Asked by: Stewart Hosie (Scottish National Party - Dundee East)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the cost to the public purse was of his Department's communications team in 2016-17, and what the projected costs are for 2017-18.
Answered by Andrew Jones
The cost for running HM Treasury Communication department, including all staff and running costs in 2016-17 was £1,950,886 , a reduction of over a quarter of the 2009/10 spend
Asked by: Stewart Hosie (Scottish National Party - Dundee East)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people in Dundee East 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.
Asked by: Stewart Hosie (Scottish National Party - Dundee East)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions his officials had with the Office for National Statistics between January and October 2014 on provision for backdating of payments of European contributions to accord with the European Statistics Agency reconciliation of the European Budget under ESA95.
Answered by David Gauke
The net impact on UK contributions to the EU of revisions to the UK GNI under ESA95 could not have been calculated without the relevant information across all Member States.
Asked by: Stewart Hosie (Scottish National Party - Dundee East)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the progress of arrangements to secure compliance with the requirements of ESA 2010 with respect to future calculation of the UK's European Budget contribution.
Answered by David Gauke
Under the Own Resources Decision of 7 June 2007, ESA 95 is the current statistical base for calculations of Member State contributions to the EU Budget.
ESA2010 will not become the statistical base for Member State contributions to the EU Budget until the new Own Resources Decision, agreed in May 2014, comes into force following ratification by all EU Member States.
Asked by: Stewart Hosie (Scottish National Party - Dundee East)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the accuracy of the European Statistics Agency's calculation of UK's contribution liability in respect of the European Budget under ESA 95 between 27 May and 13 October 2014.
Answered by David Gauke
The European Commission are responsible for calculating Member State contributions to the EU Budget using data provided by Eurostat who collate and validate the data from Member States’ national statistical institutions, including for the UK the Office for National Statistics.
As the Prime Minister has stated, HM Treasury will now assess the data in exhaustive detail to check how the statistics were arrived at and the methodology that was used.
Asked by: Stewart Hosie (Scottish National Party - Dundee East)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many leaflets produced by his Department promoting the Government's policy on the Scottish independence referendum have had to be amended, altered or destroyed; and at what cost to the public purse.
Answered by Danny Alexander
HM Treasury has not produced any leaflets promoting the Government’s policy on the Scottish independence referendum.