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.