Asked by: Baroness Coffey (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many individuals are eligible to make voluntary contributions for gaps in their National Insurance records for 2006–2018 before the 5 April deadline.
Answered by Lord Livermore - Financial Secretary (HM Treasury)
The number of individuals who could be eligible to make voluntary contributions for gaps in their National Insurance record for 2006-2018 is not centrally held.
Asked by: Baroness Coffey (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 22 April 2024 to Question 21018 on Holiday Accommodation: Taxation, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of the abolition of the furnished holiday lettings tax regime on business resilience and diversification of farms.
Answered by Nigel Huddleston
The Government recognises the important role that Furnished Holiday Lets (FHLs), including those located on farms, have in the visitor economy. This measure does not penalise or prohibit the provision of FHLs and brings their tax treatment in line with other rentals.
The Government will publish draft legislation, explanatory notes, and a tax information and impacts note in due course. These will set out how the announced changes will apply in practice.
As with all aspects of the tax system, the Government keeps the taxation of property under review and any decision on future changes will be taken by the Chancellor in the context of the wider public finances.
Asked by: Baroness Coffey (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the abolition of the furnished holiday lettings tax regime on farms.
Answered by Nigel Huddleston
The Government recognises the important role that Furnished Holiday Lets (FHL), including those located on farms, have in the visitor economy. This measure does not penalise or prohibit the provision of FHLs and simply brings their tax treatment in line with other rentals.
As with all aspects of the tax system, the Government keeps the taxation of property landlords under review and any decision on future changes will be taken by the Chancellor in the context of the wider public finances.
Asked by: Baroness Coffey (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the availability of cash withdrawal facilities in Suffolk.
Answered by Bim Afolami
The government recognises that cash continues to be used by millions of people across the UK, including by those in vulnerable groups.
The government legislated through the Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 to establish a new legislative framework to protect access to cash. This establishes the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) as the lead regulator for access to cash and provides it with responsibility and powers to seek to ensure reasonable provision of cash withdrawal and deposit facilities, on both a national and local basis. The FCA expects to finalise its regulatory rules in the third quarter of this year.
The most recent analysis undertaken by the FCA on cash access coverage across the UK found that in Q1 2023, over 99% of people in urban areas are within 1 mile of a cash access point offering withdrawals, and over 98% of people in rural areas are within 3 miles of a cash access point offering withdrawals. Further details of this analysis, including a breakdown of cash access coverage by Local Authority District is available on the FCA website: Access to cash coverage in the UK 2023 Q1
Asked by: Baroness Coffey (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many voluntary donations have been paid to the Government in each of the last 20 years; and what the total amount paid in voluntary donations is over that time period.
Answered by Nigel Huddleston
HM Treasury received a total of 137 voluntary donations for a total of £4,111,587.79 from January 2003 up to 13th March 2024. The breakdown for each year is in the table below.
Calendar year | No. of donations | Value of donations |
2003 | 4 | £3,103.00 |
2004 | 7 | £97,518.13 |
2005 | 1 | £5.00 |
2006 | 7 | £821,669.41 |
2007 | 3 | £4,270.66 |
2008 | 4 | £5,411.17 |
2009 | 7 | £452,208.81 |
2010 | 7 | £972,621.71 |
2011 | 7 | £60,657.19 |
2012 | 1 | £670.00 |
2013 | 1 | £99,423.00 |
2014 | 0 | - |
2015 | 0 | - |
2016 | 2 | £47,078.41 |
2017 | 3 | £92,847.53 |
2018 | 1 | £800.00 |
2019 | 3 | £65,000.00 |
2020 | 1 | £1,193,875.76 |
2021 | 10 | £13,334.00 |
2022 | 29 | £150,120.55 |
2023 | 38 | £28,212.26 |
2024 (to 13th Mar) | 1 | £2,761.20 |
TOTAL | 137 | £4,111,587.79 |
Asked by: Baroness Coffey (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 10 January 2024 to Question 7905 on Welfare Tax Credits, for what reason the awards of tax credit are deemed provisional; and for what reason the information is published annually.
Answered by Nigel Huddleston
The provisional awards statistics for those receiving Child and Working Tax Credits relate to the caseload position at a snapshot point in time, based on the latest family circumstances HMRC have been informed of by each family prior to that point in time.
It is only at finalisation (usually four to nine months after the end of the tax year) that the family’s circumstances for the whole year are known and a finalised award can be calculated.
This means the statistics for provisional awards provide up to date numbers at the reference point in time but are subject to change following finalisation as described above.
HMRC publishes accredited official statistics based on provisional awards data twice a year coinciding with the availability of that data for analytical purposes. The statistics are usually released in February (based on data from December of the previous year) and June (based on April data).
Asked by: Baroness Coffey (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many tax credit recipients there are in Suffolk Coastal constituency; and how many tax credit recipients have undergone managed migration to Universal Credit.
Answered by Nigel Huddleston
The number of Child or Working Tax Credits recipients in the Suffolk Coastal constituency can be found in table 4 in Geographical data tables of the latest Provisional Awards statistics published here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6495a963831311000c2962b1/Child_and_Working_Tax_Credits_April_2023_Geographical_Tables.ods
The statistics are as at April 2023, the most recent point in time for which numbers are available.
Information on the number of tax credits recipients who have moved to Universal Credit through the managed migration process is not available at the parliamentary constituency level.
Asked by: Baroness Coffey (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many tax credit recipients have undergone managed migration to universal credit.
Answered by Nigel Huddleston
The details requested have been published and can be found here:
Information to the end of December 2023 is due to be released in March 2024, with a precise date to be given in an announcement not less 28 days before the publication.
Asked by: Baroness Coffey (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people receive tax free childcare in Suffolk Coastal constituency.
Answered by Laura Trott - Shadow Secretary of State for Education
Statistics relating to Tax-Free Childcare account use are published quarterly in “Tax-Free Childcare Statistics” on the gov.uk website. The latest publication, containing information up to September 2023 is here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tax-free-childcare-quarterly-statistics
Asked by: Baroness Coffey (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much was paid to recipients of tax free childcare (a) in total and (b) on average in each financial year since 2017-18.
Answered by Laura Trott - Shadow Secretary of State for Education
Statistics relating to Tax-Free Childcare account use are published quarterly in “Tax-Free Childcare Statistics” on the gov.uk website. The latest publication, containing information up to September 2023 is here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tax-free-childcare-quarterly-statistics