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WFTC (Tooting)
Mr. Cox: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many people living in the Tooting constituency receive working families tax credit. [137796]
Dawn Primarolo: I refer my hon. Friend to the answer given to my hon. Friend the Member for Bury, North (Mr. Chaytor) on 1 November 2000, Official Report, column 515W.
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G-CAT
Mr. Matthew Taylor: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what work has been undertaken for his Department in the last three years by G-CAT. [136198]
Mr. Andrew Smith: For the three financial years ending in March 2000, the Treasury has placed orders for PC servers and other related computer equipment with G-CAT.
Trader Registration
Dr. Starkey: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what investigations the Inland Revenue has undertaken this year to check whether individual traders utilising internet auction sites are wrongfully failing to register as businesses; [136158]
- (2) in how many cases this year the Inland Revenue has successfully detected traders wrongfully failing to register as businesses; and how much unpaid tax has been recovered; [136157]
(3) in how many cases this year the Inland Revenue has requested access to the electronic records held by the operators of internet auction sites to check whether individual traders are wrongfully failing to register as businesses. [136156]
Dawn Primarolo: The Inland Revenue can formally ask for information that would identify vendors on internet auction sites, although they would not normally be entitled to see the electronic records for that purpose. Requests for information like this form part of the intelligence gathering process carried out in local offices. Local officers have discretion on how to use their powers, subject to central guidance, and it is not possible to quantify the number of cases where formal requests for information have been from internet auction sites. it is not possible to say how many traders were identified.
Elan
Mr. Matthew Taylor: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what (a) reports, (b) research and (c) projects have been undertaken for his Department in the last three years by Elan. [134460]
Mr. Andrew Smith: Elan Computing provided IT support to the Office of Government Commerce during the 2000-2001 Financial year. We have no record of any other dealings with a company of that name.