Written questions

879 written questions tabled, most recent first.

1 Jun 2020 · Home Office

Migrants: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she make an assessment of the potential merits of ending the NHS surcharge for all migrant workers.

18 May 2020 · Treasury

Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how the employer contribution will be implemented to ensure that staff continue to receive at least 80 per cent of their salary following the extension of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme beyond August 2020.

12 May 2020 · Treasury

Self-employment Income Support Scheme

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will extend the duration of the self-employed income support scheme.

12 May 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment and Support Allowance: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make it her policy to (a) waive the six week penalty and (b) enable the backdating of claims in relation to new-style employment support allowance for people with a shortfall in contribution

12 May 2020 · Home Office

Deportation: Poland

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether it is the Government's policy that the private plane chartered from Stansted to Poland to remove EU nationals on 30 April 2020 was essential travel during the covid-19 outbreak; and what measu

11 May 2020 · Home Office

Foreign Nationals: Visas

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 28 April 2020 to Question 37868 on Foreign Nationals: Coronavirus, whether a person who is unable to apply to extend their visa during the covid-19 lockdown will be treated a

11 May 2020 · Treasury

Self-employment Income Support Scheme: Northern Ireland

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reasons the Self-employment Income Support Scheme online system does not accept a Northern Ireland driving licence or an Irish passport held by Northern Ireland citizens as a way of verifying their identity

28 Apr 2020 · Treasury

Business: Insurance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to help ensure that businesses can claim on their insurance for business interruption due to the covid-19 outbreak.

24 Apr 2020 · Treasury

Directors: Coronavirus

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to support company directors and self-employed company owners who pay themselves via dividends and are therefore ineligible for the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.

24 Apr 2020 · Department for Transport

Package Holidays: Repayments

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps the Government plans to take to support consumers who are eligible for a refund under the The Package Travel and Linked Travel Arrangements Regulations 2018 and who have not received a refund within

20 Apr 2020 · Treasury

Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will extend the cut off date for the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme to make eligible people who submitted their RTI to HMRC after 19 March 2020.

20 Apr 2020 · Treasury

High Income Child Benefit Tax Charge: Coronavirus

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Government has plans to review the high income child benefit charge in response to the covid-19 outbreak.

20 Apr 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Motor Neurone Disease

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will include people with motor neurone disease on the list of vulnerable people during the covid-19 outbreak.

20 Apr 2020 · Treasury

Freight: Coronavirus

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what financial support is available to road haulage firms during the covid-19 outbreak.

20 Apr 2020 · Home Office

Foreign Nationals: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what support her Department is providing to foreign nationals who plan to remain in the UK long-term but are unable to extend their visa due to (a) financial difficulties and (b) not being able to acc

20 Apr 2020 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

British Nationals Abroad: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether his Department has plans to provide financial support to UK citizens that have been required to pay higher airline fees to return to the UK from overseas as a result of the covid-

20 Apr 2020 · Treasury

Employment: Coronavirus

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what support is available for people who finished their employment after 28 February 2020 but have been unable to take up new employment due to the covid-19 outbreak and are not supported by any financial package.

20 Apr 2020 · Treasury

Self-employment Income Support Scheme

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to ensure that the self-employment support scheme does not discriminate against claimants whose income dropped in the applicable tax years as a result of (a) illness and (b) maternity leave;

20 Apr 2020 · Treasury

Self-employment Income Support Scheme: Entertainers

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether artists that have transitioned from receiving the majority of their earnings through PAYE to receiving the majority of their earnings through self-employment in the last three years will be classified as sel

20 Apr 2020 · Treasury

Business: Loans

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he plans to take steps to protect businesses from high interest rate loans offered to them by banks that wish to avoid using the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme during the covid-19 outbreak.

25 Mar 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Private Rented Housing: Students

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what guidance he is providing to (a) landlords and (b) letting agencies who rent private accommodation to students who will move out of term-time accommodation due to the covid-1

25 Mar 2020 · Treasury

Agency Workers: Coronavirus

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to protect agency workers that are facing unemployment as a result of the covid-19 outbreak; and whether those workers are included in the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.

23 Mar 2020 · Treasury

Self-employed: Coronavirus

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to provide financial support to self-employed people during the covid-19 outbreak.

23 Mar 2020 · Home Office

Visas: Married People

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will reduce the minimum income requirement of £18,600 per year to sponsor a spouse's visa during the covid-19 outbreak.

20 Mar 2020 · Home Office

Migrants: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Government plans to provide a support package for migrants in the UK without access to public funds during the covid-19 outbreak.

20 Mar 2020 · Treasury

Broadband: Northern Ireland

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether Project Stratum funding for Northern Ireland to provide digital broadband across rural areas is still in place.

20 Mar 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Remote Working: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what guidance his Department has published on facilitating working from home for businesses that do not normally have such working practices in place.

20 Mar 2020 · Treasury

Day Care: Coronavirus

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what financial support he is making available to private childcare providers during the covid-19 outbreak.

19 Mar 2020 · Home Office

Visas: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of people with (a) ancestry and (b) other visas who have no recourse public funds;and what support is available to those people if they are made redundant duri

18 Mar 2020 · Treasury

Revenue and Custom: Telephone Services

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will allocate more resources to the dedicated HMRC helpline for businesses concerned about paying their tax as a result of the outbreak of covid-19.

Source: official written-questions record.