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451182

	registered interest
	date	08/02/2016
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: EU Nationals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the savings to the public purse of the proposed emergency brake on in-work benefits for EU citizens in employment in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	26266
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2016 answer text Details of the proposals for restricting in-work benefits for EU nationals will be subject to further negotiation and we cannot speculate on these. answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 15/02/2016 10:07:00 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

454061

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2016
	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, if he will estimate the savings to the public purse of the proposed reduction of child benefits paid overseas.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	27861
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2016 answer text <p>The Government’s new settlement means that EU nationals whose children live abroad will ultimately receive Child Benefit at a rate that reflects the conditions – including the standard of living and child benefit paid – of the country where their child lives. This will restore fairness to the system.</p><p> </p><p>Savings relating to the indexation of Child Benefit will be confirmed once the rates have been finalised.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 27852 27853 question first answered 11/03/2016 12:34:02 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

429014

	registered interest
	date	18/11/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Treasury: Grants
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will assess the extent to which grants made by his Department to third parties are used for activities designed to influence his Department, other departments or Parliament.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	16777
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2015 answer text <p>During the current financial year (2015-16), there have been no grants made to third parties which have subsequently been used for activities designed to influence theTreasury, other departments or Parliament.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 26/11/2015 17:44:23 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

418656

	registered interest
	date	14/09/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Refugees: Syria
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what arrangements he is planning for the reallocation of his Department's funding for the resettlement of Syrian refugees within the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	10210
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2015 answer text <p>In accordance with OECD directives, the UK’s official development assistance budget will be used to cover support costs for Syrian refugees in the first twelve months of their stay. Funding arrangements to support the resettlement of Syrian refugees in future years will be considered as part of the 2015 spending review.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 18/09/2015 09:04:40 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

442851

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2016
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Affordable Housing: Greater London
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to increase the affordability of homes in the Greater London area for people under the age of 30.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	21185
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2016 answer text <p>The Government is committed to making the aspiration of home ownership a reality for as many households as possible. At the Spending Review the Government announced a series of measures which will help people under 30 in Greater London and elsewhere become homeowners.</p><br /><p>These include plans to deliver 200,000 Starter Homes to be sold at a 20% discount to first time buyers under 40 and 135,000 Help to Buy: Shared Ownership homes. Government also announced that it will introduce London Help to Buy, increasing the value of Help to Buy equity loans in London to 40% from 25%, as well as extending the Help to Buy: Equity Loan scheme for a further year to 2021. These schemes are also supported by the recently launched Help to Buy: ISA, through which the Government tops up mortgage deposit savings for first time buyers by up to £3,000.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 14/01/2016 17:45:11 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

449763

	registered interest
	date	02/02/2016
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Public Sector Debt: China
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the UK's outstanding public debt obligations are to China.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	25447
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2016 answer text <p>The majority of the government’s public debt is financed through the issuance of UK government bonds, known as ‘gilts’. Information on sectoral holdings of gilts is published on a quarterly basis by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).</p><p> </p><p>The latest figures show that £426.9 billion of gilts (25.9% of the total stock) is held by overseas investors, of which £73.3 billion is held by foreign central banks. The government does not hold detailed information on the identity of foreign central banks or other individual investors holding these gilts.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 10/02/2016 12:42:32 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

442858

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2016
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Overseas Trade: Switzerland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the value of trade between the UK and Switzerland was in (a) 2014 and (b) 2015; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	21190
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2016 answer text <p>The UK had a trade surplus with Switzerland in 2014 of £10.3bn. The value of total UK exports to Switzerland in 2014 was £21.6bn, and the value of UK imports from Switzerland was £11.3bn.</p><br /><p>Latest available data for 2015 shows that the UK had a trade surplus of £5.6bn with Switzerland in the first three quarters of 2015, with total exports of £14.4bn and imports of £8.9bn.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 14/01/2016 16:23:08 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

420975

	registered interest
	date	13/10/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Lloyds Bank
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the reasons are for the timing of his Department's sale of the remaining £2 billion of Lloyds' shares.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	11718
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2015 answer text <p>The Chancellor of the Exchequer stated his intention to return Lloyds Banking Group to the private sector over the coming year in his Mansion House speech of June 2015. The proposal to launch a retail sale in Spring 2016 is consistent with this commitment.</p><br /><p>The Government is determined to build a share-owning democracy and to continue to reduce the national debt by making Lloyds shares available to the public. Final decisions around the timing of a sale are dependent on market conditions, among other factors.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 21/10/2015 13:41:21 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

442953

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2016
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Islamic State: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 18 December 2015 to Question 20068, how many British-based individuals have breached the sanctions regime against Daesh; and how many bank accounts have been frozen in the UK as part of the efforts by the UN and the Government to prevent funds from being transferred to Daesh.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	21395
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2016 answer text <p>The UN sanctions regime against Daesh includes not just financial sanctions, but also a travel ban against listed individuals and entities, as well as an arms embargo, prohibitions on travel to act as a foreign terrorist fighter, an oil embargo, and other form of restriction. HM Treasury is responsible for the administration of financial sanctions in the UK, in relation to those individuals or entities designated under one of the counter terrorism financial sanctions regimes, which include the UK’s domestic terrorist asset freezing regime, the EU’s external terrorism regime and the UN’s ISIL (Daesh) &amp; Al Qaida regime.</p><br /><p>The UN ISIL (Daesh) &amp; Al Qaida Regime is implemented in the UK by way of EU Regulation 881/2002. Information held by HM Treasury in relation to breaches of this regime is received for the purposes of compliance and enforcement of this Regulation. The Regulation prohibits the use of that information for any purpose other than compliance and enforcement, and as a result HM Treasury is unable to release information held on the number of British-based individuals that have breached the financial sanctions regime against Daesh. The Treasury works closely with operational partners on the compliance and enforcement of financial sanctions regimes.</p><br /><p>HM Treasury publishes a Quarterly Report to Parliament on the operation of the counter terrorism financial sanctions regimes in the UK. The next report is due to be published soon, for the fourth quarter of 2015. The report includes the number of bank accounts that are frozen for each regime. It is located at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/operation-of-the-uks-counter-terrorist-asset-freezing-regime-quarterly-report-to-parliament" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/operation-of-the-uks-counter-terrorist-asset-freezing-regime-quarterly-report-to-parliament</a>.</p><br /><p>I can confirm that the last Quarterly Report stated there are 55 accounts frozen under the UK’s domestic terrorist asset freezing regime, and 21 accounts are frozen in the UK under the UN’s ISIL (Daesh) and Al Qaida regime.</p><br /> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 14/01/2016 16:24:20 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

442857

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2016
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Interest Rates
	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 (a) potential effect on the UK economy of the decision by the US Federal Reserve to raise US interest rates and (b) potential effect of this decision on interest rates in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	21189
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2016 answer text <p>Higher US interest rates are a sign of confidence in the US economy, whose strong recovery has supported demand as the world’s largest economy and UK’s closest economic and financial partner. The UK’s monetary policy framework, set out in the Bank of England Act 1998, gives operational responsibility for monetary policy to the independent Monetary Policy Committee. Decisions on setting Bank Rate are for the judgement of the MPC.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 14/01/2016 16:21:53 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell