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1037277

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Excise Duties
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 transferring the proceeds of vehicle excise duties raised in the Greater London Authority area to London local authorities.
tabling member constituency	Hornchurch and Upminster
tabling member printed	Julia Lopez
uin	908473
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2019 answer text <p>The government has committed to hypothecate Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) in England from 2020-21 into the National Roads Fund (NRF), providing long-term certainty for roads investment. This will be used to maintain the country’s main arterial routes and enhance national road connectivity.</p><p> </p><p>Devolving VED to London would undermine the purpose of the NRF to deliver nationally significant schemes across the strategic road network, including those in London such as the M25 and some recently announced Major Road Network candidates which will also be funded by the NRF.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 10/01/2019 16:54:55 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez

1037597

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Public Expenditure: Northern Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how much money was allocated to Northern Ireland as a result of Barnett consequentials in each of the last three financial years.
tabling member printed	Lord Empey
uin	HL12654
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2019 answer text <p>The Barnett Formula was applied at the 2015 Spending Review to changes to each UK government department’s overall Departmental Expenditure Limits (DEL) budget. The 2015 Spending Review set the baseline block grant allocation for Northern Ireland in 2015/16 at £10.7bn. This is set out in 2015 Spending Review documents published on the gov.uk website</p><p> </p><p>In addition to that, HM Treasury’s Block Grant Transparency publication sets out the breakdown of changes in the Northern Ireland block grant since the 2015 Spending Review, including all further Barnett consequentials as follows.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>£ million</p></td><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>2018-19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total Barnett Consequentials</p></td><td><p>9.7</p></td><td><p>251.2</p></td><td><p>435.1*</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>* Any adjustments for 2018-19 will be presented to Parliament through the Supplementary Estimates Process</p><p>The Block Grant Transparency publication can be found on the gov.uk website</p> answering member printed Lord Bates grouped question UIN HL12656 question first answered 22/01/2019 12:15:44 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	4216 label Biography information for Lord Empey

1037598

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Public Expenditure: Northern Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how much money has been returned to HM Treasury from Northern Ireland in each of the last three financial years.
tabling member printed	Lord Empey
uin	HL12655
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2019 answer text <p>Under the Budget Exchange system, the devolved administrations can carry forward unallocated DEL budget from one financial year to the next, within previously agreed limits and with the consent of HM Treasury Ministers.</p><p> </p><p>As set out in the Statement of Funding Policy, a limit of 0.6% applies to Resource DEL underspends and 1.5% to Capital DEL underspends in any year. Any underspends in excess of these limits will be forfeited.</p><p> </p><p>Over the last three financial years, all underspends in non-ringfenced Resource DEL and Capital DEL (excluding Financial Transaction Capital) have been accessed under the Budget Exchange system in the following year, rather than being surrendered to HM Treasury.</p><p> </p><p>Any underspend not accessed under the Budget Exchange Scheme and returned to HM Treasury is either non-cash Resource or Financial Transactions Capital.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 21/01/2019 17:25:25 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	4216 label Biography information for Lord Empey

1037599

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Public Expenditure: Northern Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how much money has been allocated to Northern Ireland in the current financial year as a result of Barnett consequentials.
tabling member printed	Lord Empey
uin	HL12656
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2019 answer text <p>The Barnett Formula was applied at the 2015 Spending Review to changes to each UK government department’s overall Departmental Expenditure Limits (DEL) budget. The 2015 Spending Review set the baseline block grant allocation for Northern Ireland in 2015/16 at £10.7bn. This is set out in 2015 Spending Review documents published on the gov.uk website</p><p> </p><p>In addition to that, HM Treasury’s Block Grant Transparency publication sets out the breakdown of changes in the Northern Ireland block grant since the 2015 Spending Review, including all further Barnett consequentials as follows.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>£ million</p></td><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>2018-19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total Barnett Consequentials</p></td><td><p>9.7</p></td><td><p>251.2</p></td><td><p>435.1*</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>* Any adjustments for 2018-19 will be presented to Parliament through the Supplementary Estimates Process</p><p>The Block Grant Transparency publication can be found on the gov.uk website</p> answering member printed Lord Bates grouped question UIN HL12654 question first answered 22/01/2019 12:15:44 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	4216 label Biography information for Lord Empey

1037623

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Customs
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 possible effects that new customs checks could have on operations at UK ports in the event of a no deal Brexit.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL12676
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2019 answer text <p>The government continues to engage with ports and the businesses who use them, to discuss the requirements which will apply in a no deal scenario and ensure they are ready operationally.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 22/01/2019 12:16:02 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1037773

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	BBC: Off-payroll Working
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 implications for his tax policies of the conclusions of the report entitled the BBC’s engagement with personal service companies, published by the National Audit Office in November 2018.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	206274
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2019 answer text <p>The National Audit Office (NAO) report concerns one organisation’s use of personal service companies over the last two decades, concluding with its experience of implementing the April 2017 reform of the off-payroll working rules in the public sector. The report does not comment on the off-payroll working rules themselves.</p><p> </p><p>The off-payroll working rules ensure that individuals who work through their own personal service company, and would have been an employee had they provided their services directly, pay broadly the same tax and National Insurance contributions (NICs) as other employees. The rules do not affect the genuinely self-employed.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 11/01/2019 14:26:53 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1037836

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Distributed Ledger Technology
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what (a) fiscal and (b) regulatory steps his Department is taking to (i) support UK and (ii) encourage overseas blockchain and crypto-based companies establish themselves in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Walsall North
tabling member printed	Eddie Hughes
uin	206446
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2019 answer text <p>The Government has invested over £10 million through Innovate UK and the research councils to support a wide variety of DLT related projects. The Government has also created a £20 million GovTech Catalyst Fund to explore technology-based solutions for public sector challenges, potentially including the use of DLT.</p><p> </p><p>The Government set out its approach to cryptoassets and the underlying distributed ledger technology (DLT) in the report of the Cryptoassets Taskforce<sub><sub>[1]</sub></sub>. The Government wants to encourage responsible development of legitimate distributed ledger technology (DLT) and cryptoasset-related activity in the UK, while also mitigating risks.</p><p> </p><p>The financial regulators continue to provide a platform that facilitates innovation and the development of new technologies in the financial system. For example, the Financial Conduct Authority has accepted a significant number of DLT-based projects into its Regulatory Sandbox. The Bank of England has also committed to ensure that its new RTGS service will be compatible with DLT-based payment systems.</p><p>[1] The full report of the HM Treasury/Financial Conduct Authority/Bank of England Cryptoassets Taskforce is available here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/752070/cryptoassets_taskforce_final_report_final_web.pdf</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 11/01/2019 11:18:43 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4635 label Biography information for Eddie Hughes

1037884

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Electric Vehicles: Tax Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what tax incentives are in place to support the development and take-up of electric vehicles.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	206369
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>The government uses the tax system to encourage the development and take-up of cars with low carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>) emissions to meet our legally binding CO<sub>2</sub> targets and our ambition for the majority of all new cars and vans sold to be 100% zero emission by 2040.</p><p> </p><p>Zero emission cars attract favourable rates of both Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) and company car tax. For example, on first registration, a zero-emission car is not liable to pay any VED, whilst the most polluting models attract a VED rate of over £2,000.</p><p> </p><p>The government has also recently responded to the consultation on reforming the VED system for vans. This confirmed that from April 2021 zero and ultra low emission vans will receive a significant VED discount compared to conventionally fuelled alternatives.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 14/01/2019 10:51:11 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1037891

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Sanitary Products: VAT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent progress has been made on abolishing VAT on sanitary products.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	206398
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2019 answer text <p>The Government remains committed to applying a zero rate of Value Added Tax (VAT) to women’s sanitary products in the UK at the earliest opportunity.</p><p> </p><p>In January 2018, the European Commission brought forward a legislative proposal to enhance Member States’ flexibility to apply reduced and zero rates of VAT. This proposal remains under discussion in the EU and, if it is agreed by Member States, would give the UK the legal ability to zero rate women’s sanitary products.</p><p> </p><p>The Romanian Presidency has stated its intention to progress negotiations on this proposal during its current term.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 11/01/2019 14:21:57 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

1037895

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits: Overpayments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people claiming (a) working tax credits and (b) child tax credits have received overpayments in each year of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	High Peak
tabling member printed	Ruth George
uin	206456
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2019 answer text <p>Information on the number of claimants in receipt of Working Tax Credits and Child Tax Credits who have received overpayments in the last ten years are published in HMRCs Child and Working Tax Credits statistics: finalised annual awards, supplement on payments 2016-2017, published on 28<sup>th</sup> June 2018.</p><p> </p><p>Data for overpayments can be found within the “Main aggregate” tab in the publication tables.</p><p> </p><p>This publication can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-and-working-tax-credits-statistics-finalised-annual-awards-supplement-on-payments-2016-to-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-and-working-tax-credits-statistics-finalised-annual-awards-supplement-on-payments-2016-to-2017</a></p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 11/01/2019 11:24:00 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4662 label Biography information for Ruth George