Lord Taylor of Warwick

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the claim by the Centre of Social Justice in its report, A Social Housing Strategy, published on 27 October, that designated affordable new homes do not reduce the housing benefit bill.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the recommendation by The Royal Pharmaceutical Society to give pharmacists powers to switch patients to new medications without consulting their GPs in the event of drugs shortages after Br...

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the claim by the Centre for Social Justice in its report, A Social Housing Strategy, published on 27 October, that the cost of housing benefit will treble to more than £70 billion a year by...

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of Home Office statistics demonstrating that the number of hate crimes committed in England and Wales has more than doubled in the past five years and that hate crimes recorded by the police i...

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the case for a graduate talent visa to allow international students to gain work experience in the UK for up to two years after graduating.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the analysis by Universities UK Estimates of lost higher education export revenue, 22 October, of the impact on tax revenues as a result of the restrictions on visas for foreign students.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the analysis by Universities UK Estimates of lost higher education export revenue, 22 October, of the impact on universities of the restrictions on visas for foreign students.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of whether councils circumvent the rule against using capital budgets to fund services by making capital investments whose returns then fund day-to-day spending.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of whether a 21-month transition period after 29 March 2019 is too short to finalise a trade agreement with the EU.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the National Audit Office’s finding in its report Financial Sustainability of local authorities 2018 that central government funding for local authorities has fallen by half in real terms s...

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the conclusion by the Institute for Fiscal Studies report, The IFS Green Budget, published on 16 October, that it would be necessary to raise tax revenues by 1 per cent of national income t...

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to impose a digital services tax on large technology companies.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the report by the British Film Institute Screen Business: How screen sector tax reliefs power economic growth across the UK, published October 2018; and whether they intend to further assis...

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the Confederation of British Industry’s call to review business rates and raise the annual investment allowance to £500,000 for 2 years.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment, if any, they have made of the research conducted by Atos UK & Ireland which found that more than 1.6 million small businesses could grow radically if they improved their digital skills.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the effect of Brexit on the UK music industry.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of research conducted by Credit Suisse Bank that found that food costs would rise by 2.3 per cent in a soft Brexit and by 5.6 per cent in a hard Brexit.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of whether there will be an agreement on the withdrawal terms of the UK leaving the European Union; and whether the statement by Jean-Claude Juncker on 6 October that the chances of a deal hav...

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans, if any, they have to invest in innovation to help support UK businesses in upgrading cyber security.

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to follow the EU’s new energy policy directive of promoting the use of wood as a renewable fuel after Brexit.