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752131

registered interest
date	14/07/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many face-to-care visits were undertaken by Needs Extra Support advisers in HM Revenue and Customs in each tax year since 2013-14.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
uin	5052
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>Face to Face Appointments booked:</p><p>2014-15 17,556</p><p>2015-16 25,641</p><p>2016-17 25,171</p><p>2017-18 to date 4,721</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 19/07/2017 15:56:56 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

752132

registered interest
date	14/07/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of whether HM Revenue and Customs' Customer Compliance Group will overspend its budget for 2017-18.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
uin	5072
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>HM Treasury continually monitors all departmental expenditure as part of routine in-year financial control processes. We do not expect HMRC’s Customer Compliance Group to overspend in 2017-18.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 19/07/2017 14:37:48 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

752133

registered interest
date	14/07/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many Needs Extra Support advisers have been working in HM Revenue and Customs in each tax year since 2013-14.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
uin	5061
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>Staff in post at the start of each year</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Mobile Advisers (who visit customers)</p></td><td><p>Telephony Advisers</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>145</p></td><td><p>169</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>139</p></td><td><p>152</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>141</p></td><td><p>147</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>131</p></td><td><p>142</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 19/07/2017 14:35:38 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

752140

registered interest
date	14/07/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Television: Tax Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many companies received high-end TV tax relief in (a) 2014-15, (b) 2015-16 and (c) 2016-17.
tabling member constituency	Bootle
tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
uin	5053
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>HMRC publishes this information in the Creative Industries Statistics here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/creative-industries-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/creative-industries-statistics</a></p><p> </p><p>The next release of these statistics, including the latest data for 2014-15, 2015-16 and 2016-17, will be published on 20 July 2017.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 19/07/2017 14:07:24 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

752141

registered interest
date	14/07/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Capital Gains Tax
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people received capital gains tax exemption on the disposal of their only or main residence in (a) 2014-15, (b) 2015-16 and (c) 2016-17.
tabling member constituency	Bootle
tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
uin	5002
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government does not hold information on the number of people that would pay Capital Gains Tax on their main residence if there were not an exemption, as taxpayers are not usually required to submit a Capital Gains Tax return when they sell their main home.</p><p> </p><p>The Government publishes an estimate of the total cost of the tax relief on the only or main residence. This is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/579720/Dec_16_Main_Reliefs_Final.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/579720/Dec_16_Main_Reliefs_Final.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 19/07/2017 13:44:13 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

752142

registered interest
date	14/07/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Patents: Corporation Tax
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people received corporation tax relief on patent boxes in (a) 2014-15, (b) 2015-16 and (c) 2016-17.
tabling member constituency	Bootle
tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
uin	5003
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>HMRC publishes official statistics on the number of companies claiming the Patent Box relief, on an annual basis. The statistics are available in the “<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/patent-box-reliefs-statistics" target="_blank">Patent box statistics</a>” publication which shows provisional estimates of 700 companies claiming Patent Box relief for 2013-14.</p><p> </p><p>The next release of these statistics, including the latest data for 2013-14 and 2014-15 will be published in mid-September.</p><p>Official figures for 2015-16 and 2016-17 will be published in future years because companies, have up to 2 years after the end of the accounting period in which to claim the Patent Box relief.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 19/07/2017 14:42:35 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

752143

registered interest
date	14/07/2017
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Israeli Settlements: Overseas Trade
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when his Department last updated its guidance for UK companies who want to trade with illegal settlements in the Palestinian Occupied Territories.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	5000
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>​We routinely update our guidance to British businesses on the Overseas Business Risk website. Our guidance about Israel was last refreshed in September 2016.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 19/07/2017 11:42:30 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

752144

registered interest
date	14/07/2017
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Cyprus: Military Bases
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what area of invasive Australian acacia tree has been removed from his Department's land, the Cape Pyla, in the Cyprus sovereign base area of Dhekelia in (a) 2014, (b) 2015, (c) 2016 and (d) 2017.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	5001
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>Since November 2014, 61 acres of invasive acacia have been removed from the Special Area of Conservation and land managed by the Ministry of Defence on Cape Pyla. The annual breakdown is as follows:</p><p>17 acres removed in 2014</p><p>22 acres removed in 2015</p><p>22 acres completed in 2016[1]</p><p>Invasive acacia has also been removed from other Special Areas of Conservation on land managed by the Ministry of Defence elsewhere in the Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia during 2016 and 2017.</p><p> </p><p>[1] Work began during the Christmas period in 2015 and completed in the New Year of 2016</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 19/07/2017 14:54:27 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

752147

registered interest
date	14/07/2017
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Children: Poverty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information his Department has on the number and proportion of children living in poverty in Blaenau Gwent in each year for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Blaenau Gwent
tabling member printed	Nick Smith
uin	5015
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>National statistics on the number of children in relative low income are set out in the annual &quot;Households Below Average Income&quot; publication. The number and proportion of children in relative low income is not available at local authority or constituency level in this publication because the survey sample sizes are too small to support the production of robust estimates at this geography.</p><p> </p><p>Latest 3-year estimates for Wales of the proportion of children in low income are available in Table 4.16ts in the file “4_children_timeseries_risk” from this link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/599136/hbai-2015-2016-supporting-ods-files.zip" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/599136/hbai-2015-2016-supporting-ods-files.zip</a></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 19/07/2017 15:02:44 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	3928 label Biography information for Nick Smith

752149

registered interest
date	14/07/2017
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Montserrat: Companies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with representatives of the Montserrat Government on a public register of beneficial ownership; and what the timetable is for that territory's public register of beneficial ownership to be set up.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	5039
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>The Foreign Secretary has not held discussions with the Government of Montserrat on its public register of beneficial ownership.</p><p>FCO officials remain in regular contact with the Government of Montserrat over its plans for the register. Montserrat officials are finalising for the consideration of the Montserrat Cabinet draft legislation which will underpin the establishment of a public register. It will then be for the Cabinet to determine the timetable for introducing the Bill to the Legislative Assembly.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 19/07/2017 14:16:59 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West