Torsten Bell MP: written questions

Written questions

• Cryptoassets: Capital Gains TaxTreasuryTabled 8 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22761More

  Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, 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.

  Answer: 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 req...

  Answered 13 Jan 2025

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• Jobseeker's AllowanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20465More

  Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, 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

  Answer: 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...

  Answered 20 Dec 2024

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• Cryptoassets: Capital Gains TaxTreasuryTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20411More

  Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, 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

  Answer: 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...

  Answered 20 Dec 2024

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• Insolvency: AssetsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19804More

  Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, 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

  Answer: 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...

  Answered 20 Dec 2024

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• High Rise Flats: Fire PreventionTreasuryTabled 10 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19108More

  Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, 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

  Answer: 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...

  Answered 17 Dec 2024

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• High Rise Flats: Fire PreventionTreasuryTabled 27 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16634More

  Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, 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

  Answer: 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...

  Answered 2 Dec 2024

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• Insolvency: AssetsAttorney GeneralTabled 12 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 13792More

  Question: To ask the Solicitor General, 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

  Answer: 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...

  Answered 20 Nov 2024

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• Insolvency: AssetsAttorney GeneralTabled 16 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9653More

  Question: To ask the Solicitor General, 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

  Answer: 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 ...

  Answered 25 Oct 2024

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• High Rise Flats: Fire PreventionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 3355More

  Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, 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 independen

  Answer: 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...

  Answered 9 Sept 2024

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