Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the cost to each police force of the revision of assumptions on public sector pension contributions.
Answered by Elizabeth Truss
The Treasury does not collect data at the level of individual police forces. We continue to work closely with the Home Office on all aspects of police funding.
Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what representations he has received from police bodies on the potential effect of changes to employee pension contributions on police numbers.
Answered by Elizabeth Truss
The Treasury has received representations from a number of employer organisations, including police bodies, subsequent to my Written Ministerial Statement of 6 September announcing the draft amending directions for the 4-yearly valuations of Public Service Pension Schemes. The finalised directions will be published later this year.
Representations have included comments on the effects of potential changes to pension contributions.
Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reasons his Department agreed to provide funding for the policing costs of the recent visit by President Donald Trump to Police Scotland; and whether an assessment was made of providing such funding for police forces in England and Wales.
Answered by Elizabeth Truss
Policing is a devolved matter for the Scottish Government. However, President Trump’s visit to the UK was at the invitation of the UK Government. Given this, the UK Government exceptionally agreed to offer additional funding, if required, to support Police Scotland and the Scottish Government deliver this visit.
Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reasons his Department agreed to provide funding for the policing costs of the recent visit by President Donald Trump to Police Scotland; and whether an assessment was made of providing such funding for police forces in England and Wales.
Answered by Elizabeth Truss
Policing is a devolved matter for the Scottish Government. However, President Trump’s visit to the UK was at the invitation of the UK Government. Given this, the UK Government exceptionally agreed to offer additional funding, if required, to support Police Scotland and the Scottish Government deliver this visit.
Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 15 November 2017 to Question 113211, for what reason the total figure for compensation payments differs from the total figure in National Audit Office report on the Concentrix Contract published in January 2017.
Answered by Mel Stride - Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
The answer provided to Question 113211 included payments for costs, actual financial loss or reimbursement as at 15 November 2017. The payments in the National Audit Office report were up to and including 14 December 2016.
Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much funding has been raised by the Welsh police forces from the apprenticeship levy in the last 12 months.
Answered by Elizabeth Truss
The Apprenticeship Levy was introduced on a UK wide basis from 6 April 2017. Employers are charged at 0.5% of their pay bill over £3 million. Information on how much Apprenticeship Levy individual employers pay, such as Welsh Police forces, cannot be made publicly available because of tax payer confidentiality. Skills policy is devolved and the devolved administrations will receive a population share of the Office for Budget Responsibility’s March 2016 forecast of revenue from the levy. In 2017-18, the Welsh Government will receive £128 million.
Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he plans to pass on the funding raised from Welsh police forces from the Apprenticeship Levy to the Welsh Government
Answered by Elizabeth Truss
The Apprenticeship Levy was introduced on a UK wide basis from 6 April 2017. Employers are charged at 0.5% of their pay bill over £3 million. Information on how much Apprenticeship Levy individual employers pay, such as Welsh Police forces, cannot be made publicly available because of tax payer confidentiality. Skills policy is devolved and the devolved administrations will receive a population share of the Office for Budget Responsibility’s March 2016 forecast of revenue from the levy. In 2017-18, the Welsh Government will receive £128 million.
Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many claimants have received a compensation payment from HM Revenue and Customs as a result of an actual financial loss caused by the actions of Concentrix during its contract in relation to the tax credits system.
Answered by Elizabeth Truss
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) will consider offering redress if a customer has incurred a financial loss. As at 15 November 2017, HMRC had paid a total of £18,035 in payments for costs, actual financial loss or reimbursement due to actions taken by Concentrix during the course of its contract.
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) will consider offering redress if a customer has incurred a financial loss. As at 15 November 2017, HMRC had made 1,271 payments for costs, actual financial loss or reimbursement due to action taken by Concentrix during the course of its contract.
Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much compensation HM Revenue and Customs paid to tax credit claimants who incurred a financial loss due to actions taken by Concentrix during the course of its contract in relation to error and fraud in the tax credits system.
Answered by Elizabeth Truss
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) will consider offering redress if a customer has incurred a financial loss. As at 15 November 2017, HMRC had paid a total of £18,035 in payments for costs, actual financial loss or reimbursement due to actions taken by Concentrix during the course of its contract.
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) will consider offering redress if a customer has incurred a financial loss. As at 15 November 2017, HMRC had made 1,271 payments for costs, actual financial loss or reimbursement due to action taken by Concentrix during the course of its contract.
Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what alternative office locations were considered for use in Yorkshire by HM Revenue and Customs as part of its transformation programme.
Answered by Jane Ellison
As part of its Building our Future Locations programme, originally announced in November 2015, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) considered a number of possible locations for its regional centres.
In Yorkshire, HMRC considered three locations – Leeds, Bradford and Sheffield – before deciding that Leeds met its location principles more comprehensively than the other two locations.