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760629

registered interest
date	14/09/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	National Insurance Contributions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many employees received national insurance relief for employment allowance in (a) 2014-15, (b) 2015-16 and (c) 2016-17.
tabling member constituency	Bootle
tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
uin	105169
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>The Employment Allowance provides eligible employers with a reduction of up to £3,000 a year on their employer’s National Insurance contributions (NICs). This is a relief on employer’s rather than employee NICs; the allowance does not give employees national insurance relief.</p><p> </p><p>Details on the employers that benefit from the Employment Allowance can be found in HMRC’s Employment Allowance take-up publication, found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/employment-allowance-take-up-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/employment-allowance-take-up-statistics</a>. In particular, table 6 provides a summary of Employment Allowance take-up by employer size.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 09/10/2017 13:06:35 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

760631

registered interest
date	14/09/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Overseas Visitors: VAT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much VAT has been refunded to visitors to the UK in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Luton North
tabling member printed	Kelvin Hopkins
uin	105217
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) does not hold information on VAT to this level of detail. The Retail Export scheme is operated and administered by the participating retailers. Retailers do not separately identify retail exports on their VAT returns so HMRC does not hold any record of the actual VAT refunds made.</p><p> </p><p>In a 2013 consultation document VAT: Retail Export Scheme, HMRC estimated that, in the UK, more than £300 million of VAT is refunded under the VAT Retail Export Scheme each year. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/209487/20130627_Consultation_document_1_0_complete.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/209487/20130627_Consultation_document_1_0_complete.pdf</a> (Paragraph 2.4)</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 09/10/2017 15:29:25 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	2 label Biography information for Kelvin Hopkins

760633

registered interest
date	14/09/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Patents: Tax Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much and to who the annual tax reliefs have been granted under the Patent-Box scheme.
tabling member constituency	Luton North
tabling member printed	Kelvin Hopkins
uin	105219
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>The latest National Statistics on usage of the Patent Box were published on 14 September and can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/643860/Patent_Box_Statistics_2014-15.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/643860/Patent_Box_Statistics_2014-15.pdf</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 09/10/2017 15:31:52 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	2 label Biography information for Kelvin Hopkins

760637

registered interest
date	14/09/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Office for Budget Responsibility
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans the Government has to allow HM Opposition access to the Office for Budget Responsibility.
tabling member constituency	Bootle
tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
uin	105133
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>The Office for Budget Responsibility’s (OBR) remit is set out in the Budget Responsibility and National Audit Act 2011 which prevents it from assessing alternatives to stated government policy. Extending the OBR’s remit to cover alternative policies risks drawing the OBR into political controversy and diverting it from an already difficult task. The Government’s approach is in line with the recommendations of the Page review and the Ramsden review of the OBR.</p><p> </p><p>HM Opposition, along with other interested parties, have access to the reports and analysis of the OBR when published.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 09/10/2017 12:57:08 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

760638

registered interest
date	14/09/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Public Sector: Pay
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 cost to the Exchequer of removing the public sector pay cap.
tabling member constituency	Bootle
tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
uin	105134
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>I set out the Government’s position on public sector pay in the House of Commons on 12 September 2017. A copy of this statement is available at: <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2017-09-12/HCWS127" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2017-09-12/HCWS127</a>.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 09/10/2017 13:08:03 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

760641

registered interest
date	14/09/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Landlords: Self-assessment
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 (a) number and (b) proportion of landlords in each local authority area who are registered for self-assessment with HM Revenue and Customs.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	105116
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>The table attached presents the number of individuals who declared income from property on their Self-Assessment tax returns for the 2015-16 tax year, the latest year for which data is available, excluding those who declared income from furnished holiday lettings.</p><p> </p><p>Note that (i) these figures are based on tax return data, and not Self-Assessment registrations; and (ii) the locations given in the Table relate to the residences of the individuals with property income, and not the locations of properties from which they declared income.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC do not hold information about the total number of landlords and so it is not possible to provide a proportion of the numbers in Self-Assessment against that total.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 09/10/2017 15:10:07 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride attachment 1 file name The Number of Self.docx title Self-Assessment tax return numbers 2015-16
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

760644

registered interest
date	14/09/2017
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	Right to Buy Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will make it his policy to allow local authorities to keep more than 30 per cent of the money generated from the sale of a council home under the Right to Buy scheme to help fund the building of replacement homes.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	105080
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>Local authorities who wish to build replacement homes enter into an agreement with this Department that allows them to retain and spend all the additional Right to Buy receipts (after covering debt, transaction costs and previously planned income from receipts) on replacement homes. The local authority must ensure that no more than 30 per cent of the cost of the new homes comes from the Right to Buy receipt.</p><p>The Department publishes data on Right to Buy replacements quarterly. These data are available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-social-housing-sales" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-social-housing-sales</a>.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 105081 question first answered 09/10/2017 10:07:58 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Lord Sharma
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

760645

registered interest
date	14/09/2017
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	Right to Buy Scheme
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 replacement rate of social housing stock sold under Right to Buy since 2012.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	105081
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>Local authorities who wish to build replacement homes enter into an agreement with this Department that allows them to retain and spend all the additional Right to Buy receipts (after covering debt, transaction costs and previously planned income from receipts) on replacement homes. The local authority must ensure that no more than 30 per cent of the cost of the new homes comes from the Right to Buy receipt.</p><p>The Department publishes data on Right to Buy replacements quarterly. These data are available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-social-housing-sales" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-social-housing-sales</a>.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 105080 question first answered 09/10/2017 10:07:58 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Lord Sharma
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

760646

registered interest
date	14/09/2017
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	Leasehold
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if his Department will take steps to assist residential leaseholders whose ground rents have risen substantially.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	105084
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>This Government is determined to make the housing market fairer. The public consultation, ‘Tackling Unfair Practices in the Leasehold Market’, looked at a range of measures, including ground rents, to help tackle unfair and unreasonable abuses of the leasehold system. The consultation closed on 19 September 2017. The Government is reviewing all responses and will respond in due course.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 09/10/2017 10:06:20 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Lord Sharma
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

760648

registered interest
date	14/09/2017
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	Energy Performance Certificates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 7 September 2017 to Question 7880, what steps his Department takes to assess what proportion of prospective tenants receive information as to (a) whether an energy certificate has been acquired and (b) what rating the property they are considering renting or leasing has been given; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	105187
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>The Government does not hold or collect data to assess what proportion of prospective tenants receive information as to (a) whether an energy certificate has been acquired and (b) what rating the property they are considering renting or leasing has been given. However, the Government has published energy performance certificate data for buildings that are rented or let which includes the energy rating of the building which prospective tenants can access: <a href="https://epc.opendatacommunities.org/" target="_blank">https://epc.opendatacommunities.org/</a></p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 09/10/2017 10:12:23 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Lord Sharma
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas