John Glen MP: written questions
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Civil Servants and Ministers: Workplace PensionsTreasuryTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31863More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 12 November 2024, to Question 12389 on Civil Servants and Ministers: Workplace Pensions, whether the automatic lump sum death benefits under the Civil Service Classic scheme is subject to i
Answer: As announced at Autumn Budget 2024, from 6 April 2027 most unused pension funds and death benefits will be included within the value of a person’s estate for Inheritance Tax purposes.Some lump some death benefits from pension schemes are already within sc...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPublic ExpenditureTreasuryTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31862More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Spending Review Phase 2 is zero-based.
Answer: Phase 2 of the Spending Review launched on the 10th December 2024. At launch, I asked every department to conduct a zero-based review of government spending to assess whether it is a priority for this government and represents value for money. This is the...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordMotor Vehicles: TaxationTreasuryTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31861More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 28 January 2025 to Question 25682 on Motor vehicles: taxation, whether any impact assessment has been produced on changes to tax on double cab pick-up vehicles in the Autumn Budget 2024.
Answer: The change in treatment for Double Cab Pick-ups (DCPUs) as announced at Autumn Budget 2024 was to align treatment with recent case law to treat them as cars, and not a change in policy requiring legislation. As mentioned in my answer of 28 January 2025, g...
Answered 28 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordFirst Time Buyers: Stamp DutiesTreasuryTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31860More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 7 January 2025 to Question 20947 on First Time Buyers: Stamp Duties, what the average stamp duty paid was by people who claimed first time buyers’ relief in the 2023-24 tax year; how many s
Answer: In 2023 to 2024, there were 113,100 transactions above the nil-rate band threshold of £250,000 that claimed First-Time Buyers’ Relief (FTBR) in the Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) return. These transactions paid an average of £900 in SDLT. Estimates for 2025 t...
Answered 27 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployers' Contributions: EqualityTreasuryTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31859More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 7 January 2025, to Question 21295 on Employers’ Contributions: Equality, whether a longer Impact Assessment or screening document was produced internally by her Department on the changes to
Answer: The Government carefully considers the impact of all decisions on those sharing protected characteristics in line with both our legal obligations and with our commitment to greater fairness and opportunity.The Government is committed to meeting its obliga...
Answered 28 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordDrinks and Food: Manufacturing IndustriesDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31845More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 13 February 2025 to Question 29436 on Manufacturing Industries, whether food and drink manufacturing is a key advanced manufacturing sector.
Answer: The Industrial Strategy will focus on the sectors which offer the highest growth opportunity for the economy and business, including Advanced Manufacturing. The Government will prioritise subsectors within the broad sectors that meet our objectives and wh...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordDrinks and Food: Manufacturing IndustriesDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31844More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 13 February 2025 to Question 29436 on Manufacturing Industries, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of including food and drink manufacturing in th
Answer: Growth is the number one mission of the government. The UK's food and drink manufacturing sector plays a significant role in the UK economy, contributing £35.1bn to GVA in 2022. The UK presents many opportunities for investment right across the food and d...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordDrinks and Food: Manufacturing IndustriesDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 6 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29454More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of his Department's support for advanced manufacturing within the industrial strategy on food and drink manufacturers.
Answer: The Industrial Strategy Green Paper identified eight growth-driving sectors, including advanced manufacturing. All sectors can shape and benefit from policy reform through the Industrial Strategy’s cross-cutting policies alongside the broader Growth Missi...
Answered 13 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordDrinks and Food: Manufacturing IndustriesDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 6 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29453More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he (a) is taking with the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to encourage (i) growth and (ii) investment in food and drink manufacturing and (b) plans to take to supp
Answer: Growth is the number one mission of the government. The UK's agriculture food and drink sector plays a significant role in the UK economy, contributing £146.7bn to GVA. The UK presents many opportunities for investment right across the food and drink supp...
Answered 13 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordManufacturing IndustriesDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 6 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29436More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how his Department intends to define the subsectors within Advanced Manufacturing in the forthcoming Industrial Strategy.
Answer: The Government committed in the Industrial Strategy Green Paper – Invest 2035 to identify subsectors within Advanced Manufacturing that meet our objectives and for which there is evidence that policy can address barriers to growth. This includes considera...
Answered 13 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordADHD: DrugsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 5 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 902700More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to tackle ADHD medication shortages.
Answer: The Department has worked intensively with industry and some supply issues with ADHD medicines have been resolved. We continue to engage with suppliers and also the NHS to resolve the remaining issues as quickly as possible, and improve the planning of fu...
Answered 11 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordUnpaid WorkDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 29 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27149More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, when he plans to publish the call for evidence on implementing a ban on unpaid internships.
Answer: The Make Work Pay plan is a core part of the mission to grow the economy, raise living standards across the country and create opportunities. It aims to tackle low pay, poor working conditions and poor job security.The government is committed to banning u...
Answered 5 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordCabinet Office: Freedom of InformationCabinet OfficeTabled 29 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27148More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he plans to provide a substantive response to the Freedom of Information Act of 26 September 2024 from the Rt Hon Member for Salisbury, reference RFOI2024/13851.
Answer: A response to FOI2024/13851 was sent on 31 January.
Answered 3 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordLand UseDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 20 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24838More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the land use strategy will include policies on managing (a) farm pastures, (b) road verges, (c) urban parks and (d) other grasslands.
Answer: The Government plans to publish work in this area in the first year of its time in power. A broad range of views will be under consideration.
Answered 28 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordAgriculture: Inheritance TaxTreasuryTabled 3 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 21588More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will publish the internal equality impact assessment under the Equality Act 2010 for changes to (a) agricultural and (b) business property relief.
Answer: The Government published information about the reforms to agricultural property relief and business property relief at www.gov.uk/government/publications/agricultural-property-relief-and-business-property-relief-reforms. It is expected that up to around 2...
Answered 9 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPrime Minister's Chief of Staff: PayCabinet OfficeTabled 19 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 21296More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 28 November 2024 to Question HL1343 on Prime Minister's Chief of Staff: Pay, what the annual salary amount that the Chief Secretary to the Treasury approved in the senior approvals pay
Answer: Salaries of special advisers of equivalent standing to the Senior Civil Service are published in the relevant year’s Annual Report on Special Advisers.
Answered 10 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployers' Contributions: EqualityTreasuryTabled 19 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 21295More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will place in the Library a copy of her Department's equality (a) impact assessment and (b) screening in relation to the changes to employers' National Insurance contributions in the Autumn Budget 2024.
Answer: A Tax Information and Impact Note (TIIN) was published alongside the introduction of 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 individu...
Answered 7 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordGovernment Departments: Communication and Public ConsultationTreasuryTabled 18 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20957More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 29 October 2024 to Question 10442 on Government departments: communication and public consultation, what non-essential spending in each Department has been stopped to deliver the £50 millio
Answer: To identify savings in Communications spending for 2024-25 and 2025-26, the UK Government conducted a comprehensive review of communications campaigns through the Spending Review. This review looked at the strategic logic, join-up, role for communications...
Answered 10 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployers' Contributions and Income TaxTreasuryTabled 18 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20956More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to page 21 of the Plan for Change document, CP1210, published on 5 December 2024, what estimate she has been made of the potential impact of (a) changes to the level of employer National Insurance con
Answer: The Office for Budget Responsibility's October 2024 Economic and Fiscal Outlook (EFO) contains forecasts and assessments of government policy. The OBR’s forecast does not decompose policy impacts on Real Household Disposable Income (RHDI) per capita by in...
Answered 9 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployers' Contributions: Public SectorTreasuryTabled 18 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20955More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 6 December 2024 to Question 16761 on Employers’ Contributions: Public Sector, if she will publish the methodology used to draw up the estimates of support.
Answer: The Government plans to update Parliament on the allocations of support by department in due course.
Answered 10 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordAgriculture: Inheritance TaxTreasuryTabled 18 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20954More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment has been made of the potential impact of proposed changes to Agricultural Property Relief on net carbon emissions.
Answer: The government is extending the existing scope of agricultural property relief from 6 April 2025 to land managed under certain environmental agreements. The expectation is that some individuals will now choose to enter into agreements who would not otherw...
Answered 7 Jan 2025
Original Parliament record11 Downing Street: ArtworksDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 18 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20953More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 22 October 2024 to Question 8809 on 11 Downing Street: Art Works, what was the cost to the public purse of removing the artworks.
Answer: It is standard practice, as followed by the previous government, of which he was a member, for new ministers to select works from the Government Art Collection for their ministerial offices. All such changes of displays of works from the Government Art Co...
Answered 14 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordWorkplace Pensions: Inheritance TaxTreasuryTabled 18 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20952More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 12 November 2024 to Question 12389 on Pensions: Inheritance Tax, whether the (a) partner and (b) dependent's scheme pension for the (i) Civil Service Alpha scheme and (ii) Ministerial Pensi
Answer: Dependant scheme pensions, including partner pensions, are not subject to Inheritance Tax. This is the same for registered and unregistered UK schemes, and will not be impacted by the changes announced at Autumn Budget 2024.
Answered 10 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordBusiness RatesTreasuryTabled 18 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20951More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the new business rate multiplier on Rateable Values over £500,000 will apply to (a) railway, (b) communications and (c) utility hereditaments on the Central Rating List.
Answer: At Autumn Budget 2024, the Government announced an intention 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 high stree...
Answered 7 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployers' Contributions: Public SectorTreasuryTabled 18 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20950More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 6 December 2024 to Question 16761 on Employers’ Contributions: Public Sector, what the assumed unit cost per (a) headcount and (b) FTE employee of the estimated increase in National Insuran
Answer: The Government plans to update Parliament on the allocations of support by department in due course.
Answered 10 Jan 2025
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