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1219246

registered interest
date	30/06/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the COVID Emergency Management Arrangements (EMA) with Train Operating Companies (TOC), what provisions are included in the EMA to ensure that TOCs are not in a financially advantageous position under the EMA than their financial performance under their franchise agreements in the months before the covid-19 lockdown.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	66970
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2020 answer text <p>The Emergency Measures Agreements (EMAs) temporarily suspend the normal financial mechanisms of franchise agreements, transferring all revenue and cost risk to the government. Operators are required to continue to fulfil their obligations under the EMAs for a small, pre-determined management fee. Fees are set at a maximum of 2 per cent of the cost base of the franchise before the Covid-19 pandemic began, intended to incentivise operators to meet reliability, punctuality and other targets. The maximum fee attainable was set on the basis that it will be lower than the returns attainable in operator’s existing franchise agreements where they bore revenue risk.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 08/07/2020 16:23:04 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1219247

registered interest
date	30/06/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the COVID Emergency Management Arrangements (EMA) with Train Operating Companies, what steps his Department took to ensure that those companies had sought financial support packages in advance of entering into the EMA.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	66971
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2020 answer text <p>The Emergency Measures Agreements (EMAs) temporarily suspend the existing franchise agreements' financial mechanisms for an initial period of six months. They were developed at an early stage of the covid-19 crisis as a bespoke solution to address the particular circumstances of rail franchises. These include the fact that the government would face large and direct financial exposure via its obligations under the Railways Act if any franchise were to fail financially and become unable to operate its services. The EMAs include explicit provisions to prevent 'double recovery', ensuring franchisees cannot be compensated through the EMAs where funding from other government support schemes has been obtained<em>. </em></p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 08/07/2020 14:54:04 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1219249

registered interest
date	30/06/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Bus Services: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Coronavirus Bus Service Support Grant (CBSSG), what steps his Department took to ensure that large bus operators had sought financial support packages before entering into the CBSSG.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	66972
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2020 answer text <p>As part of the terms and conditions of the Covid-19 Bus Services Support Grant (CBSSG), operators are required to make use of existing COVID-19 related funding where possible.</p><p> </p><p>The reconciliation process set out in the CBSSG guidance seeks to make operators no better or worse off than pre-Covid-19 levels, on their net costs of operating. The reconciliation process will take into account all revenues generated and costs incurred by operators while in receipt of CBSSG, including revenues and costs from both commercial and tendered services.</p><p> </p><p>The Department will undertake reconciliation calculations to assess whether an overpayment of the scheme has occurred, and notify the relevant operator to make a repayment to DfT within 4 weeks of the conclusion of this calculation.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Redditch answering member printed Rachel Maclean grouped question UIN 66973 66974 66975 question first answered 08/07/2020 15:32:31 answering member 4668 label Biography information for Rachel Maclean
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1219250

registered interest
date	30/06/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Bus Services: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Corovavirus Bus Service Support Grant (CBSSG) what steps he is taking to ensure that bus operators recoup only the costs of their operations under the CBSSG.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	66973
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2020 answer text <p>As part of the terms and conditions of the Covid-19 Bus Services Support Grant (CBSSG), operators are required to make use of existing COVID-19 related funding where possible.</p><p> </p><p>The reconciliation process set out in the CBSSG guidance seeks to make operators no better or worse off than pre-Covid-19 levels, on their net costs of operating. The reconciliation process will take into account all revenues generated and costs incurred by operators while in receipt of CBSSG, including revenues and costs from both commercial and tendered services.</p><p> </p><p>The Department will undertake reconciliation calculations to assess whether an overpayment of the scheme has occurred, and notify the relevant operator to make a repayment to DfT within 4 weeks of the conclusion of this calculation.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Redditch answering member printed Rachel Maclean grouped question UIN 66972 66974 66975 question first answered 08/07/2020 15:32:31 answering member 4668 label Biography information for Rachel Maclean
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1219251

registered interest
date	30/06/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Bus Services: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has made over-payments to bus operators under the Corovavirus Bus Service Support Grant.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	66974
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2020 answer text <p>As part of the terms and conditions of the Covid-19 Bus Services Support Grant (CBSSG), operators are required to make use of existing COVID-19 related funding where possible.</p><p> </p><p>The reconciliation process set out in the CBSSG guidance seeks to make operators no better or worse off than pre-Covid-19 levels, on their net costs of operating. The reconciliation process will take into account all revenues generated and costs incurred by operators while in receipt of CBSSG, including revenues and costs from both commercial and tendered services.</p><p> </p><p>The Department will undertake reconciliation calculations to assess whether an overpayment of the scheme has occurred, and notify the relevant operator to make a repayment to DfT within 4 weeks of the conclusion of this calculation.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Redditch answering member printed Rachel Maclean grouped question UIN 66972 66973 66975 question first answered 08/07/2020 15:32:31 answering member 4668 label Biography information for Rachel Maclean
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1219252

registered interest
date	30/06/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Bus Services: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department has taken to monitor the potential for over-payments to be made in relation to the Corovavirus Bus Service Support Grant (CBSSG); and what processes his Department has put in place to recoup over-payments made in relation to the CBSSG.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	66975
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2020 answer text <p>As part of the terms and conditions of the Covid-19 Bus Services Support Grant (CBSSG), operators are required to make use of existing COVID-19 related funding where possible.</p><p> </p><p>The reconciliation process set out in the CBSSG guidance seeks to make operators no better or worse off than pre-Covid-19 levels, on their net costs of operating. The reconciliation process will take into account all revenues generated and costs incurred by operators while in receipt of CBSSG, including revenues and costs from both commercial and tendered services.</p><p> </p><p>The Department will undertake reconciliation calculations to assess whether an overpayment of the scheme has occurred, and notify the relevant operator to make a repayment to DfT within 4 weeks of the conclusion of this calculation.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Redditch answering member printed Rachel Maclean grouped question UIN 66972 66973 66974 question first answered 08/07/2020 15:32:31 answering member 4668 label Biography information for Rachel Maclean
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1219256

registered interest
date	30/06/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Banks: Switzerland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of UK client funds held by Swiss banks at the end of 2019 were declared to HMRC by UK tax residents.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	66976
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2020 answer text <p>The information requested is not available. UK tax residents are not required to declare the amount of their funds held overseas. HMRC receive year end information on the value of UK residents’ assets held in Swiss financial institutions via the Common Reporting Standard. However, information for the year ending 31 December 2019 has not yet been exchanged. Taxpayers are required to declare the taxable income and gains received from assets held overseas for each tax year ending on 5 April. This cannot be accurately used to estimate the proportion of assets held overseas to which the declared income and gains relates.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 06/07/2020 10:11:10 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1199500

registered interest
date	02/06/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to his Answer of 18 May 2020 to Question 46137, on Revenue and Customs: Coronavirus, if he will publish the number of HMRC (a) employee redundancies and (b) employees there were in each of the last six months.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	53576
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2020 answer text <p>Each year HMRC publish their Annual Report, which sets out a breakdown of their detailed workforce data from that year. This includes the number of employees and exits from that year, broken down in a meaningful manner. HMRC will continue to ensure that they have the workforce they need to deliver their critical public services.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 53577 question first answered 08/06/2020 14:43:56 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1199501

registered interest
date	02/06/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to his Answer of 18 May 2020 to Question 46137, on Revenue and Customs: Coronavirus, if he will publish the projected number of HMRC (a) employee redundancies and (b) employees in each of the next six months.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	53577
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2020 answer text <p>Each year HMRC publish their Annual Report, which sets out a breakdown of their detailed workforce data from that year. This includes the number of employees and exits from that year, broken down in a meaningful manner. HMRC will continue to ensure that they have the workforce they need to deliver their critical public services.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 53576 question first answered 08/06/2020 14:43:56 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1195034

registered interest
date	12/05/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans his Department has to review HMRC's Building our Future programme in response to the covid-19 outbreak; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	46136
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/05/2020 answer text <p>HMRC remain committed to their strategy of moving into regional centres and are planning for delays to their Locations Programme caused by COVID-19, assessing the impacts on a site by site basis. Construction or fit-out work continues at most of HMRC’s regional centre sites in line with UK Government guidelines and Safe Operating Procedures issued by industry construction bodies. HMRC are providing critical support to the country at this vital time, such as through the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, as well as delivering their usual services.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 18/05/2020 15:58:46 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden