Written questions

3,273 written questions tabled, most recent first.

8 May 2025 · Treasury

Revenue and Customs and Valuation Office Agency: Remote Working

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the average office attendance is for (a) Valuation Office Agency and (b) HM Revenue and Customs staff, adjusting for VOA work that requires off-site visits.

8 May 2025 · Treasury

Revenue and Customs and Valuation Office Agency

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in what locations the (a) Valuation Office Agency and (b) HM Revenue and Customs have offices; and whether any offices are shared.

8 May 2025 · Treasury

Business Rates and Council Tax: Valuation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many outstanding (a) council tax and (b) business rate challenges are still open and unresolved in relation to (i) 2022-23, (ii) 2023-24 and (iii) 2024-25 in (A) England and (B) Wales.

8 May 2025 · Treasury

Valuation Office Agency: Staff

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff the Valuation Office Agency employs; and whether she has set a target for a reduction to that number.

8 May 2025 · Treasury

Revenue and Customs and Valuation Office Agency: Consumers

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what customer service metrics are collated into (a) Valuation Office Agency and (b) HM Revenue and Customs.

8 May 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Electronic Government

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals under the Electronic Government Act 2000 to reduce the time taken in relation to

8 May 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government: Israel

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what guidance her Department has issued to local authorities on boycotting (a) goods and services associated with and (b) companies that trade with Israel.

7 May 2025 · Treasury

Revenue and Customs and Valuation Office Agency

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what form of legislation her Department plans to bring forward to merge the Valuation Office Agency with HM Revenue and Customs.

7 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services: Reform

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 17 April 2025 to Question 43484 on Independent Commission into Adult Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the estimated timetable on the t

7 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Waste: Health Hazards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 25 April 2025 to Question 45661 on Waste: Health Hazards, if he will publish guidance issued by the UK Health Security Agency to the local Director of Public Health.

7 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Independent Commission into Adult Social Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 16 April 2025 to Question 43484 on Independent Commission into Adult Social Care, what information his Department holds on which quarter of 2028 the phase two report will

7 May 2025 · Attorney General

Government Departments: Legal Opinion

To ask the Solicitor General, pursuant to the Answer of 25 April 2025 to Question 45656 on Government Departments: Legal Opinion, for what reason changes were made to the previous edition; and if she will publish the previous edition.

7 May 2025 · Cabinet Office

Admiralty House

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the two unused Ministerial residences in Admiralty House are now paying the empty homes council tax premium to Westminster City Council in 2025-26.

7 May 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Trade Unions: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the guidance entitled Taxpayer funding of trade unions: Delivering sensible savings in local government, published in March 2013, remains extant guidance.

7 May 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Offices

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department collates information on individual workplace attendance in its offices outside London.

7 May 2025 · Home Office

Mayors: Police

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether combined authority mayors will be subject to Independent Office for Police Conduct standards.

7 May 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Empty Property and Second Homes: Council Tax

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the (a) second homes and (b) higher empty homes premium on retirement flats which estates inherit but are unable to sell.

7 May 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Equality and Trade Unions

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether any civil servants in her Departmental claim both (a) diversity network and (b) trade union facility time.

7 May 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Industrial Disputes

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 10 April 2025 to Question 43882 on Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Industrial Disputes, what the dispute is between her Departmen

6 May 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Directors

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether Non-Executive Board Members in her Department's interests are published bi-annually.

6 May 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Trade Union Officials

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the Employment Rights Bill on facility time processes in her Department.

6 May 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Tony Blair

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what discussions she has had with Tony Blair since 1 July 2024.

6 May 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Planning

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the document by the Regulatory Policy Committee entitled Status of Post Implementation Reviews, published on 24 April 2025, when her Department plans to underta

6 May 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Public Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has made changes to the thresholds for publishing spending data since 4 July 2024.

6 May 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Women

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of the (a) Supreme Court judgement in the case of For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers of 16 April 2025 and (b)

6 May 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Planning

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the document by the Regulatory Policy Committee entitled Status of Post Implementation Reviews, published 24 April 2025, when Department plans to publish its po

6 May 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Directors

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make it her policy to publish declarations of interest for non-Ministerial board members on her Department's webpage entitled Our governance: Information on the MHCLG

6 May 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Planning

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Regulatory Policy Committee's report entitled Status of Post Implementation Reviews published on 24 April 2025, why the post-implementation review of The In

6 May 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

New Towns

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 23 April 2025 to Question 45389 on New Towns, whether new towns will be designated where the local planning authority does not support the (a) designati

6 May 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Planning

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Regulatory Policy Committee's report entitled the Status of Post Implementation Reviews published on 24 April 2025, for what reason the post-implementation

Source: official written-questions record.