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Written Question
Enterprise Investment Scheme and Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme
Thursday 16th November 2017

Asked by: Kit Malthouse (Conservative - North West Hampshire)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has assessed the effectiveness of the (a) Enterprise Investment Scheme and (b) Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme.

Answered by Mel Stride - Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

HM Revenue and Customs have previously commissioned studies into the use and impact of the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS). These were published in April 2008 and February 2016 respectively. Details can be found at:

2008 study: http://www.employment-studies.co.uk/resource/study-impact-enterprise-investment-scheme-eis-and-venture-capital-trusts-vct-company

2016 study: https://www.ipsos.com/ipsos-mori/en-uk/use-and-impact-venture-capital-schemes

Seed EIS, introduced in 2012, was not included in the studies. Both these reliefs are currently being considered as part of the Patient Capital Review, the consultation for which was published in August.


Written Question
Enterprise Investment Scheme
Monday 13th November 2017

Asked by: Kit Malthouse (Conservative - North West Hampshire)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much has been collected by HM Revenue and Customs in corporation tax from companies that had previously received Enterprise Investment Scheme tax relief in each of the last 10 years.

Answered by Mel Stride - Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

HMRC estimates that companies which raised funds under the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) between 2006‑07 and 2015‑16 had a Corporation Tax liability of £95 million in 2015‑16, the latest year for which data are available.

This cannot be considered to be additional tax generated due to EIS, as it does not take account of the additionality or opportunity cost of investment.

The information requested about VAT and PAYE Income Tax is only available at disproportionate cost.


Written Question
Enterprise Investment Scheme
Monday 13th November 2017

Asked by: Kit Malthouse (Conservative - North West Hampshire)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much has been collected in Pay as You Earn income from companies that had previously received Enterprise Investment Scheme tax relief in each of the last 10 years.

Answered by Mel Stride - Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

HMRC estimates that companies which raised funds under the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) between 2006‑07 and 2015‑16 had a Corporation Tax liability of £95 million in 2015‑16, the latest year for which data are available.

This cannot be considered to be additional tax generated due to EIS, as it does not take account of the additionality or opportunity cost of investment.

The information requested about VAT and PAYE Income Tax is only available at disproportionate cost.


Written Question
Enterprise Investment Scheme
Monday 13th November 2017

Asked by: Kit Malthouse (Conservative - North West Hampshire)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much has been collected by HM Revenue and Customs in VAT from companies that had previously received Enterprise Investment Scheme tax relief in each of the last 10 years.

Answered by Mel Stride - Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

HMRC estimates that companies which raised funds under the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) between 2006‑07 and 2015‑16 had a Corporation Tax liability of £95 million in 2015‑16, the latest year for which data are available.

This cannot be considered to be additional tax generated due to EIS, as it does not take account of the additionality or opportunity cost of investment.

The information requested about VAT and PAYE Income Tax is only available at disproportionate cost.


Written Question
UK Trade with EU
Monday 18th September 2017

Asked by: Kit Malthouse (Conservative - North West Hampshire)

Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what proportion and value of UK exports to the EU were destined for markets outside the EU in each of the last five years.

Answered by Mark Garnier

Accurate Information on the proportion and value of UK exports to the EU that were destined for markets outside the EU in each of the last five years is not available. This is because many businesses do not report the final destination of their export.


Written Question
Offences against Children: Internet
Thursday 14th September 2017

Asked by: Kit Malthouse (Conservative - North West Hampshire)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many reports of online child grooming have been received by the police in each of the last five years; and how many convictions for online child grooming have been made in each such year.

Answered by Nick Hurd

The Home Office collects information from police forces on the number of police recorded offences that have an online element. The online flag became mandatory from April 2015 therefore data prior to this are not available.

Information on the number of child sexual offences flagged as having an online element are published as experimental statistics in the ONS ‘Crime in England and Wales’ quarterly bulletins. The ‘child sexual offences’ category includes sexual grooming. Information on sexual grooming is not separately published.

These data can be found in table E12 of the experimental tables on the ONS website: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/crimeinenglandandwalesexperimentaltables.

The Home Office does not hold information on the number of online child grooming offences which have led to prosecutions. The Ministry of Justice are responsible for prosecutions data.


Written Question
Fuels: Theft
Thursday 13th July 2017

Asked by: Kit Malthouse (Conservative - North West Hampshire)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) reports, (b) prosecutions and (c) convictions there have been for drive-off forecourt fuel theft in each of the last five years.

Answered by Nick Hurd

The information requested is not held centrally. The Home Office collects data on the number of making off without payment offences recorded by the police in England and Wales, but it is not possible to tell from these data whether the offence was forecourt fuel theft. Information on the number of making off without payment offences recorded by the police are published by the Office for National Statistics and can be found here:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/releases/crimeinenglandandwalesyearendingdec2016

The Home Office does not hold information on the number of offences that led to conviction. Data on prosecutions and convictions are the responsibility of the Ministry of Justice.


Written Question
Offences against Children
Monday 9th May 2016

Asked by: Kit Malthouse (Conservative - North West Hampshire)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many parents have been (a) accused and (b) convicted of killing or assaulting their child or children in each of the last five years; and how many such children had been removed from their parents into the care system and subsequently returned.

Answered by Karen Bradley

The available information for homicides of children under 16 by their parents recorded by police in England and Wales is given in the table and is taken from the Home Office Homicide Index.

Data are based on the number of offenders whose court proceedings have been completed. Due to the time it can take for cases to pass through the criminal justice system, there is likely to be an increase in the number of people convicted of homicide for recent years when updated figures become available.

The Home Office hold data on assaults but from these date it is not possible to identify the relationship between the victim and the suspect.

The Home Office do not hold data on children in care. These are the responsibility of the Department for Education.

Table A: Number of suspects charged and convicted of homicide of a child under 16 where the suspect was a parent1234 2010/11 to 2014/15

Suspect = Parent

2010/2011

2011/2012

2012/2013

2013/2014

2014/2015

Suspect charged

36

29

46

30

32

Suspect convicted of homicide

17

22

23

15

7

Suspect convicted of lesser offence

4

2

8

2

1

Suspect committed suicide/died

5

4

3

5

8

Other outcome

10

1

12

8

16

1. Source: Homicide Index, Home Office

2. Police recorded crime data are not designated as National Statistics

3. As at 13 November 2015; figures are subject to revision as cases are dealt with by the police and by the courts, or as further information becomes available

4. Note that homicide cases recorded in more recent years may not yet have completed their court proceedings


Written Question
VAT
Tuesday 9th February 2016

Asked by: Kit Malthouse (Conservative - North West Hampshire)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 26 January 2016 to Question 22515, if he will estimate the amount paid out in supplements following the late payment of VAT returns in (a) 2015-16 and (b) each of the previous 10 years.

Answered by David Gauke

The following table shows HM Revenue and Customs’ (HMRC) estimates of the total amount of Repayment Supplement it has paid on VAT repayments. The estimates draw on management information that is available from 2010-11 onwards.

.

Date

Total VAT repayment supplement

2015-16 (to 31.12.15)

£9.0m

2014-15

£14.2m

2013-14

£15.0m

2012-13

£10.9m*

2011-12

£11.8m*

2010-11

£6.7m*

* In order to provide a more meaningful time series of data, totals for 10-11, 11-12 and 12-13 include estimated amounts from within total payments of £12.1m that relate to accounting periods in these years but were not paid until 2015, following discovery of a systems error.

In 2014-15, HMRC paid Repayment Supplement in 0.3% of all cases.

In the first half of 2015-16, HMRC carried out an extensive review of its repayment process with a view to minimising delays in cases where repayments are not authorised automatically. Following the review, new processes have been introduced and HMRC expects to reduce the incidence of Repayment Supplement as a result.


Written Question
Life Sciences: Industry
Wednesday 3rd February 2016

Asked by: Kit Malthouse (Conservative - North West Hampshire)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps his Department is taking to support the life sciences industry.

Answered by George Freeman

This Government recognises that health and life sciences industries are a key source of future growth and is committed through the Life Sciences Strategy to providing a supportive wider business environment in which these industries can flourish, so that the UK can be the best place in the world to develop and launch innovative medicines, technologies and diagnostics. Priorities include: simplifying the adoption of transformative products within the NHS through the Accelerated Access Review; supporting new and growing markets and disruptive technologies – such as digital health and genomics; and working across Government to improve the UK’s competitiveness to stimulate investment and drive export growth. Our latest estimates show collective Government support since the Life Science Strategy launched has stimulated more than £6bn in new investment by the life science industry linked to more than 17,000 new sector jobs.