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77858

	registered interest
	date	15/07/2014
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Air Passenger Duty: Northern Ireland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the direct financial benefit of the abolition of air passenger duty bands C and D to airports in Northern Ireland.
	tabling member constituency	Bury South
	tabling member printed	Mr Ivan Lewis
	uin	205812
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p>The abolition of Air Passenger Duty bands C and D cuts up to £52 per passenger off the cost of a journey originating in Northern Ireland, including connecting flights.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 22/07/2014 13:18:45 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	441 label Biography information for Mr Ivan Lewis

63567

	registered interest
	date	24/06/2014
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Minimum Wage: Northern Ireland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 23 June 2014, Official Report, column 36W, on minimum wage: Northern Ireland, whether HM Revenue and Customs' national minimum wage enforcement team have any staff located in Northern Ireland outside the city of Belfast.
	tabling member constituency	Bury South
	tabling member printed	Mr Ivan Lewis
	uin	202044
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2014 answer text <p>The Government takes the enforcement of national minimum wage (NMW) very seriously and HMRC enforce the NMW legislation on behalf of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). It does that by investigating all complaints made about employers suspected of not paying the minimum wage, in addition, carrying out targeted enforcement where it identifies a high risk of non-payment of NMW across the whole of the UK.</p><p> </p><p>The National Minimum Wage team in Northern Ireland contains six full-time and two-part-time staff with all using Belfast as a base location.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>However, as I explained in my previous response, HMRC deploys resources to risk, so work relating to a specific geographical area may not always be undertaken by the NMW team based in that area. In addition, the NMW Dynamic Response Team (DRT) provides a multi-agency response to emerging risks, high profile casework and compliance initiatives across the UK.</p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke grouped question UIN 202256 question first answered 30/06/2014 14:00:27 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
	tabling member	441 label Biography information for Mr Ivan Lewis

63571

	registered interest
	date	24/06/2014
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Minimum Wage: Northern Ireland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 23 June 2014, Official Report, column 36W, on minimum wage: Northern Ireland, how many people are employed (a) full-time and (b) part-time in the HM Revenue and Customs national minimum wage enforcement team based in Belfast.
	tabling member constituency	Bury South
	tabling member printed	Mr Ivan Lewis
	uin	202256
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2014 answer text <p>The Government takes the enforcement of national minimum wage (NMW) very seriously and HMRC enforce the NMW legislation on behalf of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). It does that by investigating all complaints made about employers suspected of not paying the minimum wage, in addition, carrying out targeted enforcement where it identifies a high risk of non-payment of NMW across the whole of the UK.</p><p> </p><p>The National Minimum Wage team in Northern Ireland contains six full-time and two-part-time staff with all using Belfast as a base location.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>However, as I explained in my previous response, HMRC deploys resources to risk, so work relating to a specific geographical area may not always be undertaken by the NMW team based in that area. In addition, the NMW Dynamic Response Team (DRT) provides a multi-agency response to emerging risks, high profile casework and compliance initiatives across the UK.</p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke grouped question UIN 202044 question first answered 30/06/2014 14:00:27 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
	tabling member	441 label Biography information for Mr Ivan Lewis

64155

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2014
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Corporation Tax: Northern Ireland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much corporation tax was raised by HM Treasury in Northern Ireland in the last full financial year.
	tabling member constituency	Bury South
	tabling member printed	Mr Ivan Lewis
	uin	202564
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p>The most recent available estimate of Corporation Tax receipts in respect of Northern Ireland relates to financial year 2012-13. This estimate was published by HM Revenue &amp; Customs (HMRC) in ‘A Disaggregation of HMRC Tax Receipts between England, Wales, Scotland &amp; Northern Ireland'. A link to the publication is provided below:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/285765/disagg-info.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/285765/disagg-info.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>For 2012-13 the estimated portion of onshore UK Corporation Tax receipts relating to Northern Ireland was £476m. Estimates of offshore Corporation Tax receipts relating to Northern Ireland are available as produced by two methods: a geographic basis and a population based apportionment. The estimates for 2012-13 are nil and £137m respectively.</p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 07/07/2014 15:04:47 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
	tabling member	441 label Biography information for Mr Ivan Lewis

65989

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2014
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Help to Buy Scheme: Northern Ireland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many applications have been submitted from Northern Ireland for the Help to Buy mortgage guarantee scheme since January 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Bury South
	tabling member printed	Mr Ivan Lewis
	uin	204227
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2014 answer text <p>The Government does not collect data on the number of applications participating lenders receive for mortgages supported by the Help to Buy: mortgage guarantee scheme.</p><p> </p><p>The Government publishes quarterly official statistics relating to the Help to Buy: mortgage guarantee scheme. The first of these were published on 29 May 2014.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>This report, along with accompanying tables, can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/help-to-buy-mortgage-guarantee-scheme-quarterly-statistics-october-2013-to-march-2014</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 15/07/2014 14:55:56 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	441 label Biography information for Mr Ivan Lewis

64662

	registered interest
	date	30/06/2014
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	UK Membership of EU: Northern Ireland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of the economic benefit to Northern Ireland of the UK's membership of the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Bury South
	tabling member printed	Mr Ivan Lewis
	uin	203194
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2014 answer text <p>The Government has made no assessment of the economic benefit to Northern Ireland of the UK's membership of the EU.</p> answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Nicky Morgan question first answered 03/07/2014 15:37:53 answering member 4027 label Biography information for Baroness Morgan of Cotes
	tabling member	441 label Biography information for Mr Ivan Lewis

63186

	registered interest
	date	23/06/2014
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Welfare State: Northern Ireland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the current value is of all financial penalties imposed on the Northern Ireland Executive as a result of that body not implementing the Government's welfare reform policy.
	tabling member constituency	Bury South
	tabling member printed	Mr Ivan Lewis
	uin	201864
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2014 answer text <p>I wrote to the Northern Ireland Minister for Finance and Personnel on 31 March to set out that that the Northern Ireland Executive's funding allocations would be reduced by £13m, £87m and £114m for 2013/14, 2014/15 and 2015/16 respectively.</p> answering member constituency Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey answering member printed Danny Alexander question first answered 30/06/2014 14:48:15 answering member 1535 label Biography information for Danny Alexander
	tabling member	441 label Biography information for Mr Ivan Lewis

77028

	registered interest
	date	10/07/2014
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	EU Grants and Loans
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, under what circumstances the use of European Investment Bank loans by the Northern Ireland Executive would lead to a reduction in the block grant from his Department.
	tabling member constituency	Bury South
	tabling member printed	Mr Ivan Lewis
	uin	205168
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/07/2014 answer text <p>The Northern Ireland Executive’s spending is funded from a variety of sources, including the ‘block grant’ allocation from the UK Government, borrowing, and locally raised revenue. The Northern Ireland Executive can currently borrow up to £200m per year, up to a total of £3bn, from the UK’s National Loans Fund (NLF), through the Reinvestment and Reform Initiative (RRI).</p><p> </p><p>Any loans from the European Investment Bank which were additional to the NLF borrowing would, like the existing facility, count towards the UK’s overall Public Sector Net Cash Requirement (PSNCR) and would have the effect of increasing the overall level of public spending. For this reason, any Northern Ireland Executive borrowing needs to be within the £200m per year limits which are provided for within the devolved administration’s total budgets each year. Any increases in borrowing beyond the agreed limits must be offset by reductions in other spending to avoid adding to the overall limits on public spending set out by the Government. Such reductions could be enforced by cuts to the ‘block grant’ portion of NI budgets if the Northern Ireland Executive did not make other offsetting savings.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>It is important to recognise that bodies other than the Northern Ireland Executive can bid for EIB loans in Northern Ireland. In January 2014, the University of Ulster secured a £150m loan to help build its new Belfast campus, and the Northern Ireland Finance Minister has been encouraging councils within the new local authority structures in Northern Ireland to consider the EIB as a source of finance for infrastructure investment.</p> answering member constituency Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey answering member printed Danny Alexander question first answered 28/07/2014 09:27:22 answering member 1535 label Biography information for Danny Alexander
	tabling member	441 label Biography information for Mr Ivan Lewis