Victoria Atkins corrected a written answer on PAYE

23 March 2023 · Commons written answer · Treasury

Stephen Morgan (Labour, Portsmouth South) asked written question 162286 on 9 March 2023. John Glen answered on 14 March 2023 for the Treasury, and Victoria Atkins corrected the answer on 23 March 2023. The corrected text no longer gives the figures £1.3 billion, £460 million. Altogether 177 words differ between the two versions.

The question

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of HMRC’s enforcement of agency regulations collecting PAYE tax from agencies who have had registered contractors.

Original and corrected answer

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Original	Corrected
~~The UK Government and devolved administrations agreed an Apprenticeship Levy funding deal, based~~ on population share. Under this agreement, the UK Government uplifted Spending Review 2015 settlements as set out in Block Grant Transparency to ensure the devolved administrations received a full population share of forecast Levy funding from 2017-18 to 2019-20. This population share amounted to £1.3 billion across all three devolved administrations over the three-year period, with £460 million allocated in 2019-20. Beyond 2019-20, it was agreed that the normal operation of the population-based Barnett formula would deliver a similarly fair outcome rather than a bespoke arrangement being required. The devolved administrations received record settlements at the 2021 Spending Review and are well funded to deliver devolved responsibilities. Those settlements are still growing in real terms this year, and over the three-year spending review period, despite inflation being higher than expected. It is for ~~the devolved administrations to decide how to allocate their funding in devolved areas.~~	I refer the Honorable Member to the answer that I gave on 7 March 2022 to the Honorable Member for Enfield, Southgate (UIN 156216).

Original

Corrected

~~The UK Government and devolved administrations agreed an Apprenticeship Levy funding deal, based~~ on population share.
Under this agreement, the UK Government uplifted Spending Review 2015 settlements as set out in Block Grant Transparency to ensure the devolved administrations received a full population share of forecast Levy funding from 2017-18 to 2019-20. This population share amounted to £1.3 billion across all three devolved administrations over the three-year period, with £460 million allocated in 2019-20.
Beyond 2019-20, it was agreed that the normal operation of the population-based Barnett formula would deliver a similarly fair outcome rather than a bespoke arrangement being required.
The devolved administrations received record settlements at the 2021 Spending Review and are well funded to deliver devolved responsibilities. Those settlements are still growing in real terms this year, and over the three-year spending review period, despite inflation being higher than expected.
It is for ~~the devolved administrations to decide how to allocate their funding in devolved areas.~~

I refer the Honorable Member to the answer that I gave on 7 March 2022 to the Honorable Member for Enfield, Southgate (UIN 156216).

The question and answer on the Parliament website.

Receipt

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Date read	15 October 2026
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