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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