Ben Obese-Jecty MP: written questions
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4 Jul 2025–3 Jul 2026. One record per UIN and tabled date; the named department is not a measure of answer quality.
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Industry: FinanceTreasuryTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79167More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the UK’s Modern Industrial Strategy, CP 1337, published on 23 June 2025, what progress she has made on channelling pensions capital into the UK to support IS-8 sectors.
Answer: The Pension Schemes Bill was introduced on 5 June and will implement the reforms outlined in the first phase of the landmark Pensions Review,The Bill sets out a vision for a pensions market with fewer, larger schemes which can use the benefits of scale to...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordFinancial ServicesTreasuryTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79166More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the UK’s Modern Industrial Strategy, CP 1337, published on 23 June 2025, what progress she has made on making the UK the world’s most innovative full-service financial centre.
Answer: The Government published the Financial Services Growth and Competitiveness Strategy on 15 July, which sets out the Government’s ten-year plan to make the UK the global location of choice for financial services firms to invest, grow and sell their services...
Answered 16 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordSanctionsTreasuryTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77260More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 9 September 2025 to Question 72563 on Sanctions, which company received a penalty of £1.1 million in May 2025.
Answer: HMRC is unable to disclose this information due to its taxpayer confidentiality obligations. The Department for Business and Trade, on behalf of HMRC, publishes a notice every quarter in respect of the number of businesses and individuals that may have be...
Answered 13 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordSanctionsTreasuryTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77259More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 9 September 2025 to Question 72563 on Sanctions, which company received a monetary penalty of £465,000 in March 2025.
Answer: On 20th March 2025, the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) imposed on Herbert Smith Freehills CIS LLPP (“HSF Moscow”) a monetary penalty for the sum of £465,000. HSF Moscow was the subsidiary office to the UK registered Herbert Smith Free...
Answered 13 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordDefence: ImportsTreasuryTabled 11 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76682More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the introduction of CBAM in January 2027 on defence imports.
Answer: The UK government is introducing a carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) on 1 January 2027 to address the risk of carbon leakage. The UK CBAM is a new tax which will ensure that highly traded, carbon intensive goods which are imported from overseas fa...
Answered 16 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordTreasury: Sick LeaveTreasuryTabled 2 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 74167More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many days were lost to sickness absence by civil servants in their Department (a) in total and (b) on average per employee between 5 July 2024 and 4 July 2025.
Answer: HM Treasury complies with the Cabinet Office’s sickness absence collection quarterly process. All submissions of details relating to his question can be found through this cross-government designed process.
Answered 10 Sept 2025
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