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425789

	registered interest
	date	03/11/2015
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	State Retirement Pensions: Expenditure
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much of the welfare budget was spent on the state pension in 2014-15.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	14569
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2015 answer text <p>Total State Pension expenditure in 2014/15 was £86,516m.</p><p>Detailed information on benefit expenditure is available in our Benefit Expenditure tables which can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2015</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 09/11/2015 14:43:14 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

347663

	registered interest
	date	01/06/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Garden Bridge
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what process his Department undertook to scrutinise the business case for the proposed Garden Bridge project.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	544
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Transport is responsible for reviewing business cases for transport infrastructure projects.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 04/06/2015 14:31:15 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

347664

	registered interest
	date	01/06/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Garden Bridge
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the potential benefits of a new Thames pedestrian bridge at alternative locations to that of the proposed Garden Bridge project.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	545
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Transport is responsible for reviewing business cases for transport infrastructure projects. The Garden Bridge business case included alternative locations for the project.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 04/06/2015 14:16:53 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

347665

	registered interest
	date	01/06/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Garden Bridge
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, on what dates he has met Joanna Lumley to discuss the proposed Garden Bridge project in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	546
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2015 answer text <p>HM Treasury has no record of the Chancellor meeting with Joanna Lumley to discuss the Garden Bridge in any of the last three years.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 04/06/2015 14:17:44 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

347666

	registered interest
	date	01/06/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Garden Bridge
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, on what dates officials in his Department have met Joanna Lumley to discuss the proposed Garden Bridge project in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	547
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2015 answer text <p>I can confirm that Treasury officials have not spoken to Joanna Lumley about the Garden Bridge project in any of the last three years.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 04/06/2015 14:24:24 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

347965

	registered interest
	date	02/06/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Transport for London: Contracts
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether HM Treasury has sought assurances from Transport for London that the invitation to tender for Bridge Design Consultancy Services (ITT reference: tfL/00711) was undertaken in a fair and transparent manner.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	897
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2015 answer text <p>It is for Transport for London to satisfy itself that any invitation to tender is compliant with relevant procurement legislation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 08/06/2015 15:05:46 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

420604

	registered interest
	date	12/10/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Homelessness
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he plans to continue paying the homelessness prevention grant to local authorities when the local government grant is phased out.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	11364
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2015 answer text <p>We want a radical reshaping of the relationship between central and local government, ending the merry go round of clawing back local taxes into Whitehall and handing them out again in the form of grants. We will do this by giving local government full retention of its Business Rates by 2020, meaning all income from local taxes will go towards funding local services. We will work closely with the sector over the coming weeks and months to ensure local people have more control over how their money is spent. This will mean looking at the grants that currently go from central government to local authorities, and the range of responsibilities central government asks local government to deliver. There will still be redistribution between councils so that councils don’t lose out just because their area starts from a weaker position. We will set out more detail at the Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 20/10/2015 10:07:15 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

424237

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Social Security Benefits
	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 financial effect on the average working household of welfare and tax credit changes proposed since May 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	13527
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2015 answer text <p>This Government is committed to moving from a high welfare, high tax, low wage economy to a lower welfare, lower tax, higher wage society. As the Chancellor made clear on [Monday / 26 October], the Government will set out at Autumn Statement how we plan to achieve the same goal of reforming tax credits, saving the money we need to save to secure our economy, while at the same time helping in the transition.</p><br /><p>The Summer Budget offered a new deal for working people. A new National Living Wage for workers aged 25 and above, initially set at £7.20 per hour from April 2016, will directly benefit 2.7 million low wage workers, and up to 6 million could see a pay rise as a result of a ripple effect up the earnings distribution. The new National Living Wage will boost pay for those currently earning the National Minimum Wage by £4,800 a year by 2020 when the National Living Wage is expected to rise to over £9 per hour.</p><br /><p>To help working families keep more of what they earn, the personal allowance will increase to £11,000 in 2016-17 and £11,200 in 2017-18. The government has committed to increase the personal allowance to £12,500 by 2020 which will mean that a typical basic rate taxpayer will see their income tax cut by £1,205 a year compared to 2010.</p><br /><p>The government set out its assessment of the impacts of the Summer Budget policies in the Welfare Reform and Work Bill on 20th July 2015.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 13610 13719 question first answered 30/10/2015 14:20:11 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

425790

	registered interest
	date	03/11/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Child Benefit: Expenditure
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much of the welfare budget was spent on child benefit in 2014-15.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	14570
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2015 answer text <p>The latest available estimates of Child Benefit expenditure in 2014-15 can be found in Table 4.19 of the publication ‘Economic and fiscal outlook – July 2015’ available here: <a href="http://budgetresponsibility.org.uk/economic-fiscal-outlook-july-2015/" target="_blank">http://budgetresponsibility.org.uk/economic-fiscal-outlook-july-2015/</a></p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 09/11/2015 14:34:47 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

381555

	registered interest
	date	16/06/2015
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Road Signs and Markings
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans for the new Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions to come into force.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	2645
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2015 answer text <p>As with any legislation, the new Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions will be subject to appropriate scrutiny and we will update the House in due course. In the meantime the regulatory requirements set out in the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2002 (as amended) remain in place.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 19/06/2015 10:17:10 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake