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1150190

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Affordable Housing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he will announce the funding for the next phase of the Affordable Homes Programme.
	tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
	tabling member printed	John Healey
	uin	887
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2019 answer text <p>The government is committed to increasing the supply of affordable housing and has made £9 billion available through the Affordable Homes Programme to March 2022 to deliver approximately 250,000 new affordable homes. We have already secured the future of the programme by announcing funding of £2 billion for its next phase, to give certainty to strategic partners and support them to deliver homes throughout the next decade.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 21/10/2019 15:48:26 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
	tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1144806

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Agriculture: Scotland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the £160 million announced in Spending Round 2019 as a result of the Bew Review will be ringfenced for agriculture so that the Scottish Parliament can decide how it is allocated within that sector.
	tabling member constituency	Ochil and South Perthshire
	tabling member printed	Luke Graham
	uin	286834
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>The Chancellor announced at the recent Spending Round that we will provide £160m to the Scottish Government in 2020-21 in relation to historic allocations of Common Agricultural Policy ‘convergence’ funding. The additional funding will be ring-fenced for farmers and land managers in Scotland. The review led by Lord Bew of Donegore has considered a separate but related matter.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 09/09/2019 09:17:35 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
	tabling member	4622 label Biography information for Luke Graham

1147126

	registered interest
	date	30/09/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to his announcement of 28 September 2019 of £16.6 billion to guarantee funding for organisations in receipt of EU programme funding in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal, whether charities and non-Governmental organisations that receive funding from the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund will be eligible for that funding.
	tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
	tabling member printed	Tim Farron
	uin	292183
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 answer text <p>Organisations that have successfully bid directly to the European Commission for Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) funding on a competitive basis while the UK is still in the EU are covered by this guarantee. The £16.6 billion of funding announced includes provisions for eligible AMIF recipients.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 03/10/2019 16:41:30 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
	tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

1142353

	registered interest
	date	25/07/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Brexit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what funds his Department has allocated to no deal preparation and how much of that funding has been spent in (a) the last two years and (b) in the current financial year.
	tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
	tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
	uin	282336
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2019 answer text <p>The Government’s preference is to leave the EU with a deal. However, the Prime Minister has said that the UK will be leaving on 31 October – whatever the circumstances.</p><p> </p><p>On 1 August 2019, the Treasury announced £2.1 billion specifically to prepare for leaving the EU without a deal. £1.1 billion of this is an immediate cash boost to prepare critical areas for EU exit on 31 October, with a further £1 billion to enhance operational preparedness this financial year, if needed.</p><p> </p><p>Prior to this, the Government had already allocated £4.2 billion to prepare for a range of EU exit scenarios. Within this, work on no-deal exit preparations cannot be readily separated from other EU exit work, given the significant overlap in plans in many cases.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 03/09/2019 13:36:06 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
	tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

1144802

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Brexit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of per head of population spending on contingency plans in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal in each (a) nation and (b) region of the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	286656
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>This Government would prefer to leave with a deal and will work in an energetic and determined way to get that better deal.</p><p> </p><p>But the Treasury stands ready to provide funding to prepare for leaving without a deal. That is why the Chancellor and I have made over £2bn available for no deal preparations this year (2019-20) since taking office. All parts of the UK have benefitted from this funding, with the Barnett formula being applied in the usual way.</p><p> </p><p>Should the UK leave without a deal, the Treasury will consider the appropriate response. The Government and the Bank of England have fiscal and monetary policy tools available, and are ready to respond as appropriate to support the economy should the circumstances require.</p><p> </p><p>The government has already guaranteed that UK organisations who get EU programme funding will continue to do so should the EU cease to fund these organisations after exit.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 09/09/2019 09:31:20 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1147163

	registered interest
	date	30/09/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Brexit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of the funding for preparations for the UK leaving the EU have been allocated to preparations for leaving (a) with and (b) without a deal.
	tabling member constituency	City of Chester
	tabling member printed	Christian Matheson
	uin	292269
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 answer text <p>Between 2016 and this summer, the government has provided over £6bn of additional funding for departments and devolved administrations to prepare for EU exit. This has all been core funding, for any scenario.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to this core funding, the Chancellor announced £2.1bn on 1 August 2019 specifically to prepare for leaving the EU without a deal.</p><p> </p><p>Further to these allocations of funding, on 30 September 2019 the government reaffirmed its funding guarantee if the UK leaves the EU without a deal and should the EU cease to fund UK organisations after EU exit. This guarantee relates to UK organisations in receipt of certain EU programme funding. The total amount expected to be covered by the guarantee would be £4.3bn for this financial year.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 03/10/2019 16:33:37 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
	tabling member	4408 label Biography information for Christian Matheson

1172914

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2020
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Brexit: Costs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of preparations for the UK leaving the EU without a deal.
	tabling member constituency	Tottenham
	tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
	uin	7108
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2020 answer text <p>On 1 August 2019 the government made £2.1bn available for the 2019-20 financial year, to support preparations to leave the EU without a deal. Some of this funding supported measures necessary to prepare for the UK’s future outside the EU, whether via a deal or “no deal”.</p><p> </p><p>This provision was additional to the £4.2bn of “core” funding already provided by the government between 2016-17 and 2019-20, for departments and devolved administrations to prepare for Brexit in any scenario.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 31/01/2020 11:05:28 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
	tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

1169005

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2020
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Broadband: Rural Areas
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What fiscal steps he is taking to improve broadband connections in rural communities.
	tabling member constituency	Fylde
	tabling member printed	Mark Menzies
	uin	900054
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2020 answer text <p>We want to deliver gigabit-capable broadband across the country as soon as possible.</p><p> </p><p>We have already committed over £1 billion to support the rollout of next-generation digital infrastructure, and, at Conference, the Chancellor announced an ambition to invest £5bn to support gigabit broadband rollout in the hardest to reach areas.</p><p> </p><p>We will set out further details of our approach in our National Infrastructure Strategy later this year.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak grouped question UIN 900057 question first answered 07/01/2020 16:14:13 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
	tabling member	3998 label Biography information for Mark Menzies

1169006

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2020
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Broadband: Rural Areas
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What fiscal steps he is taking to improve broadband connections in rural communities.
	tabling member constituency	Witney
	tabling member printed	Robert Courts
	uin	900057
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2020 answer text <p>We want to deliver gigabit-capable broadband across the country as soon as possible.</p><p> </p><p>We have already committed over £1 billion to support the rollout of next-generation digital infrastructure, and, at Conference, the Chancellor announced an ambition to invest £5bn to support gigabit broadband rollout in the hardest to reach areas.</p><p> </p><p>We will set out further details of our approach in our National Infrastructure Strategy later this year.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak grouped question UIN 900054 question first answered 07/01/2020 16:14:13 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
	tabling member	4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts

1144763

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Buildings: Safety
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to his oral statement of 4 September 2019 entitled, Spending Round 2019, to what programmes will the £24 million additional funding for the Building Safety Programme to support the new building safety regime be allocated.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon Central
	tabling member printed	Sarah Jones
	uin	286843
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>The Spending Round confirmed that the Government will provide £24m of additional funding for the Building Safety Programme in 2020/21 to help prevent a tragedy like Grenfell happening again. The Government has announced that £10m of this funding will be available to support the Protection Board who will provide expert, tailored building checks and inspections, if necessary, on all high-risk residential buildings in England by 2021. The remaining funding will be used to support the new building safety regime.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 09/09/2019 09:39:55 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
	tabling member	4631 label Biography information for Sarah Jones