Written questions
1,722 written questions tabled, most recent first.
28 Jan 2026 · Treasury
Business Rates: Valuation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the 2026 business rates revaluation was subject to a Cabinet Committee write-round.
28 Jan 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
Abortion and Infanticide: Sex Selection
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help tackle sex-selective abortion and infanticide.
28 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Lobbying: Subversion
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the review into foreign interference will consider the practice of foreign governments hiring UK-based lobbyists.
28 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Affordable Housing: Construction
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer of 17 November 2025 to Question 87778 on Affordable Housing: Construction, what proportion of funding from the new Programme will be used to purchase homes
28 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Allied Publicity Services (Manchester)
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for government’s most important contracts, Data for July to September 2025, published on 25 December 2025, for what reason
28 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Edaroth
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 7 January 2026 to Question 97134 on MHCLG: Departmental Responsibilities, whether the Minister for Housing and Planning discussed government business wi
28 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Business Rates
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will set out how the uplift in rateable values in 2026 affects the calculation of funding of individual local authorities in the Local Government Finance Settlement for 202
27 Jan 2026 · Treasury
Hospitality Industry and Retail Trade: Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 8 January 2026 to Question 102744 on Educational Institutions: Council tax, how many retail, hospital an leisure hereditaments have a rateable value above £500,000 broken down by Special Ca
27 Jan 2026 · Treasury
Hospitality Industry: Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, further to the Valuation Office Agency's publication entitled Non-domestic rating: change in rateable value of rating lists, England and Wales, 2026 Revaluation (draft list), published on 26 November 2025, for what
27 Jan 2026 · Treasury
Council Tax: Valuation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 14 November 2025 to Question 89444 on Property: Valuation, whether the discussion between the Valuation Office Agency and the Scottish Assessors Association on the model assisted valuation
27 Jan 2026 · Treasury
Public Houses: Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate her Department has made of how many and the proportion of pubs hereditaments assigned Valuation Office Agency Special Category Code 226 which were eligible for the 40 per cent Retail, Hospitality and L
27 Jan 2026 · Treasury
Hotels: Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 2 December 2025 to Question 94190 on Hospitality Industry: Taxation, how much is the mean increase in rateable values for the hotel sector following the 2026 revaluation.
27 Jan 2026 · Treasury
Public Houses: Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will set out the criteria used by the Valuation Office Agency to determine whether a gastro-pub is assigned a special category code of a pub or restaurant.
27 Jan 2026 · Treasury
Business Rates: Valuation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government correspondence entitled 4/2025: Retail, Hospitality and Leisure (RHL) Multipliers, published on 17 November 2025, if she will publish the V
27 Jan 2026 · Treasury
Hotels: Tax Yields
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the estimated annual revenue is from the hotel sector in relation to (a) business rates, (b) VAT, (c) National Insurance on employers and (d) corporation tax, according to records held by (i) HM Treasury and (i
27 Jan 2026 · Treasury
Gardens: Council Tax
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the answer of 13 January 2026, to Question 103885, on Council tax: garden, what methodology is used when a garden is valued by the Valuation Office Agency as part of determining the value of the whole dw
27 Jan 2026 · Treasury
Valuation Office Agency: Training
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the answer of 17 November 2025 to Question 88671 on Valuation Office Agency: Training, what the titles are of internal training and e-learning videos held by the Valuation Office Agency in relation to co
27 Jan 2026 · Treasury
Council Tax: Valuation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the valuations and address of each dwelling liable to pay the council tax surcharge will be published online by the Valuation Office Agency.
27 Jan 2026 · Treasury
Public Houses: Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the answer of 6 January 2026, to Question HL13202, on Public Houses: Business Rates, what the equivalent figures are to the 4% increase in average pubs’ business rates bills, in years (a) 2027-28 a
27 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Affordable Housing: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Affordable Homes Programme annual report 2024 to 2025, published on 7 January 2026, whether the £2 billion of funding announced in March 2025 is separate to
27 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Business Rates
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what is the estimated revenue from business rates in England in (a) 2024-25, (b) 2025-26 and (c) 2026-27.
27 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Council Tax: Billing
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, in what financial year will the new default arrangements for council tax bills being billed in 12 instalments, rather than 10, come into effect.
26 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Combined Authorities: Surrey
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what his planned timetable is for determining the (a) principal and (b) geography of a combined authority for Surrey.
26 Jan 2026 · Cabinet Office
Office for Statistics Regulation: Correspondence
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when the head of the Office for Statistics Regulation plans to respond to the letter from the Rt hon. Member for Braintree of 8 January 2026 on business rates.
26 Jan 2026 · Home Office
Asylum: Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her Department's policy is on publishing details of grants on asylum housing costs to individual local authorities.
26 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Co-operative Party
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the Co-operative Party has made representations on the Elections Act 2022 provisions on the banning of dual registration of political parties as third parties.
26 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Second Homes: Council Tax
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether households charged second home council tax premiums under processes later found to be procedurally defective are entitled to refunds.
26 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Electoral Commission
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer of 21 November 2025 to Question 84633 on Electoral Commission, when he plans to issue the new Strategy and Policy Statement for the Electoral Commission to
26 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Translation Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department has made an estimate of the cost to (a) central and (b) local government of the cost of translation and interpretation services.
26 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Affordable Housing: Greater London
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department's publication entitled Affordable housing supply in England: 2024 to 2025, published on 20 November 2025, whether the Greater London Authority’s
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