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1361577

registered interest
date	20/10/2021
answering body	COP26
answering dept id	210
answering dept short name	COP26
answering dept sort name	COP26
hansard heading	Climate Change: International Cooperation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What progress the Government has made on raising international ambition to tackle climate change as part of its preparations for COP26.
tabling member constituency	Lincoln
tabling member printed	Karl McCartney
uin	903717
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2021 answer text <p>Over 70% of the global economy now has net zero or carbon neutrality commitments, up from less than 30% when the UK assumed the COP Presidency. Over 100 countries have submitted enhanced 2030 targets, but we must increase global ambition to keep 1.5 degrees in reach and will continue to push all countries, particularly the G20, to do so.</p> answering member constituency Berwick-upon-Tweed answering member printed Anne-Marie Trevelyan question first answered 20/10/2021 16:36:37 answering member 4531 label Biography information for Anne-Marie Trevelyan
tabling member	4028 label Biography information for Karl McCartney

1361578

registered interest
date	20/10/2021
answering body	COP26
answering dept id	210
answering dept short name	COP26
answering dept sort name	COP26
hansard heading	Climate Change and Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps the Government is taking to promote climate action and a green recovery from the covid-19 pandemic ahead of COP26.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	903718
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2021 answer text <p>The Prime Minister’s 10-Point Plan and Net Zero Strategy sets out our blueprint for a Green Industrial Revolution. The plan invests in green technologies and industries; leverages billions of pounds of private sector investments to create and support up to 250,000 highly-skilled green jobs, and level up across the UK. It’s a clear plan to build back greener from the covid pandemic.</p> answering member constituency Berwick-upon-Tweed answering member printed Anne-Marie Trevelyan grouped question UIN 903720 question first answered 20/10/2021 16:35:36 answering member 4531 label Biography information for Anne-Marie Trevelyan
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1361579

registered interest
date	20/10/2021
answering body	COP26
answering dept id	210
answering dept short name	COP26
answering dept sort name	COP26
hansard heading	Climate Change
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to mobilise public and private climate finance ahead of COP26.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Withington
tabling member printed	Jeff Smith
uin	903719
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2021 answer text <p>We have been working tirelessly to encourage donor nations, and multilateral development banks, to increase their commitments to meet the $100bn goal, which is within touching distance. We are also working closely with the private sector to promote and support initiatives which mobilise private finance towards climate action.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 20/10/2021 13:41:04 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4456 label Biography information for Jeff Smith

1361580

registered interest
date	20/10/2021
answering body	COP26
answering dept id	210
answering dept short name	COP26
answering dept sort name	COP26
hansard heading	Climate Change: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking with international partners to help ensure that climate action contributes to the post-covid-19 pandemic economic recovery.
tabling member constituency	Redcar
tabling member printed	Jacob Young
uin	903720
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2021 answer text <p>The Prime Minister’s 10-Point Plan and Net Zero Strategy sets out our blueprint for a Green Industrial Revolution. The plan invests in green technologies and industries; leverages billions of pounds of private sector investments to create and support up to 250,000 highly-skilled green jobs, and level up across the UK. It’s a clear plan to build back greener from the covid pandemic.</p> answering member constituency Berwick-upon-Tweed answering member printed Anne-Marie Trevelyan grouped question UIN 903718 question first answered 20/10/2021 16:35:36 answering member 4531 label Biography information for Anne-Marie Trevelyan
tabling member	4825 label Biography information for Jacob Young

1361718

registered interest
date	20/10/2021
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Winter Fuel Payment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she has taken to ensure that the correct addresses have been used in letters sent to winter fuel payment recipients by her Department.
tabling member constituency	Dunfermline and West Fife
tabling member printed	Douglas Chapman
uin	59822
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2021 answer text <p>For Winter Fuel Entitlement, and all customer notifications, DWP uses information from customer records across the Department to identify the most recent address provided by a citizen.</p><p> </p><p>It is the responsibility of the citizen to inform DWP if they change their address and of any other changes that may affect their entitlement to Winter Fuel.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 22/10/2021 14:38:17 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4402 label Biography information for Douglas Chapman

1361792

registered interest
date	20/10/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Public Finance: Publicity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much funding has been allocated by his Department to public relations for the October 2021 Budget, including promotion on social media.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh West
tabling member printed	Christine Jardine
uin	59927
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2021 answer text <p>All communications products related to the October 2021 Budget are produced in house by the Treasury’s Communications Team at no additional cost.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 25/10/2021 07:17:39 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4634 label Biography information for Christine Jardine

1361818

registered interest
date	20/10/2021
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Internet: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of ensuring there is an effective child-use test to protect children from harmful content in the Online Safety Bill; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Ogmore
tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
uin	59913
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2021 answer text <p>The Online Safety Bill protects children from harmful and inappropriate content on any service in scope which children are likely to access. Such services will need to protect children from both illegal content and content which is harmful or inappropriate for children.</p><p>Services who do not consider they need to implement the higher level of protection for children will need to provide robust evidence to the regulator that children are not accessing their service, and keep this under review. Ofcom may take enforcement action where providers do not carry out an assessment on children’s access and keep it up to date.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 25/10/2021 08:35:11 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore

1361826

registered interest
date	20/10/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Carbon Emissions: Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 14 September 2021 to Question 45954, on Carbon Emissions: Costs, when his Department will publish the expected cost of achieving the Government's net zero emissions target.
tabling member constituency	Newton Abbot
tabling member printed	Anne Marie Morris
uin	59797
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2021 answer text <p>HM Treasury has published the Net Zero Review (NZR), which is an analytical report that uses existing data to explore the key issues and trade-offs as the UK decarbonises. This is against a backdrop of uncertainty on technology and costs, as well as changes to the economy over the next thirty years. It focuses on the potential exposure of households and businesses to the transition, and highlights factors to be taken into account in designing policy that will allocate costs over this time horizon.</p><p> </p><p>As highlighted in the NZR, the overall impact is uncertain and challenging to estimate. Existing estimates suggest that the impact on GDP by the end of the transition is likely to be relatively small, and dwarfed by the costs of global inaction. The economic impact will be uneven across the economy. The scale of the change for some businesses, sectors and regions is likely to be substantial.</p><p>As the transition will be dynamic and take place over thirty years, it is not possible to forecast impacts on households and assessments of abatement costs in the future are highly speculative. The net zero transition will also entail a number of technology transitions, and there is significant uncertainty in relation to their costs, although technology costs for some green technologies have shown that projected costs have been far higher than actual costs. The eventual impact will therefore depend on policy choices and the way the economy adjusts over time.</p><p>The NZR has not sought to duplicate existing analysis and uses the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy’s (BEIS) analysis on costs and benefits in line with Carbon Budget 6 and the Net Zero Strategy (NZS). In the NZS, BEIS estimate that the net cost, excluding air quality and emissions savings benefits, will be equivalent to 1-2% of GDP in 2050.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 25/10/2021 07:21:28 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4249 label Biography information for Anne Marie Morris

1361960

registered interest
date	20/10/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	VAT: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what analysis has been undertaken on the impact on Scottish retail shops and tourism businesses of the decision to end tax free shopping for international visitors.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
tabling member printed	Ian Murray
uin	59773
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2021 answer text <p>On 11 September 2020, the Government announced the VAT and excise duty treatment of goods purchased by individuals for personal use and carried in their luggage arriving from or going overseas (passengers) following the transition period. The following rules were implemented on 1 January 2021:</p><p>- Passengers travelling from Great Britain to any destination outside the United Kingdom (UK) can purchase duty-free excise goods once they have passed security controls at ports, airports, and international rail stations.</p><p>- Personal allowances apply to passengers entering Great Britain from any destination outside of the UK, with alcohol allowances significantly increased.</p><p>- The VAT Retail Export Scheme (RES) in Great Britain has not been extended to EU residents and has been withdrawn for all passengers.</p><p>- The concessionary treatment on tax-free sales for non-excise goods has been removed across the UK.</p><p> </p><p>The Government published a consultation which ran from 11 March to 20 May 2020. During this time the Government held a number of virtual meetings with industry stakeholders to hear their views and received 73 responses to the consultation. The Government has also met and discussed these changes with many stakeholders following the announcement of these policies.</p><p> </p><p>The detailed rationale for these changes was provided in the written ministerial statement and the published summary of responses to the consultation and a detailed technical note has also been made available to stakeholders.</p><p> </p><p>On 25 November 2020 the independent Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) set out their assessment of the fiscal impact of the withdrawal of the VAT RES.</p><p> </p><p>Factoring in a higher-than-usual elasticity of 1.9 to account for spending on luxury goods, the OBR estimate that the withdrawal of the VAT RES will result in a significant direct Exchequer saving of around £400 million per year, once passenger numbers recover from the impacts of Covid-19. Based on the 1.2 million users of the scheme who received a refund in 2019, this includes an assumption that approximately 20,000 – 30,000 fewer tourists visit Great Britain a year. That is 0.07% of the 40 million visitors to the UK in 2019.</p><p> </p><p>The OBR also looked at this package in the round when assessing the indirect impact on the economy – including the effects of extending duty-free sales – alongside the substantial support provided to the economy and retail industry.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 25/10/2021 07:19:44 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray

1360980

registered interest
date	19/10/2021
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	Coronavirus: Vaccination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What recent assessment his Department has made of the progress of the covid-19 vaccine rollout.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Jason McCartney
uin	903661
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2021 answer text <p>Due to our successful COVID-19 vaccination programme we have now delivered over 83 million doses to people in England, including 3.6 million booster and third doses to the most vulnerable since September.</p><p>This has reduced the link between case numbers and hospitalisation, preventing the National Health Service from becoming overwhelmed and provided additional protection ahead of the winter.</p><p>Over 24.3million infections have been prevented and more than 127,000 lives saved to date.</p> answering member constituency Erewash answering member printed Maggie Throup question first answered 19/10/2021 16:39:19 answering member 4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup
tabling member	3953 label Biography information for Jason McCartney