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Written questions

David Simmonds

960 written questions tabled, most recent first.

4 Jun 2026 · Home Office

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 21 April 2026 to Question 124784 on Housing: Asylum, if he will place a copy of the expression of interest document in the Library.

4 Jun 2026 · Home Office

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any local authorities are currently participating in the local authority asylum accommodation pilot scheme.

4 Jun 2026 · Home Office

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the answer of 21 April 2026, to Question 124784, on Housing: Asylum, whether funding for the pilots has now been (a) allocated or (b) provided to specific local authorities.

4 Jun 2026 · Home Office

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the answer of 21 April 2026, to Question 124784, on Housing: Asylum, whether council participation in the pilots requires approval of councillors.

4 Jun 2026 · Home Office

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the answer of 21 April 2026, to Question 124784, on Housing: Asylum, how many local authorities replied to the expression of interest on the new asylum accommodation models.

4 Jun 2026 · Home Office

Asylum: Hotels

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Home Office press release, 15 April 2026, on Asylum hotels close as government scales up use of large sites, what recent statistics her department has collated and now holds on (

4 Jun 2026 · Home Office

Asylum: Hotels

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what is the average number of asylum seekers accommodated in an asylum hotel in each year from 2020.

4 Jun 2026 · Cabinet Office

China: Espionage

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the oral statement of 18 November 2025, Official Report, Column 613, on China Espionage: Government Security Response, whether there is a published document for the Counter Political Interferen

4 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Anti-Muslim Hostility

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer of 21 May 2026, to Question 199, whether the National Crime Agency will be adopting the anti-Muslim hostility definition.

4 Jun 2026 · Home Office

Asylum: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the answer of 16 April 2026, to Question 125400, on Asylum: Finance, and the statement that the grant is not intended to meet full costs, whether an assessment has been made of what

4 Jun 2026 · Home Office

Asylum: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the answer of 16 April 2026 to Question 125400, on Asylum: Finance, whether it is her Department's policy that some of the costs of asylum seekers should be met from council taxpayer

4 Jun 2026 · Home Office

Home Office: Public Consultation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her Department's policy of on considering written representations to its consultations or calls for evidence from an individual or organisation subject to a policy of non-engagement under the 202

4 Jun 2026 · Home Office

Asylum: Hillingdon

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the answer of 19 May 2026 to Question 441 on Asylum: Hillingdon, how much funding is being allocated to Hillingdon for 2026-27.

13 May 2026 · Treasury

Council Tax: Valuation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the answer of 17 March 2026 to Question 118523 on Council Tax: Valuation, whether new DwellingHouseCodes were added by the Valuation Office to assist the council tax revaluation in Wales.

13 May 2026 · Cabinet Office

King Charles III: Artworks

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the London Borough of Tower Hamlets accepted the free portrait of the Sovereign offered by the Cabinet Office to all local authorities.

13 May 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Travellers: Caravan Sites

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether (a) planning applications for traveller sites and (b) retrospective planning permission for unauthorised sites will be a matter for a Planning Committee.

13 May 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Licensing Laws

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, further to the press release, Red tape slashed to revamp high streets with new cafes and bars, of 26 July 2025, whether (a) combined authority mayors and (b) the Greater London A

13 May 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Tower Hamlets Council

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, further to the High Court Consent Order in relation to Nair v London Borough of Tower Hamlets of March 2024, whether Ministerial Envoys in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets hav

13 May 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Political Parties: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how the proposed ban on crypto-donations and overseas donations over £100,000 will apply to hon. Members.

13 May 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Council Tax

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the new unitary councils will be required to give 12 months notice to apply the second homes or empty homes council tax premium in their unitary council area, if (a) some

13 May 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Council Tax

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department's Council tax information letter 3/2026 published on 15 April 2026, whether a new burdens payment will be made to local authorities further to th

13 May 2026 · Department for Education

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the publication MHCLG: spending over £25,000, January 2026, published on 25 February 2026, what the spending on transaction CFO & Corporate Coram (Thomas Coram Foundation), Ref: 5105609031, fo

13 May 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department has published any guidance on the operation of Section 9I of the Localism Act 2011.

13 May 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Tower Hamlets Council

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the Ministerial Envoys to the London Borough of Tower Hamlets have reviewed the council's 2025-26 expenditure and procurement of the Mosque Engagement Programme.

13 May 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Council Tax: Greater London

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether guidance has been given to the London Assembly on whether Assembly Members in council tax arrears may vote on the setting of the Greater London Authority’s council tax pr

13 May 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mayors: Public Appointments

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the statutory guidance entitled Appointing mayoral commissioners and setting/reporting allowances, 16 April 2026, paragraph 75, who determines whether a Commiss

13 May 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Recreation Spaces

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the speech of Baroness Taylor of Stevenage of 13 April 2026, Official Report, House of Lords, Column 121, for what reason the review is now an internal review;

13 May 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Departmental Responsibilities

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer of 7 January 2026 to Question 97134 on Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Departmental Responsibilities, for what reason the Secr

13 May 2026 · Home Office

Travellers: Caravan Sites

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the answer of 21 April 2026 to Question 126747 on Travellers: Caravan Sites, if she will publish the Public Sector Equality Duty assessment.

13 May 2026 · Home Office

Home Office: Greenpeace

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the answer of 27 April 2026, to Question 126743, on Home Office: Greenpeace, when the Home Office last engaged with Greenpeace; and whether it is subject to a formal policy of non-en

Source: official written-questions record.