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1462942

registered interest
date	16/05/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Charging Points: VAT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the (a) potential impact of the higher rate of VAT charged on public electric vehicle charging compared with home charging on the uptake of electric vehicles and (b) potential distributional impact of that differential on households by income bracket.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Zarah Sultana
uin	2301
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/05/2022 answer text <p>In order to keep costs down for families, the supply of electricity for domestic use, including charging an electric vehicle (EV) at home, attracts the 5 per cent reduced rate of VAT. However, electricity supplied at EV charging points in public places is subject to the 20 per cent standard rate of VAT.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has not specifically introduced a reduced rate for charging EVs at home. However, the practical challenges of differentiating between the electricity used at home for general domestic purposes and electricity used to charge EVs currently mean that the reduced rate is effectively being applied to EV charging at home.</p><p> </p><p>Harmonising the rate of VAT on electricity for public and domestic charging points for electric vehicles would require the Government to expand the existing VAT relief on electricity for domestic use (that is also used to charge EVs at home) to electricity for use at public EV charge points, and this would come at a cost.</p><p> </p><p>VAT makes a significant contribution towards the public finances, raising around £130 billion in 2019-20, and helps fund the Government's priorities including the NHS, schools, and defence. Any loss in tax revenue would have to be balanced by a reduction in public spending, increased borrowing, or increased taxation elsewhere.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to supporting the transition to zero emission vehicles to help the UK meet its net-zero obligations. The Government has committed £2.5 billion since 2020 to support the transition to zero emission vehicles, which funds targeted vehicle grants and the rollout of charging infrastructure.</p><p> </p><p>There are currently no plans to change the VAT treatment of electricity supplied at public EV charge points. However, the Government keeps all taxes under review, and carefully considers behavioural effects and distributional impacts when making decisions on tax policy.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 19/05/2022 14:31:51 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4786 label Biography information for Zarah Sultana

1462955

registered interest
date	16/05/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Fuels: VAT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of using a proportion of VAT accruing to the Exchequer from the rise in fuel prices to help low income households with the cost of living.
tabling member constituency	Ynys Môn
tabling member printed	Virginia Crosbie
uin	2314
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/05/2022 answer text <p>Increases in VAT per litre of fuel from rising prices are likely to be largely offset by reductions in VAT on other items if households have less to spend on these items, given higher fuel expenditure and a fixed budget. Therefore, this would not lead to a significant increase in overall VAT receipts. The Office for Budget Responsibility now forecasts lower VAT receipts for this year, 2022-23, than they did in Autumn 2021.</p><p> </p><p>The Government understands how the rising cost of living is making life harder for people. These are global challenges. However, as set out in the Spring Statement 2022, the Government is providing support worth over £22 billion in 2022-23 to help families with these pressures.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 19/05/2022 14:33:34 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4859 label Biography information for Virginia Crosbie

1462535

registered interest
date	12/05/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Taxpayer Protection Taskforce: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much of the Government's £100 million investment in the Taxpayer Protection Taskforce, announced in November 2021, has been used for (a) existing and (b) new HMRC staff.
tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
tabling member printed	Abena Oppong-Asare
uin	1366
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2022 answer text <p>The Covid Taxpayer Protection Taskforce is made up of 1,265 experienced compliance officers, and all its staff have been reassigned from other teams across HMRC. These staff were selected from those who have tax training and compliance experience. Once they joined the taskforce, staff were provided with additional training on the COVID-19 Schemes.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC has recruited an additional 430 full-time equivalent staff, funded for five years, to backfill those colleagues who were deployed to the Covid-19 taskforce for two years.</p><p> </p><p>The £100 million has been used to recruit new HMRC staff to backfill those who were reassigned into the Covid-19 taskforce.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 1367 question first answered 17/05/2022 15:16:37 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4820 label Biography information for Abena Oppong-Asare

1462536

registered interest
date	12/05/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Taxpayer Protection Taskforce: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff have been (a) reassigned from other teams in HMRC into the Taxpayer Protection Taskforce and (b) hired by HMRC to replace those who have been reassigned.
tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
tabling member printed	Abena Oppong-Asare
uin	1367
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2022 answer text <p>The Covid Taxpayer Protection Taskforce is made up of 1,265 experienced compliance officers, and all its staff have been reassigned from other teams across HMRC. These staff were selected from those who have tax training and compliance experience. Once they joined the taskforce, staff were provided with additional training on the COVID-19 Schemes.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC has recruited an additional 430 full-time equivalent staff, funded for five years, to backfill those colleagues who were deployed to the Covid-19 taskforce for two years.</p><p> </p><p>The £100 million has been used to recruit new HMRC staff to backfill those who were reassigned into the Covid-19 taskforce.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 1366 question first answered 17/05/2022 15:16:37 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4820 label Biography information for Abena Oppong-Asare

1462537

registered interest
date	12/05/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many allegations of fraud in the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme from whistleblowers HMRC has (a) received, (b) investigated and (c) concluded were fraudulent as of 12 May 2022.
tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
tabling member printed	Abena Oppong-Asare
uin	1368
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2022 answer text <p>HMRC does not categorise intelligence reports, including allegations received from whistle-blowers, by fraud or other non-compliant behaviours and so is unable to provide the information requested.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 17/05/2022 15:21:54 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4820 label Biography information for Abena Oppong-Asare

1462538

registered interest
date	12/05/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Eat Out to Help Out Scheme: Fraud
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 value of Eat to Help Out funds that were claimed fraudulently.
tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
tabling member printed	Abena Oppong-Asare
uin	1369
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2022 answer text <p>HMRC identifies claims for compliance checks where the amount of the claim is out of step with other information. The risk that a claim is incorrect may be due to either an honest mistake or fraud, and the reason cannot be established until the check is concluded.</p><p>Estimates for the proportion of error and fraud were published in November 2021, and can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/measuring-error-and-fraud-in-the-covid-19-schemes/measuring-error-and-fraud-in-the-covid-19-support-schemes-methodology-and-approach" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/measuring-error-and-fraud-in-the-covid-19-schemes/measuring-error-and-fraud-in-the-covid-19-support-schemes-methodology-and-approach</a>.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 17/05/2022 15:19:50 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4820 label Biography information for Abena Oppong-Asare

1462621

registered interest
date	12/05/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Charging Points: VAT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the disparity in the rates of VAT on electricity for public and domestic charging points for electric vehicles; and whether he plans to harmonise those rates.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
tabling member printed	Emma Hardy
uin	1304
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/05/2022 answer text <p>In order to keep costs down for families, the supply of electricity for domestic use, including charging an electric vehicle (EV) at home, attracts the 5 per cent reduced rate of VAT. However, electricity supplied at EV charging points in public places is subject to the 20 per cent standard rate of VAT.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has not specifically introduced a reduced rate for charging EVs at home. However, the practical challenges of differentiating between the electricity used at home for general domestic purposes, and electricity used to charge EVs currently mean that the reduced rate is effectively being applied to EV charging at home.</p><p> </p><p>Harmonising the rate of VAT on electricity for public and domestic charging points for electric vehicles would require the Government to expand the existing VAT relief on electricity for domestic use (that is also used to charge EVs at home) to electricity for use at public EV charge points and this would come at a cost.</p><p> </p><p>VAT makes a significant contribution towards the public finances, raising around £130 billion in 2019-20, and helps fund the Government's priorities including the NHS, schools, and defence. Any loss in tax revenue would have to be balanced by a reduction in public spending, increased borrowing, or increased taxation elsewhere.</p><p> </p><p>Although there are no current plans to change the VAT treatment of electricity supplied at public EV charge points, the Government is committed to supporting the transition to zero emission vehicles to help the UK meet its net-zero obligations. The Government has committed £2.5 billion since 2020 to support the transition to zero emission vehicles, which funds targeted vehicle grants and the rollout of charging infrastructure.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 19/05/2022 16:01:30 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4645 label Biography information for Emma Hardy

1462663

registered interest
date	12/05/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Uranium: Imports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Answer of 26 April 2022 to Question 154146, if he will publish the table showing the volume of Uranium imported into the UK by Country of Origin from 2016 to 2022.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	1211
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2022 answer text <p>As stated in the answer to UIN 154146, HMRC is responsible for the collection and publication of data on imports and exports of goods to and from the UK. HMRC releases this information monthly, as a National Statistic called the Overseas Trade in Goods Statistics (OTS), which is available via their dedicated website: www.uktradeinfo.com. From this website, it is also possible to build your own data tables based upon bespoke search criteria: https://www.uktradeinfo.com/trade-data/ots-custom-table.</p><p> </p><p>The table showing the volume of uranium imported into the UK by country of origin from 2016-22 has already been provided in the answer to UIN 154146. UK imports by country of origin (including for uranium), are already publicly available within the bulk datasets available to download at: <a href="https://www.uktradeinfo.com/trade-data/latest-bulk-datasets/" target="_blank">https://www.uktradeinfo.com/trade-data/latest-bulk-datasets/</a>.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 17/05/2022 15:18:04 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1461781

registered interest
date	11/05/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Taxation: Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent steps he has taken to help ensure efficient and clear communication between HMRC and Child Maintenance Service regarding tax fraud claims and investigations.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	924
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/05/2022 answer text <p>HMRC use a wide range of data to tackle non-compliance, including tax fraud. As part of this HMRC and the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) share data to enable tax investigations, and where intelligence relates to Child Maintenance, HMRC review this for evidence of fraud. Where either HMRC or the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) receive an allegation of wrongdoing and it is pertinent to the other Department, this information will be securely disseminated to the Department for their ongoing action. This is a long-established process conducted under the relevant legal gateway.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC regularly shares data with DWP as the parent organisation for the CMS to support in administering the Child Maintenance System in Great Britain under the Welfare Reform Act.</p><p> </p><p>The information shared for use by the CMS is set out in law under the Child Support Maintenance Calculation Regulations 2012 and HMRC shares information relating to certain types of income specified in either the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 or the Income Tax (Trading and Other Income) Act 2005.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Welfare Reform Act enables HMRC to share information at the request of DWP for certain purposes. These specific requests are to assist DWP in their activities to tackle fraud and undertake investigations. All requests of this type are dealt with via a long-standing Memorandum of Understanding that is regularly reviewed for legality, proportionality, and to ensure it is fit for purpose.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 18/05/2022 14:50:17 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1461833

registered interest
date	11/05/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	High Income Child Benefit Tax Charge
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Answer of 26 April 2022 to Question 154192 on Child Benefit, if his department will make an assessment of the potential merits of indexing the High Income Child Benefit Charge threshold in line with inflation.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	869
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/05/2022 answer text <p>The Government introduced the High Income Child Benefit Charge (HICBC) to ensure that support for families is targeted at those who need it most. It applies to anyone with an individual adjusted net income over £50,000 who gets, or whose partner gets, Child Benefit. The charge increases gradually for those with incomes between £50,000 and £60,000</p><p>The Government is committed to managing the public finances in a disciplined and responsible way by targeting support where it is most needed.</p><p> </p><p>The threshold of £50,000 only affects a minority of those who get Child Benefit with comparatively high incomes. The Government has decided that the current threshold for HICBC remains the best option. As with all elements of tax policy, the threshold is kept under review as part of the Government’s annual Budget process.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 19/05/2022 15:54:30 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day