Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the average hourly pay is of employees at each grade within his Department identified as (a) White or White British and (b) from a Black, Asian or other minority ethnic group.
Answered by David Gauke
Please see table below for average hourly pay as at end December 2014:
Median Hourly Pay £ | ||
Grade | White | BAME |
Specialist | 54.6 | ** |
Range B | 9.7 | 11.2 |
Range C | 13.0 | 13.0 |
Range D | 16.6 | 16.7 |
Range E | 25.1 | 25.0 |
Range E2 | 29.4 | ** |
SCS | 37.4 | ** |
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of employees in his Department identify as (a) white or white British, (b) Asian or Asian British, (c) Black or Black British, (d) mixed or multiple ethnic group and (e) another ethnicity.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom
The Treasury publishes information about the diversity of its workforce in its Annual Report and Accounts.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many equality impact assessments his Department completed in each year since 2006.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom
In the areas of its policy responsibilities, the Treasury has ensured that equality impacts are taken into account, in line with both its legal obligations and its commitment to promoting equality.
On 20 October 2010 and 26 June 2013 the Treasury published overviews of the impact of the 2010 Spending Review and the 2013 Spending Round respectively, on groups protected by equalities legislation. The Government has also driven improvements in tax policy making. The Government now publishes a Tax Information and Impact Note for all individual tax policy changes. These explicitly include an assessment of the equalities impact of each individual measure.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of (a) women and (b) men have made a statutory application to request flexible working in his Department; and how many of those applications have been granted to date.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom
All requests for flexible working arrangements at HM Treasury are made direct to managers and agreed locally. The total number of requests for such arrangements are not held centrally and could only be retrieved at disproportionate costs.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people in employment in (a) 2014-15 and (b) 2015-16 who will not earn enough to pay any income tax in (i) the UK, (ii) England, (iii) Wales, (iv) Scotland, (v) Northern Ireland and (vi) each English region respectively; and how many such people (A) are men, (B) are women and (C) have dependant children.
Answered by David Gauke
Estimates are provided in the table attached for the latest year available, which is the tax year 2012-13.
Number of individuals in employment (including self-employment) paying no income tax by regions, gender and individuals with dependent children (,000).
These estimates are derived from the results of the 2012-13 Family Resources Survey (FRS).
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much was paid in corporation tax by businesses registered in Ashfield constituency in each of the last five years; and what proportion of such taxation was paid by small and medium-sized enterprises.
Answered by David Gauke
Since 2010 the Government has cut the main rate of corporation tax from 28% to 21%. It will fall further to 20% in April 2015. The Small Profits Rate was cut to 20% in April 2011. These corporation tax cuts will be worth around £9.5bn per year to businesses by 2016-17.
The table below sets out the amount of Corporation Tax liable for payment by businesses with a registered address in the Ashfield parliamentary constituency for accounting periods ending in the past five years. The latest year for which figures are available is 2011-12.
| 2007-08 | 2008-09 | 2009-10 | 2010-11 | 2011-12 |
Corporation Tax liability (£m) | 36 | 29 | 26 | 26 | 30 |
Figures on the amount of tax paid, broken down by company size, are not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people in (a) Ashfield constituency and (b) Nottinghamshire paid the top rate of income tax in each of the last five years.
Answered by David Gauke
Statistics on the number of additional rate income tax payers liable to pay the by government office regions, including the East Midlands, are published in HMRC's income tax statistics, table 2.2: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/306856/Table_2.2.pdf
County and constituency level information on additional rate tax payers is not published.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to respond to Question 193089, tabled on 20 March 2014 for answer on 25 March 2014.
Answered by Baroness Morgan of Cotes
I have done so.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the proportion of families that will directly benefit from the tax-free childcare scheme that will be (a) couples and (b) lone parents.
Answered by Baroness Morgan of Cotes
Based on the best available data, we expect Tax-Free Childcare will be open to at least twice as many families as Employer Supported Childcare.
Tax-Free Childcare will be launched in autumn 2015 and rolled out to all eligible families with children under 12 within the first year of the scheme's operation, instead of just to under 5s in the first year. This will deliver support much more quickly, with around 1.9 million working families now qualifying within the first year.
Working lone parents are more likely to have lower income levels than working couples. More lone parents will therefore receive support for childcare through Tax Credits and then subsequently Universal Credit that is generally more generous than Tax-Free Childcare.
It is estimated that of the families that will directly benefit from the Tax-Free Childcare scheme around 95% are couples and 5% are lone parents.
The latest 2011-12 Child and Working Tax Credits finalised annual awards publication show that of the families that benefit from the Childcare Element of Tax Credits, 39% are couples and 61% are lone parents.