Tag: Tulip Siddiq

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tulip Siddiq on 2016-02-29.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what legal advice the Government has sought on the potential effect of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership on the NHS; what the cost was to the public purse of provision of such advice; and if he will publish the legal advice on this matter his Department has received.

Anna Soubry

Legal advice the Government has received in relation to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is subject to legal professional privilege and as such is not disclosable. This is a well-established principle which there is compelling public interest in upholding.

It is essential for the effective conduct of the Government’s business that ministers are able to seek candid advice from their lawyers and to discuss and debate possible policy options fully. They are less likely to hold full and frank discussions with their legal advisers if there is an expectation that the advice will subsequently be disclosable.

We do not maintain records of the total cost of the legal advice.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tulip Siddiq on 2016-02-29.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many telephone calls from (a) domestic and (b) international locations the Forced Marriage Unit received in (i) each financial year since 2005 and (ii) 2015-16 to date.

Karen Bradley

Figures on the number of cases reported to the Forced Marriage Unit via its public helpline and email inbox are published annually and are available on GOV.uk. The figures include a breakdown of the countries involved for cases with an overseas element. Information on the origin, average length, and cost of calls is not collated centrally.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tulip Siddiq on 2016-02-29.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the cost of drink driving to the justice system in each of the last three years.

Dominic Raab

The Ministry of Justice has not produced estimates of the cost of the impact of drink driving on the justice system in the last three years.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tulip Siddiq on 2016-03-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many referrals Acas made to each public body relating to each (a) employment sector and (b) topic on its database in each year since 2009-10.

Nick Boles

The only referrals recorded by Acas are those made to the various enforcement bodies that have been set up to protect vulnerable workers. Acas has made these referrals since taking over the Pay and Work Rights Helpline in April 2015. The number of referrals made to each enforcement body since April 2015 is set out in the following table:

	HMRC	EAS	HSE	GLA	Total
April to Feb Total	1,667	229	111	11	2,018

Source: Acas

• HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) – calls on potential enforcement of the National Minimum Wage
• Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate – calls on potential enforcement of employment agency legislation (except Agency Worker Regulations)
• Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA) – calls relating to agency workers in agriculture, horticulture, shellfish gathering or associated processing and packaging
• Health and Safety Executive (HSE) – calls on potential enforcement of working time issues, including enforcement of maximum weekly working hours

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tulip Siddiq on 2016-04-15.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the new annual payments to infected individuals with stage 1 hepatitis C will be backdated to April 2016.

Jane Ellison

Under the reformed scheme, annual payments to the hepatitis C stage 1 cohort will be backdated to 1 April 2016.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tulip Siddiq on 2016-04-27.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many companies have disclosed information to Companies House on persons with significant control in their company as part of their company register since that requirement came into force on 6 April 2016.

Anna Soubry

The requirement for companies to have a register of people with significant control was commenced on 6 April. However, the requirement to disclose this information to the Registrar does not commence until 30 June 2016. In most cases companies will deliver this annually with their Confirmation Statement, which replaces the Annual Return.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tulip Siddiq on 2016-05-04.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many individuals working for which organisations have received clearance to directly access the database of Suspicious Activity Reports in each year since 2009-10.

Mr John Hayes

The end user organisations (police forces, multi agency teams and other agencies) that have ‘direct’ access to suspicious activity reports (SARs) are listed in the SARs Annual Reports, which are available on the NCA website. They are summarised in the table below.

Year	Number of end users organisations that have ‘direct’ access to SARs
2009	78
2010	78
2011	78
2012	77
2013	69
2014	69
2015	71

All individuals outside of the NCA who have ‘direct’ access to SARs are accredited by the NCA Proceeds of Crime Centre as being Financial Investigators, Financial Intelligence Officers or Financial Intelligence Administrators in line with the end user agreements in place with each organisation. Not all those individuals that have accreditation have ‘direct’ access to SARs. It is not possible, without further significant analysis, to determine the number of individuals who over time have had such access to the SARs System.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tulip Siddiq on 2016-05-03.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph H.21 of the HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) document, Measuring tax gaps 2015 edition: methodological annex, published in October 2015, how much of the large business tax gap in each year since 2009-10 is accounted for by (a) the uplift factor for unidentified risks, (b) unsuccessful litigation by HMRC and (c) HMRC settling for a tax receipt at a lower rate than the tax under consideration that was identified.

Mr David Gauke

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) published its latest tax gap estimates on 22 October 2015 in Measuring tax gaps 2015 edition, which can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/470540/HMRC-measuring-tax-gaps-2015-1.pdf

The uplift factor for unidentified risks is set out in Table 7.1, page 62.

HMRC’s method for calculating the Large Business Tax Gap is set out on page 65. All compliance work including litigation is reflected in the estimate of compliance yield shown in Table 7.1. Footnote 6 sets out why this differs from reported compliance yield. The information requested is therefore not available.

HMRC collects the tax due under the law in accordance with the published Litigation and Settlement Strategy.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tulip Siddiq on 2016-05-09.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the tax gap was for (a) income tax, (b) national insurance contributions and (c) capital gains tax in each year since 2009-10.

Mr David Gauke

HM Revenue and Customs published its latest tax gap estimates on 22 October 2015 in Measuring tax gaps 2015 edition, which is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/470540/HMRC-measuring-tax-gaps-2015-1.pdf.

The total tax gap for Income Tax, National Insurance Contributions and Capital Gains Tax for the years from 2009-10 to 2013-14 is set out in Table 1.3 (page 18).

Separate estimates for each of these three components are not available.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tulip Siddiq on 2016-05-18.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the contribution of the Financial Secretary to the Treasury on 13 April 2016, Official Report, column 374, how many (a) cases of offshore tax evasion were investigated by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and (b) individuals were subject to criminal investigation for offshore tax evasion by HMRC in each year since 2009-10.

Mr David Gauke

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) undertakes a broad range of civil compliance activity to tackle offshore tax evasion. No definitive year by year assessment of the total number of HMRC investigations applying civil sanctions is recorded. Over 1,100 cases of offshore evasion are currently under investigation, with more than 90 individuals currently being investigated for offshore offences.