Questions

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• Title:	Estimated shortfall in tax revenues for 2015
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Geoffrey Southern
  Answered by:	Minister for Treasury and Resources
  Question date:	14/04/2015
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  The facts are going to be … I have seen Deputy Higgins and then a final supplementary … is I will take a question from Deputy Higgins and the final supplementary from Deputy Southern …

• Title:	Grant to Sea cadets for construction of premises
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Jackie Hilton
  Answered by:	Minister for Treasury and Resources
  Question date:	20/01/2015
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  Will the Minister confirm the balance of monies available to the Sea Cadets from the £600,000 originally granted for the purpose of providing new premises and state what monies …

• Title:	States of Jersey Development Company
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Montfort Tadier
  Answered by:	Minister for Treasury and Resources
  Question date:	16/06/2015
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  Minister replied to myself, Deputy Hilton and Deputy Higgins that the pre-lets will be on what was …

• Title:	Expenditure on new police station
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Mike Higgins
  Answered by:	Minister for Treasury and Resources
  Question date:	05/10/2015
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  3.12 Deputy M.R. Higgins of the Minister for Treasury and Resources regarding the … Will the Minister give Members an update on the expenditure on the new police station and whether …

• Title:	Tax policy in respect of debtor amounts
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	David Johnson
  Answered by:	Minister for Treasury and Resources
  Question date:	14/07/2015
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  Did the tax policy in the 2014 States of Jersey accounts not account for debtors for individuals paying tax on a prior year … Deputy Higgins is malade so we come on to question 3

• Title:	Resolving the Gigabit dispute
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Geoffrey Southern
  Answered by:	Minister for Treasury and Resources
  Question date:	24/03/2015
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  Further to the response given on 3rd February 2015, will the Minister, as shareholder representative, update Members on what … We do not have question 8 as Deputy Higgins is not here

• Title:	Zero Ten tax policy
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Mike Higgins
  Answered by:	Minister for Treasury and Resources
  Question date:	28/04/2015
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  3.4 Deputy M.R. Higgins of the Minister for Treasury and Resources regarding the Zero/Ten … In answer to Deputy Higgins’s final point, the loss of revenue in respect of the reduction …

• Title:	Distributional effect of measures proposed in Medium Term Financial Plan
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Mike Higgins
  Answered by:	Minister for Treasury and Resources
  Question date:	22/09/2015
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  4.10 DEPUTY M.R. HIGGINS OF THE MINISTER FOR TREASURY AND RESOURCES REGARDING THE … Given that the Fiscal Policy Panel’s annual … Deputy Higgins, I will allow you a final supplementary …

• Title:	Reduction to the marginal rate of tax
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Mike Higgins
  Answered by:	Minister for Treasury and Resources
  Question date:	22/09/2015
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  4.4 DEPUTY M.R. HIGGINS OF THE MINISTER FOR TREASURY AND RESOURCES REGARDING THE REDUCTION … Will the Minister advise the Assembly whether he intends to reverse the reduction to the …

• Title:	Provision of services for the incineration of Guernseys waste
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Andrew Lewis
  Answered by:	Minister for Treasury and Resources
  Question date:	28/04/2015
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  Can the Minister update the Assembly as to how negotiations with the States of Guernsey are progressing with regards to the possibility of Transport and Technical Services …

• Title:	Discussions relating to agreement for the Esplanade car park site
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Jackie Hilton
  Answered by:	Minister for Treasury and Resources
  Question date:	24/02/2015
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  Can the Minister as shareholder representative of the States of Jersey Development Company inform Members whether discussions have taken place between any Minister, the States of …

• Title:	Sum allocated to Jersey Sea Cadets for premises
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Mike Higgins
  Answered by:	Minister for Treasury and Resources
  Question date:	20/01/2015
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  4.10 Deputy M.R. Higgins of the Minister for Treasury and Resources regarding a sum … Deputy Higgins is quite correct, much of the information he has requested was already …

• Title:	Rationale underpinning proposals to freeze tax thresholds for the over 65s
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Geoffrey Southern
  Answered by:	Minister for Treasury and Resources
  Question date:	17/11/2015
  Reference:

  I shall try not to transgress any rules … Will the Minister explain the rationale that underpins his proposals to freeze the tax thresholds for over 65s, along with the short and …

• Title:	Levels of tax revenue lost to Treasury since Zero Ten was introduced
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Mike Higgins
  Answered by:	Minister for Treasury and Resources
  Question date:	05/10/2015
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  3.8 Deputy M.R. Higgins of the Minister for Treasury and Resources regarding levels of tax … Will the Minister advise Members how much tax revenue has been lost to the Treasury …

• Title:	States of Jersey Development Companys 2014 accounts
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Mike Higgins
  Answered by:	Minister for Treasury and Resources
  Question date:	28/04/2015
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  3.10 Deputy M.R. Higgins of the Minister for Treasury and Resources regarding the States … In light of the forecast deficit, will the Minister, as shareholder representative, advise …

• Title:	Challenges in relation to the Fiscal Policy Panels pre Medium Term Financial Plan
  Question type:	Oral
  Asked by:	Mike Higgins
  Answered by:	Minister for Treasury and Resources
  Question date:	24/02/2015
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  3.2 Deputy M.R. Higgins of the Minister for Treasury and Resources regarding the … Following the publication in January 2015 of the Fiscal Policy Panel’s pre-Medium-Term Financial …