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1233955

registered interest
date	14/09/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Charities: VAT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will reconsider the provisions under Section 33 of the VAT Act 1994 which mean charitable bodies cannot recover VAT on public benefit works on endowed sites.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	89673
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2020 answer text <p>Eligibility for VAT refunds for public bodies is subject to strict criteria, as set out in UK legislation. Although the Government keeps all taxes under review, there are no plans to extend the scope of Section 33 at this time.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 17/09/2020 14:51:52 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

1234048

registered interest
date	14/09/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Trade Unions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 4 September 2020 to Question 85130, on Trade Unions, if he will publish anonymised figures for (a) the totality of funding given to trade unions, as employers in their own right, to date under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, and (b) how many individual trade unions have claimed under the scheme, according to figures held by HM Revenue and Customs.
tabling member constituency	East Devon
tabling member printed	Simon Jupp
uin	89888
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2020 answer text <p>HMRC have published data on Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme claims by three-digit SIC2007 code for all claims for March to June 2020. This shows that PAYE schemes classified in the category SIC2007 94.2 Activities of Trade Unions made claims under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme to the value of £2 million for this period. In all, claims were made by about 100 employers in this category.</p><p>The data covers those organisations classified as SIC2007 94.2 Activities of Trade Unions by the Interdepartmental Business Register (IDBR). Amounts are rounded to the nearest million and counts to the nearest hundred.</p><p><br>This data is available on GOV.UK under CJRS claims by detailed sector (three-digit SIC2007): <strong><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/coronavirus-job-retention-scheme-statistics-august-2020" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/coronavirus-job-retention-scheme-statistics-august-2020</a>.</strong></p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 22/09/2020 10:30:11 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4862 label Biography information for Simon Jupp

1234069

registered interest
date	14/09/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Insolvency
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 effect of the return of HMRC preferential creditor status on (a) the willingness of retail banks to extend credit and loans, and (b) the ability of retail banks to renew the facilities of existing borrowers.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	89829
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2020 answer text <p>The recent legislative change gives HMRC second preferential creditor status for certain taxes. This change ensures that when a business enters insolvency, more of the taxes paid in good faith by its employees and customers, but held temporarily by the business, go to fund public services as intended, rather than be distributed to other creditors.</p><p>This change is not expected to have a significant impact on financial institutions, the lending market or wider economy. This measure is forecast to raise up to £220 million a year. To put this into perspective, bank lending to small and medium-sized businesses alone in 2019 was £57 billion.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 17/09/2020 14:49:58 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1234071

registered interest
date	14/09/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Shipping: Tax Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans his Department has to inform UK seafarers who have been unable to work due to covid-19 travel restrictions that they may face a tax bill as a result of not qualifying for the Seafarers Earnings Deduction.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	89830
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2020 answer text <p>The Seafarers Earnings Deduction (SED) offers a 100 per cent reduction in income tax on maritime employment income for UK and EEA resident seafarers who have a qualifying period of time absent from the UK. The qualifying period must be made up of at least 365 days, but return visits to the UK during that time up to a maximum of 183 consecutive days can count towards the qualifying period. This is among the most generous reliefs available to seafarers worldwide.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Government has introduced a broad range of support to help meet this challenge. This includes the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme and mortgage holidays for homeowners and landlords.</p><p> </p><p>Guidance is available on GOV.UK for seafarers to check whether they are eligible for SED and what steps they need to take to claim, including a worksheet which seafarers can use each year to determine their eligibility.</p><p> </p><p>As with other areas of tax policy, the Government is keeping this under review in light of the pandemic.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 17/09/2020 14:48:07 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1234122

registered interest
date	14/09/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Centrica: Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the total sum of payments made to Centrica plc and its subsidiaries is under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Charlotte Nichols
uin	89867
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2020 answer text <p>It is not possible to provide an answer to this question. In line with their responsibilities under the Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005, HMRC do not comment on identifiable taxpayers.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 17/09/2020 15:04:10 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4799 label Biography information for Charlotte Nichols

1233651

registered interest
date	11/09/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Self-employment Income Support Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many Self-Employment Income Support Scheme grants have been paid to furloughed workers who lost income due to an inability to carry out additional, part-time self-employment.
tabling member constituency	Coventry North West
tabling member printed	Taiwo Owatemi
uin	88937
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2020 answer text <p>The information requested is not available.</p><p> </p><p>Statistics on the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme and the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme are available from <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/self-employment-income-support-scheme-statistics-august-2020" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/self-employment-income-support-scheme-statistics-august-2020</a> and <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/coronavirus-job-retention-scheme-statistics-august-2020" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/coronavirus-job-retention-scheme-statistics-august-2020</a> respectively.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 16/09/2020 13:06:39 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4779 label Biography information for Taiwo Owatemi

1233672

registered interest
date	11/09/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Cumbernauld
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when HMRC's lease on its office in Cumbernauld will expire.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C McDonald
uin	88885
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2020 answer text <p>The lease for the HMRC office in Cumbernauld (Accounts Office) expires on 1 April 2021. Under the exit provisions of the STEPS PFI contract, HMRC have the option to extend the lease. In line with their locations strategy and to allow them to remain in the property until the Glasgow Regional Centre opens, HMRC are actively working on an extension and expect to issue an update soon.</p><p>HMRC will undertake to inform the Honourable Member of the outcome.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 16/09/2020 12:44:20 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1233676

registered interest
date	11/09/2020
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, pursuant to the Answer of 9 September 2020 to Question 83963 on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS), if he will publish (a) the number of organisations that have used the CJRS who are also in receipt of other funding from the public purse, and (b) the total value of CJRS support received by those organisations.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Daisy Cooper
uin	88931
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2020 answer text <p>HMRC do not hold full data on which organisations have been supported by the public purse and are therefore unable to answer the questions submitted.</p><p>The latest published figures for the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme are set out below for information.</p><p>The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme launched on 20 April 2020. <br>By midnight on 9 August :</p><p>• £34,700,000,000 has been claimed. <br>• 1,200,000* of employers are furloughing. <br>• 9,600,000** jobs furloughed.</p><p>*This is calculated by counting the number of CJRS claims from distinct PAYE schemes on employer reference (where the PAYE scheme reference is a proxy for a single employer)</p><p>**This is calculated as the sum of the maximum number of employments furloughed by any PAYE scheme across all claims by that scheme.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 16/09/2020 12:42:23 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4769 label Biography information for Daisy Cooper

1233708

registered interest
date	11/09/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Tax Avoidance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he has taken to prevent tax avoidance by (a) corporations and (b) individuals.
tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
uin	88946
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2020 answer text <p>The Government is committed to tackling tax avoidance and evasion at all levels in order to ensure that everyone, no matter who they are, pays the right amount of tax at the right time.</p><p> </p><p>Since 2010 the Government has taken significant action, including introducing over 120 new measures tackling tax avoidance, evasion and other forms of non-compliance. This action has secured and protected over £220 billion that would have otherwise gone unpaid, helping to reduce the avoidance tax gap from £3.7 billion in 2005 to 2006 to £1.7 billion in 2018 to 2019.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 16/09/2020 13:09:37 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford

1233710

registered interest
date	11/09/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Tax Avoidance: British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he has taken to reduce tax avoidance in (a) Bermuda, (b) the Cayman Islands, (c) the British Virgin Islands, (d) Anguilla, (e) the Turks and Caicos Islands, (f) Montserrat, (g) Gibraltar, (h) the Channel Islands, and (i) the Isle of Man.
tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
uin	88947
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2020 answer text <p>The Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories are autonomous jurisdictions with their own democratically elected governments, who have the mandate to decide their own fiscal policies. However, thanks to UK leadership, all Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories with a financial centre have made commitments to implementing global standards on tax transparency.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 21/09/2020 13:14:31 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford