Economic Growth (15 May 2013)
Division number 2 See full list of votes (From The Public Whip)Aye Diane Abbott Debbie Abrahams Mr Bob Ainsworth Mr Douglas Alexander Heidi Alexander Rushanara Ali Graham Allen David Anderson Jonathan...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Taxation: Rolling Stock (20 May 2013)
David Gauke: Treasury Ministers do not have access to the details of companies' or individuals' tax affairs, as the tax system is administered by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). HMRC has a statutory...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Tax Evasion (20 May 2013)
David Gauke: The Government has been robust in its response to tax evasion taking action to prevent detect and tackle such behaviour. We have underlined our commitment to tackling non-compliance in...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Tax Allowances: Video Games (20 May 2013)
David Gauke: The Government is committed to bringing in the video games tax relief at the earliest opportunity. The process for, and duration of, the Commission’s investigation are determined by the...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Revenue and Customs (20 May 2013)
David Gauke: Given the nature of statutory payment dispute work and in recognition of the needs of this customer group, all statutory payments dispute cases are treated as high priority. The Statutory...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Revenue and Customs (20 May 2013)
David Gauke: HMRC National Insurance Contributions and Employer Office (NIC & EO) currently has no plans to introduce a dedicated hotline to enable MPs to contact the Statutory Payments Dispute...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Revenue and Customs (20 May 2013)
David Gauke: The attendance policy ensures that HM Revenue and Customs are able to deliver business priorities by allowing only 20% of staff to be absent on leave at any one time. There have been no...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Revenue and Customs (20 May 2013)
David Gauke: Staff employed since January 2012 are shown in the following table: Staff January 2012 25.41 February 2012 23.80 March 2012 24.38 April 2012 20.52 May 2012 19.57 June 2012 19.82 July...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Revenue and Customs (20 May 2013)
David Gauke: There are currently 19 staff in the Statutory Payments Dispute processing team. All staff in the team respond to telephone calls and process casework for the various types of statutory...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Revenue and Customs (20 May 2013)
David Gauke: Since January 2012, the Statutory Payments Dispute team in Newcastle has received an average of 140 incoming calls per day. This equates to an average of 2,800 calls each month over the...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Income Tax: Scotland (20 May 2013)
David Gauke: As set out in paragraph 12 of the Annual Report, HMRC invoiced the Scottish Government for £165,141; this is the total cost of the implementation project for the Scottish rate of income...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Income Tax: Scotland (20 May 2013)
David Gauke: The following organisations were represented on the three technical groups set up by HM Revenue and Customs to examine consequential issues arising as a result of the introduction of the...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Fraud (20 May 2013)
David Gauke: HMRC do not use Atos for counter-fraud and related services although they are available to HMRC on the Government Procurement Service’s Data Access, Processing and Analytics (DAPA)...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Enterprise Investment Scheme (20 May 2013)
David Gauke: The Enterprise investment scheme (EIS) currently covers a very wide range of industries. Energy service companies, are able to benefit from EIS provided that they are not benefiting from...
View ArticleOral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: New Clause 8 — Domestic...
Division number 8 See full list of votes (From The Public Whip)Aye Nigel Adams Adam Afriyie Peter Aldous David Amess Richard Bacon Steve Baker Tony Baldry Stephen Barclay Sir Alan Beith Henry...
View ArticleOral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: New Clause 6 — Beliefs about...
Division number 7 See full list of votes (From The Public Whip)Aye Nigel Adams Adam Afriyie Peter Aldous David Amess Richard Bacon Steve Baker Tony Baldry Stephen Barclay Guto Bebb Sir Alan Beith Henry...
View ArticleOral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: New Clause 3 — Conscientious...
Division number 6 See full list of votes (From The Public Whip)Aye Nigel Adams Adam Afriyie Peter Aldous David Amess David Anderson Norman Baker Steve Baker Tony Baldry Stephen Barclay Sir Alan Beith...
View ArticleOral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: New Clause 10 — Part 1 of the...
...Afriyie Peter Aldous Steve Baker Sir Alan Beith Joe Benton Andrew Bingham Graham Brady Andrew Bridgen Steve Brine Robert Buckland Aidan Burley Christopher Chope Geoffrey Clifton-Brown Rosie Cooper...
View ArticleOral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: New Clause 16 — Review of...
...number 9 See full list of votes (From The Public Whip)Aye Diane Abbott Debbie Abrahams Adam Afriyie Mr Bob Ainsworth Danny Alexander Mr Douglas Alexander Heidi Alexander Rushanara Ali Graham Allen...
View ArticleWritten Ministerial Statements — Treasury: Visual Effects Industry (21 May 2013)
David Gauke: As announced at Budget 2013, the Government are today launching a consultation on options to provide further support for the visual effects industry through the tax system. The UK has...
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