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Sajid Javid: Private sector employment has been growing robustly. Over 2012 it grew by 3%, the fastest rate since 2000. Since the start of 2010 private sector employment has increased by 1.3 million and for every one job lost in the public sector over the last year, nearly five have been created in the private sector. There are now more people employed in the UK than ever before.
Sajid Javid: HM Treasury considers equalities issues in the usual course of its work in order to comply with equality legislation and to ensure it understands how its activities will affect specific groups in society. Departments provided HMT with equalities assessments of their main areas of expenditure, both before and during the spending round 2013 process. HMT (as a Department with its own corporate...
Sajid Javid: The Treasury has made no changes to the methods used to calculate public borrowing since 2010. The Office for National Statistics has made changes during this period in response to Eurostat guidance and other classification decisions.
Sajid Javid: The Office for Budget Responsibility is responsible for producing forecasts of the public finances. A full description of the Bank of England Asset Purchase Facility Fund treatment, including its effects on borrowing, is set out on table 4.4 on page 97 of the OBR's March 2013 Economic and Fiscal Outlook publication.
Sajid Javid: I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to him on 5 June 2013, Official Report, column 1169W, regarding the expenditure incurred by HM Revenue and Customs on Government publicity campaigns to prevent tobacco smuggling in 2011-12 and 2012-13.
Sajid Javid: The terms of Stephen Hester's departure are a matter for the Board of RBS. UKFI was consulted on the terms, but the final decision was for the RBS Board.
Sajid Javid: Where greenhouse gas emissions from ships are concerned, the UK's strong preference is for a global market based solution to be developed and adopted in the International Maritime Organisation (IMO). In line with our principles of fiscal sovereignty the Government believes that any revenues from such schemes should accrue to national governments.
Sajid Javid: I refer the hon. Member to the answer on 16 April 2013, Official Report, column 294W. There are no occasions when judicial mediation was used.
Sajid Javid: Under this Government, Britain has moved into the top 10 of the most competitive places in the world for business according to the World Economic Forum. Corporation tax is now the lowest of any major western economy; government is investing more in transport infrastructure in this Parliament than in the last, red tape has been cut by nearly £850 million in the last two years; and exports to...
Sajid Javid: No HM Treasury officials are currently seconded to any of the four largest accountancy firms.
Sajid Javid: The Treasury keeps all taxes under review and considers their effects in the round. The Government has limited the rise in air passenger duty (APD) to inflation over the period 2010-11 to 2012-13. Budget 2013 set out rates from April 2014, which will also only rise in line with inflation, ensuring that level of APD will again remain constant in real terms. Changes to the class of travel...
Sajid Javid: Estimates of the amount of child benefit paid in respect of one child, two child and three or more child families are shown in the following table for each of the last three fiscal years. The exact amount spent on these families will not be strictly equal to this, as this calculation assumes all families have exactly the same circumstances throughout the year, which in reality will not be the...
Sajid Javid: HM Treasury, its executive agencies and non-departmental public bodies do not employ any staff on zero-hour contracts.
Sajid Javid: Gifts to the Crown for the reduction of the national debt are processed by the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt (CRND) at the Debt Management Office (DMO). CRND has a statutory function to manage any donations and payments given with respect to gifts for the reduction of the national debt. Information on the CRND is available on the DMO's website. Members of the public...
Sajid Javid: HM Revenue and Customs offers a range of contact channels for deaf people. Those whose first language is British Sign can ask HM Revenue and Customs officials to provide a sign language interpreter to help deal with their tax and benefits issues. An interpreter can also make a telephone call to HM Revenue and Customs help lines on their behalf when they are in the presence of the interpreter....
Sajid Javid: Estimates are not available.
Sajid Javid: Transitional protection has been an intrinsic part of the introduction of the lifetime allowance and at each point when the lifetime allowance has been reduced. It ensures that retrospective tax charges do not arise for individuals whose pension savings had already grown above the level of the reduced lifetime allowance before the lower limit took effect. As transitional protection is an...
Sajid Javid: In autumn 2012 the Chancellor announced restrictions to pensions tax relief including a reduction in the pensions lifetime allowance to £1.25 million. This package has no exchequer cost-it is expected to raise revenue in 2014-15 in 2015-16 through reduced pension tax relief. Reducing the lifetime allowance to £1 million would raise further revenue.
Sajid Javid: Table B.3 on page 103 of the Budget 2013 report sets out the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR)'s forecasts of receipts from fuel duty and vehicle excise duty (VED) for the financial years 2012-13 to 2017-18. In relation to receipts from VAT on car fuel I refer the hon. Member to the written answer the Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury, my hon. Friend the Member for South West...
Sajid Javid: The response assumes that repayments refer to repayments made through direct recovery from those no longer receiving tax credits. The figures provided consist of repayments where the initial overpaid amount was both fully paid off and only partially paid off. The time period is that which payments were actually made over. Ongoing payments are not included. The figures for Scotland and Glasgow...