Asked by: Kate Green (Labour - Stretford and Urmston)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has allocated additional funding for the Windrush generation compensation scheme.
Answered by Elizabeth Truss
As the Home Secretary has set out, the Government is committed to putting right the wrongs experienced by the Windrush generation, and is clear that where people have suffered loss they will be compensated. The Home Office is working through the detail of what this scheme will look like, including potential costs to the department.
Asked by: Kate Green (Labour - Stretford and Urmston)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has allocated additional funding for the Windrush generation compensation scheme.
Answered by Elizabeth Truss
As the Home Secretary has set out, the Government is committed to putting right the wrongs experienced by the Windrush generation, and is clear that where people have suffered loss they will be compensated. The Home Office is working through the detail of what this scheme will look like, including potential costs to the department.
Asked by: Kate Green (Labour - Stretford and Urmston)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the oral contribution of the Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General of 2 November 2016, Official Report, column 879, and pursuant to the Answer of 3 April 2018 to Question 134113, on Travellers: Equality, what meetings he has had since 2016 with the Minister for the Cabinet Office on using the 2011 census classifications that differentiate Gypsies and Travellers.
Answered by Elizabeth Truss
The Race Disparity Audit Inter Ministerial Group chaired by the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster discusses matters pertaining to the progress of the Race Disparity Audit, including on the collection of ethnicity data.
Asked by: Kate Green (Labour - Stretford and Urmston)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the oral contribution of the Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General of 2 November 2016, Official Report, column 879, what progress his Department has made in using the 2011 census classifications that differentiate Gypsies and Travellers.
Answered by Elizabeth Truss
The Race Disparity Audit website displays data where possible using the Census 2011 ethnic categories, which includes Gypsy or Irish Traveller. The Treasury is not one of the departments that has supplied any of this data to the audit but other departments have done so in respect to the public services for which they have responsibilities.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) and the Race Disparity Unit work closely together to further progress the harmonisation of ethnicity data across the Government Statistical Service (GSS) and to improve the coverage of ethnic groups including Gypsy, Roma and Travellers.
Asked by: Kate Green (Labour - Stretford and Urmston)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 5.11 of the Spring Budget 2017 that the Government will explore the appropriate tax treatment for diesel vehicles, and will engage with stakeholders ahead of making any tax changes at Autumn Budget 2017, what tax treatment measures the Government has explored; and which stakeholders the Government has engaged with on that matter.
Answered by Andrew Jones
The government is committed to taking action to improve air quality and making sure our towns and cities are clean, healthy places to live.
Ministers meet regularly with relevant stakeholders to discuss transport and environmental issues, including air quality, and continued to do so over the summer. We continue to consider a range of tax and spending measures that might be needed to support our air quality objectives. Any such measures will be announced in due course, including at Budget.
The Chancellor discusses matters of interest with his cabinet colleagues on a regular basis.