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1306945

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date	12/04/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Capital Gains Tax
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the evidential basis was for not raising the Capital Gains Tax in line with Income Tax as part of Budget 2021.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Zarah Sultana
uin	178615
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2021 answer text <p>The Government keeps all taxes under review, and any changes are made at fiscal events within the context of wider public finances. As demonstrated in last month’s Budget, the Government’s priority is supporting jobs and the economic recovery from the pandemic.</p><p> </p><p>Any changes to the tax system will balance the need to raise revenue with the principles of fairness and market efficiency.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 15/04/2021 14:35:28 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4786 label Biography information for Zarah Sultana

1307046

registered interest
date	12/04/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Self-employed: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he has taken to support self-employed people who have had no financial income for the duration of the covid-19 restrictions and lockdowns who are ineligible for support through universal credit or the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Zarah Sultana
uin	179603
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2021 answer text <p>The Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) has provided and will continue to provide generous support to self-employed people who meet the eligibility criteria. The Government will have spent over £33 billion supporting those in self-employment through the SEISS, making it one of the most generous self-employment income COVID support schemes in the world.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is bringing more people into the scheme: changes to the fourth grant mean that over 600,000 people previously ineligible for SEISS may now be eligible, including those newly self-employed in 2019-20. This brings the total number of people who could be eligible to 3.7m.</p><p> </p><p>The Government recognises that some of the rules, criteria and conditions vital to ensuring that the SEISS works for the vast majority mean that some people may not qualify.</p><p> </p><p>Those ineligible for the SEISS may still be eligible for other elements of the support available. The Government has decided to extend the suspension of the Universal Credit Minimum Income Floor for three months, to the end of July 2021, so that where self-employed claimants' earnings have fallen significantly, their Universal Credit award will have increased to reflect their lower earnings.</p><p> </p><p>New style Jobseeker’s Allowance is also available to individuals with sufficient National Insurance Contributions who now work under 16 hours a week on average, and does not assess household capital.</p><p>Self-employed people may also have access to other elements of support available, including Restart Grants, the Recovery Loan scheme, business rates relief, and other business support schemes.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 15/04/2021 14:17:17 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4786 label Biography information for Zarah Sultana

1307047

registered interest
date	12/04/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Taxis: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he has taken to support self-employed taxi drivers experiencing reductions in work as a result of the covid-19 outbreak and who require financial support to bridge the gaps between receipt of Self-Employment Income Support Scheme grants.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Zarah Sultana
uin	179604
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2021 answer text <p>The Government recognises that this is a challenging time for many sectors and individuals, including self-employed taxi drivers.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has acted to support those that are self-employed and have been affected by the COVID-19 outbreak, and announced at Budget 2021 that the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) will continue until September, with a fourth and a final fifth grant.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will have spent over £33 billion supporting those in self-employment through the SEISS, making it one of the most generous self-employment income COVID-19 support schemes in the world.</p><p> </p><p>The SEISS is not intended to provide a month-by-month replacement of income. Due to the volatility of self-employed income and the lack of granular data that HMRC holds on self-employed trading profits, precise mapping of income replacement month by month is not possible. Instead, the SEISS provides a lump sum payment to support eligible self-employed individuals whose businesses have been affected by coronavirus.</p><p> </p><p>The SEISS is just one part of a wider package of support for the self-employed, which includes automatic, self-serve time-to-pay arrangements, loans, welfare support, and other business support grants.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 15/04/2021 14:34:11 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4786 label Biography information for Zarah Sultana

1307166

registered interest
date	12/04/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Public Expenditure: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the briefing note published by the Institute for Fiscal Studies on 31 March 2020, and its finding that public spending per person in Scotland is over 30 per cent higher than equivalent English funding, if he will review the Barnett formula to take account of (a) recent trends in the level of Scotland’s population growth and (b) the cost of living in that country.
tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
tabling member printed	Duncan Baker
uin	179601
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2021 answer text <p>The government sets out funding arrangements for the Devolved Administrations in the Statement of Funding Policy (SFP), which was most recently updated at the 2020 Spending Review and is kept under review. The 2020 SFP states that the Barnett formula continues to perform a key part of the arrangements for pooling and sharing risks and resources across the UK. This means that a downturn in one area can be supported by other areas, rather than being dependent on local economic conditions – and a windfall can be shared with other areas. It ensures the devolved administrations receive a population share of changes in relevant funding consistent with the wider principles set out in the SFP.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Steve Barclay question first answered 15/04/2021 07:56:36 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4784 label Biography information for Duncan Baker

1307384

registered interest
date	12/04/2021
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, if he will allocate funds to the devolved Governments equivalent to the £51.3 billion package for councils in England announced by the Minister of Housing, Communities & Local Government, on 10 February 2021.
tabling member constituency	Belfast South
tabling member printed	Claire Hanna
uin	179655
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2021 answer text <p>At Spending Review 2020, the core spending power for Local Government increased from £49.0 billion to £51.3 billion in 2021-22. The Barnett formula was applied to changes in departmental funding as set out in the Statement of Funding Policy so additional funding for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has already generated additional funding for the devolved administrations as part of their own 2021-22 settlements.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Steve Barclay question first answered 15/04/2021 10:20:34 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4827 label Biography information for Claire Hanna

1308065

registered interest
date	12/04/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Capital Allowances: Impact Assessments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has conducted a regional economic impact assessment by NUTS-1 region of the capital allowance super-deduction.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	179377
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2021 answer text <p>Conducting a regional economic impact assessment by NUTS-1 region for the super-deduction is not feasible as the data available would be inadequate for such an assessment. HMRC’s corporation tax outturns data reflects the geographic locations where companies are registered; rather than where the assets on which capital allowances are claimed are located. In addition, the ONS does not collect regional breakdowns of business investment.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 15/04/2021 14:18:41 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1308073

registered interest
date	12/04/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Buildings: Insulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether there will be a Barnett consequential for the Northern Ireland devolved government as a result of the announcement of 10 February 2021 of £5 million funding for the removal of unsafe cladding.
tabling member constituency	Belfast South
tabling member printed	Claire Hanna
uin	179658
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2021 answer text <p>The Housing Secretary announced £3.5 billion on 10 February 2021 as part of a £5 billion multi-year investment in building safety in England.</p><p> </p><p>The Barnett formula is applied to changes in departmental funding so will apply to changes in funding related to this announcement. The level of Barnett consequentials to the Northern Ireland Executive will be confirmed at future fiscal events and spending reviews when the overall level of funding for MHCLG is set.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Steve Barclay question first answered 15/04/2021 10:23:10 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4827 label Biography information for Claire Hanna

1308173

registered interest
date	12/04/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Freeports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether goods processed and produced in a freeport in the UK, regardless of their prior origin, are entitled to the arrangements for goods originating in the UK for the purposes of trade with the EU, as governed by the EU-UK Trade and Co-operation Agreement; and which provisions in that treaty specify that treatment.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	179062
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2021 answer text <p>Goods processed and produced in a Freeport and then exported are subject to the relevant rules of origin under the applicable FTA.</p><p> </p><p>This means to be considered as “originating” for the purpose of the TCA, goods processed and produced in a Freeport will need to satisfy the rules outlined in Chapter 2 Title 1 Part 2 of the TCA and the corresponding Annex ORIG-2. Goods processed and produced in a Freeport will benefit from the same rights to preferential access as other UK goods.</p><p> </p><p>Businesses operating within Freeport customs sites can take advantage of tariff benefits, including import duty deferral while the goods remain on site, and duty inversion if the finished goods exiting the Freeport attract a lower tariff than their component parts. The Freeport customs offer for businesses also includes the ability to import goods into customs site with the duty suspended and subsequently re-exporting without paying the duty.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Steve Barclay question first answered 15/04/2021 10:09:09 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1308174

registered interest
date	12/04/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Freeports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the UK-EU Trade and Co-operation Agreement, whether the Government’s policy on freeports formed part of the negotiating mandate for the UK negotiators.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	179063
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2021 answer text <p>The UK published its opening mandate in February 2020, this did not reference freeports directly. However, all our red lines on returning sovereignty have been achieved. The most important objective - in all policy areas, not just freeports- is for the UK to have genuine economic and political independence. The Agreement leaves us in full control of our laws and preserves policy space and flexibility, including creating Freeports which when developed will empower regions across the UK to become hubs for international trade and investment.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Steve Barclay question first answered 15/04/2021 10:04:07 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1306236

registered interest
date	25/03/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Personal Income: Coronavirus
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 effect of the covid-19 outbreak on (a) average household incomes and (b) trends in the level of mean household disposable income in (i) Coventry North East constituency, (ii) Coventry, (iii) the West Midlands and (iv) England.
tabling member constituency	Coventry North East
tabling member printed	Colleen Fletcher
uin	175890
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/04/2021 answer text <p>The Government continues to monitor and publish trends in households’ circumstances across the UK. The Household Below Average Income (HBAI) publication looks at household incomes in the UK, but the latest available figures only cover up to the financial year 2019/20 and so do not measure the time period in which COVID-19 has had an impact.</p><p> </p><p>The Office for National Statistics (ONS) also produce estimates of household income for the whole of the UK. Whilst the latest data published is not broken down by region, it indicates that for the UK as a whole, real household disposable income in 2020 Q4 was 0.7% higher than the same quarter in 2019.</p><p> </p><p>However, throughout the pandemic, the Government has sought to protect people’s jobs and livelihoods across the UK, including in the Coventry North East constituency, Coventry, the West Midlands and England. This includes unprecedented measures such as the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) and the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS).</p><p> </p><p>For the latest HMRC statistics on the use of the CJRS, see the table below (from published HMRC figures found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/coronavirus-job-retention-scheme-statistics-march-2021" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/coronavirus-job-retention-scheme-statistics-march-2021</a> ):</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Cumulative number of employments furloughed since March 2020 (based on claims made by 15 March 2021)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Coventry North East</p></td><td><p>20,600</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Coventry</p></td><td><p>56,600</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>999,600</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>9,419,400</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>For the latest figures on the use of the SEISS, see the table below (from published HMRC figures found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/self-employment-income-support-scheme-statistics-february-2021" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/self-employment-income-support-scheme-statistics-february-2021</a> ):</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Number of SEISS 1 claims made up to 31 January 2021</p></td><td><p>Number of SEISS 2 claims made up to 31 January 2021</p></td><td><p>Number of SEISS 3 claims made up to 31 January 2021</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Coventry North East</p></td><td><p>4,000</p></td><td><p>3,600</p></td><td><p>3,400</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Coventry</p></td><td><p>10,100</p></td><td><p>9,300</p></td><td><p>8,700</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>202,000</p></td><td><p>182,000</p></td><td><p>170,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>2,254,000</p></td><td><p>2,034,000</p></td><td><p>1,903,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Lastly, to illustrate the challenges faced by households during COVID-19, and how government interventions have supported households of different income levels, HM Treasury published distributional analysis alongside the Budget 2021 showing estimates of the change in household net incomes between February and November 2020. This can be found here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/966207/DA_Document_Budget_2021.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/966207/DA_Document_Budget_2021.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 13/04/2021 12:59:46 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4378 label Biography information for Colleen Fletcher