Every parliamentary written question tabled by Charlie Dewhirst this session, with the full answer and department. See how every department answers, or back to the MP page.
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Whether Ian Corfield has left his role at her Department following the International Investment Summit in October 2024.
Ian Corfield was appointed on a short-term basis to carry out urgent work in support of the government’s International Investment Summit on 14 October. He has now left the department, as planned.
Pursuant to the Answer of 15 October 2024 to Question 6995 on Public Expenditure: Impact Assessments, if she will publish the equality and environmental assessment that her Department conducted.
As highlighted previously, officials conducted Equalities and Environmental impact assessments of the savings measures put forward by Departments within the July ‘Fixing the Foundations’ statement, and HM Treasury has processes in place to ensure that it complies with its legal requirements. Impact assessments are a core part of the internal decision-making process, and they are not usually published.
Pursuant to the Answer of 11 October 2024 to Question 5747 on Government Departments: Cost Effectiveness, if she will publish a table of the monetary value of the 2% reduction in administration budget of each public body that aggregates to £225 million.
As part of the measures the Chancellor took following the spending audit, departments were asked to reduce their admin budgets by 2%, saving £225 million across departments. All savings and investments announced at the July statement have been factored into the departmental budgets for 24-25 which were set out on 30 October as part of the Spending Review. The split between programme and administration spending will be published as part of the Supplementary Estimates.
Pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2024 to Question 7020 on Treasury: Official Cars, what form of vehicular transport does the Chancellor of the Exchequer use to travel on official business; and what was the cost of this transport in (a) July 2024, (b) August 2024, (c) September 2024 and (d) October 2024.
We do not comment on the specific arrangements in place for the Chancellor because of security.
Pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2024 to Question 7020 on Treasury: Official Cars, whether the car is an electric car.
Due to driver working patterns HM Treasury’s pool car is not always the same make and model. Cars used include ones that are electric, plug-in hybrid petrol or hybrid petrol.
Pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2024 to Question 7021 on Treasury: Official Cars, whether the Car Service in her Department is provided to senior officials for departmental travel.
HM Treasury has one departmental car that is available to the Chief Secretary or other junior ministers for official travel. HM Treasury follows the guidance set out by the Propriety and Ethics team in the Cabinet Office on use by Senior Officials.
What meetings (a) Ministers and (b) her officials have held with external stakeholders since 5 July 2024.
Details relating to the department’s meetings with external stakeholders at ministerial level are published in line with Cabinet Office guidelines as part of the transparency reporting commitment. The details relating to the period in question will form part of the agreed Q2 publication set. This is due to be published at the end of October.
How many people who pay income tax via PAYE also paid capital gains tax across (a) basic, (b) higher rate and (c) additional rate taxpayers in the most recent year for which figures are available.
HMRC does not routinely produce estimates of how many capital gains taxpayers are in each PAYE-specific Income Tax band. A reliable estimate would only be available at disproportionate cost. HMRC does produce estimates of the number of capital gains taxpayers split by total taxable income as part of its annual accredited official statistics. These are available here:https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/capital-gains-tax-statistics Table 3 shows the estimated number of individual taxpayers by size of gain and taxable income.
Pursuant to the Answers of 6 September 2024 to Questions 2306 and 2308 on Ministers: Official Cars, which (a) Ministers and (b) officials in her Department have (i) been allocated a dedicated vehicle and (ii) access to use of a shared vehicle from the Government Car Service; what the (A) make, (B) model and (C) fuel type is for each car; and what the budget was for those cars in the 2024-25 financial year.
HM Treasury has one departmental car that is allocated to the Chief Secretary, and it is used by other Treasury junior ministers when available. Due to driver working patterns it is not always the exact same make and model of car. The budget for this service is £120,000 per year.
What her Department's policy is on the allocation of Government Car Service cars to senior officials; what the policy was on 24 May 2024; and which senior officials have been granted access to the service since 4 July 2024.
HM Treasury follows the guidance set out by the Cabinet Office on use by Senior Officials, which has been in place since before 24 May 2024.
With reference to Table 2, page 9 of her Department’s publication entitled Fixing the foundations: Public spending audit 2024-25, published in July 2024, for which savings measures set out in that Table her Department has conducted a (a) equality impact assessment and (b) environmental principles assessment.
As per standard practice, HMT officials conducted an equality and environmental assessment of all savings measures put forward by Departments within the July ‘Fixing the Foundations’ statement. In developing proposals, the Treasury took care to consider the equality impacts on those sharing protected characteristics in line with its legal obligations under the Equality Act 2010.