Written questions
3,273 written questions tabled, most recent first.
12 Mar 2025 · Treasury
Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 18 February 2025 to Question 30645 on Business Rates, if she will make an estimate of the number of hereditaments subject to the £500,000 multiplier if the threshold is not uprated in 2026.
11 Mar 2025 · Treasury
Airports: Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 26 February 2025 to Question 32153 on Airports: Business Rates, how airports will be valued in the 2026 business rates revaluation.
11 Mar 2025 · Treasury
Private Education: Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 27 February 2025 to Question 31955 on Private Education: Business Rates, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of liability for business rates on the commercial viability of
11 Mar 2025 · Treasury
Hospitality Industry and Retail Trade: Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 18 February 2025 to Question 30146 on Business Rates, what estimate she has made of the change in overall cost of the retail, hospitality and leisure relief scheme without a cash cap.
11 Mar 2025 · Treasury
Darlington Economic Campus
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many days each Minister in her Department has spent working at the Darlington Campus since 5 July 2024.
11 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Equality
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 18 February 2025 to Question 29152 on Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Equality, which (a) contractors and (b) organisations that
11 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Neighbourhood Plans: Contracts
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 14 February 2025 to Question 25703 on Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Consultants, what changes she has made to the neighbourhood
11 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Consultants
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 21 February 2025 to Question 25703 on MHCLG: consultants, what the monetary value is of the target to reduce spending by 50%.
11 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Parking: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 21 February 2025 to Question 30336 on Parking: Regulation, for what reason a further consultation is required.
11 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Ministers' Private Offices
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 14 February 2025 to Question 23920 on MHCLG: Minister’s Private Offices, if she will publish the invoices for these works.
11 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Deputy Prime Minister: Admiralty House
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 21 February 2025 to Question 30632 on Admiralty House, whether any civil servants assisted her move into Admiralty House.
11 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Public Consultation
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 21 February 2025 to Question 23917 on MHCLG: Public Consultation, what the reference number is of each response that was published in response to a (a)
11 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Byelaws
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what guidance her Department has issued to local authorities on whether byelaws can be applied to regulate inside (a) the curtilage of private property, (b) a dwelling and (c) a
11 Mar 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Energy: Shops
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of minimum energy efficiency standards on the commercial viability of shops in (a) high street and (b) town centre locations.
11 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Housing: Construction
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 21 February 2025 to Question 30440 on Housing: Construction, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of enabling developers to meet biodiversity
11 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Housing: Construction
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the non-regression principle in the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement on her Department's ability to introduce dereg
11 Mar 2025 · Home Office
Fire and Rescue Services: Police
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 21 February 2025 to Question 29614 on Fire and Rescue Services: Police, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to support (a) joint working between emergency servic
11 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Local Government: Disclosure of Information
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer of 24 February 2025, to Question 30652, on Local Government: Disclosure of Information, if she will undertake an audit of the local government transparency
11 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Housing: Migrants
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 21 February 2025 to Question 23144 on Housing: Migrants, whether her Department holds information on the potential impact of immigration on housing cost
11 Mar 2025 · Home Office
Asylum: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 21 February 2025 to Question 26035 on Housing: Asylum, what information her Department holds on the average annual cost to local authorities for looking after (a) unaccompani
11 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Private Rented Housing: Social Security Benefits
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Department's press release entitled Powers for landlords to collect rent from benefit payments to be re-examined, published on 25 January 2025, what assessment her Department has m
11 Mar 2025 · Leader of the House
Written Questions: Government Responses
To ask the Leader of the House, pursuant to the Answer of 22 October 2024 to Question 8807 on Government Departments: Written Questions, whether her policy on Freedom of Information requests also applies to Environmental Information Regulation requests
11 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Noise: Pollution Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the answer of 17 January 2025, to Question 22329, on Noise: Pollution Control, whether his Department has published guidance on established use in statutory nuisance compla
11 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Noise: Pollution Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 21 February 2025 to Question 30643 on Nightclubs and Public Houses: Planning, what guidance his Department has issued on noise and statutory nuisance; and whe
10 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Housing: Construction
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 21 February 2025 to Question 30440 on Housing: Construction, whether SANGS payments and other nature mitigation payments can be offset towards BNG payments.
10 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Conditions of Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 21 February 2025 to Question 30659 on Conditions of Employment: Departmental Responsibilities, how many headcount staff in her Department are assigned t
10 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Chinese Embassy: Planning Permission
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 21 February 2025 to Question 30144 on Chinese Embassy: Planning Inspectorate, if she will (a) list the representations that were received after the dead
10 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Councillors and Polling Stations: Databases
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to support open data across-council look up database for (a) councillor contact details and (b) polling station addresses.
10 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Children's Play: Business Rates
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 24 February 2025 to Question 30226 on Children’s Play: Business Rates, whether children’s soft play centres are entitled to retail, hospitality and leis
10 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office
Public Inquiries
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to para 144 of the UK Government Response to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 2 Report, CP1248, published in February 2025, what his planned timetable is for the publicly accessible record, and wh
Source: official written-questions record.