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Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport – Rt Hon Karen Bradley MP Minister of State – Rt Hon Matt Hancock MP Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – Tracey Crouch MP Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – Rob Wilson MP Parliamentary Under Secretary of State – Baroness Shields OBE (jointly with the Home Office) Parliamentary Under Secretary of State* – Lord Ashton of Hyde (and a Lord in Waiting (paid))
Cabinet Office
Paymaster General, and Minister for the Cabinet Office – Rt Hon Ben Gummer MP Parliamentary Secretary – Chris Skidmore MP Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (and Conservative Party Chair) – Rt Hon Patrick McLoughlin MP
Other appointments are detailed on GOV.UK - Ministerial appointments: July 2016 along with a list of ministers that have left the government.
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Office of Tax Simplification: new board members announced 2 September 2016
Three new non-executive directors have been appointed to the Board of the Office of Tax Simplification (OTS).
Paul Johnson (Director of the Institute of Fiscal Studies), John Cullinane (Tax Policy Director at the Chartered Institute of Taxation) and Kathleen Russ (Head of Tax at Travers Smith) will provide further guidance, support and breadth of knowledge to the OTS board.
They join existing board members, though Adam Broke, who has been a member of the OTS board since the OTS’s inception, will be stepping down from the board.
The OTS was established in 2010 to provide advice to the Chancellor on simplifying the UK tax system and was made a permanent, independent office of HM Treasury in July 2015. It is being put on a statutory footing in the Finance Bill 2016.
To date, the government has implemented almost 200 OTS recommendations to simplify the tax system.
Read the full press release on GOV.UK
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Autumn Statement 2016 date confirmed 13 September 2016
This year’s Autumn Statement will be on Wednesday 23 November 2016.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, has announced that he will present his first Autumn Statement to Parliament on Wednesday 23 November 2016.
The Autumn Statement is based on the latest forecasts from the Office for Budget Responsibility for the economy and public finances.
CIPP comment
We are due to receive government responses to several consultations at this year’s Autumn Statement. Expected announcements include further detail on:
• the review of income tax and national insurance alignment; • alignment of dates for making-good on benefits-in-kind; and
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