Asked by: Emma Lewell-Buck (Labour - South Shields)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the Government plans to publish guidance on the businesses that will be eligible for the 50 per cent business rates relief discount; and whether (a) seaside and (b) high street arcades will be included.
Answered by Lucy Frazer - Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
Guidance setting out eligibility for the 2022-23 retail, hospitality and leisure relief will be published by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities in due course.
Asked by: Emma Lewell-Buck (Labour - South Shields)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether seaside and high street arcades will be eligible for the 50 per cent business rates relief discount as announced for the leisure industry in the Autumn Budget 2021.
Answered by Lucy Frazer - Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
Guidance setting out eligibility for the 2022-23 retail, hospitality and leisure relief will be published by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities in due course.
Asked by: Emma Lewell-Buck (Labour - South Shields)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the amusement machine industry will be eligible for the 50 per cent business rates relief discount afforded to the retail, leisure and hospitality industry, as announced in the Autumn Budget 2021.
Answered by Lucy Frazer - Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
Guidance setting out eligibility for the 2022-23 retail, hospitality and leisure relief will be published by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities in due course.
Asked by: Emma Lewell-Buck (Labour - South Shields)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on the impact on the Exchequer of ending the £20 uplift to universal credit.
Answered by Steve Barclay - Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
The Government has always been clear that the £20 per week increase to Universal Credit was a temporary measure to support households whose incomes and earnings were affected by the economic shock of Covid-19. Extending the uplift permanently would come at a very significant annual cost, equivalent in 2022-23 to adding 1p on the basic rate of income tax, in addition to a 3p increase in fuel duty.
The Government is maintaining its focus on helping people back into work. As part of the comprehensive Plan for Jobs, the Government announced the new three year Restart programme, which will provide intensive and tailored support to over one million unemployed Universal Credit claimants across England and Wales, and the £2 billion Kickstart scheme, which will create hundreds of thousands of new, fully subsidised jobs for young people at risk of long-term unemployment.
Asked by: Emma Lewell-Buck (Labour - South Shields)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the support available to businesses in response to the covid-19 outbreak.
Answered by Steve Barclay - Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Throughout the pandemic, the Government has sought to protect people’s jobs and livelihoods while also supporting businesses and public services across the UK.
We have put in place an economic package of support totalling £352 billion through the furlough and self-employed income support schemes, support for businesses through grants and loans, business rates and VAT relief.
At the Budget, the Chancellor extended this package of economic support to accommodate even the most cautious view about the time it might take to exit restrictions and to provide certainty and continuity to business. The Government continues to keep all impacts and policies under review.
Asked by: Emma Lewell-Buck (Labour - South Shields)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much funding his Department has received from revenues from the Soft Drinks Industry Levy since that levy was introduced on 6 April 2018.
Answered by Kemi Badenoch - President of the Board of Trade
The money raised through the Soft Drinks Industry Levy is not linked to any specific programmes, or departmental spending. Departmental spend is allocated through Spending Reviews, by the Treasury.
Since its introduction in April 2018, the provisional total for revenue raised from the Soft Drinks Industry Levy up to and including March 2021 is £878 million. This consists of the following amounts raised per financial year:
2018-19: £240 million
2019-20: £337 million
2020-21 (provisional): £301 million
Asked by: Emma Lewell-Buck (Labour - South Shields)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much funding his Department has received from revenues from the Soft Drinks Industry Levy since that levy was introduced on 6 April 2018.
Answered by Kemi Badenoch - President of the Board of Trade
The money raised through the Soft Drinks Industry Levy is not linked to any specific programmes, or departmental spending. Departmental spend is allocated through Spending Reviews, by the Treasury.
Since its introduction in April 2018, the provisional total for revenue raised from the Soft Drinks Industry Levy up to and including March 2021 is £878 million. This consists of the following amounts raised per financial year:
2018-19: £240 million
2019-20: £337 million
2020-21 (provisional): £301 million
Asked by: Emma Lewell-Buck (Labour - South Shields)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much funding his Department has received from the Soft Drinks Industry Levy.
Answered by Kemi Badenoch - President of the Board of Trade
The money raised through the Soft Drinks Industry Levy is not linked to any specific programmes, or departmental spending. Departmental spend is allocated through Spending Reviews, by the Treasury.
Since its introduction in April 2018, the provisional total for revenue raised from the Soft Drinks Industry Levy up to and including March 2021 is £878 million. This consists of the following amounts raised per financial year:
2018-19: £240 million
2019-20: £337 million
2020-21 (provisional): £301 million
Asked by: Emma Lewell-Buck (Labour - South Shields)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much funding his Department has received from the Soft Drinks Industry Levy.
Answered by Kemi Badenoch - President of the Board of Trade
The money raised through the Soft Drinks Industry Levy is not linked to any specific programmes, or departmental spending. Departmental spend is allocated through Spending Reviews, by the Treasury.
Since its introduction in April 2018, the provisional total for revenue raised from the Soft Drinks Industry Levy up to and including March 2021 is £878 million. This consists of the following amounts raised per financial year:
2018-19: £240 million
2019-20: £337 million
2020-21 (provisional): £301 million
Asked by: Emma Lewell-Buck (Labour - South Shields)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much funding his Department has received from the Soft Drinks Industry Levy.
Answered by Kemi Badenoch - President of the Board of Trade
The money raised through the Soft Drinks Industry Levy is not linked to any specific programmes, or departmental spending. Departmental spend is allocated through Spending Reviews, by the Treasury.
Since its introduction in April 2018, the provisional total for revenue raised from the Soft Drinks Industry Levy up to and including March 2021 is £878 million. This consists of the following amounts raised per financial year:
2018-19: £240 million
2019-20: £337 million
2020-21 (provisional): £301 million