Asked by: Karl Turner (Labour - Kingston upon Hull East)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the gross value added to the economy was from the tonnage tax scheme in each year since 2003-04.
Answered by Mel Stride - Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
The information requested is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Karl Turner (Labour - Kingston upon Hull East)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Government's statistical release, Seafarers in the UK Shipping Industry: 2017, published on 30 May 2018, how many merchant ships owned by members of the UK Chamber of Shipping qualify for the Tonnage Tax scheme.
Answered by Mel Stride - Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
It is not possible to identify the type of vessel used by each company qualifying for Tonnage Tax or those who are members of the UK Chamber of Shipping from the data held by HMRC.
Asked by: Karl Turner (Labour - Kingston upon Hull East)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many employers in the (a) shipping and (b) offshore energy industries are liable to pay the Apprenticeship Levy; and for what reasons companies in those industries are not liable to pay the Levy.
Answered by Mel Stride - Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
The most recent UK wide forecasts of the number of employers paying the levy in different sectors are published by the Department for Education, and can be found online at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/545145/Apprenticeships_-expected_levy_and_total_spend_-_Aug_2016.pdf.
A more detailed sector breakdown, splitting out shipping and offshore energy industries from the published categories, is not available.
The Apprenticeship Levy applies to all employers operating across all sectors. An allowance of £15,000 means only those with a pay bill exceeding £3 million have to pay the levy. Therefore companies in the shipping and offshore energy industries are liable to pay the Apprenticeship Levy only if they have a pay bill of over £3 million.
Guidance on what counts towards the paybill can be found online at: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/pay-apprenticeship-levy
Asked by: Karl Turner (Labour - Kingston upon Hull East)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 2 December 2015 to Question 17980, if his Department will consider publishing details of meetings with insurance industry representatives before the next return.
Answered by Harriett Baldwin
Treasury Ministers and officials meet with a wide range of companies and organisations to discuss relevant issues.
As was the case with previous Administrations, it is not the Treasury’s practice to provide details of all such discussions.
Asked by: Karl Turner (Labour - Kingston upon Hull East)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of the growth in average earnings compared to the rate of inflation since May 2010.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This government understands that times have been tough for many families since the 2008 recession.
But we are turning a corner and I am delighted that for the past four months pay has been rising faster than inflation. Further, we are seeing average wage growth of 4.1% for full-time employees in continuous employment and there have been 1.85 million jobs created since this government came to power.