Show Search Form

Search Results

registered interest	true false
date	exactly: or between: and
answering body
answering dept id
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name
hansard heading
house id
legislature	pref label
question text
tabling member constituency
tabling member printed
uin
answer	is ministerial correction true false date of answer exactly: or between: and answer text answering member constituency answering member printed question first answered answering member label
tabling member	label

Search

1683033

registered interest
date	17/01/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Research: Tax Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions his Department has had with insurance companies on recent trends in the level of the availability of insurance premiums that insure against (a) Research and Development Expenditure Credit and (b) Research and Development tax relief for small and medium-sized enterprises claims being disallowed.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	10123
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2024 answer text <p>Treasury Ministers and officials have meetings with a wide variety of organisations in the public and private sectors on an ongoing basis.</p><p>Insurers make commercial decisions about the terms of cover they offer, including for tax liabilities, based on their assessment on the likelihood of a claim being made. The Government does not intervene in these commercial decisions by insurers as this could damage competition in the market.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to making Research &amp; Development (R&amp;D) claims as straightforward as possible. His Majesty’s Revenue &amp; Customs (HMRC), are responsible for delivering the checks and compliance activity for R&amp;D claims, in line with their professional standards for compliance.</p> answering member constituency Hitchin and Harpenden answering member printed Bim Afolami question first answered 22/01/2024 18:30:39 answering member 4639 label Biography information for Bim Afolami
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

759829

registered interest
date	12/09/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Bus Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many (a) officials, (b) other staff and (c) contracted workers in his Department are working on buses policy.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough
tabling member printed	Andy McDonald
uin	10123
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>The Department’s Buses and Taxi's division has 27 officials who work full-time or part-time on bus policies. The team does not employ any private contractors. Other officials elsewhere in the Department also spend some of their time working on analytical, policy, communications and other issues that are related to bus policies.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 09/10/2017 12:36:10 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4269 label Biography information for Andy McDonald

418749

registered interest
date	14/09/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Shipping: Crew
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps the Maritime and Coastguard Agency is taking to ensure that members of the Red Ensign Group comply with the safe manning levels recommended by that agency.
tabling member constituency	Wansbeck
tabling member printed	Ian Lavery
uin	10123
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2015 answer text <p>The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) carry out a maximum four year cycle of audits of the Overseas Territory (OT)/Crown Dependency (CD) Administrations, the scope of which is covered in the signed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the UK Government and the individual Government of the OTs and CDs for the operation of their British shipping register. The MOU contains an obligation to ensure that all vessels registered, that are subject to safe manning criteria, are properly crewed and certificated to International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) standards.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The MCA surveyors also carry out targeted inspections of Red Ensign Group (REG) ships visiting UK ports under the Merchant Shipping Act. If examples of a failure to comply are identified, the MCA has at its disposal the same control measures as for Port State Control, i.e. detention, prohibition notices, improvement notices and defect rectification. Findings of these inspections are fed back to the MCA to follow-up with the relevant REG administration.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 17/09/2015 12:10:17 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	4139 label Biography information for Ian Lavery