Written Question
Tuesday 22nd June 2021
Asked by:
Sarah Jones (Labour - Croydon West)
Question
to the HM Treasury:
What recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the support available to businesses in response to the covid-19 outbreak.
Answered by Steve Barclay
Throughout the pandemic, the Government has sought to protect people’s jobs and livelihoods while also supporting businesses and public services across the UK.
We have put in place an economic package of support totalling £352 billion through the furlough and self-employed income support schemes, support for businesses through grants and loans, business rates and VAT relief.
At the Budget, the Chancellor extended this package of economic support to accommodate even the most cautious view about the time it might take to exit restrictions and to provide certainty and continuity to business. The Government continues to keep all impacts and policies under review.
Written Question
Friday 23rd October 2020
Asked by:
Sarah Jones (Labour - Croydon West)
Question
to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will include a review of the police allocation formula in the Comprehensive Spending Review.
Answered by Steve Barclay
The Government is alive to the concerns held by many in the policing sector over the police funding formula, and Home Office Ministers have agreed that the current arrangements are out of date. We are considering the police funding formula as part of our long-term vision for policing. Our priority for the Spending Review is continuing to support police forces with the required resources to tackle crime. At the 2019 Spending Review the Government agreed a total police funding settlement of up to £15.2 billion in 2020/21, which is an increase of up to £1.1 billion compared to 2019/20 and the biggest increase in funding for the policing system since 2010.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 20 Oct 2020
Black History Month
"It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Hertford and Stortford (Julie Marson) in this important debate.
There are those of us who are saying that black history should be part of our history and, as someone who studied history at university, I want to say something about …..."Sarah Jones - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 11 Sep 2020
Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies (Environmentally Sustainable Investment) Bill
"I am delighted to speak in this debate, and I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff North (Anna McMorrin) on her important work on the Bill. As someone who is half-Welsh, I was particularly interested to hear the history of the co-op movement in Wales. That was something …..."Sarah Jones - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 11 Sep 2020
Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies (Environmentally Sustainable Investment) Bill
"I thank the hon. Gentleman for putting it gently and saying I was somewhat critical of the Government’s approach; I would go slightly further and suggest that we need to look at actions rather than words. In the past 10 years, under Conservative Governments, Labour’s zero carbon homes scheme and …..."Sarah Jones - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 11 Sep 2020
Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies (Environmentally Sustainable Investment) Bill
"The solution is to enable a thousand flowers to bloom. We want local organisations to be able to provide solutions, as well as the Government, who, at the moment, are woefully lacking in their climate action. We need both those things to happen, and the Bill is one part of …..."Sarah Jones - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 25 Mar 2020
Financial and Social Emergency Support Package
"There are reports that the announcement about the self-employed will be made on Thursday, when the House will not be sitting. Will the Minister guarantee that there will be some mechanism for us to question and prod the Government and get responses about the announcements that will be made when …..."Sarah Jones - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 25 Mar 2020
Financial and Social Emergency Support Package
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 25 Mar 2020
Financial and Social Emergency Support Package
"On the point about the extra funding for councils, when I was talking to my own council yesterday it says that that will barely cover the number of people who will be applying for council tax relief; it will just fill that hole. It is looking at things such as …..."Sarah Jones - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 25 Mar 2020
Financial and Social Emergency Support Package
"May I start by adding to the tributes to the Leader of the Opposition and the shadow Chancellor for the roles that they have played? As shadow Housing Minister, I have benefited greatly from their prioritising housing as an issue much more than perhaps we did before, and that has …..."Sarah Jones - View Speech
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