Written questions
1,066 written questions tabled, most recent first.
26 Jan 2017 · HM Treasury
Enterprise Investment Scheme: Tax Allowances
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people benefitted from income tax relief through the Enterprise Investment Scheme in (a) 2013-14 and (b) 2014-15.
23 Jan 2017 · HM Treasury
Tax Allowances
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) people and (b) businesses benefitted from each tax relief listed in HM Revenue and Custom's publication of 30 December 2016, entitled Minor Tax Expenditures and Structural Reliefs in (i) 2014-15 and (ii)
23 Jan 2017 · HM Treasury
Tax Allowances
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) people or (b) businesses received each tax relief listed in the HM Revenue and Customs document Estimated Costs of Principal Tax Reliefs, published on 30 December 2016, in (a) 2014-15 and (b) 2015-16.
23 Jan 2017 · HM Treasury
Employee Ownership
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people received income tax relief for share incentive plans in (a) 2014-15 and (b) 2015-16.
23 Jan 2017 · HM Treasury
Profit Sharing
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people received income tax relief for approved company share option plans in (a) 2014-15 and (b) 2015-16.
23 Jan 2017 · HM Treasury
Venture Capital
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people received income tax relief for venture capital trusts in (a) 2014-15 and (b) 2015-16.
19 Dec 2016 · Department for International Trade
Export Controls: Eritrea
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many export licences to Eritrea the Government has issued to UK-based companies in each of the last three years.
19 Dec 2016 · Department for International Trade
Overseas Companies: Eritrea
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what recent estimate his Department has made of the number of UK-based companies operating in Eritrea.
19 Dec 2016 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Eritrea: British Nationals Abroad
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate he has made of the number of UK nationals who have visited Eritrea in the last five years.
19 Dec 2016 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Eritrea: Human Rights
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment the Government has made of the human rights situation in Eritrea.
19 Dec 2016 · Department for Communities and Local Government
Local Government Finance: Salford
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the provisional local government finance settlement 2017 to 2018, by how much Salford City Council's new homes bonus payments will be reduced; how much Salford City Coun
19 Dec 2016 · Department for Communities and Local Government
Social Services: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to his oral contribution of 15 December 2016, Official Report, columns 976-9, on the local government finance settlement, what methodology his Department plans to use to determin
19 Dec 2016 · Department for Communities and Local Government
Council Tax: Salford
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much additional revenue he estimates Salford City Council could receive by increasing council tax rates by three per cent in the 2016-17 financial year.
19 Dec 2016 · Department for Communities and Local Government
Council Tax: Salford
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much additional revenue he estimates Salford City Council could receive as a result of increasing council tax rates by three per cent in the 2017-18 financial year.
19 Dec 2016 · Department for Communities and Local Government
Social Services: Council Tax
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the amount that each local authority could raise if they employed use of the three per cent social care precept on council tax in the 2016-17 financial year.
19 Dec 2016 · Department for Communities and Local Government
Social Services: Council Tax
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to his oral contribution of 15 December 2016, Official Report, columns 976 to 979, on the local government finance settlement, whether the decision by a local authority to raise
9 Dec 2016 · Department for Education
Universities: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what measures the Government plans to introduce to regulate pay increases granted by internal remuneration bodies to Chancellors and Vice Chancellors of universities.
9 Dec 2016 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Children's Centres: Music
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make it her policy to exempt children's play centres from licensing requirements for the use of music.
9 Dec 2016 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Music: Licensing
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment she has made of the effect on small businesses of the licensing enforcement regime for the use of music in public spaces.
9 Dec 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Disqualification
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what research his Department has conducted on the health effects on claimants of the imposition of benefit sanctions and the processes related to the mandatory reconsideration and appeal of such sanctio
9 Dec 2016 · Ministry of Justice
Nuisance: Sentencing
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what guidance is issued to the Crown Prosecution Service and Crown Court judges on sentences for the offence of public nuisance; and how many guilty verdicts in such cases have led to custodial sentences in the l
9 Dec 2016 · Department for Education
Universities: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will require all universities in the UK to publish regular remuneration reports.
9 Dec 2016 · Department for Communities and Local Government
Travellers: Caravan Sites
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate his Department has made of the number of Travellers' sites that are required in each local authority area.
9 Dec 2016 · Department for Communities and Local Government
Travellers: Caravan Sites
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate his Department has made of the number of local authority Travellers' sites that will be required in each of the next 10 years.
9 Dec 2016 · Department for Communities and Local Government
Travellers: Caravan Sites
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what mechanisms there are to ensure local authorities meet the required number of Travellers' sites in each local authority area.
21 Nov 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions
Children: Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he expects the planned new procedures to tackle child maintenance evasion by non-resident parents who fail to declare their full income for tax purposes to be rolled out across the Child Maintenanc
21 Nov 2016 · Department of Health
Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people have had requests for (a) surgery on varicose veins and (b) other treatments refused under the Exceptionality Operational Policy in England in each of the last five years.
21 Nov 2016 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
United Arab Emirates: Freedom of Expression
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with his United Arab Emirates counterpart on the respect for freedom of expression in that country.
21 Nov 2016 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
United Arab Emirates: Human Rights
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he has taken to support the release of Dr Mohamed al-Roken and other human right activists imprisoned in the United Arab Emirates in 2013.
21 Nov 2016 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
United Arab Emirates: Freedom of Expression
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to support people in the United Arab Emirates who are threatened, harassed or face arrest for exercising their right of freedom of expression.
Source: official written-questions record.