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114616

registered interest
date	05/11/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Mortgages
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with the mortgage industry and consumer groups about making price comparison easier for consumers.
tabling member constituency	Gloucester
tabling member printed	Richard Graham
uin	213585
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2014 answer text 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.<p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>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><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom grouped question UIN 213568 213569 question first answered 13/11/2014 11:20:11 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	3990 label Biography information for Richard Graham

114618

registered interest
date	05/11/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what payments the Government has made to (a) Capgemini and (b) Fujitsu for work decommissioning tax credits.
tabling member constituency	Telford
tabling member printed	David Wright
uin	213642
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2015 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs has undertaken limited decommissioning work on the Tax Credit systems. All decommissioning costs are paid through Cap Gemini as our prime supplier and the value of those payments is £1.2m.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 20/01/2015 12:52:31 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	1461 label Biography information for David Wright

114619

registered interest
date	05/11/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many apprentices were removed from their apprenticeship programme to cover tax credit renewal work in the last two weeks of July 2014; and where such apprentices were based.
tabling member constituency	Telford
tabling member printed	David Wright
uin	213643
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p>Her Majesty’s 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><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We do not have a record of how many of these additional staff were apprentices.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 213644 question first answered 17/11/2014 16:46:39 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	1461 label Biography information for David Wright

114621

registered interest
date	05/11/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the National Audit Office report, Managing and replacing the Aspire contract, HC 444, published on 22 July 2014, if he will estimate the savings to the public purse that he expects to accrue from the improvement in HM Revenue and Customs IT service availability identified in that report.
tabling member constituency	Telford
tabling member printed	David Wright
uin	213650
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p>Over the 7 year period from 07/08 to 13/14 there is an annual c£3m productivity improvement a year on average.</p><p> </p><p>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> </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> </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> </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><p> </p><p>We will continue to improve the performance of the contract over the next three years.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 213647 question first answered 17/11/2014 17:48:01 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	1461 label Biography information for David Wright

114623

registered interest
date	05/11/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff by grade and pay band were moved to the tax credit renewal work by HM Revenue and Customs business area in the last two weeks of July 2014.
tabling member constituency	Telford
tabling member printed	David Wright
uin	213644
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p>Her Majesty’s 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><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We do not have a record of how many of these additional staff were apprentices.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 213643 question first answered 17/11/2014 16:46:39 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	1461 label Biography information for David Wright

114624

registered interest
date	05/11/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Fujitsu
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what data on UK taxpayers is held by Fujitsu; and where the relevant data centre is.
tabling member constituency	Telford
tabling member printed	David Wright
uin	213645
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p>Fujitsu provide data centre hosting for many of HM Revenue and Customs' (HMRC) IT systems at multiple UK locations but they do so on HMRC's behalf and do not hold any data outside of the Department's direct control. HMRC ensure all of our systems are appropriately controlled so that IT providers do not have routine access to taxpayer information.</p><p> </p><p>For security reasons we are unable to share the specific location of Fujitsu/HMRC data centres.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 17/11/2014 15:57:23 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	1461 label Biography information for David Wright

114626

registered interest
date	05/11/2014
answering body	HM 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 Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the extra cost to HM Revenue and Customs arising from the time taken to implement universal credit.
tabling member constituency	Telford
tabling member printed	David Wright
uin	213646
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p>Any HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) costs that are a direct and clear consequence of supporting the introduction of Universal Credit are funded and met by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Universal Credit Programme and are included in the DWP Universal Credit Business Case.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 17/11/2014 16:02:24 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	1461 label Biography information for David Wright

114877

registered interest
date	05/11/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Cybercrime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions his Department has had with the Financial Conduct Authority on the effectiveness of the Payment Services Directive in tackling online fraud.
tabling member constituency	Dover
tabling member printed	Charlie Elphicke
uin	213500
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p>Treasury Ministers and officials meet with a wide range of organisations as part of the usual policy making process.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As part of the ongoing negotiations on the revised Payments Service Directive, HM Treasury has been engaging closely with the Financial Conduct Authority. This has been to ensure that the UK fulfills its objectives by supporting a clear, proportionate and effective Payment Services Directive II, which aims to promote competition, transparency and greater protection for consumers, including protections against online fraud.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>It might be useful to know that the Treasury publishes a list of ministerial meetings with external organisations. This is available online at: http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/minister_hospitality.htm.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 11/11/2014 16:44:06 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	3971 label Biography information for Charlie Elphicke

114943

registered interest
date	05/11/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Child Tax Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the feasibility of sharing child tax credits proportionally between care givers where custody is split.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	213489
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p>Although splitting the support may appear straightforward, the reality is likely to be quite different. If, under current arrangements, parents cannot agree who should receive the support, they are just as unlikely to agree about how the payments should be split where more formal arrangements exist.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Directing payment of Child Tax Credit to the person mainly responsible for looking after the children ensures that the money goes to the person most likely to be providing day to day care. Even where care of the child is shared it is usually the case that there is one person that bears more of the weight of everyday responsibility for the child and meets the everyday expenditure.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government has already prioritised investing in early education and child care to support all families, including those with separated parents, through: extending the free entitlement to provide 15 hours a week of free early education and child care for all three and four-year-olds, and to 40% of two-year-olds from lower income families; and providing 70% of child care costs through the Working Tax Credit and extending this support under Universal Credit to those working fewer than 16 hours a week.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 11/11/2014 16:47:15 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron