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675664

	registered interest
	date	19/01/2017
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	World Trade Organisation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Written Statement of 5 December 2016, HCWS316 on the UK's commitments at the World Trade Organisation (WTO), what assessment he has made of the effect of the draft WTO schedules on the cost efficiency of the UK toy manufacturing industry.
	tabling member constituency	Brent North
	tabling member printed	Barry Gardiner
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	60782
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2017 answer text <p>As set out in the Written Ministerial Statement, we will draft schedules which replicate as far as possible our current obligations. The Government seeks to ensure continuity for business as we leave the EU.</p> answering member constituency Wyre Forest answering member printed Mark Garnier question first answered 26/01/2017 11:22:41 answering member 4074 label Biography information for Mark Garnier
	tabling member	146 label Biography information for Barry Gardiner

677454

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Whisky: Scotland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent estimate the Government has made of the economic contribution of the Scotch whisky industry to the (a) Scottish and (b) UK economy.
	tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
	tabling member printed	Ian Murray
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	61150
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2017 answer text <p>The Government has not made an independent assessment of the contribution of Scotch whisky to the Scottish or UK economies. However, the Scotch Whisky Association estimates that the industry contributes over £5 billion to the UK economy, supporting over 40,000 jobs.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 26/01/2017 10:58:37 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray

675434

	registered interest
	date	19/01/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	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 times deductions have been made from a person's child tax credit payment to service outstanding arrears from working tax credits in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
	tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	60739
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 26/01/2017 10:56:45 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

677450

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Venture Capital
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people received income tax relief for venture capital trusts in (a) 2014-15 and (b) 2015-16.
	tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
	tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	61130
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2017 answer text <p>The number of people claiming income tax relief on investments in Venture Capital Trusts (VCT) in 2014-15 was 12,920. HM Revenue and Customs has not yet published statistics for the number of claims in 2015-16; these will be published by the end of 2017, as part of the regular schedule of VCT statistics.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 26/01/2017 11:03:25 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey

675662

	registered interest
	date	19/01/2017
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	Trade Fairs: USA
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, if his Department will make funding available to help businesses attend the Craft Brewers Conference and BrewExpo in Washington DC on 13 April 2017; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Brent North
	tabling member printed	Barry Gardiner
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	60781
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2017 answer text <p>We are working with our delivery partners to agree the 2017/18 Tradeshow Access Programme. Funding for the Craft Brewers Conference and BrewExpo in Washington will be considered as part of the Department for International Trade's Business Forecasting process.</p> answering member constituency Wyre Forest answering member printed Mark Garnier question first answered 26/01/2017 11:18:43 answering member 4074 label Biography information for Mark Garnier
	tabling member	146 label Biography information for Barry Gardiner

675656

	registered interest
	date	19/01/2017
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	Trade Fairs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether his Department's decision to offer financial support to companies wishing to attend a trade show is determined by the location of that trade show.
	tabling member constituency	Brent North
	tabling member printed	Barry Gardiner
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	60954
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2017 answer text <p>The events approved for inclusion in the programme are determined with Department for International Trade (DIT) officials, Industry representatives and with Trade Challenge Partner, who are DIT accredited delivery partners, to ensure the events included in the programme benefit UK companies irrespective of location.</p> answering member constituency Wyre Forest answering member printed Mark Garnier question first answered 26/01/2017 11:21:36 answering member 4074 label Biography information for Mark Garnier
	tabling member	146 label Biography information for Barry Gardiner

677453

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Tax Allowances
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) people or (b) businesses received each tax relief listed in the HM Revenue and Customs document Estimated Costs of Principal Tax Reliefs, published on 30 December 2016, in (a) 2014-15 and (b) 2015-16.
	tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
	tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	61133
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2017 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs publishes statistics providing estimates of the cost of tax reliefs for 2012-13 to 2016-17 for principal and minor tax reliefs. Information on the number of people or businesses who claim these reliefs is not available for the full list of reliefs in these tables.</p><p> </p><p>The bulletin that accompanies the tables has recently been extended to provide links to other statistical information on tax reliefs. In some cases this includes numbers of claimants, where this is currently available. This is available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/579690/Dec16_Reliefs_bulletin_Final.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/579690/Dec16_Reliefs_bulletin_Final.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 61243 question first answered 26/01/2017 11:08:53 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey

677455

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Tax Allowances
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) people and (b) businesses benefitted from each tax relief listed in HM Revenue and Custom's publication of 30 December 2016, entitled Minor Tax Expenditures and Structural Reliefs in (i) 2014-15 and (ii) 2015-16.
	tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
	tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	61243
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2017 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs publishes statistics providing estimates of the cost of tax reliefs for 2012-13 to 2016-17 for principal and minor tax reliefs. Information on the number of people or businesses who claim these reliefs is not available for the full list of reliefs in these tables.</p><p> </p><p>The bulletin that accompanies the tables has recently been extended to provide links to other statistical information on tax reliefs. In some cases this includes numbers of claimants, where this is currently available. This is available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/579690/Dec16_Reliefs_bulletin_Final.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/579690/Dec16_Reliefs_bulletin_Final.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 61133 question first answered 26/01/2017 11:08:53 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey

677575

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Refugees: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she plans to take in the next three months to support child refugees who arrived from Syria.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	61233
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2017 answer text <p>All unaccompanied asylum seeking and refugee children in the UK receive care and support from a local authority, regardless of nationality or how they arrived in the country.</p><p> </p><p>On 1 November 2016, the Immigration Minister and the Minister for Vulnerable Children and Families announced that the Government would publish a safeguarding strategy for unaccompanied asylum seeking and refugee children. The detail of the strategy can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/safeguarding-unaccompanied-asylum-seeking-and-refugee-children" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/safeguarding-unaccompanied-asylum-seeking-and-refugee-children</a></p><p> </p><p>Children resettled under our Syrian Vulnerable Person’s Resettlement scheme or our Vulnerable Children’s Resettlement scheme are provided with education, housing, medical or social care as required.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 26/01/2017 08:09:05 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

677444

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Public Sector: Ethnic Groups
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether a dedicated unit has been established to undertake the audit of public services to reveal racial disparities.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	61291
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2017 answer text <p>The purpose of the Race Disparity Audit is to reveal, for the first time, comprehensive information on the disparate outcomes people of different racial groups experience when accessing public services. We will make public the outcome of the Audit clearly and openly for every citizen in Summer 2017. This will include clear and accessible data on a digital platform, following extensive data assurance and user testing. The methodology followed will be published on the platform.</p><p>A dedicated unit to undertake the Audit was established jointly by the Cabinet Office and the Department for Communities and Local Government in September 2016. The unit currently has 11 full-time equivalent staff, though it is supported by staff in every Government department and by the Office for National Statistics.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer grouped question UIN 61292 61293 61294 question first answered 26/01/2017 09:03:27 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis