Written questions
1,940 written questions tabled, most recent first.
31 Jan 2023 · Treasury
Tax Avoidance
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an assessment of the potential number of people who could become bankrupt due to the Loan Charge and the use of section 684 discretion.
31 Jan 2023 · Treasury
Company Liquidations
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of companies subject to a creditor voluntary liquidation had HMRC as their main creditor in each of the last five years.
31 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Mortality Rates
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment the Department has made of the causes of the increase in the number of excess deaths; and what steps he is taking to reduce that number.
30 Jan 2023 · Department for Transport
Electric Vehicles: Charging Points
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he plans to take steps to ensure that all public electric vehicle chargers must (a) allow for direct card payment and (b) not require the use of an app.
30 Jan 2023 · Treasury
Motor Vehicles: Excise Duties
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department plans to take steps to cover the potential reduction in road tax receipts after the sale of new petrol and diesel vehicles is banned in 2030.
30 Jan 2023 · Department for Transport
Public Transport: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has plans to improve public transport in order to ensure a viable alternative means of transport to electric cars once petrol vehicles are banned after 2030.
30 Jan 2023 · Ministry of Defence
Ukraine: Tanks
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what discussions he has had with his counterparts in the EU on supplying tanks to Ukraine.
27 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Agency Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 26 January 2023 to Question 121016 on NHS: Agency Workers, what estimate he has made of when the 2021-22 data will be available.
25 Jan 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Dangerous Dogs
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to help protect people from dangerous dogs.
25 Jan 2023 · Home Office
Dangerous Dogs
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the effectiveness of Section 59 of the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 in preventing dog attacks involving more than four dogs.
25 Jan 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Dogs
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make it her policy to introduce a limit on the number of dogs that a person can walk at one time that would apply across the UK.
18 Jan 2023 · Home Office
Visas: Doctors
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many visas were issued to doctors to work in the NHS in each of the last three years.
18 Jan 2023 · Treasury
Taxpayer Protection Taskforce
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he plans to replace the Taxpayer Protection Taskforce with an alternative scheme after September 2023.
18 Jan 2023 · Treasury
Treasury: Staff
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the return on investment for each full time equivalent tax compliance officer in each of the last five years.
18 Jan 2023 · Treasury
Treasury: Staff
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many Customer Compliance staff are assigned to each subsect of work within his Department.
16 Jan 2023 · Treasury
Business: Energy
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the oral contribution of the Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury of 9 January 2023 on Non-domestic Energy Support, Official Report, column 327, if he will publish his letter to Ofgem on the review
16 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Heat Networks: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to bring heat networks under the remit of Ofgem.
12 Jan 2023 · Treasury
VAT
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much VAT has been collected in each of the last 12 quarters.
12 Jan 2023 · Treasury
Treasury: Brexit
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many customer compliance staff in his Department were assigned to EU exit work in each of the last 3 years.
12 Jan 2023 · Treasury
Tax Evasion: Criminal Investigation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much the Government spent on tax compliance cases in each of the last five financial years.
11 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Royal Mail: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make an assessment of the appropriateness of Ofcom’s month-long suspension of Royal Mail’s quality of service targets.
11 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Postal Services: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent discussions he has had with Ofcom on the impact of letter delivery delays on (a) vulnerable consumers and (b) small businesses.
11 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Royal Mail: Ofcom
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of Ofcom's regulatory powers to hold Royal Mail to account.
11 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Energy Bills Rebate
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Energy Bill Support Scheme Alternative Funding, when the online portal for applications for that scheme will open open on gov.uk; and when draft guidance on
11 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dental Services: Databases
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when NHS England will resume collecting Dental Commissioning data.
11 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Agency Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much and what proportion of NHS funding was spent on agency staff to fill staff shortages in each of the last five years.
10 Jan 2023 · Department for Transport
Electric Vehicles: Charging Points
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many electric vehicle charging points there has been in each region of the UK in each of the last five years.
10 Jan 2023 · Department for Transport
Electric Vehicles: Greater London
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many electric vehicles were purchased in London in each of the last five years; and what proportion of all electric vehicles purchased in that period in England were purchased in London.
10 Jan 2023 · Department for Education
Childcare
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of childcare providers in each region of England in each of the last five years.
10 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Alcoholic Drinks and Drugs: Addictions
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had discussions with stakeholders on the potential merits of classifying (a) drug and (b) alcohol addiction under the Mental Health Act 1983.
Source: official written-questions record.