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date	08/09/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Maternity Allowance and Parental Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many new parents received (a) statutory paternity pay, (b) statutory maternity pay and (c) maternity allowance in each financial year since 2010-11.
tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
tabling member printed	Kirsten Oswald
uin	45154
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2021 answer text <p>The information is not held in the form requested. HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) do hold information on claimants of statutory parental payments, but this is not limited to new parents and will include claimants in each year in which they received statutory payments.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) publish statistics about benefits, including Statutory Maternity Pay and Maternity Allowance:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/benefit-expenditure-tables" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/benefit-expenditure-tables</a>.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 16/09/2021 13:58:27 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4413 label Biography information for Kirsten Oswald

1350932

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date	18/08/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Self-employment Income Support Scheme: Driving Instruction
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will consider the operational challenges facing self-employed driving instructors, who are unable to operate their businesses at full capacity as a result of the need to mitigate against the transmission of covid-19, when deciding which types of businesses are eligible for funding in the future under the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme.
tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
tabling member printed	Kirsten Oswald
uin	40953
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2021 answer text <p>The Government recognises that many self-employed people have encountered immense challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic.</p><p> </p><p>The Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) provides substantial support to self-employed people who meet the eligibility criteria, including self-employed driving instructors.</p><p> </p><p>Together, the five SEISS grants combined will have provided an individual with support of up to £36,570, making it one of the most generous self-employment income support schemes in the world.</p><p> </p><p>At the Spring Budget 2021, the Chancellor announced a generous extension of economic support for businesses and individuals, with many schemes including the SEISS continuing well beyond Step 4 of the Roadmap in order to accommodate even a cautious view about the time it might have taken to exit restrictions. The Government has confirmed that the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) and the SEISS will be closing at the end of September 2021 and the Government will maintain its focus on helping people back into work.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 10/09/2021 13:31:35 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4413 label Biography information for Kirsten Oswald

1330731

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date	08/06/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Taxation: Artificial Intelligence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for which taxes artificial intelligence is being used to assist in (a) processing and (b) auditing returns; and what plans he has to extend its use to other taxes.
tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
tabling member printed	Kirsten Oswald
uin	12180
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2021 answer text <p>HMRC are using the most up to date technology and Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities to deliver data and insight into the hands of their decision makers. This will help HMRC to focus on minimising the tax gap and make the tax system more intuitive for taxpayers.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC use AI methods across all their business areas. AI outputs are validated with human oversight before being implemented.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC are in the process of standardising their AI ethical framework in order to ensure it is consistently applied across the organisation. They are working with other public sector bodies to produce an AI strategy publication this autumn.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 16/06/2021 14:52:47 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4413 label Biography information for Kirsten Oswald