Ben Maguire MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
Bank Services: StandardsTreasuryTabled 13 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59955More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of amending the regulatory mandate under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 to require (a) the Financial Conduct Authority and (b) LINK to assess the a
Answer: The Government recognises that the ability to access cash and in-person banking support remains essential for many, which is why we have secured the industry’s commitment to roll out 350 banking hubs by the end of this Parliament, ensuring that access to ...
Answered 19 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordDisadvantaged: FinanceTreasuryTabled 12 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59561More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Spending Review 2025, published on 11 June 2025, if she will publish the full list of the 350 deprived communities that will receive new investment.
Answer: The government is setting out a more targeted, long-term local growth funding model across the UK, completing the transition from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. This is only one part of our wider regional growth strategy, including our support for devolut...
Answered 20 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Care Services: Employers' ContributionsTreasuryTabled 19 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39697More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the proposed increase in employer National Insurance contributions on high street hair salons.
Answer: In order to repair the public finances and help raise the revenue required to increase funding for public services, the Government has taken the difficult decision to increase employer National Insurance contributions (NICs). The Government published a Ta...
Answered 28 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordSmall Businesses: Off-payroll WorkingTreasuryTabled 19 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39696More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department plans to make an assessment of the potential impact of off-payroll working IR35 reforms on (a) self-employed workers and (b) small businesses.
Answer: The off-payroll working rules, also known as IR35, do not apply to the genuinely self employed. They are designed to ensure that individuals working like employees but through their own company, pay broadly the same income tax and National Insurance contr...
Answered 26 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordBeer and Public Houses: Business RatesTreasuryTabled 18 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39243More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of changes to the (a) Small Business Multiplier and (b) Standard Multiplier on business sustainability in the beer and pub sector.
Answer: As set out at Autumn Budget 2024, the Government intends to introduce permanently lower tax rates for retail, hospitality, and leisure (RHL) properties, with rateable values below £500,000, from 2026-27. This permanent tax cut will ensure that they benefi...
Answered 26 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordBeer and Public Houses: CostsTreasuryTabled 18 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39242More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of (a) business rates and (b) employment costs increases on the beer and pub sector.
Answer: As set out at Autumn Budget 2024, the Government intends to introduce permanently lower tax rates for retail, hospitality, and leisure (RHL) properties, with rateable values below £500,000, from 2026-27, which will benefit almost all pubs in England. We i...
Answered 26 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployers' Contributions: Parish and Town CouncilsTreasuryTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32824More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of exempting (a) parish councils and (b) town councils from the planned rise in employer National Insurance contributions.
Answer: The Government has taken a number of difficult but necessary decisions on tax, welfare, and spending to fix the public finances and fund public services.One of the toughest decisions the Government took was to raise employer National Insurance contributio...
Answered 28 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordBanking Hubs: Rural AreasTreasuryTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32772More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of introducing mobile banking hubs to serve people in (a) rural areas and (b) North Cornwall constituency.
Answer: The Government understands the importance of face-to-face banking to communities, high streets, and rural areas across the UK, and is committed to championing sufficient access for all as a priority. Government is working closely with industry to roll out...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordBank Services: Rural AreasTreasuryTabled 13 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31718More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to introduce measures to protect access to essential banking services in rural areas.
Answer: The Government understands the importance of face-to-face banking to communities, high streets and rural areas across the UK, and is committed to championing sufficient access for all as a priority. This is why the Government is working closely with banks...
Answered 27 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordBanks: North CornwallTreasuryTabled 13 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31716More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the planned closure of (a) Lloyds Bank and (b) Halifax branches in Launceston on customers reliant on in-person banking services.
Answer: The Government understands the importance of face-to-face banking to communities, high streets and rural areas across the UK, and is committed to championing sufficient access for all as a priority. This is why the Government is working closely with banks...
Answered 27 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployers' Contributions: Small BusinessesTreasuryTabled 4 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28764More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the proposed rise in employers' National Insurance contributions on small businesses.
Answer: A Tax Information and Impact Note (TIIN) was published alongside the introduction of the Bill containing the changes to employer NICs. The TIIN sets out the impact of the policy on the exchequer, the economic impacts of the policy, and the impacts on indi...
Answered 12 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordAgriculture: Inheritance TaxTreasuryTabled 3 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28190More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment with the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the potential merits of implementing a tapered clawback mechanism for agricultural property relief for farmers whose agricultural assets margina
Answer: The Government believes its reforms to agricultural property relief and business property relief from 6 April 2026 gets the balance right between supporting farms and fixing the public finances in a fair way. The reforms reduce the inheritance tax advanta...
Answered 10 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordRoyal Household: FinanceTreasuryTabled 14 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24098More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will have discussions with the Royal Household on (a) transparency and (b) accountability of money provided from the public purse.
Answer: Since 2012, the Monarch has received the Sovereign Grant to fund their official duties as Head of State and maintain the Occupied Royal Palaces. No member of the Royal family receives a private income from the Sovereign Grant or any other public funds. Th...
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPensioners: Tax AllowancesTreasuryTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23105More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the tax allowance for pensioners to £15,000.
Answer: The Government is committed to keeping taxes as low as possible for pensioners while ensuring fiscal responsibility, which is why it is not extending the freeze on personal tax thresholds that was implemented by the previous government, and is instead all...
Answered 17 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordFood BanksTreasuryTabled 3 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 21945More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to help reduce the number of families dependent on food banks.
Answer: The Government has committed to producing a Food Systems Strategy which will provide an opportunity to set out how the food system can deliver for growth, health and the environment. A particular focus will be ensuring that families in poverty can afford ...
Answered 13 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordMonetary PolicyTreasuryTabled 3 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 21944More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of (a) expanding the base money supply and (b) other alternative monetary policy.
Answer: Monetary policy is the responsibility of the independent Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of England. This includes decisions on Bank Rate and the stock of UK government bonds held in the Asset Purchase Facility. It is for the MPC to judge how ...
Answered 9 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordFuels: Excise DutiesTreasuryTabled 3 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 21943More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of rises in fuel duty on rural communities.
Answer: At Autumn Budget 2024, the Government announced continued support for people and businesses by extending the temporary 5p fuel duty cut and cancelling the planned inflationary increase for 2025/26, meaning rates will remain frozen at the levels set in Mar...
Answered 13 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordFuels: Excise DutiesTreasuryTabled 3 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 21942More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential impact of (a) maintaining and (b) reducing levels of fuel duty on (i) households, (ii) small businesses and (iii) the haulage sector.
Answer: At Autumn Budget 2024, the Government announced continued support for people and businesses by extending the temporary 5p fuel duty cut and cancelling the planned inflationary increase for 2025/26, meaning rates will remain frozen at the levels set in Mar...
Answered 13 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordLow Incomes and Pensioners: Tax AllowancesTreasuryTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20835More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of maintaining the personal tax allowance on (a) pensioners and (b) low-income households in each of the next three years.
Answer: This Government is committed to keeping taxes as low as possible for working people and pensioners while ensuring fiscal responsibility, which is why it is not extending the freeze on personal tax thresholds that was implemented by the previous Government...
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordAgriculture: Inheritance TaxTreasuryTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19797More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of applying a working farm test which would exempt estates actively being used for farming from changes to Inheritance Tax rules at the Autumn Budget 2024.
Answer: The longstanding rules already mean agricultural property relief is currently only available if the property includes agricultural land that is occupied for agricultural purposes. It may be occupied by the owners of the land or others, such as a tenant fa...
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordBeer: Excise DutiesTreasuryTabled 4 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 12658More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 2.44 of the Autumn Budget 2024, published on 30 October 2024, HC295, what the (a) territorial extent and (b) timetable is for the consultation on encouraging small brewers to retain and e
Answer: The government wants to work with the hospitality industry, including the pub sector, to identify the barriers to small brewers accessing their local markets – particularly where there is consumer demand, for example in tourist areas – and to look at opti...
Answered 12 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordAgriculture: Inheritance TaxTreasuryTabled 31 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 12238More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of implementing a change to the Agricultural Property Relief rate.
Answer: The Government has published information about reforms to agricultural property relief at: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/what-are-the-changes-to-agricultural-property-relief. Almost three-quarters of estates claiming agricultural property relief (or ...
Answered 6 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordAgriculture: Inheritance TaxTreasuryTabled 31 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 12165More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 2.51 of Autumn Budget 2024, HC 295, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of changes to Agricultural Property Relief on food security.
Answer: The Government has published information about the reforms to agricultural property relief at https://www.gov.uk/government/news/what-are-the-changes-to-agricultural-property-relief#:~:text=From%206%20April%202026%2C%20the,rather%20than%20the%20standard%2...
Answered 8 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordSwimming: VATTreasuryTabled 22 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10564More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of removing VAT on swimming lessons provided by non-council swimming facilities for (a) SEND children, (b) hydrotherapy patients, (c) the elderly and (d) other
Answer: VAT is a broad-based tax on consumption, and the 20 per cent standard rate applies to most goods and services. Tax breaks reduce the revenue available for public services, and must represent value for money for the taxpayer. The Government has inherited a...
Answered 30 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordAlcoholic Drinks: Excise DutiesTreasuryTabled 22 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10559More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of increasing Draught Relief to 20% on (a) pubs and (b) small and independent brewers in North Cornwall constituency.
Answer: Pubs and breweries make an enormous contribution to our economy and society, and this is recognised in the tax system. The current alcohol duty system supports pubs and breweries through Draught Relief, which ensures eligible products served on draught pa...
Answered 29 Oct 2024
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