Phil Brickell MP: written questions

Written questions

• Tax EvasionMinistry of JusticeTabled 24 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 1602More

  Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many businesses have been found criminally liable for failing to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion in the last 12 months.

  Answer: The Ministry of Justice publishes data on the number of convictions for criminal offences, however, offences specifically relating to ‘failing to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion’ are not separately identifiable from information held centrally. Thi...

  Answered 30 Jul 2024

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• Money LaunderingHome OfficeTabled 24 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 1601More

  Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the suspicious activity report programme.

  Answer: Intelligence from Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) enable law enforcement to identify, disrupt, and recover hundreds of millions of pounds which underpin serious and organised crime in the UK and disrupt criminals. The SARs Reform Programme was establis...

  Answered 29 Jul 2024

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• Rights of WayDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 22 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 1069More

  Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of expanding the right to roam.

  Answer: The Government does not believe the Scottish or Scandinavian models are the right approach in England. The Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 provides the public a right of access to areas of mountain, moor, heath, down, registered common land and coa...

  Answered 26 Jul 2024

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• Royal Bolton Hospital: Accident and Emergency DepartmentsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 1068More

  Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time was for patients at the Royal Bolton Hospital Emergency Department in the latest period for which data is available.

  Answer: This information is not available in the format requested. The latest published National Health Service data, from June 2024, shows that 61.8% of patients were admitted, transferred, or discharged within four hours at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust.The Gover...

  Answered 26 Jul 2024

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• Police Stations: HorwichHome OfficeTabled 22 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 1067More

  Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of re-opening the public enquiry office at Horwich police station.

  Answer: Decisions relating to the police estate, including the availability of public enquiry counters, are decisions for Chief Constables and democratically elected Police and Crime Commissioners, as they are best placed to make decisions about frontline policin...

  Answered 30 Jul 2024

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• Sewage: Bolton WestDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 22 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 1066More

  Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate his Department has made of the number of sewage discharges into watercourses in Bolton West constituency in the last 12 months.

  Answer: The Environment Agency will publish the 2024 Event Duration Monitoring data, showing how long and how often storm overflows have been used, in March 2025. The data for previous years is available here. I would also refer the hon. Member to the Written Sta...

  Answered 29 Jul 2024

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