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476457

	registered interest
	date	15/03/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Junior Doctors: Overseas Workers
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what statistical data is kept centrally by the Department of Health on the number of junior doctors trained in England and Wales who resign from NHS hospital employment and take up appointments overseas.
	tabling member printed	Lord Campbell-Savours
	uin	HL7035
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <p>The Department does not hold any statistical data on the number of junior doctors trained in England and Wales who resign from National Health Service hospital employment and take up appointments overseas.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 21/03/2016 12:41:16 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	499 label Biography information for Lord Campbell-Savours

432433

	registered interest
	date	25/11/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their estimate of the proportion of the concession on tax credits announced in the Spending Review and Autumn Statement 2015 which is offset by the migration to Universal Credit.
	tabling member printed	Lord Campbell-Savours
	uin	HL3947
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2015 answer text <p>Universal Credit is a different benefit to Tax Credits. It brings six benefits together as one and therefore comparisons between the two are extremely difficult to make.</p><br /><p>Summer Budget 2015 and the Spending Review and Autumn Statement 2015 provide the fiscal impacts of changes to Tax Credits and Universal Credit.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Neill of Gatley question first answered 09/12/2015 16:51:31 answering member 4536 label Biography information for Lord O'Neill of Gatley
	tabling member	499 label Biography information for Lord Campbell-Savours

448007

	registered interest
	date	26/01/2016
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	VAT: Fraud
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have received evidence of VAT fraud in the London souvenir and gift trade, and if so, what action they have taken to combat it.
	tabling member printed	Lord Campbell-Savours
	uin	HL5501
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2016 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) receive a variety of data and intelligence from numerous sources. Everything from bulk data from third parties to information provided by individuals through the Tax and Customs Evasion Hotlines.</p><p> </p><p>Clamping down on those who try to cheat the system through evading taxes and over claiming benefits is a key priority for HMRC, and they are committed to ensuring the tax system operates fairly and efficiently. All the information HMRC receive is risk-assessed and a decision made on the most appropriate course of action.</p><p> </p><p>Data and intelligence received could include information relating to the London souvenir and gift trade. However, there is strict law of confidentiality covering all the work for which HMRC are responsible. The relevant law is Section 18 of the Commissioners for Revenue &amp; Customs Act 2005, which strictly limits the circumstances under which they disclose information they hold and any action taken. This prohibits HMRC from giving specific details of any information received regarding any sector.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Neill of Gatley question first answered 09/02/2016 17:19:36 answering member 4536 label Biography information for Lord O'Neill of Gatley
	tabling member	499 label Biography information for Lord Campbell-Savours

448008

	registered interest
	date	26/01/2016
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	VAT: Fraud
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have any plans to carry out an inquiry into VAT fraud in the London souvenir and gift trade.
	tabling member printed	Lord Campbell-Savours
	uin	HL5502
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2016 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) are committed to tackling tax avoidance, evasion and fraud at all levels to ensure everyone pays the right tax at the right time.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC introduced a series of taskforces in 2011 to target specific high risk sectors in certain locations. There are currently no plans for a taskforce dedicated to the London souvenir and gift trade, although that does not mean that HMRC takes no action against fraud in this sector.</p><p> </p><p>Other, existing taskforces – for example those focusing on London retail, indoor and outdoor markets, and VAT repayments – will have an impact on the sector. Additionally, the sector will be impacted through HMRC’s normal intelligence- and data-led way of identifying and addressing tax risks.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Neill of Gatley question first answered 09/02/2016 17:23:50 answering member 4536 label Biography information for Lord O'Neill of Gatley
	tabling member	499 label Biography information for Lord Campbell-Savours

432434

	registered interest
	date	25/11/2015
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Social Security Benefits
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government when they plan to announce the detail of their proposals for £12 billion in savings on the welfare budget; and what benefits are under consideration for further reduction.
	tabling member printed	Lord Campbell-Savours
	uin	HL3948
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>The Government’s commitment to save £12bn from welfare spending was set out at the Summer Budget and the recent Autumn Statement. Details of these measures can be found at pages 72-73 of the Summer Budget Report (July 2015) and page 113 of the Spending Review and Autumn Statement 2015. These are published on gov.uk.</p><br /><p>Any future changes to benefits following the Spending Review announcement will follow the usual policy development process and be announced at a future fiscal event.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 08/12/2015 12:26:47 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
	tabling member	499 label Biography information for Lord Campbell-Savours

422109

	registered interest
	date	19/10/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Sexual Offences
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many persons imprisoned for sexual offences have been returned to prison after failing lie detector tests by polygraph; and how many were referred for polygraph tests in the last period for which statistics are available.
	tabling member printed	Lord Campbell-Savours
	uin	HL2729
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2015 answer text <p>Polygraph tests for certain sexual offenders on licensed supervision in the community first became available in August 2014. As of October 2015, 681 sexual offenders had been made subject to polygraph testing as a license condition and had been referred for testing to the National Offender Management Service. As of the same date, 22 sexual offenders were recalled as a result of disclosures which they had made in connection with their polygraph test, whilst one was recalled for failing to attend a test which had been arranged.</p> answering member printed Lord Faulks question first answered 02/11/2015 17:42:19 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
	tabling member	499 label Biography information for Lord Campbell-Savours

425841

	registered interest
	date	03/11/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Sexual Offences
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government on what basis the accumulation of evidence obtained during the polygraph test of a given sex offender meets the threshold test of the repeat of criminal actions warranting the furtherance of a custodial sentence.
	tabling member printed	Lord Campbell-Savours
	uin	HL3239
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2015 answer text <p>The purpose of the polygraph is to check the compliance of high risk sexual offenders with their licence conditions and to monitor the risk they present to the public. It is also used to improve the way in which the offender is managed during release on licence.</p><p>An offender may be recalled if they fail to comply with the polygraph examination, attempt to ‘trick’ the test or if they disclose that they have failed to comply with their licence conditions.</p><p>The legislation for imposing the polygraph test on sexual offenders is enshrined in the Offender Management Act 2007. Section 30 of the Act specifically prohibits evidence of any matter mentioned in the polygraph being used in any proceedings against a released person for an offence in a criminal court.</p> answering member printed Lord Faulks question first answered 17/11/2015 12:51:56 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
	tabling member	499 label Biography information for Lord Campbell-Savours

223445

	registered interest
	date	24/02/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Inheritance Tax
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will list all classes of assets which are subject to relief from inheritance tax.
	tabling member printed	Lord Campbell-Savours
	uin	HL5198
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2015 answer text <p>The classes of assets which qualify for inheritance tax reliefs are as follows:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>For business relief –</p><p> </p><ul><li><p>a business or interest in a business,</p></li><li><p>shares in an unlisted company,</p></li><li><p>shares controlling more than 50% of the voting rights in a listed company,</p></li><li><p>land, buildings or machinery owned by the deceased and used in a business they were a partner in or controlled,</p></li><li><p>land, buildings or machinery used in the business and held in a trust that it has the right to benefit from.</p><p> </p><p>For agricultural relief –</p></li></ul><p> </p><ul><li><p>land or pasture that is used to grow crops or to rear animals,</p></li><li><p>growing crops,</p></li><li><p>stud farms for breeding and raising horses and grazing,</p></li><li><p>trees that are planted and harvested at least every 10 years,</p></li><li><p>land not currently being farmed under the Habitat Scheme or a crop rotation scheme,</p></li><li><p>the value of milk quota associated with the land,</p></li><li><p>some agricultural shares and securities,</p></li><li><p>farm buildings, farm cottages and farmhouses.</p><p> </p><p>For woodlands relief – the value of timber in a woodland</p><p> </p><p>Further details about inheritance tax reliefs can be found on the Gov.uk website.<sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup></p><p> </p><p> </p></li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/inheritance-tax/inheritance-tax-reliefs" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/inheritance-tax/inheritance-tax-reliefs</a></p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Deighton question first answered 04/03/2015 14:17:56 answering member 4262 label Biography information for Lord Deighton
	tabling member	499 label Biography information for Lord Campbell-Savours

223444

	registered interest
	date	24/02/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Inheritance Tax
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will list all the exemptions from inheritance tax.
	tabling member printed	Lord Campbell-Savours
	uin	HL5197
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2015 answer text <p>A full list of all inheritance tax reliefs and exemptions was published by the Office of Tax Simplification as part of their review into tax reliefs<sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The list is as follows:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Relief/exemption title</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>A&amp;M trusts, Bereaved Minor Trusts, 18-25 Trusts, Pre-78 Protective Trusts, Pre-81 Disabled Trusts and Employee Benefit Trusts</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Acceptance in Lieu</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Agricultural property relief</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Allowance for other tax liabilities</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Alternatively secured pension funds - deferral of charge</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Annual exempt amount (£3,000)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Armed forces - death in service</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Armed forces - medals and decorations for gallantry or valour</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Business property relief</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cash options under approved annuity schemes</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Changes to the deceased's estate</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Charge on participators in close companies</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chevening Estate &amp; Apsley House</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Co-morientes (simultaneous deaths)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Compensation paid to Nazi victims</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Conditional exemption</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Conditional exemption and relevant property trusts</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Corporation sole</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dispositions allowable for income tax</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dispositions for benefit of employees</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dispositions for maintenance of family</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dispositions in respect of pension benefits</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dispositions in respect of pensions</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dispositions not intended to provide gratuitous benefit</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Double charges relief</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Double taxation agreements</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Employee-ownership trusts</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Estate duty on gifts to the nation</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Estate duty transitional</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Excluded property</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Exclusion of benefit reserved by donor</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Expenses occurred abroad</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Failed PETs gifted for national purposes</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Fall in value relief for transfers within 7 years of death</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Foreign armed forces pay and moveable property</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Foreign currency accounts</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Foreign-owned works of art</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Funeral expenses</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gifts for national purposes</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gifts of land to housing associations</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gifts on marriage and civil partnership</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gifts to charities</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gifts to political parties</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Government savings of persons domiciled in the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Government securities owned by non-United Kingdom domiciled persons</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Grant of agricultural tenancy</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Heritage maintenance funds</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Land in habitat schemes</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Leftover alternatively secured pension funds paid to charity</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Life tenant becoming entitled to settled property</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lloyd’s premium trusts</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Loss on sale relief (buildings)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Loss on sale relief (shares)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Newspaper and employee trusts</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nil rate band for chargeable transfers not exceeding the threshold (£325,000)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>No gratuitous benefit and grants of agricultural tenancy (temporary charitable trusts)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Normal gifts out of income</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Open ended investment companies and authorised unit trusts</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Overseas pensions</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Payment of income</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Payment of income (temporary charitable trusts)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Pension schemes</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Potentially exempt transfers</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Private treaty sales</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Property held on trust for bereaved minors or person aged 18-25</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Quick succession relief</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Reduced rate of tax for relevant property charges</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Reduced rate of tax for temporary charitable trusts charges</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Registered pension schemes trust charges</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Reversionary interests</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Reverter to settlor</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Reverter to settlor's spouse</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scottish agricultural leases</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Small gifts exemption</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Spouse / civil partner relief</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Taper relief</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Trade or professional compensation funds</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Transfer to employee trusts</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Transferable nil rate band</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Trust property becomes excluded property</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Trust property distributed in first quarter of the year</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Trustees costs and expenses</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Trustees costs and expenses (temporary charitable trusts)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Trustees costs, payment of income, no gratuitous benefit, grants of agricultural tenancy and reduced rate of charge for A&amp;M trusts, Bereaved Minor Trusts, 18-25 Trusts, Newspaper and Employee Trusts, Pre'78 Protective Trusts &amp; Pre 81 Disabled Trusts</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Trusts with vulnerable beneficiaries - annual limit</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Unilateral double taxation relief</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Voidable transfers</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Waiver of dividends</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Waiver of remuneration</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Woodland relief</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] The OTS report and full list of reliefs, allowances and exemptions is available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tax-reliefs-review" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tax-reliefs-review</a></p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Deighton question first answered 04/03/2015 14:19:10 answering member 4262 label Biography information for Lord Deighton
	tabling member	499 label Biography information for Lord Campbell-Savours

223446

	registered interest
	date	24/02/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Inheritance Tax
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what estimate they have made of the effect on receipts to the Exchequer of the abolition of inheritance tax and the taxing of recipients of inherited wealth at the recipients' marginal rate of tax.
	tabling member printed	Lord Campbell-Savours
	uin	HL5199
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2015 answer text <p>The information requested is not available.</p> answering member printed Lord Deighton question first answered 04/03/2015 14:19:24 answering member 4262 label Biography information for Lord Deighton
	tabling member	499 label Biography information for Lord Campbell-Savours