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1784585

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2025
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Active Travel
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of prioritising active transport schemes.
	tabling member constituency	Guildford
	tabling member printed	Zöe Franklin
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	38299
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2025 answer text <p>The Government recognises the merits of prioritising investment in active travel schemes to support its economic growth, health and net zero missions. Active travel can help to revitalise high streets, enable people to live longer, healthier lives and reduce transport emissions. The Department announced the details of almost £300 million of funding for active travel in 2024/25 and 2025/26 on 12 February.</p> answering member constituency Wakefield and Rothwell answering member printed Simon Lightwood question first answered 17/03/2025 12:06:23 answering member 4943 label Biography information for Simon Lightwood
	tabling member	5313

1783682

	registered interest
	date	12/03/2025
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Warehouses: Business Rates
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of hereditaments in England with a Rateable Value above £500,000 are internet retail warehouses.
	tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
	tabling member printed	Kevin Hollinrake
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	37571
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2025 answer text <p>The Valuation Office Agency published official statistics detailing the number of non-domestic properties in England with a rateable value over £500,000, broken down by sector, sub-sector, special category and region here: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/non-domestic-rating-property-counts-and-rateable-value-rv-for-properties-in-england-with-rv-over-500000" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/non-domestic-rating-property-counts-and-rateable-value-rv-for-properties-in-england-with-rv-over-500000</a>.</p><p> </p><p>There is no special category code for ‘internet retail warehouses’. You may find the data for ‘retail warehouses and food stores’, and ‘large distribution warehouses’ helpful.</p> answering member constituency Ealing North answering member printed James Murray question first answered 17/03/2025 14:14:50 answering member 4797 label Biography information for James Murray
	tabling member	4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake

1783684

	registered interest
	date	12/03/2025
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	English Language
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an estimate of the number of adults resident in the UK unable to (a) read and (b) write in English.
	tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
	tabling member printed	Kevin Hollinrake
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	37573
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2025 answer text <p>The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.</p><p> </p><p>A response to the Hon gentleman’s Parliamentary Question of 12th March is attached.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Queen's Park and Maida Vale answering member printed Georgia Gould question first answered 17/03/2025 14:43:54 answering member 5305 attachment 1 file name PQ37573 (1).pdf title Letter from the National Statistician
	tabling member	4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake

1783691

	registered interest
	date	12/03/2025
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Plastic Surgery: Regulation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of regulatory reform within the aesthetic industry.
	tabling member constituency	Slough
	tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	37688
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2025 answer text <p>The Government is committed to taking action to address longstanding concerns about the safety of the cosmetics sector and is exploring options for further regulation in this area. We will set out the details of our approach in due course.</p> answering member constituency Bristol South answering member printed Karin Smyth grouped question UIN 37689 37690 37691 question first answered 17/03/2025 09:46:31 answering member 4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth
	tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1783692

	registered interest
	date	12/03/2025
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Plastic Surgery: Safety
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the level of patient safety within the aesthetic industry.
	tabling member constituency	Slough
	tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	37689
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2025 answer text <p>The Government is committed to taking action to address longstanding concerns about the safety of the cosmetics sector and is exploring options for further regulation in this area. We will set out the details of our approach in due course.</p> answering member constituency Bristol South answering member printed Karin Smyth grouped question UIN 37688 37690 37691 question first answered 17/03/2025 09:46:31 answering member 4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth
	tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1783693

	registered interest
	date	12/03/2025
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Plastic Surgery: Licensing and Regulation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that practitioners within the aesthetic industry comply with (a) licensing and (b) regulations.
	tabling member constituency	Slough
	tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	37690
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2025 answer text <p>The Government is committed to taking action to address longstanding concerns about the safety of the cosmetics sector and is exploring options for further regulation in this area. We will set out the details of our approach in due course.</p> answering member constituency Bristol South answering member printed Karin Smyth grouped question UIN 37688 37689 37691 question first answered 17/03/2025 09:46:31 answering member 4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth
	tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1783694

	registered interest
	date	12/03/2025
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Non-surgical Cosmetic Procedures
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to introduce legal requirements for practitioners of non-surgical aesthetic treatments.
	tabling member constituency	Slough
	tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	37691
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2025 answer text <p>The Government is committed to taking action to address longstanding concerns about the safety of the cosmetics sector and is exploring options for further regulation in this area. We will set out the details of our approach in due course.</p> answering member constituency Bristol South answering member printed Karin Smyth grouped question UIN 37688 37689 37690 question first answered 17/03/2025 09:46:31 answering member 4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth
	tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1783695

	registered interest
	date	12/03/2025
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Tax Avoidance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she made an assessment of the potential merits of undertaking an impact assessment of her policies on tackling non-compliance in the umbrella company market.
	tabling member constituency	Salisbury
	tabling member printed	John Glen
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	37547
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2025 answer text <p>The Government recognises the positive role that compliant and well-managed umbrella companies can play in the functioning of the temporary labour market. However, non-compliance in the umbrella company market is widespread and costs taxpayers billions of pounds a year.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC analysis shows that at least 275,000 workers, and likely significantly more, were engaged at some point in 2022 to 2023 by umbrella companies that were involved in tax avoidance, evasion or fraud. In the same year around £500 million was lost to disguised remuneration tax avoidance schemes, almost all of which was facilitated by umbrella companies. Hundreds of millions more was lost to so called ‘mini umbrella company’ fraud and other fraudulent attacks by people abusing umbrella company structures.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to closing the tax gap and making the tax system fairer by ensuring temporary workers are protected from large, unexpected tax bills caused by unscrupulous behaviour from non-compliant umbrella companies. That is why the Chancellor announced in her Autumn Budget that the Government will introduce legislation to make recruitment agencies using umbrella companies legally responsible for accounting for PAYE on workers’ pay.</p><p> </p><p>The Government set out the expected Exchequer impacts of this measure at the Budget. The Government will publish a full Tax Impact and Information Note later this year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ealing North answering member printed James Murray grouped question UIN 37548 37549 37550 37551 37552 37553 37554 question first answered 17/03/2025 17:01:51 answering member 4797 label Biography information for James Murray
	tabling member	4051 label Biography information for John Glen

1783696

	registered interest
	date	12/03/2025
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Tax Avoidance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of her policies on tackling non-compliance in the umbrella company market on the labour supply chain.
	tabling member constituency	Salisbury
	tabling member printed	John Glen
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	37548
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2025 answer text <p>The Government recognises the positive role that compliant and well-managed umbrella companies can play in the functioning of the temporary labour market. However, non-compliance in the umbrella company market is widespread and costs taxpayers billions of pounds a year.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC analysis shows that at least 275,000 workers, and likely significantly more, were engaged at some point in 2022 to 2023 by umbrella companies that were involved in tax avoidance, evasion or fraud. In the same year around £500 million was lost to disguised remuneration tax avoidance schemes, almost all of which was facilitated by umbrella companies. Hundreds of millions more was lost to so called ‘mini umbrella company’ fraud and other fraudulent attacks by people abusing umbrella company structures.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to closing the tax gap and making the tax system fairer by ensuring temporary workers are protected from large, unexpected tax bills caused by unscrupulous behaviour from non-compliant umbrella companies. That is why the Chancellor announced in her Autumn Budget that the Government will introduce legislation to make recruitment agencies using umbrella companies legally responsible for accounting for PAYE on workers’ pay.</p><p> </p><p>The Government set out the expected Exchequer impacts of this measure at the Budget. The Government will publish a full Tax Impact and Information Note later this year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ealing North answering member printed James Murray grouped question UIN 37547 37549 37550 37551 37552 37553 37554 question first answered 17/03/2025 17:01:51 answering member 4797 label Biography information for James Murray
	tabling member	4051 label Biography information for John Glen

1783697

	registered interest
	date	12/03/2025
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Tax Avoidance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of her policies on tackling non-compliance in the umbrella company market on the number of joint employment models.
	tabling member constituency	Salisbury
	tabling member printed	John Glen
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	37549
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2025 answer text <p>The Government recognises the positive role that compliant and well-managed umbrella companies can play in the functioning of the temporary labour market. However, non-compliance in the umbrella company market is widespread and costs taxpayers billions of pounds a year.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC analysis shows that at least 275,000 workers, and likely significantly more, were engaged at some point in 2022 to 2023 by umbrella companies that were involved in tax avoidance, evasion or fraud. In the same year around £500 million was lost to disguised remuneration tax avoidance schemes, almost all of which was facilitated by umbrella companies. Hundreds of millions more was lost to so called ‘mini umbrella company’ fraud and other fraudulent attacks by people abusing umbrella company structures.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to closing the tax gap and making the tax system fairer by ensuring temporary workers are protected from large, unexpected tax bills caused by unscrupulous behaviour from non-compliant umbrella companies. That is why the Chancellor announced in her Autumn Budget that the Government will introduce legislation to make recruitment agencies using umbrella companies legally responsible for accounting for PAYE on workers’ pay.</p><p> </p><p>The Government set out the expected Exchequer impacts of this measure at the Budget. The Government will publish a full Tax Impact and Information Note later this year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ealing North answering member printed James Murray grouped question UIN 37547 37548 37550 37551 37552 37553 37554 question first answered 17/03/2025 17:01:51 answering member 4797 label Biography information for James Murray
	tabling member	4051 label Biography information for John Glen