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100015

	registered interest
	date	20/10/2014
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	UK Trade with EU
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether, in the light of the risk of the Eurozone returning to recession and the statement by the Chancellor of Exchequer that Britain could not be immune from any such event, they plan to encourage industry and commerce to diversify their markets and reduce their reliance on the European Union market.
	tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
	uin	HL2230
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p>We have to recognise that the UK is not immune to problems elsewhere in the world. The UK has one of the most open economies in the world through trade and financial channels. In particular, growth in the euro area – our largest trading partner – is weak and we have to expect that to dampen our own recovery.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Since entering office, this Government has worked consistently towards a rebalancing of the UK economy and growing our trade with all parts of the world, including key emerging markets. Since 2010, for example, UKTI has increased the number of its overseas-based staff working outside the EU from 875 to 1060, reflecting the growing priority being given to non-EU markets; and, excluding aircraft, nearly all of the exports supported by UK Export Finance in recent years have been to markets outside the EU. Ministers continue to take an active role, including through the Chancellor-led annual Economic and Financial Dialogues with India and China, the most recent of which secured £2.4 billion in bilateral investment deals.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Deighton question first answered 03/11/2014 17:17:00 answering member 4262 label Biography information for Lord Deighton
	tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon

100042

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2014
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	EU Budget
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will make representations within the European Union that any spending increases will be met through countervailing spending cuts and not by increasing the financial contributions of member states.
	tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
	uin	HL2248
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2014 answer text <p>The UK has been consistently clear: at a time when governments across the EU are taking difficult decisions to manage their deficits, the European Commission should not be asking Governments across the EU for more money.</p><p> </p><p>The UK strongly believes in limiting the size of the EU budget and will continue to press for necessary restraint and discipline in order to get the best deal for British taxpayers.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Deighton question first answered 04/11/2014 16:56:36 answering member 4262 label Biography information for Lord Deighton
	tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon

101006

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2014
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	EU Budget: Contributions
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the approval of the House of Commons will be sought before the £1.7 billion additional contributions to the European Union are paid.
	tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
	uin	HL2462
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>Own Resources payments requested by the European Union can be made by HM Treasury under the European Communities (Finance) Act 2008.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Prime Minister, in his statement to the House of Commons on 27 October, was clear that the Government will not pay the amount requested on 1 December and will challenge this in every way possible.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Deighton question first answered 10/11/2014 17:43:11 answering member 4262 label Biography information for Lord Deighton
	tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon

101007

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2014
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	EU Budget: Contributions
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what effect they expect the request from the European Union for a further payment of £1.7 billion to the European Union budget will have on the Autumn Statement and the 2015 United Kingdom budget; and whether, if paid, it will be financed from additional taxation or by further borrowing.
	tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
	uin	HL2463
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>The Government adopts the independent Office for Budget Responsibility’s (OBR) fiscal and economic forecasts as the official forecasts for the Budget and Autumn Statement Report.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Prime Minister, in his statement to the House of Commons on 27 October, was clear that Britain will not pay the amount requested on 1 December and will challenge this in every way possible.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Deighton question first answered 10/11/2014 17:44:25 answering member 4262 label Biography information for Lord Deighton
	tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon

101265

	registered interest
	date	28/10/2014
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Russia: Ukraine
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the suggestion by the government of Russia that the European Union act as guarantor in respect of money owed by Ukraine to Russia for gas supplies; and whether any consideration has been given to how such a scheme would be funded.
	tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
	uin	HL2470
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p><strong>Ukraine and Russia agreed a deal regarding the supply of gas on 30 October 2014 under which Ukraine will reprioritise funding to which it already has access under its IMF-led programme. The EU is not acting as guarantor to this deal.</strong></p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Deighton question first answered 17/11/2014 14:35:27 answering member 4262 label Biography information for Lord Deighton
	tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon

1042117

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	EU Staff: Pensions
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the share of pension liabilities to which they have agreed as part of the UK's departure from the EU is based on (1) the full budget share of those liabilities, or (2) the number of British staff employed by the EU up to and until exit day.
	tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
	uin	HL12856
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 answer text <p>As set out in the Withdrawal Agreement, as part of the Financial Settlement, the United Kingdom shall be liable to the Union for its share of the financing of the Union's liabilities incurred until 31 December 2020, including pensions. The UK’s share, as set out under Article 139, shall be a percentage calculated as the ratio between the EU Budget contributions made available by the United Kingdom in the years 2014 to 2020 and those EU Budget contributions made available during that period by all Member States and the United Kingdom. The Office for Budget Responsibility in October 2018, estimated the UK’s share of the EU’s pension liabilities as set out in the Withdrawal Agreement, at €9.75 billion.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 28/01/2019 14:45:17 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon

1056485

	registered interest
	date	06/02/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	EU Staff: Pensions
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Bates on 28 January (HL12856), whether the €9.75 billion in pensions liabilities are part of the estimated £39 billion settlement or additional to it.
	tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
	uin	HL13535
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2019 answer text <p>The financial settlement negotiated with the European Union includes the value of pensions liabilities incurred while a member state.</p><p> </p><p>We have reached a fair financial settlement with the EU, honouring commitments we made during our period of membership, and have ensured a fair deal for UK taxpayers. The Government was able to secure a number of successes in negotiations that reduced the size of the settlement from what it might have been under the Commission’s original proposal including provisions that enable future simplifications for the period over which we pay for pensions.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 20/02/2019 12:37:35 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon

105800

	registered interest
	date	03/11/2014
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	EU Budget: Contributions
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the total amount of the United Kingdom net contributions paid to the European Union budget in the years 2010–13 inclusive; what is the estimated total for 2014; and how those contributions are financed.
	tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
	uin	HL2610
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p>The United Kingdom’s net contributions to the EU Budget over the period 2009-10 to 2013-14 were £41.1 billion. The current forecast for 2014-15 by the Office for Budget Responsibility is £9.1 billion.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>All data can be found in Table C.1 of HM Treasury’s Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses of July 2014[1].</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Contributions to the EU Budget are financed from Traditional Own Resources (mainly customs duties and sugar levies), contributions based on a hypothetical harmonised VAT base, and Gross National Income based contributions.</p><p> </p><p>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/public-expenditure-statistical-analyses-2014" target="_blank"><strong>https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/public-expenditure-statistical-analyses-2014</strong></a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Deighton question first answered 17/11/2014 17:57:32 answering member 4262 label Biography information for Lord Deighton
	tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon

1064619

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Taxation: EU Action
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Statement by Lord Bates on 19 January (HLWS1308) concerning the Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting of 12 February, what position was taken by the UK during the exchange of views on the European Commission’s proposal to move to qualified majority voting in EU taxation policy.
	tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
	uin	HL13938
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2019 answer text <p>As set out in an explanatory memorandum dated 5 February 2019,<sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup> the government does not support the use of qualified majority voting (QMV) in the field of taxation and this remains the case following the recent Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) discussion.</p><p> </p><p>[1] <a href="http://europeanmemoranda.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/files/2019/02/Scan.pdf" target="_blank">http://europeanmemoranda.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/files/2019/02/Scan.pdf</a></p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 06/03/2019 12:34:25 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates attachment 1 file name hl13938.pdf title EM attached.
	tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon

147388

	registered interest
	date	10/11/2014
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Public Expenditure
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether, when announcing new expenditure on grants to national and international organisations and programmes, they will state whether such expenditure is met through savings elsewhere or by borrowing; and, if the latter, whether they will state the source of the borrowing.
	tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
	uin	HL2792
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2014 answer text <p>The total level of government spending is set in advance through the Spending Review process. Spending within this envelope is adjusted at fiscal events. Spending is primarily funded through tax receipts, with any shortfall met by borrowing.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The majority of borrowing is financed through the issuance of gilts Treasury bills. Additionally, the public can lend money to the Government through National Savings and Investments (NS&amp;I). The Treasury does not hold details on the holders of this debt.</p><p> </p><p>The government does not differentiate between these funding channels when meeting its obligations.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Deighton question first answered 24/11/2014 14:29:40 answering member 4262 label Biography information for Lord Deighton
	tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon