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	date	23/11/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Taxation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to increase (a) income tax and (b) corporation tax receipts; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	17295
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2015 answer text <br /><p>The Government wants to deliver a low tax, high wage economy.The personal allowance has been increased from £6,475 in 2010-11 to £10,600 in 2015-16, and the headline rate of corporation tax has been cut from 28 per cent to 20 per cent since 2010.</p><br /><p>The Government has committed to going further in this parliament by raising the personal allowance to £12,500 and the higher rate threshold to £50,000.Corporation tax will be cut to 18 per cent by 2020, benefitting over a million companies.</p><br /><p>Due to the strength of our economy, tax receipts are growing strongly. Onshore corporation tax receipts have risen nearly 30% since 2010.Income tax receipts are £8bn higher in the first 10 months of 2015 compared to the first 10 months of 2014. In its most recent Economic and Fiscal Outlook the Office for Budget Responsibility have raised their forecast for receipts over the parliament.</p><br /><p>At the same time the government has taken a number of steps to clamp down on avoidance and evasion. For instance it will invest over £800m in HM Revenue and Customs to help them to tackle evasion and non-compliance over the course of the parliament. These measures are forecast to raise £7.2bn by 2020-21.</p><br /> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 01/12/2015 17:32:26 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

431756

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Counter-terrorism: West Midlands
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many counter-terrorism personnel were employed in the West Midlands in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	17296
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2015 answer text <p>For security reasons we do not publish a breakdown of counter-terrorism budget or staffing by region.</p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 01/12/2015 16:34:31 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

431716

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Doctors: Recruitment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to increase the number of trained doctors; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	17236
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2015 answer text <p>The annual workforce census, published by the Health and Social Care Information Centre shows that as at 30 September 2014 there were 4,662 more consultants and 2,389 more doctors in training working in the National Health Service in England than there were in September 2010.</p><br /><p>The census also shows that there were 1,219 more qualified general practitioners (GPs) working in England over the same period.</p><br /><p>The Government has maintained the number of undergraduate medical training places at a level sufficient to support continued increase in the medical workforce in England.Where there are shortages in specific specialties, the Department will work with Health Education England and NHS England to address them for example, through the ten point plan for the general practice workforce, which will boost recruitment, encourage experienced GPs to remain in the profession and support GPs to return to practice. The Government has also committed to providing an estimated 5,000 more doctors working in general practice by 2020.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 01/12/2015 17:13:54 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham