Written questions

2,200 written questions tabled, most recent first.

25 Oct 2022 · Treasury

Inheritance Tax: Tax Avoidance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential for Business Relief and Agricultural Property Relief on Inheritance Tax to be used as loopholes to avoid paying the appropriate inheritance tax on assets.

25 Oct 2022 · Treasury

Inheritance Tax: Tax Allowances

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he plans to (a) scrap or (b) reform Business Relief and Agricultural Property Relief on Inheritance Tax.

25 Oct 2022 · Treasury

Taxation: Domicil

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment has he made of the potential merits of abolishing the non-domicile tax regime.

25 Oct 2022 · Treasury

National Insurance: Investment Income

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential revenue that would be raised by extending National Insurance to investment income.

25 Oct 2022 · Treasury

National Insurance: Investment Income

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of extending National Insurance to investment income.

25 Oct 2022 · Treasury

Capital Gains Tax: Income Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment has he made of the potential amount of revenue that could be raised by aligning Capital Gains Tax rates with Income Tax.

25 Oct 2022 · Treasury

Capital Gains Tax: Income Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment has he made of the potential merits of aligning Capital Gains Tax rates with Income Tax.

24 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Ambulance Services: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department has taken recent steps to help improve ambulance handover times at hospitals.

24 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of bringing outsourced NHS workers back in house.

24 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to tackle the widening pay gap between subcontracted NHS workers and public sector workers.

24 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Living Wage

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to ensure that subcontracted NHS workers are paid at least a Real Living Wage.

20 Oct 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Bahrain: Human Rights

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent steps his Department has taken to help tackle human rights violations in Bahrain.

20 Oct 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Bahrain: Political Prisoners

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he is taking steps to help ensure the immediate and unconditional release of political prisoners in Bahrain.

20 Oct 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

State Retirement Pensions: Females

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the changes to the State Pension age on women born in the 1950's, in the context of increases in the cost of living.

20 Oct 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

State Retirement Pensions: Females

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the communications issued by her Department on the State Pension age changes to women born in the 1950s.

20 Oct 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

State Retirement Pensions: Females

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to protect single, female pensioners who believe they were given inadequate notice of State Pension age changes during the winter months.

20 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pregnancy and Surgical Mesh Implants

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will reconsider the Government's decision not to accept the recommendation of the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Review 2022 led by Baroness Cumberlege on the setting up of an ind

20 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pregnancy Tests

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will commission an independent review of the report by the Expert Working Group of the Commission on Human Medicines on Hormone Pregnancy Tests, published on 15 November 2017.

19 Oct 2022 · Home Office

Visas: Graduates

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many graduate student visa holders are accompanied by five or six dependents.

19 Oct 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Childcare: Tax Allowances

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 18 October 2022 to Question 62963 on Childcare: Tax Allowances, what plans she has to (a) monitor and (b) implement a service standard for waiting time for reimbursement of chi

17 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Tobacco

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when her department will publish the Tobacco Control Plan.

13 Oct 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Childcare: Tax Allowances

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average time is for her Department to process a claim for help with childcare.

12 Oct 2022 · Department for Transport

Large Goods Vehicle Drivers

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to retain HGV drivers.

12 Oct 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Evictions

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if it remains the Government's policy to abolish no-fault section 21 evictions.

11 Oct 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Evictions

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether it remains the Government's policy to abolish section 21 no-fault evictions.

11 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Department of Health and Social Care: Ministerial Changes

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if it is her intention to appoint a Minister for Care.

11 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Podiatry: Liverpool Walton

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made (a) podiatry vacancy rates in the NHS in Liverpool Walton and (b) the impact these vacancies will have on patient treatment for diabetic foot complications.

11 Oct 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Television Licences: Non-payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many people (a) have been (i) fined, (ii) arrested and (iii) imprisoned for non payment of their television licence in each of the last three years and (b) are subject to legal actio

11 Oct 2022 · Home Office

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to the correspondence from the hon. Member for Walton of 8 September 2022 on Yadgar Khalid.

11 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Food and Hygiene: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to maintain high standards on business (a) hygiene and (b) food safety in the result of associated regulations being removed.

Source: official written-questions record.