Asked by: Rachel Hopkins (Labour - Luton South)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many businesses received National Insurance contributions holidays for employing armed service leavers.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
Between April 2022 and October 2022, 470 employers claimed the National Insurance contributions relief for employers who hire veterans.
Asked by: Rachel Hopkins (Labour - Luton South)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Defence on reinstating the Veterans’ Mobility Fund.
Answered by John Glen - Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office
The Government is committed to supporting all our veterans, and to ensuring that they continue to thrive after leaving the services.
Since 2014, the Government has committed £773m of LIBOR fines to support Armed Forces and Emergency Service charities.
As part of this package, the Chancellor awarded the Royal British Legion £3m to develop a Veterans Mobility Fund, designed to meet the wellbeing needs of veterans discharged with service-attributable serious physical injury. At the same time, the Chancellor also awarded £10m to develop a Veterans Hearing Fund, providing support to veterans who suffered hearing loss during service.
In 2019, at the Royal British Legion’s request, the Treasury authorised the transfer of almost £1.5m from the Veterans Mobility Fund to the Veterans Hearing Fund, following dramatic increases in the rate of applications for the Hearing Fund and a comparatively static application rate for the Mobility Fund. Both the Veterans Hearing and Veterans Mobility Funds have now closed.
Since 2020, we have announced a further £10m funding to support veterans’ mental health, £475k to support the development of a digital and data strategy for the sector, £5m to enable charities to address the impact of events in Afghanistan on veterans, and a £5m Veterans’ Health Innovation Fund.
More than 100 service charities, including those who support veterans, also benefitted from £6m of the £750m to support the charity sector announced by the Chancellor in April 21 in support of COVID-19.
The Chancellor engages with the Secretary of State for Defence routinely on defence matters.
Asked by: Rachel Hopkins (Labour - Luton South)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 22 March 2022 to Question 142001, on Treasury: Civil Servants, if he will publish the number of civil servants based at the Darlington Economic Campus as of 17 March 2022.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
We are making significant progress establishing the Darlington Economic Campus and our workforce based there. We have committed to moving over 1,100 roles to the campus by 2025 from across all eight Departments and agencies based in the campus.