Question to the HM Treasury:

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.

Answered by Tulip Siddiq

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 to resolve building remediation work covered by EWIC policies is approximately £335m.

Question to the HM Treasury:

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.

Answered by James Murray - Exchequer Secretary (HM Treasury)

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-Assessment.

From the tax year ending 2025, changes will be introduced to the Capital Gains pages of the Self-Assessment forms requiring amounts in respect of cryptoassets to be identified separately.

Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

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.

Answered by Matthew Pennycook - Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government)

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 requested information. Companies are required to provide to the Registrar of Companies the information set out in the Companies Act 2006. This does not include information about land titles held as assets by companies.

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

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.

Answered by Stephen Timms - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)

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 Jobseekers Allowance occupation data since June.