Written questions
2,582 written questions tabled, most recent first.
6 May 2016 · Home Office
Vetting
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answers of 1 February 2016 to Questions 23158 and 23749, on vetting, what progress she has made in compiling the data.
6 May 2016 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Employment: Telephone Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 31 March 2016 to Question 31997, on employment: telephone services, if he will provide that data for financial years (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12, (c) 2012-13 and (d)
6 May 2016 · HM Treasury
Transfer Pricing
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many transfer pricing cases have been opened with HM Revenue and Customs' transfer pricing unit in each year since 2008-09; how many such cases have been closed in each such year; and how much was raised in each
6 May 2016 · HM Treasury
Advance Pricing Agreements
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many advance pricing arrangements (APAs) were agreed between companies and his Department in each year since 2009-10; how many such arrangements resulted in a (a) positive and (b) negative yield to the Exchequer;
6 May 2016 · HM Treasury
Revenue and Customs
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what sub-departments HMRC has in addition to the Tax Capacity Building Unit, the Large Business Service/Directorate, the Compliance Unit, the Transfer Pricing Unit, the Business International Directorate, and the Ant
6 May 2016 · HM Treasury
Business: Taxation
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many reports of sanctions breaches were made to the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) in each year since 2009-10; how many of those alleged breaches concerned businesses in HM Revenue and Custom
6 May 2016 · HM Treasury
Treasury: Legal Representation
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, for how many court and tribunal cases his Department did not send a legal representative in each year since 2009-10.
6 May 2016 · HM Treasury
Taxation: Profits
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much was raised by the diverted profits tax in 2015-16.
6 May 2016 · Home Office
Money Laundering
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 3 May 2016 to Question 35790, what data her Department holds on criminal assets abroad and whether such assets are recovered or not.
6 May 2016 · Home Office
Money Laundering: International Cooperation
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which foreign countries made requests to the UK to recover criminal assets they had identified as having been laundered in the UK in each year since 2009; and how much in criminal assets was recovered
6 May 2016 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Shares
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 3 May 2016 to Question 35753, how many and which companies have not confirmed to Companies House that they no longer have bearer shares; and what action he plans
4 May 2016 · HM Treasury
Money Laundering: EU Law
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer to Question 23205 of 22 January 2016, when the consultation on transposition of the EU's Fourth Anti-Money Laundering Directive will begin.
4 May 2016 · HM Treasury
Financial Services: Registration
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many companies in each business sector have been registered with HM Revenue and Customs' Supervised Business Register in each year since 2009-10; and what estimate his Department has made of the proportion of com
4 May 2016 · HM Treasury
Taxation: Business
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) statistics release, Measuring tax gaps 2015 edition: methodological annex, published on 22 October 2015, what proportion of large businesses listed on HMRC's databa
4 May 2016 · HM Treasury
Accountancy: Registration
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many accountancy (a) practitioners and (b) firms are supervised by (i) HM Revenue and Customs and (ii) each of the other accountancy bodies; and how many such practitioners and firms have been (A) investigated fo
4 May 2016 · Home Office
Companies: Ownership
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what powers the police have to obtain information on the beneficial ownership of companies when considering whether to impose restraint orders or confiscation orders under the Proceeds of Crime Act 20
4 May 2016 · HM Treasury
Revenue and Customs: Staff
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff of HM Revenue and Customs have had the power of arrest in each year since 2009-10.
4 May 2016 · HM Treasury
Tax Evasion
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to his Department's news story of 10 April 2016, UK launches cross-government taskforce on the Panama Papers, how many full-time equivalent staff from each agency have been allocated to that taskforce;
4 May 2016 · HM Treasury
Taxation: International Cooperation
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with which countries the UK has negotiated agreements on the exchange of tax information which (a) are in compliance with the OECD's standard for such agreements and (b) provide for the automatic exchange of tax info
4 May 2016 · HM Treasury
Taxation: Business
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraphs H.2 to H.6 of HM Revenue and Customs document, Measuring tax gaps 2015 edition: methodological annex, published in October 2015, what the initial estimate was of the value of large busine
4 May 2016 · HM Treasury
Companies: Ownership
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, which competent authorities in the UK will be able to access data on the beneficial ownership of companies incorporated in (a) other EU countries and (b) British Overseas Territories.
4 May 2016 · HM Treasury
Companies: Ownership
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, which developing countries will be able to access data on the beneficial ownership of companies incorporated in (a) other EU countries and (b) British Overseas Territories.
4 May 2016 · HM Treasury
Revenue and Customs: Staff
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many full-time equivalent staff were employed in HM Revenue and Customs' Criminal Finance Intelligence Operations branch in each year since 2009-10; and (a) how much was recovered by that branch, (b) how many ban
4 May 2016 · Home Office
National Crime Agency: Databases
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many individuals working for which organisations have received clearance to directly access the database of Suspicious Activity Reports in each year since 2009-10.
4 May 2016 · HM Treasury
Taxation
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the oral contribution by the Financial Secretary to the Treasury on 13 April 2016, Official Report, column 374, on tax avoidance and evasion, whether (a) the Guardian, (b) the BBC, (c) the Internati
4 May 2016 · HM Treasury
Money Laundering
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 6.7 of the UK national risk assessment of money laundering and terrorist financing, published in October 2015, how many money laundering cases investigated by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC)
4 May 2016 · HM Treasury
Taxation: Developing Countries
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 18 April 2016 to Question 33610, how much funding the Government has allocated to (a) the Global Forum, (b) the World Bank, (c) the OECD and (d) each developing country to (i) improve the ex
4 May 2016 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Companies: Ownership
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether it is his policy that the proposed public register of beneficial owners of companies will provide details of the names of (a) trust or company service providers and (b) other third
3 May 2016 · Home Office
Counter-terrorism
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, (a) how much funding was allocated by her Department to and (b) how many full-time equivalent staff were employed by (i) Metropolitan Police Counter-Terrorism Command and (ii) each Counter-Terrorism U
3 May 2016 · Home Office
Money Laundering
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) professionals, (b) nominated officers and (c) other nominated officers were prosecuted for failure to disclose under sections 330 to 332 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 in each year sin
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