John Glen MP: written questions
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Government Departments: Communication and Public ConsultationTreasuryTabled 18 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20957More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 29 October 2024 to Question 10442 on Government departments: communication and public consultation, what non-essential spending in each Department has been stopped to deliver the £50 millio
Answer: To identify savings in Communications spending for 2024-25 and 2025-26, the UK Government conducted a comprehensive review of communications campaigns through the Spending Review. This review looked at the strategic logic, join-up, role for communications...
Answered 10 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployers' Contributions and Income TaxTreasuryTabled 18 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20956More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to page 21 of the Plan for Change document, CP1210, published on 5 December 2024, what estimate she has been made of the potential impact of (a) changes to the level of employer National Insurance con
Answer: The Office for Budget Responsibility's October 2024 Economic and Fiscal Outlook (EFO) contains forecasts and assessments of government policy. The OBR’s forecast does not decompose policy impacts on Real Household Disposable Income (RHDI) per capita by in...
Answered 9 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployers' Contributions: Public SectorTreasuryTabled 18 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20955More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 6 December 2024 to Question 16761 on Employers’ Contributions: Public Sector, if she will publish the methodology used to draw up the estimates of support.
Answer: The Government plans to update Parliament on the allocations of support by department in due course.
Answered 10 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordAgriculture: Inheritance TaxTreasuryTabled 18 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20954More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment has been made of the potential impact of proposed changes to Agricultural Property Relief on net carbon emissions.
Answer: The government is extending the existing scope of agricultural property relief from 6 April 2025 to land managed under certain environmental agreements. The expectation is that some individuals will now choose to enter into agreements who would not otherw...
Answered 7 Jan 2025
Original Parliament record11 Downing Street: ArtworksDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 18 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20953More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 22 October 2024 to Question 8809 on 11 Downing Street: Art Works, what was the cost to the public purse of removing the artworks.
Answer: It is standard practice, as followed by the previous government, of which he was a member, for new ministers to select works from the Government Art Collection for their ministerial offices. All such changes of displays of works from the Government Art Co...
Answered 14 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordWorkplace Pensions: Inheritance TaxTreasuryTabled 18 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20952More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 12 November 2024 to Question 12389 on Pensions: Inheritance Tax, whether the (a) partner and (b) dependent's scheme pension for the (i) Civil Service Alpha scheme and (ii) Ministerial Pensi
Answer: Dependant scheme pensions, including partner pensions, are not subject to Inheritance Tax. This is the same for registered and unregistered UK schemes, and will not be impacted by the changes announced at Autumn Budget 2024.
Answered 10 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordBusiness RatesTreasuryTabled 18 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20951More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the new business rate multiplier on Rateable Values over £500,000 will apply to (a) railway, (b) communications and (c) utility hereditaments on the Central Rating List.
Answer: At Autumn Budget 2024, the Government announced an intention to introduce permanently lower tax rates for retail, hospitality and leisure (RHL) properties with Rateable Values below £500,000 from 2026-27. This permanent tax cut will ensure that high stree...
Answered 7 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployers' Contributions: Public SectorTreasuryTabled 18 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20950More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 6 December 2024 to Question 16761 on Employers’ Contributions: Public Sector, what the assumed unit cost per (a) headcount and (b) FTE employee of the estimated increase in National Insuran
Answer: The Government plans to update Parliament on the allocations of support by department in due course.
Answered 10 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordJudiciary: Workplace PensionsTreasuryTabled 18 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20949More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Autumn Budget 2024, whether the (a) pension and (b) associated pension benefits under the tax-unregistered Judicial Pension Scheme will be liable for inheritance tax.
Answer: There are three different types of UK statutory defined benefit judicial pension schemes. As defined benefit schemes, none of these have a dedicated fund which can be inherited as defined contribution schemes do.Schemes established under the Judicial Pens...
Answered 10 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordBusiness Rates: Greater LondonTreasuryTabled 18 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20948More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will publish a list of the number of hereditaments in each local authority in Greater London categorised by Special Category Code (a) 303 Bars (Valued on Floor Space), (b) 199 Night Clubs and Discotheques and
Answer: As part of its official statistics, the Valuation Office Agency (VOA) publishes the number of hereditaments by Special Category Code and local authority. This is published for England and Wales between 2020 and 2024 within the stock of non-domestic proper...
Answered 6 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordFirst Time Buyers: Stamp DutiesTreasuryTabled 18 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20947More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the number of first-time buyers paying stamp duty in (a) 2024-25 and (b) 2025-26; and what the average amount of stamp duty a first time buyer will pay in each year is.
Answer: An estimate of the number of first-time buyers paying Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) and average amount of SDLT paid by first-time buyers is not available because there is limited information on first-time buyers. HMRC can only identify First Time Buyers that...
Answered 7 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordCryptocurrenciesTreasuryTabled 11 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19277More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of reviewing the ban on retail derivatives for crypto.
Answer: Whether to allow the sale of cryptoasset derivatives to retail consumers is a matter for the independent Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). The FCA has stated that it considers these products to be ill-suited for retail consumers because they cannot be re...
Answered 19 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordBlockchainCabinet OfficeTabled 11 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19276More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which Department is responsible for (a) leading on and (b) delivering blockchain technology.
Answer: The primary existing use-case for blockchain technology is in cryptoassets. The Treasury has confirmed government’s intention to proceed with a financial services regulatory regime for cryptoassets, which will provide valuable protections for consumers an...
Answered 24 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordTreasury: Mission BoardsTreasuryTabled 19 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14952More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she attends meetings of the Mission Boards.
Answer: The Chancellor of the Exchequer is the Chair of the Growth Mission Board and attends other mission boards as and when appropriate. Beyond this, it is a long-established precedent that information about the discussions that have taken place in Cabinet and ...
Answered 27 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordBusiness Rates and Council Tax: ValuationTreasuryTabled 19 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14951More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2024, to Question 8196 on Business Rates and Council Tax: Valuation, whether the Automated Valuation Model for Wales is adaptable to be used in England.
Answer: The Automated Valuation Model for Wales approach may be adaptable for use in other locations. However, as with Wales, this would require further investigation and significant preparatory work.
Answered 27 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordCouncil TaxMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 19 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14950More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to paragraph 2.81 of the Autumn Budget 2024, HC 295, what assumption her Department has made of the level of council tax receipts to be raised in England in 2025-2
Answer: Decisions on council tax levels are for individual local authorities. In line with OBR forecasts made under the previous government, the government will maintain a core 3% referendum principle and a 2% adult social care precept.
Answered 27 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordProperty: ValuationTreasuryTabled 19 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14949More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what type of regression model is used in the Automated Valuation Model of the Valuation Office Agency.
Answer: The Automated Valuation Model uses multiple regression with an advanced spatial modelling technique called Gaussian Markov Random Fields to better reflect the impact of location.
Answered 27 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordDomicil: TaxationTreasuryTabled 19 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14948More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the revenue generated by proposed changes to the non-domiciled tax regime in the next five financial years.
Answer: The further reforms to the non-domiciled tax regime announced at Autumn Budget are estimated to raise £12.7bn over the next five financial years. We published costings for these further reforms on 30th October. Page 32 of the Autumn Budget Policy Costings...
Answered 27 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordTreasury: Public Appointments and Special AdvisersTreasuryTabled 19 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14947More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to publish the declaration of interests of (a) public appointments, (b) special advisers and (c) direct ministerial appointments.
Answer: HM Treasury follows relevant central guidance on handling declarations of interest for special advisers, public appointments and direct ministerial appointments. Any relevant interests of special advisers are published in the Treasury’s Annual Report and ...
Answered 27 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordGovernment Departments: Communication and ConsultantsTreasuryTabled 19 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14946More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 22 October 2024 to Question 8813 on Government Departments: Communications and Consultants, what the baseline figures on expenditure on (a) communications and (b) consultants are in each De
Answer: Cabinet Office provided estimates of communications spending during the Public Spending Audit in July 2024. Estimates were based on internal Government Communication Service data on campaigns planned by Departments and arm's length bodies at the time of c...
Answered 27 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordOffice for Value for MoneyTreasuryTabled 19 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14945More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 22 October 2024 to Question 8950 on Office for Value for Money, whether the Chair is a regulated public appointment; and whether he was selected via open and fair competition.
Answer: The appointment of the independent Chair of the Office for Value for Money is a Direct Ministerial Appointment, which is not a regulated appointment.
Answered 27 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordDoctors: PayDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14631More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 22 October 2024 to Question 8130 on Public Sector: Pay, what the gross cost was of the doctors pay deal.
Answer: The resident doctors accepted the Government’s pay offer to provide an additional pay uplift worth an average of 4.05% on top of their existing pay award for 2023/24, which has an estimated gross cost to the Department of approximately £350 million per ye...
Answered 27 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordRailways: PayTreasuryTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14630More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 22 October 2024 to Question 8130 on Public Sector: Pay, what the gross cost was of the pay mandates for rail staff.
Answer: Indicative DfT analysis estimates that the pay award mandates issued since July 2024 for rail staff could cost approximately £135m in FY 24/25. These estimates reflect the cost above prior TOC and Network Rail budgets. Rail strikes under the last governme...
Answered 26 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordGovernment Departments: Cost EffectivenessTreasuryTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14629More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 4 October 2024 to Question 4696 on Government Department: Cost Effectiveness, if she will list each efficiency saving and its value for the (a) 2024-25 and (b) 2025-26 financial years.
Answer: In July the Government published a list of immediate savings for both 2024-25 and 2025-26 within the Fixing the foundations: public spending audit 2024-25. These savings included reducing spending on consultancy, administration budgets, communications, an...
Answered 26 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordOffice for Budget Responsibility: ForecastsCabinet OfficeTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14628More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the published correspondence from the Office for Budget Responsibility of 27 October 2024 to the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will place in the Library a copy of the advice provide
Answer: It is a longstanding principle, maintained across multiple administrations, that official advice remains confidential. As such I do not intend to publish any official advice in relation to this matter.
Answered 26 Nov 2024
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