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1307056

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date	12/04/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	High Rise Flats: Taxation
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 making leaseholders of high-rise buildings with unsafe cladding who are required to complete a self-assessment tax return exempt from any taxes due as a result of that assessment.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	179257
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2021 answer text <p>The Government is investing over £5 billion in building safety, which will help protect leaseholders from cladding remediation costs in high-rise residential buildings. On 10 February 2021, the Government announced a 5-point plan for investment in building safety, with £3.5 billion earmarked for the removal of unsafe cladding on high-rise residential buildings, as well as a new finance scheme for cladding removal on buildings between 11 and 18 metres where no leaseholder will ever pay more than £50 a month. In addition, the Government has proposed a new ‘Gateway 2’ industry levy and residential property developer tax to ensure developers contribute to costs. These measures will provide certainty to residents and lenders, boosting the housing market and helping to ensure that developers, investors and building owners who have the means make a fair contribution to costs of remediation, without passing on costs to leaseholders.</p><p>No consideration has been made for a self-assessment exemption for leaseholders of high rise buildings with unsafe cladding.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 20/04/2021 15:07:50 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

1290332

registered interest
date	26/02/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Self-employment Income Support Scheme: Maternity Leave
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that women who previously took maternity leave are not unfairly treated in their applications to the Self Employed Income Support Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	159335
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2021 answer text <p>The Government is aware that some people’s eligibility for SEISS was affected if they had taken time out of their trade while pregnant or to care for their new-born or newly adopted child, and so had not submitted a tax return for 2018-19 or had trading profits in 2018-19 that were less than their other income and were therefore ineligible for the SEISS.</p><p> </p><p>Taking parental leave does not mean that the trade has ceased and should not therefore affect a person’s eligibility for SEISS if they intend to resume trading after the leave is taken.</p><p> </p><p>In June 2020 the Government announced that HMRC would determine the eligibility and grant amount for people in this situation using either their 2018-19 self-assessment return or the average of their 2016-17 to 2018-19 returns. Claimants still had to meet the other standard eligibility criteria for support under the SEISS.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has now announced a fourth and fifth round of SEISS. HMRC now have tax returns covering 2019-20, and will include these returns when calculating eligibility for the SEISS and the grant amount. The arrangements that ensured that people were not made ineligible for previous rounds of the SEISS as a result of parenthood have been replicated for the fourth and fifth rounds.</p><p> </p><p>For those who had a new child in 19/20 which either affected their trading profits or total income or meant that they did not submit a Self-Assessment tax return in 2019/20, they may still be able to make a claim.</p><p> </p><p>If new parents are in this position and are applying for SEISS 4, their eligibility will be determined based on either their 2018-19 self-assessment return or an average of their 2016-17 to 2018-19 returns, to determine both their eligibility and grant calculation. They will also need to meet the other standard eligibility criteria for support under the SEISS.</p><p> </p><p>The amount of the SEISS grant is determined based on the applicant’s average profits from self-employment in the previous four tax years, as reported through their tax returns. By calculating the grant on a four-year average of profits, the SEISS supports individuals who may have had fluctuating profits for any reason and gives the best average of an individual's usual trading profits.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 08/03/2021 12:53:24 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

1108993

registered interest
date	02/04/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Transport: Written Questions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to respond to Question 210578 on Cycling: Safety tabled on 21 January 2019 by the hon. Member for Southampton Itchen.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	240040
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2019 answer text <p>I apologise that due to an administrative error, this question was not answered. This has now been rectified.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 04/04/2019 11:25:37 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

1045519

registered interest
date	21/01/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Cycling: Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent steps he has taken to increase the safety of people that use bicycles.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	210578
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2019 answer text <p>This Government is determined to make cycling and walking safer and easier, which is why the Department for Transport undertook a major cycling and walking safety review in 2018. The response to the review, which was published on 22 November and is available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/governments-response-to-the-cycling-walking-investment-strategy-safety-review" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/governments-response-to-the-cycling-walking-investment-strategy-safety-review</a>, included a detailed two-year action plan.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 03/04/2019 09:45:04 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

1042263

registered interest
date	16/01/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorcycles: Accidents
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what conclusions the Road Collision Investigation Project has made on road accidents involving motorcyclists.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	209338
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2019 answer text <p>In June 2018, the Government announced that the RAC Foundation, supported by £480,000 of Government funding, would lead the trial of an innovative new approach to road casualty investigation alongside police forces. As part of this initiative dedicated teams will be carrying out in-depth research in selected cases to get a better understanding of what is really causing collisions on our roads. These collisions will be analysed in 3 regions over 3 years and will look at collisions covering a range of modes of travel, including motorbikes. The Government will release a final report at the end of the project.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 21/01/2019 17:44:22 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

1041666

registered interest
date	15/01/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorcycles: Accidents
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to page 6 of his Department's publication entitled Facts on motorcyclists casualties, published in June 2015, what the proportion is of (a) car drivers and (b) light van drivers whose contributory factor of their accidents involving motorcyclists was their failure to look properly in each year from 2013 to 2017.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	208890
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2019 answer text <p>The publication entitled <em>Facts on Motorcyclist Casualties</em> published in June 2015 provided information on the proportion of cars and light goods vehicles allocated the contributory factor ‘failed to look properly’ in accidents involving a motorcyclist casualty where a police officer attended the scene of the accident. These proportions for each year from 2013 to 2017 are presented in the table below.</p><p> </p><p>Since police officers do not always record a contributory factor when they attend a scene, we have also included data showing the proportion for those accidents where a contributory factor was recorded. This is the more commonly presented approach for contributory factors.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4"><p><strong>Proportion of vehicles involved in accidents with at least one motorcycle casualty and police officer attending where 'Failed to look properly' contributory factor allocated, Great Britain, 2013 to 2017</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>As a proportion of all vehicles in these accidents</p></td><td><p>As a proportion of all vehicles in these accidents where at least one contributory factor allocated</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Vehicle</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>Car</p></td><td><p><em>47.4%</em></p></td><td><p><em>49.0%</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Light goods vehicle</p></td><td><p><em>46.8%</em></p></td><td><p><em>47.5%</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>Car</p></td><td><p><em>47.8%</em></p></td><td><p><em>49.2%</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Light goods vehicle</p></td><td><p><em>48.8%</em></p></td><td><p><em>49.6%</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>Car</p></td><td><p><em>48.6%</em></p></td><td><p><em>50.3%</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Light goods vehicle</p></td><td><p><em>45.9%</em></p></td><td><p><em>47.3%</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>Car</p></td><td><p><em>45.7%</em></p></td><td><p><em>47.0%</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Light goods vehicle</p></td><td><p><em>46.2%</em></p></td><td><p><em>47.3%</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>Car</p></td><td><p><em>40.0%</em></p></td><td><p><em>40.9%</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Light goods vehicle</p></td><td><p><em>37.7%</em></p></td><td><p><em>38.4%</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p><em>Source: DfT STATS19</em></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Using this approach, the proportion of cars and light goods vehicles allocated the contributory factor ‘failed to look properly’ for the years 2009 to 2013 in the 2015 report would have been 48.1% and 48.2% respectively.</p><p> </p><p>Contributory factors assigned by police officers do not assign blame for the accident to any specific road user, however they do provide some insight into why and how road accidents occur. They give an indication of which factors the attending officer thought contributed to the accident. Officers do not need to carry out a full investigation of the incident before allocating contributory factors; they usually use professional judgement about what they can see at the scene.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 21/01/2019 11:02:50 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

1041381

registered interest
date	14/01/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorcycles: Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 189742 to Question 189742 on Motorcycles: Safety, when he plans to publish the refreshed Road Safety Statement.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	208365
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>The Department intends to publish the refreshed Road Safety Statement later this year.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 17/01/2019 14:10:50 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

1041453

registered interest
date	14/01/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Lighting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 16 April 2018 to Question 134899 on Motor Vehicles: Lighting, whether the review of the technical requirements been published.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	208414
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2019 answer text <p>The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) informal working group (IWG) on Visibility, Glare and Levelling has reported back to the Working Party on Lighting and Light Signalling. The documents and reports for these groups are publicly available on the UNECE website: <a href="http://www.unece.org/trans/main/welcwp29.html" target="_blank">http://www.unece.org/trans/main/welcwp29.html</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The IWG proposed to revise the headlamp aiming criteria for new vehicles but the working party did not consider their proposal to be sufficiently developed for inclusion in the regulations. As a result, it was decided that this work will continue as part of a broader review of vehicle lighting regulations.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 22/01/2019 11:42:51 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

1028654

registered interest
date	19/12/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorcycles: Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans his Department has to increase motorcycle safety.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	203935
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2019 answer text <p>The statement in June 2018 explained that work was in progress on proposals to strengthen the compulsory basic training regime for learner motorcyclists, to ensure a lifetime of safe riding for all riders. The Department and DVSA are working and continue to work to bring these forward including liaising with stakeholders and identifying any areas which may require further consultation.</p><p>The forthcoming refreshed Road Safety Statement will focus on four key priority groups including motorcyclists, rural road users, young road users and older road users.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 203936 question first answered 09/01/2019 17:10:59 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

1028655

registered interest
date	19/12/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorcycles: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Road Safety Statement: Progress Report document published 13 June 2018, what progress has been made since the publication of that document to strengthen the compulsory basic training regime for motorcyclists.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	203936
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2019 answer text <p>The statement in June 2018 explained that work was in progress on proposals to strengthen the compulsory basic training regime for learner motorcyclists, to ensure a lifetime of safe riding for all riders. The Department and DVSA are working and continue to work to bring these forward including liaising with stakeholders and identifying any areas which may require further consultation.</p><p>The forthcoming refreshed Road Safety Statement will focus on four key priority groups including motorcyclists, rural road users, young road users and older road users.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 203935 question first answered 09/01/2019 17:10:59 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith