Torsten Bell

22761 • Cryptoassets: Capital Gains Tax

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.

20411 • Cryptoassets: Capital Gains Tax

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 tax levied on the sale of crypto-assets.

20465 • Jobseeker's Allowance

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 number of on-flows to Jobseekers Allowance where the occupation is unknown since June 2024.

19804 • Insolvency: Assets

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 freehold titles excluding those dealt with by the Bona Vacantia division that have (i) apparently vested in the Crown and (ii) not been referred to the Bona Vacantia division by an interested party following dissolution of companies through (A) striking off by the Registrar of Companies and (B) formal liquidation to date.

19108 • High Rise Flats: Fire Prevention

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 policies originally written by Zurich Insurance.

16634 • High Rise Flats: Fire Prevention

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 insurance.

13792 • Insolvency: Assets

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 Crown following dissolution of companies via (a) striking off by the Registrar of Companies and (b) formal liquidation.

9653 • Insolvency: Assets

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 liquidation process.

3355 • High Rise Flats: Fire Prevention

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 independent verification of the (A) suitability and (B) longevity of the solutions and (ii) is otherwise effectively quality assured.

68875 • Pension Schemes Bill

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact the Pension Schemes Bill on the savings of people in (a) Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard constituency and (b) East of England.

68826 • Pension Credit: Birmingham Edgbaston

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Birmingham Edgbaston constituency were enrolled on Pension Credit in (a) 2023, (b) 2024 and (c) 2025 to date.

68828 • Pension Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people are enrolled on Pension Credit, by (a) religion and (b) ethnic group.

69136 • Hewlett-Packard: Workplace Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent discussions she has had with Hewlett Packard on the change in value of pre-1997 pension scheme members’ pensions; and what steps she is taking to support affected pensioners.

67798 • State Retirement Pensions: Women

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will enter into alternative dispute resolution with women impacted by changes to the State Pension age.

68130 • Pension Funds: Environment Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Pension Schemes Bill will include provisions to (a) support and (b) incentivise investment by pension funds in climate transition-related assets.

68131 • Pension Funds: Environment Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has made an estimate of the proportion of UK pension fund assets currently allocated to climate solutions.

68132 • Pension Funds: Environment Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that pension schemes are encouraged to address long-term climate and biodiversity risks in their investment strategies.

68133 • Pension Schemes Bill

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department plans to integrate climate and nature-related financial risk into legislative and regulatory reforms arising from the Pension Schemes Bill.

68344 • Pension Protection Fund: Remote Working

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much the Pension Protection Fund has spent on equipment to enable staff to work from home in each of the last three years.

68431 • Age Addition

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has made a recent assessment of the effectiveness of the Age Addition paid to pensioners over the age of 80.

68432 • Age Addition

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department plans to uprate the Age Addition for pensioners over 80 in line with inflation.

68433 • Age Addition

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent representations she has received on the adequacy of the Age Addition for pensioners over 80.

68434 • Age Addition

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has plans to review the Age Addition for pensioners aged 80 and over.

68435 • Age Addition

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make a comparative assessment of the relative value of the 25 pence Age Addition (a) at its introduction in 1971 and (b) in 2025.

68436 • Age Addition

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of consolidating the (a) Age Addition and (b) other pension supplements into reforms to simplify the State Pension system.

68437 • Age Addition

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she conduct a review of the effectiveness of the Age Addition for pensioners aged 80 and above.

68661 • Pensioners: Surrey Heath

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to support older people in financial hardship in Surrey Heath constituency.

68839 • NHS: Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the investigation of the pensions regulator into NHSBSA.

68563 • Equitable Life Assurance Society: Compensation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has considered appointing an Independent Commissioner to review unresolved concerns from former Equitable Life policyholders on the (a) methodology and (b) distribution of compensation under the Equitable Life Payment Scheme.