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1276442

registered interest
date	13/01/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Regional Planning and Development
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what are the key (1) economic, (2) health, (3) education, and (4) other, indicators they plan to use to monitor their 'levelling-up' agenda.
tabling member printed	Lord Field of Birkenhead
uin	HL12094
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2021 answer text We are committed to levelling up the economy, ensuring strong employment and increasing productivity across the regions and nations of the UK. The Spending Review established a set of provisional priority outcomes and metrics across all departments and policy areas which have been published on the Gov.uk website. answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 27/01/2021 14:35:31 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1276469

registered interest
date	13/01/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Self-employed: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the report by Prospect Inquiry into the future of self-employment, published in December 2020; and what plans they have to increase financial support for the self-employed.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL12121
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2021 answer text <p>The Government has provided a substantial package of support worth £280 billion in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Government will continue to look for ways to improve the package of support available and work closely with stakeholders to explore how it can best support different groups.</p><p>The Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) is providing generous support to self-employed people affected by the pandemic and HMRC have received over £18.5bn of claims for the SEISS so far.</p><p> </p><p>The third SEISS grant is open for applications. The Government will set out further details on the level of the fourth grant, to cover February to April 2021, in due course.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 27/01/2021 14:26:02 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1276473

registered interest
date	13/01/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Infrastructure: Investment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to invest in infrastructure for local communities and businesses in order to address any impacts of the UK–EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement.
tabling member printed	Viscount Waverley
uin	HL12125
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2021 answer text <p>At the Spending Review, the government set out key infrastructure commitments that will bolster local communities and businesses. Amongst others, this included £5 billion to support UK-wide gigabit broadband roll-out and £4.2 billion intra-city transport settlements, both of which will have a significant impact on local economic growth.</p><p> </p><p>The new Levelling Up Fund worth £4 billion for England, will attract up to £0.8 billion for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in the usual way. This will invest in local infrastructure that has a visible impact on people and their communities and will support economic recovery. It will be open to all local areas in England and prioritise bids to drive growth and regeneration in places in need, those facing particular challenges, and areas that have received less government investment in recent years.</p><p> </p><p>Furthermore, the government announced a new infrastructure bank that will support private projects alongside lending to mayors and local authorities in order to support their infrastructure ambitions. The government will set out further details on the scale, mandate and operations of the Bank at the Budget.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 27/01/2021 14:27:28 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	1744 label Biography information for Viscount Waverley

1275993

registered interest
date	12/01/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Coronavirus: Disease Control
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to provide additional economic support to areas affected by local restrictions put in place to address the COVID-19 pandemic.
tabling member printed	Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick
uin	HL12069
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2021 answer text <p>Since March the Government’s priority has been to save lives and protect jobs, businesses, and livelihoods. The Government has supported people and businesses via an unprecedented package of financial support worth more than £280 billion.</p><p> </p><p>As of 5 January, England entered a national lockdown in order to manage a new variant of the virus. Under these England-wide restrictions, businesses can continue to apply for the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS), which has been extended until the end of April 2021 and has helped to pay the wages of people in 9.9 million jobs across the UK. Support continues also to be available for the self-employed through the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) which will cover 80% of trading profits and is open until the end of April 2021. So far SEISS has seen 2.7 million self-employed workers make claims under the scheme totaling £13.7bn</p><p> </p><p>Businesses needing access to liquidity can also apply for guaranteed loans through various loan schemes, including the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme, the Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme and the Bounce Back Loan Scheme, until the end of March 2021. Over 1.4 million small and medium sized companies have received government-backed loans, worth over £68 billion</p><p> </p><p>With the new restrictions, the Chancellor announced that an additional one-off grant worth up to £9,000 will be offered to businesses in retail, hospitality and leisure facing forced closure in England to help them through to spring. This is alongside the existing Local Restriction Support Grant (closed) which will continue to offer businesses support of up to £3000 for each month they closed.</p><p> </p><p>England’s Local authorities and devolved administrations will also receive a £594 million top-up to the Additional Restrictions Grant (ARG) which has already provided local authorities with £1.1 billion throughout the Autumn. This ensures that local authorities can provide discretionary support to businesses not eligible for existing grants, but which may still be affected by the restrictions. Business grant policy remains a fully devolved area with Devolved Administrations receiving their share of this funding through the Barnett formula in the usual way.</p><p> </p><p>This support comes on top of billions of pounds’ worth of Rate Reliefs, tax deferrals, and other labour market schemes.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 26/01/2021 14:12:38 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	4130 label Biography information for Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick

1276000

registered interest
date	12/01/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Income Tax: Self-employed
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that self–employed individuals do not overpay income tax.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL12076
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2021 answer text <p>Self-employed individuals determine the amount of tax due for the previous tax year by submitting their Self-Assessment (SA) tax return.</p><p> </p><p>The amount due to be paid by 31 January is the tax due per the return less any payments already made for that tax year plus the first payment on account (POA) of the individual’s tax bill for the current year. Each POA is half of the previous year’s tax bill.</p><p> </p><p>The POAs due for the 20/21 tax year will be based on the liability for the 2019/20 tax year, a year largely unaffected by COVID, but individuals can apply to reduce those payments on account if they think they are too high based on their current circumstances. If they wish to do so, they can apply to HMRC by using form SA303. This can be done online through the Government Gateway or by post.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 26/01/2021 14:11:14 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1276003

registered interest
date	12/01/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of extending eligibility for the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme to those who began employment after 31 October 2020.
tabling member printed	Lord Walney
uin	HL12079
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2021 answer text <p>For all eligibility decisions under the CJRS, the Government must balance the need to support as many jobs as possible with the need to protect the scheme from fraud.</p><p> </p><p>Under the CJRS extension, an employer can claim for employees who were employed and on their PAYE payroll on 30 October 2020. The employer must have made a PAYE Real Time Information (RTI) submission to HMRC between 20 March 2020 and 30 October 2020, notifying a payment of earnings for that employee. The use of RTI allows HMRC to verify claims in the most efficient and timely way, ensuring payments can be made quickly while reducing the risk of fraud. Without the use of RTI returns it would be difficult to verify claims without significant additional checks, which would delay payment for genuine claims.</p><p> </p><p>The 30 October 2020 cut-off date allowed as many people as possible to be included by going right up to the day before the announcement, while balancing the risk of fraud that existed as soon as the scheme became public. Extending the cut-off date further would have significantly increased the risk of abuse because claims could not be confidently verified against the risk of fraud by using the data after this point.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 26/01/2021 14:06:34 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	3917 label Biography information for Lord Walney

1275499

registered interest
date	11/01/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Business: Coronavirus
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that small businesses can access COVID-19 financial support schemes.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL12013
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2021 answer text <p>Throughout this crisis, the government has sought to protect people’s jobs and livelihoods while also supporting businesses and public services across the UK. To do this, the government has put in place an economic package of support which will provide businesses and individuals with certainty over the coming months, even as measures to prevent further spread of the virus change. The government has spent over £280 billion this year to provide this support.</p><p> </p><p>In response to the latest restrictions, the Chancellor announced further support to businesses on top of those adopted at the Covid-19 Winter Plan and our previous economic responses. These support measures are carefully designed to complement each other to ensure we protect jobs and livelihoods. This support includes a new one-off grant of up to £9,000 to support businesses in England which are legally required to close. This comes in addition to the existing monthly grants for closed businesses of up to £3,000 per month. Local authorities will also receive an additional £500m, to a total of £1.6bn, of discretionary funding to allow them to support their local businesses.</p><p>In order to support businesses to retain their employees and protect the UK economy, the Chancellor has extended both the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) and the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) until the end of April 2021. HMRC have supported businesses to access the CJRS by communicating directly with employers, running over 400 live webinars, and ensuring that online support via gov.uk is updated regularly.</p><p> </p><p>Businesses have also received billions in loans, tax deferrals, Business Rate reliefs, and general and sector-specific grants. And individuals and families have benefited from increased welfare payments, enhanced statutory sick pay, a stay on repossession proceedings and mortgage holidays. <strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 25/01/2021 14:46:46 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1275500

registered interest
date	11/01/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Hospitality Industry: VAT
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to extend the reduced Value Added Tax rate for the hospitality industry.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL12014
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2021 answer text <p>The temporary VAT reduced rate came into effect on 15 July 2020 and was initially scheduled to end on 12 January 2021.</p><p> </p><p>In order to continue supporting the cash flow and viability of over 150,000 businesses and to protect 2.4 million jobs, the Government extended the temporary reduced rate of VAT (5 per cent) to goods and services supplied by the tourism and hospitality sectors until 31 March 2021.</p><p> </p>While the Government keeps all taxes under review, this relief comes at a significant cost to the Exchequer, and there are currently no plans to extend the length of the reduced rate further. answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 25/01/2021 14:46:00 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1275501

registered interest
date	11/01/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Employment: Coronavirus
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the number of workers who are not eligible for any COVID-19 financial support; and what steps they are taking to reduce that number.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL12015
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2021 answer text <p>Throughout the crisis, the Government’s priority has been to protect people’s jobs and livelihoods. Since the start of the pandemic the Government has committed over £280 billion to supporting the economy, including supporting 9.9 million jobs through the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) and about 2.7 million self-employed individuals via the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS).</p><p> </p><p>The Government has continued to review its support and brought in ineligible groups where possible. For example, the extended Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) is available to those directors who paid themselves a salary between 19 March and 30 October 2020, and to new starters who were employed and on their employer’s PAYE payroll on 30 October 2020. Both the CJRS and SEISS have also been updated to provide support to those on maternity leave and to reservists. The Government continues to work closely with stakeholders to explore how it can best support different groups.</p><p> </p><p>Those who are ineligible for the CJRS and SEISS may still be eligible for other elements of the COVID-19 support available. This substantial package of support includes Bounce Back loans, tax deferrals, rental support and other business support grants. The Government has also temporarily increased the Universal Credit standard allowance for 2020-21 by £20 per week and relaxed the Minimum Income Floor, meaning that where claimants' earnings have significantly fallen, their Universal Credit award will have increased to reflect their lower earnings.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 25/01/2021 14:45:41 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1275020

registered interest
date	08/01/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	EU Budget: Contributions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the total UK net public sector contribution to the (1) European Economic Community, and (2) EU, budget since the accession of the UK to the European Communities in 1973 at real 2019 prices.
tabling member printed	Lord Green of Deddington
uin	HL11925
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2021 answer text <p>The total UK Net Public Sector Contributions to the EEC during the period 1973 to 1993, adjusted to real 2019 prices, is equal to £51.5bn. The total UK Net Public Sector Contributions to the EU during the remaining period 1994 to 2019, adjusted to real 2019 prices, is equal to £174.7bn. These figures do not include receipts received by private UK entities, which would reduce the UK’s net contributions.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 20/01/2021 12:03:30 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	4346 label Biography information for Lord Green of Deddington