
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1488232

	registered interest
	date	12/07/2022
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Treasury: Advertising
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much their Department has spent on advertising in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	34819
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2022 answer text HM Treasury spent the following on advertising over the last 4 financial years:<p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial Year</p></td><td><p>Cost</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>£114,864</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020-21</p></td><td><p>£327,838</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021-22</p></td><td><p>£134,774</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022-23 (up to June 22)</p></td><td><p>£51,901</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Havant answering member printed Alan Mak question first answered 20/07/2022 13:11:23 answering member 4484 label Biography information for Alan Mak
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1487843

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2022
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Treasury: Consultants
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much his Department has spent on consultancy fees in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022; and what the name is of each consultancy contracted.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	33706
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2022 answer text <p>HM Treasury’s spend on consultancy is published and available for viewing within the Annual Report and Accounts. HMT is yet to lay its accounts for 2021-22, but these are due to be published prior to the summer recess. We have included the links to the published Annual Report and Accounts for each of the available years in question within the table below. The names of all contracts issued for consultancy can be found using the Gov.Uk contracts finder (link included below).</p><p> </p><p>Contract Finder - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder" target="_blank">Contracts Finder - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial Year</p></td><td><p>Publication Link</p></td><td><p>Page Reference</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hm-treasury-annual-report-and-accounts-2019-to-2020</p></td><td><p>Page 104</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020-21</p></td><td><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hm-treasury-annual-report-and-accounts-2020-to-2021</p></td><td><p>Page 101</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Havant answering member printed Alan Mak question first answered 18/07/2022 14:01:03 answering member 4484 label Biography information for Alan Mak
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1486918

	registered interest
	date	06/07/2022
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Treasury: Legal Costs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much their Department and its associated agencies spent on legal disputes in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	31734
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2022 answer text <p>HMT receives its legal services from the Government Legal Department (GLD) and external contractors. We do not disaggregate the costs of disputes as opposed to other legal advice. The amount we pay for the GLD is shown in the table below, and legal expenses for external consultants can be found here as part of HMT’s transparency reporting with links shown below.</p><p> </p><p>Contract finder - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder" target="_blank">Contracts Finder - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p> </p><p>Over £25k transparency reporting - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/25000-spend" target="_blank">HM Treasury spend over £25,000 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Calendar Year</p></td><td><p>Total GLD Expenditure</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>£9,244,162</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>£10,073,235</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022 (Jan-May)</p></td><td><p>£2,531,686</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Havant answering member printed Alan Mak question first answered 15/07/2022 11:05:56 answering member 4484 label Biography information for Alan Mak
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1486563

	registered interest
	date	05/07/2022
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Treasury: Contracts
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the total value has been of contracts held by their Department with (a) G4S, (b) Serco and (c) Capita in each year since 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	31013
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2022 answer text <p>HM Treasury is committed to maintaining transparency about its procurement activity and publishes information about its contracts with a value of over £10,000 on the “<a href="https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search" target="_blank">Contracts Finder</a>” website.</p> answering member constituency Havant answering member printed Alan Mak question first answered 13/07/2022 16:28:27 answering member 4484 label Biography information for Alan Mak
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett