Asked by: David Lammy (Labour - Tottenham)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) barristers and (b) solicitors have made applications to the Self-employment Income Support Scheme during the covid-19 outbreak; and how many of those applications have been accepted.
Answered by Jesse Norman - Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
The Self-Employment Income Support Scheme claims service opened on 13 May 2020, ahead of schedule. At this time no such information is available.
Asked by: David Lammy (Labour - Tottenham)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much has been received by (a) barristers and (b) solicitors through the self-employment Income Support Scheme due to the covid-19 outbreak to date.
Answered by Jesse Norman - Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
The Self-Employment Income Support Scheme claims service opened on 13 May 2020, ahead of schedule. At this time there have been no payments made.
Asked by: David Lammy (Labour - Tottenham)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of preparations for the UK leaving the EU without a deal.
Answered by Rishi Sunak
On 1 August 2019 the government made £2.1bn available for the 2019-20 financial year, to support preparations to leave the EU without a deal. Some of this funding supported measures necessary to prepare for the UK’s future outside the EU, whether via a deal or “no deal”.
This provision was additional to the £4.2bn of “core” funding already provided by the government between 2016-17 and 2019-20, for departments and devolved administrations to prepare for Brexit in any scenario.
Asked by: David Lammy (Labour - Tottenham)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether HM Revenue and Customs has received advice from the Cabinet Office to prepare for the UK leaving the EU on 17 October 2019.
Answered by Jesse Norman - Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
HM Revenue and Customs have not received advice from the Cabinet Office to prepare for the UK leaving the EU on 17 October.
Asked by: David Lammy (Labour - Tottenham)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many officials in his Department have been seconded away from their normal duties to work on the UK's withdrawal from the EU; and what effect that secondment of staff has had on the effectiveness of his Department.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
HM Treasury does not hold information centrally on the work staff undertake while out on loan/secondment.
We estimate that to search and locate any information held would exceed the appropriate limit, therefore can only be answered at a disproportionate cost.
EU Exit is an all-of-government operation. The Department for Exiting the European Union is responsible for overseeing negotiations to leave the EU and establishing the future relationship between the UK and EU. The Department for International Trade works to secure UK and global prosperity by promoting and financing international trade and investment, and championing free trade.
Departments continually review workforce plans, reprioritise and assess changing needs, which includes identification and cessation of non-priority work where appropriate. We have accelerated our plans, and at the same time, the Civil Service as a whole is working to ensure that EU Exit Implementation is carried out to high quality without impacting public service delivery across the whole of government.
Asked by: David Lammy (Labour - Tottenham)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Government is taking steps to ensure that all Trust and Company Service Providers setting up companies in the UK are overseen by an anti-money laundering supervisor; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by John Glen
The Government is committed to ensuring the UK is a hostile environment for illicit finance and has taken significant steps to tackle the threat of money laundering. The Government tightened the requirements on AML supervisors in the Money Laundering Regulations 2017 and legislated to establish an oversight body for professional body supervisors (the Office for Professional Body AML Supervision or OPBAS) in December 2017.
TCSPs undertaking business in the UK must be supervised by either the FCA, HMRC or a professional body. They are subject to the Money Laundering Regulations 2017 which strengthened the requirements on TCSPs by introducing a fitness and propriety test on beneficial owners, officers and managers, by requiring TCSPs to be registered with either the FCA or HMRC and by requiring them to undertake customer due diligence checks when forming a company, whether or not the formation is the only transaction being carried out for that customer. At an international level, the UK works with international partners and through the Financial Action Task Force to drive up global standards of supervision and enforcement.