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1151401

registered interest
date	22/10/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Research Fund for Coal and Steel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what representations he has received on the use of the £225 million UK share of the Research Fund for Coal and Steel after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Newport East
tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
uin	3655
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2019 answer text <p>The Chancellor of the Exchequer has not received any recent representations on the use of the UK’s share of the assets of the Research Fund for Coal and Steel. Future expenditure will be decided at the Spending Review.</p><p> </p><p>If the UK leaves the EU with a withdrawal agreement, we will continue to participate in the Research Fund for Coal and Steel, during the implementation period.</p><p> </p><p>In a no-deal scenario, UK entities that receive RFCS funding from the European Commission or submit a successful bid before EU exit will be covered by the government’s EU programmes guarantee, for the lifetime of the projects. This will support UK participants to continue to take part in RFCS projects, subject to the UK entity being eligible to continue to participate in the project.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 30/10/2019 14:52:13 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden

1151075

registered interest
date	21/10/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Pre-school Education: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will increase the £66 million funding for early years education announced in the Spending Round 2019 by 10 per cent by 2021.
tabling member constituency	Warrington South
tabling member printed	Faisal Rashid
uin	2943
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2019 answer text <p>At Spending Round 2019 the government announced an additional £66m to increase the hourly rate paid to early years providers through the government’s free hours offers. The Department for Education will share further details of funding for 2020-21 in due course.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 29/10/2019 14:59:32 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4670 label Biography information for Faisal Rashid

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

1149492

registered interest
date	15/10/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	High Speed 2 Line and Public Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the (a) expenditure on High Speed Rail 2 and (b) Scottish Barnett Consequential allocation was in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	742
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2019 answer text <p>There has been a total spend up to 31 March 2019 of £7.4bn made up of HS2 Ltd spend and spend by the Department for Transport on HS2 Land and Property. The profile of this spend is set out in the table below. These numbers have been taken from Departmental accounts and exclude £0.6bn incurred by HS2 Ltd to date on construction VAT.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Total spend on HS2 excluding construction VAT (£m)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>9.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>14.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>34.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>182.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>207.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>185.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>348.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>1,466.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>2,767.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>2,191.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>7,408.2</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>As set out in HM Treasury’s Statement of Funding Policy, the Barnett formula is generally applied at departmental level at Spending Reviews/Rounds and at programme level at fiscal events. Since 2010, HS2 has received all its funding through the Department for Transport’s settlements at Spending Reviews/Rounds where Barnett has been applied at departmental level. The spending on HS2 is not therefore associated with specific Barnett consequentials.</p><p> </p><p>HM Treasury’s Spending Review/Round documents set out the block grant funding for the Scottish Government. Documents relating to SR10, SR13, SR15 and SR19 can be found on the gov.uk website.</p><p> </p><p>Following UK Government decisions at Spending Round 2019, the Scottish Government benefitted from an increase of over £1.2bn in the Barnett-based block grant, which will increase to £34.4bn in 2020-21.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 23/10/2019 14:18:15 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown