Asked by: Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat - Kingston and Surbiton)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many jobs have been furloughed under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, broken down by (a) local authority and (b) parliamentary constituency.
Answered by Jesse Norman
Applications for the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) opened on Monday 20th April. By midnight 31 May 2020, 1.1m employers had submitted claims to HMRC representing 8.7m furloughed employments and £17.5bn.
This is a new scheme and HMRC are currently working through the analysis they will be able to provide based on the data available. HMRC will make the timescales for publication and the types of data available in due course.
Asked by: Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat - Kingston and Surbiton)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people have (a) submitted claims to and (b) received grants from the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme, broken down by (i) local authority and (ii) parliamentary constituency.
Answered by Jesse Norman
Applications for the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) opened on 13 May 2020. By midnight 31 May 2020, 2.5 million customers had submitted claims to HMRC representing £7.2 billion.
This is a new scheme and HMRC are currently working through the analysis they will be able to provide based on the data available. HMRC will make the timescales for publication and the types of data available in due course.
Asked by: Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat - Kingston and Surbiton)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people subject to the 2019 Loan Charge were contractors who were contracted to (a) HMRC, (b) a Government Department, (c) a local authority and (d) another public sector body for some or all of the period of the contract the renumeration for which is now subject to the Loan Charge.
Answered by Mel Stride - Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
The 2019 loan charge is targeted at artificial tax avoidance schemes where earnings were paid via a third party in the form of ‘loans’ which in reality were never repaid, ‘disguised remuneration’ (DR) schemes.
HMRC has never endorsed or participated in disguised remuneration tax avoidance schemes. It is possible for contractors to use disguised remuneration without the participation or knowledge of their engager. As a contracting authority, the majority of HMRC’s contracts are via an agency and use the Crown Commercial Service’s framework contracts, or service contracts with contracted suppliers. Any contractor identified in the course of HMRC’s compliance work as using a tax avoidance scheme would be investigated in the same way as any other contractor.
The Government estimates that up to 50,000 individuals will be affected by the 2019 loan charge. The loan charge applies to all users of DR tax avoidance schemes. It does not single out a specific group or industry. Further information on who the charge affects can be found in HMRC’s issue briefing at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hmrc-issue-briefing-disguised-remuneration-charge-on-loans.
The data requested is not available.
Asked by: Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat - Kingston and Surbiton)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people were in receipt of Statutory Paternity in each of the last five years.
Answered by Elizabeth Truss
The number of people in receipt of Ordinary Statutory Paternity Pay (OSPP) and Additional Statutory Paternity Pay (ASPP) in each of the last five years can be found in the following table:
Tax Year | Numbers in receipt of OSPP | Numbers in receipt of ASPP |
2013-14 | 205,700 | 2,100 |
2014-15 | 211,200 | 2,800 |
2015-16 | 214,500 | Not held |
2016-17 | 218,600 |
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Notes:
Figures have been rounded to the nearest 100 individuals
2014-15 figures onwards from HMRC Real Time Information
2013-14 figures estimated from a 10% sample of annual P14 returns to HMRC
ASPP is not available for children born after 5 April 2015
In 2015-16 tax year, those receiving ASPP for children born before 6 April 2015 cannot be distinguished from those claiming Shared Parental Pay within RTI data.
Some individuals could claim both OSPP and ASPP, so would appear in both columns above.
2017-18 figures not yet complete
Asked by: Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat - Kingston and Surbiton)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the cost of Statutory Adoption Pay has been to the public purse in each of the last five years.
Answered by Mel Stride - Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
The value in £m of Statutory Adoption Pay (SAP) received by employees in each of the last five years can be found in the table below:
Tax year | Value (£m) of SAP received by employees |
2013-14 | 16.4 |
2014-15 | 16.8 |
2015-16 | 23.5 |
2016-17 | 23.8 |
2017-18 (April-September 2017 inclusive) | 11.4 |
Notes:
2014-15 figures onwards from HMRC Real Time Information
2013-14 figures estimated from a 10% sample of annual P14 returns
2017-18 figures not yet complete