| no | date
| Subject | Comment
| qno | col.
|
| 1 | 30.11
| Pensions mis-selling |
Mis-selling of Free Standing AVCs and top-up pensions a matter for the Financial Services Authority
| 61186 | 84
|
| 2 | 30.11
| Customs & Excise:
(Drugs)
| Not Customs & Excise policy to disclose detailed information relating to operational activity: and see 16.4 [80712]
| 61717 | 87
|
| | 30.11
| (Controlled deliveries of drugs)
| Not practice to disclose Customs and Excise internal reviews of procedures used in controlled deliveries
| 61486 | 87
|
| | 16.2
| (Sierra Leone-Weapons)
| Not practice to comment publicly about existence or nature of investigations into breaches of export control
| 70663 | 634
|
| | 22.2
| (Arms embargoes) | Not policy to comment publicly about the existence or nature of current investigations
| 71049 | 80
|
| | 22.2
| (Arms embargoes) | Investigation and prosecution of alleged breaches of arms embargoes a matter for Commissioners of HM Customs and Excise
| 71566 | 85
|
| 3 | 1.12
| Details of compliance costs
(ISAs)
| Details of discussions on compliance costs commercially confidential
| 61184 | 154
|
| 4 | 17.12
| European Code of Conduct Group
(ECOFIN—Tax Harmonisation)
| Work of Code of Conduct Group's including first interim report to ECOFIN confidential
| 64335,
62342 | 754
|
| 5 | 19.1
| Personal tax detailsFormer Ministers)
| Details of loan by former Paymaster General to former Secretary of State for Trade not a matter for Treasury ministers
| 66457,
66461,
66459,
66458
| 396 |
| | 19.1
| (Tax Affairs of individuals)
| Treasury ministers have no responsibility for or involvement in the tax affairs of individuals: and see Oral Answer 10.12 (Law on taxpayer confidentiality prevents the Inland Revenue from disclosing information on the tax affair of any particular taxpayer) [61749]; 30.3 [79549]; 8.7 [90184]; 21.7 [90623]
| 66446 | 396
|
| | 20.1
| (VAT details—Miller Dywidag Joint Venture)
| Finance Act 1989 and Official Secrets Act 1989 prohibit disclosure of personal information from the VAT register without the taxpayer's permission, unless it can be demonstrated that it is in the public interest to do so.
| 66338 | 480
|
| | 20.1
| (Tax details—Joint Industry Board for the Electrical Contracting Industry)
| Cannot comment on Board's tax arrangement with the Inland Revenue
| 66147 | 480
|
| | 28.1
| (Inheritance Tax Exemption)
| Rules on taxpayer confidentiality prevent reply to detailed questions on tax exemption.
| 67204 | 349
|
| | 14.6
| Landfill tax credit scheme
| Information obtained by Customs and Excise from landfill operators about contributions made under the landfill tax credit scheme confidential
| 86148 | 29
|
| 6 | 16.2
| Financial Services Authority
| Use and cost of advertising by FSA a matter for FSA
| 71129 | 634
|
| 7 | 23.2
| Computerisation Projects
| Costs of contracts for continuing IT projects commercially confidential
| 71785 | 245
|
| 8 | 17.3
| European Investment Bank
| Details of terms of repayment of European Investment Bank loans or information on other contributory sources of finance confidential
| 76772 | 660
|
| 9 | 19.3
| Tax receipts | Figures for tax receipts not available by region
| 77005,
77004,
77006
| 858 |
| 10 | 22.3
| Individual Savings Accounts
| Cost of market research a matter of commercial confidentiality
| 77308 | 96
|
| 11 | 22.3
| Credit Suisse First Boston
| Not policy to comment on existence of any investigation until appropriate to make public details of an investigation that has been carried out
| 77076 | 97
|
| 12 | 20.4
| KPMG | Prospective contracts' details cannot be disclosed until they are awarded; they are until then commercially confidential
| 81421 | 492
|
| 13 | 12.7
| Inter-governmental consultation on VAT
| Consultation on confidential basis: details of responses refused
| 88921 | 80
|
| 14 | 21.7
| NIRS2 | Terms of contract with Andersen Consulting confidential and withheld under Exemption 13 of the Code of Practice on Access to Government Information
| 91652 | 557
|
| 15 | 10.11
| Kuwait Gold Reserves |
Date when Bank of England agreed to act as a depository for Central Bank of Kuwait gold withheld as commercially confidential
| 97675 | 642
|
