Written questions
1,066 written questions tabled, most recent first.
6 Jan 2016 · Department for Communities and Local Government
Flood Control: Salford
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what support will be provided to offset the costs incurred by Salford City Council as a result of flooding which are not covered by the Bellwin scheme.
6 Jan 2016 · Department for Communities and Local Government
Flood Control: Salford
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what additional flood support Salford City Council is likely to receive; when such support will be granted; what such support will cover; and how such support can be accessed.
6 Jan 2016 · Department for Communities and Local Government
Social Services: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what his policy is on what local government services can be funded by the two per cent social care precept.
6 Jan 2016 · Department for Communities and Local Government
Social Services: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the amount that will be raised in each local authority by the two per cent social care precept in the first year of its operation.
5 Jan 2016 · Department of Health
Blood: Contamination
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the departmental settlement for his Department for this Spending Review period included any specific allocation of funds for ex gratia payments to victims of contaminated blood in future financial years.
5 Jan 2016 · Department of Health
Blood: Contamination
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he has allocated any funding for ex gratia payments to victims of contaminated blood for the 2016-17 financial year.
5 Jan 2016 · Department of Health
Blood: Contamination
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he expects to spend the £25 million funding for ex gratia payments to victims of contaminated blood in the 2015-16 financial year.
5 Jan 2016 · HM Treasury
Council of Economic Advisers
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the Council of Economic Advisers (a) last met and (b) will next meet.
5 Jan 2016 · HM Treasury
Council of Economic Advisers
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, who the members of his Council of Economic Advisers are; and what remuneration each such member receives for that role.
5 Jan 2016 · HM Treasury
Treasury: Rents
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the amount that his Department will pay to the Government Property Unit in rent for buildings in 2015-16.
5 Jan 2016 · HM Treasury
Council of Economic Advisers
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the annual running cost is of the Council of Economic Advisers; and what office space that council is allocated within the government estate.
16 Dec 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions
Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will exempt adults with disabilities whose partner is unable to share the same bedroom due to that disability from the under-occupancy penalty.
15 Dec 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions
Local Housing Allowance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 10 December 2015 to Question 18555, whether he is consulting on what exemptions should apply to the cap on housing benefit for single under-35 claimants in social housing; and
15 Dec 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions
Self-employed: Welfare Tax Credits
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to paragraph 1.123 of the Spending Review and Autumn Statement 2015, what assessment he has made of the effect of uprating the individual threshold in the minimum income floor for self-em
15 Dec 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions
Local Housing Allowance: Social Rented Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 10 December 2015 to Question 18554, on housing benefit: social rented housing, what proportion of the estimated 80,000 claimants referred to in that answer are in receipt of (a
15 Dec 2015 · Department of Health
Womb Cancer
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to raise awareness of womb cancer.
15 Dec 2015 · Department of Health
Blood: Contamination
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 10 December 2015 to Question 19004, what steps he has taken to communicate with people affected by contaminated blood products on the timing of the consultation.
15 Dec 2015 · HM Treasury
Welfare Tax Credits
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to Answer of 9 December 2015 to Question 18558, how many families in receipt of tax credits in 2013-14 who benefited from the income rise disregard saw their income rise by over £2,500 but no more than £5,00
15 Dec 2015 · HM Treasury
Welfare Tax Credits
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 1.122 of the Spending Review and Autumn Statement 2015, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of reducing the income rise disregard on the household income of a tax credit
10 Dec 2015 · HM Treasury
Working Tax Credit: Salford and Eccles
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people in Salford and Eccles constituency are in receipt of working tax credits.
10 Dec 2015 · HM Treasury
Government Departments: Assets
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what were the total receipts from the sale of Government assets (a) from 1 January to 7 May 2015 and (b) from 8 May 2015 to date; and whether any further such sales are expected to take place before the end of the ca
10 Dec 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions
Pensioners: Salford and Eccles
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Salford and Eccles constituency are in receipt of (a) pension credit and (b) the carer addition.
10 Dec 2015 · HM Treasury
Pay: Taxation
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps HM Revenue and Customs is talking to ensure that payroll taxes are collected from employers who pay wages in cash; what recent estimate he has made of the number of (a) employers using cash in hand for pay
10 Dec 2015 · HM Treasury
Working Tax Credit: Salford and Eccles
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the average award of working tax credits is in Salford and Eccles constituency.
9 Dec 2015 · HM Treasury
Political Parties: Finance
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Autumn Statement and Spending Review 2015, paragraph 1.309, whether any reduction is planned in (a) Cranborne money and (b) Representative money.
9 Dec 2015 · Cabinet Office
Ministerial Policy Advisers
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the total cost to the public purse was of ministerial special advisors in the last financial year; and how much is projected to be so spent in the next financial year.
8 Dec 2015 · Department for Communities and Local Government
Enterprise Zones: Greater Manchester
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether the Greater Manchester Life Science Enterprise Zone will cover the Salford and Eccles constituency.
8 Dec 2015 · HM Treasury
Community Energy: Tax Allowances
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 3.23 of the Spending Review and Autumn Statement 2015, what assessment he has made of the effect of removing entitlement to social investment tax relief from community energy organisations
7 Dec 2015 · Department of Health
Blood: Contamination
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 22 October 2015 to Question 11834, whether he still intends to open the consultation on reform of support for those affected by contaminated blood products by the end of this year.
7 Dec 2015 · Department of Health
Blood: Contamination
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 22 October 2015 to Question 11834, whether the additional £25 million transitional funding announced by the Prime Minister was provided by HM Treasury or from within existing Departmental
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