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101048

registered interest
date	27/10/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Corporation Tax
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) company headquarters and (b) jobs have been reshored in the UK since the reduction in corporation tax rates.
tabling member constituency	Windsor
tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
uin	211930
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2014 answer text <p>Supporting businesses and helping them to invest, create jobs and to grow is a key part of the Government’s long term economic plan. Since 2010 we have already cut Corporation Tax (CT) from 28% to 21%, and next year it will fall to 20% - the joint lowest rate in the G20. The Government has also cut the small profits rate to 20%. Overall these CT cuts for large and small firms will be worth £9.5bn a year to business by 2016.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>HM Treasury has not estimated the number of jobs reshored.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We will continue to work to ensure that the tax system in the UK remains competitive and enables us to attract business investment.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 04/11/2014 16:46:42 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

101050

registered interest
date	27/10/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Income Tax
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many employment and support allowance recipients received a payment for income tax for 2012-13.
tabling member constituency	North Ayrshire and Arran
tabling member printed	Katy Clark
uin	212040
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p>Reliable estimates of the number of recipients of employment and support allowance also paying income tax in 2012-13 are not available due to the small sample size in this subset of the Family Resources Survey.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 03/11/2014 15:46:19 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	1590 label Biography information for Baroness Clark of Kilwinning

93704

registered interest
date	15/10/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	North Sea Oil
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the total revenue they have received from the extraction and exploration of North Sea oil.
tabling member printed	Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts
uin	HL2133
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2014 answer text <p>Government revenues from UK oil and gas production for all years to 2013-14 are published by HM Revenue &amp; Customs (HMRC) as National Statistics on the GOV.UK website[1]. Total revenues can be found in Table 11.11 from the <em>Statistics of Government revenues from UK oil and gas production</em> publication[2].</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The values in Table 11.11 are detailed in current prices, so for previous years they do not reflect the value of total revenue today. The total revenue received from the extraction and exploration of North Sea oil is £187.8 billion in current prices.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/petroleum-revenue-tax-prt-and-government-revenues-from-uk-oil-and-gas-production</p><p>[2] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/306225/140424_Table_11_11.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/306225/140424_Table_11_11.pdf</a></p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Deighton question first answered 29/10/2014 15:24:02 answering member 4262 label Biography information for Lord Deighton attachment 1 file name t11.11 gov revenue.docx title Government revenues from oil and gas production
tabling member	1651 label Biography information for Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts

101045

registered interest
date	27/10/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Bitcoin
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what guidance he has issued to vendors accepting digital currencies as payment for goods and services.
tabling member constituency	Fareham
tabling member printed	Mr Mark Hoban
uin	212138
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p>The Chancellor of the Exchequer has not issued guidance to vendors accepting digital currencies as payment for goods and services.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In August 2014 the Chancellor announced the Government would undertake a major programme of work looking at the benefits and risks of digital currencies, and look into whether they could or should be regulated.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 03/11/2014 14:06:13 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	1414 label Biography information for Mr Mark Hoban

101044

registered interest
date	27/10/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Income Tax
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 12 October 2012 to Question 292135, what was the average tax paid by those people in each of the top (a) 10, (b) five, (c) one, (d) 0.1 and (e) 0.01 per cent of the population.
tabling member constituency	Oldham West and Royton
tabling member printed	Mr Michael Meacher
uin	212142
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2014 answer text <p>The proportion of total income accounted for by the top 10, 5 and 1 per cent of UK taxpayers by income can be found in table 2.4 'Share of total income (before and after tax) and income tax for percentile groups', available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/income-tax-statistics-and-distributions" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/income-tax-statistics-and-distributions</a></p><p> </p><p>The number and average income of taxpayers in each group can be determined from the above together with table 2.5 'Income Tax liabilities, by income range', with reference to the total number of taxpayers and their income stated on this table.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 19/11/2014 14:04:17 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	454 label Biography information for Mr Michael Meacher

101043

registered interest
date	27/10/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Private Finance Initiative
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many private finance initiative projects his Department contracted for in each year from 1997 to 2010.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Simon Kirby
uin	212105
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2014 answer text <p>The Treasury holds one PFI contract, GOGGS West, which was entered into on 1<sup>st</sup> May 2000. Information on all PFI projects can be found on the following link, <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/private-finance-initiative-projects-2013-summary-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/private-finance-initiative-projects-2013-summary-data</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The current projects spreadsheet can be filtered by procuring authority and then by date of financial close in order to determine the number of projects contracted by a department in a particular year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The information in this spreadsheet is provided by departments and published by the Treasury each year. The current data is at 31 March 2013 but will be updated with information as a 31 March 2014 shortly.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey answering member printed Danny Alexander question first answered 30/10/2014 16:43:21 answering member 1535 label Biography information for Danny Alexander
tabling member	3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby

101049

registered interest
date	27/10/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Income Tax
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people in each region earn between the 2014-15 higher rate threshold and £55,000.
tabling member constituency	Bromley and Chislehurst
tabling member printed	Robert Neill
uin	211931
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p>The number of individuals with total income between £41,865 (higher rate threshold) and £55,000 by each Government office region in 2014-15 is projected to be:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Region</p></td><td><p>Taxpayers (thousands)</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>North East</p></td><td><p>84</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West and Merseyside</p></td><td><p>251</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Yorkshire and the Humber</p></td><td><p>173</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Midlands</p></td><td><p>163</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>197</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East of England</p></td><td><p>274</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>421</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South East</p></td><td><p>441</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p>215</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>96</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>211</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northern Ireland</p></td><td><p>51</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>UK</p></td><td><p>2,590</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Table note:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Projected estimates for 2014-15 is based upon the 2011-12 Survey of Personal Incomes using economic assumptions consistent with the OBR’s March 2014 economic and fiscal outlook.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Some UK taxpayers reside abroad, or their region is not known. Therefore, the sum of taxpayer numbers across countries and regions will not match the UK summary.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 11/11/2014 17:27:52 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	1601 label Biography information for Sir Robert Neill