Written questions
3,273 written questions tabled, most recent first.
6 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Local Government: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 3 December 2024 to Question 15929 on Local Government: Standards, what her definition is of regional government; and what the statutory basis is of regi
6 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Council Tax: Probate
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 29 November 2024 to Question 15203 on Council Tax: Probate, whether the 12 month period for marketing for sale and let is in addition to the 12 month pe
6 Jan 2025 · Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
Candidates: Expenditure
To ask the Right hon. Member for Kenilworth and Southam, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, whether the Electoral Commission has issued guidance on whether a returning officer may levy a prescribed fee for the supply of an e
6 Jan 2025 · Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
Candidates: Expenditure
To ask the Right hon. Member for Kenilworth and Southam, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, whether the Electoral Commission has issued guidance on whether the loan of accommodation to a Parliamentary candidate in the short
6 Jan 2025 · Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
Candidates: Expenditure
To ask the Right hon. Member for Kenilworth and Southam, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, how many and what proportion of local authority returning officers have sent to the Electoral Commission copies of Parliamentary can
6 Jan 2025 · Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
Candidates: Expenditure
To ask the Right hon. Member for Kenilworth and Southam, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what guidance the Electoral Commission has provided on the use of single notional invoices in candidate returns made under the Repre
6 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Housing: Construction
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her Department’s press release entitled Ministers set to unleash biggest building boom in half a century, published on 5 December 2024, what metrics will be use
6 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Private Rented Housing: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will take steps to integrate the regulatory requirements for private landlords of (a) the Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards, (b) the Decent Homes Standard, (c) the Socia
3 Jan 2025 · Treasury
Business Rates and Inheritance Tax
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of (a) family-owned businesses and (b) changes to Business Property Relief on the economy of local communities.
3 Jan 2025 · Treasury
Small Businesses: Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the financial impact of potential changes to Small Business Rate Relief after the introduction of new non-domestic rate multipliers on small businesses; and whether she pla
3 Jan 2025 · Treasury
Small Businesses: Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to support small high street businesses reliant on Small Business Rate Relief.
3 Jan 2025 · Treasury
Small Businesses: Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether properties with a rateable value of £15,000 or less will be able to continue to claim Small Business Rate Relief for the 2026-27 year.
3 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Local Government: Accountability
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 29 November 2024 to Question 15453 on Local Government: Accountability, if she will take steps to make the data published under the Transparency Code mo
3 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Agriculture: Land Use
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of biodiversity net gain on the sale of land previously used for agriculture.
3 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Housing: Construction
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of biodiversity net gain on the cost of housebuilding.
3 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Local Government: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 29 November 2024 to Question 15441 on Local Government: Staff, how the Local Government Workforce Development Group members will be selected; and whethe
3 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Local Government Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 29 November 2024 to Question 15439 on Local government finance, if she will list each of the bidding schemes that have operated in her Department in 202
3 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Construction: Employers' Contributions
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the increase in employers' National Insurance contributions on (a) construction and (b) housebuilding.
3 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Renters' Rights Bill
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 29 November 2024 to Question 15451 on Renters’ Rights Bill, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that Impact Assessments (a) receive clearance
3 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Social Rented Housing: Waiting Lists
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many households were on social housing waiting lists in (a) England and (b) London in each year since 2009-10.
3 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Local Government: Devolution
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what her planned timetable is for the implementation of the proposals in the English Devolution White Paper, published on 16 December 2024.
3 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Development Plans
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, what financial resources will be made available by her Department to support mayoral combined
3 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Local Government
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the English Devolution White Paper, published on the 16 December 2024, what discussions she had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer before setting the populati
3 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Unitary Councils
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her Department’s English Devolution White Paper, published on 16 December 2024, what the evidential basis is for the decision to set new unitary council sizes a
3 Jan 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 her Department's publication entitled English Devolution White Paper, published on 16 December 2024, if she will make it her policy to ensure elections to princ
3 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Correspondence
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 4 December 2024 to Question 16200 on Local Government: Productivity, for what reason her Department does not routinely publish letters issued to local a
3 Jan 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, what the (a) full time equivalent and (b) headcount number of staff assigned to work in each of her Department’s offices is.
3 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Mayors: Lincolnshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answers of 3 December 2024 to Question (a) 15923 and (b) 15934 on Mayors: Elections, for what reason Greater Lincolnshire is not listed as having a mayoral electi
3 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Regional Planning and Development: Thames Estuary
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 6 December 2024 to Question 16892 on Regional Planning and Development: Finance, what her Department's policy is on the (a) continuation of the Thames E
3 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Affordable Housing: Construction
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the average grant subsidy per unit is to build an average affordable dwelling under the (a) social rent, (b) affordable rent and (c) affordable home ownership tenures for th
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