Written questions

Peter Dowd

1,057 written questions tabled, most recent first.

28 Jan 2019 · Treasury

Import Duties

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when his Department plans to publish the schedule of applied tariff rates for imports and exports in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal.

28 Jan 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the answer of 5 June to Question 147921 on NHS: Dental Services, what the patient charge revenue was in 2017-18 (a) in total and (b) as a proportion of the total expenditure on NHS dent

28 Jan 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services: Per Capita Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 5 June to Question 147920 on NHS: Dental Services, what the expenditure was on NHS dental services net of patient charge revenue per head of population in 2017-18.

28 Jan 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services: Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 5 June 2018 to Question 147920 on NHS: Dental Services, what the total expenditure was on NHS dental services (a) gross and (b) net of patient charge revenue in 2017-18.

28 Jan 2019 · Department for Education

Teachers: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimates his Department has made of the comparable costs of the (a) recommendations of the School Teachers’ Pay Review Body that all pay and allowance ranges for teachers and school leaders are uplifted b

28 Jan 2019 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Companies House: Company Investigations

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many companies have been struck off the companies register as a result of action by Companies House in each year since 2010.

28 Jan 2019 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Companies House: Prosecutions

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many prosecutions Companies House has brought in each year since 2010.

25 Jan 2019 · Treasury

VAT: Fraud

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff in HMRC work on tackling VAT fraud.

22 Jan 2019 · Home Office

Visas

14 Jan 2019 · Treasury

Tax Avoidance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) large and (b)medium-sized companies have used HMRC's profit diversion compliance facility in each of the last five years.

8 Jan 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Landlord and Tenant (Covenants) Act 1995

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he plans to amend the Landlord and Tenant (Covenants) Act 1995 to include the enforcement of covenants by (a) management companies and (b) third parties.

8 Jan 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Leasehold

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps in addition to the current review of the leasehold system is his Department taking to provide a reasonable outcome for those leaseholders who bought properties with on

8 Jan 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Leasehold: Ground Rent

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he plans to amend the Housing Act 2004 so that clauses in long leases which would cause the ground rent to exceed the statutory levels set out in that Act will be void fo

19 Dec 2018 · Treasury

Customs: ICT

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much HMRC has spent on (a) new technologies and (b) IT systems for customs after the UK has left the EU.

19 Dec 2018 · Treasury

Tax Avoidance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many providers of tax avoidance schemes paid HMRC a penalty in 2018.

19 Dec 2018 · Treasury

Revenue and Customs: Recruitment

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many of the additional 3,000 HMRC customer service and compliance staff will be recruited at each (a) pay grade and (b) job function in each region.

19 Dec 2018 · Treasury

Revenue and Customs: Brexit

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much of the additional £375 million of funding allocated to the HMRC to prepare for the UK leaving the EU will be spent on new technology and IT requirements for customs and borders.

19 Dec 2018 · Treasury

Revenue and Customs: Brexit

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much of the additional £375 million of funding allocated to HMRC for preparations for the UK leaving the EU will be spent on recruiting HMRC customer service and compliance staff.

12 Dec 2018 · Treasury

Advance Pricing Agreements

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much revenue has accrued to the public purse from anti-avoidance measures to tackle groups of companies using intra-group loans or derivatives to reduce the group’s tax bill.

12 Dec 2018 · Treasury

Tax Avoidance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much revenue has accrued to the public purse from anti-avoidance measures to tackle disguised remuneration since 2011.

12 Dec 2018 · Treasury

Stamp Duty Land Tax: Tax Avoidance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much has been accrued to the public purse as a result of the introduction of anti-avoidance measures in relation to Stamp Duty Land Tax since 2011.

12 Dec 2018 · Treasury

Motor Vehicles: VAT

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much money has accrued to the public purse as a result of the introduction of VAT anti-avoidance measures on imported road vehicles since 2011.

12 Dec 2018 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Companies House: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many staff were employed at companies house in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013, (e) 2014, (vi) 2015, (f) 2016, (g) 2017 and (h) 2018.

14 Nov 2018 · Treasury

Tax Avoidance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much revenue has accrued to the public purse since 2013 from the introduction of anti-avoidance measures related to the introduction of a General Anti-Abuse Rule.

14 Nov 2018 · Treasury

Tax Avoidance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much revenue has accrued to the public purse since 2011 from the (a) introduction of anti-avoidance measures which have modified tax rules that apply to overseas life insurance companies and (b) application of t

14 Nov 2018 · Treasury

Tax Avoidance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much revenue has accrued to the public purse since 2011 from enabling HMRC to require a security from employers where there is a serious risk that tax due under PAYE or class 1 NICs will go unpaid.

14 Nov 2018 · Treasury

Tax Avoidance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much revenue has accrued to the public purse since 2011 through the prevention of tax avoidance resulting from the creation for corporate investors of a credit for UK tax where no tax has been paid.

14 Nov 2018 · Treasury

Tax Avoidance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much revenue has accrued to the public purse since 2011 from preventing individuals and companies using accounting derecognition rules in relation to loans and derivatives to avoid paying corporation tax.

6 Nov 2018 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Renewable Energy: EU Law

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has plans to transpose the provisions of the EU Renewable Energy Directive II into UK law when the UK leaves the EU.

23 Oct 2018 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Renewable Energy: Feed-in Tariffs

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department's proposals to end the export tariff for self-generators will require member states to remunerate self-generators for renewable electricity fed into the gri

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