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1056796

	registered interest
	date	07/02/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Royal Bank of Scotland: Asset Protection Agency
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who authorised the Commissioners to approve the Asset Protection Agency’s agreement with RBS on behalf of Her Majesty’s Government.
	tabling member constituency	East Lothian
	tabling member printed	Martin Whitfield
	uin	218385
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2019 answer text <p>The Asset Protection Agency (APA) was set up in 2009 to manage the Asset Protection Scheme (APS), with the objective of maintaining financial stability and protecting taxpayers’ interests by ensuring participating banks managed their exposure to high-risk assets responsibly.</p><p> </p><p>The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) signed an ‘Accession Agreement’ to the APS dated 26 November 2009. This agreement remains in the private domain, but the broad parameters are publicly available here: <a href="https://otp.tools.investis.com/clients/uk/rbs1/rns1/regulatory-story.aspx?cid=365&amp;newsid=235063" target="_blank">https://otp.tools.investis.com/clients/uk/rbs1/rns1/regulatory-story.aspx?cid=365&amp;newsid=235063</a>. RBS’s participation in the APS was approved by Ministers in HM Treasury at the time.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen grouped question UIN 218386 question first answered 12/02/2019 14:40:26 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
	tabling member	4626 label Biography information for Martin Whitfield

1056797

	registered interest
	date	07/02/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Royal Bank of Scotland: Asset Protection Agency
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish the legal agreement dated 26 November 2009 between the Royal Bank of Scotland and the Asset Protection Agency.
	tabling member constituency	East Lothian
	tabling member printed	Martin Whitfield
	uin	218386
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2019 answer text <p>The Asset Protection Agency (APA) was set up in 2009 to manage the Asset Protection Scheme (APS), with the objective of maintaining financial stability and protecting taxpayers’ interests by ensuring participating banks managed their exposure to high-risk assets responsibly.</p><p> </p><p>The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) signed an ‘Accession Agreement’ to the APS dated 26 November 2009. This agreement remains in the private domain, but the broad parameters are publicly available here: <a href="https://otp.tools.investis.com/clients/uk/rbs1/rns1/regulatory-story.aspx?cid=365&amp;newsid=235063" target="_blank">https://otp.tools.investis.com/clients/uk/rbs1/rns1/regulatory-story.aspx?cid=365&amp;newsid=235063</a>. RBS’s participation in the APS was approved by Ministers in HM Treasury at the time.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen grouped question UIN 218385 question first answered 12/02/2019 14:40:26 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
	tabling member	4626 label Biography information for Martin Whitfield

1058890

	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	Asset Protection Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer to state, what the proportion of (a) incentive and (b) bonus components was of remuneration for Asset Protection Scheme personnel and senior executives, evaluated against their performance targets between 2009 and 2012; and which Minister authorised those payments.
	tabling member constituency	East Lothian
	tabling member printed	Martin Whitfield
	uin	219539
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2019 answer text <p>The Asset Protection Agency (APA) was set up by the Government in 2009 to manage the Asset Protection Scheme (APS). The APA supported financial stability and the taxpayers’ interest by protecting financial institutions participating in the APS against exceptional credit losses on high-risk assets.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>An APA Remuneration Committee advised the Chief Executive and Advisory Board on remuneration for APA staff, and advised HM Treasury on remuneration for the Chief Executive. Performance awards were made based on individual performance appraisals, which were undertaken in line with Civil Service appraisal and performance award policies. Further information on remuneration is publicly available in the APA Annual Report and Accounts here: <a href="https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130129110533/http:/www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/apa.htm" target="_blank">https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130129110533/http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/apa.htm</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The HMT Operations Committee approved the pay principles to be adopted in setting salary ranges for APA staff. Remuneration packages for senior APA staff were approved by the Cabinet Office.</p><p> </p><p>The Senior Oversight Committee was established by RBS in compliance with the APS governance and oversight conditions. The Committee consisted of RBS senior management personnel and a non-executive director of RBS. The APA leadership team attended Committee meetings as non-voting observers.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen grouped question UIN 219540 question first answered 14/02/2019 14:28:14 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
	tabling member	4626 label Biography information for Martin Whitfield

1058891

	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	Asset Protection Agency: Public Appointments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will (a) list the people who composed the Senior Oversight Committee for the Asset Protection Agency between 2009-2012 and (b) set out (i) the process by which and (ii) by whom those people were appointed.
	tabling member constituency	East Lothian
	tabling member printed	Martin Whitfield
	uin	219540
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2019 answer text <p>The Asset Protection Agency (APA) was set up by the Government in 2009 to manage the Asset Protection Scheme (APS). The APA supported financial stability and the taxpayers’ interest by protecting financial institutions participating in the APS against exceptional credit losses on high-risk assets.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>An APA Remuneration Committee advised the Chief Executive and Advisory Board on remuneration for APA staff, and advised HM Treasury on remuneration for the Chief Executive. Performance awards were made based on individual performance appraisals, which were undertaken in line with Civil Service appraisal and performance award policies. Further information on remuneration is publicly available in the APA Annual Report and Accounts here: <a href="https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130129110533/http:/www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/apa.htm" target="_blank">https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130129110533/http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/apa.htm</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The HMT Operations Committee approved the pay principles to be adopted in setting salary ranges for APA staff. Remuneration packages for senior APA staff were approved by the Cabinet Office.</p><p> </p><p>The Senior Oversight Committee was established by RBS in compliance with the APS governance and oversight conditions. The Committee consisted of RBS senior management personnel and a non-executive director of RBS. The APA leadership team attended Committee meetings as non-voting observers.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen grouped question UIN 219539 question first answered 14/02/2019 14:28:14 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
	tabling member	4626 label Biography information for Martin Whitfield

1064486

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Royal Bank of Scotland: Asset Protection Agency
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 12 February 2019 to Question 218386, for what reasons he is not able to publish the full version of the Accession Agreement to the Asset Protection Agency.
	tabling member constituency	East Lothian
	tabling member printed	Martin Whitfield
	uin	224038
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <p>The Asset Protection Agency (APA) was set up in 2009 to manage the Asset Protection Scheme (APS), with the objective of maintaining financial stability and protecting taxpayers’ interests by helping participating banks manage their exposure to high-risk assets.</p><p> </p><p>The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) signed an ‘Accession Agreement’ to the APS dated 26 November 2009. This Agreement has previously not been published as it contained personal and commercially sensitive information. The Agreement is currently being reviewed with the intention of publication following redaction of any information that remains personal and commercially sensitive.</p><p> </p><p>The APA’s Framework Document is currently available in unredacted form at: <a href="https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130129110533/http:/www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/apa.htm" target="_blank">https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130129110533/http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/apa.htm</a></p><p> </p><p>The ‘Asset Management Framework and Conflicts Management Policy, and related Modifications to the Accession Agreement’ is also available, with the exception of a number of redactions of commercially sensitive information, at: <a href="https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130129110533/http:/www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/apa.htm" target="_blank">https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130129110533/http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/apa.htm</a></p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen grouped question UIN 224039 224088 question first answered 25/02/2019 14:00:08 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
	tabling member	4626 label Biography information for Martin Whitfield

1064487

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Asset Protection Agency
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish in unredacted form the Asset Protection Agency’s Framework Document, published on 7 December 2009.
	tabling member constituency	East Lothian
	tabling member printed	Martin Whitfield
	uin	224039
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <p>The Asset Protection Agency (APA) was set up in 2009 to manage the Asset Protection Scheme (APS), with the objective of maintaining financial stability and protecting taxpayers’ interests by helping participating banks manage their exposure to high-risk assets.</p><p> </p><p>The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) signed an ‘Accession Agreement’ to the APS dated 26 November 2009. This Agreement has previously not been published as it contained personal and commercially sensitive information. The Agreement is currently being reviewed with the intention of publication following redaction of any information that remains personal and commercially sensitive.</p><p> </p><p>The APA’s Framework Document is currently available in unredacted form at: <a href="https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130129110533/http:/www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/apa.htm" target="_blank">https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130129110533/http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/apa.htm</a></p><p> </p><p>The ‘Asset Management Framework and Conflicts Management Policy, and related Modifications to the Accession Agreement’ is also available, with the exception of a number of redactions of commercially sensitive information, at: <a href="https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130129110533/http:/www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/apa.htm" target="_blank">https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130129110533/http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/apa.htm</a></p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen grouped question UIN 224038 224088 question first answered 25/02/2019 14:00:08 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
	tabling member	4626 label Biography information for Martin Whitfield

1064494

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Royal Bank of Scotland: Asset Protection Agency
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make public in unredacted form the 9 November 2011 document entitled Approval of the Asset Management Framework and Conflicts Management Policy, and related Modifications to the Accession Agreement.
	tabling member constituency	East Lothian
	tabling member printed	Martin Whitfield
	uin	224088
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <p>The Asset Protection Agency (APA) was set up in 2009 to manage the Asset Protection Scheme (APS), with the objective of maintaining financial stability and protecting taxpayers’ interests by helping participating banks manage their exposure to high-risk assets.</p><p> </p><p>The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) signed an ‘Accession Agreement’ to the APS dated 26 November 2009. This Agreement has previously not been published as it contained personal and commercially sensitive information. The Agreement is currently being reviewed with the intention of publication following redaction of any information that remains personal and commercially sensitive.</p><p> </p><p>The APA’s Framework Document is currently available in unredacted form at: <a href="https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130129110533/http:/www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/apa.htm" target="_blank">https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130129110533/http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/apa.htm</a></p><p> </p><p>The ‘Asset Management Framework and Conflicts Management Policy, and related Modifications to the Accession Agreement’ is also available, with the exception of a number of redactions of commercially sensitive information, at: <a href="https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130129110533/http:/www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/apa.htm" target="_blank">https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130129110533/http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/apa.htm</a></p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen grouped question UIN 224038 224039 question first answered 25/02/2019 14:00:08 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
	tabling member	4626 label Biography information for Martin Whitfield

1064678

	registered interest
	date	21/02/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Asset Protection Agency
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish the (a) focused assets covered under the Asset Protection Agency and (b) focused assets underwritten by the Asset Protection Agency that were transferred to West Register between 2009 and 2012.
	tabling member constituency	East Lothian
	tabling member printed	Martin Whitfield
	uin	224359
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2019 answer text <p>The Asset Protection Agency (APA) was set up in 2009 to manage the Asset Protection Scheme (APS), with the objective of maintaining financial stability and protecting taxpayers’ interests by helping participating banks manage their exposure to high-risk assets.</p><p> </p><p>The 2009-10 APA Annual Reports and Accounts state that the APS initially provided protection on £282bn worth of assets on the consolidated balance sheet of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc. The detail of these assets is commercially sensitive. The Annual Report can be found here: <a href="https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130129110533/http:/www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/apa.htm" target="_blank">https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130129110533/http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/apa.htm</a></p><p> </p><p>To develop a more streamlined and better focused monitoring process for these assets, in 2011 and 2012 the APA stopped reviewing certain low risk assets and instead focused on a number of larger, high risk assets, known as the “Focus List”. Further information on the make-up of the Focus List can be found at <a href="http://data.parliament.uk/DepositedPapers/Files/DEP2012-0368/DEP2012-0368.pdf" target="_blank">http://data.parliament.uk/DepositedPapers/Files/DEP2012-0368/DEP2012-0368.pdf</a> and at <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/229293/0120.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/229293/0120.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Further detail on the assets underwritten by the APA, including the assets that were transferred to West Register, an RBS subsidiary, between 2009 and 2012, is commercially sensitive information in relation to RBS’ customers.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 26/02/2019 15:44:57 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
	tabling member	4626 label Biography information for Martin Whitfield

964496

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Forms
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the average time taken was HMRC to produce proof of employment history for applicants using form HMRC 07/18; what performance targets have been set for HMRC for the production of that evidence; and how many and what proportion of applications did not meet those targets.
	tabling member constituency	East Lothian
	tabling member printed	Martin Whitfield
	uin	169735
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>HMRC do not record the number of requests made using the form 07/18. HMRC do not differentiate between Employment History requests made using the HMRC form 07/18 and the requests received using other methods, for example customer letters and verbal requests. HMRC is therefore unable to provide the information requested.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC may also receive requests for Employment Histories using this form for customers suffering from mesothelioma. These customers cases are treated as urgent due to the nature of the illness and the HMRC target is to reply to these in 10 working days.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 11/09/2018 10:12:44 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	4626 label Biography information for Martin Whitfield

982683

	registered interest
	date	08/10/2018
	answering body	Scotland Office
	answering dept id	2
	answering dept short name	Scotland
	answering dept sort name	Scotland
	hansard heading	Agriculture: Subsidies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, whether agricultural support payments to the Scottish Government during the transition period will be made through the Barnett formula.
	tabling member constituency	East Lothian
	tabling member printed	Martin Whitfield
	uin	176583
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2018 answer text <p>This Government has pledged to continue to commit the same cash total in funds for farm support until the end of the parliament, expected in 2022. This figure includes all EU and Exchequer funding provided for farm support under both Pillar I and Pillar II.</p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 11/10/2018 09:47:14 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
	tabling member	4626 label Biography information for Martin Whitfield