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date	02/09/2022
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Sri Lanka: Armed Forces
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of the potential merits of imposing sanctions on (a) the Sri Lankan Chief of Defence Staff, Shavendra Silva, and (b) other members of the Sri Lankan military.
tabling member constituency	Cynon Valley
tabling member printed	Beth Winter
uin	45608
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2022 answer text <p>We keep the situation in Sri Lanka under close review, including in relation to human rights and accountability. Within this, the government keeps under active consideration how to use the diplomatic tools we have including sanctions.</p><p>The UK's Global Human Rights Sanctions regime gives the UK Government a powerful mechanism to hold accountable those involved in serious human rights violations or abuses and to send a clear signal of the values we hold.</p><p>The UK Government continues to consider designations globally, guided by evidence and the objectives of the human rights sanctions regime; but it is not appropriate to speculate on potential future designations, in order to avoid reducing their impact.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 28/09/2022 10:43:09 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4809 label Biography information for Beth Winter

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date	23/06/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Care Workers: Incentives
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of not taxing the £500 payment for care workers announced by the Welsh Government.
tabling member constituency	Cynon Valley
tabling member printed	Beth Winter
uin	63530
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2020 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs are working with the Welsh Government to understand the nature of the payments and the potential recipients. These details are required to determine the cost to the Exchequer.</p><p> </p><p>Under the longstanding rules of income tax, any payments made in connection with an employment are chargeable to income tax and National Insurance contributions.</p><p> </p><p>This is consistent with the Government’s approach across different forms of financial support during COVID-19, including payments made under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme, which are liable to tax.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 29/06/2020 09:27:41 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4809 label Biography information for Beth Winter