Treasury

written question – answered on 22 March 2005.

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  • Age Exemption Forms

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what arrangements he is making for the provision of age exemption forms for people in Bournemouth who continue working after their pension age and no longer...

  • Benefits Claimants

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many economically inactive claimants of benefits were of working age in each year since 1979.

  • Burmese Imports

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the total value of imports from Burma was in 2004; and what the value was of each category of import.

  • Buses

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what definition of local he uses in his proposals for providing free local bus travel for pensioners; whether he has costed the extension of this provision...

  • Child Trust Fund

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make a statement on his Department's projections of the cost of the Child Trust Fund in each year from 2005–06 to 2010–11.

  • Correspondence

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will instruct the Tax Credit Office to reply to the letter of 28 January from the hon. Member for Banff and Buchan regarding his constituent, Mr. A....

  • Correspondence

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will instruct the Tax Credit Office to reply to the letter of 7 December 2004 from the hon. Member for Banff and Buchan regarding his constituent, Mr....

  • Correspondence

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will ask Mr. Rushton, Assistant Director of the Tax Credits Office, to respond to the correspondence from the hon. Member for Normanton sent on behalf...

  • Correspondence

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer on which dates the Inland Revenue sent a substantive reply to each communication received from (a) the hon. Member for the Isle of Wight and (b) his...

  • Defence

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the additional £400 million defence spending announced in his Budget statement of 16 March is (a) a provision for the cost of operations and...

  • Defence

    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what the Ministry of Defence's departmental expenditure limit is for 2005–06.

  • Defence

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the Ministry of Defence's near cash departmental expenditure limit is for 2005–06.

  • Defence

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the reasons are for the difference between the figures given for the special reserve provision in paragraph A137, page 202 and in table C13, page 261...

  • Defence

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the reasons are for the difference between the figures given for the Ministry of Defence's reserve budget in Spending Review 2004 (Cm 6237) and the...

  • eBay

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether his Department sold any surplus stock on the eBay auction website, in each year since 2000–01.

  • Employment

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many people resident in each parliamentary constituency (a) in June 1997 and (b) on the latest date for which information is available were in employment.

  • Employment

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make a statement on the levels of long-term (a) adult and (b) youth employment in Edinburgh, North and Leith in the last seven years.

  • European Anti-Fraud Office

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer on how many occasions representatives of the European Anti-Fraud Office have visited the UK in the last two years.

  • Pilots (Flat Rate Expenses)

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate his Department has made of the cost of the flat rate expenses allowance for pilots which was proposed to his Department in 2004; and if he...

  • Income Tax

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will estimate the increase in revenue to the Exchequer of the introduction of a 49 per cent. rate of income tax on all incomes in excess of...

  • Motorcycles

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what plans he has to apply the 1 per cent. discount for environmentally friendly company cars to environmentally friendly motorcycles; and if he will make a...

  • Mrsa (1 annotation)

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many deaths from MRSA there have been in Coventry in each of the last five years.

  • Northern Ireland

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make a statement on the aspects of his Budget which extend to Northern Ireland.

  • Private Equity Industry

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how he intends to differentiate between private equity houses working in collaboration, and non-collaborating private investors as part of the recent...

  • Red Diesel

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish the responses to the recent consultation on red diesel use for excepted vehicles.

  • Stamp Duty

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will estimate the reduction in stamp duty yield from residential property which would result from raising the threshold at which one per cent. stamp...

  • Stamp Duty

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what projections he has made of revenue from stamp duty on (a) property and (b) share transactions in each of the next three financial years.

  • Stamp Duty/Air Passenger Duty

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much revenue was raised by (a) stamp duty on the purchase of residential properties and (b) air passenger duty on commercial flights departing from a UK...

  • Stamp Duty/Air Passenger Duty

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the expected revenue from (a) stamp duty on the purchase of residential properties and (b) air passenger duty is in 2004–05.

  • Stamp Duty/Air Passenger Duty

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer on how many purchases of residential properties stamp duty has been charged in each tax year from 1994–95 to 2003–04.

  • Stamp Duty/Air Passenger Duty

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) how many passengers were exempt from paying airpassenger duty on commercial flights departing froma UK airport in each tax year from 1994–95 to...

  • Surplus Assets Sales

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the value of sales of surplus assets from his Department was in each year since 2000–01.

  • Tax (Administration Costs)

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the administration costs associated with each tax and duty were in the last year for which figures are available; and what percentage of revenues...

  • Tax Credits

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many tax credits payments have been calculated and paid manually in each month in the current tax year.

  • Tax Credits

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list the statistics relating to tax credits, which, since 1997 (a) are no longer collected by his Department and (b) have had the way in which...

  • Tax Credits

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer in how many cases where compensation has been awarded to a tax credit claimant for overpayment the compensation was worth (a) zero to 5 per cent., (b) 5 to...

  • Tax Credits

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what criteria are used for charging interest where an individual has been overpaid tax credits.

  • Tax Credits

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many households experienced changes in circumstances resulting in a mid-year adjustment to a tax credits award in 2003–04; and what estimate the...

  • Tax Credits

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what research has been undertaken by the Inland Revenue into the likelihood of claimants reporting changes in circumstances affecting a tax credit award.

  • Tax Credits

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to the answer of 14 March 2005, Official Report, column 85W, on tax credits, how many TC 846 forms for the (a) 2003–04 and (b) 2004–05...

  • Tax Credits

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much has been paid out to date for each tax creditin (a) the UK, (b) Scotland, (c) England and (d) Wales; how many households are in receipt of each tax...

  • Tax Credits

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many people with income greater than (a) £15,000, (b) £20,000, (c) £25,000 and (d) £30,000 are in receipt of tax credits; what...

  • Tax Credits

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer when the Inland Revenue expects to correct the payments of working tax credit to Vanessa Bates; and when he expects to reply to the correspondence from the...

  • Terrorist Assets

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much money suspected of being linked to terrorist assets (a) worldwide and (b) in the United Kingdom has been frozen since 11 September 2001.

  • Transfer Pricing/Loan Relationship Rules

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make a statement on recent changes to (a) transfer pricing rules and (b) loan relationship rules.

  • Transfer Pricing/Loan Relationship Rules

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what discussions took place with the private equity industry prior to the recent changes to (a) transfer pricing rules and (b) loan relationship rules;...

  • Transfer Pricing/Loan Relationship Rules

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the changes in tax revenue which will result from recent changes to (a) transfer pricing rules and (b) loan relationship rules.

  • Transfer Pricing/Loan Relationship Rules

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the impact of recent changes to (a) transfer pricing rules and (b) loan relationship rules on (i) the private equity industry...

  • VAT (Universities)

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many universities do not comply with Customs and Excise's preferred partial exemption method for VAT.