Written questions

1,722 written questions tabled, most recent first.

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Planning Permission: Applications

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer of 15 September 2025, to Question 72839, on Planning Permission, whether the increased digitalisation of the planning system review will examine removing t

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Council Tax

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the average difference is in Band D council tax rates between parished and non-parished areas in 2025-26.

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Students

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment his Department has made of the balance between supply and demand of student accommodation in university towns.

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Business Premises: Rents

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 29 August 2025 to Question 68122 on Business Premises: Rents, if he will publish that research.

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Rents: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department has undertaken research on the potential impact of rent controls on the housing market.

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Green Belt: Property Development

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what information his department holds on the (a) amount of green belt that has been de-designated and (b) number of developments that have been built on green belt land since the

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Business Rates: Tax Allowances

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 15 September 2025 to Question 74221 on Business Rates: Tax Allowance, whether any central government body is responsible for monitoring rate relief frau

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Green Belt: Planning Permission

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 15 September 2025 to Question 71482 on Green Belt: Planning Permission, whether the Planning Inspectorate holds information on decisions made in relatio

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Community Relations: Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 15 September 2025 to Question 73797 on Community Cohesion and Resilience Programme: Finance, how much funding was provided to each local authority; and

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when he plans to respond to the letter from the Rt hon. Member for Braintree of 13 August 2025.

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Council Tax Reduction Schemes: Personal Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 8 September 2025 to Question 73599 on Personal Pensions: Local Government, what guidance his Department has issued to local authorities on the treatment

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mayors: Elections

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 1 September 2025 to Question 69680 on English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill, with which mayors his Department has held discussions on the su

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government: Political Impartiality

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether strategic authority commissioners will be politically restricted.

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Publications

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 29 August 2025 to Question 68791 on MHCLG: English Language, if he will make an assessment of whether publications issued by his Department use (a) clea

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: London Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 29 August 2025 to Question 68790 on MHCLG: Civil Servants, for what reason the London pay range is paid to civil servants in the Hemel Hempstead office.

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Permitted Development Rights

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 29 August 2025 to Question 68789 on Permitted Development Rights, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the Article 4 direc

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Independent Commission on Community & Cohesion

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 15 September 2025 to Question 71488 on Independent Commission on Community and Cohesion, who the members are of the social cohesion taskforce.

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Hate Crime: Internet

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 28 July 2025 to Question 65978 on Islamophobia, whether there was a tender process for the True Vision portal.

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department plans to construct new housing for asylum seekers.

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government Pension Scheme: Lobbying

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department has issued guidance to the Local Government Pension Scheme on hiring lobbyists; and whether his Department has had recent discussions with the Greater Manc

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Regeneration Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much (a) revenue and (b) capital funding has been allocated to the Local Regeneration Fund in each year of the Spending Review period; and whether any of this funding has bee

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 24 July 2025 to Question 69050 on Local Government Finance, what the aggregate value was of the capitalised costs in 2024-25.

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Levelling Up Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the guidance entitled Local Regeneration Fund: accounting officer assessment, published on 2 September 2025, which projects were safeguarded following the consu

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Cement: Production

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the level of cement production in the UK.

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Empty Property

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 8 September 2025 to Question 72484 on Inheritance Tax: Valuation, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the free home care threshold on

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Special Advisers

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many special advisers of the former Deputy Prime Minister have (a) left and (b) remained in government.

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Deputy Prime Minister: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 11 September 2025 to Question 70567 on Deputy Prime Minister: Finance, what the status is of staff in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister who did no

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Angela Rayner

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the former Deputy Prime Minister has received a Ministerial severance payment.

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Chief Scientific Advisers

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 11 September 2025 to Question 75188 on MHCLG: University of Cambridge, for what reason the salary of the Chief Scientific Adviser is recharged through C

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Greater London

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 11 September 2025 to Question 75625 on Building: Safety, if he will make it his policy to intervene in the London Plan to remove regulatory requirements

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