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174664

registered interest
date	20/01/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Rhyl
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the savings to his Department arising from the closure of HM Revenue and Customs facilities in Rhyl.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	221367
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2015 answer text <p>Although as part of a national initiative, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) ceased its Enquiry Centre operation in Llys Anwyl, Rhyl in June 2014, there is still a current requirement to house the Department’s Executive Agency (the Valuation Office Agency) staff here. The building is still held by HMRC and the department has not yet agreed the surrender of the Enquiry Centre space.</p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 29/01/2015 16:53:05 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

174665

registered interest
date	20/01/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Income Tax: Tax Rates and Bands
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect of personal allowance increases on those in work.
tabling member constituency	Newbury
tabling member printed	Richard Benyon
uin	221327
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2015 answer text <p>The Government has announced successive above inflation increases in the personal allowance this parliament, rising from £6,475 to £10,600 in April 2015 (an increase of 64%).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The increases in the personal allowance since 2010 will reduce income tax paid by typical basic rate taxpayers by £825.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>These increases will also reduce income tax paid by someone working full time on the National Minimum Wage by £618.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>To date (2014-2015) the increases have benefitted 26 million individuals.</p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 29/01/2015 16:45:51 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	1547 label Biography information for Lord Benyon

174666

registered interest
date	20/01/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Business: Government Assistance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what progress the Government has made on supporting businesses.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	221326
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills provides support to businesses across a wide variety of policy areas, and progress continues to be made across each of these.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Through industrial strategy, the whole of government is taking a long-term strategic approach to working in partnership with businesses to increase global competitiveness, support innovation and maximise export potential.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>99.9% of UK businesses are small and medium sized businesses so we are taking specific steps to help them, and they are reaping the benefits.</p><p> </p><p>The right tax environment is vital to help businesses flourish so we have cut the main rate of Corporation Tax from 28% to 21% and announced further cuts to 20% by 2015 – the joint lowest rate in the G20 major economies. We have also helped businesses with the cost of hiring staff by introducing a new Employer Allowance which cuts £2,000 from the National Insurance bills of small firms.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>More businesses are getting access to the finance they need to start up and grow with Start-Up Loans offered to over 25,000 businesses; so far lending over £129 million. The British Business Bank has facilitated £890m of new lending and investment to over 21,000 small businesses in the year to the end of September 2014. And we have facilitated over £1.67 billion of lending to over 16,000 small businesses since May 2010, through our Enterprise Finance Guarantee scheme.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We have brought together all Government advice and support in one place at GREATbusiness.gov.uk, where the ‘My Business Support Tool’ helps businesses find the support they need quickly, and businesses can speak to or webchat with a helpline adviser direct using the Business Support helpline. Businesses can also access our new Business Growth Service on the website, which brings together expert advice to improve and grow in one place, including GrowthAccelerator, the Manufacturing Advisory Service, and export advice and finance.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Small businesses have less regulation to follow with a £10 billion cumulative net saving to businesses as a result of our deregulation work. Through the Red Tape Challenge, we have reviewed over 5,600 regulations and identified 3,000 to scrap or improve. We are on track to surpass our target of saving business £850 million per year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Furthermore, around 48,000 businesses have been helped by our UK Trade and Investment support – of which 90% were small businesses. This support helped generate additional sales of over £49 billion and created or safeguarded over 220,000 jobs over the last year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 28/01/2015 15:20:49 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

174668

registered interest
date	20/01/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Rangers Football Club
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department plans to pursue a claim for costs against Rangers Football Club.
tabling member constituency	Central Ayrshire
tabling member printed	Mr Brian H. Donohoe
uin	221441
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2015 answer text <p>The information requested was not held within the Department in the form requested. A number of parties were involved in litigation and it was not possible to extract costs relating to an individual party without incurring disproportionate costs.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke grouped question UIN 221440 question first answered 29/01/2015 17:04:38 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	586 label Biography information for Mr Brian H. Donohoe

174669

registered interest
date	20/01/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Rangers Football Club
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 23 July 2014 to Question 205620, how his Department calculated the cost of providing the information requested.
tabling member constituency	Central Ayrshire
tabling member printed	Mr Brian H. Donohoe
uin	221440
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2015 answer text <p>The information requested was not held within the Department in the form requested. A number of parties were involved in litigation and it was not possible to extract costs relating to an individual party without incurring disproportionate costs.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke grouped question UIN 221441 question first answered 29/01/2015 17:04:38 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	586 label Biography information for Mr Brian H. Donohoe

174670

registered interest
date	20/01/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Unpaid Taxes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what criteria HM Revenue and Customs uses to assess the prudence of settling a tax case when costs of pursuing a case are compared to the settlement offer.
tabling member constituency	Central Ayrshire
tabling member printed	Mr Brian H. Donohoe
uin	221400
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2015 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs' (HMRC’s) approach to taking-up, working and settling disputes is set out in its published Litigation and Settlement Strategy (LSS). Governance procedures for how HMRC settles big value disputes are set out in the published Code of Governance for resolving tax disputes.</p><p><br>Together the LSS and the Code of Governance assure taxpayers that tax rules are applied appropriately and even-handedly by HMRC.</p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke grouped question UIN 221401 question first answered 29/01/2015 16:18:32 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	586 label Biography information for Mr Brian H. Donohoe

174671

registered interest
date	20/01/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Unpaid Taxes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of HM Revenue and Customs' accounting procedures relating to assessing the cost of pursuing big value claims.
tabling member constituency	Central Ayrshire
tabling member printed	Mr Brian H. Donohoe
uin	221401
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2015 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs' (HMRC’s) approach to taking-up, working and settling disputes is set out in its published Litigation and Settlement Strategy (LSS). Governance procedures for how HMRC settles big value disputes are set out in the published Code of Governance for resolving tax disputes.</p><p><br>Together the LSS and the Code of Governance assure taxpayers that tax rules are applied appropriately and even-handedly by HMRC.</p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke grouped question UIN 221400 question first answered 29/01/2015 16:18:32 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	586 label Biography information for Mr Brian H. Donohoe

174672

registered interest
date	20/01/2015
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Mayors: Greater Manchester
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what salary the directly elected city-region Mayor of Greater Manchester will be paid.
tabling member constituency	Wigan
tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
uin	221428
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2015 answer text <p>Following the November 2014 devolution agreement between the Government and Greater Manchester, it is envisaged a Bill will be introduced into Parliament with provision for a Greater Manchester Mayor, for elections of the Mayor – expected to be, as for other local government elections - every 4 years, with the first election in 2017, for effective scrutiny arrangements to hold the Mayor publicly to account, and for open and transparent arrangements providing for appropriate allowances to be decided in Greater Manchester for the Mayor. Such a Bill will be accompanied by an Impact Assessment, which will cover estimated costs and benefits. A preliminary equality screening will be undertaken, but we will not be undertaking a full blown Equality Impact Assessment if we assess there is no impact, given it is our policy to avoid unnecessary equalities paperwork.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins grouped question UIN 221419 221420 221422 221425 221426 question first answered 26/01/2015 16:46:13 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

174674

registered interest
date	20/01/2015
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Mayors: Greater Manchester
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether an equality impact assessment has been made of plans for a directly elected city-region Mayor for Greater Manchester.
tabling member constituency	Wigan
tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
uin	221419
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2015 answer text <p>Following the November 2014 devolution agreement between the Government and Greater Manchester, it is envisaged a Bill will be introduced into Parliament with provision for a Greater Manchester Mayor, for elections of the Mayor – expected to be, as for other local government elections - every 4 years, with the first election in 2017, for effective scrutiny arrangements to hold the Mayor publicly to account, and for open and transparent arrangements providing for appropriate allowances to be decided in Greater Manchester for the Mayor. Such a Bill will be accompanied by an Impact Assessment, which will cover estimated costs and benefits. A preliminary equality screening will be undertaken, but we will not be undertaking a full blown Equality Impact Assessment if we assess there is no impact, given it is our policy to avoid unnecessary equalities paperwork.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins grouped question UIN 221420 221422 221425 221426 221428 question first answered 26/01/2015 16:46:13 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

174675

registered interest
date	20/01/2015
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Mayors: Greater Manchester
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the cost of introducing a directly elected city-region Mayor for Greater Manchester.
tabling member constituency	Wigan
tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
uin	221420
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2015 answer text <p>Following the November 2014 devolution agreement between the Government and Greater Manchester, it is envisaged a Bill will be introduced into Parliament with provision for a Greater Manchester Mayor, for elections of the Mayor – expected to be, as for other local government elections - every 4 years, with the first election in 2017, for effective scrutiny arrangements to hold the Mayor publicly to account, and for open and transparent arrangements providing for appropriate allowances to be decided in Greater Manchester for the Mayor. Such a Bill will be accompanied by an Impact Assessment, which will cover estimated costs and benefits. A preliminary equality screening will be undertaken, but we will not be undertaking a full blown Equality Impact Assessment if we assess there is no impact, given it is our policy to avoid unnecessary equalities paperwork.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins grouped question UIN 221419 221422 221425 221426 221428 question first answered 26/01/2015 16:46:13 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy