Written questions

3,273 written questions tabled, most recent first.

6 Mar 2025 · Department for Transport

Housing: Parking

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what guidance her Department has issued to local authorities on the practice of charging (a) to allow householders to park within the curtilage of their property without a formally approved dropped kerb and (b)

6 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Temporary Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to para 2.19 of the National Audit Office report entitled Local Government financial sustainability, published in February 2025, HC691, what assessment she has made of the potential imp

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

Unitary Councils

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 27 February 2025 to Question 32152 on Unitary councils, what the estimated population per councillor is under the new proposed unitaries with 500,000 po

6 Mar 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, pursuant to the Answer of 27 February 2025 to Question 31042 on MHCLG: Trade Union Officials, whether the level of facility time provided to the trade unions in her Department ha

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

HM Land Registry: Buildings

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 20 December 2024 to Question 19964 on Land Registry: Buildings, how many staff attended on average the Land Registry's Croydon office each week in Novem

6 Mar 2025 · Treasury

Business Rates: Tax Allowances

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of (a) the withdrawal of the Retail, Hospitality and Leisure multiplier and (b) imposition of the new £500,000 multiplier on the marginal tax rate on business rat

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

New Towns: Planning Permission

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 16 December 2024 to Question 16954 on New Towns, what the planning mechanism is by which a New Town area will be designated; and what the role of (a) si

6 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, whether a heritage impact assessment has been conducted on proposals to move the Chinese Embassy to the former Royal Mint building.

6 Mar 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 16 December 2024 to Question 16954 on New Towns, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the willingness of local authorities to participate in

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

Darlington Economic Campus

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many days each of her departmental Ministers has spent working at the Darlington Campus since 5 July 2024.

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

Local Government: Reorganisation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 27 February 2025 to Question 31882 on Local Government: Reorganisation, what the threshold is for her to submit a formal request for a structural review

6 Mar 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 16 December 2024 to Question 16954 on New Towns, whether a requirement to have a New Town will be imposed on local planning authorities if (a) they do n

5 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Licensing Laws

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 24 February 2025 to Question 31048 on Licensing Laws, what the evidential basis is that a unified consent regime for pavement licences did not prove wor

5 Mar 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 21 February 2025 to Question 29991 on Independent Commission into Adult Social Care, what his planned timetable is for responding to the 2028 Phase 2 report; and whether h

5 Mar 2025 · House of Commons Commission

Political Parties: Finance

To ask the hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney, representing the House of Commons Commission, what guidance the Commission has provided on whether the provisions on hon. Members being required to report linked donations and declaring the identity of

5 Mar 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Chinese Embassy: Planning Permission

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 20 January 2025 to Question 24157 on Chinese Embassy: Planning Permission, if he will list the organisations that the Department has received corres

5 Mar 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Flags

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 11 February 2025 to Question 29073 on FCDO: Flags, what flags have been flown at ground level but visible from the public highway since 5 July 2024.

5 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Embassies: Planning Permission

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what powers the Government has to enforce breaches of planning conditions by foreign embassies.

5 Mar 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Tower of London

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether the Government has submitted a report to UNESCO on the state of the Tower of London World Heritage Site.

5 Mar 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Tower of London

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of the proposed Chinese Embassy near the Tower of London World Heritage Site on its UNESCO world heritage status.

5 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Waste Disposal: Local Government

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 21 February 2025 to Question 29081 on Waste Disposal: Local Government, whether state taxes, charges or levies are placed on municipal incineration of househo

5 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Waste Disposal: Local Government

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 21 February 2025 to Question 29081 on Waste Disposal: Local Government, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of gate fees on local authorities'

5 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 20 September 2024 to Question 4992 on Greenpeace, whether his Department engages with (a) Just Stop Oil and (b) Extinction Rebellion.

5 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Property Development: Air Pollution

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answers of 14 February 2025 to Question (a) 29078 and (b) 29080 on Property Development: Air Pollution, whether air quality assessments for developments subject to an E

5 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Sewers

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 27 February 2025 to Question 32543 on Sewers, whether the implementation of SuDS will be (a) subject to the 10 unit threshold previously proposed and (b) not

5 Mar 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Business Premises

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what information his Department holds on the number of (a) offices, (b) shops and (c) warehouses which do not currently meet the Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards for commercial buildings b

5 Mar 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy Performance Certificates: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, pursuant to the Answer of (a) 31 July 2024 to Question 1331 and (b) 21 February 2025 to Question 29088 on Energy Performance Certificates: Housing, what his planned timetable is for publishin

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

Radicalism

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 10 February 2025 to Question 26476 to Community Development: Radicalism, whether her Department’s policy of non-engagement applies to (a) representation

4 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of asylum seekers accommodated in (a) hotels, (b) houses and (c) flats.

4 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Licensing Laws

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Written Statement of 27 February 2025 on Consultation Results: Alcohol in licensed pavement areas, HCWS477, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of the expi

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