Asked by: Jim McMahon (Labour (Co-op) - Oldham West and Royton)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the value of tax receipts as a result of the decision to delay reducing the Fixed Odds Betting Terminal stake.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
As the Chancellor set out to the Treasury Select Committee on 5 November, changes to Fixed Odds Betting Terminals and Remote Gaming Duty will be implemented simultaneously. This ensures that regardless of when changes to Fixed Odds Betting Terminals and Remote Gaming Duty are implemented, there will be no significant change to the exchequer impact.
Asked by: Jim McMahon (Labour (Co-op) - Oldham West and Royton)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the merits of introducing an internet or online sales tax.
Answered by Mel Stride - Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
The Government has made clear through HM Treasury position papers that international corporate tax rules need to be updated to reflect the value digital businesses create value.
Pending global reform those papers also set out the Government’s receptiveness to exploring interim measures to tax certain digital businesses.
The Government has also provided support for all businesses through, for example, reforms and reductions to business rates worth over £10bn by 2023.
Asked by: Jim McMahon (Labour (Co-op) - Oldham West and Royton)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much funding, in real terms, has been allocated from the public purse to transport infrastructure in the north of England in each year since 1993.
Answered by Elizabeth Truss
Information on funding allocated from the public purse to transport infrastructure in the north of England in each year since 1993 is not available. However, estimates of capital expenditure including transport by country and region are available.
HM Treasury published the Country and Regional Analysis of public expenditure in November 2017 featuring capital and current functional expenditure by region for the five-years of outturn from 2012-13 to 2016-17. These are available in table A.8e. A link to the HM Treasury data are available below. Click on the further link to the ‘A’ tables:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/country-and-regional-analysis-2017
For a longer time series the ONS have published country and regional public sector finances in May 2017. The dataset shows public expenditure by functions that include transport by each region from 1999-2000 to 2015-16. A link to ONS data are available here: https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/governmentpublicsectorandtaxes/publicsectorfinance/datasets/countryandregionalpublicsectorfinancesexpendituretables
Both the HMT and ONS datasets are in nominal terms.