Bridget Phillipson

19 Mar 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Freeports

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made, for each of the port operators involved in the eight successful Freeport bids, in view of the responsibilities they will be required to be authorised

19 Mar 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Freeports: Foreign Companies

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of approved bids for Freeport bids were (a) led by and (b) involved companies with overseas (i) registration and (ii) beneficial ownership

18 Mar 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Freeports: Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to English Freeports selection decision-making note, updated 17 March 2021, what assessment he has made of the effect on skills and jobs, (a) within each of the ei

18 Mar 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Freeports: Tees Valley

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the English Freeports selection decision-making note, updated 17 March 2021, which aspects of the Teesside Freeport bid's alignment with Government policy, in r

18 Mar 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Freeports

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the English Freeports selection decision note, published 17 March, whether he will publish the criteria and process used to evaluate which Freeport bids had gre

18 Mar 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Freeports: North East

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the English Freeports selection decision, whether any additional information was (a) sought, or (b) received from the (i) Teesside or (ii) North East Freeport b

18 Mar 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Freeports

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Government's policy paper, entitled English Freeports selection decision-making note, updated on 17 March 2021, how alignment with Government policy was (a)

18 Mar 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Freeports: Tees Valley

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Government's policy paper, entitled English Freeports selection decision-making note, updated 17 March 2021, which states that Teesside bid’s stronger align

17 Mar 2021 · Treasury

Taxation: Electronic Government

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the process is for updating guidance on the taxation of (a) individuals and (b) businesses on the Government website; and if he will outline the respective roles of (i) HMRC and (ii) the Government Digital Serv

17 Mar 2021 · Treasury

Taxation: Electronic Government

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on how many occasions guidance on the taxation of (a) individuals and (b) businesses on the Government website has been updated in each of the last 30 months.

17 Mar 2021 · Treasury

Premium Bonds

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people held at least one Premium Bond, in each of the last 30 months.

17 Mar 2021 · Treasury

Revenue and Customs: Telephone Services

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many calls to HMRC's telephone advice lines for people completing a self assessment form were not answered by an HMRC call agent within 20 minutes on (a) 29 January 2019, (b) 30 January 2019, (c) 31 January 2019

17 Mar 2021 · Treasury

Revenue and Customs: Telephone Services

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many calls to HMRC's telephone advice lines for people completing a self assessment form were not answered by an HMRC call agent within 10 minutes on (a) 29 January 2019, (b) 30 January 2019, (c) 31 January 2019

17 Mar 2021 · Treasury

Revenue and Customs: Telephone Services

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many calls to HMRC's telephone advice lines for people completing a self assessment form were not answered by an HMRC call agent within five minutes on (a) 29 January 2019, (b) 30 January 2019, (c) 31 January 20

17 Mar 2021 · Treasury

Revenue and Customs: Telephone Services

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many calls to HMRC's telephone advice lines for people completing a self assessment form were abandoned by the caller before reaching an HMRC call handling agent on (a) 29 January 2019, (b) 30 January 2019, (c)

17 Mar 2021 · Treasury

Revenue and Customs: Staff

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many additional FTE staff HMRC plans to recruit or transfer internally to deal with taxation, duty, excise and customs issues pertaining solely to freeports, in the financial year (a) 2021-22 and (b) 2022-23.

17 Mar 2021 · Treasury

Freeports: Tax Avoidance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 16 March 2021 to Question 164436 on Free Zones: National Insurance Contributions, when he plans to publish the draft legislation on anti-tax avoidance provisions in freeports.

17 Mar 2021 · Treasury

Freeports

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to (a) conduct and (b) publish a review of the criteria and process used to select the freeports he designated on 3 March 2021.

17 Mar 2021 · Treasury

Freeports

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether any changes were made by the Government to either (a) the criteria used to judge bids for freeport status or (b) the relative weighting of that criteria, between 12 noon on 5 February 2021 and his Financial

17 Mar 2021 · Treasury

Freeports: Contracts

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether any changes were made by the Government to either (a) the criteria used to judge bids for freeport status or (b) the relative weighting of that criteria, between the publication of the bidding prospectus on

17 Mar 2021 · Treasury

Freeports

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 11 March 2021 to Question 164429 on Free zones, whether he is able to give a date for publication of the rationale for his decisions; and for what reason it has not been possible to publish

12 Mar 2021 · Treasury

Corporation Tax: Tax Allowances

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the level of profit shifting into the UK as a result of the corporation tax super deduction in (a) 2021-22 and (b) 2022-23.

12 Mar 2021 · Cabinet Office

Civil Servants: Location

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Treasury's publication entitled Build Back Better: our plan for growth, dated March 2021, and the target set out on page 14 of that publication to r

11 Mar 2021 · Treasury

Corporation Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect the £50,000 threshold for the new small profits rate of corporation tax will have on incentives for corporations with profits just below that level to expand their worth.

11 Mar 2021 · Treasury

Capital Allowances

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether investment in plant and machinery intended to be subsequently leased is eligible for the new 130 per cent super deduction capital allowance.

11 Mar 2021 · Treasury

National Infrastructure Bank: Staff

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the planned (a) FTE and (b) headcount staffing numbers will be for the new National Infrastructure Bank; and what share of that number will be based in Leeds.

10 Mar 2021 · Treasury

Freeports

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish, for each the eight successful freeport bids, the list of Standard Industrial Classification codes which that bid identified as ones which, in accordance with section 4.4 of the bidding prospectus

8 Mar 2021 · Treasury

Freeports: National Insurance Contributions

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the proposed National Insurance Contributions relief for employers in freeports employing people on salaries below £25,000, what steps the Government will take to ensure it has the power to prevent

8 Mar 2021 · Treasury

Freeports: National Insurance Contributions

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment the Government has made of the potential effect on the distribution of wages in the labour market in freeports or their surrounding areas of having a relief on employer National Insurance Contributio

8 Mar 2021 · Treasury

Freeports: Conditions of Employment and Health and Safety

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether nationally-secured sectoral industrial agreements covering matters of health and safety and rights at work will apply as equally to freeports as they apply to rest of the UK.