Written questions

1,057 written questions tabled, most recent first.

11 Jul 2019 · Treasury

Infrastructure: Capital Investment

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many capital infrastructure projects have been completed as part of the Government’s National Infrastructure and Construction Pipeline.

11 Jul 2019 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Companies House: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many people are employed at Companies House.

11 Jul 2019 · Treasury

Income Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people received an end of year tax summary from HMRC in 2018.

11 Jul 2019 · Treasury

Tax Avoidance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people have been challenged by HMRC for promoting or facilitating tax avoidance schemes since 2017.

11 Jul 2019 · Treasury

Off-payroll Working

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many tax avoidance schemes related to the use of personal service companies HMRC successfully challenged in 2018.

11 Jul 2019 · Treasury

Business: Taxation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many late filing penalties HMRC collected from large companies in 2018.

25 Jun 2019 · Treasury

Capital Gains Tax: Tax Allowances

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reason the application of Capital Gains Tax relief on trees from which private owners of established conifer woodland benefit after the first 10 years.

25 Jun 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Timber

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to increase (a) the transparency of the UK timber market and (b) the publication of data on timber production.

25 Jun 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Tree Felling

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure the accuracy of the data in relation to tree (a) felling and (b) restocking and the associated granting of felling licences.

25 Jun 2019 · Treasury

Revenue and Customs

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether HMRC has plans to publish its correspondence with (a) tax payers and (b) agents.

19 Jun 2019 · Treasury

Imports: VAT

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether HMRC has plans to introduce postponed accounting for VAT for importers in the event that the UK leaves the EU with a deal.

19 Jun 2019 · Treasury

Taxation: Electronic Government

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has plans for a further consultation on the process for (a) year-end adjustments and (b) the design of software for (i) making tax digital for income tax and (ii) making tax digital for corporation tax in

19 Jun 2019 · Treasury

Income Tax: Electronic Government

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether Making Tax Digital for corporation tax will follow the same model as Making Tax Digital for income tax with a move to quarterly updates.

19 Jun 2019 · Treasury

Corporation Tax: Electronic Government

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when his Department plans to publish the planned consultation on the design of Making Tax Digital for corporation tax.

19 Jun 2019 · Treasury

Taxation: Electronic Government

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department is planning to extend mandation of Making Tax Digital to other taxes.

5 Jun 2019 · Department for Transport

Ferries: Irish Sea

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has made a recent assessment of the effect of the low-cost crewing model on the number of British ratings directly employed on (a) passenger and (b) freight ferry services in the Irish sea.

5 Jun 2019 · Department for Transport

Ferries: Irish Sea

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which crewing agencies are contracted to provide seafarer ratings to ferry companies operating in the Irish Sea; and when those labour supply contracts were last inspected for compliance with Regulation (a) 1.4

5 Jun 2019 · Department for Transport

P&O Ferries: Irish Sea

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has made an assessment of the potential effect on seafarer employment standards in the Irish sea of P&O Ferries’ offer of voluntary redundancy to British seafarers employed on the M/V European Endeav

5 Jun 2019 · Department for Transport

P&O Ferries: Crew

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when his Department last met with representatives of P&O Ferries to discuss seafarer employment.

5 Jun 2019 · Department for Transport

P&O Ferries: Irish Sea

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he is taking steps to ensure that P&O Ferries’ sale of the M/V European Endeavour does not result in a reduction in the employment of British ratings on Irish sea ferry routes; and if he will make a sta

5 Jun 2019 · Department for Transport

P&O Ferries: Irish Sea

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment of the effect on British seafarers’ jobs in the Irish sea of P&O Ferries’ sale of the roll-on roll-off passenger ferry M/V European Endeavour.

21 May 2019 · Treasury

Social Security Benefits: Uprating

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 20 May 2019 to Question 254832 on Social Security Benefits: Uprating, what estimate his Department has made of the cost of resuming the uprating of social security payments in line with CPI

15 May 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the average real terms losses of families affected by the four year freeze to social security payments in the total period of the operation of that freeze.

15 May 2019 · Treasury

Social Security Benefits: Uprating

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether it remains his Department’s policy that the four year freeze on the uprating of social security payments will end in April 2020.

15 May 2019 · Treasury

Parental Pay

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people in employment claimed (a) statutory paternity pay and (b) statutory shared parental pay in each year since 2015.

1 May 2019 · Cabinet Office

Public Sector: Procurement

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many public infrastructure contracts were awarded to foreign companies in the last 12 months.

1 May 2019 · Cabinet Office

Public Sector: Procurement

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many public procurement contracts were awarded to foreign companies in 2018.

1 May 2019 · Treasury

Self-assessment

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many late filing penalties HMRC collected in 2018 from small and medium-sized businesses.

1 May 2019 · Treasury

Tax Avoidance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many penalties related to off-shore activities HMRC collected in the last 12 months.

1 May 2019 · Treasury

General Anti-abuse Rule Advisory Panel

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many cases have been referred to the GAAR Advisory Panel since 2015.

Source: official written-questions record.