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Tonnage Tax Scheme

Volume 448: debated on Thursday 6 July 2006

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what the annual cost was to the Exchequer of the SMarT 1 funding scheme for participants in the tonnage tax scheme in each of the last five years. (82083)

The information requested is not available. Some tonnage tax companies and groups contract out training to independent training providers. The SMarT 1 claims made by these training providers are in respect of the training they provide for all of their clients, and disaggregated figures are not available for those within tonnage tax only.

However, the total cost to the Exchequer of SMarT 1 funding for the last five years, and the amounts paid to tonnage tax companies and groups who are also SMarT training providers was as follows:

£

Total SMarT 1 funding

Total SMarT 1 funding paid to tonnage tax companies/groups who are SMarT training providers

2005-06

6,948,239

1,578,247

2004-05

6,826,856

1,813,434

2003-04

5,968,316

1,826,561

2002-03

5,185,305

1,584,803

2001-02

4,296,243

1,317,088