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	registered interest
	date	11/01/2022
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Universal Credit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to restore the £20 universal credit uplift.
	tabling member constituency	Newport West
	tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
	uin	101825
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2022 answer text <p>The government has always been clear that the £20 per week increase to Universal Credit (UC) was a temporary measure to support households whose incomes and earnings were affected by the economic shock of COVID-19.</p><p>There have been significant positive developments in the public health and economic situation since the uplift was first announced. Now that the economy has reopened, the government is focusing on supporting people to move into and progress in work.</p><p>To continue to boost employment, wages and living standards, the government is continuing or enhancing the most successful Plan for Jobs schemes and introducing a new package of measures – taking the total DWP spend on labour market support to more than £6 billion over the next three years. This includes investing over £900m each year on work coaches, who will provide effective support to help job seekers on Universal Credit move into work and, for the first time ever, help people progress once in work, and funding for the Kickstart scheme, which has so far supported over 112,000 young people into Kickstart jobs.</p><p> </p><p>The government has also taken decisive action to make work pay by cutting the Universal Credit taper rate from 63p to 55p, and increasing Universal Credit work allowances by £500 a year. This is effectively a tax cut for the lowest paid in society worth around £2.2bn in 2022-23 and strengthens incentives to move into and progress in work. 1.9m households will keep, on average, around an extra £1000 on an annual basis.</p> answering member constituency Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland answering member printed Mr Simon Clarke question first answered 14/01/2022 13:43:43 answering member 4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke
	tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1143462

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Treasury: Travel
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much his Department spent on ministerial travel by (a) first class, (b) second class and (c) in total in 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Newport West
	tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
	uin	285117
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>This question on ministerial travel can only be obtainable at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>However, the Government publishes data on ministerial overseas travel on a quarterly basis in arrears on GOV.UK. Information on costs on overseas travel from July to September 2019 is expected to be published in December 2019.</p><p> </p><p>Ministers must ensure that they always make efficient and cost-effective travel arrangements, and normal practice is for Ministers to travel by standard class.</p> answering member constituency Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland answering member printed Mr Simon Clarke grouped question UIN 285152 question first answered 09/09/2019 13:01:54 answering member 4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke
	tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1143476

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Treasury: Travel
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much his Department spent on ministerial travel by (a) first class, (b) second class and (c) in total in 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Newport West
	tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
	uin	285152
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>This question on ministerial travel can only be obtainable at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>However, the Government publishes data on ministerial overseas travel on a quarterly basis in arrears on GOV.UK. Information on costs on overseas travel from July to September 2019 is expected to be published in December 2019.</p><p> </p><p>Ministers must ensure that they always make efficient and cost-effective travel arrangements, and normal practice is for Ministers to travel by standard class.</p> answering member constituency Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland answering member printed Mr Simon Clarke grouped question UIN 285117 question first answered 09/09/2019 13:01:54 answering member 4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke
	tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1143448

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Treasury: Catering
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much his Department spent on refreshments in (a) 2017 and (b) 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Newport West
	tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
	uin	285082
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland answering member printed Mr Simon Clarke question first answered 09/09/2019 10:00:46 answering member 4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke
	tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1382185

	registered interest
	date	25/11/2021
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Public Sector: Newport West
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what fiscal steps he is taking to support the provision of public services in Newport West constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Newport West
	tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
	uin	82084
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2021 answer text <p>As set out in the Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021, Newport West will benefit from UK Government support that applies in all parts of Wales, from targeted UK Government investment in the local area, and from funding that the UK Government provides to the Welsh Government.</p><p> </p><p>The UK Government set out a range of policies that will apply in all parts of Wales. This includes increasing the National Living Wage, cutting the Universal Credit taper rate, increasing the Universal Credit work allowances, investing in R&amp;D, funding the commitment to recruit additional police officers, and freezing fuel and alcohol duty.</p><p> </p><p>The UK Government is providing targeted support by contributing £500 million to the Cardiff City Region Deal, of which £105 million was accelerated at Spending Review 2021. The Government has also launched the £4.8 billion Levelling Up Fund for local infrastructure projects with round two opening in Spring 2022. In addition, the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) will help people access opportunity in places in need, such as ex-industrial areas, deprived towns and rural and coastal communities. The UKSPF will ramp up to £1.5 billion per year in 2024-25 and funding will at a minimum match the size of EU Structural Funds in all nations, each year.</p><p>The UK Government is also providing the Welsh Government with an additional £2.5 billion per year on average over the Spending Review 2021 period through the Barnett formula, on top of the annual £15.9 billion annual baseline funding. These are the biggest annual block grants, in real terms, of any spending review settlement since devolution in 1998 and will enable the Welsh Government to provide further support in areas such as schools, housing, transport, health and social care. In addition to this, over the Spending Review 2021 period the UK Government is providing the Welsh Government with £0.9 billion for farmers, land managers, and rural communities and businesses, as well as £6.2 million to support fisheries.</p> answering member constituency Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland answering member printed Mr Simon Clarke question first answered 03/12/2021 12:31:48 answering member 4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke
	tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1399469

	registered interest
	date	04/01/2022
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Cost of Living: Newport West
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of the potential disproportionate effect of an increased cost of living on groups in Newport West constituency with protected characteristics.
	tabling member constituency	Newport West
	tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
	uin	97077
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2022 answer text <p>We are taking targeted action to help families with the cost of living, including through freezing fuel and alcohol duties, the energy price cap, the Warm Home Discount and the £500m Household Support Fund to help the most vulnerable families this winter. In the longer term the best approach to managing the cost of living is to get people into work and help them progress – which we are doing through our Plan for Jobs. In addition to this, we are making work pay by reducing the Universal Credit taper rate from 63% to 55%, increasing work allowances by £500 per year and increasing the National Living Wage to £9.50 per hour.</p><p> </p><p>The Treasury carefully considers the equalities impact of fiscal events on those sharing protected characteristics, in line with both its strong commitment to promoting fairness and its legal obligations under the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED) in the Equality Act 2010.</p><p> </p><p>The interests of those most vulnerable in society have been at the centre of fiscal decisions taken at the Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021, in keeping with the Government’s stated belief in fairness and equality of opportunity. The Treasury publishes analysis of the impact of the Government’s measures on households at different levels of income in the ‘Impact on Households’ report, which is published separately alongside each Budget, along with trends in living standards and the labour market, by region and income level. This is the most comprehensive analysis of this type available.</p><p> </p><p>The publication’s analysis of the Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021 shows:</p><ul><li>The poorest 60% of households receive more in public spending than they contribute in tax.</li><li>Households in the lowest income decile will receive more than £4 in public spending for every £1 they pay in tax on average.</li></ul> answering member constituency Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland answering member printed Mr Simon Clarke question first answered 12/01/2022 13:47:05 answering member 4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke
	tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones