Clive Lewis MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
Prudential Regulation Authority: EnforcementTreasuryTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19720More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 6 December 2024 to Question 17571 on Fossil Fuels: Insurance, whether the Prudential Regulation Authority is responsible for enforcing the (a) development and (b) implementation of transiti
Answer: The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) is responsible for overseeing the prudential regulation and supervision of financial institutions in the UK, ensuring their safety, soundness, and compliance with regulatory standards. Responsibility for regulator...
Answered 18 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordFossil Fuels: InsuranceTreasuryTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19719More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 6 December 2024 to Question 17571 on Fossil Fuels: Insurance, whether her Department has taken steps with the Prudential Regulation Authority to ensure Lloyd’s of London’s underwriting acti
Answer: The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) is responsible for overseeing the prudential regulation and supervision of financial institutions in the UK, ensuring their safety, soundness, and compliance with regulatory standards. Responsibility for regulator...
Answered 18 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordFossil Fuels: InsuranceTreasuryTabled 3 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17571More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will take steps to prevent insurers underwriting fossil fuel projects.
Answer: This Government is committed to delivering the UK’s legal and international climate commitments. Clean power by 2030 and accelerating to net zero is a key mission of this Government and essential to credible, long-term economic growth. Insurers make comme...
Answered 6 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordFinancial Services: Economic SituationTreasuryTabled 27 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 901601More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she is taking steps to help ensure that the Financial Services Growth and Competitiveness Strategy supports the wider economy.
Answer: Financial services is central to the government’s modern industrial strategy due to the key role it plays in financing growth across the economy. The Chancellor’s Mansion House speech set out how the government will work with the sector to deliver sustain...
Answered 3 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordNational Wealth FundTreasuryTabled 14 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8842More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the National Wealth Fund's statement of strategic priorities will include (a) meeting net zero targets and (b) the promotion of poverty reduction.
Answer: The National Wealth Fund will operate at arm’s length from the government. The government will provide the National Wealth Fund with a new framework of investment principles and a statement of strategic priorities in the coming months.
Answered 22 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordNational Wealth FundTreasuryTabled 14 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8841More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the Government's planned timetable is for introducing legislation to establish the National Wealth Fund.
Answer: The National Wealth Fund (NWF) has been established and can operate under the UK Infrastructure Bank Act 2023. The government will bring forward new legislation when parliamentary time allows to broaden its mandate beyond infrastructure and cement its pos...
Answered 17 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordNational Wealth Fund: Private EquityTreasuryTabled 14 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8840More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether private equity firms will be eligible to receive funds via the National Wealth Fund.
Answer: As the UK's new impact investor, the National Wealth Fund will mobilise private investment – including from institutional investors such as private equity firms – and catalyse investment that would not have otherwise taken place. The National Wealth Fund ...
Answered 17 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordNational Wealth FundTreasuryTabled 14 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8839More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether organisations in receipt of funding via the National Wealth Fund will be required to (a) have a UK headquarters and (b) be UK taxpayers.
Answer: The National Wealth Fund (NWF) will mobilise billions of pounds of investment in the UK's world leading clean energy and growth industries. In order to be eligible for consideration for NWF finance, the project must meet the NWF’s investment principles, w...
Answered 17 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordCarbon Capture, Usage and Storage: FinanceTreasuryTabled 11 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8661More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 10 October 2024 to Question 7485 on Carbon Capture, Usage and Storage: Taxation, if she will hold discussion with carbon capture, usage and storage organisations in receipt of Government fu
Answer: All the current applicants for government support in Track 1 of the Carbon Capture, Usage and Storage programme are registered in England and Wales. Companies pay Corporation Tax in the UK on their profits derived from economic activities they undertake t...
Answered 21 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordData Centres: BlythTreasuryTabled 11 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8656More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 4 October 2024 to Question 6322 on Databases: Blyth, whether HMRC has undertaken an assessment of the projected loss of tax receipts from Blackstone's data centre in Blyth Investment Zone a
Answer: Estimates of the cost of tax relief for investment in Investment Zones were published in the Spring Budget 2024 – policy document and were estimated at an aggregate level. Estimates for individual projects within special tax sites are not available. HMRC ...
Answered 17 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordProbation Service: FinanceTreasuryTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 6327More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department plans to increase real terms funding for the Probation Service in the context of the prisoner early release scheme.
Answer: As the Chancellor has made clear, all future spending decisions will be negotiated through the Spending Review process and announced on October 30th through the Budget.
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordPrivate Education: VATTreasuryTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 6320More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of charging VAT on private school fees on levels of demand for state school places.
Answer: On 29 July, the Government announced that, as of 1 January 2025, all education services and vocational training provided by a private school in the UK for a charge will be subject to VAT at the standard rate of 20 per cent. This will also apply to boardin...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordPrivate Education: VATTreasuryTabled 30 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 2411More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the proposed application of VAT to private school fees on families who can only access SEND provision in private schools due to deficits in local pr
Answer: The Government is committed to breaking down barriers to opportunity, ensuring every child has access to high-quality education, which is why we have made the tough decision to end tax breaks for private schools. This will raise revenue for essential publ...
Answered 5 Sept 2024
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