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Written Question
Income Tax
Tuesday 29th January 2019

Asked by: Nigel Huddleston (Conservative - Mid Worcestershire)

Question to the HM Treasury:

What progress he has made on reducing the amount of income tax that people pay.

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

The government is committed to keeping taxes low to support working people keep more of what they earn.

Budget 2018 announced that the government will increase the personal allowance to £12,500 and the higher rate threshold to £50,000 from April 2019, one year earlier than planned.

This tax cut means, in 2019-20, a typical basic rate taxpayer will pay £1,205 less in tax than in 2010-11. Across the UK, 1.74 million of the lowest paid will be taken out of tax entirely since 2015, leaving more of their hard-earned money in their pockets.


Written Question
Public Sector: Borrowing
Tuesday 16th January 2018

Asked by: Nigel Huddleston (Conservative - Mid Worcestershire)

Question to the HM Treasury:

What assessment he has made of potential risks to the economy from high levels of Government borrowing.

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

In 2010 we inherited the largest deficit since the second world war at nearly 10% of GDP. We’ve successfully reduced that to 2.3% last year, but our debt is still too high.

High levels of debt leave us vulnerable to economic shocks and incur significant amounts of debt interest.

That is why the government has clear fiscal plans to reduce borrowing further and get debt falling.


Written Question
Bank Services
Tuesday 19th January 2016

Asked by: Nigel Huddleston (Conservative - Mid Worcestershire)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent steps he has taken to widen access to basic bank accounts.

Answered by Harriett Baldwin

Improving access to banking services is central to the Government’s agenda. I am therefore delighted that the nine largest personal current account providers in the UK have been offering new basic bank accounts since January 2016.


For the first time, truly fee-free basic bank accounts are available for anyone who doesn’t have an account, or can’t use their account due to financial difficulty.



Written Question
Theatre: Tax Allowances
Tuesday 22nd September 2015

Asked by: Nigel Huddleston (Conservative - Mid Worcestershire)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to publish guidance notes on theatre tax relief.

Answered by David Gauke

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is currently migrating hundreds of existing guidance manuals from its own website to GOV.UK. HMRC expects the changeover to be completed over the next few months. The department's priority has been moving existing manuals, but I am pleased to say that the Theatre Tax Relief Manual will be one of the first new manuals to be published on GOV.UK. In the interim, HMRC will shortly make available a temporary version via GOV.UK.

The theatre tax relief was introduced with effect from 1 September 2014. The regime provides relief for companies producing qualifying theatrical productions. There is a special unit within HMRC for the creative industries that regularly advise taxpayers on this relief and how to make claims.