Asked by: Stephanie Peacock (Labour - Barnsley East)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many employees in his Department make use of the childcare voucher scheme.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
112 employees of HM Treasury make use of the childcare voucher scheme. The childcare voucher scheme is a salary sacrifice scheme which means that an employee agrees to a reduction in their taxable salary, and receives the equivalent amount in childcare vouchers instead.
Asked by: Stephanie Peacock (Labour - Barnsley East)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many claimants of childcare vouchers there were in Barnsley East constituency in each year since 2010.
Answered by Elizabeth Truss
I refer the Honourable Member to the answer I gave on 25 January 2017 to the Honourable Member for Hull North (123405).
Asked by: Stephanie Peacock (Labour - Barnsley East)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people in Barnsley East constituency who will take up the tax-free childcare service.
Answered by Elizabeth Truss
I refer the Honourable Member to the answer I gave on 25 January 2017 to the Honourable Member for Hull North (123405).
Asked by: Stephanie Peacock (Labour - Barnsley East)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what criteria his Department uses to determine which parent has main responsibility for child tax credit and child benefit.
Answered by Elizabeth Truss
For both Child Benefit and Child Tax Credit (CTC), the law provides for one person – the person mainly responsible for the child – to receive the payments. It works on the basis that one person will always have a greater share of responsibility than another.
Where parents separate, it is possible for them to jointly agree who should receive Child Benefit and CTC and for which child. Where parents cannot agree who should receive Child Benefit and CTC and make rival claims, the decision about who is entitled to such support is taken by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC). HMRC considers all the facts in relation to each parent’s responsibility for the child, based on the information provided by both parents.
Asked by: Stephanie Peacock (Labour - Barnsley East)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how his Department determines main responsibility for receiving child tax credit and child benefit when care is split evenly.
Answered by Elizabeth Truss
For both Child Benefit and Child Tax Credit (CTC), the law provides for one person – the person mainly responsible for the child – to receive the payments. It works on the basis that one person will always have a greater share of responsibility than another.
Where parents separate, it is possible for them to jointly agree who should receive Child Benefit and CTC and for which child. Where parents cannot agree who should receive Child Benefit and CTC and make rival claims, the decision about who is entitled to such support is taken by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC). HMRC considers all the facts in relation to each parent’s responsibility for the child, based on the information provided by both parents.
Asked by: Stephanie Peacock (Labour - Barnsley East)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to Autumn Budget 2017, paragraph 6.27, what his policy is on public sector pay awards in financial year 2018-19 for employees not covered by an independent Pay Review Body.
Answered by Elizabeth Truss
Workforces not covered by pay review bodies include local government, the fire service and the majority of civil servants. Central government has no role in setting pay awards for Local Authority workers or the fire services. These are considered by the National Joint Council, for Local Government Services, and the National Joint Council for Local Authority Fire and Rescue Services respectively. Pay policy for the civil service (excluding senior civil servants) will be set in the usual way through the remit guidance for 2018-19.