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1422841

	registered interest
	date	18/02/2022
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and Self-employment Income Support Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many claims were excluded or rejected from the (a) Self Employment Income Support Scheme and (b) Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Hemel Hempstead
	tabling member printed	Sir Mike Penning
	uin	125034
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2022 answer text <p>The Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) and the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) were designed to prevent as much fraud as possible before any payments were made, while still quickly supporting those who needed it.</p><p> </p><p>By building automated controls into the digital claim process, HMRC prevented more than 100,000 ineligible or mistaken claims within the Covid-19 schemes, namely CJRS, SEISS, and Eat Out to Help Out. By carrying out pre-payment checks based on risk and intelligence profiles, HMRC also blocked more than 29,000 claims and registrations in 2020-21.</p><p> </p><p>The Government remains committed to cracking down on fraud wherever it arises, which is why the Government has invested over £100 million in a Taxpayer Protection Taskforce of 1,265 HMRC staff to combat fraud on the HMRC-administered Covid-19 schemes. This is one of the largest and quickest responses to a fraud risk by HMRC.</p><p>The Taskforce is expected to recover £800 million to £1 billion from fraudulent or incorrect payments over the next two years. This builds on the work already done, which saw HMRC recover £536 million in 2020-21.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 28/02/2022 17:25:57 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning

1457751

	registered interest
	date	14/04/2022
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many claims were excluded or rejected from the Government covid-19 furlough scheme; and if he will summarise the reasons for exclusion.
	tabling member constituency	Hemel Hempstead
	tabling member printed	Sir Mike Penning
	uin	153820
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2022 answer text <p>The Government has been clear throughout the pandemic that HMRC should prioritise getting vital support to businesses and their employees.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC designed the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) to prevent fraud before any payments were made, in both how they set the eligibility criteria and the claim process itself.</p><p> </p><p>To qualify for CJRS, employers needed a Pay As You Earn scheme and to submit a Real Time Information (RTI) return. Additionally, for claims with 100 employees or more, employers were required to provide details of the individual employees’ wages.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC also put in place a series of checks on claims before they were paid, so they blocked those that were highly indicative of criminal activity.</p><p> </p><p>As a result, an estimated 21,500 ineligible claims for CJRS were automatically blocked from entering the claims process.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to those that were blocked, a further 3,500 claims for CJRS were rejected in 2020-21 as they showed indications of being linked to criminal activity.</p><p> </p><p>Further checks also included checking claim amounts against employment information already returned to HMRC and capping any excessive CJRS claims to the correct entitlement amount.</p><p> </p><p>Details of HMRC’s prepayment compliance activity for 2021-22 will be released in HMRC’s Annual Report and Accounts later this year. This will provide the information on blocked and rejected claims for 2021-22.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 26/04/2022 15:12:34 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning

1122101

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Apprentices: Logistics
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many logistics businesses pay into the apprenticeship levy; and what proportion of all companies does that figure represent.
	tabling member constituency	Hemel Hempstead
	tabling member printed	Sir Mike Penning
	uin	245722
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2019 answer text <p>The ‘Transportation and storage’ sector has paid a total of £280m into the Apprenticeship Levy between April 2017 and March 2019.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>HMRC collects data on a Pay As You Earn (PAYE) scheme basis, and employers may have multiple PAYE schemes. HMRC is currently exploring the feasibility of accurately aggregating PAYE schemes to employer level.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 245721 question first answered 30/04/2019 14:03:12 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning

1028644

	registered interest
	date	19/12/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Treasury: Disclosure of Information
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many non-disclosure agreements his Department has entered into in each year since 2005.
	tabling member constituency	Hemel Hempstead
	tabling member printed	Sir Mike Penning
	uin	203844
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2019 answer text The information requested is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost. answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 11/01/2019 09:39:42 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning

1239331

	registered interest
	date	30/09/2020
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Treasury: Agency Workers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff were engaged by suppliers (a) Crown Commercial Services Frameworks and (b) Experis Ltd in addition to any other known suppliers; and if he will publish details of the engagement contracts of those other suppliers in each year; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Hemel Hempstead
	tabling member printed	Sir Mike Penning
	uin	97484
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/10/2020 answer text <p>The number of contingent labour engagements since July 2015 for RCDTS is 233, of which 84 are current at the time this request was received.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC's central record of engagements, created in 2016, provides 1,815 contracts of which 248 are still current. This is excluding the figures provided in relation to RCDTS.</p><p> </p><p>This data has been extracted from HMRC’s system under the Crown Commercial Services Framework agreement, known as Public Sector Resourcing (PSR).</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 05/10/2020 15:12:27 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning

1519364

	registered interest
	date	10/10/2022
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Tax Avoidance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much HMRC has spent on (a) legal advice and (b) other legal costs in relation to the loan charge since it was introduced.
	tabling member constituency	Hemel Hempstead
	tabling member printed	Sir Mike Penning
	uin	59535
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2022 answer text <p>HMRC does not hold an estimate of the total amount of legal costs relating to the Loan Charge since it was introduced in 2016.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC will, when needed, incur costs instructing external counsel and other litigators. Costs records are maintained where required for litigation. Where such records are maintained, the costs recorded only include litigation expenses, and time spent by HMRC’s lawyers and litigators rather than total HMRC staff time and other expenses.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC also has an internal legal team that provides legal advice on a number of different areas, such as developing, changing, and maintaining legislation, guidance, and interpretation of law. Therefore, to obtain and compile a total cost figure for all legal advice and other legal costs relating to the Loan Charge since 2016 would come at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Richard Fuller question first answered 18/10/2022 11:16:24 answering member 3912 label Biography information for Richard Fuller
	tabling member	1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning

1122100

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Apprentices: Logistics
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much has been paid by logistics businesses into the apprenticeship levy fund since the introduction of that levy.
	tabling member constituency	Hemel Hempstead
	tabling member printed	Sir Mike Penning
	uin	245721
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2019 answer text <p>The ‘Transportation and storage’ sector has paid a total of £280m into the Apprenticeship Levy between April 2017 and March 2019.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>HMRC collects data on a Pay As You Earn (PAYE) scheme basis, and employers may have multiple PAYE schemes. HMRC is currently exploring the feasibility of accurately aggregating PAYE schemes to employer level.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 245722 question first answered 30/04/2019 14:03:12 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning

1059005

	registered interest
	date	11/02/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Fuels: Excise Duties
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he make an assessment of the effect on the UK road haulage industry in the event that fuel duty was reduced to the (a) level in France, (b) level in Germany and (c) EU27 average; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Hemel Hempstead
	tabling member printed	Sir Mike Penning
	uin	219344
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>To support the haulage industry, the government will freeze both fuel duty and HGV VED for a further year from April 2019. As a result of the nine years of fuel duty freezes, by April 2020, the average HGV driver will have saved a cumulative £23,300 compared with the pre-2010 escalator.</p><p> </p><p>Fuel duty and its broader impacts on business and the economy remain under review. However, cuts in fuel duty come at a high cost to the Exchequer and do not necessarily offset pump price volatilities such as oil prices and exchange rates.</p><p> </p><p>Both ministers and officials meet regularly with the road freight industry to discuss a wide range of issues, including taxation and cross-border competition.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 219349 219350 219351 question first answered 19/02/2019 12:45:43 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning

1192857

	registered interest
	date	04/05/2020
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will (a) change the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme 19 March cut-off date eligibility criterion from RTI submission date to contract start date and (b) set up an HMRC task force to examine evidence of contract start date on a case-by-case basis to prevent fraud.
	tabling member constituency	Hemel Hempstead
	tabling member printed	Sir Mike Penning
	uin	42947
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2020 answer text <p>The Government has prioritised helping the greatest number of people as quickly as possible, and the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) will enable millions of people to remain employed.</p><p> </p><p>The Government set up the CJRS to operate at significant scale and with limited manual intervention. Processing claims for the CJRS in cases where HMRC did not have RTI data would require much greater manual handling by HMRC, which would significantly slow down the system. Extending the cut-off date beyond 20 March would significantly increase the risk of abuse because HMRC could not verify claims using data after this point.</p><p> </p><p>The 19 March deadline date allows as many people as possible to be included by going right up to the day before the announcement, while addressing the risk of fraud that existed as soon as the scheme became public.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 13/05/2020 08:41:04 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning

1192766

	registered interest
	date	04/05/2020
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Fuels: Excise Duties
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make a comparative assessment of the level of fuel duty derogations available for the logistics sector in each EU Member state; and whether those derogations can be applied in the the UK as part of the recovery from the covid-19 pandemic.
	tabling member constituency	Hemel Hempstead
	tabling member printed	Sir Mike Penning
	uin	42940
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2020 answer text <p>The Government recognises the extreme disruption to businesses caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. This is why the Government has announced unprecedented support for businesses, including a business rates holiday, grants to smaller businesses and a package of government-backed and guaranteed loans.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has also taken steps to specifically support the logistics sector and haulage businesses. Budget announced that fuel duty would be frozen for a tenth consecutive year, and that HGV VED and levy rates would also be frozen again in 2020-21.</p><p> </p><p>Haulage businesses have also benefitted from the reduced by price of fuel: diesel pump prices in the week of the 4<sup>th</sup> of May were down 20p per litre compared to a year ago.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch grouped question UIN 42938 42939 question first answered 11/05/2020 08:04:23 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
	tabling member	1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning