Lord Taylor of Warwick: asked Her Majesty's Government: How much benefit from the new child tax credit and pension credit systems is unclaimed; and what steps they will take to encourage it to be claimed.
Lord Taylor of Warwick: asked Her Majesty's Government: In view of their wish to encourage more entrepreneurship and business start-ups, why the number of small business closures rose by more than 5 per cent last year.
Lord Taylor of Warwick: asked Her Majesty's Government: Why they are ceasing the 10 per cent tax relief on stocks and shares ISAs from April 2004 when they are seeking to encourage savings.
Lord Taylor of Warwick: asked Her Majesty's Government: Why the Office for National Statistics understated Britain's latest national accounts by £800 million.
Lord Taylor of Warwick: asked Her Majesty's Government: What steps they will take to remedy overpayment of income tax by taxpayers as a result of tax code mistakes.
Lord Taylor of Warwick: asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they will introduce further regulation for the long-term care funding market.
Lord Taylor of Warwick: asked Her Majesty's Government: (a) what is the total cost to business of regulations introduced since 1998; and (b) of the total costs, how much is as a result of regulations which emanated from the European Union.
Lord Taylor of Warwick: asked Her Majesty's Government: In view of the sudden power cuts in London in August, what contingency measures will be taken to prevent more power cuts this winter.
Lord Taylor of Warwick: asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they will consider merging employers' national insurance contributions with corporation tax so as to shift the tax burden away from small businesses.
Lord Taylor of Warwick: asked Her Majesty's Government: Why tax compliance currently costs per year an average of £288 per employee for small firms, but only £5 for the largest firms.
Lord Taylor of Warwick: asked Her Majesty's Government: What plans they have to assist with the cost of obtaining employers' liability insurance.
Lord Taylor of Warwick: asked Her Majesty's Government: Why they consider the percentage of property sales accounted for by first-time buyers to be at its lowest level ever.
Lord Taylor of Warwick: asked Her Majesty's Government: What steps they will take to make it easier for small businesses to bid for and win public sector contracts.
Lord Taylor of Warwick: asked Her Majesty's Government: What is the average cost of providing a lunch meal in (a) school; and (b) prison.
Lord Taylor of Warwick: asked Her Majesty's Government: What steps they will take to remedy the shortage of teachers who specialise in science.
Lord Taylor of Warwick: asked Her Majesty's Government: Why it is necessary to have a lifetime cap on the total value of individual pension funds.
Lord Taylor of Warwick: asked Her Majesty's Government: Why personal finance education, presently only an optional element of the national curriculum, should not be made compulsory.
Lord Taylor of Warwick: asked Her Majesty's Government: Why only 73 per cent of those who applied for pension credit in October 2003 are expected to receive it by October 2006.
Lord Taylor of Warwick: asked Her Majesty's Government: How applicants who cannot operate a bank or post office card account will receive state benefits after the system of benefit payment books ceases in 2005.
Lord Taylor of Warwick: asked Her Majesty's Government: Why British exports to the European Union have fallen to their lowest level in four years, despite the recent drop in the value of sterling against the euro.