Written questions

502 written questions tabled, most recent first.

30 Jun 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Melilla: Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if she will make representations to her international counterparts to support calls for an investigation into the deaths of migrants and asylum seekers at Melilla on the Moro

28 Jun 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Legal Aid Scheme: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending the proposed 15 per cent increase in legal aid fees to the approximately 58,000 cases that are currently backlogged in the Crown courts.

28 Jun 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Barristers and Courts

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he plans to take to (a) improve the retention of criminal barristers and (b) reduce court backlogs.

28 Jun 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Legal Aid Scheme: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the proposed 15 per cent increase in legal aid fees in the context of how remuneration from those fees for junior barristers compares with minimum wage.

27 Jun 2022 · Department for Transport

Railways: Strikes

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, on what date he first became aware of the likelihood of a nation-wide rail strike occurring in June 2022.

27 Jun 2022 · Department for Transport

Railways: Strikes

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions he has had with (a) Network Rail and (b) train operating companies on resolving potential further rail strikes.

27 Jun 2022 · Department for Transport

Railways: Strikes

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, on what dates he or other Ministers in his Department met with officials from the RMT union in the last 12 months.

26 May 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Energy Bills Rebate: Private Rented Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy or Industrial Strategy, if he will implement safeguards to accompany the Energy Bills Support Scheme to ensure that all private rented sector tenants living in properties with a domestic electricity meter

26 May 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Shireen Abu Akleh

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions she has had with her Israeli counterpart on holding an independent investigation into the killing of Shireen Abu Aqleh.

23 May 2022 · Treasury

Children: Day Care

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will provide a breakdown of the proportion of eligible households that take up tax free childcare in each (a) region and (b) nation of the UK.

23 May 2022 · Treasury

Children: Day Care

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of eligible parents take up tax free childcare.

12 May 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Business: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, on which dates the covid-19 loan scheme counter-fraud strategy board has met.

12 May 2022 · Treasury

Government Departments: Fraud

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Oral Evidence taken by the Treasury Select Committee on 27 April 2022 on HM Treasury’s role in combating fraud, for what reason his Department does not have a global target for reducing public

12 May 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

British Business Bank

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the regulation and supervision of the British Business Bank.

12 May 2022 · Treasury

Public Sector: Fraud

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the managing public money guidance on fraud was last updated.

12 May 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Bounce Back Loan Scheme: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many and what proportion of coronavirus bounce back loans from each lender have been identified as fraudulent.

12 May 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Bounce Back Loan Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many and what proportion of companies that received Coronavirus Bounce Back Loans were issued to companies that had been created by company formation agents.

12 May 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Bounce Back Loan Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many companies that received Bounce Back loans were set up after March 2020.

12 May 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Bounce Back Loan Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of the number of loans made under the Bounce Back Loan Scheme to directors that have subsequently been disqualified or made subject to bankruptcy underta

12 May 2022 · Treasury

Bounce Back Loan Scheme

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an estimate of the value of loans issued through the Bounce Back Loan Scheme at risk of being used to fund terrorist organisations.

12 May 2022 · Treasury

Eat Out to Help Out Scheme: Fraud

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the value of Eat to Help Out funds that were claimed fraudulently.

12 May 2022 · Treasury

Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Fraud

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many allegations of fraud in the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme from whistleblowers HMRC has (a) received, (b) investigated and (c) concluded were fraudulent as of 12 May 2022.

12 May 2022 · Treasury

Taxpayer Protection Taskforce: Staff

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff have been (a) reassigned from other teams in HMRC into the Taxpayer Protection Taskforce and (b) hired by HMRC to replace those who have been reassigned.

12 May 2022 · Treasury

Taxpayer Protection Taskforce: Staff

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much of the Government's £100 million investment in the Taxpayer Protection Taskforce, announced in November 2021, has been used for (a) existing and (b) new HMRC staff.

20 Apr 2022 · Treasury

Health and Social Care Levy

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he approved the HMRC guidance, Prepare for the Health and Social Care Levy, issued on 31 January 2022 and last updated on 7 February 2022.

20 Apr 2022 · Treasury

Health and Social Care Levy: Publicity

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions (a) he or (b) other Ministers in his Department have had with HMRC about the advice issued to employers to add the message, 1.25 per cent uplift in NICs funds NHS, health & social care, to payslips

20 Apr 2022 · Treasury

Taxation: Domicil

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he took to avoid a conflict of interests when considering changes to tax rules for non-domiciled residents.

19 Apr 2022 · Treasury

Corporation Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has held discussions with (a) officials in his Department, (b) Cabinet colleagues and (c) relevant stakeholders on the global minimum corporate tax system since his appointment as Chancellor of the Excheq

19 Apr 2022 · Treasury

Taxation: Domicil

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has attended policy discussions with officials in his Department on (a) the non-domicile status of taxpayers, (b) the treatment of foreign nationals in the UK tax system and (c) the treatment of people pa

29 Mar 2022 · Treasury

Innovation: Finance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the planned cost is of the Innovation Challenge announced in the Spring Statement 2022.

Source: official written-questions record.