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1129762

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Payments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reason his Department stopped people from being able to make payments to HMRC at post office branches.
	tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
	tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
	uin	260042
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2019 answer text <p>The facility to pay HMRC at the Post Office was withdrawn by the service provider, Santander, on 14 December 2017. HMRC were not the only users of this service and had no influence on this decision or the timing of the withdrawal.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 12/06/2019 13:14:15 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1129763

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Payments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much money was paid by people to HMRC at post office branches in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
	tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
	uin	260043
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2019 answer text <p>The table below shows the volume and values of payments made by customers at the Post Office to HMRC for each of the last five tax years (6 April – 5 April). 2018-19 shows as zero because the facility to pay HMRC at the Post Office was withdrawn by the service provider, Santander, on 14 December 2017.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Girobank / Transcash payments into HMRC</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tax Year</p></td><td><p>Volume</p></td><td><p>Value</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>2,220,883</p></td><td><p>£1,681,412,410.52</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>1,598,644</p></td><td><p>£976,929,804.14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>936,457</p></td><td><p>£774,197,939.97</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>432,596</p></td><td><p>£373,502,157.54</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>£0.00</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 12/06/2019 13:15:38 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1130456

	registered interest
	date	06/06/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Children: Maintenance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many deduction of earning requests made by the Child Maintenance Service have been declined by the (a) MoD Defence Council and (b) Authorised Officer; and if she will publish the reasons for those requests being declined.
	tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
	tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
	uin	261264
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2019 answer text <p>Defence Business Services, within the Ministry of Defence (MOD), is responsible for administering requests and orders from the Child Maintenance Service.</p><p> </p><p>In financial year 2018-19 818 deduction of earning requests were received from the Child Maintenance Service for Service personnel; of these, 129 were rejected. The reasons for the rejection were:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>No. of Rejections</p></td><td><p>Reason for Rejection</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>Service person not in receipt of pay</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>Insufficient information on request to validate a Service person’s identity</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>Service person had been discharged</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>Service person was a reservist</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>75</p></td><td><p>A deduction of earning order was issued, rather than a deduction of earning request</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>Request addressed to a Service person directly and not to Defence Business Services</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>In line with Departmental policy ~ represents five or fewer.</p><p> </p><p>For MOD civilian staff, the number of deduction orders declined is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost, however, a deduction of earning order would only be rejected if an individual was no longer employed by the MOD or if they were in receipt of insufficient earnings to meet the request.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 11/06/2019 15:13:34 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
	tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1129771

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason his Department decided to move the provision of financial support to asylum seekers from post offices to Aspen cards.
	tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
	tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
	uin	260049
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2019 answer text <p>The functionality of the Aspen card was thoroughly tested prior to its rollout in May 2017 and there were a number of factors which influenced the decision to move to a payment card from Post Offices.</p><p>Primarily, the sub-contractual arrangements were coming to an end, and the Asylum Registration Card (ARC) used for identification and payment purposes was being upgraded. Other factors included improved convenience and accessibility for service users, and a reduction in processing costs associated with reduced cash handling.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 11/06/2019 14:08:25 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1129775

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much financial support was paid to asylum seekers through post offices in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
	tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
	uin	260050
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2019 answer text <p>Post May 2017 all funding for financial support was paid to asylum seekers via ASPEN cards and prior to that Home Office records do not indicate whether financial support was paid via a Post Office, a card or in cash/vouchers to asylum seekers.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 11/06/2019 14:08:59 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1129776

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when his Department's contract to provide financial support to asylum seekers through an Aspen card will expire.
	tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
	tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
	uin	260051
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office’s contract to provide financial support to asylum seekers through an Aspen Card will expire on 27 November 2019 (with the option to extend for a further 6 months to 27 May 2020).</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 11/06/2019 14:13:17 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1129777

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost to the public purse is of the contract to provide financial support to asylum seekers through Aspen cards.
	tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
	tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
	uin	260052
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office does not publish data on the costs to the public purse for the contract to provide financial support to asylum seekers through Aspen cards.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 11/06/2019 14:09:56 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1129778

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Post Office
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when his Department's contract with Post Office Ltd for check and send services is due to expire; and whether he has plans to extend that contract.
	tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
	tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
	uin	260053
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2019 answer text <p>The current Call Off Agreement (contract) between the Home Office and Post Office Ltd will expire on 31 August 2022. There are no contractual options to extend this Agreement further, as these have already been exercised.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 12/06/2019 15:00:49 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1129780

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Post Office
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of his Department's contract with Post Office Ltd for Check and Send services in (a) each year since its inception and (b) the next five years.
	tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
	tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
	uin	260054
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office does not pay Post Office Ltd (POL) for providing either of the passport Check &amp; Send services. The handling charges by POL to passport customers applying under both the digital and paper Check &amp; Send services cover their costs of providing these services, and for the onward secure transmission of applications to Her Majesty’s Passport Office. This has been the case since the original service was introduced in 1996, and will continue to be the arrangement until the current Agreement ends on 31 August 2022.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 12/06/2019 15:03:11 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1129781

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Biometrics: Post Offices
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason his Department stopped providing biometric enrolments through post office branches.
	tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
	tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
	uin	260055
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2019 answer text <p>Our contract with the Post Office Ltd is coming to an end so we took the opportunity to modernise our services through the introduction of new front end services arrangements, which were procured in 2018.</p><p>The successful supplier in this procurement was Sopra Steria Ltd. The resulting UK Visas and Citizenship Application Service (UKVCAS) brings together identity checks, evidence submission and biometric enrolment and provides more choices for the customer about the way in which they complete their application.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 11/06/2019 13:44:00 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows