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789971

	registered interest
	date	15/11/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Individual Savings Accounts
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people had investments in cash ISAs in the 2016-17 financial year.
	tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
	tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	113357
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>HMRC publish National Statistics on ISA account subscriptions and the number of ISAs held by individuals.</p><p> </p><p>Table 9.10 from the ISA statistics shows, for the latest year available (2014-15) over 19 million individuals held Cash ISAs.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/610482/Table_9.10_2014-15_for_publication.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/610482/Table_9.10_2014-15_for_publication.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>The number of individuals holding Cash ISAs in 2016-17 is expected to be published in April 2019.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 20/11/2017 15:27:24 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
	tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

789976

	registered interest
	date	15/11/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Children: Day Care
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Written Statement of 15 November 2017, HCWS 247, on childcare service updates, what assessment he has made of whether the potential number of applications of tax-free childcare accounts has been lower than expected.
	tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
	tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	113354
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>On 24 November we will open the childcare service to those parents whose youngest child is under 6. We will gradually open the service to the remaining parents at the beginning of 2018. Our final decisions on roll-out dates for particular age groups will depend on volumes of applications and the performance of the childcare service. This is to ensure parents receive a better experience and prompt eligibility responses. All eligible parents will be able to apply by the end of March 2018.</p><p> </p><p>We are currently planning our communications campaign, in line with the revised profile for rollout of the service. Our plans include making use of stakeholders, partner websites, government channels and press, as well as some paid for advertising. Our approach is flexible and the costs of the campaign will be dependent on the relative impact of the various types of media.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC, and their delivery partner NS&amp;I, have made a number of technical fixes to the childcare service. The impact of these has been to provide a better customer experience, reduce the number of error screens seen by parents and provide faster eligibility responses. Almost all parents now get an eligibility response within five working days and most get their decision instantly.</p><p> </p><p>The costs for these technical improvements are included in the overall forecast expenditure for the programme, given in the response to Parliamentary Question (105727) on 16 October.</p><p> </p><p>As set out in the Impact Assessment for Tax Free Childcare published in March 2017, we estimate that, when fully rolled out, 1.2 million families will be better off under the new scheme. This assessment can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/652939/Tax-free_childcare_Impact_Assessment-March_2017.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/652939/Tax-free_childcare_Impact_Assessment-March_2017.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The number of live Tax-Free Childcare accounts was given in my response to a Parliamentary Question (106916) on 16 October.</p><p> </p><p>The number of parents with a Tax-Free Childcare account is currently lower than expected due to a combination of us opening the service to parents more slowly, and initial take-up being slower than expected. The service is currently open to parents of younger children who tend to focus more on using 30 hours free childcare over Tax-Free Childcare.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 113350 113351 113352 113353 question first answered 20/11/2017 13:51:12 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

789982

	registered interest
	date	15/11/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Appleby: Disclosure of Information
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has taken legal steps to obtain information held by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists relating to the Paradise papers.
	tabling member constituency	Oldham West and Royton
	tabling member printed	Jim McMahon
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	113170
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>HMRC does not have power to acquire journalistic material held overseas and, therefore, is unable to obtain the information held by the ICIJ ‎known as the Paradise Papers. However, HMRC has requested access to the material that has been provided by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists to the BBC and <em>The Guardian</em>. HMRC has also encouraged these organisations to pass on any information that points to wrongdoing and are prepared to look at every allegation in full.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 20/11/2017 14:25:03 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	4569 label Biography information for Jim McMahon

789983

	registered interest
	date	15/11/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Tax Evasion
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people were charged with tax evasion in each year from 2010 to date; and how many of those people served a custodial sentence as a result of that tax evasion.
	tabling member constituency	Oldham West and Royton
	tabling member printed	Jim McMahon
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	113172
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs is not itself a prosecuting authority. All prosecutions have to be authorised by the relevant independent prosecuting authority, which for England and Wales would be the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS); for Scotland, the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS); and for Northern Ireland, the Public Prosecution Service for Northern Ireland (PPSNI).</p><p> </p><p>The custodial sentences handed down in a particular financial year may be in respect of charging decisions made in previous years, due to the length of time individuals can take to proceed through the judicial system from charging decision to outcome. They therefore do not correlate directly to the number of charging decisions in that financial year.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Positive Charging Decisions</p></td><td><p>Number of Custodial Sentences Handed Down</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>501</p></td><td><p>241</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>739</p></td><td><p>227</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>880</p></td><td><p>241</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>1254</p></td><td><p>247</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>1067</p></td><td><p>272</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>1067</p></td><td><p>292</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 20/11/2017 14:37:39 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	4569 label Biography information for Jim McMahon

789994

	registered interest
	date	15/11/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Small Businesses: VAT
	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 potential effect of changes to eligibility for VAT registration on (a) guest houses and bed and breakfast outlets and (b) other small and medium-sized enterprises.
	tabling member constituency	North Ayrshire and Arran
	tabling member printed	Patricia Gibson
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	113430
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>The UK's VAT registration threshold is currently set at £85,000. Businesses must register for VAT when their turnover is above £85,000. Businesses below the threshold are eligible to register voluntarily if making taxable supplies.</p><p> </p><p>To assess the impact of VAT on small and medium enterprises HM Revenue and Customs commissioned Ipsos MORI to conduct research into their behaviours and experiences around VAT registration. The report was published on 16 November 2017.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 20/11/2017 14:41:39 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	4435 label Biography information for Patricia Gibson

789998

	registered interest
	date	15/11/2017
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Homelessness: Mortality Rates
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the effect of cheap, super-strength alcohol on rates of mortality among people who are homeless.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	113327
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>No specific assessment has been made of this issue but this Government is committed to preventing and reducing homelessness across the board. That is why we are aiming to halve rough sleeping by 2022 and eliminate it altogether by 2027. We are investing over £950 million to reduce homelessness and rough sleeping in England by 2020 following the 2015 Spending Review. This includes £10 million of Social Impact Bond funding to support single homeless people with the most complex needs, such as mental health, substance or alcohol misuse.</p><p>We are taking action by implementing the most ambitious legislative reform in decades, the Homelessness Reduction Act, in April 2018, which will ensure that more people get the help they need earlier, to prevent them from becoming homeless in the first place.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 20/11/2017 15:11:56 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

789999

	registered interest
	date	15/11/2017
	answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Sports
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, which groups she has met to discuss pension and workplace rights for elite GB athletes who receive UK Sport or National Lottery funding; and when those meetings took place.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	113333
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>No such meetings have taken place. Financial support for individual athletes is made through the Lottery-funded Athlete Performance Awards which serve to contribute to meeting the athlete’s ordinary living costs and their personal sporting costs, and are awarded on an annual basis subject to a number of criteria including athletes' level of performance.</p><p> </p><p>As promised in the Sporting Future strategy, Government commissioned an independent report by Baroness Grey-Thompson on the Duty of Care owed by sport to its participants. That report was published in April and covered a range of issues relating to elite and grassroots sport. UK Sport is ​currently considering that report in the context of making improvements to the high performance system.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 20/11/2017 15:01:04 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

790000

	registered interest
	date	15/11/2017
	answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Olympic Games
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will discuss with the British Olympic Association renaming the Olympic Team from Team GB to Team UK.
	tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
	tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	113358
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>We do not intend to hold discussions with the British Olympic Association (BOA), an independent organisation, ​about​ renaming the Olympic team from Team GB to Team UK. The BOA is responsible for the trading name and branding of the Olympic team representing Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man, the Channel Islands and the UK Overseas Territories.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 20/11/2017 15:15:21 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
	tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

790003

	registered interest
	date	15/11/2017
	answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Social Media: Russia
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what meetings she has had with Cabinet colleagues on the role of social media platforms in alleged Russian interference in the 2016 EU Referendum.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	113335
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>Ministers from the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport have regular meetings with their ministerial colleagues on a range of issues.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 20/11/2017 15:08:41 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

790007

	registered interest
	date	15/11/2017
	answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Social Media: Advertising
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department has made an assessment of the total advertising spend across social media platforms in the UK in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	113206
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>We have made no such assessment. However, DCMS does produce annual estimates of the contributions of all of its sectors (including the Creative Industries, and within that the 'Advertising and Marketing' sub-sector) to the UK economy, measuring their GVA, imports and exports of goods and services, employment, and number of enterprises. These statistics can be found online at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dcms-sectors-economic-estimates.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 20/11/2017 15:03:43 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham