David Simmonds

9 Jun 2025 · Cabinet Office

Corporate Hospitality and Official Gifts

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Register of Ministers’ Gifts and Hospitality includes gifts that have been (a) returned and (b) reimbursed to the original donor.

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

Street Trading: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has provided guidance to (a) elected representatives, (b) political parties and (c) community groups on obtaining a (i) street trading and (ii) highways li

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

Local Government Pension Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of previous local government restructuring on costs from pension strain in the Local Government Pension Scheme.

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

Local Government: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether (a) her Department and (b) local government improvement bodies financed through departmental funding centrally (i) collate and (ii) monitor the practice or frequency of l

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

Land: Greater London

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 28 May 2025 to Question 53568 on Land: Greater London, what the planning status is of Metropolitan Open Land designated by the Mayor of London in the Lo

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

Chinese Embassy: Planning Permission

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to articles 35 and 40 of the Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 2015, whether (a) the Chinese government and (b) its agen

6 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Fast Food

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the official statistics entitled Wider Determinants of Health: statistical commentary on the location of fast food outlets, February 2025, published on 10 February 2025, whether (

4 Jun 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Greater London

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the reduction in hotel accommodation for asylum seekers around Heathrow Airport on neighbouring local authorities.

4 Jun 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Greater London

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has received recent representations from London boroughs on the provision of additional funding to house asylum seekers following the reduction in hotel accommodation for asylum seekers ar

22 May 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Tell MAMA: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department is funding the Tell MAMA service in Q1 and Q2 of 2025-26.

22 May 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, whether she attended her Ministerial offices in Marsham Street in person on (a) 22, (b) 23, (c) 24 and (d) 25 April 2025.

22 May 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mo Baines

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether Mo Baines disclosed membership to the (a) Chair, (b) Chief Executive and (c) her Department of any significant political activity in her application for the non-executive

22 May 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Planning and Infrastructure Bill: Impact Assessments

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 13 January 2025 to Question 21626 on Renters' Rights Bill, for what reason the Impact Assessment to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill was not publish

22 May 2025 · Women and Equalities

Recruitment: Equality

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what her Department's policy is on the Rooney Rule when drawing up shortlists for employing staff.

22 May 2025 · Cabinet Office

Domestic Visits: Cambridgeshire Constabulary

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether any external contractors were procured by (a) Downing Street and (b) the Cabinet Office in relation to the Prime Minister’s visit to Cambridgeshire Police headquarters on 10 April 2025.

22 May 2025 · Cabinet Office

Domestic Visits: Cambridgeshire

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether Downing Street (a) photographers, (b) videographers and (c) special advisers accompanied the Prime Minister on his Cambridgeshire visit of 10 April 2025.

22 May 2025 · Home Office

Cambridgeshire Constabulary: Domestic Visits

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any external contractors were procured by her Department in relation to her press conference at the Cambridgeshire Police headquarters on 10 April 2025.

22 May 2025 · Home Office

Cambridgeshire Constabulary: Domestic Visits

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 2 May 2025 to Question 47267 on Cambridgeshire Constabulary: Domestic Visits, whether special advisers in her Department wrote her speech at this event.

21 May 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Waste Disposal: Birmingham

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether (a) Ministers, (b) officials in her Department and (c) Best Value Commissioners have had any involvement in the interlocutory injunctions in relation to the industrial ac

21 May 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Waste Disposal: Birmingham

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make it her policy to expand the remit of her Best Value Commissioners in Birmingham City Council and instruct them to suspend the council trade union facility time g

15 May 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Electoral Register: EU Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what guidance her Department provides to the Electoral Registration Offices on the mechanisms by which qualified EU nationals should be verified for their eligibility to join the

15 May 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Electoral Register: Commonwealth

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what guidance her Department has provided to Electoral Registration Offices on the mechanisms by which qualified Commonwealth citizens should be verified for their eligibility to

15 May 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government: Elections

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what criteria will her Department use to determine whether scheduled elections in 2026 (a) will and (b) will not be postponed in the context of the ongoing two-tier local governm

15 May 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Visits Abroad

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether a business case was prepared for her visit to Ethiopia; and whether she plans to make other foreign visits.

15 May 2025 · Home Office

VE Day: Licensed Premises

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the written ministerial statement of 23 April 2025, HCWS593, on Extending licensing hours for the 80th anniversary of victory in Europe Day, whether her Department made an assessment of th

15 May 2025 · Home Office

Police: Elections

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on whether the (a) College of Policing and (b) National Police Chiefs’ Council has provided guidance to police forces on election purdah.

15 May 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Doors: Fire Prevention

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Written Statement of 2 September 2024 on Building Safety, HCWS62, what the evidential basis is for the proposition that the European standard (BS EN 13501)

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

Doors: Fire Prevention

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the proposed transition period for moving from the BS 476-22 national fire door safety testing standard to the EN1634-1 st

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

Doors: Fire Prevention

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has made an estimate of the testing site capacity required to carry-out fire door tests for the new European Standard (EN1634-1) classification within the

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

Doors: Fire Prevention

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department plans to pause the proposed move from the British fire door safety testing standard (BS 476-22) to the European Standard (EN 1634-1) until the current revi