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1301197

registered interest
date	10/03/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Housing: VAT
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 Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government on the potential cost benefits of reducing VAT on (a) building products and (b) low-carbon technologies used to retrofit homes to improve (i) indoor air quality, (ii) energy efficiency and (iii) the health of occupants.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	166426
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2021 answer text <p>The Government already makes available a reduced rate of VAT on the installation of energy efficient products, including solar panels and micro combined heat and power units, when certain conditions are met.</p><p> </p><p>Extending the current VAT relief would come at a significant cost to the Exchequer, and there are no current plans to extend the scope of the relief already in place. However, the Government keeps all taxes under review.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 18/03/2021 12:06:32 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1301241

registered interest
date	10/03/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Budget March 2021: Publicity
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 March 2021 to Question 163295, what assessment he has made of the cost of his Department's (a) advertising and (b) video production previewing Budget 2021 in each of the last two months as a proportion of its in-house communications team's annual budget.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	166534
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2021 answer text <p>All content for HM Treasury channels is produced by the department’s in-house communications team at no additional cost.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 15/03/2021 17:00:04 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1301242

registered interest
date	10/03/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Budget March 2021: Publicity
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 March 2021 to Question 163295, what the annual budget of his in-house communications team (a) is currently and (b) has been in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	166535
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2021 answer text <p>HM Treasury’s communications team budget, including all staff and running costs for the past five financial years is: 2016/17- £1,950,886, 2017/18 - £1,838,437, 2018/19 - £1,838,272, 2019/20 - £2,138,268, 2020/21 £2,706,529 (year to date). The difference in costs seen in the current financial year has been driven largely by the additional demands of responding to the coronavirus crisis including new insight contracts (reference numbers CCZZ20A32 and CCZZ20A50, available to view <a href="https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/2893267d-19a6-429a-b793-21b300e29aba?origin=SearchResults&amp;p=1" target="_blank">here</a> and on the Governments contract finder website) to support the department’s policy response to the pandemic.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 15/03/2021 17:02:19 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1301245

registered interest
date	10/03/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	DMB Solutions: VAT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the HMRC liquidation claim for DMB solutions Ltd, HMRC reference 075 2142906 03, what steps have been taken to recover the £578,497.83 VAT element of HMRC’s claim from the company's directors personally; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	166375
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2021 answer text <p>HMRC cannot release this information as it relates to an identifiable individual or organisation.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 18/03/2021 12:08:03 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1301247

registered interest
date	10/03/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	National Infrastructure Bank: Environment Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the UK Infrastructure Bank plans to limit its funding to projects that are compatible with (a) currently legislated carbon budgets, (b) the Paris climate agreement, (c) the Government’s nature and biodiversity goals and priorities at national and international level and the (d) Sustainable Development Goals; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	166376
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2021 answer text <p>As set out in the Budget, the UK Infrastructure Bank will pursue two core policy objectives through its interventions in the infrastructure market: to help tackle climate change, particularly meeting our net zero emissions target by 2050; and to support regional and local economic growth. While the Bank’s initial focus will be on climate change mitigation and resilience, the Government will review the case for broadening this to include other areas such as improving the UK’s natural capital, before bringing forward legislation to put the Bank on a statutory footing.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will also publish a set of investment principles for the Bank later in the spring to help the bank assess what projects should be in scope. The Bank will make independent investment decisions and will need to develop assessment criteria to decide which investments it will take forward in line with its objectives. This will include environmental impacts. Following its launch later in the spring, the Bank will publish a document, developed in consultation with HM Treasury, setting out its approach to assessment in pursuit of its mandate.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch grouped question UIN 166377 166379 question first answered 17/03/2021 16:15:51 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1301248

registered interest
date	10/03/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	National Infrastructure Bank
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if will make it is his policy to require that the UK Infrastructure Bank has a list of excluded projects including, but not limited to (a) infrastructure related to the extraction of fossil fuels, (b) airport expansion, (c) incinerators, (d) new roads and (e) other high carbon infrastructure; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	166377
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2021 answer text <p>As set out in the Budget, the UK Infrastructure Bank will pursue two core policy objectives through its interventions in the infrastructure market: to help tackle climate change, particularly meeting our net zero emissions target by 2050; and to support regional and local economic growth. While the Bank’s initial focus will be on climate change mitigation and resilience, the Government will review the case for broadening this to include other areas such as improving the UK’s natural capital, before bringing forward legislation to put the Bank on a statutory footing.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will also publish a set of investment principles for the Bank later in the spring to help the bank assess what projects should be in scope. The Bank will make independent investment decisions and will need to develop assessment criteria to decide which investments it will take forward in line with its objectives. This will include environmental impacts. Following its launch later in the spring, the Bank will publish a document, developed in consultation with HM Treasury, setting out its approach to assessment in pursuit of its mandate.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch grouped question UIN 166376 166379 question first answered 17/03/2021 16:15:51 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1301249

registered interest
date	10/03/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	National Infrastructure Bank: Public Appointments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will take steps to ensure that the governance structure of the UK Infrastructure Bank will (a) require that the bank be headed by someone with public banking experience, (b) include the range of expertise needed to make decisions about the suitability of projects including, but not limited to, engineering and scientific knowledge, (c) include representatives from all of the nations of the UK, and (d) be representative of the UK population; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	166378
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2021 answer text <p>The UK Infrastructure Bank will be a world-class institution, staffed by people from a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences, with expertise to help meet the government’s objectives on economic growth, levelling up, and transitioning to net zero. The Bank will be headquartered in Leeds, and will operate UK-wide, supporting projects in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland</p><p> </p><p>The recruitment process for the Chair of the Bank is currently underway. When evaluating candidates, the selection panel will review applicants against a range of relevant criteria, including commercial or financial business leadership.</p><p> </p><p>HM Treasury will publish a framework document later in the spring outlining further details of the Bank’s governance and its relationship with government.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 17/03/2021 16:18:16 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1301250

registered interest
date	10/03/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	UK Infrastructure Bank: Environment Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the (a) process and (b) timeline are for (i) setting the investment principles of the UK Infrastructure Bank, and (ii) assessing the potential for the bank's environmental objectives to be broadened to include projects that would enhance the UK's natural capital and exclude projects that would deplete it; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	166379
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2021 answer text <p>As set out in the Budget, the UK Infrastructure Bank will pursue two core policy objectives through its interventions in the infrastructure market: to help tackle climate change, particularly meeting our net zero emissions target by 2050; and to support regional and local economic growth. While the Bank’s initial focus will be on climate change mitigation and resilience, the Government will review the case for broadening this to include other areas such as improving the UK’s natural capital, before bringing forward legislation to put the Bank on a statutory footing.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will also publish a set of investment principles for the Bank later in the spring to help the bank assess what projects should be in scope. The Bank will make independent investment decisions and will need to develop assessment criteria to decide which investments it will take forward in line with its objectives. This will include environmental impacts. Following its launch later in the spring, the Bank will publish a document, developed in consultation with HM Treasury, setting out its approach to assessment in pursuit of its mandate.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch grouped question UIN 166376 166377 question first answered 17/03/2021 16:15:51 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1301280

registered interest
date	10/03/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Events Industry: Insurance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a government-backed insurance scheme for festivals and events.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	166478
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2021 answer text <p>On 22nd February, the Prime Minister announced the Government’s roadmap to cautiously ease lockdown restrictions in England, including an ambition to lift restrictions on large events in Step 4, subject to the outcome of the Events Research Programme.</p><p> </p><p>Officials are considering the most appropriate way to support the events sector to safely reopen, informed by the findings of the research programme in the Spring.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 16/03/2021 11:15:23 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

1301297

registered interest
date	10/03/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Self-employment Income Support Scheme
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 self-employed people who will be ineligible to apply for the fourth round of Self-Employed Income Support Scheme grants as a result of their tax return for the tax year 2019-20 not having been submitted by 2 March 2021.
tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
tabling member printed	Kirsten Oswald
uin	166462
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2021 answer text <p>HMRC waived the late filing penalty for tax returns filed online by 28 February in order to provide relief to all Self-Assessment taxpayers and agents at a time of significant pressure. The statutory filing deadline of 31 January did not change.</p><p> </p><p>According to HMRC, 11.4 million people had submitted their 2019-20 Self-Assessment tax returns by 28 February. About 1.1 million returns are outstanding. Not all of these cases will ultimately file a return or will be self-employed.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC analysis of filing volumes around this period suggests that an estimated 97% of individuals who claimed the third Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) grant, about 2.1 million people, had submitted their 2019-20 Self-Assessment tax return by 28 February.</p><p> </p><p>An estimate of the number of self-employed individuals who will be ineligible for the fourth SEISS grant as a result of their tax return for the tax year 2019-20 not having been submitted by 2 March 2021 is not available. This will depend on the number of individuals that file a 2019-20 return after that date and the information they submit.</p><p> </p><p>At Spring Budget the Government announced a major improvement in access to the SEISS. HMRC will use 2019-20 tax returns to determine eligibility for the fourth and fifth grants, provided they were submitted by 2 March.</p><p> </p><p>This means about 600,000 people, many of whom became self-employed in 2019-20, may now be able to claim the fourth and fifth grants, bringing the total number of people who could be eligible to about 3.7 million.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 166464 question first answered 15/03/2021 15:33:36 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4413 label Biography information for Kirsten Oswald