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1202278

registered interest
date	10/06/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Roadchef: Employee Benefit Trusts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent progress his Department has made on resolving the dispute between HMRC and the Roadchef Employee Benefits Trust; whether that case can be used as a precedent for other claims; and if he will make it his policy to include a relevant clause in legislative proposals brought forward by his Department to remove the obstacle to payments being made from the Trust to its beneficiaries.
tabling member constituency	New Forest East
tabling member printed	Dr Julian Lewis
uin	57879
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2020 answer text <p>The administration of the tax system is a matter for HM Revenue and Customs, who have indicated that they are in dialogue with the taxpayer. It would not be appropriate for Treasury ministers to become involved in the administration of the tax system in specific cases.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 15/06/2020 14:04:16 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	54 label Biography information for Sir Julian Lewis

1202363

registered interest
date	10/06/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Key Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether key workers working for an employer in receipt of public funding and classified on medical grounds as extremely vulnerable will be eligible to be furloughed under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
uin	57911
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2020 answer text <p>Those working for fully funded public sector organisations, including those that need to shield, should be paid as normal out of existing budgets.</p><p> </p><p>Arrangements should be made to facilitate working from home wherever possible, and reprioritisation and redeployment should be considered to minimise issues with service delivery.</p><p> </p><p>Where an employee needs to shield in a public sector organisation that is not fully funded by public grants, and working from home is not possible, furloughing may be appropriate. However, CJRS claims should remain proportionate to the impact on revenue disruption, and those that need to shield should be furloughed before other staff.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 17/06/2020 13:22:44 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

1202387

registered interest
date	10/06/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will include in the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme employees who are paid annually via PAYE at the end of the financial year.
tabling member constituency	Chipping Barnet
tabling member printed	Theresa Villiers
uin	57925
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2020 answer text <p>For an employee to be eligible for the CJRS they must have been notified to HMRC on a real-time information (RTI) submission on or before 19 March. Those paid annually are eligible to claim, as long as they meet the relevant conditions including being notified to HMRC on an RTI submission on or before 19 March 2020, which relates to a payment of earnings in the 2019/2020 tax year. Anyone paid annually and notified on an RTI submission after that date will not be eligible for the scheme, which puts them in the same position as those who are paid more frequently and were not notified to HMRC on or before 19 March. The 19 March date allows as many people as possible to be included by going right up to the day before the announcement and mitigates the risk of fraud that existed as soon as the scheme became public.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 58016 58044 question first answered 15/06/2020 14:03:51 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers

1202388

registered interest
date	10/06/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Self-employed: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reason he has not amended the Self Employment Income Support Scheme or the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme to introduce temporary support for the self-employed who are employed by a series of short-term PAYE contracts and have not been registered for support through the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme by previous employers.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
uin	58041
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2020 answer text <p>The Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) is available to individuals who are self-employed and who report their trading income through Income Tax Self-Assessment.</p><p> </p><p>To be eligible for the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS), furloughed employees must have been on their employers’ PAYE payroll on or before 19 March 2020 and HMRC must have received an RTI submission notifying payment in respect of that employee on or before the 19 March 2020. It is not possible to amend this deadline owing to the practical implications of monitoring such an extension, and the risk of fraud that has existed since the scheme became public.</p><p> </p><p>Those who do not qualify for SEISS or CJRS may have to access a range of other support, including income tax deferrals, access to a range of grants and loans, and three-month mortgage holidays. The Government has also relaxed the earnings rules for self-employed claimants under Universal Credit.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 15/06/2020 14:14:19 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1202390

registered interest
date	10/06/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Self-employment Income Support Scheme: Directors
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reasons he has not amended the Self Employed Income Support Scheme to include directors of small and medium limited companies who draw their income through dividends.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
uin	58042
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2020 answer text <p>I refer the Honourable Member to the answer to Parliamentary Question 54215 on 9 June 2020.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 15/06/2020 14:15:36 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1202396

registered interest
date	10/06/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and 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 assessment his Department has made of the comparative equity of the £50,000 annual trading profit threshold for determining an applicant's eligibility for the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme and the absence of an equivalent threshold under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
uin	58043
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2020 answer text <p>I refer the Honourable Member to the answer to Parliamentary Question 51693 on 4 June 2020.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 15/06/2020 14:20:04 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1202424

registered interest
date	10/06/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of allowing furlough under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme for employees of companies which make a yearly RTI submission by using information from 2018-19.
tabling member constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East
tabling member printed	Angela Crawley
uin	58016
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2020 answer text <p>For an employee to be eligible for the CJRS they must have been notified to HMRC on a real-time information (RTI) submission on or before 19 March. Those paid annually are eligible to claim, as long as they meet the relevant conditions including being notified to HMRC on an RTI submission on or before 19 March 2020, which relates to a payment of earnings in the 2019/2020 tax year. Anyone paid annually and notified on an RTI submission after that date will not be eligible for the scheme, which puts them in the same position as those who are paid more frequently and were not notified to HMRC on or before 19 March. The 19 March date allows as many people as possible to be included by going right up to the day before the announcement and mitigates the risk of fraud that existed as soon as the scheme became public.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 57925 58044 question first answered 15/06/2020 14:03:51 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4469 label Biography information for Angela Crawley

1202441

registered interest
date	10/06/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
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 enabling people who are paid annually but whose Real Time Information was submitted after 19 March 2020 for the 2019-20 tax year to access the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
uin	58044
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2020 answer text <p>For an employee to be eligible for the CJRS they must have been notified to HMRC on a real-time information (RTI) submission on or before 19 March. Those paid annually are eligible to claim, as long as they meet the relevant conditions including being notified to HMRC on an RTI submission on or before 19 March 2020, which relates to a payment of earnings in the 2019/2020 tax year. Anyone paid annually and notified on an RTI submission after that date will not be eligible for the scheme, which puts them in the same position as those who are paid more frequently and were not notified to HMRC on or before 19 March. The 19 March date allows as many people as possible to be included by going right up to the day before the announcement and mitigates the risk of fraud that existed as soon as the scheme became public.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 57925 58016 question first answered 15/06/2020 14:03:51 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1201715

registered interest
date	09/06/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Legal Profession: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of evidence from the Law Society of Scotland that 32 per cent of Scotland's law firms are limited companies which are excluded from the Self Employed Income Support Scheme and being mainly sole traders are entitled to support under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme only if they fully withdraw from providing legal services to their clients.
tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
tabling member printed	Kirsten Oswald
uin	57239
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2020 answer text <p>The Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) is available to individuals who are self-employed and who report their trading income through Income Tax Self-Assessment. Those who pay themselves a salary through their own company are eligible for the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS).</p><p> </p><p>From 1 July, employers can bring back to work employees that have been furloughed for any amount of time and any shift pattern, while still being able to claim a CJRS grant for the hours not worked.</p><p> </p><p>Firms may have access to a range of grants and loans depending on their circumstances, including the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme, Bounce Back Loans, and the deferral of tax payments.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 15/06/2020 14:18:27 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4413 label Biography information for Kirsten Oswald

1201744

registered interest
date	09/06/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Social Distancing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has made an assessment of the effect of distanced working during the covid-19 lockdown on the proposals for the closure of local branches of his Department's offices.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	57080
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2020 answer text <p>HMRC remain committed to their locations strategy of moving to regional centres and specialist sites. Timescales for some existing office closures are currently under review due to the impact of COVID-19 on the construction of some regional centres. As is always the case, if there are ways in which HMRC can improve how they deliver their vital public services then they will seek to implement those improvements. This includes reviewing how HMRC have been able to respond to COVID-19 and determining whether and how they might be able to sustain any changes to ways of working that are proven to lead to better outcomes for both HMRC and taxpayers.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 17/06/2020 13:16:33 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar