Asked by: Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Streatham and Croydon North)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many meetings Ministers in his Department have had with commercial property companies since 1 March 2020.
Answered by Jesse Norman - Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
Treasury ministers and officials have meetings with a wide variety of organisations in the public and private sectors as part of the process of policy development and delivery.
Details of ministerial and permanent secretary meetings with external organisations on departmental business are published on a quarterly basis and are available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmt-ministers-meetings-hospitality-gifts-and-overseas-travel.
Asked by: Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Streatham and Croydon North)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 8 July 2020 to Question 68708, on Local Government Finance: Coronavirus, whether Barnett Consequentials will flow from his Department's covid-19 local authority funding scheme.
Answered by Steve Barclay
Any new funding for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government will have the Barnett formula applied to it in the usual way.
This would be on top of the £8.9 billion of additional funding that we have already confirmed for the devolved administrations in relation to Covid-19.
Asked by: Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Streatham and Croydon North)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the revenue that will accrue to the public purse from ending the exemption on primary or sole residences from capital gains tax.
Answered by Jesse Norman - Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
The estimated cost of the exemption of Capital Gains Tax on gains on the disposal of a person’s main or only residence was £26.7bn for 2017-18. Further information is provided in the official statistics on non-structural tax reliefs that are available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/main-tax-expenditures-and-structural-reliefs
Asked by: Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Streatham and Croydon North)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of staff employed by his Department are apprentices.
Answered by Simon Clarke
3.8% of staff employed by HM Treasury as at 31st December 2019 are apprentices. (based on headcount)Asked by: Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Streatham and Croydon North)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential effect of reducing Air Passenger Duty on domestic flights on the UK's carbon emissions.
Answered by Simon Clarke
As announced on 14 January, HM Treasury is undertaking a review of Air Passenger Duty to ensure regional connectivity is strengthened while meeting the UK’s climate change commitments to achieve net zero emissions by 2050.
The government takes its environmental responsibilities very seriously and uses a range of levers at its disposal, including spending, taxation and regulatory policy, to meet its climate and environmental objectives.
Asked by: Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Streatham and Croydon North)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much funding from the public purse his Department spent on the production of the graphic tweeted by his Department on 31 July 2019 entitled We’re announcing £2.1bn funding new funding to prepare for no deal.
Answered by Simon Clarke
The graphic tweeted by HM Treasury on no deal funding was produced in-house by the digital communications team.