Asked by: Pete Wishart (Scottish National Party - Perth and North Perthshire)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to respond to the letter of 6 April 2020 from the hon. Member for Perth and North Perthshire, reference PW10140.
Answered by Jesse Norman
HM Treasury has received unprecedented amounts of correspondence since the start of the coronavirus outbreak, and apologises for the delay in responding to the Honourable Member. The Honourable Member’s correspondence is receiving attention and will be replied to as soon as possible.
Asked by: Pete Wishart (Scottish National Party - Perth and North Perthshire)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to respond to the letter of 10 April 2020 from the hon. Member for Perth and North Perthshire, reference PW10231.
Answered by Jesse Norman
HM Treasury has received unprecedented amounts of correspondence since the start of the coronavirus outbreak, and apologises for the delay in responding to the Honourable Member. The Honourable Member’s correspondence is receiving attention and will be replied to as soon as possible.
Asked by: Pete Wishart (Scottish National Party - Perth and North Perthshire)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to respond to the letter of 8 April 2020 from the hon. Member for Perth and North Perthshire, reference PW10203.
Answered by Jesse Norman
HM Treasury has received unprecedented amounts of correspondence since the start of the coronavirus outbreak, and apologises for the delay in responding to the Honourable Member. The Honourable Member’s correspondence is receiving attention and will be replied to as soon as possible.
Asked by: Pete Wishart (Scottish National Party - Perth and North Perthshire)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to respond to the letter of 7 April 2020 from the hon. Member for Perth and North Perthshire, reference PW10166.
Answered by Jesse Norman
HM Treasury has received unprecedented amounts of correspondence since the start of the coronavirus outbreak, and apologises for the delay in responding to the Honourable Member. The Honourable Member’s correspondence is receiving attention and will be replied to as soon as possible.
Asked by: Pete Wishart (Scottish National Party - Perth and North Perthshire)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to respond to the letter of 8 April 2020 from the hon. Member for Perth and North Perthshire, reference PW10205.
Answered by Jesse Norman
HM Treasury has received unprecedented amounts of correspondence since the start of the coronavirus outbreak, and apologises for the delay in responding to the Honourable Member. The Honourable Member’s correspondence is receiving attention and will be replied to as soon as possible.
Asked by: Pete Wishart (Scottish National Party - Perth and North Perthshire)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many NHS staff have been in receipt of an income tax and national insurance refund through the NHS Widening Access Training scheme; and how many claims for such a refund are outstanding.
Answered by Mel Stride - Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
HM Revenue and Customs has made just under 31000 refunds since the introduction of the NHS Widening Access Training scheme in 1999. Not all of these will include a refund of national insurance contributions but all will include a refund of income tax. Currently there are around 700 claims waiting to be processed.
Asked by: Pete Wishart (Scottish National Party - Perth and North Perthshire)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people in Perth and North Perthshire constituency paid the top rate of income tax in each of the last five years.
Answered by David Gauke
i, ii, iii, iv and v. Statistics on the number of additional rate income tax payers liable to pay by government office regions, including Scotland, are published in HMRC’s income tax statistics, table 2.2: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/306856/Table_2.2.pdf
County and constituency level information on additional rate tax payers is not published.