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1216753

registered interest
date	23/06/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme: Insurance Companies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with representatives of the insurance industry on the payment of business interruption insurance for business operations in relation to the covid-19 restrictions.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	63367
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2020 answer text <p>The Government is in continual dialogue with the insurance sector to understand and influence its response to this unprecedented situation. The Government is also working closely with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to ensure that the rules are being upheld during this crisis.</p><p> </p><p>For those businesses which have an appropriate policy that covers government ordered closure and unspecified notifiable diseases, the Government’s social distancing instructions are sufficient to allow businesses to make a claim against their insurance, provided the other terms and conditions in their policy are met.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Furthermore, to resolve uncertainty for customers making business interruption claims, on 1 May the FCA outlined its intention to seek a court declaration, on an agreed and urgent basis, for a selected number of key issues. Subsequently on 1 June, the FCA announced the policy wordings that would be tested in the court action and insurers it had invited to participate directly, along with an initial list of policy wordings and insurers that will potentially be impacted by the Court’s decision on the representative sample. The FCA expects to publish a final list of all the relevant insurers and policies that may have impacted wordings shortly, and expects a court hearing to take place in late July.</p><p> </p><p>However, most businesses have not purchased insurance that covers losses from COVID-19. Insurance policies differ significantly, so businesses are encouraged to check the terms and conditions of their specific policy and contact their providers.</p><p> </p><p>The Government recognises that businesses who do not have appropriate insurance cover will require support from elsewhere. As such, businesses should explore the full package of support set out by the Chancellor, which includes measures such as business rates holidays, the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme, and wage support.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen grouped question UIN 63370 question first answered 01/07/2020 09:25:26 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

1216763

registered interest
date	23/06/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Insurance: Further Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with representatives of the insurance industry on the effect of the covid-19 outbreak on small training colleges that provide industry-specific qualifications.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	63370
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2020 answer text <p>The Government is in continual dialogue with the insurance sector to understand and influence its response to this unprecedented situation. The Government is also working closely with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to ensure that the rules are being upheld during this crisis.</p><p> </p><p>For those businesses which have an appropriate policy that covers government ordered closure and unspecified notifiable diseases, the Government’s social distancing instructions are sufficient to allow businesses to make a claim against their insurance, provided the other terms and conditions in their policy are met.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Furthermore, to resolve uncertainty for customers making business interruption claims, on 1 May the FCA outlined its intention to seek a court declaration, on an agreed and urgent basis, for a selected number of key issues. Subsequently on 1 June, the FCA announced the policy wordings that would be tested in the court action and insurers it had invited to participate directly, along with an initial list of policy wordings and insurers that will potentially be impacted by the Court’s decision on the representative sample. The FCA expects to publish a final list of all the relevant insurers and policies that may have impacted wordings shortly, and expects a court hearing to take place in late July.</p><p> </p><p>However, most businesses have not purchased insurance that covers losses from COVID-19. Insurance policies differ significantly, so businesses are encouraged to check the terms and conditions of their specific policy and contact their providers.</p><p> </p><p>The Government recognises that businesses who do not have appropriate insurance cover will require support from elsewhere. As such, businesses should explore the full package of support set out by the Chancellor, which includes measures such as business rates holidays, the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme, and wage support.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen grouped question UIN 63367 question first answered 01/07/2020 09:25:26 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

1216769

registered interest
date	23/06/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Disguised Remuneration Loan Charge Review
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to bring forward legislative proposals to implement the recommendations contained in Sir Amyas Morse's Loan Charge review published in December 2019.
tabling member constituency	Romsey and Southampton North
tabling member printed	Caroline Nokes
uin	63317
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2020 answer text <p>Disguised Renumeration (DR) schemes seek to avoid tax by paying users their earnings in the form of loans, usually via an offshore trust, so that neither Income Tax nor National Insurance Contributions are paid on the income channelled through the scheme.</p><p> </p><p>The Loan Charge was designed to tackle DR tax avoidance schemes. The Independent Loan Charge Review led by Sir Amyas Morse assessed the impact of the policy on affected taxpayers and concluded that it was right for the Loan Charge to remain in force, and for the Government to seek to collect the tax due. However, the Review did also raise a number of concerns.</p><p> </p><p>The Government accepted all but one of the recommendations made by the Review. The Government is currently legislating to implement these changes to the Loan Charge in the Finance Bill.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 63318 question first answered 29/06/2020 16:47:12 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes

1216770

registered interest
date	23/06/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Tax Avoidance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether (a) income tax and (b) national insurance contributions have been deducted from income from loan schemes through third parties that were entered into before 9 December 2019.
tabling member constituency	Romsey and Southampton North
tabling member printed	Caroline Nokes
uin	63318
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2020 answer text <p>Disguised Renumeration (DR) schemes seek to avoid tax by paying users their earnings in the form of loans, usually via an offshore trust, so that neither Income Tax nor National Insurance Contributions are paid on the income channelled through the scheme.</p><p> </p><p>The Loan Charge was designed to tackle DR tax avoidance schemes. The Independent Loan Charge Review led by Sir Amyas Morse assessed the impact of the policy on affected taxpayers and concluded that it was right for the Loan Charge to remain in force, and for the Government to seek to collect the tax due. However, the Review did also raise a number of concerns.</p><p> </p><p>The Government accepted all but one of the recommendations made by the Review. The Government is currently legislating to implement these changes to the Loan Charge in the Finance Bill.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 63317 question first answered 29/06/2020 16:47:12 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes

1216058

registered interest
date	22/06/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Protective Clothing: VAT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of making items of personal protective equipment exempt from VAT (a) in the short term to support businesses in protecting staff and customers as covid-19 lockdown restrictions are eased and (b) permanently to support health spending over the longer term.
tabling member constituency	Angus
tabling member printed	Dave Doogan
uin	62601
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2020 answer text <p>A temporary zero-rate of VAT applies to sales of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for protection from infection from 1 May 2020 until 31 July 2020. The temporary relief has been introduced as an urgent response to the coronavirus emergency. Its main objective is to relieve businesses, particularly in the healthcare and residential care sectors, of the burden of tax on essential infection protection equipment needed to deal with the emergency.</p><p> </p><p>All taxes are kept under review and Government will reassess the situation in the future.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 25/06/2020 15:00:51 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4736 label Biography information for Dave Doogan

1216067

registered interest
date	22/06/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Covid-19 Education Catch-up Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the Barnett consequentials are for Scotland with regards to the £1 billion education catch-up fund announced on 19 June 2020.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
tabling member printed	Ian Murray
uin	62389
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2020 answer text <p>Any new funding for the Department for Education will have the Barnett formula applied to it in the usual way.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Steve Barclay question first answered 25/06/2020 10:30:44 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray

1216257

registered interest
date	22/06/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Tourism: Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to protect jobs in the (a) travel and (b) tourism industries, which operate domestic and overseas school trips, beyond the current scheduled end date of the Coronavirus Jobs Retention Scheme and to allow companies to plan for the future in the event restrictions on (i) domestic and (ii) overseas school trips remain in place.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff North
tabling member printed	Anna McMorrin
uin	62560
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2020 answer text <p>The Government has announced unprecedented support for business and workers to protect them against the current economic emergency including almost £300 billion of guarantees – equivalent to 15% of UK GDP. Travel and tourism businesses continue to have access to a range of support measures including, but not limited to:</p><p> </p><ul><li>A 12-month business rates holiday for all eligible retail, leisure and hospitality businesses in England</li><li>Small business grant funding (SBGF) of £10,000 for all business in receipt of small business rate relief or rural rate relief</li><li>The retail, hospitality and leisure grant fund (RHLGF)</li><li>A Discretionary Grant Fund for Local Authorities in England</li><li>The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS)</li><li>The Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS)</li><li>The Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CLBILS)</li><li>The Bounce Back Loan Scheme (BBL) for small and micro enterprises</li><li>VAT deferral for up to 12 months</li><li>The Time To Pay scheme, through which businesses in financial distress, and with outstanding tax liabilities, can receive support with their tax affairs</li><li>Protection for commercial leaseholders against automatic forfeiture for non-payment until June 30, 2020 – with an option for the Government to extend if needed.</li></ul><p> </p><p>The Business Support website provides further information about how businesses can access the support that has been made available, who is eligible and how to apply - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/business-coronavirus-support-finder" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/business-coronavirus-support-finder</a>.</p><p> </p><p>On 11 May the Government published its COVID-19 recovery strategy which sets out our plan for moving to the next phase of our response. The strategy sets out a cautious roadmap for easing existing measures in a safe and measured way. On 23 June the Government announced that elements of the tourism industry in England, such as hotels and guesthouses – that meet the required social distancing and public health measures – can reopen from 4 July. Options for overseas travel are currently being reviewed.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 25/06/2020 14:17:03 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	4632 label Biography information for Anna McMorrin

1216276

registered interest
date	22/06/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Investment Income: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of whether companies have paid dividends while in receipt of the Government's covid-19 support packages.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	62422
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2020 answer text <p>Government support is aimed at businesses in genuine need. Our current measures are well-targeted at such businesses, bearing in mind the need to act very quickly to deliver this unprecedented package. We expect everyone to act responsibly and in the spirit of the package, and only claim and use support as intended. The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) for example provides compensation for the cost of paying furloughed workers –money that goes directly to the pockets of workers who might otherwise lose their jobs, whilst Business Rates reductions and Local Authority grant schemes are targeted at sectors which are facing severe hardship. The Government is keeping all measures under constant review.</p><p> </p><p>Companies borrowing more than £50million through the Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CLBILS) or accessing the Covid Corporate Financing Facility (CCFF) beyond 19 May 2021, face restrictions on dividend payments, capital distributions and senior pay.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 25/06/2020 14:23:43 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1216289

registered interest
date	22/06/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Self-employment Income Support Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to ensure that taxpayers who are unable to make an application for the Self Employment Grant Scheme themselves can have their application submitted by a third party already appointed as their agent.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	62420
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2020 answer text <p>The new Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) helps those adversely affected by COVID-19. By midnight 21 June 2020, HMRC had received 2.6m claims representing a total of £7.6bn claimed.</p><p>HMRC recognise the important role that agents play in supporting people who are self-employed. Due to the speed at which HMRC are delivering the SEISS it has not been possible to offer agents the ability to claim on behalf of their clients. However, the process has been designed to be as simple as possible, and HMRC do all the calculations for taxpayers.</p><p> </p><p>Anyone who cannot apply online can contact HMRC by telephone to submit their claim.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 25/06/2020 15:14:15 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

1216291

registered interest
date	22/06/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Civil Society: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the Government's financial support to organisations in the voluntary, community and social enterprise sectors during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	62343
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2020 answer text <p>The Government has announced unprecedented support for public services, workers and businesses to protect against the current economic emergency. Organisations in the voluntary, community and social enterprise sectors continue to have access the support packages that the Government has made available.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has set out a £750 million package of support for charities providing key services and supporting vulnerable people during the COVID-19 crisis. Part of the funding for charities is being disbursed with £360 million directly allocated by government departments. The most up to date information is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-guidance-for-the-charity-sector#government-financial-support-for-charities" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-guidance-for-the-charity-sector#government-financial-support-for-charities</a>. Our aim is to get funding to those in greatest need as soon as possible.</p><p> </p><p>Charities also have access to cross-cutting support already announced including the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme which enables them to furlough staff with the government paying 80% of wages, and VAT deferral.</p><p>Organisations that are not eligible for the charity support package could be able to access the other substantial government support that has been made available. Support for organisations in the voluntary, community and social enterprise sectors, remains under constant review.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 25/06/2020 14:21:59 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne