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Written questions by Bell.

Every parliamentary written question tabled by Torsten Bell this session, with the full answer and department. See how every department answers, or back to the MP page.

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8 Jan 2025·Treasury·Answered
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Whether she has made an estimate of the revenue accrued from capital gains tax on the sale of crypto-assets in the last financial year.

Reply

No estimate of the revenue accrued from capital gains tax on the sale of cryptoassets has been made for the last financial year, 2023-24. From the tax year ending 2025, changes will be introduced to the Capital Gains pages of the Self-Assessment forms requiring amounts in respect of cryptoassets to be identified separately.

16 Dec 2024·Treasury·Answered
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How many tax-payers were paying capital gains tax on crypto-assets in each of the last five financial years; what the size of the gains made was; and how much revenue the Exchequer has received from capital gains ta

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Income and gains in relation to cryptoassets are currently reported in the same sections with other incomes and gains on the Self-Assessment return pages, and therefore those amounts are not separately identifiable from the data collected via Self-Assessm...

16 Dec 2024·Department for Work and Pensions·Answered
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With reference to her Department’s statistics on the ONS Nomis database on Jobseekers Allowance on-flows by occupation and age, what assessment she has made of the potential reason for changes in the nu

Reply

There have been some changes to the administrative instructions followed by the department’s Work Coaches around recording occupation at the Initial Work Seach Interview. This has led to the observed change in the levels of unknown occupations in the Jobs...

12 Dec 2024·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·Answered
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Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 20 November to Question 13792 on Insolvency: Assets, what information (a) HM Land Registry and (b) Companies House hold on the number of registered free

Reply

HM Land Registry does not hold data on the number of registered freehold titles where ownership has passed to the Crown following the dissolution of a company, where the Bona Vacantia Division has not yet been notified.Companies House does not hold the re...

10 Dec 2024·Treasury·Answered
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Pursuant to the Answer of 2 December 2024 to Question 16634 on high rise building remediation taken on by the FSCS, how much and what proportion of the costs covered by East West Insurance Company policies relate to

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The Joint Administrators of East West Insurance Company (EWIC) published a report in 2021 that confirmed that all of EWIC’s building guarantee and warranty policies originated with Zurich Insurance. As disclosed previously, the best estimate for the costs...

27 Nov 2024·Treasury·Answered
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What estimate the Financial Services Compensation Scheme has made of the costs (a) of high rise building remediation work taken on by the FSCS and (b) to each insurance company that originally wrote the building ins

Reply

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) provides protections to the eligible customers of failed insurers regulated by the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), subject to the conditions, limits and requirements set out in PRA rules. In the con...

12 Nov 2024·Attorney General·Answered
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Pursuant to the Answer of 25 October to Question 9653 on Insolvency: Assets, in addition to the registered freehold titles that the Bona Vacantia Division is dealing with, how many registered freehold titles are vested in the

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The Bona Vacantia Division (“the Division”) of the Government Legal Department acts on behalf of the Treasury Solicitor (the Crown’s Nominee for bona vacantia).The Division is not automatically informed of the assets of a company on dissolution and the Di...

16 Oct 2024·Attorney General·Answered
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How many registered freehold titles in England and Wales are vested in the Crown as bona vacantia as a consequence of companies being dissolved through (a) striking off by the Registrar of Companies and (b) a formal liquidati

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The Bona Vacantia Division (“the Division”) of the Government Legal Department acts on behalf of the Treasury Solicitor (the Crown’s Nominee for bona vacantia).The Division is currently dealing with 380 freehold titles which appear to have vested as bona ...

30 Aug 2024·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·Answered
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Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the remedial work on buildings with (a) faulty cladding systems and (b) defects in compartmentalisation (i) includes independent verification of the (A) suitability and (B) longevity of the solutions and (ii) is otherwise effectively quality assured.

Reply

The Government is committed to ensuring that historic, life-critical fire safety defects in affected buildings are addressed. Our remediation programmes have processes in place to ensure that work is done to the appropriate standard and is remedied if not.While the specific controls and assurances of remediation programmes differ, both developers and applicants to government remediation funds must provide a Fire Risk Appraisal of the External Walls (FRAEW), which will assess risks and recommend remedial works to address these risks where necessary. These are carried out by independent Fire Risk Assessors and robust processes are in place to assess the FRAEWs submitted.All remedial works must also obtain Building Control approval which provides independent assurance that the works comply with Building Regulations.

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