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1653870

registered interest
date	18/07/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Aviation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make it his policy to end flights by private jet; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	194738
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2023 answer text <p>The Government is committed to tackling climate change – and doing so without imposing unnecessary burdens on individuals or businesses.</p><p>Analysis in the Jet Zero Strategy shows that the sector can achieve net zero aviation by 2050 without the need for direct interventions to limit aviation growth, which has significant economic and social benefits, by focusing on new fuels and technologies.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 25/07/2023 09:50:33 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1643378

registered interest
date	09/06/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Active Travel: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the National Audit Office’s report on Active Travel in England, HC1376, Session 2022-23, what assessment he has made of the economic impact of the £233 million reduction in active travel funding announced in March 2023 on the trends in the level of active travel undertaken.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	188700
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2023 answer text <p>The Department welcomes the report and will consider its recommendations carefully. The Department will provide its formal response following the scheduled Public Accounts Committee hearing.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 188701 question first answered 14/06/2023 14:50:16 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1643379

registered interest
date	09/06/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Active Travel: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to National Audit Office’s report entitled Active Travel in England, HC1376, Session 2022-23, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the finding that his Department is not expected to achieve three of its four 2025 objectives for increasing active travel; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	188701
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2023 answer text <p>The Department welcomes the report and will consider its recommendations carefully. The Department will provide its formal response following the scheduled Public Accounts Committee hearing.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 188700 question first answered 14/06/2023 14:50:16 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1608197

registered interest
date	28/03/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Cycling and Walking: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the funding required to meet the Government's goal for half of all journeys in towns and cities being cycled or walked by 2030; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	175558
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2023 answer text <p>The total amount of funding needed depend on a wide range of factors, including decisions on active travel and other policies taken by local authorities. Since the first ever statutory Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy (CWIS1) in 2017, the Government has made a great deal of progress. Over the course of this Parliament, it expects a total of around £3 billion from a wide range of funding streams to be invested in delivering safe and accessible walking and cycling infrastructure as well as other measures to enable more people to walk and cycle for more of their everyday journeys.</p><p>The Department will include an assessment of progress towards the 2030 goal in its next report to Parliament on the delivery of the statutory Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 03/04/2023 09:46:59 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1608198

registered interest
date	28/03/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Active Travel: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding has been allocated to active travel for the years (a) 2022-23, (b) 2023-24 and (c) 2024-25.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	175559
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2023 answer text <p>In the financial year 2022-23 the Department provided approximately £200 million of dedicated capital funding for active travel and approximately £71 million of dedicated revenue funding. These figures do not include the funding for active travel schemes that came from wider funding streams such as the City Region Sustainable Transport Settlements (CRSTS).</p><p>The Department has confirmed that a total of at least £100m of dedicated capital funding for active travel will be provided over the two-year period 2023/24 to 2024/25, and is currently finalising the revenue budget for active travel for those years as part of its consideration of all future spending plans. Again, this does not include funding for active travel schemes from wider funding streams.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 04/04/2023 09:00:38 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1608199

registered interest
date	28/03/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Active Travel: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the predicted (a) capital and (b) revenue funding for active travel is for the financial year 2023-24.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	175560
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2023 answer text <p>The Department will confirm this matter shortly. It has already confirmed that at least £100m of dedicated capital funding for active travel will be provided over the two-year period of 2023/24 to 2024/25.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 03/04/2023 09:49:34 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1301245

registered interest
date	10/03/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	DMB Solutions: VAT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the HMRC liquidation claim for DMB solutions Ltd, HMRC reference 075 2142906 03, what steps have been taken to recover the £578,497.83 VAT element of HMRC’s claim from the company's directors personally; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	166375
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2021 answer text <p>HMRC cannot release this information as it relates to an identifiable individual or organisation.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 18/03/2021 12:08:03 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1300867

registered interest
date	09/03/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Self-employment Income Support Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reasons businesses eligible for the fifth self-employed grant announced in Budget 2021 will be eligible to claim the equivalent of 80 per cent of three months average trading profits capped at £7,500 when the grant period covers five months from May to September; and what plans he has to help meet lost income for the remaining two months.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	165488
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2021 answer text <p>The Government announced at Budget 2021 that the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) will continue until September, with a fourth and a final fifth grant. The fourth SEISS grant, available to claim from late April, will be worth 80% of average trading profits, paid out in a single instalment covering three months’ worth of annual profits, and capped at £7,500 in total. Further details of the fifth SEISS grant will be published in due course.</p><p> </p><p>Grants are now based on 2019-20  tax returns which is the most up to date information HMRC holds for self-employed individuals. This means that the Government is now in a position to provide support to hundreds of thousands of newly eligible self-employed individuals.</p><p>Using these returns requires time to deliver, due to the increased population and new data. Guidance on how to claim the fourth grant will be available in due course.</p><p> </p><p>The SEISS and the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) are very different schemes. The CJRS pays for hours which are not worked, while SEISS claimants can work while claiming. Furthermore, as the Chancellor announced, employers will be required to contribute to CJRS payments as the economy reopens.  The SEISS is not intended to provide a month-by-month replacement of income. Due to the volatility of self-employed income and the lack of granular data that HMRC hold on self-employed trading profits, precise mapping of income replacement month by month is not possible. Instead, the SEISS provides a lump sum payment to support eligible self-employed individuals whose businesses have been affected by coronavirus.</p><p> </p><p>The SEISS is just one part of a wider package of support for the self-employed. The temporary £20 per week increase to the Universal Credit standard allowance has been extended for six months, and the suspension of the Minimum Income Floor for three months, to the end of July 2021, so that where self-employed claimants' earnings have fallen significantly, their Universal Credit award will have increased to reflect their lower earnings. In addition, they may also have access to other elements of the package, including Restart Grants, the Recovery Loan scheme, business rates relief, and other business support schemes.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 165489 question first answered 17/03/2021 13:42:45 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1300868

registered interest
date	09/03/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Self-employment Income Support Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps the Government is taking to provide financial support for people potentially eligible for the Self-Employed Income Support Scheme (SEISS) prior to being able to make a claim to either the fourth or fifth SEISS grants; and for what reasons that scheme does not deliver parity with the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme with regard to the payment schedule.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	165489
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2021 answer text <p>The Government announced at Budget 2021 that the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) will continue until September, with a fourth and a final fifth grant. The fourth SEISS grant, available to claim from late April, will be worth 80% of average trading profits, paid out in a single instalment covering three months’ worth of annual profits, and capped at £7,500 in total. Further details of the fifth SEISS grant will be published in due course.</p><p> </p><p>Grants are now based on 2019-20  tax returns which is the most up to date information HMRC holds for self-employed individuals. This means that the Government is now in a position to provide support to hundreds of thousands of newly eligible self-employed individuals.</p><p>Using these returns requires time to deliver, due to the increased population and new data. Guidance on how to claim the fourth grant will be available in due course.</p><p> </p><p>The SEISS and the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) are very different schemes. The CJRS pays for hours which are not worked, while SEISS claimants can work while claiming. Furthermore, as the Chancellor announced, employers will be required to contribute to CJRS payments as the economy reopens.  The SEISS is not intended to provide a month-by-month replacement of income. Due to the volatility of self-employed income and the lack of granular data that HMRC hold on self-employed trading profits, precise mapping of income replacement month by month is not possible. Instead, the SEISS provides a lump sum payment to support eligible self-employed individuals whose businesses have been affected by coronavirus.</p><p> </p><p>The SEISS is just one part of a wider package of support for the self-employed. The temporary £20 per week increase to the Universal Credit standard allowance has been extended for six months, and the suspension of the Minimum Income Floor for three months, to the end of July 2021, so that where self-employed claimants' earnings have fallen significantly, their Universal Credit award will have increased to reflect their lower earnings. In addition, they may also have access to other elements of the package, including Restart Grants, the Recovery Loan scheme, business rates relief, and other business support schemes.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 165488 question first answered 17/03/2021 13:42:45 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1290152

registered interest
date	25/02/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Directors: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has identified a method of income certification which would enable directors of micro limited companies to access support during the covid-19 crisis that accurately reflects previous income levels; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	158904
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2021 answer text <p>The Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) and Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) rely on verified HMRC data to identify and target support to those in need. The data that would enable the Government to design a scheme for company directors, including who is a working director and what part of their income it would be appropriate to support, has not historically been and is not collected by HMRC because it has not been needed to administer the tax system. Information held by other bodies such as Companies House also does not in itself provide the verifiable data to target support to those in need. The Government has engaged closely with representative groups in an effort to overcome these operational constraints.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 05/03/2021 14:48:00 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas