Every parliamentary written question tabled by Luke Akehurst this session, with the full answer and department. See how every department answers, or back to the MP page.
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What mechanisms exist to ensure independent oversight of allegations of serious misconduct or criminality involving HMRC investigators, including compliance with referral requirements and the effectiveness of arrangements for external scrutiny.
Awaiting answer.
Whether HMRC has undertaken, or plans to undertake, any review of enforcement actions, civil penalties or criminal proceedings that may have been affected by concerns regarding the reliability, authorisation, provenance or evidential status of material relied upon in those cases.
Awaiting answer.
What measures are in place to ensure that forensic testing, intelligence, analytical methodologies and other evidence relied upon by HMRC in enforcement action and criminal proceedings are lawfully obtained and independently validated where appropriate.
Awaiting answer.
How many individual disguised remuneration cases are outstanding that need to be resolved by HMRC.
Tackling disguised remuneration (DR) and the promotion and use of DR schemes is a priority for the Government. The ‘Measuring Tax Gaps 2026 edition: estimates for 2024 to 2025’, last updated on 23 June 2026, confirms that the tax gap from marketed avoida...
What steps her Department is taking to ensure small and mid-sized quoted companies (a) invest in and (b) are listed in the UK.
The UK’s capital markets play a key role in delivering on the government’s growth mission. We have already delivered an ambitious set of reforms to make it easier for firms to start, scale, list and stay on UK markets, and capital markets are a core pillar of the Financial Services Growth and Competitiveness Strategy, launched at Mansion House.The UK is also a hub for growth capital, with UK growth markets providing funding to growing companies from across the world. Over the last 10 years, over half of all capital raised on European growth markets was raised on AIM.The government maintains a range of targeted tax reliefs for growth market shares, supporting capital raising for listed businesses, and investors in those shares. This supports growth in the broader UK economy.