Written questions

3,273 written questions tabled, most recent first.

11 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Conditions of Employment: Departmental Responsibilities

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 22 January 2025 to Question 24225 on Conditions of Employment: Departmental Responsibilities, whether her Department has plans to recruit individuals to

11 Feb 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, with reference to her Department's Local government transparency code 2015, last updated 29 January 2025, if she will make edits to the Code to support the consistent publication

11 Feb 2025 · Treasury

Business Rates

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential cumulative impact of the 2026 business rates revaluation on the plans for a new surcharge on hereditaments with a Rateable Value above £500,000; and whether the £500,000

11 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Council Tax: Payment Methods

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has conducted opinion research on default payment options for council tax bills.

11 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Nightclubs and Public Houses: Agent of Change

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the agent of change principle applies to (a) licensing and (b) statutory nuisance complaints against (i) pubs and (ii) nightclubs.

11 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Tower Hamlets Council

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Written Statement of 22 January 2025 on Local Government Best Value, HCWS378, whether councillors from each of the opposition parties represented on London

11 Feb 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what funding is being made available to local authorities across government to support councils with the cost of (a) asylum seekers and (b) their children in 2024-25.

11 Feb 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 22 January 2025 to Question 24794 on Local Government: Reorganisation, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of breaking up a count

11 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Business Rates

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 30 January 2025 to Question 25704 on Business Rates, what assessment she has made of the number of hereditaments which did not claim (a) any or (b) the

11 Feb 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 31 January 2025 to Question 26034 on Local Government: Reorganisation, if she will place a copy of the report entitled Population size and local authori

11 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Democracy and Elections

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what her Department's timetable is for the publication of a White Paper on Elections and Democracy; and whether she plans to consult with political parties before it is published

11 Feb 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, with reference to the letter from the Permanent Secretary to the hon. Member for Hamble Valley of 3 February 2025, what the cost to the public purse was of logistical support for

11 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Planning Permission: Applications

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether (a) her Department and (b) the Planning Inspectorate has provided guidance to planning inspectors on planning representations subject to foreign interference.

11 Feb 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 28 January 2025 to Question 26038 on Local Government: Reorganisation, whether unitary local government restructuring will be introduced in two-tier are

11 Feb 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 13 January 2025 to Question 21621 on Unitary Councils, what was the (a) research or (b) methodological basis for the population figure of 500,000.

11 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Councillors: Conduct

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 15 January 2025 to Question 22386 on Local Government: Code of Practice, if she will make it her policy to ensure any mandatory, minimum code includes t

10 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government Pension Scheme and National Insurance Contributions

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what her planned timetable is for the next (a) revaluation of the Local Government Pension Schemes and (b) the review of employer and employee contribution rates.

10 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government: Elections

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer of 30 January 2025 to Question HL4145 on Local Government: Elections, for what reason her Department is using the provisions in the Local Government

10 Feb 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 30 January 2025 to Question HL4145, on Local Government: Elections, if he will make it his policy to ensure that plans for local government reorganisati

10 Feb 2025 · Treasury

Business Rates

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the £110,000 cap threshold on retail, hospitality and leisure business rate relief under the multiplier regime will apply from April 2026.

10 Feb 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 3 February 2025 to Question 27350 on Chinese Embassy: Planning Permission, what the policy is of the Planning Inspectorate on representations to plannin

10 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Byelaws

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her plans to give councils new powers to issue bye-laws, whether it is her intention that such bye-laws could regulate otherwise lawful activity on private land

10 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Religion

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 17 January 2025 to Question 22646 on MHCLG: Religion, if she will list each of the individual faith days or faith events recognised by her Department si

10 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 20 December 2024 to Question 19066 on Housing: Construction, whether she plans for housebuilding to reach above 300,000 net dwellings a year to meet sho

10 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Regulator of Social Housing: Translation Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 21 January 2025 to Question 23351 on Regulatory of Social Housing: Translation Services and with reference to the Answer of 15 January 2025 to Question

10 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Salisbury Convention

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will hold discussions with the Leader of the House of Lords on the applicability of the Salisbury-Addison convention to the policies set out in the English Devolution whit

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

Proof of Identity: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many 16 year olds have photographic identification recognised under the Elections Act 2022.

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

Local Government: Reorganisation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her oral statement of 5 February 2025 entitled English Devolution and Local Government, Official Report, column 767, if she (a) plans to legislate to direct loc

7 Feb 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 her oral statement of 5 February 2025, Official Report, Column 767, if she will place a copy of the (a) legal invitation to all 21 two-tier areas and (b) associated l

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

Local Government: Elections

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the written statement on English Devolution and Local Government of 5 February 2025, HCWS418, whether there will be (a) mayoral combined authority elections and

Source: official written-questions record.