Written questions

773 written questions tabled, most recent first.

5 Oct 2020 · Treasury

Tax Avoidance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many individuals settled disguised remuneration tax liability by the 30 September 2020 deadline; and how many individuals were in the settlement process for disguised remuneration tax liability at the time the p

5 Oct 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Terminal Illnesses

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when she plans to publish the conclusions of her Department's review of the special rules for terminally ill welfare claimants.

5 Oct 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Sports: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many covid-19 cases have been as a result of transmission at sporting pilot events approved by his Department.

1 Oct 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Long Covid: Contact Tracing

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to require NHS Test and Trace to contact individuals who test positive for covid-19 on a periodic basis to assess whether they are suffering from long covid symptoms.

30 Sep 2020 · Treasury

Boats: EU Countries

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if HM Revenue and Customs will publish guidance on whether recreational boaters will be liable to pay (a) VAT and (b) import duty in the event that their boat is outside the UK on 31 December 2020 and subsequently b

21 Sep 2020 · Treasury

Beer: Excise Duties

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the oral contribution of 15 September 2020 of the Exchequer Secretary, Official Report, column 180, if he will publish the evidential basis demonstrating that the vast majority of brewers will benefit fr

14 Sep 2020 · Treasury

Beer: Excise Duties

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much Small Breweries' Relief has cost the public purse; and how many brewers have received it in each year since 2015.

14 Sep 2020 · Treasury

Beer: Excise Duties

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate HMRC has made of the number of brewers producing between 2,100 hectolitres and 5,000 hectolitres a year.

8 Sep 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Sewage: Waste Disposal

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether there is a threshold of the annual number of discharges by combined sewer outflows above which the Environment Agency is required to investigate.

7 Sep 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Sewage: Waste Disposal

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for how many hours and on how many occasions combined sewer outflows of each water company have discharged sewage in each year since 2015.

7 Sep 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Sewage: Waste Disposal

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of the combined sewer overflows of each water company have monitoring equipment in place.

7 Sep 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Football: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when he plans to issue guidance for non-league football clubs in the National League and National Leagues North and South on allowing supporters into grounds to watch matches.

28 Aug 2020 · Department for Education

Schools: Norfolk

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will list the level of funding provided to schools in (a) Norfolk and (b) the North West Norfolk constituency for each year since 2015.

28 Aug 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Rivers: EU Law

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans his Department has to amend the one out all out rule for rivers set out in the Water Framework Directive.

28 Aug 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Plans: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will issue guidance to the Planning Inspectorate on appeals relating to housing development sites which local authorities have begun removing from local plans.

28 Aug 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Village Halls: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will change his Department's guidance to allow parish councils that have a precept to claim discretionary covid-19 grants for village halls.

28 Aug 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Green Homes Grant Scheme: Park Homes

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether the new Green Homes Grant scheme will be available to the owners and tenants of (a) park homes and (b) other mobile homes.

21 Jul 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water: Norfolk

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress the Environment Agency has made in its plan to de-main eleven watercourses in Norfolk, announced in 2017.

21 Jul 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Rivers: Environment Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what funding his Department plans to make available for the restoration of chalk streams in the next three years.

21 Jul 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Rivers: Environment Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what funding (a) his Department and (b) the Environment Agency has made available for the restoration of chalk streams in each year since 2012.

21 Jul 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Personal Care Services: Coronavirus

What steps his Department is taking to enable (a) beauty salons and (b) other businesses to conduct facial treatments in a covid-secure way.

20 Jul 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Public Footpaths: Coastal Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to respond to Natural England's report on proposals for the Weybourne to Hunstanton England Coast Path submitted to his Department on 21 March 2018.

20 Jul 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Public Footpaths: Coastal Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he expects to respond to the Natural England's report on the Weybourne to Hunstanton proposals for the England Coast Path submitted to his department on 21 Mach 2018; and when he

15 Jul 2020 · Cabinet Office

Exports: China

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the value of UK (a) goods and (b) services exports to China was in each of the last five years.

13 Jul 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Gambling: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment (a) his Department and (b) the Gambling Commission has made of the level of risk of harm to vulnerable people from permitting gambling charges to be added to post-paid mo

13 Jul 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Personal Care Services: Income

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will estimate the proportion of beauty industry sector turnover that is derived from facial treatments.

13 Jul 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Personal Care Services: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will publish Public Health England's assessment of the scientific evidence on which the Government has instructed that beauty salons are not permitted to carry out facial tr

2 Jul 2020 · Cabinet Office

Ministerial Responsibility

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to bring forward legislative proposals to give statutory effect to the Carltona principle.

2 Jul 2020 · Cabinet Office

Ministerial Responsibility

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the effect of the Supreme Court ruling in R v Adams (Appellant) (Northern Ireland) UKSC 2018/0104 on the Carltona principle set out in the Cabinet Manual.

29 Jun 2020 · Home Office

Driving Instruction: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has issued guidance to police forces on the suspension of driver awareness courses during the covid-19 outbreak.

Source: official written-questions record.