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1020215

registered interest
date	05/12/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Research: EU Grants and Loans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the funding made available to underwrite successful bids by UK organisations to (a) Horizon 2020 and (b) other competitive EU grant programmes is planned to be redistributed from existing UK research budgets in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	199420
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The HMG guarantee covers successful competitive bids made before the UK leaves the EU, for the lifetime of the project. This guarantee was extended in July 2018 to cover all EU projects agreed before the end of 2020, where the UK will be eligible to participate as a third country. If the UK leaves the EU next year without reaching an overall withdrawal agreement, HM Treasury will make funding available to departments to cover projects under the guarantee, which includes Horizon 2020. This funding will be additional to existing departmental budgets. Relevant departments will then be responsible for allocating this funding to UK organisations.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 11/12/2018 14:41:16 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1020228

registered interest
date	05/12/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Self-assessment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent lessons his Department has learned to help increase the proportion of tax returns filed by 31 January 2019 deadline.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	199320
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2018 answer text <p>HMRC continually uses customer insight to improve filing rates. For example, HMRC has used customer insight to deliver personalised messaging, which research has shown to have a statistically significant effect on filing rates.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 10/12/2018 15:15:12 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1020230

registered interest
date	05/12/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	National Productivity Investment Fund
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 amount of money the National Productivity Investment Fund will allocate in each of the next five years.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	199322
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2018 answer text <p>The National Productivity Investment Fund (NPIF) will provide £37 billion of capital investment between 2017-18 and 2023-24 to support jobs and growth.</p><p> </p><p>The Chancellor has set out how over £27 billion of this funding will be allocated across housing, transport, digital infrastructure and R&amp;D. The remaining funding will be allocated at future fiscal events.</p><p> </p><p>A breakdown of allocations can be found on page 54 of the Autumn Budget 2018 document: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/752202/Budget_2018_red_web.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/752202/Budget_2018_red_web.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 10/12/2018 15:38:20 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1020236

registered interest
date	05/12/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Offshore Industry: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Government has established a decommissioning fund to ensure funding for the transferable tax history policy.
tabling member constituency	Norwich South
tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
uin	199457
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2018 answer text <p><strong>T</strong>ransferable tax history is forecast to increase tax receipts from oil and gas production by £65m between tax years 2018-19 and 2023-24.</p><p> </p><p>It would therefore be unnecessary to set aside additional funding to implement this policy.</p><p> </p><p>Wider decommissioning tax relief is provided to companies undertaking decommissioning activities through deductions against current or future taxable profits and, in some situations, repayments of previously paid tax.</p><p> </p><p>The UK oil and gas industry is expected to pay an additional £13bn of tax over the next 5 years, net of tax repayments for decommissioning tax relief.</p><p> </p><p>The Government publishes OBR verified forecasts of future tax receipts for the 5 year period up to year 2023/24.</p><p> </p><p>Government internal projections for TTH beyond 2023/24 show it will continue to be revenue positive for the Exchequer.</p><p> </p><p>Para 5 (d) of Schedule 14 to the Finance Bill (No.3) 2017-19 determines the “uplifted decommissioning cost estimate”. This refers to the maximum possible amount of tax history that the seller can transfer to a purchaser under a transferable tax history election. It does not represent the actual tax relief that the purchaser will receive from making a claim for transferable tax history.</p><p> </p><p>The amount of transferable tax history that a purchaser can claim will always be limited to the activated amount of transferable tax history. The activated amount is defined as the extent by which decommissioning costs of the transferred field exceed the tracked profits of the transferred field.</p><p> </p><p>If a purchaser is able to make a claim for transferable tax history they cannot receive a larger repayment than the seller would have received for undertaking the same decommissioning work.</p><p> </p><p>The current estimate of the exchequer’s liability for decommissioning costs is therefore unaffected by the introduction of transferable tax history.</p><p> </p><p>Government tax revenues from North Sea Oil and Gas companies over the last three years are reproduced in the table below. More details can be found in Table 11.11 in the publication “<em>Statistics of Government revenues from UK Oil and Gas production</em>”.</p><p> </p><p>Tax repayments are made to ring-fenced oil and gas companies if the assessment of tax due from an earlier period is revised downwards. This can be the result of many factors, including decommissioning tax relief. Estimates of total tax relief arising from decommissioning expenditure will be published by HMRC in <em>Estimated Costs of Tax Reliefs</em> in early 2019.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>2017-18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total tax revenues (£m)</p></td><td><p>-2</p></td><td><p>-350</p></td><td><p>1,188</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/740260/Table_11.11__Sept_2018_.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/740260/Table_11.11__Sept_2018_.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 199458 199459 199460 question first answered 14/12/2018 12:42:47 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

1020237

registered interest
date	05/12/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Offshore Industry: Taxation
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 costs of the transferable tax history policy in the ten years after April 2024.
tabling member constituency	Norwich South
tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
uin	199458
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2018 answer text <p><strong>T</strong>ransferable tax history is forecast to increase tax receipts from oil and gas production by £65m between tax years 2018-19 and 2023-24.</p><p> </p><p>It would therefore be unnecessary to set aside additional funding to implement this policy.</p><p> </p><p>Wider decommissioning tax relief is provided to companies undertaking decommissioning activities through deductions against current or future taxable profits and, in some situations, repayments of previously paid tax.</p><p> </p><p>The UK oil and gas industry is expected to pay an additional £13bn of tax over the next 5 years, net of tax repayments for decommissioning tax relief.</p><p> </p><p>The Government publishes OBR verified forecasts of future tax receipts for the 5 year period up to year 2023/24.</p><p> </p><p>Government internal projections for TTH beyond 2023/24 show it will continue to be revenue positive for the Exchequer.</p><p> </p><p>Para 5 (d) of Schedule 14 to the Finance Bill (No.3) 2017-19 determines the “uplifted decommissioning cost estimate”. This refers to the maximum possible amount of tax history that the seller can transfer to a purchaser under a transferable tax history election. It does not represent the actual tax relief that the purchaser will receive from making a claim for transferable tax history.</p><p> </p><p>The amount of transferable tax history that a purchaser can claim will always be limited to the activated amount of transferable tax history. The activated amount is defined as the extent by which decommissioning costs of the transferred field exceed the tracked profits of the transferred field.</p><p> </p><p>If a purchaser is able to make a claim for transferable tax history they cannot receive a larger repayment than the seller would have received for undertaking the same decommissioning work.</p><p> </p><p>The current estimate of the exchequer’s liability for decommissioning costs is therefore unaffected by the introduction of transferable tax history.</p><p> </p><p>Government tax revenues from North Sea Oil and Gas companies over the last three years are reproduced in the table below. More details can be found in Table 11.11 in the publication “<em>Statistics of Government revenues from UK Oil and Gas production</em>”.</p><p> </p><p>Tax repayments are made to ring-fenced oil and gas companies if the assessment of tax due from an earlier period is revised downwards. This can be the result of many factors, including decommissioning tax relief. Estimates of total tax relief arising from decommissioning expenditure will be published by HMRC in <em>Estimated Costs of Tax Reliefs</em> in early 2019.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>2017-18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total tax revenues (£m)</p></td><td><p>-2</p></td><td><p>-350</p></td><td><p>1,188</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/740260/Table_11.11__Sept_2018_.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/740260/Table_11.11__Sept_2018_.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 199457 199459 199460 question first answered 14/12/2018 12:42:47 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

1020238

registered interest
date	05/12/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Offshore Industry: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to Part 2, paragraph 5d of Schedule 14 on Clause 36 of the Finance Bill 2018, what assessment he has made of the potential of the decommissioning costs doubling over the life-cycle of transferable tax history.
tabling member constituency	Norwich South
tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
uin	199459
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2018 answer text <p><strong>T</strong>ransferable tax history is forecast to increase tax receipts from oil and gas production by £65m between tax years 2018-19 and 2023-24.</p><p> </p><p>It would therefore be unnecessary to set aside additional funding to implement this policy.</p><p> </p><p>Wider decommissioning tax relief is provided to companies undertaking decommissioning activities through deductions against current or future taxable profits and, in some situations, repayments of previously paid tax.</p><p> </p><p>The UK oil and gas industry is expected to pay an additional £13bn of tax over the next 5 years, net of tax repayments for decommissioning tax relief.</p><p> </p><p>The Government publishes OBR verified forecasts of future tax receipts for the 5 year period up to year 2023/24.</p><p> </p><p>Government internal projections for TTH beyond 2023/24 show it will continue to be revenue positive for the Exchequer.</p><p> </p><p>Para 5 (d) of Schedule 14 to the Finance Bill (No.3) 2017-19 determines the “uplifted decommissioning cost estimate”. This refers to the maximum possible amount of tax history that the seller can transfer to a purchaser under a transferable tax history election. It does not represent the actual tax relief that the purchaser will receive from making a claim for transferable tax history.</p><p> </p><p>The amount of transferable tax history that a purchaser can claim will always be limited to the activated amount of transferable tax history. The activated amount is defined as the extent by which decommissioning costs of the transferred field exceed the tracked profits of the transferred field.</p><p> </p><p>If a purchaser is able to make a claim for transferable tax history they cannot receive a larger repayment than the seller would have received for undertaking the same decommissioning work.</p><p> </p><p>The current estimate of the exchequer’s liability for decommissioning costs is therefore unaffected by the introduction of transferable tax history.</p><p> </p><p>Government tax revenues from North Sea Oil and Gas companies over the last three years are reproduced in the table below. More details can be found in Table 11.11 in the publication “<em>Statistics of Government revenues from UK Oil and Gas production</em>”.</p><p> </p><p>Tax repayments are made to ring-fenced oil and gas companies if the assessment of tax due from an earlier period is revised downwards. This can be the result of many factors, including decommissioning tax relief. Estimates of total tax relief arising from decommissioning expenditure will be published by HMRC in <em>Estimated Costs of Tax Reliefs</em> in early 2019.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>2017-18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total tax revenues (£m)</p></td><td><p>-2</p></td><td><p>-350</p></td><td><p>1,188</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/740260/Table_11.11__Sept_2018_.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/740260/Table_11.11__Sept_2018_.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 199457 199458 199460 question first answered 14/12/2018 12:42:47 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

1020239

registered interest
date	05/12/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	North Sea Oil: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what sums the Government (a) received in tax revenues from North Sea oil production and (b) paid out in decommissioning-related tax breaks in each of the last three years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Norwich South
tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
uin	199460
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2018 answer text <p><strong>T</strong>ransferable tax history is forecast to increase tax receipts from oil and gas production by £65m between tax years 2018-19 and 2023-24.</p><p> </p><p>It would therefore be unnecessary to set aside additional funding to implement this policy.</p><p> </p><p>Wider decommissioning tax relief is provided to companies undertaking decommissioning activities through deductions against current or future taxable profits and, in some situations, repayments of previously paid tax.</p><p> </p><p>The UK oil and gas industry is expected to pay an additional £13bn of tax over the next 5 years, net of tax repayments for decommissioning tax relief.</p><p> </p><p>The Government publishes OBR verified forecasts of future tax receipts for the 5 year period up to year 2023/24.</p><p> </p><p>Government internal projections for TTH beyond 2023/24 show it will continue to be revenue positive for the Exchequer.</p><p> </p><p>Para 5 (d) of Schedule 14 to the Finance Bill (No.3) 2017-19 determines the “uplifted decommissioning cost estimate”. This refers to the maximum possible amount of tax history that the seller can transfer to a purchaser under a transferable tax history election. It does not represent the actual tax relief that the purchaser will receive from making a claim for transferable tax history.</p><p> </p><p>The amount of transferable tax history that a purchaser can claim will always be limited to the activated amount of transferable tax history. The activated amount is defined as the extent by which decommissioning costs of the transferred field exceed the tracked profits of the transferred field.</p><p> </p><p>If a purchaser is able to make a claim for transferable tax history they cannot receive a larger repayment than the seller would have received for undertaking the same decommissioning work.</p><p> </p><p>The current estimate of the exchequer’s liability for decommissioning costs is therefore unaffected by the introduction of transferable tax history.</p><p> </p><p>Government tax revenues from North Sea Oil and Gas companies over the last three years are reproduced in the table below. More details can be found in Table 11.11 in the publication “<em>Statistics of Government revenues from UK Oil and Gas production</em>”.</p><p> </p><p>Tax repayments are made to ring-fenced oil and gas companies if the assessment of tax due from an earlier period is revised downwards. This can be the result of many factors, including decommissioning tax relief. Estimates of total tax relief arising from decommissioning expenditure will be published by HMRC in <em>Estimated Costs of Tax Reliefs</em> in early 2019.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>2017-18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total tax revenues (£m)</p></td><td><p>-2</p></td><td><p>-350</p></td><td><p>1,188</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/740260/Table_11.11__Sept_2018_.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/740260/Table_11.11__Sept_2018_.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 199457 199458 199459 question first answered 14/12/2018 12:42:47 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

1020328

registered interest
date	05/12/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he plans to respond to the fourth report of the House of Lords Economic Affairs Sub Committee report, The Powers of HMRC: Treating Taxpayers Fairly, HL paper 242, published on 4 December 2018.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
uin	199423
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government will respond to the sub-Committee’s report in due course and in the usual way.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 14/12/2018 13:49:16 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper

1020330

registered interest
date	05/12/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Health Professions: Tax Avoidance
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 number of (a) doctors and (b) nurses who will be subject to the 2019 disguised remuneration loan charge.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
uin	199424
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2018 answer text <p>The charge on disguised remuneration (DR) loans is targeted at artificial tax avoidance schemes where earnings were paid via a third party in the form of ‘loans’. These loans were paid in place of ordinary remuneration, with the sole purpose of avoiding income tax and National Insurance contributions. In reality these loans were never repaid. When taking into account the loan they received, loan scheme users have on average twice as much income as the average UK taxpayer.</p><p> </p><p>The Government estimates that up to 50,000 individuals will be affected by the 2019 loan charge. HMRC has published a breakdown of individuals affected by industry. HMRC data indicates that fewer than 3% of those affected work in medical services (doctors and nurses) and teaching. Further information can be found at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/loan-schemes-and-the-loan-charge-an-overview/tax-avoidance-loan-schemes-and-the-loan-charge#who-affected" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/loan-schemes-and-the-loan-charge-an-overview/tax-avoidance-loan-schemes-and-the-loan-charge#who-affected</a></p><p> </p><p>HMRC has simplified the process for those who choose to settle their use of avoidance schemes before the charge arises, so that those earning less than £50,000 a year and no longer engaging in tax avoidance can agree a payment plan of up to five years without the need for detailed supporting information. There is no maximum period within which an overall settlement can be agreed, and HMRC will deal with individual cases appropriately and sympathetically.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 199425 question first answered 14/12/2018 13:56:35 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper

1020331

registered interest
date	05/12/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Bankruptcy: Tax Avoidance
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 number of people (a) affected and (b) made bankrupt by the 2019 disguised remuneration Loan Charge.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
uin	199425
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2018 answer text <p>The charge on disguised remuneration (DR) loans is targeted at artificial tax avoidance schemes where earnings were paid via a third party in the form of ‘loans’. These loans were paid in place of ordinary remuneration, with the sole purpose of avoiding income tax and National Insurance contributions. In reality these loans were never repaid. When taking into account the loan they received, loan scheme users have on average twice as much income as the average UK taxpayer.</p><p> </p><p>The Government estimates that up to 50,000 individuals will be affected by the 2019 loan charge. HMRC has published a breakdown of individuals affected by industry. HMRC data indicates that fewer than 3% of those affected work in medical services (doctors and nurses) and teaching. Further information can be found at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/loan-schemes-and-the-loan-charge-an-overview/tax-avoidance-loan-schemes-and-the-loan-charge#who-affected" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/loan-schemes-and-the-loan-charge-an-overview/tax-avoidance-loan-schemes-and-the-loan-charge#who-affected</a></p><p> </p><p>HMRC has simplified the process for those who choose to settle their use of avoidance schemes before the charge arises, so that those earning less than £50,000 a year and no longer engaging in tax avoidance can agree a payment plan of up to five years without the need for detailed supporting information. There is no maximum period within which an overall settlement can be agreed, and HMRC will deal with individual cases appropriately and sympathetically.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 199424 question first answered 14/12/2018 13:56:35 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper