Asked by: Michael Dugher (Labour - Barnsley East)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many publicly-funded jobs relating directly to the Northern Powerhouse there are in (a) Barnsley East constituency, (b) Barnsley, (c) Yorkshire and the Humber, (d) London and (e) other regions of England.
Answered by Greg Hands
The latest regional public sector employment survey figures are available online at: http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/pse/public-sector-employment/q3-2015/index.html, the figures for Barnsley and Barnsley East can be found in the Annual Population Survey (Oct 2014-Sep 2015): https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/default.asp.
Asked by: Michael Dugher (Labour - Barnsley East)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what Support for Mortgage Relief provisions are available to customers of Northern Rock Asset Management.
Answered by Harriett Baldwin - Shadow Minister (Business and Trade)
No specific provision has been made for customers of Northern Rock Asset Management or any other bank or building society following the restriction to finance cost relief for individual residential landlords.
Restricting finance cost relief to the basic rate of income tax means all individual landlords will be treated the same by the tax system, regardless of their overall income.
Asked by: Michael Dugher (Labour - Barnsley East)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much was paid in corporation tax by businesses registered in Barnsley East constituency in each of the last five years; and what proportion of that tax 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 £9.5 bn 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 Barnsley East parliamentary constituency for accounting periods ending in the past five years. The latest year for which figures are available is 2012-13.
2008-09 | 2009-10 | 2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | |
Corporation Tax liability (£m) | 10 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
The increase in tax liability in 2011-12 and 2012-13 reflects an increase in the number of businesses.
This Government is backing businesses with its long term economic plan. An increase in corporation tax would endanger the recovery and cost jobs.
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: Michael Dugher (Labour - Barnsley East)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people in (a) Barnsley East constituency, (b) Barnsley local authority, (c) South Yorkshire and (d) England have completed the purchase of a house through the Help to Buy scheme.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom
The Help to Buy scheme continues to support responsible lending with the average property value considerably less than the national average. The average house price under the scheme as a whole is around £190,000, compared to the national average of £272,000.
Over 50,000 households have benefitted from the scheme to date. The scheme is supporting lending in all regions and over 94% of mortgages bought under the scheme have been outside London. Mortgage completions have been particularly high in the North West and Scotland.
The Government publishes quarterly Official Statistics relating to the Help to Buy: mortgage guarantee scheme. The most recent of these were published on 2 September.
This report, along with accompanying tables, can be found at: www.gov.uk/government/statistics/help-to-buy-mortgage-guarantee-scheme-quarterly-statistics-october-2013-to-june-2014
The Government also publishes monthly statistics on the number of homes purchased with the support of the Help to Buy: Equity Loan scheme, by local authority in England. This data can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/help-to-buy-equity-loan-scheme-monthly-statistics
Asked by: Michael Dugher (Labour - Barnsley East)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent estimate he has made of changes in median household real income before housing costs in Barnsley East constituency since May 2010.
Answered by David Gauke
Figures for median household real income before housing costs are not available at constituency level.