Kevin Hollinrake

8 Apr 2025 · Treasury

Charities: Business Rates

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the new surcharge on hereditaments over £500,000 from April 2026, whether educational charities will be liable to pay the increase in business rates which is not covered by mandatory charitable rat

8 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Fast Food

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will hold discussions with the Food Standards Agency on whether it has a working definition of a fast food outlet.

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

Local Government Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the statutory guidance entitled Guidance on the flexible use of capital receipts, updated on 26 March 2025, whether the sale of a local authority school playing

8 Apr 2025 · Treasury

Business Rates: Tax Allowances

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 14 March 2025 to Question 36094 on Business Rates: Tax Allowances, if she will consider a tapering system as part of the new multiplier arrangements.

7 Apr 2025 · Treasury

Business Rates: Tax Allowances

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, which retail, hospitality and leisure hereditaments have their rateable value assessed by the Valuation Office Agency using turnover expenditure as part of the metrics.

7 Apr 2025 · Treasury

Business Rates: Tax Allowances

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 25 March 2025 to Question 39035 on Business Rates: Tax Allowances, whether a retail, hospitality and leisure (RHL) hereditament in receipt of the lower RHL multiplier will (a) lose that mul

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

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Communication and Consultants

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the value is of the baseline spending on (a) communications and (b) consultancy on which her Department's targets to reduce such spending is based.

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

Birmingham City Council

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will publish the minutes of her meeting with Birmingham City Council on 5 April 2025; and what the conclusions were of the meeting.

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

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Meetings

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether there was a cost to the public purse for the hire of Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club for the roundtable event she attended on 4 April 2025.

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

Palestine Action

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department engages with Palestine Action.

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

Housing: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate her Department has made of the number of houses that will be built in each year between 2025-26 and 2029-30.

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

Planning Permission: Environment Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has undertaken Environment Act environmental principles assessments when issuing (a) new and (b) revised planning practice guidance since July 2024.

7 Apr 2025 · Home Office

Travellers: Caravan Sites

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 28 March 2025 to Question 39632 on Travellers: Caravan Sites, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of this ruling on unauthorised traveller sites.

7 Apr 2025 · Treasury

Hospitality Industry and Retail Trade: Business Rates

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 18 March 2025 to Question 37227 on Hospitality Industry and Retail Trade: Business Rates, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the new (a) lower and (b) higher multiplier

4 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Combined Authorities and Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has a planned timetable for the alignment of administrative NHS boundaries with mayoral combined authority boundaries.

4 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Combined Authorities and Police, Fire and Crime Commissioners

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 6 March 2025 to Question 25780 on Police, Fire and Crime Commissioners: Elections, what her planned timetable is for the alignment of the Police Force a

4 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Police, Fire and Crime Commissioners

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 6 March 2025 to Question 25780 on Police, Fire and Crime Commissioners: Elections, whether existing Police and Crime Commissioners will serve their full

4 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Nature Restoration Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 26 March 2025 to Question 39016 on Nature Restoration Fund, whether planning permission can be refused if a self-build developer declines to pay the vol

4 Apr 2025 · Treasury

Business Rates

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the transitional relief scheme for the 2026 business rates revaluation will be financed by (a) direct funding, (b) downward phasing and (c) a higher multiplier.

4 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government: Israel

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 1 April 2025 to Question 38374 on Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill, whether her Department has a policy on (a) grant recipient

4 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government: Elections

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has issued guidance to local authorities on making (a) licensing, (b) planning and (c) gambling decisions during local election periods.

4 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Building Regulations

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department plans to conduct a review of compliance costs from building regulations.

4 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Waste Disposal: Birmingham

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what discussions the Best Value Commissioners in Birmingham City Council have had with (a) council officers and (b) the Unite trade union on bin collection industrial action.

4 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Compulsory Purchase

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to allow (a) councils, (b) Natural England and (c) development corporations to have enhanced Compulsory Purchase Powers for the mandatory purchase of residentia

4 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Pest Control: Birmingham

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing additional funding to Birmingham City Council for pest control services.

4 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Waste Disposal: Best Value

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what guidance she has issued on whether not collecting refuse waste could lead to a best value intervention at a local authority.

4 Apr 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Employment Rights Bill: Local Government Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the Employment Rights Bill on the ability of councils to provide (a) regular refuse collections and (b) other core services.

4 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Public Health: Birmingham

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to provide additional resources to Birmingham City Council to help support public health.

4 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Waste Disposal: Birmingham

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her Department's statutory guidance entitled, Best value standards and intervention: a statutory guide for best value authorities, published on 8 May 2024, if s

4 Apr 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 are employed by her Department.