Tag: Pamela Nash

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Pamela Nash on 2014-06-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Child Support Agency cases there are in each revised order of case closure; and when the estimated closure time is for each grouping.

Steve Webb

The table below shows an estimate of when the 800,000 Child Support Agency cases with an ongoing child maintenance liability will close.

Segment and Description	Volume	Start	End
Segment 1 – No child maintenance is liable for payment	156,000	January 2015	February 2016
Segment 2 – Paying parent is currently not paying maintenance	89,000	August 2015	June 2016
Segment 3 – Cases that are currently being managed outside of the two legacy systems	46,000	November 2015	March 2016
Segment 4 – Remaining legacy cases with no enforcement action	380,000	November 2015	September 2017
Segment 5 – Enforcement action is under way	129,000	July 2017	May 2018

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Pamela Nash on 2014-06-24.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much he allocated to the Illegal Money Lending Unit in (a) Scotland, (b) England, (c) Wales and (d) Northern Ireland in each of the last four years up to the most recent period for which figures are available.

Jenny Willott

Since 1^st April 2012 the National Trading Standards Board (NTSB) has been responsible for the Illegal Money Lending Units in England and Wales, and Trading Standards Scotland (TSS) has been responsible for the Illegal Money Lending Unit in Scotland. The NTSB and TSS decide what proportion of their total grant funding (provided by BIS) should be allocated for delivery of these functions. Before April 2012 Government directly funded all three of the Illegal Money lending Teams.

Below are the budgets allocated to the Illegal Money Lending teams over the last four years.

	England	Wales	Scotland
2014/15	£3.60m	£0.63m	£0.4m
2013/14	£3.91m	£0.67m	£0.4m
2012/13	£4.13m	£0.59m	£0.38m
2011/12	£4.07m	£0.65m	£0.48m
2010/11	£4.07m	£0.65m	£0.48m

Trading Standards is a devolved matter in Northern Ireland and so it is not possible to provide comparable data.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Pamela Nash on 2014-06-24.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many full-time and part-time staff were employed to work in the Illegal Money Lending Unit in (a) Scotland, (b) England, (c) Wales and (d) Northern Ireland in each of the last four years up to the most recent period for which records are available.

Jenny Willott

The numbers of full-time and part-time staff that have been employed by the Illegal Money Lending Units in Scotland, England and Wales over the last four years are as follows:

	Full-Time		Part-Time (full time equivalents)
Financial Years	England	Wales	Scotland		Wales
2014/15	58	7	8		1.9
2013/14	63	7	8		1.9
2012/13	63	7	8		1.6
2011/12	50	6	8		0.8
2010/11	Unavailable	9	8		0.8

Trading Standards is a devolved matter in Northern Ireland and so it is not possible to provide comparable data.

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Pamela Nash on 2014-06-30.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what average time was taken between an application being made and benefit paid for (a) attendance allowance, (b) bereavement benefits, (c) carer’s allowance, (d) disability living allowance, (e) employment and support allowance, (f) jobseeker’s allowance, (g) maternity benefits, (h) housing benefit, (i) council tax benefit and (j) pension credit in (i) Airdrie and Shotts constituency, (ii) England, (iii) Scotland, (iv) Wales and (v) Northern Ireland in each of the last four years including the most recent period for which figures are available.

Mike Penning

The information regarding when a benefit is paid is not available as this can vary from each claim depending on circumstances, payment type and frequency of payment.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Pamela Nash on 2015-01-14.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much was raised from taxes on dividend income in (a) the UK, (b) Scotland, (c) England, (d) Wales and (e) Northern Ireland in each year from 2010.

Mr David Gauke

Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) publishes statistics on income tax liabilities on dividend income in Table 2.6 of the HMRC National Statistics series.

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/306833/Table_2.6.pdf

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Pamela Nash on 2015-01-14.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many enforcement actions in respect of IR35 legislation there have been in (a) the UK, (b) Scotland, (c) England, (d) Wales and (e) Northern Ireland in each year since 2010.

Mr David Gauke

Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) carries out IR35 status enquiries by way of compliance interventions. The table below shows the number of interventions up to 2013/14. Regional data is not produced by HMRC.

Year	Compliance interventions
2009/10	12
2010/11	23
2011/12	59
2012/13	256
2013/14	192

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Pamela Nash on 2015-01-14.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the tax yield was from IR35 legislation in (a) the UK, (b) Scotland, (c) England, (d) Wales and (e) Northern Ireland in each of the last five years for which figures are available.

Mr David Gauke

Yield from IR35 compliance interventions up to 2013/14 for the UK is shown in the table below. Regional data is not produced by HM Revenue and Customs.

Year Yield

2009/10 £155K

2010/11 £219K

2011/12 £1.2M

2012/13 £1.1M

2013/14 £430K

In addition to the tax voluntarily paid through IR35, and the compliance revenue the cost to the Exchequer of not having the IR35 legislation would be around £520 million a year.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Pamela Nash on 2015-01-14.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many IR35 status enquiries HM Revenue and Customs has made in (a) the UK, (b) Scotland, (c) England, (d) Wales and (e) Northern Ireland in each of the last five years for which figures are available.

Mr David Gauke

Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) carries out IR35 status enquiries by way of compliance interventions. The table below shows the number of interventions up to 2013/14. Regional data is not produced by HMRC.

Year	Compliance interventions
2009/10	12
2010/11	23
2011/12	59
2012/13	256
2013/14	192

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Pamela Nash on 2015-01-14.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much his Department spent on (a) recruitment agency fees, (b) outplacement agency fees for displaced or redundant staff and (c) staff training in each of the last five years.

Andrea Leadsom

The department’s accounting system does not separately identify the recruitment agency fee element of an invoice, and this information could not be extracted within the disproportionate cost threshold.

Total agency fees for displaced or redundant staff for the past five years are as follows:

Financial Year	£
2009/10	15,500
2010/11	9,100
2011/12	6,810
2012/13	4,883
2013/14	5,984
2014/15 (Apr to Dec)	2,800

Total spend on learning and development in the department has reduced over the last six financial years as follows:

Financial Year	Total staff training costs (£)
2009-10	2,252,064
2010-11	1,157,750
2011-12	801,541
2012-13	646,470
2013-14	771,359
2014-15 (Apr to Dec)	620,966

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Pamela Nash on 2015-01-14.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many individuals or small and medium-sized enterprises contracting with, or providing consultancy services to, Government departments have been paid daily fees greater than £100 in the last five years.

Mr Francis Maude

The information is not held centrally.

As a result of this Government’s commercial reforms, by limiting expenditure on marketing and advertising, consultants and temporary agency staff, we have saved the taxpayer £870m in 2010-11; £1bn in 2011-12; £1.9bn in 2012-13; and £2bn in 2013-14 – all against a 2009-10 baseline.