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Written Question
Tax Avoidance
Tuesday 10th March 2015

Asked by: Gerald Howarth (Conservative - Aldershot)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to ensure that staff in the new counter-avoidance directorate of HM Revenue and Customs have received adequate training to deal with challenges to accelerated payment notices.

Answered by David Gauke

With regards to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) staff training on Accelerated Payments Notices, I would refer the hon. member to the answer I gave to a written question on 26 February 2015 (HC Deb, 26 February 2015, cW).

The number of HMRC officials currently engaged in dealing with Accelerated Payments Notices is 270Full Time Equivalents.

With regards to HMRC’s plans to report the progress on Accelerated Payments, I would refer the hon. member to my answer of 10 February (HC Deb, 10 February 2015, cW)

Written Question
Personal Income
Monday 9th March 2015

Asked by: Gerald Howarth (Conservative - Aldershot)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent estimate he has made of the median net income of (a) online short term lending customers, (b) credit card holders and (c) an average UK citizen in full-time work.

Answered by Andrea Leadsom

Information is not available for points a or b, as the ONS do not publish earnings data split by use of financial services. The most recent ONS publication of the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) indicates that median gross weekly earnings for full-time employees were £518 in April 2014.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 04 Mar 2015
Future Government Spending

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 04 Mar 2015
Future Government Spending

"I am grateful to the shadow Chief Secretary for giving way. I will tell him why we are in this situation today: the destruction of the public finances by his right hon. Friend the Member for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath (Mr Brown), the former Chancellor of the Exchequer and the former …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 01 Jul 2014
Finance Bill

"As the hon. Lady has mentioned the deficit, would she now like to apologise on behalf of the Labour party for the catastrophic destruction of the public finances in the last Parliament?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 01 Jul 2014
Finance Bill

"I am pleased to take part in this debate—it is the first time I have participated in a Finance Bill debate for quite a long time. I rise to take issue with the hon. Member for Birmingham, Ladywood (Shabana Mahmood), who made a long and interesting speech, about her definition …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 01 Jul 2014
Finance Bill

"Quite a lot of people want to speak, but the hon. Gentleman is a good man, so I will give way to him briefly...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 01 Jul 2014
Finance Bill

"The hon. Gentleman is entirely right, but overwhelmingly it is the entrepreneurs of this country who drive our economy. Ensuring not only that our entrepreneurs are encouraged to invest in providing jobs for people but that this country is a good place in which people from overseas wish to invest …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 12 Jun 2014
The Economy and Living Standards

"I am sure that the House is very grateful to the right hon. Member for Derby South (Margaret Beckett) for reminding us all of the magnitude of the fantastic challenge that the Government faced when they came to office in 2010. It is just a shame that neither she nor …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 12 Jun 2014
The Economy and Living Standards

"I am delighted to assist the right hon. Lady, who I know is very reasonable. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has just identified one of the causes of the problem that we faced, namely the Labour Government’s decision to remove responsibility for the supervision of the banks from the Bank …..."
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