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date	13/05/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	VAT Exemptions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many businesses are VAT exempt in each region of the UK.
tabling member constituency	West Dorset
tabling member printed	Chris Loder
uin	25981
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2024 answer text <p>The most recent year for which we hold complete tax records is for businesses with a basis period ending in 2021-22. For this year across the whole of the UK, there were a total of 9,170,000 businesses that declared turnover below the VAT threshold. Of these, 210,000 also had profits above £45,000.</p><p> </p><p>Please note that this is the total number of businesses with turnover below the VAT threshold. Of these some may have registered for VAT voluntarily, and others may be exempt from VAT for other reasons.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC does not hold readily available data on the regional breakdown of the total number of businesses across the UK which can be used for analysing VAT. This is because some businesses can have both single and multiple sites, and therefore such breakdowns would be of limited value.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston grouped question UIN 25982 25983 question first answered 20/05/2024 15:33:22 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4751 label Biography information for Chris Loder

1717685

registered interest
date	13/05/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	VAT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many businesses do not meet the VAT threshold in (a) the UK and (b) in each region of the UK.
tabling member constituency	West Dorset
tabling member printed	Chris Loder
uin	25982
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2024 answer text <p>The most recent year for which we hold complete tax records is for businesses with a basis period ending in 2021-22. For this year across the whole of the UK, there were a total of 9,170,000 businesses that declared turnover below the VAT threshold. Of these, 210,000 also had profits above £45,000.</p><p> </p><p>Please note that this is the total number of businesses with turnover below the VAT threshold. Of these some may have registered for VAT voluntarily, and others may be exempt from VAT for other reasons.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC does not hold readily available data on the regional breakdown of the total number of businesses across the UK which can be used for analysing VAT. This is because some businesses can have both single and multiple sites, and therefore such breakdowns would be of limited value.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston grouped question UIN 25981 25983 question first answered 20/05/2024 15:33:22 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4751 label Biography information for Chris Loder

1717686

registered interest
date	13/05/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	VAT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many businesses (a) do not meet the VAT threshold and (b) have profits over £45,000 in (i) the UK and (ii) in each region of the UK.
tabling member constituency	West Dorset
tabling member printed	Chris Loder
uin	25983
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2024 answer text <p>The most recent year for which we hold complete tax records is for businesses with a basis period ending in 2021-22. For this year across the whole of the UK, there were a total of 9,170,000 businesses that declared turnover below the VAT threshold. Of these, 210,000 also had profits above £45,000.</p><p> </p><p>Please note that this is the total number of businesses with turnover below the VAT threshold. Of these some may have registered for VAT voluntarily, and others may be exempt from VAT for other reasons.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC does not hold readily available data on the regional breakdown of the total number of businesses across the UK which can be used for analysing VAT. This is because some businesses can have both single and multiple sites, and therefore such breakdowns would be of limited value.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston grouped question UIN 25981 25982 question first answered 20/05/2024 15:33:22 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4751 label Biography information for Chris Loder

1716799

registered interest
date	09/05/2024
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Natural England: Dorset Wildlife Trust
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much Natural England paid the Dorset Wildlife Trust for land in the last three years.
tabling member constituency	West Dorset
tabling member printed	Chris Loder
uin	25583
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2024 answer text <p>Natural England has not paid Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) for any land in the last three years.</p><p> </p><p>Natural England’s Nutrient Mitigation Scheme (NMS) has recently purchased the rights to nutrient mitigation credits being created by DWT at Lyscombe Farm in Dorset. This £5m investment is securing mitigation for an estimated 3,700 homes, with costs to be fully recovered through the sale of these credits by the NMS to housing developers.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 20/05/2024 09:58:31 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4751 label Biography information for Chris Loder