Written questions
3,273 written questions tabled, most recent first.
5 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 the written statement of 5 February 2025 on English Devolution and Local Government, HCWS418, what her planned timetable is for the (a) establishment of shadow
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 of 5 February 2025 on English Devolution and Local Government, HCWS418, whether (a) district and (b) county council by-elections will be c
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, whether her Department has plans to postpone district council elections in 2026.
5 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Local Government: Devolution
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the written statement of 5 February 2025, HCWS418, on English Devolution and Local Government, what additional funding will be provided to councils in the Devol
5 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Written Questions
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when she plans to answer Question 16192 on Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Corporate Hospitality and Official Gifts, published on 26 November 2024.
5 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Antisemitism
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, which Department is responsible for policy on tackling antisemitism; and what role the Home Office plays on that issue.
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, what the latest date is to postpone local elections due to take place on 1 May 2025.
5 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Antisemitism
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department plans to reconvene the cross-Government working group on tackling anti-Semitism.
5 Feb 2025 · Church Commissioners
Churches: Repairs and Maintenance
To ask the Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, what assessment the Church Commissioners have made of the potential impact of the Law Commission's consultation on burial and cremation, published on 3 October 2024, on the finances o
3 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer of 13 January 2025, to Question 21618, on MHCLG: Staff, how many desks are currently assigned in each of those offices.
3 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Woking Borough Council: Debts
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the Government has received representations from local authorities to write off the Public Works Loan Board debts of Woking Borough Council.
3 Feb 2025 · Home Office
Offences against Children: Inquiries
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 8 January 2025, to Question 21677 on Offences against Children, what funding is being made available to support council-led local inquiries.
3 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Social Services: Council Tax
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Council Tax (Demand Notices and Prescribed Classes of Dwellings) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2025, for what reason the Government is changing the requ
3 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Civil Society: Islam
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 3 January 2025, to Question 20228, on Civil Society: Islam, whether her Department has a list of organisations which it does not engage with.
3 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Mayors
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 6 January 2025 to Question 20571 on Mayors, who will determine the (a) allowance and (b) salaries of Commissioners; whether they will receive local gove
3 Feb 2025 · Home Office
Asylum: Local Government
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made changes to the level of funding to local authorities for asylum seekers since July 2024.
3 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Houseboats
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to increase the availability of (a) houseboats and (b) houseboat moorings.
3 Feb 2025 · Treasury
Small Businesses: Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how the proposed lower multiplier for hospitality, leisure and retail from 2026-27 will interact with small business rate relief; and what estimate she has made of the impact of the lower multiplier on the cost of s
3 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Right to Buy Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 5 December 2024 to Question 16195 on Right to Buy Scheme, if she will publish figures for the amount of Right to Buy receipts retained by local authorit
3 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, if she will publish all correspondence, including electronic communications, between the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and her Department on the planning applicati
3 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Affordable Housing: Construction
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 16 December 2024 to Question 16935 on Affordable Housing: Construction, how many homes of each type of tenure will be delivered from the £500 million ad
3 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Infrastructure: Planning Permission
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 5 December 2024 to Question 16199 on Infrastructure: Planning Permission, what steps she is taking to speed up Ministerial decision-making on national s
3 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Local Government Boundary Commission for England
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the English Devolution White Paper, published on 16 December 2024, whether additional resources will be provided to the Local Government Boundary Commission for
3 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Local Government: Elections
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, whether (a) county and (b) district council by-elections will take place in areas whe
3 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Local Government Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when she plans to publish the final local government finance settlement for financial year 2025-26.
3 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Right to Buy Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Policy paper entitled A review of the increased Right to Buy discounts introduced in 2012, published by her Department on 30 October 2024, if she will publi
3 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Buildings: Carbon Emissions
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what guidance her Department issues on embodied carbon as a material consideration in the planning process when assessing planning applications for the (a) replacement of existin
30 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Disadvantaged
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 12 December 2024 to Question 17826 on Local Government: Disadvantaged, which data metrics were used to compile the 2019 Index of Deprivation; and from w
30 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Local Government: Devolution
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 19 December 2024 to Question 20555 on Elections: Kent, how many local authority areas will participate in the Devolution Priority Programme.
30 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Housing: Construction
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when she plans to bring forward legislative proposals on nutrient neutrality reform.
Source: official written-questions record.