Written questions

2,061 written questions tabled, most recent first.

23 Nov 2021 · Treasury

Revenue and Customs: Telephone Services

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many calls made to the HMRC employers helpline were not answered at all, in each of the last 36 months.

23 Nov 2021 · Treasury

Revenue and Customs: Telephone Services

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many calls made to the HMRC Tax Credits helpline were not answered at all, in each of the last 36 months.

23 Nov 2021 · Treasury

Revenue and Customs: Telephone Services

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many calls made to the HMRC National Insurance helpline were not answered at all, in each of the last 36 months.

23 Nov 2021 · Treasury

Revenue and Customs: Telephone Services

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many calls made to the HMRC VAT helpline were not answered at all, in each of the last 36 months.

23 Nov 2021 · Treasury

Revenue and Customs: Telephone Services

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many calls made to the HMRC self-assessment helpline were not answered at all, in each of the last 36 months.

22 Nov 2021 · Treasury

Self-assessment: Telephone Services

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has set targets for the length of time callers to HMRC's helpline for queries on self-assessment tax returns should wait before their call is answered.

22 Nov 2021 · Treasury

Multiply Programme

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Education on assessing the (a) impact and (b) value for money of the Multiply programme announced in the Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021.

22 Nov 2021 · Department for Education

Multiply Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much and what proportion of the £560 million for the Multiply programme announced in the Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021 he plans to disburse in each region of England in 2022-23.

22 Nov 2021 · Department for Education

Multiply Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much and what proportion of the £560 million for the Multiply programme announced in the Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021 he plans to disburse in (a) 2022-23, (b) 2023-24 and (c) 2024-25.

22 Nov 2021 · Treasury

Treasury: Public Consultation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what (a) reports, (b) consultation responses, (c) formal consultations and (d) other documents his Department plans to publish between 22 November and 31 December 2021.

22 Nov 2021 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Freeports

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, on which date each of the freeports announced in the Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021 (a) came into or (b) is planned to come into operation.

22 Nov 2021 · Cabinet Office

Public Sector: Pay

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department has issued any guidance, internally or to other Departments on the risks or benefits of contracting companies to provide payroll finance solutions

22 Nov 2021 · Treasury

Housing: Valuation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the data on rateable properties published by the Valuation Office Agency (VOA) on 10 June 2021 on mean and median rateable value by property type, Table SOP1.2 of that release, if he will publish t

22 Nov 2021 · Treasury

Housing: Valuation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the data on rateable properties published by the Valuation Office Agency (VOA) on 10 June 2021 on mean and median rateable value by special category, Table SC1.1 of that release, if he will publish

22 Nov 2021 · Treasury

Revenue and Customs: Staff

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what data is (a) collected and (b) analysed by HM Revenue and Customs on staff working locations, patterns of working in person and remotely, and times at which staff are (i) working and (ii) physically present in H

22 Nov 2021 · Treasury

Treasury: Staff

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what data is (a) collected and (b) analysed by his Department on staff working locations, patterns of working in person and remotely, and times at which staff are (i) working, and (ii) physically present in HM Treas

22 Nov 2021 · Treasury

Treasury: Aquind

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 19 November 2021 to Question 75875 on Ministerial meetings with Aquind Energy, on which dates Ministers in his Department (a) met and (b) spoke with (i) directors and (ii) other representat

22 Nov 2021 · Treasury

Treasury: Staff

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 17 November 2021 to Question 73813 on smarter working practices in his department, whether the current project to embed new ways of working scheduled to complete at the end of Q1 in financi

19 Nov 2021 · Treasury

Cleveland Police and Crime Commissioner

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 19 November 2021 to Question 75874, on which dates on and after 1 July 2021 the Chief Secretary to the Treasury has (a) met, and (b) spoken with, the Police and Crime Commissioner for Cleve

17 Nov 2021 · Cabinet Office

Ports: Infrastructure

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of providing further funding in port infrastructure following the Ports Infrastructure Fund.

17 Nov 2021 · Treasury

Imports: Customs

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what lessons have been learned by HMRC as a result of the time taken for imported good to pass through ports in December 2020.

17 Nov 2021 · Home Office

Imports: Customs

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of HMRC staffing at UK ports to ensure efficient throughput of goods in the weeks leading up to Christmas.

17 Nov 2021 · Treasury

Imports: Customs

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps HMRC has taken to help improve the rate at which checks are performed on goods imported into the UK in each of the last twelve months.

16 Nov 2021 · Department for Transport

Leamside Line

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has undertaken an assessment of the potential economic benefits to the (a) North East and (b) UK of reopening the Leamside Line.

16 Nov 2021 · Treasury

Treasury: Aquind

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on which dates in the last six months each of the Ministers in his Department (a) met and (b) spoke to (i) directors and (ii) other representatives of Aquind Energy.

16 Nov 2021 · Treasury

Cleveland Police and Crime Commissioner

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on which dates in the last six months the Chief Secretary to the Treasury has (a) met and (b) spoken to the Police and Crime Commissioner for Cleveland.

12 Nov 2021 · Treasury

Budgets: Disclosure of Information

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 4 November 2021 to Question 67134 on Budgets: Disclosure of Information, with what regularity all staff are reminded of the security and integrity of the Budget and the Spending review proc

12 Nov 2021 · Treasury

Treasury: Staff

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 27 October to Question 61147, by what date in 2022 the Treasury will have completed the implementation of smarter working.

12 Nov 2021 · Treasury

Treasury: Staff

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 27 October 2021 to Question 61147 on Treasury: Staff, what information he (a) has collected, (b) is collecting and (c) plans to collect in order to (i) establish a baseline against which th

12 Nov 2021 · Treasury

Treasury: Darlington Economic Campus

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many jobs his Department has moved from his Department's premises in central London to Treasury North in Darlington as of 3 November 2021.

Source: official written-questions record.