Tag: Gregory Campbell

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gregory Campbell on 2014-05-01.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will discuss with the devolved legislatures how to ensure best practice is adopted in implementing single farm payments across the UK.

George Eustice

The Secretary of State negotiated successfully in the European Council of Agriculture Ministers to secure powers to implement CAP reform in the UK at a territorial level. The responsibility for delivery of direct payments under CAP reform therefore rests with each territorial administration. However, Defra Ministers regularly discuss the implementation of CAP reform with their devolved administration counterparts and officials from all four territorial administrations meet frequently to discuss implementation, share best practice and address UK-level and cross-border issues.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gregory Campbell on 2014-05-06.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the total estimated number of higher rate taxpayers was in (a) the last financial year and (b) 2010.

Mr David Gauke

Estimates of the number of taxpayers at each income tax rate band are published in HMRC’s National Statistics which are available on the internet at the following address:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/number-of-individual-income-taxpayers-by-marginal-rate-gender-and-age

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gregory Campbell on 2014-06-18.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department takes to ensure that delegated legislation brought forward by his Department is consistent with EU Directives.

Nicky Morgan

In 2010 this Government committed to ensuring the effective implementation of EU legislation so that British businesses are not put at a disadvantage relative to their European competitors.

This Department follows the Government’s Guiding Principles for EU legislation, which can be found at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/185626/bis-13-774-guiding-principles-for-eu-legislation.pdf

HM Treasury is committed to ensuring that no unnecessary legislative burdens are placed on UK businesses when transposing EU law.

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gregory Campbell on 2014-05-01.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to his Egyptian counterpart about the mass trial of and death sentences on members of the Muslim brotherhood.

Hugh Robertson

In a meeting with the Egyptian Foreign Minister on 2 April, the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my right hon. Friend the Member for Richmond (Yorks) (Mr Hague) raised his concern over the death sentences imposed on 529 people. He asked the Egyptian Government to review these issues as a matter of urgency and to ensure that individuals’ human and legal rights were properly upheld.

The Foreign Secretary also made a statement on 28 April expressing deep concerns that a further 683 people had been sentenced to death by the same court and that 37 of the original death sentences handed down on 24 March had been upheld. He expressed concern at the potential negative impact of such sentences on the Egyptian Government’s ability to take forward an inclusive political process, and urged that the sentences be reviewed. We will continue to raise this issue in our conversations with the Egyptian Government.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gregory Campbell on 2014-05-06.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 5 February 2014, Official Report, column 254W, on tax avoidance, what the (a) total number and (b) timescale involved was in the tenfold increase of people investigated.

Mr David Gauke

In the tax year ended 5 April 2013, HMRC opened 256 investigations into cases where IR35 was identified as the main risk. This is a tenfold increase over the number of investigations opened in the tax year ended 5 April 2011.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gregory Campbell on 2014-06-18.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what change there was in the numbers of taxpayers in Northern Ireland who had employment income in the last four years for which figures are available.

Mr David Gauke

Estimates for the number of taxpayers in Northern Ireland with income from employment are published in HMRC’s National Statistics Table 3.11 which is available at the following internet address for 2010/11 to 2011/12:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/income-and-tax-by-gender-region-and-country-2010-to-2011

Table 3.11 for 2009/10 and earlier can be found in the internet address below from the National Archives website:

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20120609145917/http://hmrc.gov.uk/stats/income_distribution/menu-by-year.htm#311

These estimates are based on the Survey of Personal Incomes for which 2011-12 is the latest year available. Figures for 2008/09 are not currently available.

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gregory Campbell on 2014-04-30.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people did not meet the 31 January 2014 deadline for making their tax return.

Mr David Gauke

Of the 10.7 million 2012-13 Self Assessment tax returns due by 31 January 2014 around 708,800 (6.6%) were not filed by the filing deadline.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gregory Campbell on 2014-05-06.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he expects Ministers of his Department to visit Northern Ireland establishments between now and the General Election in 2015.

Anna Soubry

There are, at present, no planned visits by Ministry of Defence Ministers to establishments in Northern Ireland. The Secretary of State for Defence intends that his previously planned visit of 20 March 2014 to Northern Ireland, which had to be postponed, will be rescheduled.