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156929

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2014
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Money Laundering and Terrorism
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions he has had with his EU counterparts on measures to improve the EU's response to money laundering and terror financing.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
	uin	215387
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2014 answer text <p>Anti-money laundering regimes of EU Member States will be updated by the Fourth EU Money Laundering Directive. This Directive is yet to be finalised, but expert level discussions are ongoing and have reached the final stage of the negotiating process. The Government is engaged with other EU Member States, MEPs, the European Commission, business and civil society groups to secure an effective and proportionate outcome. The Directive duly reflects the global standards on anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing revised by the Financial Action Task Force in 2012. The UK is fully supportive of these standards.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 25/11/2014 14:52:36 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

156930

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2014
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Money Laundering
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many investigations into money laundering have been initiated by the Financial Conduct Authority in each of the last five years; and how many such investigations have led to enforcement action.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
	uin	215388
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2014 answer text <p>The FCA/FSA has not prosecuted a case solely involving allegations of money laundering; however money laundering offences have been included on indictments in prosecutions for insider dealing and prosecutions relating to fraudulent investment scheme, in a number of cases over the past 5 years.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In addition to prosecuting offences of money laundering, the FCA also supervises how firms’ systems and controls meet their obligations under the Money Laundering Regulations and the FCA’s own handbook rules and can investigate and take enforcement action for breaches of these obligations. In the last 5 years the FSA/FCA have investigated and taken action against 8 firms for breaches of their financial crime obligations including the requirement to comply with the Money Laundering Regulations 2007 resulting in financial penalties.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 27/11/2014 17:45:57 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

156937

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2014
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Money Laundering
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the Financial Conduct Authority last reviewed the performance of banks in managing high risk money-laundering situations.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
	uin	215484
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2014 answer text <p>The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) conducts anti-money laundering supervision on a risk-sensitive basis, meaning that it focuses on those firms, including banks, which present the highest level of money laundering risk. For example, firms in its highest risk band, which include major banks, are subject to an in-depth ‘systematic AML Programme’, which operates on a four-year rolling cycle and lasts several months, whereas firms that are in lower risk categories are subject to regular on-site inspections and/or visited on an events-driven basis or when they are part of a thematic review.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The FCA does not comment on its ongoing AML supervision of banks, but publishes the findings of its thematic reviews, the latest of which considered how small banks manage high ML risk situations and was published in November 2014. It found that most small banks are failing effectively to manage ML risk. The results of thematic reviews are published on the FCA’s website: <a href="http://www.fca.org.uk/your-fca/documents/fsa-aml-final-report" target="_blank">http://www.fca.org.uk/your-fca/documents/fsa-aml-final-report</a> and <a href="http://www.fca.org.uk/news/tr14-16-how-small-banks-manage-money-laundering-and-sanctions-risk" target="_blank">http://www.fca.org.uk/news/tr14-16-how-small-banks-manage-money-laundering-and-sanctions-risk</a></p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 25/11/2014 14:47:10 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

168775

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2014
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Income Tax
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent estimate he has made of how much the reduction in the additional rate of income tax to 45 per cent is worth for a person earning £1 million a year.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
	uin	906527
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2014 answer text <p>I refer you to my earlier answer to the question asked by the member for Inverclyde (Mr Iain McKenzie).</p><p><a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201415/cmhansrd/cm141209/debtext/141209-0001.htm#14120936000006" target="_blank">http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201415/cmhansrd/cm141209/debtext/141209-0001.htm#14120936000006</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 09/12/2014 17:45:30 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

389001

	registered interest
	date	09/07/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits: Kingston upon Hull
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many households in Hull local authority area does he forecast will (a) no longer receive tax credits and (b) receive less tax credits due to the changes announced in the Summer Budget 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
	uin	6466
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2015 answer text <p>This information is not available.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Information about the number of benefitting families and average entitlement by region and Parliamentary Constituency in in the tax year 2013-14 can be found in the publication ‘Personal tax credits: Finalised award statistics – geographical statistics 2013-2014’ here:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-tax-credits-finalised-award-statistics-geographical-statistics-2013-to-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-tax-credits-finalised-award-statistics-geographical-statistics-2013-to-2014</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government is making changes to Child Tax Credit and Universal Credit which will help put welfare spending on a more sustainable path. The Government wants to move from a low wage, high tax, high welfare society to a higher wage, lower tax, lower welfare society. That means more emphasis on support to hardworking families on low incomes by reducing income tax through increases in the personal allowance and increasing wages, than on topping up low wages through tax credits.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 14/07/2015 13:35:05 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

424861

	registered interest
	date	29/10/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	World Economy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the 2013 Lough Erne G8 Leaders' Communiqué, published on 18 June 2013, what progress has been made on implementing the commitments in paragraphs (a) 1, (b) 2, (c) 3, (d) 8 and (e) 10 of that document; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
	uin	14136
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2015 answer text <p>An update on UK progress of commitments in the G8 Lough Erne Leaders Communique can be found in the 2013 UK G8 Presidency Report, published on the Government’s website at https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/271676/G8_report_WEB_FINAL.PDF</p><br /><p>Since then the Prime Minister has updated the House in June following the 2015 G7 summit. There has been significant progress on the Lough Erne commitments, including the finalisation of the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting package (further information published on the OECD website), agreeing global standards on Automatic Exchange of Information in taxation and furthering international free trade agreements.</p><p>In addition, the G7 publishes an accountability report which monitors progress on the promises made on development. The last report was published in 2013, and the next one will be published next year under the Japanese presidency.</p><br /> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 03/11/2015 17:02:39 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

427018

	registered interest
	date	09/11/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	World Economy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 3 November 2015 to Question 14136, what work the Government has undertaken to implement the commitments made in paragraphs (a) 1, (b) 2, (c) 3, (d) 8 and (e) 10 of the 2013 Lough Erne G8 Leaders' Communiqué since January 2014; and what assessment he has made of the level of progress against those commitments.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
	uin	15389
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2015 answer text <p>Since January 2014 the Prime Minister has updated the house on 11 June 2014 and 10 June 2015 following the G7 Summits. The UK presidency focused on 3 Ts: tax, transparency and trade.</p><br /><p>On tax there has been significant progress on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) the major international agreement to realign taxation with economic activities and value creation. In October 2015 the OECD issued the final BEPS outputs, which were endorsed by G20 Finance Ministers. The UK has made significant progress including: consulting on implementing rules to address hybrid mismatches arrangements and issuing draft secondary legislation to implement Country-by-Country (CbC) reporting, a template for multinational companies to report profit and tax information to tax authorities, in the UK in line with the internationally agreed timetable. In addition, in February 2014 G20 Finance Ministers endorsed the OECD’s new global standard for Automatic Exchange of Information of tax. All G20 Finance Ministers committed to first exchange by end-2018 in September, with 10 G20 countries including the UK committing to begin exchange in 2017.</p><br /><p>With regards to transparency, in March 2015 the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act received Royal Assent, establishing a public registry of company beneficial ownership that will show who ultimately owns and controls in-scope UK companies. The register will be operational from June 2016 and the UK is undertaking a wider review of corporate transparency.</p><br /><p>On trade, the Government has furthered international free trade agreements (FTA), with negotiations on an EU-Canada FTA finalised in August 2014. The EU and Japan held a constructive round of Free Trade Agreements negotiations in October 2015. The EU-US FTA 11th Round of negotiations took place in Miami 19-23 October 2015.</p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 16/11/2015 15:49:31 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

428048

	registered interest
	date	13/11/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Terrorism: Sanctions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many individuals have had financial sanctions imposed on them for expected involvement in terrorism in each of the last five years; and how many of those individuals are British (a) citizens and (b) residents.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
	uin	16285
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2015 answer text <p>There are three counter-terrorism financial sanctions regimes in place in the UK: the UN Al Qaida sanctions regime implemented in the UK by way of EU Regulation 881/2002; the EU’s counter-terrorism regime under Common Position 931; and the UK’s domestic counter-terrorism regime under the Terrorist Asset Freezing etc. Act 2010. Information on the numbers of individuals upon whom sanctions have been imposed in each of the last five years is available from the Quarterly Reports to Parliament on the Operation of the counter-terrorism sanctions regimes.</p><br /><p>Recent Quarterly Reports to Parliament: <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>Historical Quarterly Reports to Parliament:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/operation-of-the-uks-counter-terrorist-asset-freezing-regime-quarterly-report-to-parliament" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/operation-of-the-uks-counter-terrorist-asset-freezing-regime-quarterly-report-to-parliament</a></p><br /><p>The relevant data from the Quarterly Reports to Parliament is consolidated in the table below. This table lists the number of new designations made in each of the last five years, data is also available in the Quarterly Reports to Parliament setting out the <em>total</em> number of individuals designated in each of those years:</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td><p><br></p></td><td colspan="3"><p><strong>UN Al Qaida regime</strong> <strong>Individuals</strong> <strong>(EU Regulation 881/2002)</strong></p></td><td colspan="3"><p><strong>EU-designated individuals <em>not</em> proposed by the UK*.</strong></p></td><td colspan="3"><p><strong>Individuals newly designated under the UK’s domestic regime (TAFA)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><br></p></td><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>British</p></td><td><p>In UK</p></td><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>British</p></td><td><p>In UK</p></td><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>British</p></td><td><p>In UK</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>35</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>*Figures for the number of individuals proposed by the UK are not included to prevent duplication of figures providing in the first columns.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 18/11/2015 13:58:52 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

428347

	registered interest
	date	16/11/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Money Laundering
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff of the Financial Conduct Authority and the Financial Services Authority worked on money laundering enforcement in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
	uin	16376
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2015 answer text <p>This is an operational matter for the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), who are operationally independent from Government. The question has been passed on to the FCA. The FCA will reply directly to the honourable member by letter. A copy of the letter will be placed in the Library of the House.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 18/11/2015 14:00:05 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

428348

	registered interest
	date	16/11/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Money Laundering: Prosecutions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, which companies were prosecuted by the Financial Conduct Authority or the Financial Services Authority for issues relating to money laundering in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
	uin	16375
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2015 answer text <p>This is an operational matter for the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), who are operationally independent from Government. The question has been passed on to the FCA. The FCA will reply directly to the honourable member by letter. A copy of the letter will be placed in the Library of the House.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 18/11/2015 14:01:51 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson