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registered interest
date	07/07/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Small Businesses: Tax Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions he has had on the potential merits of tax relief for small business owners that pay their staff above minimum wage.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	70396
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2020 answer text <p>BEIS and HM Treasury Ministers have regular discussions on a number of different topics, including employment and business support. However, in line with the practice of successive administrations, details of ministerial discussions are not generally disclosed.</p><p> </p><p>The Government keeps all tax policy under review and regularly receives proposals for new tax reliefs. When considering any new relief, HM Treasury must ensure that the relief would be effective at meeting its objectives, would not be subject to abuse, and would represent good value for money for the taxpayer.</p><p> </p><p>At Spring Budget, the Government supported businesses by making further significant cuts to business rates and also delivered on its commitment to increase the Employment Allowance from £3,000 to £4,000. This allowed businesses and charities to claim up to £4,000 off their National Insurance contributions from April 2020. Businesses can also deduct 100% of staff costs from their corporation tax bill. These measures are on top of having the lowest corporation tax in the G20.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 14/07/2020 13:52:48 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1186986

registered interest
date	23/03/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Charities and Tourism: 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 potential merits of providing VAT relief to support the charity and tourism sectors during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	33534
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2020 answer text <p>On 20 March, the Government announced that all UK VAT registered businesses, which include charities and businesses in the tourism sector, can defer VAT payments due with their VAT returns between now and the end of June. No UK VAT registered business will have to make a VAT payment alongside their VAT return to HMRC in that period. They will have until the end of the financial year (March 31 2021) to repay.</p><p> </p><p>This is in addition to the Chancellor’s announcement on 17 March of a comprehensive support package worth £330 billion to protect businesses during the COVID-19 outbreak.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 27/03/2020 10:02:28 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1183518

registered interest
date	09/03/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Gaming Machines: Excise Duties
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much Machine Games Duty was paid by (a) individuals and (b) organisations based in Northern Ireland in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	26860
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2020 answer text <p>During the last five financial years HMRC received the following payments for Machine Games Duty (MGD) from UK taxpayers:</p><p>2014/15 = £562.3 million</p><p>2015/16 = £663.3 million</p><p>2016/17 = £707.0 million</p><p>2017/18 = £712.2 million</p><p>2018/19 = £720.0 million</p><p>HMRC publish information on total MGD receipts within the ‘UK Betting and Gaming Statistics’ publication: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uk-betting-and-gaming-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uk-betting-and-gaming-statistics</a>. No disaggregation of MGD receipts paid by individuals and organisations in Northern Ireland is available as this information is not recorded on trader returns or cash receipts.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 17/03/2020 15:25:28 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1183519

registered interest
date	09/03/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Gaming Machines: Excise Duties
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) individuals and (b) organisations based in Northern Ireland are registered to pay Machine Games Duty.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	26861
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2020 answer text <p>HMRC registration data indicates that there are 791 businesses registered for Machine Games Duty and 27 registered for Bingo Duty with a Northern Ireland postcode. HMRC cannot split the data by business type for NI alone.</p><p> </p><p>The HMRC figure for registrations with an NI postcode does not include any UK-wide businesses which are registered to a GB address.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 26863 question first answered 17/03/2020 15:51:52 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1183520

registered interest
date	09/03/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Bingo: Excise Duties
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much Bingo Duty was paid by (a) individuals and (b) organisations based in Northern Ireland in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	26862
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2020 answer text <p>During the last five financial years HMRC received the following payments for Bingo Duty from UK taxpayers:</p><p> </p><p>2014/15 = £47.0 million</p><p>2015/16 = £33.9 million</p><p>2016/17 = £34.5 million</p><p>2017/18 = £32.4 million</p><p>2018/19 = £33.4 million</p><p> </p><p>HMRC publish information on total Bingo Duty receipts within the ‘UK Betting and Gaming Statistics’ publication: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uk-betting-and-gaming-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uk-betting-and-gaming-statistics</a></p><p> </p><p>No disaggregation of Bingo Duty receipts paid by individuals and organisations in Northern Ireland is available as this information is not recorded on trader returns or cash receipts.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 17/03/2020 15:21:16 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1183521

registered interest
date	09/03/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Bingo: Excise Duties
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) individuals and (b) organisations based in Northern Ireland are registered to pay Bingo Duty.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	26863
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2020 answer text <p>HMRC registration data indicates that there are 791 businesses registered for Machine Games Duty and 27 registered for Bingo Duty with a Northern Ireland postcode. HMRC cannot split the data by business type for NI alone.</p><p> </p><p>The HMRC figure for registrations with an NI postcode does not include any UK-wide businesses which are registered to a GB address.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 26861 question first answered 17/03/2020 15:51:52 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1179834

registered interest
date	24/02/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Inheritance Tax
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to reduce Inheritance Tax to 10 per cent.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	19958
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2020 answer text <p>All taxes are regularly kept under review and as is customary for tax policy, any changes to Inheritance Tax would be delivered through a future fiscal event.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 03/03/2020 13:43:00 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1144600

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	Small Businesses: Tax Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to introduce tax relief to small businesses to encourage those businesses to pay the living wage.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	286751
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>The Government is responsible for setting legal minimum wage floors which protect vulnerable low paid workers. We are proud to have introduced The National Living Wage, which increased again in April to £8.21. We commend employers who pay more when they can afford to do so.</p><p> </p><p>The Government keeps the tax system under review, and since 2010 has taken a range of actions to support small businesses.</p><p> </p><p>The corporation tax rate has been lowered from 19%, businesses have been entitled to the Employment Allowance, 100% Small Business Rate Relief has been made permanent and the Government has doubled the rateable value threshold for 100% relief, meaning more than 675,000 of the smallest businesses do not pay business rates at all.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 09/09/2019 15:07:35 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1144601

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	Stamp Duty Land Tax: Repayments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether a refund for higher stamp duty after the sale of a principle home will be granted in the event that the deadline for reclaiming stamp duty has passed due to technical issues at HMRC.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	286752
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>Where an individual meets the conditions for requesting a refund of the higher rates of Stamp Duty Land Tax, following the sale of their previous main residence, they must do so within a prescribed time limit.</p><p> </p><p>If an individual’s refund is delayed by an HMRC technical issue, the individual would need to include information and evidence about that issue so that HMRC can consider those circumstances.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 09/09/2019 15:07:53 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1092660

registered interest
date	21/03/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Cycling and Walking
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with the Local Government Association on encouraging councils to use City Region Deals to increase access to cycling and walking routes.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	235309
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2019 answer text <p>The Department made clear, in its 2018 response to the Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy Safety Review, that local councils should invest around 15 per cent of their local transport infrastructure funding on safe and efficient cycling and walking infrastructure. The Department continues to encourage local authorities to make use of the Transforming Cities Fund and other relevant national funding streams to support cycling and walking schemes and engages regularly with them in the development of their LCWIPs (Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plans). Departmental officials have had discussions from time to time with representatives from the Local Government Association to discuss local authorities’ support for cycling and walking.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 25/03/2019 15:57:25 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon