Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their estimate of (1) the total rateable value of commercial property (a) before, and (b) after, the current revaluation as at 1 April 2015, and (2) the percentage change as a result of the revaluation, in (i) each local authority area, (ii) each parliamentary constituency, and (iii) each standard region in England and Wales.
Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their estimate of (1) the total rateable value (a) before, and (b) after, the current business rate revaluation as at 1 April 2015, and (2) the percentage change as a result of the revaluation, of (i) office property, (ii) shop property, (iii) industrial and warehouse property, (iv) public house and restaurant property, (v) hotels, (vi) car showrooms,...
Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what are the estimated average earnings from employment of 1,156,000 employees aged 65 years or older, as shown in Summary Table 2(2) of the Office for National Statistics UK Labour Market Bulletin for October by gender.
Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what were the numbers of (1) employed males, and (2) employed females, aged 65 years or older (a) five years ago, (b) 10 years ago, and (c) 20 years ago.
Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what consideration they have given to using the purchasing power of the National Health Service as a major customer of AstraZeneca and Pfizer to ensure that Pfizer honours any undertakings given in the event of a successful takeover of AstraZeneca.
Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay: To ask Her Majesty’s Government, for each of the last three years for which figures are available, what was the total National Health Service expenditure on drugs and medicines produced by (1) AstraZeneca, (2) Pfizer, and (3) GlaxoSmithKline; and what percentage of the National Health Service’s total expenditure on drugs and medicines each of those figures represents.
Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what confidence they have in the forecast by the Office for Budget Responsibility, set out in Table D2 on page 107 of the Budget 2014 Red Book, that commercial property prices will rise by 11.9 per cent in 2013–14, after rising by 23 per cent in 2012–13 and then rising by 21 per cent in 2014–15; and whether HM Revenue and Customs will review the stamp...
Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the estimated annual impact on the Exchequer of the tax-free lump sum withdrawal allowance from an individual's pension pot; and what estimate they have made of the impact on the Exchequer of limiting the tax-free lump sum allowance to (1) £25,000, and (2) £30,000. To ask Her Majesty’s Government, for 2012–13, what was the estimated impact on...
Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what were their assumptions about behavioural change by numbers of people buying different types of annuities, including impaired life annuities, as a result of the changes relating to annuity purchases contained in the Budget.
Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what were the detailed assumptions underlying the Office for Budget Responsibility forecast of divergence between the consumer prices index (CPI) and the retail prices index (RPI) measures of inflation over the next five years, leading to an RPI rate almost double the CPI rate, as set out in the Budget 2014 Red Book.
Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what were the numbers and percentages of female and male executive directors in (1) FTSE-100, and (2) FTSE-250 companies for each of the years for which statistics are available from 1997 until the present.
Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay: To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Warsi on 22 January (WA 120–1), what is their estimate of (1) the number of United Kingdom citizens living abroad in each European Union member state apart from Croatia, and (2) the number of United Kingdom citizens living abroad in each European Union member state apart from Croatia and claiming a United Kingdom...
Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay: To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Warsi on 22 January (WA 120–1), what methodology was used to arrive at the estimate of the total number of United Kingdom citizens living abroad in European Union member states and the total number claiming a United Kingdom state pension.
Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their estimate of the total number of United Kingdom citizens currently resident in other member states of the European Union; and what are the numbers (1) working, and (2) retired.
Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay: To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many United Kingdom residents are currently registered with the relevant British Embassy or High Commission as living in each of the other member states of the European Union.
Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay: To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many United Kingdom citizens currently resident in each of the other member states of the European Union are currently included on the United Kingdom electoral register.
Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay: My Lords, this is an utterly unnecessary, indeed otiose, Bill. It does serious damage to business and jobs in Britain and to stability and security in Europe. As my old friend the noble Lord, Lord Liddle, pointed out, it is playing with fire for long-term confidence and investment from all over the world. Let me make my own position clear. I was actively involved with my then boss, Roy...
Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay: To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many people under state pension age with one or more children have received the Widowed Parent’s Allowance (WPA) in each of the last five years for which figures are available; and what have been the total payments made to WPA recipients in each of those years. To ask Her Majesty’s Government what, for each of the next thirty years, is the estimated...
Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the total value of the 2,384 mortgage applications announced by the Prime Minister on 12 November as having been taken up under their Help to Buy Scheme; and what percentage of that total value is accounted for by mortgages granted in London and the south-east of England.
Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay: To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the comments by the then Minister of State for Housing and Local Government, Grant Shapps, on 12 October 2010 published on the Department for Communities and Local Government website, whether house price stability remains Government policy.
