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Written Question
Treasury: Brexit
Thursday 31st January 2019

Asked by: Michael Tomlinson (Conservative - Mid Dorset and North Poole)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what progress he has made in laying Statutory Instruments related to EU exit preparedness; and if he will make a statement.

Answered by John Glen - Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office

The Government has made good progress in laying the up to 600 statutory instruments required by exit day to ensure a functioning statute book. As of 30 January, HM Treasury and HM Revenue & Customs has laid 70 exit related statutory instruments. All exit related statutory instruments are published on legislation.gov.uk, and include ‘EU Exit’ in their title.


Written Question
Revenue and Customs: Brexit
Tuesday 7th November 2017

Asked by: Michael Tomlinson (Conservative - Mid Dorset and North Poole)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much has been allocated to HM Revenue and Customs in percentage and cash terms on preparation for no deal being reached in negotiations on the UK leaving the EU.

Answered by Elizabeth Truss

HM Treasury is working with all departments to understand the funding requirements to prepare for Brexit effectively. The additional funding HMRC has received for 2017-18 will be set out at Supplementary Estimates and funding for future years will be confirmed at a later date.


Written Question
Treasury: Brexit
Monday 6th November 2017

Asked by: Michael Tomlinson (Conservative - Mid Dorset and North Poole)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much funding from the public purse his Department has allocated as a contingency for itself in the event that no deal is reached in negotiations on the UK leaving the EU.

Answered by Elizabeth Truss

Like all departments, HMT is planning for a number of EU Exit scenarios to make sure we are ready on Day 1. Over £250m of additional funding has been approved across a number of departments in 2017/18 to prepare for Brexit. Additional funding received from the reserve will be set out at Supplementary Estimates.


Written Question
Government Departments: Brexit
Monday 6th November 2017

Asked by: Michael Tomlinson (Conservative - Mid Dorset and North Poole)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much funding from the public purse has been allocated to other Government departments to prepare for the contingency of no deal being reached in the negotiations on the UK leaving the EU.

Answered by Elizabeth Truss

The Treasury has committed over £250 million of additional spending in 2017-18 to prepare for Brexit from the Reserve. Departmental allocations will be set out at Supplementary Estimates in the usual way. This is in addition to the £412m of additional funding over the parliament announced at Autumn Statement 2016 for the Department of International Trade, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Department for Exiting the European Union. That means the government has allocated over half a billion pounds so far in funding to ensure a successful exit from the EU.


Written Question
Income Tax
Thursday 2nd November 2017

Asked by: Michael Tomlinson (Conservative - Mid Dorset and North Poole)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of income tax was raised from the (a) top-earning one, (b) top-earning 10 and (c) bottom-earning 10 per cent in (i) 2017, (ii) 2010, (iii) 1997 and (iv) 1979.

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

The estimates for the proportion of income tax raised from the top-earning one, top-earning 10 and bottom-earning 10 per cent are provided for 1996-97, 2009-10 and 2016-17 tax years in the table below. The percentile groups ranged on total income before tax. Estimates for the proportion of income tax raised in the 1978-79 tax year are not available.

Share of Total Income Tax Liability

Top(3)

Bottom(3)

1%

10%

10%

1996-97

20.0

48.0

*

2009-10

26.5

54.9

0.6

2016-17(1)(2)

26.9

58.5

0.4

*This figure is not available.

(1) Projected estimates based upon the 2014-15 Survey of Personal Incomes using economic assumptions consistent with the OBR’s March 2017 economic and fiscal outlook.

(2) Prior to 2016-17, total income includes the amount of dividends plus dividend tax credit (one ninth of the dividend), the grossed dividend, and income tax is charged on the grossed dividend. The tax due can be satisfied (in part) by the notional tax credit (10% of the grossed dividend). The table reflects the grossed dividend in total income and shows the income tax liability before the tax credit is offset. From 2016-17 the dividend tax credit is abolished, effective dividend tax rates are increased by 7.5% and a £5,000 Personal Dividend Allowance is introduced. This affects the measure of total income and leads to a discontinuity in the basis on which tax liabilities are presented between 2015-16 (and earlier) and 2016-17, so the share of incomes and tax liabilities are not directly comparable.

(3) Percentile groups ranged on total income before tax.


Written Question
Personal Income
Thursday 2nd November 2017

Asked by: Michael Tomlinson (Conservative - Mid Dorset and North Poole)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, at what rates income levels have changed for the (a) bottom-earning and (b) top-earning 10 per cent in each year since 2010.

Answered by Steve Barclay - Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

The lowest 10% of earners have seen the strongest earnings growth since 2010, as highlighted in the table below, which shows gross weekly earnings of all UK employees. Their earnings have grown more than twice as fast as the earnings of the top 10% of earners.

Gross weekly earnings (£)

2010

2017

% change

10th percentile

118.9

144.3

21%

90th percentile

884.7

973.1

10%

Source: HMT calculations using Office for National Statistics data (Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings)

Note: Includes all employees on adult rates, whose pay for the survey period was unaffected by absence.