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date	13/11/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Freeports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment the Government has made of the potential merits of introducing free port schemes across the UK.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	190815
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2018 answer text <p>The Government has been clear that it is open to ideas that deliver economic advantages for the UK.</p><p> </p><p>Section 100A of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 (CEMA) provides the legal basis for the designation of free zones by HM Treasury and will continue to do so following UK withdrawal from the EU. Applying for designation as a free zone will be a commercial decision to be taken by private port operators.</p><p> </p><p>It is worth noting that many of the customs-related benefits of free ports are already available through existing customs facilitations, for example inward processing relief.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 21/11/2018 14:58:48 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

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date	13/11/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Tobacco: Excise Duties
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what effect has plain packaging had on the tax received from tobacco duty receipts in each financial year since that policy was introduced.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	190817
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2018 answer text <p>There has been a long term reduction in annual tobacco duty receipts, driven by above-RPI increases in duty and changing attitudes to smoking. As shown in the published Tobacco Bulletin July 2018.</p><p> </p><p>In their November 2016 Economic and fiscal outlook the Office of Budget Responsibility revised their estimates of the underlying downward trend in clearances of tobacco. This was to account for various factors including weakness in tobacco receipts and the expected effects of the Tobacco Products Directive. Paragraph 4.75 noted that the effect on receipts from the introduction of standardised tobacco packaging is assumed to be captured by this downward trend in clearances across the forecast period.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 21/11/2018 16:48:12 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell