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834794

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2018
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Virgin Trains East Coast
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the cost to the public purse of the early termination of the East Coast rail franchise with Stagecoach.
	tabling member constituency	Bootle
	tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
	uin	126216
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2018 answer text <p>As confirmed in the Secretary of State for Transport’s Oral Statement on Monday 5<sup>th</sup> February, his Department is conducting a full appraisal of the options available to the Government to ensure continuity of service. This includes the service being operated by the Department for Transport through an operator of last resort and Stagecoach continuing to operate the service. In either scenario, the East Coast Mainline is expected to deliver substantial revenue to the taxpayer.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 06/02/2018 12:36:03 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

1126896

	registered interest
	date	15/05/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Uprating
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether it remains his Department’s policy that the four year freeze on the uprating of social security payments will end in April 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Bootle
	tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
	uin	254832
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2019 answer text <p>As the Chancellor has recently made clear, we have no intention of repeating the current freeze. From April next year, we expect to resume increasing frozen benefits in line with CPI.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 20/05/2019 14:35:25 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

755601

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	High Speed 2 Line
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the total cost of High Speed 2.
	tabling member constituency	Bootle
	tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
	uin	7158
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2017 answer text <p>At the 2015 Spending Review, the Government restated the long-term funding envelope for delivery of the full High Speed 2 scheme of £55.7bn in 2015 prices.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 08/09/2017 12:57:23 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

755600

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	High Speed 2 Line
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the total cost of the second phase of High Speed 2 from Birmingham to Manchester and Leeds.
	tabling member constituency	Bootle
	tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
	uin	7157
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2017 answer text <p>At the 2015 Spending Review, the Government set a funding envelope for High Speed 2 Phase Two of £28.55bn in 2015 prices</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 08/09/2017 12:54:56 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

753979

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Public Sector: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what information his Department holds on the proportion of public sector employees who are (a) at the top of their relevant pay scale or (b) did not receive progression pay for any other reason in the most recent financial year for which data exists.
	tabling member constituency	Bootle
	tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
	uin	6319
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2017 answer text <p>Departments are responsible for collecting relevant data for the workforces in their areas and it would be for them to confirm the precise data.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 05/09/2017 12:53:47 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

861217

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Treasury: Public Expenditure
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Written Statement of 13 March 2018, Spring Statement, HCWS 540, if he will publish a list of where the £24.8 million allocated to his Department to realise the opportunities from EU exit will be spent.
	tabling member constituency	Bootle
	tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
	uin	132366
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2018 answer text <p>HM Treasury has been allocated £24.8m for essential EU exit preparations in 2018-19. This will be spent on areas of work including financial services and customs, ensuring that the government delivers an orderly and successful exit from the EU. As with all Reserve funding, finalised allocations will be confirmed at Supplementary Estimates 2018-19 in early 2019.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 16/03/2018 14:17:26 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

993655

	registered interest
	date	23/10/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Public Sector: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what modelling the Treasury has undertaken of the potential economic effect (a) regionally and (b) nationally of regional pay for public sector workers.
	tabling member constituency	Bootle
	tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
	uin	182847
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2018 answer text <p>HMT has not undertaken modelling to assess the economic effect of regional pay for public sector workers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 26/10/2018 11:08:01 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

823531

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2018
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Children: Day Care
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many parents have accessed tax-free child care since April 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Bootle
	tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
	uin	122999
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2018 answer text <p>I refer the honourable member to my Written Statement (HCWS401), made on 15 January which contains the number of parents with a Tax-Free Childcare account.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 19/01/2018 12:53:26 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

760638

	registered interest
	date	14/09/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Public Sector: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the cost to the Exchequer of removing the public sector pay cap.
	tabling member constituency	Bootle
	tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
	uin	105134
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>I set out the Government’s position on public sector pay in the House of Commons on 12 September 2017. A copy of this statement is available at: <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2017-09-12/HCWS127" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2017-09-12/HCWS127</a>.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 09/10/2017 13:08:03 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

820899

	registered interest
	date	11/01/2018
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Public Sector: Pay
	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 cost to the public purse for social security of the public sector pay cap in each year since 2013.
	tabling member constituency	Bootle
	tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
	uin	122317
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2018 answer text <p>Public sector workers earning below £21,000 were protected from the pay freeze in 2011/12 and 2012/13, and received £250 annual increases. In addition, the government has supported those with lower incomes by increasing the personal allowance from £6,475 in 2010-11 to £11,850 in 2018-19, rising to £12,500 by the end of this Parliament. Welfare spending in Great Britain on people of working age and children has fallen, in real terms, from £102.0bn in 2012/13 to £94.3bn in 2017/18.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 19/01/2018 10:07:49 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd