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date	17/07/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Employment: Parents
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 number of (a) mothers and (b) fathers who are likely to return to the workplace following the Spring Budget 2023.
tabling member constituency	Penistone and Stocksbridge
tabling member printed	Miriam Cates
uin	194608
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2023 answer text <p>HM Treasury does not prepare forecasts for the UK labour market, including assessments of the impact of the Budget, which are the responsibility of the independent Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).</p><p>The OBR judged that the overall impact of the policy package announced at Spring Budget 2023 is to increase the level of employment by around 0.3 per cent in 2027-28, this is equivalent to 110,000 individuals. This is the largest upward revision made to potential output as a result of government fiscal policy decisions in any of the OBR’s forecasts since 2010.</p><p>Further details can be found in the OBR’s latest Economic and Fiscal Outlook, published in March 2023: <a href="https://obr.uk/efo/economic-and-fiscal-outlook-march-2023/" target="_blank">https://obr.uk/efo/economic-and-fiscal-outlook-march-2023/</a></p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 21/07/2023 07:48:13 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4865 label Biography information for Miriam Cates

1604600

registered interest
date	15/03/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Childcare: Finance
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 allowing the full or partial value of the free childcare hours entitlement to be paid to informal childcare providers such as grandparents.
tabling member constituency	Penistone and Stocksbridge
tabling member printed	Miriam Cates
uin	166399
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2023 answer text <p>The government is committed to supporting the early years sector and, at Spring Budget, announced an extra £4.4 billion of investment by 27-28 for the free hours offers in England. Through this package, the government will be more than doubling its spend on free childcare hours.</p><p> </p><p>Local authorities are required by legislation to deliver free early education entitlements places through providers registered on the Ofsted Early Years Register. This can include nurseries, childminders (including those registered with a childminder agency) and schools which take children aged two and over and which are therefore exempt from registration with Ofsted as early years providers.</p><p> </p><p>The government recognises that relatives do an incredibly important job in a child’s upbringing and can also help families meet their childcare needs. However, to ensure quality early education, free childcare entitlements cannot be used to pay family members to look after children.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 23/03/2023 09:45:15 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4865 label Biography information for Miriam Cates

1240859

registered interest
date	06/10/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Exports: VAT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the potential cost of extending the VAT Retail Export Scheme to countries in the EU from 1 January 2021.
tabling member constituency	Penistone and Stocksbridge
tabling member printed	Miriam Cates
uin	99792
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2020 answer text <p>The Government has announced that the VAT Retail Export Scheme (RES) will not be extended to EU visitors, and will be withdrawn for all non-EU visitors, following the end of the transition period. However, retailers will continue to be able to offer VAT-free shopping to non-EU visitors who purchase items in store and have them sent direct to their overseas addresses and this will be available to EU visitors following the end of the transition period.</p><p> </p><p>In 2019 HMRC estimate that VAT RES refunds cost around £0.5billion in VAT for around 1.2million non-EU visitors. HMRC also estimate that fewer than one in ten non-EU visitors use the VAT RES.</p><p> </p><p>In 2019 the ONS estimate there were substantially more EU visitors (24.8 million) than non-EU passengers (16.0 million) to the UK. This implies an extension to EU residents would significantly increase the cost by up to an estimated £0.9billion. This would result in a large amount of deadweight loss by subsidising spending from EU visitors which already happens without a refund mechanism in place, potentially taking the total cost up to around £1.4billion per annum.</p><p> </p><p>The final costing will be subject to scrutiny by the independent Office for Budget Responsibility and will be set out at the next forecast.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 14/10/2020 10:08:16 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	4865 label Biography information for Miriam Cates