Written questions · Rachael Maskell

21 Nov 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Holiday Accommodation: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of introducing a licensing regime for short term holiday lets in communities which are popular as holiday destinations.

21 Nov 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Holiday Accommodation: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what comparative assessment she has made of the potential merits of (a) licensing or (b) creating a register for short term holiday lets in the context of monitoring local housing availa

21 Nov 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Private Rented Housing: Evictions

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, when he plans to bring forward legislative proposals to end Section 21 notices.

21 Nov 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Affordable Housing and Social Rented Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of proposals contained in the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill on levels of (a) affordable and (b) social housing.

21 Nov 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Holiday Accommodation: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she plans to take to review regulation of the short term holiday let sector.

18 Nov 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Holiday Accommodation: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will bring forward legislation to provide for licensing of short term holiday lets in the present Parliament.

18 Nov 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Housing: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he is taking to ensure that all living accommodation is (a) no longer damp, (b) meets the category C energy efficiency standard and (c) is retrofitted to meet all current

18 Nov 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Housing: Repairs and Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will commit to a target date for all children and adults to live in damp free homes in (a) Council Housing, (b) residential social landlord housing and (c) privately rented hou

18 Nov 2022 · Home Office

Refugees: Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he has made an assessment of the potential merits of creating employment option for refugees, in the context of labour shortages.

18 Nov 2022 · Home Office

Resettlement: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made for when all people who have come to the UK through the (a) Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme and (b) Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy and are in hotel accommodati

18 Nov 2022 · Home Office

Refugees: Temporary Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps her Department has taken to identify long-term solutions for the provision of accommodation for refugees, in the context of increasing use of hotel accommodation.

18 Nov 2022 · Home Office

Asylum: Hotels

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has taken recent steps with the NHS to help ensure that (a) hotel block bookings made by her Department do not displace (i) nurses and (ii) other public sector workers and (b) suitable alt

18 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Nurses: York Central

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps is he taking to ensure that nurses are adequately housed, including in York Central constituency, in light of rising costs of residential accommodation.

18 Nov 2022 · Treasury

Local Government Finance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reason he did not provide greater financial support for local authorities than that outlined in the Autumn Statement 2022.

18 Nov 2022 · Treasury

Energy: Taxation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reason he decided not to introduce a higher windfall tax levy on oil and gas companies as part of the Autumn Statement 2022.

18 Nov 2022 · Treasury

Cost Effectiveness

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 2.23 of the Autumn Statement, CP 751 published on 17 November 2022, what amount of efficiency savings he expects each Department to make.

18 Nov 2022 · Treasury

Social Security Benefits and State Retirement Pensions: Uprating

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to his proposals in the Autumn Statement, CP 751 published on 17 November 2022 on uprating pensions and other social security payments in April 2023, whether he plans to provide additional financial s

18 Nov 2022 · Treasury

Food Poverty

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of a fall in household disposable income of 7 per cent on levels of food poverty; and what additional steps he is taking to support households with rising costs of

18 Nov 2022 · Treasury

Energy: Prices

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he take steps to implement an additional allowance for disabled people who use energy (a) for equipment for home dialysis, (b) for oxygen concentrators and (c) to keep their home warm due to ill health.

18 Nov 2022 · Treasury

Energy: Prices

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reasons disabled people spend have been less support with energy costs than people in pension poverty.

18 Nov 2022 · Department for Transport

Cycling and Walking: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make it his policy to (a) maintain and (b) build on the £3.8 billion investment into walking and cycling to help people access essential services during the cost of living crisis.

18 Nov 2022 · Department for Transport

Cycling and Walking: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of walking and cycling for saving money, in the context of rising transport costs.

18 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Adult Social Care Discharge Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Departments plans to formally allocate funds from the £500 million Adult Social Care Discharge Fund to social care providers.