Asked by: Lord Faulkner of Worcester (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Her Majesty's Government why reverse charge VAT has been applied to products such as mobile phones and gold, but not to scrap metal.
Answered by Lord Bates
HMRC uses a wide range of risk assessment and compliance responses to identify and tackle non-compliance. The introduction of a reverse charge can be effective in preventing certain types of VAT fraud. It is used selectively and targeted at the highest risks such as mobile phones and, most recently, telecommunications.
Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, how many mobile telephones, BlackBerrys and laptops were lost by the Law Officers' Departments in (a) 2013 and (b) 2014 to date.
Answered by Oliver Heald
The information requested is contained in the following table.
Serious Fraud Office | Crown Prosecution Service | Treasury Solicitor's Department | ||||
2013 | 2014 | 2013 | 2014 | 2013 | 2014 | |
Laptops | 1 | 1 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Mobile Phones | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Blackberry's | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
The Attorney General's Office and the HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate have not recorded any losses of IT or communications technology during this period.