Asked by: Andrew Jones (Conservative - Harrogate and Knaresborough)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what progress he has made on reducing the level of national debt.
Answered by John Glen - Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office
Reducing the national debt is one the Prime Minister’s five priorities and will provide the foundations for sustainable growth. The independent Office for Budget Responsibility confirmed in March that the government is on track to deliver this, meeting our fiscal rules with underlying debt falling as a percentage of GDP in 2027-28. We have shown we will take the difficult but necessary decisions to ensure that debt is falling.
Asked by: Andrew Jones (Conservative - Harrogate and Knaresborough)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many households claimed childcare vouchers in (a) the Harrogate District, (b) North Yorkshire and (c) Yorkshire and The Humber in 2016-2017.
Answered by Elizabeth Truss
I refer the Honourable Member to the answer I gave on 25 January 2017 to the Honourable Member for Hull North (123405).
Asked by: Andrew Jones (Conservative - Harrogate and Knaresborough)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the savings to businesses resulting from the Government's national insurance changes in (a) Harrogate and Knaresborough constituency, (b) Yorkshire and Humber region and (c) the UK
Answered by David Gauke
The Employment Allowance, which has been in place since April 2014, reduces an eligible employer’s employer National Insurance Contributions (NICs) bill by up to £2,000 a year. Estimates of the number of employers benefitting from the allowance up to October 5th 2014, including breakdowns by region and constituency, are published here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/employment-allowance-take-up-statistics.
By October 5th around 856,000 employers in the UK, 66,000 in Yorkshire and The Humber, 1,800 in Harrogate and Knaresborough are estimated to have benefitted by up to £2,000 from the Employment Allowance in Harrogate and Knaresborough.
The Government has also committed to abolishing employer NICs up to the Upper Earnings Limit (£41,865 in 2014/15) for employees under the age of 21 from April 2015.
These policies demonstrate the Government’s commitment to reducing the costs of employment for businesses across the UK.
Asked by: Andrew Jones (Conservative - Harrogate and Knaresborough)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people in (a) the UK and (b) North Yorkshire no longer pay income tax as a result of changes in the personal income tax threshold introduced since 2010.
Answered by David Gauke
By April this year this Government's increases in the personal allowance (for those born after 5 April 1948) are estimated to have taken over 3 million individuals out of the income tax system altogether. 266,000 of these individuals live in the Yorkshire and The Humber region, which includes North Yorkshire.
These estimates are based on the 2011-12 Survey of Personal Incomes, projected to 2014-15 using economic assumptions consistent with the Office for Budget Responsibility’s March 2014 economic and fiscal outlook.
HM Treasury does not publish this information at constituency level.
Asked by: Andrew Jones (Conservative - Harrogate and Knaresborough)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if his Department will estimate the additional receipts accruing to the Exchequer as a result of changes in levels of employment since May 2010.
Answered by David Gauke
The information requested is not available.