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1169002

registered interest
date	07/01/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Off-payroll Working
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	Whether he has plans to undertake a review of HMRC's IR35 Tax Regulations.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	900051
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2020 answer text <p>The Government has announced today further details about the review of the off-payroll working rules reform. As set out at Budget 2018, the reform is due to be extended to all sectors from April 2020. The review will address any remaining concerns from businesses and individuals about how the upcoming reform will be implemented, and will focus on steps the Government can take to ensure smooth and successful implementation. The self-employed are not in scope of the rules; and the review will consider whether any additional support for businesses is needed to ensure that the self-employed are not affected.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 900052 question first answered 07/01/2020 17:27:30 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

1169003

registered interest
date	07/01/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Off-payroll Working
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What the timeframe is for the review of HMRC's IR35 Tax Regulations.
tabling member constituency	Buckingham
tabling member printed	Greg Smith
uin	900052
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2020 answer text <p>The Government has announced today further details about the review of the off-payroll working rules reform. As set out at Budget 2018, the reform is due to be extended to all sectors from April 2020. The review will address any remaining concerns from businesses and individuals about how the upcoming reform will be implemented, and will focus on steps the Government can take to ensure smooth and successful implementation. The self-employed are not in scope of the rules; and the review will consider whether any additional support for businesses is needed to ensure that the self-employed are not affected.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 900051 question first answered 07/01/2020 17:27:30 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4778 label Biography information for Greg Smith

1169004

registered interest
date	07/01/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Cumbernauld
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What discussions he has had with (a) HMRC and (b) the Secretary of State for Scotland on proposals to close HMRC's Cumbernauld office.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C McDonald
uin	900053
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2020 answer text <p>HMRC announced its Locations Programme in 2015, which included the establishment of the Glasgow Regional Centre and closure of the Cumbernauld office. Ministers are kept up to date on HMRC’s progress in delivering the Locations Programme.</p><p> </p><p>The former Secretary of State for Scotland (Rt Hon David Mundell MP) met with HMRC representatives to discuss the closure of the Cumbernauld office and the relocation of staff to the Glasgow Regional Centre.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 07/01/2020 16:11:02 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1169005

registered interest
date	07/01/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Broadband: Rural Areas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What fiscal steps he is taking to improve broadband connections in rural communities.
tabling member constituency	Fylde
tabling member printed	Mark Menzies
uin	900054
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2020 answer text <p>We want to deliver gigabit-capable broadband across the country as soon as possible.</p><p> </p><p>We have already committed over £1 billion to support the rollout of next-generation digital infrastructure, and, at Conference, the Chancellor announced an ambition to invest £5bn to support gigabit broadband rollout in the hardest to reach areas.</p><p> </p><p>We will set out further details of our approach in our National Infrastructure Strategy later this year.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak grouped question UIN 900057 question first answered 07/01/2020 16:14:13 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	3998 label Biography information for Mark Menzies

1169006

registered interest
date	07/01/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Broadband: Rural Areas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What fiscal steps he is taking to improve broadband connections in rural communities.
tabling member constituency	Witney
tabling member printed	Robert Courts
uin	900057
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2020 answer text <p>We want to deliver gigabit-capable broadband across the country as soon as possible.</p><p> </p><p>We have already committed over £1 billion to support the rollout of next-generation digital infrastructure, and, at Conference, the Chancellor announced an ambition to invest £5bn to support gigabit broadband rollout in the hardest to reach areas.</p><p> </p><p>We will set out further details of our approach in our National Infrastructure Strategy later this year.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak grouped question UIN 900054 question first answered 07/01/2020 16:14:13 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts

1169007

registered interest
date	07/01/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Tax Avoidance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to ensure that HMRC has adequate (a) powers and (b) resources to investigate tax avoidance enablers.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	900058
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2020 answer text <p>The Government has taken significant action, including introducing 100 new measures tackling tax avoidance, evasion and other forms of non-compliance since 2010. This has secured and protected £200bn that would have otherwise gone unpaid, helping to bring the UK’s tax gap to a near record low of 5.6%.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 07/01/2020 17:29:46 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1169075

registered interest
date	07/01/2020
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Easington
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to (a) increase access to and (b) improve the delivery of mental health services in Easington constituency.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	981
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2020 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring that everyone who has a mental health need is able to access timely and effective treatment based on their clinical need. The NHS Long Term Plan commits the National Health Service to testing and rolling out comprehensive waiting time standards for adults and children over the next decade. This builds on the already established waiting time standards for children and young people’s eating disorder services, early intervention for psychosis and adult Improving Access to Psychological Therapies services. These standards are all being met or on track for delivery by 2020/21 in line with previous commitments. Investment in mental health care is higher than ever before, this increased investment is intended to support improvements in every local area across the country.</p><p> </p><p>In response to the commitments in the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health, the NHS Long Term Plan and the new Community Mental Health Framework for Adults and Older Adults, the Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust Board have initiated the ‘Right Care, Right Place’ improvement programme that covers community, inpatient and urgent mental health care delivery for the population of Easington. This programme aims to deliver better experience and outcomes for services users and NHS staff by focussing on how the services of the Trust and their care-providing partners can work more seamlessly together.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries question first answered 13/01/2020 15:03:55 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1169076

registered interest
date	07/01/2020
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Local Enterprise Partnerships
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if she will make it her policy to abolish LEPs.
tabling member constituency	Stevenage
tabling member printed	Stephen McPartland
uin	994
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2020 answer text <p>Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) continue to play an important role in providing a business voice to inform investment decisions and drive economic growth. Government continues to support LEPs in fully implementing the recommendations in the ‘Strengthening LEPs’ report, published in July 2018, in order to maximise this role.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 13/01/2020 16:34:40 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4093 label Biography information for Stephen McPartland

1169077

registered interest
date	07/01/2020
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent progress he has made on cross-party talks on social care.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	1029
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2020 answer text <p>The manifesto set out a commitment to seek a cross-party consensus in order to bring forward the necessary proposals and legislation for long-term reform of social care. The Department will outline next steps shortly.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 15/01/2020 11:30:31 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1169080

registered interest
date	07/01/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Lancashire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the potential economic benefits to Burnley of improvements to rail connectivity in and around the East Lancashire area; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Antony Higginbotham
uin	1032
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2020 answer text <p>The Government supported the reopening of the Todmorden Curve in 2015 which has allowed a new faster and direct train service between Manchester Victoria and Burnley, opening up job prospects and tourist and leisure opportunities.</p><p> </p><p>Work is progressing to assess the potential role of a re-opened Skipton-Colne rail line to deliver real benefits for passengers in East Lancashire, freight users and the local economy to complement the initial Strategic Outline Business Case completed in December 2018. These will inform the Government’s decision as to whether a reinstatement scheme should progress to the ‘develop’ stage of the Rail Network Enhancements Pipeline.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>More widely, to help communities both in East Lancashire and across the country, we have pledged £500m to start reopening lines closed following the Beeching report.</p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 15/01/2020 15:03:48 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
tabling member	4833 label Biography information for Antony Higginbotham