Chris Hinchliff MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
Parental Leave: ExpenditureTreasuryTabled 3 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57157More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much was spent on (a) maternity, (b) paternity and (c) adoption leave in the most recent period for which data is available.
Answer: HMRC hold information on the amounts paid by employers to employees for Statutory Parental Pay, but do not hold this for additional ‘occupational’ pay offered by employers.The table below shows the amounts paid for statutory pay in 2023/24 (the latest com...
Answered 13 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordAgriculture: Inheritance TaxTreasuryTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41660More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will publish a response to the report by the National Farmers Union entitled An impact analysis of APR reforms on commercial family farms, published on 25 November 2024.
Answer: The Government believes its reforms to agricultural property relief and business property relief from 6 April 2026 get the balance right between supporting farms and businesses, and fixing the public finances. The reforms reduce the inheritance tax advant...
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordAgriculture and Business: Inheritance TaxTreasuryTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41659More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the findings of the report by the National Farmers Union entitled APR and BPR reform alternative, published on 19 February 2025, on ch
Answer: I refer the Honourable Member to the answer given to UIN 32918.
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordAgriculture and Business: Inheritance TaxTreasuryTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41658More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will publish her Department's impact assessments of changes to (a) Agricultural Property Relief and (b) Business Property Relief.
Answer: The Government believes its reforms to agricultural property relief and business property relief from 6 April 2026 get the balance right between supporting farms and businesses, and fixing the public finances. The reforms reduce the inheritance tax advant...
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordAgriculture and Business: Inheritance TaxTreasuryTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41657More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if her Department will publish the modelling used to set changes to (a) Agricultural Property Relief and (b) Business Property Relief.
Answer: The Government believes its reforms to agricultural property relief and business property relief from 6 April 2026 get the balance right between supporting farms and businesses, and fixing the public finances. The reforms reduce the inheritance tax advant...
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSovereign Grant: ReviewsTreasuryTabled 12 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31375More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of reviewing the Sovereign Grant for the 2026-27 financial year.
Answer: The rules governing the Sovereign Grant have been set by Parliament in the Sovereign Grant Act 2011. The Grant will be reviewed again in 2026 and the government is committed to bring forward legislation to reset the Grant to a lower level from 2027-28 onc...
Answered 27 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordBeer and Cider: Excise DutiesTreasuryTabled 9 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8365More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of the level of draught duty relief for (a) beer and (b) cider.
Answer: The current alcohol duty system supports the industry through Draught Relief, which ensures eligible products served on draught pay less duty. Draught Relief helps to level the playing field between pubs and supermarkets, allowing pubs and brewers to pric...
Answered 17 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: ChildrenTreasuryTabled 23 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 1455More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate her Department has made of the increase in the annual rate of GDP growth that would be required to fund the removal of the two-child benefit cap.
Answer: Had the UK economy grown at the average rate of OECD economies over the fourteen years from 2010, it would be £143.3 billion larger – worth £5,053 for every household in the country. This could have brought in an additional £58 billion in tax revenues in ...
Answered 30 Jul 2024
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