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The Office for Budget Responsibility\u2019s (OBR) forecast of March 2014, estimates the UK\u2019s net contribution to the EU Budget for 2014-15 as £9.1 billion.<\/p>

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Full information can be found in Table 2.21 of the OBR\u2019s \u201ceconomic and fiscal outlook supplementary fiscal table\u201d[1].<\/p>

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[1] http://budgetresponsibility.org.uk/economic-fiscal-outlook-march-2014/<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>

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We are one of the most open economies in the world through trade and financial channels. The U.K. isn't immune to weakness in the euro area and instability in global markets, so we face a critical moment for our economy. Despite these headwinds Britain\u2019s long-term economic plan is working, boosting economic security for Britain\u2019s hardworking people. The economy is growing, the deficit is falling and there are record levels of people in work. Unemployment has fallen over the last year in every region of the UK and compared to the same period a year ago, the UK was the fastest growing major advanced economy (G7) in the first half of the year. But the job is not done and the biggest risk now to the recovery would be abandoning the plan that is delivering a brighter economic future.<\/p>

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The Equitable Life Payment Scheme is focussed on making the remaining payments to eligible policyholders. The Government has sought to achieve fairness between Equitable Life policyholders and the taxpayers who must bear the cost at a time when the nation's finances are in a difficult position. We have no plans to re-open the design of the Scheme.<\/p>

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The Government is committed to ensuring fair and effective competition across all financial services markets. It has established the independent Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and given them the responsibility, enshrined in law, to promote effective competition in the interest of consumers. The FCA has the power to create, supervise and enforce any rules it feels are needed to promote consumer protection, transparency and competition.<\/p>

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The Government is committed to ensuring fair and effective competition across all financial services markets. It has established the independent Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and given them the responsibility, enshrined in law, to promote effective competition in the interest of consumers. The FCA has the power to create, supervise and enforce any rules it feels are needed to promote consumer protection, transparency and competition.<\/p>

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Over the 7 year period from 07/08 to 13/14 there is an annual c£3m productivity improvement a year on average.<\/p>

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HM Revenue and Customs is in the process of preparing a Business Case to manage the end of the Aspire contract in June 2017.<\/p>

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HMRC has one of the largest outsourced IT contracts in the world, enabling us to deliver a very wide range of services to more than 50 million customers.<\/p>

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We are committed to delivering all this for the minimum cost to the taxpayer. As the NAO report recognises, the Aspire contract helped the department to collect almost £506 billion for the UK in the last year alone as well as improving services to customers.<\/p>

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The NAO also recognises the progress that HMRC has made over the last two years in developing in-house technical skills, so that we are less dependent on external suppliers. For instance, we recently opened a new Digital Delivery Centre in Newcastle as part of our Digital transformation programme.<\/p>

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We will continue to improve the performance of the contract over the next three years.<\/p>

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The Tax Credits systems will continue to be supported by HM Revenue and Customs until such time as all Tax Credits customers have migrated to Universal Credits. We also expect some retrospective work on Tax Credits to continue after the migration has completed for error/fraud/debt reasons. Costs related to providing this continuing support will be included in the contract replacement work.<\/p>

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<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1529", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Mr David Gauke"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "South West Hertfordshire"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Mr David Gauke"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2014-11-17", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2014-11-17T16:00:54.777Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "14"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Treasury"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Treasury"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2014-11-05", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Revenue and Customs"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the replacement for the HM Revenue and Customs contract will involve provision and a costing for support for tax credits.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1461", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for David Wright"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Telford"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "David Wright"} ], "uin" : "213648"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/114616", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "HM Treasury"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/114616/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "Treasury Ministers and officials regularly meet with a range of stakeholders to discuss mortgage policy issues, including regulators, industry representatives and consumer groups, amongst others.

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The Government is committed to ensuring fair and effective competition across all financial services markets. It has established the independent Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and given them the responsibility, enshrined in law, to promote effective competition in the interest of consumers. The FCA has the power to create, supervise and enforce any rules it feels are needed to promote consumer protection, transparency and competition.<\/p>

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Her Majesty\u2019s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) trained and deployed a flexible resource of just over 2000 staff from across the Department and deployed them in stages from 23rd June until the end of the Tax credit peak to ensure that the peak was a better experience for customers this year than it has been in earlier years. The Tax Credit peak this year was a huge team effort with staff of all grades including senior members of staff volunteering to help support our customers by taking telephone calls.<\/p>

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We do not have a record of how many of these additional staff were apprentices.<\/p>

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Over the 7 year period from 07/08 to 13/14 there is an annual c£3m productivity improvement a year on average.<\/p>

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HM Revenue and Customs is in the process of preparing a Business Case to manage the end of the Aspire contract in June 2017.<\/p>

<\/p>

HMRC has one of the largest outsourced IT contracts in the world, enabling us to deliver a very wide range of services to more than 50 million customers.<\/p>

<\/p>

We are committed to delivering all this for the minimum cost to the taxpayer. As the NAO report recognises, the Aspire contract helped the department to collect almost £506 billion for the UK in the last year alone as well as improving services to customers.<\/p>

<\/p>

The NAO also recognises the progress that HMRC has made over the last two years in developing in-house technical skills, so that we are less dependent on external suppliers. For instance, we recently opened a new Digital Delivery Centre in Newcastle as part of our Digital transformation programme.<\/p>

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We will continue to improve the performance of the contract over the next three years.<\/p>

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