Claire Hanna MP: written questions
4 Jul 2025–3 Jul 2026
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Written questions
Public Expenditure: Northern IrelandTreasuryTabled 24 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 12811More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many meetings or requests for meetings she has had from the Northern Ireland Finance Minister on the the Northern Ireland draft budget since the start of the financial year.
Answer: I lead HM Treasury’s engagement with the Northern Ireland Executive on matters relating to Northern Ireland’s public finances. I most recently met the Northern Ireland Finance Minister on 15 June 2026 and maintain regular engagement through the Finance: I...
Answered 29 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordChild Trust FundTreasuryTabled 15 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 9739More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of her Department's ability to deliver an automatic release process for HMRC-allocated accounts for unclaimed monies from Child Trust funds.
Answer: The Government is aware of proposals for the automatic release of funds in unclaimed matured Child Trust Fund (CTF) accounts, where the account was opened by HMRC. These savings belong to the account holders and are held by private sector providers. The G...
Answered 23 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordFraud: Artificial IntelligenceTreasuryTabled 15 May 2026AnsweredUIN 1761More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what safeguard assessments have been put in place to prevent AI profiling of demographics while investigating fraud, as a result of the Quantexa deal.
Answer: HMRC applies robust data protection, ethical, legal and security frameworks to any use of artificial intelligence across all its activities, including in areas such as fraud investigation and any technology it employs. These tools are used to support HMRC...
Answered 26 May 2026
Original Parliament recordFuel Oil: Northern IrelandTreasuryTabled 18 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 121870More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Northern Ireland Executive has the ability to create an energy support scheme for users of home heating oil with funding from the UK government, announced in the Autumn budget.
Answer: Spending classed as Annually Managed Expenditure will be provided to Northern Ireland to develop a comparable scheme to that developed in GB. It is for the Northern Ireland Executive to decide how they would like to deliver a comparable offer. The UK Gove...
Answered 27 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordChildcare: Tax AllowancesTreasuryTabled 12 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 120458More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of eligible households in Belfast South and Mid Down, West Belfast, North Belfast and East Belfast constituencies are availing of the Tax Free Childcare scheme.
Answer: The number of families that use Tax Free Childcare in these constituencies each year is published in table 12 of Tax Free Childcare statistics (Tax-Free Childcare Statistics, December 2025 - GOV.UK). Eligible population data is not broken down at constitu...
Answered 19 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordTaxation: Digital TechnologyTreasuryTabled 25 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 116047More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how and when her Department plans to roll out the 'Making Tax Digital' scheme across turnover brackets.
Answer: MTD for Income Tax will be introduced across the UK from April 2026 for sole traders and landlords with qualifying income over £50,000. It will be extended to those with qualifying income over £30,000 from April 2027 and for those with qualifying income o...
Answered 4 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordChildminding: Tax AllowancesTreasuryTabled 25 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 116046More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many childminders i) across the UK ii) in Northern Ireland are expected to be impacted by the loss of the 10% wear and tear allowance.
Answer: Childminders make a significant contribution to children’s development, learning, and wellbeing. The Government has eased rules on working from schools and community centres and increased early years funding rates above 2023 average fees. These increases ...
Answered 4 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordDevolution: Northern IrelandTreasuryTabled 1 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 95891More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Northern Ireland Department of Finance Minister has submitted fiscal devolution plans to her Department in this current Stormont mandate.
Answer: HM Treasury and Northern Ireland Executive Ministers have regular discussions. The Northern Ireland Executive’s Interim Fiscal Framework published in May 2024 stated that a full Fiscal Framework would consider the principles of fiscal devolution. The scop...
Answered 9 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordDevolution: Northern IrelandTreasuryTabled 1 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 95889More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has had discussions on further fiscal devolution with Ministers in the Northern Ireland Department of Finance during this current Stormont mandate.
Answer: HM Treasury and Northern Ireland Executive Ministers have regular discussions. The Northern Ireland Executive’s Interim Fiscal Framework published in May 2024 stated that a full Fiscal Framework would consider the principles of fiscal devolution. The scop...
Answered 9 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordChildcare: TaxationTreasuryTabled 26 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 94914More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many families exceeded the tax-free childcare cap in each year since 2017.
Answer: Families cannot exceed the limits within their Tax Free Childcare accounts because the system automatically restricts government top-ups once the cap for the 3 month period is reached. Families can still make payments to childcare providers from their acc...
Answered 5 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordVAT: Northern IrelandTreasuryTabled 18 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92165More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to to clause 32 in the Windsor Framework relating to VAT and excise, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of reducing the VAT rate in Northern Ireland.
Answer: VAT is a broad-based tax on consumption, and the 20 per cent standard rate applies consistently across the UK to most goods and services. VAT is the UK’s second largest tax, forecast to raise £180 billion in 2025/26. Exceptions to the standard rate have a...
Answered 24 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordInfected Blood Compensation Scheme: Inheritance TaxTreasuryTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 89651More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she had made of the potential impact of inheritance tax through secondary transfer charges on beneficiaries of estates relating to compensation from the infected blood scheme.
Answer: The suffering endured by all those impacted by infected blood is profound, and we remain committed to ensuring that justice is not only delivered but reflected in the way compensation is treated. We recognise that this is a sensitive issue. We are conside...
Answered 17 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordMotor InsuranceTreasuryTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 89650More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the regulation of car insurance providers.
Answer: The government is determined that insurers should treat customers fairly and firms are required to do so under the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) rules. The FCA is an independent body responsible for regulating and supervising the financial services ...
Answered 17 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordHospitality Industry: VATTreasuryTabled 4 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 87879More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will take steps to support (a) hospitality, (b) consumers, (c) pubs and (d) breweries by (i) reducing (A) VAT and (B) draught beer and cider duty and (ii) introducing targeted relief for (1) energy and (2) em
Answer: The Government recognises the significant contribution made by hospitality businesses, including pubs, to economic growth and social life in the UK. The Government keeps all areas of the tax system under review. Any changes to the tax system are announced...
Answered 17 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordDigital Services TaxTreasuryTabled 16 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82753More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to retain Digital Services Tax.
Answer: The Digital Services Tax is an interim solution to widely held concerns with the international corporate tax framework, and the UK remains committed to remove it once a global solution on the reallocation of taxing rights is in place. As the Chancellor h...
Answered 24 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordEnergy: VATTreasuryTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78759More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of extending VAT energy-saving materials (ESM) relief to all domestic retrofit projects which include ESMs where other works are undertaken as part of
Answer: This Government is committed to improving the quality and sustainability of our housing stock, through improvements such as low carbon heating, insulation, solar panels, and batteries. This will be vital to making the UK more energy resilient and meeting ...
Answered 15 Oct 2025
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