Dr Roz Savage

6 Feb 2026 · Treasury

Hospitality Industry: Business Rates

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of business rates revaluation on village pubs and hospitality venues in rural areas.

6 Feb 2026 · Treasury

Alcoholic Drinks: Excise Duties

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what comparative assessment she has made of the potential impact of alcohol duty policy on on-trade venues such as pubs, with off-trade alcohol sales in supermarkets.

6 Feb 2026 · Treasury

Public Houses: VAT

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has conducted a comparative assessment of the potential impact of (a) VAT rates on food and drink served in pubs compared with (b) VAT rates applied in comparable European countries.

6 Feb 2026 · Treasury

Public Houses: Business Rates

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of introducing additional business rates relief for community pubs that operate as the sole hospitality venue in rural villages.

6 Feb 2026 · Treasury

Public Houses: Taxation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential cumulative impact of business rates, minimum wage increases, VAT, energy costs and alcohol duty on the viability of small and independently owned pubs.

6 Feb 2026 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans she has to review early years funding policy to help ensure it is fit for purpose for rural and shared-setting providers.

6 Feb 2026 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Community Assets and Village Halls

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government on supporting early years provision delivered through village halls and other community assets.

6 Feb 2026 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential implications of rural early years provision in sustaining village communities and preventing rural depopulation on her Department's funding policy for early years.

6 Feb 2026 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of rural early years setting closures on (a) low-income, (b) part-time and (c) any other parental workers.

6 Feb 2026 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help support recruitment and retention of early years staff in rural areas, including consideration of travel costs, wage supplements, and shared staffing models.

6 Feb 2026 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Public Buildings

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will issue guidance to Ofsted and local authorities on recognising the operational challenges faced by early years providers operating from shared community buildings.

6 Feb 2026 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department provides to local authorities on the use of (a) sustainability and (b) contingency funding to prevent the closure of sole early years providers in rural villages.

6 Feb 2026 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many rural early years settings have closed in each of the last five years; and what proportion of those were operating from shared or temporary premises.

6 Feb 2026 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to introduce a (a) rurality and (b) sparsity weighting within the Early Years National Funding Formula.

6 Feb 2026 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the financial viability of rural early years providers operating from (a) village halls and (b) any other shared community premises where daily set-up and pack-down co

4 Feb 2026 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Community Energy

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to support community energy projects.

3 Feb 2026 · Department for Transport

Golden Valley Line: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment has been made of passenger demand and capacity on Great Western Railway services between Kemble and London Paddington, and what steps are being taken to ensure that service provision reflects de

28 Jan 2026 · Treasury

State Retirement Pensions: Income Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of mitigating the combined impact of increased taxation and reduced benefit entitlement on low-income pensioners with no additional earnings or savings.

28 Jan 2026 · Treasury

State Retirement Pensions: Income Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate the Treasury has made of the additional income tax collected from pre-2016 State Pensioners as a result of the frozen personal allowance.

28 Jan 2026 · Department for Work and Pensions

State Retirement Pensions: Income Tax

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that local authorities are aware of the interaction between new tax liabilities for pre-2016 pensioners and the calculation of means-tested benefits.

28 Jan 2026 · Department for Work and Pensions

State Retirement Pensions: Income Tax

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether pensioners issued with a simple assessment are advised to notify their local authority so that their Housing Benefit and Council Tax Reduction can be reassessed.

28 Jan 2026 · Treasury

State Retirement Pensions: Income Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many recipients of the pre-2016 State Pension have been issued with a simple assessment tax demand in each of the last three tax years.

28 Jan 2026 · Department for Work and Pensions

State Retirement Pensions: Income Tax

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether income tax liabilities arising from simple assessment tax demands are taken into account when calculating Housing Benefit and Council Tax Reduction for pensioners whose sole income is the pre-20

28 Jan 2026 · Department for Work and Pensions

State Retirement Pensions: Income Tax

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the frozen personal allowance on entitlement to Housing Benefit and Council Tax Reduction for people in receipt of the pre-April 2016 S

28 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Council Tax and Housing Benefit: Pensioners

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what guidance has been issued to local authorities to ensure they are aware of, and are actively reassessing, potential underpayment of Housing Benefit and Council Tax Reduction

28 Jan 2026 · Treasury

State Retirement Pensions: Income Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many pre-April 2016 state pensioners have been issued with simple assessment tax demands in each of the last three tax years.

28 Jan 2026 · Treasury

State Retirement Pensions: Income Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people in receipt of a pre-April 2016 State Pension have become liable for Income Tax since the freeze in the Income Tax personal allowance threshold.

28 Jan 2026 · Department for Work and Pensions

State Retirement Pensions: Income Tax

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department is taking steps to ensure pensioners issued with simple assessment tax demands are advised to contact their local authority to reassess their entitlement to Housing Benefit and Co

28 Jan 2026 · Department for Work and Pensions

State Retirement Pensions: Income Tax

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether Income Tax liabilities arising from simple assessment are taken into account when calculating (a) Housing Benefit and (b) Council Tax Reduction entitlement for pensioners.

28 Jan 2026 · Department for Work and Pensions

State Retirement Pensions: Income Tax

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of changes to Income Tax liabilities on the amount of (a) Housing Benefit and (b) Council Tax Reduction received by pensioners who retired