Written questions
1,041 written questions tabled, most recent first.
10 Oct 2022 · Department for Transport
Aviation: Compensation
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will introduce a new compensation regime for domestic flights through primary legislation.
10 Oct 2022 · Department for Transport
Aviation: Compensation
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when her Department will publish its response to its consultation on Reforming aviation consumer policy: protecting air passenger rights; and whether she still supports the policy aims of that consultation.
10 Oct 2022 · Department for Transport
Aviation: Compensation
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department will allow Regulation EC261/2004 to expire after the passage of the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill in 2023.
10 Oct 2022 · Home Office
HM Passport Office: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the total budget for the Passport Office (a) was in financial year 2021-22 and (b) is in financial year 2022-23.
10 Oct 2022 · Treasury
Tax Avoidance
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much of the tax HMRC believes was avoided through disguised remuneration schemes will be paid by those who (a) recommended, (b) promoted and (c) operated those schemes.
10 Oct 2022 · Treasury
Tax Avoidance
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the revenue that will accrue to the Treasury from the loan charge.
10 Oct 2022 · Home Office
HM Passport Office: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the yearly change was in numbers of staff working in the Passport Office from (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-2017, (c) 2017-18, (d) 2018-2019, (e) 2019-2020, (f) 2020-21 and (g) 2021-22.
10 Oct 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Local Housing Allowance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the calculation of Local Housing Allowance rates applicable in financial year 2022-23.
10 Oct 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Trains: Electric Vehicles
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many four car motor electric units have been scrapped in each year since 2015.
10 Oct 2022 · Department for Transport
Aviation: Compensation
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has had discussions with the devolved administrations on reforming domestic flight compensation regulations.
10 Oct 2022 · Treasury
Tax Avoidance
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will commission an independent review into the adequacy of the Government's loan charge policy.
10 Oct 2022 · Treasury
Tax Avoidance: Repayments
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people seeking refunds due to the changes made by the Morse Review have been refunded by HMRC.
10 Oct 2022 · Treasury
Tax Avoidance: Bankruptcy
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the potential impact of the loan charge on trends in the level of bankruptcies.
10 Oct 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Heating: Hydrogen
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to his remarks in the House on 22 September 2022 on to the potential use of hydrogen for domestic heating, if his Department will publish an assessment of the poten
10 Oct 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Boilers
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will take steps to ban (a) gas boilers, (b) other direct emissions boilers that emit greenhouse gases as defined under the Climate Change Act 2008 and (c) emissions of nitro
10 Oct 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Energy: Prices
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the proposed hydrogen levies contained in the Energy Bill on consumers' fuel bills.
10 Oct 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Government's Growth Plan 2022, published in September 2022, if she will make an estimate of the number of people on Universal Credit who will be placed in the Intensive Work Search
10 Oct 2022 · Home Office
Dahua Technology and Hikvision: CCTV
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of using or procuring (a) Hikvision or (b) Dahua surveillance technologies.
10 Oct 2022 · Department for Transport
Bus Services: Local Government
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans she has to bring forward legislative proposals to allow the creation of municipal bus companies in the upcoming Transport Bill.
10 Oct 2022 · Department for Transport
Trains: Diesel
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many new diesel four car units have been introduced to the rail network in each year since 2015.
10 Oct 2022 · Treasury
Tax Avoidance
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether HMRC has received legal advice on the pursuit of (a) employees and (b) employers for the use of loan schemes.
10 Oct 2022 · Treasury
Tax Avoidance
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) promoters and (b) operators of schemes now subject to the loan charge have been prosecuted for (i) promoting and (ii) operating those schemes.
10 Oct 2022 · Treasury
Tax Avoidance
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the Loan Charge on (a) staff, (b) administration, (c) legal advice and (d) consultancy costs for businesses since the implementation of that
10 Oct 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Energy: Prices
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact on consumers' fuel bills impact of the proposals on hydrogen levies contained in the Energy Bill.
10 Oct 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Heating: Hydrogen
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent assessment his Department has made of the (a) health and (b) air quality impacts of nitrogen oxide emissions generated by the burning of hydrogen in (i) boilers and (i
10 Oct 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Heating: Hydrogen
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, (a) what recent estimate his Department has made of the potential additional costs to consumers if hydrogen is used for domestic heating and (b) what recent assessment he has made
10 Oct 2022 · Department for Transport
Railways: Season Tickets
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when she will publish the review of the introduction of flexible season tickets.
10 Oct 2022 · Department for Transport
Trains: Batteries and Hydrogen
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when the first (a) hydrogen, and (b) battery train will be in commercial operation on the rail network.
10 Oct 2022 · Home Office
Passports: Postal Services
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passports handled by the Passport Office have been lost in the post in each year since 2019.
10 Oct 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Environment Agency: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the yearly change was in numbers of staff working in the Environment Agency from (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-2017, (c) 2017-18, (d) 2018-2019, (e) 2019-2020, (f) 2020-21 and (g) 2021-22
Source: official written-questions record.