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1144725

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date	04/09/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Commonwealth Games 2022: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 9 July 2019 to Question 272191 on Public Expenditure: Scotland, what comparability percentage will be applied to the Government’s contribution to the 2022 Commonwealth Games budget; and what his timescale is for the publication of the revised Statement of Funding Policy.
tabling member constituency	Paisley and Renfrewshire North
tabling member printed	Gavin Newlands
uin	286800
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>The UK government contribution to the 2022 Commonwealth Games budget is subject to the Barnett formula, which HM Treasury will apply in the normal way.</p><p> </p><p>As with previous Commonwealth Games, a comparability factor of 100% will be applied for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.</p><p> </p><p>This will be reflected in the next edition of the Statement of Funding Policy, which is due to be published at the Spending Review in 2020.</p><p> </p><p>At Spending Round 2019, HM Treasury published a Statement of Funding Policy addendum with updated comparability factors to reflect the creation of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and the reclassification of Network Rail spending from AME to DEL since Spending Review 2015.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 09/09/2019 09:29:07 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4420 label Biography information for Gavin Newlands

1144802

registered interest
date	04/09/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Brexit
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 per head of population spending on contingency plans in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal in each (a) nation and (b) region of the UK.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	286656
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>This Government would prefer to leave with a deal and will work in an energetic and determined way to get that better deal.</p><p> </p><p>But the Treasury stands ready to provide funding to prepare for leaving without a deal. That is why the Chancellor and I have made over £2bn available for no deal preparations this year (2019-20) since taking office. All parts of the UK have benefitted from this funding, with the Barnett formula being applied in the usual way.</p><p> </p><p>Should the UK leave without a deal, the Treasury will consider the appropriate response. The Government and the Bank of England have fiscal and monetary policy tools available, and are ready to respond as appropriate to support the economy should the circumstances require.</p><p> </p><p>The government has already guaranteed that UK organisations who get EU programme funding will continue to do so should the EU cease to fund these organisations after exit.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 09/09/2019 09:31:20 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1144806

registered interest
date	04/09/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Agriculture: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the £160 million announced in Spending Round 2019 as a result of the Bew Review will be ringfenced for agriculture so that the Scottish Parliament can decide how it is allocated within that sector.
tabling member constituency	Ochil and South Perthshire
tabling member printed	Luke Graham
uin	286834
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>The Chancellor announced at the recent Spending Round that we will provide £160m to the Scottish Government in 2020-21 in relation to historic allocations of Common Agricultural Policy ‘convergence’ funding. The additional funding will be ring-fenced for farmers and land managers in Scotland. The review led by Lord Bew of Donegore has considered a separate but related matter.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 09/09/2019 09:17:35 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4622 label Biography information for Luke Graham

1144828

registered interest
date	04/09/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Transport: Finance
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 the recommendation of the National Infrastructure Assessment to provide devolved, long-term transport funding to all city regions.
tabling member constituency	Dunfermline and West Fife
tabling member printed	Douglas Chapman
uin	286791
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>The government is carefully considering the National Infrastructure Commission’s recommendations, including on transport funding for cities. It is already investing significantly in intra-city transport with the £2.5 billion Transforming Cities Fund set up in 2017 which provides devolved funding to six Mayoral Combined Authorities outside of London and competitive funding to up to twelve shortlisted city regions.</p><p>The National Infrastructure Strategy will be published later in the autumn setting out the government’s assessment of the NIC’s recommendations, alongside ambitious plans for future capital spending.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 09/09/2019 09:20:42 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4402 label Biography information for Douglas Chapman

1144849

registered interest
date	04/09/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Schools: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to ensure that additional funding for schools announced in his oral statement on 4 September on Spending Review 2019 will be allocated to school budgets in Northern Ireland in the absence of a functioning Assembly and Executive.
tabling member constituency	Lagan Valley
tabling member printed	Sir Jeffrey M. Donaldson
uin	286658
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>The UK Government has taken steps to ensure funding is made available to support education in Northern Ireland. As part of the Fresh Start and Stormont House Agreements, the Government committed to provide up to £300m to support shared and integrated cross-community education programmes in Northern Ireland.</p><p> </p><p>As education is a devolved matter, the Barnett formula will be applied in Northern Ireland with respect to the funding announced for schools in the Spending Round 2019. The allocation of the Northern Ireland block grant is a devolved matter.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 09/09/2019 09:23:28 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	650 label Biography information for Sir Jeffrey M Donaldson

1144850

registered interest
date	04/09/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Offences against Children: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with the Northern Ireland Office on funding for a compensation scheme for the victims of historical institutional abuse in Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Lagan Valley
tabling member printed	Sir Jeffrey M. Donaldson
uin	286659
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>I discuss matters of importance to the people of Northern Ireland on a regular basis with the Northern Ireland Office. The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland is working hard to deliver the redress scheme at the earliest opportunity, and any costs associated with the proposals will be met by the Northern Ireland block grant, as this is a devolved matter.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 09/09/2019 09:26:50 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	650 label Biography information for Sir Jeffrey M Donaldson

1144252

registered interest
date	03/09/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Devolution: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to publish the next Statement of Funding Policy on funding the Scottish Parliament, National Assembly for Wales and Northern Ireland Assembly.
tabling member constituency	Carmarthen East and Dinefwr
tabling member printed	Jonathan Edwards
uin	286188
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>The Statement of Funding Policy is typically updated at each Spending Review, so the eighth edition is due to be published in 2020.</p><p> </p><p>At Spending Round 2019, HM Treasury published a Statement of Funding Policy addendum to reflect the creation of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and the reclassification of Network Rail spending from AME to DEL since Spending Review 2015.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 09/09/2019 09:30:38 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	3943 label Biography information for Jonathan Edwards

1144350

registered interest
date	03/09/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Local Housing Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will reinstate local housing allowance rates to the 30th percentile.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	286109
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text The Government took the difficult decision to freeze LHA rates for 4 years from 2016-17 as part of efforts to bring welfare spending under control.<p> </p><p>The Government recognises that the impact of the freeze will differ across the country, and has recycled 50% of the savings from the LHA freeze to increase LHA rates in areas where rental growth has been strongest.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, as part of the 2019 Spending Round, the Chancellor announced an additional £40m in funding for Discretionary Housing Payments (DHP) in 2020-21 to help Local Authorities protect the most vulnerable claimants.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 09/09/2019 09:25:57 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1142673

registered interest
date	02/09/2019
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, what estimate his Department has made of the level of fraudulent tax free childcare claims in each of the last three years; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Belfast South
tabling member printed	Emma Little Pengelly
uin	284152
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>HMRC’s compliance activity for Tax-Free Childcare – which involves targeted risk campaigns plus additional exercises looking at the particulars of randomly selected parents - suggests non-compliance rates continue to remain negligible.</p><p> </p><p>Whilst no formal estimates have been as yet been produced, all of HMRC’s compliance findings to date reveal no real evidence of deliberate fraud, but what mistakes have been detected relate instead to parent error.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 09/09/2019 09:33:41 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4611 label Biography information for Emma Little Pengelly

1142888

registered interest
date	02/09/2019
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, what proportion of children using tax free childcare use a statutory childcare setting.
tabling member constituency	Belfast South
tabling member printed	Emma Little Pengelly
uin	284415
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text HM Revenue & Customs do not collect information on whether childcare is provided in a private or statutory setting for the purposes of delivering Tax-Free Childcare. answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak grouped question UIN 284302 question first answered 09/09/2019 09:28:05 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4611 label Biography information for Emma Little Pengelly