Asked by: Ian Lavery (Labour - Blyth and Ashington)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people who had wages paid using the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme have been made redundant, to date.
Answered by Jesse Norman
Employers are not required to inform HMRC of redundancies.
CJRS is a new scheme and HMRC are currently working through the analysis they will be able to provide based on the data available.
Asked by: Ian Lavery (Labour - Blyth and Ashington)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will list all assets owned by the Government and their latest estimated value in Wansbeck constituency.
Answered by Jesse Norman
A comprehensive list of assets owned by the Government is not available at parliamentary constituency level. The Whole of Government Accounts (WGA) reports the cumulative value of assets owned by central and local government at the national level. This data is collated through returns from local authorities and central government departments. The Whole of Government Accounts is available online at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/whole-of-government-accounts
Asked by: Ian Lavery (Labour - Blyth and Ashington)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) businesses are using the furlough scheme and (b) employees have been furloughed in (i) Wansbeck, (ii) Northumberland, (iii) the North East and (iv) the UK.
Answered by Jesse Norman
Applications for the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) opened on Monday 20th April. By close 3 May 2020, HMRC had received 800,000 claims representing 6.3m furloughed employments and £8bn.
This is a new scheme and HMRC are currently working through the analysis they will be able to provide based on the data available. HMRC will make the timescales for publication and the types of data available in due course.
Asked by: Ian Lavery (Labour - Blyth and Ashington)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made for the implications for his policies on free ports of the potential risk of (a) tax avoidance, (b) money laundering and (c) other illegal activities taking place in those ports.
Answered by Steve Barclay - Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
The UK plays a key role in tackling cross-border illegal activity and this is not going to change. UK Freeports will be innovative hubs that boost trade, attract inward investment and drive productive activity across the UK. HMRC have been closely involved in their design to ensure that everyone pays their fair share of tax towards funding our vital public services, while boosting growth in all regions of the UK.
Asked by: Ian Lavery (Labour - Blyth and Ashington)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether companies operating within free ports will be subject to (a) tax and (b) other financial incentives.
Answered by Steve Barclay - Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
We are considering a wide range of measures to create vibrant, innovative Freeports which are attractive to domestic and international investors looking to start or grow their UK operations.
Asked by: Ian Lavery (Labour - Blyth and Ashington)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Education on the adequacy of central government funding for schools.
Answered by Elizabeth Truss
Treasury ministers regularly discuss public spending issues with Cabinet Colleagues.
This year the Government is investing £43 billion of core funding into schools, ensuring that core schools funding grows in real terms per pupil. The National Funding Formula is providing every local authority with more money for every pupil in every school.
This means thousands of underfunded schools will attract significantly larger gains of up to 6% per pupil and every school attracting at least 1% more per pupil over the last two years.
Asked by: Ian Lavery (Labour - Blyth and Ashington)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of total public expenditure is spent on children’s services delivered by local government.
Answered by Elizabeth Truss
I refer the hon member to the answer I gave on 17 December 2018 to PQ UIN 202165.
Asked by: Ian Lavery (Labour - Blyth and Ashington)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 27 June 2018 to Question 158255, on Western Sahara: Imports, whether products entering the UK under the ISO code EH pay import duty.
Answered by Mel Stride - Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Goods entering the UK under the ISO code ‘EH’ are chargeable to customs duty.
Asked by: Ian Lavery (Labour - Blyth and Ashington)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 6 July 2018 to Question 158255, on Import Duties: Western Sahara, for what reasons the Western Sahara Campaign UK is included in the list of consultees when it states that it was not consulted.
Answered by Mel Stride - Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
I refer the hon. Member to my answer of 6 July to PQ UIN 158256. It is for the European Commission to respond to any questions about its report.
Asked by: Ian Lavery (Labour - Blyth and Ashington)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what time target his Department has for the answer of Departmental correspondence relating to constituency cases.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The Treasury’s target to answer correspondence relating to constituency cases is 15 working days. In 2017 we achieved this in 77% of cases.