Asked by: Andy Slaughter (Labour - Hammersmith)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many times he has met (a) insurance companies and (b) personal injury law firms in the last five years.
Answered by Harriett Baldwin
Treasury Ministers and officials meet with a wide range of companies and organisations to discuss relevant issues.
As was the case with previous Administrations, it is not the Treasury’s practice to provide details of all such discussions.
Asked by: Andy Slaughter (Labour - Hammersmith)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what meetings he, his Ministers or officials have had since the 2015 General Election with (a) insurance companies, (b) claimant personal injury solicitors and (c) defendant personal injury solicitors; and who attended any such meeting.
Answered by Harriett Baldwin
Treasury Ministers and officials meet with a wide range of companies and organisations to discuss relevant issues.
As was the case with previous Administrations, it is not the Treasury’s practice to provide details of all such discussions.
Asked by: Andy Slaughter (Labour - Hammersmith)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much tax HM Revenue and Customs collected as a result of insolvency litigation in each year from 2010.
Answered by David Gauke
HMRC does not hold any statistical data relating to tax collected resulting from insolvency litigationAsked by: Andy Slaughter (Labour - Hammersmith)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate HM Revenue and Customs has made of the amount of tax it will collect should the funding of insolvency litigation change under the provisions of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012.
Answered by David Gauke
HM Revenue and Customs has not made an estimate of the amount of tax it will collect should the funding of insolvency litigation change under the provisions of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012.
Asked by: Andy Slaughter (Labour - Hammersmith)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many families in Hammersmith constituency who are in work will lose money as a result of the proposed reductions in tax credits.
Answered by Harriett Baldwin
HMRC publishes information on households’ tax credit award in each constituency. The most recent available data can be found here:
The Summer Budget offered a new deal for working people. It means Britain moving from a high welfare, high tax, low wage economy to a lower welfare, lower tax, higher wage society.
A new National Living Wage for workers aged 25 and above, initially set at £7.20 per hour from April 2016, will directly benefit 2.7 million low wage workers, and up to 6 million could see a pay rise as a result of a ripple effect up the earnings distribution. The new National Living Wage will boost pay for those currently earning the National Minimum Wage by £4,800 a year by 2020 when the National Living Wage is expected to rise to over £9 per hour.
To help working families keep more of what they earn, the personal allowance will increase to £11,000 in 2016-17 and £11,200 in 2017-18. The government has committed to increase the personal allowance to £12,500 by 2020 which will mean that a typical basic rate taxpayer will see their income tax cut by £1,205 a year compared to 2010.
Asked by: Andy Slaughter (Labour - Hammersmith)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost to his Department of printing and distributing personal tax summaries; on what criteria it was determined who would receive such summaries; what representations he has received on the wording used in those documents; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by David Gauke
The cost to print and post annual tax summaries was published in response to Parliamentary question number 213257 on 11 November.
Tax summaries are being sent to around 24 million taxpayers. Individuals will not receive a tax summary if they have paid no income tax in the past year, or where HMRC is awaiting updated PAYE information.
HMRC undertook in-depth customer research to test with taxpayers whether they found the information on tax summaries clear and comprehensive.
Asked by: Andy Slaughter (Labour - Hammersmith)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his Department's policy is on alcohol consumption on the premises (a) in general and (b) during parties in his Private Office.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
There is no prohibition of alcohol in my Department. This includes ministerial and official private offices.
Asked by: Andy Slaughter (Labour - Hammersmith)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much has been spent on refurbishing (a) gymnasium and leisure facilities, (b) cafeteria and (c) interior decoration in (i) his Department and (ii) buildings owned by his Department in (A) 2013 and (B) 2014 to date.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
None.
Under the terms of the PFI agreement signed under the previous administration all lifecycle and maintenance works are carried out by the hard service contractor as part of their contractual obligations; this includes interior decoration and refurbishment.
Asked by: Andy Slaughter (Labour - Hammersmith)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what subscriptions to (a) magazines and (b) television channels his Department funds.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
HM Treasury subscribes to the following magazines:
AGRA Facts
Banker
Commercial Motor Thu ,
Bloomberg Business Week
Commercial Motor Thu
Farmers Weekly Fri
Local Government Chron Fri
Motor Transport Thu
New Statesman Thu
Private Eye Wed F/N
Prospect
Spectator
Taxation Thu
Times Education Supp Fri
HMT does not subscribe to any subscription based TV channels.
In 2009/10 HM Treasury was spending £189,561.41 on periodicals and newspapers. In 2013/14, this was down by 66%
Asked by: Andy Slaughter (Labour - Hammersmith)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many awaydays his Department has held for officials in (a) 2013 and (b) 2014 to date; and what the cost was of each such event.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The department does not hold a central record of away days for officials and the information cannot be provided within the disproportionate costs threshold. The cost of each event cannot be broken down.