David Simmonds

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 the evidential basis is for proposals to remove the national BS 476-22 classification for fire door resistance from Approved Document B.

22 Apr 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) asylum seekers and (b) refugees are housed in accommodation procured by Clearsprings Ready Homes by local authority.

22 Apr 2025 · Department for Education

Children: Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what type of public body the child protection authority will be; what powers it will have; how it will be funded; whether it will subsume existing (a) public bodies and (b) regulators; and what powers it will h

22 Apr 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) asylum seekers and (b) refugees are housed in accommodation procured by Mears by local authority.

22 Apr 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) asylum seekers and (b) refugees are housed in accommodation procured by Serco by local authority.

22 Apr 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Hotels

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 27 March 2025 to Question 40190, on Asylum: Hotels, if she will publish each letter sent to each local authority chief executive since 4 July 2024.

22 Apr 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 7 April 2025 to Question 43097 on Asylum: Housing, how many dwellings have been procured via Cushman and Wakefield by local authority; and what the cost of those dwellings is

22 Apr 2025 · Home Office

Offences against Children: Reviews

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 14 February 2025 to Question 29611 on Offences against Children: Reviews, how many local inquiries will be supported; and at what average cost.

22 Apr 2025 · Home Office

Offences against Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish correspondence sent to local authorities on (a) accessing funding for locally-led work on grooming gangs and (b) the conditions of funding.

22 Apr 2025 · Home Office

Offences against Children: Reviews

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when Baroness Casey will report on the national audit into grooming gangs.

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

Refugees: Temporary Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what information her Department holds on the number of former foreign national asylum seekers granted (a) refugee status and (b) settlement claiming (i) emergency homeless and (i

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

Refugees: Social Rented Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what information her Department holds on the number of former foreign national asylum seekers granted (a) refugee status and (b) settlement claiming social housing.

22 Apr 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average cost to the public purse is of an asylum seeker.

22 Apr 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Local Government

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 10 February 2025 to Question 28146 on Asylum: Local Government, what data her Department holds on funding to local councils in England for (a) asylum seekers and (b) refugees

22 Apr 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which contractors provide accommodation services for (a) asylum seekers and (b) refugees for her Department.

22 Apr 2025 · Treasury

Asylum: Temporary Accommodation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to her Department's guidance entitled Terms of reference for VfM Study on procuring short-term residential accommodation, published on 11 March 2025, how much local authorities have spent on procuring

22 Apr 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Hotels

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's guidance entitled Terms of reference for VfM Study on procuring short-term residential accommodation, published on 11 March 2025, how much the Home Office spent on h

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

Local Government Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make it her policy to replace the Exceptional Financial Support regime with long term debt-restructuring.

17 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of welfare reforms announced in the Spring Statement 2025 on local authority finances.

17 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to account for housing costs when measuring deprivation as part of local government funding reform.

17 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Deprivation Indicators

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of reliability of the Index of Multiple Deprivation to accurately reflect levels of deprivation and need.

17 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Homelessness: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has made an assessment of the merits of introducing a separate needs formula for homelessness.

17 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government Finance: Greater London

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of local authority finances in London.

17 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the exceptional financial support regime for local authorities.

17 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Temporary Accommodation: Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the cap on the amount councils can claim to meet temporary accommodation costs on local authority finances.

17 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Greater London Authority

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what discussions she has had with the Mayor of London on the role of councils in London in integrated settlements for the Greater London Authority.

17 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Greater London Authority

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has had discussions with (a) London Councils and (b) individual councils in London on a joint decision-making role in integrated settlements for the Greater London Au

17 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Greater London Authority

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to give local authorities in London a joint decision-making role in integrated settlements for the Greater London Authority.

1 Apr 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Local Government

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with local authorities on the potential impact of the costs of supporting asylum seekers on the financial sustainability of local authorities.

31 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Greater London

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with the Mayor of London on supporting London boroughs to house asylum seekers.