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1151880

registered interest
date	23/10/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Public Expenditure: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much Financial Transactions Capital funding Northern Ireland Government Departments have (a) requested and (b) received since the inception of that scheme in 2012-13.
tabling member constituency	Belfast East
tabling member printed	Gavin Robinson
uin	4378
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2019 answer text <p>The Treasury sets the Northern Ireland administration’s overall Financial Transaction Capital budget through the normal operation of the Barnett formula.</p><p> </p><p>The annual Financial Transaction Capital budgets of the Northern Ireland administration and total Financial Transaction Capital returned to HM Treasury by the Northern Ireland administration for the period 2012-13 to 2020-21 is set out in the table:</p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>(£m)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Financial Transaction Capital budgets</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Financial Transaction Capital returned to HMT</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>11.8</p></td><td><p>0.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>46.8</p></td><td><p>0.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>62.8</p></td><td><p>0.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>129.0</p></td><td><p>0.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>59.2</p></td><td><p>34.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>166.9</p></td><td><p>109.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>182.2</p></td><td><p>171.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>192.4</p></td><td><p>n/a*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020-21</p></td><td><p>192.8</p></td><td><p>n/a*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1043.9</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>315.8</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>*Underspend data is not available until the end of each financial year.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Financial transaction funding is ring-fenced for loans or equity investments to the private sector.</p><p> </p><p>The use of these Financial Transaction Capital budgets is a matter for the Northern Ireland administration. This includes the allocation of Financial Transaction Capital budgets to Northern Ireland departments, the drawdown of these allocations, approvals processes, and details of projects that have been funded.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak grouped question UIN 4379 4380 4381 4382 question first answered 28/10/2019 16:30:01 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4360 label Biography information for Gavin Robinson

1151882

registered interest
date	23/10/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Public Expenditure: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much Financial Transactions Capital funding has been allocated to Northern Ireland Government Departments in each year since the inception of that scheme in 2012-13.
tabling member constituency	Belfast East
tabling member printed	Gavin Robinson
uin	4379
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2019 answer text <p>The Treasury sets the Northern Ireland administration’s overall Financial Transaction Capital budget through the normal operation of the Barnett formula.</p><p> </p><p>The annual Financial Transaction Capital budgets of the Northern Ireland administration and total Financial Transaction Capital returned to HM Treasury by the Northern Ireland administration for the period 2012-13 to 2020-21 is set out in the table:</p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>(£m)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Financial Transaction Capital budgets</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Financial Transaction Capital returned to HMT</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>11.8</p></td><td><p>0.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>46.8</p></td><td><p>0.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>62.8</p></td><td><p>0.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>129.0</p></td><td><p>0.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>59.2</p></td><td><p>34.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>166.9</p></td><td><p>109.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>182.2</p></td><td><p>171.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>192.4</p></td><td><p>n/a*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020-21</p></td><td><p>192.8</p></td><td><p>n/a*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1043.9</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>315.8</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>*Underspend data is not available until the end of each financial year.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Financial transaction funding is ring-fenced for loans or equity investments to the private sector.</p><p> </p><p>The use of these Financial Transaction Capital budgets is a matter for the Northern Ireland administration. This includes the allocation of Financial Transaction Capital budgets to Northern Ireland departments, the drawdown of these allocations, approvals processes, and details of projects that have been funded.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak grouped question UIN 4378 4380 4381 4382 question first answered 28/10/2019 16:30:01 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4360 label Biography information for Gavin Robinson

1151944

registered interest
date	23/10/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much has been (a) budgeted for and (b) spent on tax-free childcare since the inception of that programme.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	4407
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2019 answer text <p>Outturn and forecast spending on Tax-Free Childcare is available in table 4.17 of the Office for Budget Responsibility’s Economic &amp; Fiscal Outlook (<a href="https://cdn.obr.uk/March-2019_EFO_Web-Accessible.pdf" target="_blank">https://cdn.obr.uk/March-2019_EFO_Web-Accessible.pdf</a>).</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 28/10/2019 16:21:18 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1150714

registered interest
date	18/10/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Children: Poverty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the number of children under five years old living in poverty.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	1891
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2019 answer text <p>HM Treasury use the ‘Household below average income (HBAI)’ statistics published by the Department for Work and Pensions to determine the number of children living in low-income households.</p><p> </p><p>Tackling child poverty will always be a priority for the government. The government’s view is that work remains the best route out of poverty: children in households where all adults are working are five times less likely to be in relative low income (before housing costs) than those in workless households.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 23/10/2019 14:14:41 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1150518

registered interest
date	17/10/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Public Expenditure: Romford
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 total spent from the public purse in Romford constituency in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	1619
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2019 answer text HM Treasury does not collect expenditure information on total government spend at the constituency level. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government produce local government expenditure statistics, which is part of total government spend. answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 25/10/2019 13:15:34 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1149897

registered interest
date	16/10/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Child Benefit: Migrants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether child benefit is paid for children who are UK citizens but whose parents have no recourse to public funds; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	847
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2019 answer text <p>Access to Child Benefit follows the long-standing Government policy that those who have not established their right to remain permanently in the UK should not have welfare provision on the same basis as those whose citizenship or status here gives them an entitlement to benefits. All those admitted to the UK for a temporary purpose are required, under the immigration rules, to be able to maintain and accommodate themselves without recourse to public funds.</p><p> </p><p>For this reason, apart from specified exceptions – set out in the Social Security (Immigration and Asylum Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2000 – persons subject to immigration control are not eligible for Child Benefit.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 21/10/2019 15:46:38 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1149915

registered interest
date	16/10/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Social Services: Older People
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 making personal social care free at the point of use for all people aged over 65.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	1099
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2019 answer text <p>The Treasury has not made an estimate of the cost of making personal social care free at the point of use for people aged over 65.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 21/10/2019 14:42:57 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1150190

registered interest
date	16/10/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Affordable Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he will announce the funding for the next phase of the Affordable Homes Programme.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	887
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2019 answer text <p>The government is committed to increasing the supply of affordable housing and has made £9 billion available through the Affordable Homes Programme to March 2022 to deliver approximately 250,000 new affordable homes. We have already secured the future of the programme by announcing funding of £2 billion for its next phase, to give certainty to strategic partners and support them to deliver homes throughout the next decade.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 21/10/2019 15:48:26 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1150201

registered interest
date	16/10/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Public Sector: Redundancy Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Answer of 7 October 2019 to Question 293443, on Public Sector: Redundancy Pay, what recourse is available to public servants who have not had the waiver system applied to their exit payment and wish to challenge that decision.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	864
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2019 answer text <p>The published draft HM Treasury Directions set out circumstances where the power to relax restrictions must be exercised (“mandatory cases”) and may be exercised (“discretionary cases”). In discretionary cases, the relevant delegated authority must submit a business case to the sponsoring department for approval of the Principal Accounting Officer and the relevant Minister before submitting the business case to HM Treasury for approval. In mandatory cases, there is no requirement to send a business case to HM Treasury for approval.</p><p>The government is currently considering responses to the consultation and the consultation response will provide more detail in due course.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak grouped question UIN 865 question first answered 25/10/2019 13:14:34 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1150202

registered interest
date	16/10/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Public Sector: Redundancy Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Answer of 7 October 2019 to Question 293443 on Public Sector: Redundancy Pay, how that waiver system will operate; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	865
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2019 answer text <p>The published draft HM Treasury Directions set out circumstances where the power to relax restrictions must be exercised (“mandatory cases”) and may be exercised (“discretionary cases”). In discretionary cases, the relevant delegated authority must submit a business case to the sponsoring department for approval of the Principal Accounting Officer and the relevant Minister before submitting the business case to HM Treasury for approval. In mandatory cases, there is no requirement to send a business case to HM Treasury for approval.</p><p>The government is currently considering responses to the consultation and the consultation response will provide more detail in due course.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak grouped question UIN 864 question first answered 25/10/2019 13:14:34 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe