Asked by: David Anderson (Labour - Blaydon)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of freezing rates of child benefit and child tax credit on families in Blaydon constituency.
Answered by David Gauke
The Government has considered the impact on all benefits and tax credits rates that are included in the four year uprating freeze. The Government has published an impact assessment at:
http://www.parliament.uk/documents/impact-assessments/IA15-006C.pdf
Asked by: David Anderson (Labour - Blaydon)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether there will be an overspend on the Northern Ireland block grant from the Renewable Heating Incentive over the lifetime of the scheme.
Answered by David Gauke
The Treasury sets an allocation related to the costs of the Renewable Heat Incentive scheme in the Northern Ireland Executive’s Annually Managed Expenditure (AME) budget, proportionate to the budgets set in AME for the departments which manage the schemes in Great Britain. Any costs in excess of this AME budget are managed by the Northern Ireland Executive from its block grant or other sources of funding available to it.