Esther McVey MP: written questions

4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025

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Written questions

Treasury: TrainingTreasuryTabled 12 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59394More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff network events took place in her Department in May 2025; and what the names of those events were.
Answer: 3 events were held by the Treasury’s staff networks in May 2025.Treasury History Network held 2 sessions of “Wars, fires and pandemics: how events shaped our buildings”.The Ethnic Diversity Network hosted “Inclusivity within national security and demystif...
Answered 19 Jun 2025
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Treasury: GenderTreasuryTabled 11 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58991More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has updated guidance on the use of single-sex facilities in response to the Supreme Court judgement in the case of For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers of 16 April 2025.
Answer: HM Treasury is working with Government People Group in the Cabinet Office to understand the revised model policies and will implement required changes accordingly.
Answered 19 Jun 2025
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Agriculture and Business: Inheritance TaxTreasuryTabled 6 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58010More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what modelling her Department has carried out on the potential merits of a clawback mechanism for proposed 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 12 Jun 2025
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Agriculture and Business: Inheritance TaxTreasuryTabled 6 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58009More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Answer of 4 March 2025 to Question 32918 on Agriculture and Business: Inheritance Tax, if she will publish the full modelling her Department has carried out on that issue.
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 12 Jun 2025
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Treasury: ProcurementTreasuryTabled 3 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 34835More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many procurement contracts awarded by her Department since 5 July 2024 have been terminated due to non-performance.
Answer: No contracts awarded by HM Treasury since 5 July 2024 have been terminated for that reason.
Answered 6 Mar 2025
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Treasury: ProcurementTreasuryTabled 3 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 34834More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many procurement contracts awarded by her Department since 5 July 2024 have been awarded without competitive tendering.
Answer: No contracts covered by the Public Contracts Regulations have been awarded by HM Treasury since 5 July 2024 without competitive tendering.
Answered 6 Mar 2025
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Treasury: ContractsTreasuryTabled 3 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 34833More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many public contracts awarded by her Department since 5 July 2024 have been awarded to companies with offshore tax arrangements.
Answer: The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost. Where it makes business sense to do so, HM Treasury procures goods and services via Crown Commercial Service (CCS) framework agreements. Suppliers on t...
Answered 6 Mar 2025
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Private Education: VATTreasuryTabled 13 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20009More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the (a) effectiveness of the processes put in place by HMRC to register private schools for VAT and (b) adequacy of the time taken for those schools to receive a VAT number.
Answer: The government is committed to supporting private schools to ensure that the VAT registration process is as smooth as possible for them, and to ensuring they have the necessary support in order to be able to correctly charge VAT and remit it to HMRC. HMRC...
Answered 20 Dec 2024
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Private Education: VATTreasuryTabled 10 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 18931More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of private schools have been provided with a VAT number.
Answer: HMRC publishes data on the VAT population by sector on an annual basis. The latest statistics can be found here: Value Added Tax (VAT) annual statistics - GOV.UK The point at which private schools need to register for VAT depends on their individual circu...
Answered 18 Dec 2024
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Private Education: VATTreasuryTabled 10 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 18930More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of private schools have been provided with a VAT number.
Answer: HMRC publishes data on the VAT population by sector on an annual basis. The latest statistics can be found here: Value Added Tax (VAT) annual statistics - GOV.UK The point at which private schools need to register for VAT depends on their individual circu...
Answered 18 Dec 2024
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Budget October 2024TreasuryTabled 11 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 13424More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what businesses have made representations to her about the Autumn Budget 2024.
Answer: Ahead of the Autumn Budget, the Treasury received 633 written representations from stakeholders. Ministers and officials also met with a broad range of businesses and representative bodies. This includes meetings that the Chancellor and Financial Secretar...
Answered 19 Nov 2024
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Department or topic	Published records
Attorney General	2
Cabinet Office	5
Department for Business and Trade	3
Department for Culture, Media and Sport	5
Department for Education	2
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero	12
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs	3
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology	16
Department for Transport	4
Department for Work and Pensions	7
Department of Health and Social Care	49
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office	8
Home Office	26
Ministry of Defence	3
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government	8
Ministry of Justice	12
Northern Ireland Office	2
Scotland Office	2
Treasury	11
Wales Office	2

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