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691786

registered interest
date	20/02/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Landfill Tax
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of HM Revenue and Customs budget is allocated to investigate landfill tax fraud.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	64488
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2017 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) takes a risk-based approach to tackling all non-compliance, including those relating to Landfill Tax fraud. This means that it does not routinely allocate compliance budgets for individual taxes, but instead responds flexibly with civil and criminal investigations based upon the risks involved.</p><p> </p><p>For Landfill Tax, over the past five years HMRC has issued 51 Landfill Tax assessments totalling £94.3m, including 37 civil penalties totalling £2.2m. In addition, since April 2015, HMRC has commenced 78 compliance interventions targeting landfill site operators, and in the last 12 months visited 28 landfill sites.</p><p> </p><p>This work has also been supported by the waste sector taskforce, which has targeted businesses across the supply chain. In 2015-16, the taskforce investigated 250 business, with a further 179 businesses targeted in 2016-17 to date.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC also undertakes criminal investigations, and in September 2015 14 people were arrested as a result of a multi-agency operation into Landfill Tax fraud. This investigation is ongoing. To avoid jeopardising any investigations and/or sources of intelligence, HMRC does not disclose specific regional details.</p><p> </p><p>In October 2016, in its ‘Measuring Tax Gaps’ 2016 publication, HMRC estimated the Landfill Tax gap to be £150 million in 2014-15.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC does not hold readily accessible information concerning the number of complaints received for non-payment of Landfill Tax.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 64528 64529 64531 64532 question first answered 23/02/2017 17:25:11 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

691787

registered interest
date	20/02/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Landfill Tax
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate HM Revenue and Customs has made of the amount of landfill tax outstanding from landfill operators.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	64532
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2017 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) takes a risk-based approach to tackling all non-compliance, including those relating to Landfill Tax fraud. This means that it does not routinely allocate compliance budgets for individual taxes, but instead responds flexibly with civil and criminal investigations based upon the risks involved.</p><p> </p><p>For Landfill Tax, over the past five years HMRC has issued 51 Landfill Tax assessments totalling £94.3m, including 37 civil penalties totalling £2.2m. In addition, since April 2015, HMRC has commenced 78 compliance interventions targeting landfill site operators, and in the last 12 months visited 28 landfill sites.</p><p> </p><p>This work has also been supported by the waste sector taskforce, which has targeted businesses across the supply chain. In 2015-16, the taskforce investigated 250 business, with a further 179 businesses targeted in 2016-17 to date.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC also undertakes criminal investigations, and in September 2015 14 people were arrested as a result of a multi-agency operation into Landfill Tax fraud. This investigation is ongoing. To avoid jeopardising any investigations and/or sources of intelligence, HMRC does not disclose specific regional details.</p><p> </p><p>In October 2016, in its ‘Measuring Tax Gaps’ 2016 publication, HMRC estimated the Landfill Tax gap to be £150 million in 2014-15.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC does not hold readily accessible information concerning the number of complaints received for non-payment of Landfill Tax.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 64488 64528 64529 64531 question first answered 23/02/2017 17:25:11 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

691788

registered interest
date	20/02/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Landfill Tax
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many complaints HM Revenue and Customs has received of non-payment of landfill tax in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	64528
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2017 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) takes a risk-based approach to tackling all non-compliance, including those relating to Landfill Tax fraud. This means that it does not routinely allocate compliance budgets for individual taxes, but instead responds flexibly with civil and criminal investigations based upon the risks involved.</p><p> </p><p>For Landfill Tax, over the past five years HMRC has issued 51 Landfill Tax assessments totalling £94.3m, including 37 civil penalties totalling £2.2m. In addition, since April 2015, HMRC has commenced 78 compliance interventions targeting landfill site operators, and in the last 12 months visited 28 landfill sites.</p><p> </p><p>This work has also been supported by the waste sector taskforce, which has targeted businesses across the supply chain. In 2015-16, the taskforce investigated 250 business, with a further 179 businesses targeted in 2016-17 to date.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC also undertakes criminal investigations, and in September 2015 14 people were arrested as a result of a multi-agency operation into Landfill Tax fraud. This investigation is ongoing. To avoid jeopardising any investigations and/or sources of intelligence, HMRC does not disclose specific regional details.</p><p> </p><p>In October 2016, in its ‘Measuring Tax Gaps’ 2016 publication, HMRC estimated the Landfill Tax gap to be £150 million in 2014-15.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC does not hold readily accessible information concerning the number of complaints received for non-payment of Landfill Tax.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 64488 64529 64531 64532 question first answered 23/02/2017 17:25:11 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

691789

registered interest
date	20/02/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Landfill Tax
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many visits to landfill sites in the (a) UK and (b) North East HM Revenue and Customs has conducted to check landfill tax payments in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	64529
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2017 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) takes a risk-based approach to tackling all non-compliance, including those relating to Landfill Tax fraud. This means that it does not routinely allocate compliance budgets for individual taxes, but instead responds flexibly with civil and criminal investigations based upon the risks involved.</p><p> </p><p>For Landfill Tax, over the past five years HMRC has issued 51 Landfill Tax assessments totalling £94.3m, including 37 civil penalties totalling £2.2m. In addition, since April 2015, HMRC has commenced 78 compliance interventions targeting landfill site operators, and in the last 12 months visited 28 landfill sites.</p><p> </p><p>This work has also been supported by the waste sector taskforce, which has targeted businesses across the supply chain. In 2015-16, the taskforce investigated 250 business, with a further 179 businesses targeted in 2016-17 to date.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC also undertakes criminal investigations, and in September 2015 14 people were arrested as a result of a multi-agency operation into Landfill Tax fraud. This investigation is ongoing. To avoid jeopardising any investigations and/or sources of intelligence, HMRC does not disclose specific regional details.</p><p> </p><p>In October 2016, in its ‘Measuring Tax Gaps’ 2016 publication, HMRC estimated the Landfill Tax gap to be £150 million in 2014-15.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC does not hold readily accessible information concerning the number of complaints received for non-payment of Landfill Tax.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 64488 64528 64531 64532 question first answered 23/02/2017 17:25:11 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

691790

registered interest
date	20/02/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Landfill Tax
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many criminal prosecutions for non-payment or other breaches of the law related to the landfill tax there have been in each of the last five years in the (a) UK and (b) North East.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	64531
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2017 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) takes a risk-based approach to tackling all non-compliance, including those relating to Landfill Tax fraud. This means that it does not routinely allocate compliance budgets for individual taxes, but instead responds flexibly with civil and criminal investigations based upon the risks involved.</p><p> </p><p>For Landfill Tax, over the past five years HMRC has issued 51 Landfill Tax assessments totalling £94.3m, including 37 civil penalties totalling £2.2m. In addition, since April 2015, HMRC has commenced 78 compliance interventions targeting landfill site operators, and in the last 12 months visited 28 landfill sites.</p><p> </p><p>This work has also been supported by the waste sector taskforce, which has targeted businesses across the supply chain. In 2015-16, the taskforce investigated 250 business, with a further 179 businesses targeted in 2016-17 to date.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC also undertakes criminal investigations, and in September 2015 14 people were arrested as a result of a multi-agency operation into Landfill Tax fraud. This investigation is ongoing. To avoid jeopardising any investigations and/or sources of intelligence, HMRC does not disclose specific regional details.</p><p> </p><p>In October 2016, in its ‘Measuring Tax Gaps’ 2016 publication, HMRC estimated the Landfill Tax gap to be £150 million in 2014-15.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC does not hold readily accessible information concerning the number of complaints received for non-payment of Landfill Tax.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 64488 64528 64529 64532 question first answered 23/02/2017 17:25:11 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

691831

registered interest
date	20/02/2017
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Trafalgar Class Submarines
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the scheduled end-of-service date is for each Trafalgar class submarine.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	64489
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2017 answer text <p>The UK's attack submarines are meeting their operational tasking and will continue to do so over the coming years as the current Trafalgar Class are replaced with the new Astute Class . I am withholding information on their respective planned out-of-service and in-service dates as disclosure would, or would be likely to, prejudice the capability, effectiveness or security of the Armed Forces.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin grouped question UIN 64490 question first answered 24/02/2017 13:35:44 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

691832

registered interest
date	20/02/2017
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Astute Class Submarines
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the timescales for the in-service delivery of Astute class boats are.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	64490
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2017 answer text <p>The UK's attack submarines are meeting their operational tasking and will continue to do so over the coming years as the current Trafalgar Class are replaced with the new Astute Class . I am withholding information on their respective planned out-of-service and in-service dates as disclosure would, or would be likely to, prejudice the capability, effectiveness or security of the Armed Forces.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin grouped question UIN 64489 question first answered 24/02/2017 13:35:44 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

691833

registered interest
date	20/02/2017
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Afghanistan: Peacekeeping Operations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent discussions his Department has had with NATO on the UK contribution to Operation Resolute Support and the number of UK personnel supporting that operation.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	64491
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2017 answer text <p>The UK has a long term commitment to Afghanistan, with 500 troops deployed as part of NATO's Resolute Support Mission. Our core outputs are improving the capability of the Afghan security institutions, developing the Afghan National Army Officer Academy, mentoring the Afghan Air Force and providing vital support for NATO in Kabul through command of the Kabul Security Force.</p><p>We maintain regular dialogue with NATO on the future of the mission in Afghanistan, including through the UK Delegation to NATO, our team working in Resolute Support Headquarters in Kabul, and at meetings of NATO Chief of Defence Staffs, the last of which was held in January. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State also had the opportunity to discuss Afghanistan with fellow NATO Defence Ministers at the NATO Defence Ministerial Meeting, held on 15-16 February.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 23/02/2017 16:15:22 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

691834

registered interest
date	20/02/2017
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	South Sudan: Armed Forces
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many UK armed forces personnel are deployed in South Sudan.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	64492
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2017 answer text <p>The UK currently has around 70 Armed Forces personnel deployed in South Sudan. This number will rise to almost 400 in the coming months as an engineering taskforce and medics are deployed to support the United Nations Mission in the country.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 27/02/2017 16:39:01 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

691835

registered interest
date	20/02/2017
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	F-35 Aircraft
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the value to UK national gross domestic product of the Global F-35 Lightning II programme.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	64493
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2017 answer text <p>The UK is a major partner in the F-35 Lightning II programme, resulting in significant contracts and supporting UK jobs. UK industry will provide approximately 15% by value of every F-35 Lightning to be built.</p><p>Additionally, the UK was recently chosen to be a global hub for maintenance, repair, overhaul and upgrade services for F-35 avionic and aircraft components. Although, these activities will contribute to UK gross domestic product (GDP), the Ministry of Defence does not routinely calculate the GDP impact of specific defence activities and therefore no assessment has been undertaken for the F-35 programme.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 24/02/2017 13:36:55 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones