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967499

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date	04/09/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Large Goods Vehicles: Republic of Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Sugg on 17 July (HL9180), what is the process for collecting the Heavy Goods Vehicle Levy (HGV) levy from lorries from the Republic of Ireland; and what assessment they have made of whether, and if so to what extent, lorries from the Republic of Ireland evade the HGV levy.
tabling member printed	Lord Morris of Aberavon
uin	HL9989
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2018 answer text <p>Lorry drivers from the Republic of Ireland pay for the HGV Levy in the same ways as users from other countries. The levy can be paid online, at a number of official Point of Sale (PoS) locations, at driver self-serve facilities offered by some operators and through a number of booking agents. The majority of levy purchases are via the HGV Levy website.</p><p> </p><p>The overall compliance rate for foreign vehicles is high, according to figures collected by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency in Great Britain, at 95%. The Department for Transport has not produced equivalent compliance rates by country of origin, but there are indications that vehicles from Ireland in Great Britain have a very similar compliance rate compared to vehicles from other countries.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 17/09/2018 13:16:55 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
tabling member	565 label Biography information for Lord Morris of Aberavon

947109

registered interest
date	23/07/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Large Goods Vehicles: Taxation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how much in HGV Levy was paid in 2017 in respect of lorries registered in (1) the Republic of Ireland, and (2) other EU member states; which EU member states lorries subject to the HGV Levy came from in 2017; and how is payment of the Levy enforced.
tabling member printed	Lord Morris of Aberavon
uin	HL9799
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2018 answer text <p>In 2017-18, HGV levy revenue from non-UK hauliers was £50m. Of this, approximately £4m was from vehicles registered in the Republic of Ireland, £45m was from vehicles registered in other EU Member States, and £1m was from vehicles registered elsewhere. There were vehicles from all EU Member States paying the HGV levy during 2017-18.</p><p> </p><p>The HGV levy is enforced by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA). Vehicles are stopped at the roadside and, if they have not paid the right levy, the vehicle is held until a fine of £300 is paid. The DVSA targets vehicles that are known not to have paid the levy, and it also checks for levy compliance of vehicles that are stopped for other reasons.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 26/07/2018 12:57:21 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
tabling member	565 label Biography information for Lord Morris of Aberavon

944423

registered interest
date	18/07/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Multinational Companies: Taxation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they have made to the European Commissioner for Competition to set up a system to ensure that large industries that have substantial operations in EU countries, but pay a large part of their taxes elsewhere, pay appropriate taxes in the EU countries where their operations are based.
tabling member printed	Lord Morris of Aberavon
uin	HL9660
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/07/2018 answer text <p>The UK has led global efforts to tackle multinational tax avoidance.</p><p> </p><p>We were at the forefront of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) Project, which sought to address gaps and mismatches in the international tax system and align tax with economic substance.</p><p> </p><p>We have swiftly implemented the project’s recommendations in domestic legislation, introducing a new restriction on the deductibility of multinationals’ interest expense and rules to prevent multinationals exploiting differences in how countries tax financial instruments and entities.</p><p>We worked closely with the EU Commission and other Member States on the Anti-Tax Avoidance Directive, which seeks to implement the recommendations of the BEPS project and ensure a coordinated response in the EU to tackling tax avoidance by multinationals.</p><p> </p><p>We are engaging constructively with the EU Commission’s recent proposals on digital taxation, which seek to better ensure that digital businesses pay tax in the countries in which they generate value.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 31/07/2018 12:04:07 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	565 label Biography information for Lord Morris of Aberavon

940092

registered interest
date	12/07/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Government Departments: Loans
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government which Government organisations, other than the Student Loans Company, charge borrowers more than four per cent for loans.
tabling member printed	Lord Morris of Aberavon
uin	HL9507
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2018 answer text <p>The Government has issued many loans over the years and interest rates have varied considerably over time. Given this, details of all loans issued and the rates applied are not held centrally by HM Treasury.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 25/07/2018 13:22:36 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	565 label Biography information for Lord Morris of Aberavon

940093

registered interest
date	12/07/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Loans
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what the Student Loans Company pays for capital to lend to students; and how any profits it makes are used.
tabling member printed	Lord Morris of Aberavon
uin	HL9508
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2018 answer text <p>The Student Loans Company (SLC) administers student loans on behalf of the UK government and devolved administrations with funding from Her Majesty’s Treasury. While the SLC itself pays nothing on this funding, the cost to the government of this capital is the same as that paid on its general borrowing.</p><p> </p><p>The amounts paid out and the interest charged can be found in the published document titled ‘DfE consolidated annual report and accounts 2016-17’ on pages 152 to 158, attached.</p><p> </p><p>The government does not make a profit on these loans, which is reflected through the impairment charge in note 14.3.3 on page 155 of the attachment. This shows the proportion of the loan outlay and interest that the department expects not to recover. Student loans are subsidised by the government as a deliberate investment in the skills base of the country, which delivers benefits for individual students and for society at large.</p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 20/07/2018 13:56:50 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie attachment 1 file name HL9508 - DfE_Consolidated_annual_report_and_accounts_2016-17_print (1).pdf title HL9508_acceptances_by_STEM_subject
tabling member	565 label Biography information for Lord Morris of Aberavon

934498

registered interest
date	03/07/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Banks: Republic of Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the cost to the Treasury of providing support to banks in the Republic of Ireland during the 2008 banking crisis; and whether any of the funds provided have been repaid.
tabling member printed	Lord Morris of Aberavon
uin	HL9179
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>HM Government did not provide any direct financial assistance to banks headquartered in Ireland during the financial crisis.</p><p>In 2010, Parliament authorised a bilateral loan of £3.2 billion to be lent to the Irish Government as part of a wider international assistance package. Disbursements were made in 8 tranches between 2011 and 2013. Principal repayments will begin in April 2019 and the Government expects the loan to be repaid in full with interest. The most recent statutory report on the loan was laid in Parliament on 24 April 2018 and is available to view online.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 16/07/2018 13:43:56 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	565 label Biography information for Lord Morris of Aberavon

934499

registered interest
date	03/07/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Large Goods Vehicles: Republic of Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of lorries from EU countries, and in particular the Republic of Ireland, using roads in the UK on the way to other EU countries; and whether any costs incurred by the UK will be taken in to account in negotiations with the EU.
tabling member printed	Lord Morris of Aberavon
uin	HL9180
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2018 answer text <p>Data for 2017 indicates that 36,000 Irish registered Heavy Goods Vehicles (HGV) travelled through UK on their way to Mainland Europe.</p><p> </p><p>Through the HGV levy these hauliers contribute to the costs of the roads they use. This will continue to be the case after the UK leaves the EU.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 17/07/2018 13:21:55 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
tabling member	565 label Biography information for Lord Morris of Aberavon

934500

registered interest
date	03/07/2018
answering body	Department for Exiting the European Union
answering dept id	203
answering dept short name	Exiting the European Union
answering dept sort name	Exiting the European Union
hansard heading	EU Budget: Audit
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the historic failure of auditors to fully certify the accounts of the EU has been raised in recent negotiations.
tabling member printed	Lord Morris of Aberavon
uin	HL9181
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2018 answer text <p>As we have said previously, we are not going to provide a running commentary on every twist and turn of ongoing negotiations.</p><p>Recent negotiations have been building on the significant agreement reached in March. We’re continuing to make good progress and have reached agreement across the vast majority of the draft Withdrawal Agreement.</p><p>We are now focussed on negotiating the right future relationship and have been having regular discussions with the EU outlining our positions on a wide range of topics covering the future security partnership and the future economic partnership.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 17/07/2018 15:01:10 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
tabling member	565 label Biography information for Lord Morris of Aberavon

934501

registered interest
date	03/07/2018
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Housing: Foreign Nationals
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate, if any, they have made of the number of purchases of new build properties on the south bank of the Thames by foreign buyers in each of the last three years; and whether they intend to review the duties placed on property lawyers to investigate the source of funding for property purchases.
tabling member printed	Lord Morris of Aberavon
uin	HL9182
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>Regarding property purchase on the South Bank of the Thames the Government does not hold the data requested. However, recent research reports from the LSE and York University show that, in London, between 13-20 per cent of new builds were sold to individual foreign investors. The Government recognises concerns in some regions about the impact foreign purchase of property have on the availability of property for UK residents and is keeping the situation under review.</p><p>The Government is committed to ensuring that the UK property market is hostile to illicit finance whilst ensuring burdens on legitimate businesses are minimised. Legal professionals involved in the buying and selling of real property are covered by UK money-laundering regulations and must conduct customer due diligence checks, including identifying and verifying their clients and conducting on-going monitoring, including, where necessary, checking the source of funds. The regulations were comprehensively updated in 2017 and we’ll continue to keep them under review.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 16/07/2018 13:54:18 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	565 label Biography information for Lord Morris of Aberavon

930919

registered interest
date	25/06/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Coroners
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to consult the Chief Coroner about extending the remit of coroners to cover unusual numbers of deaths certified by individual GPs or in specific medical establishments.
tabling member printed	Lord Morris of Aberavon
uin	HL8919
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2018 answer text <p>There are no plans to extend the coroner’s remit in this way. By April 2019 the Government is planning to introduce a system of medical examiners in England who will review the certification of deaths not referred to the coroner. They will also report matters of a clinical governance nature which will support local learning and help to determine changes to practice and procedures.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 09/07/2018 16:50:37 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	565 label Biography information for Lord Morris of Aberavon