Lewis Cocking

10 Oct 2025 · Treasury

Council Tax: Valuation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to page 25 of the Valuation Office Agency's document entitled Annual Report and Accounts 2024-25, published on 17 July 2025, if she will publish the training manual for the Valuation Operating System

10 Oct 2025 · Treasury

Stamp Duty Land Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what her policy is on reforming stamp duty; and what representations she has received on introducing an annual tax on the capital value of primary residences.

10 Oct 2025 · Treasury

Council Tax: Valuation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will publish the Valuation Office Agency presentation entitled Use of AVMs – Council Tax revaluation in Wales, given at the Conference of Valuation Agencies in October 2024.

10 Oct 2025 · Treasury

Business Rates: Valuation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 28 April 2025 to Question 44492 on Business Rates: Tax Allowances, if she will list the special category codes for the types of hereditaments whose valuation is assessed (a) in whole and (b

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure that patients are aware that they will continue to have the option to arrange GP appointments by (a) telephone and (b) visiting a practice in-person.

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners: Internet

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 19 June 2025 to Question 59605 on Neurological Diseases: Primary Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that GP practices do not replace traditional methods of access wit

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Vacancies: Islam

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his Department's policy is on Job Centres advertising vacancies relating to the implementation and administration of Sharia Law.

10 Oct 2025 · Public Accounts Commission

Local Government: Audit

To ask the Chairman of the Public Accounts Commission, what assessment the National Audit Office has made of the adequacy of local authority audit in (a) Wales, (b) Scotland and (c) Northern Ireland.

10 Oct 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Chinese Embassy

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether the Chinese Government has accepted the request from the UK Government that the Chinese Government’s diplomatic premises within the United Kingdom should be consolida

10 Oct 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Chinese Embassy

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what representations have been made to his Department from the Dutch (a) Government and (b) Parliament on the proposed Chinese Embassy at the Royal Mint.

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Electoral Register

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what guidance his Department has issued on whether an elector can register to vote in three different localities.

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Elections: Norfolk and Suffolk

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what discussions her Department has had with (a) district and (b) county councils in Norfolk and Suffolk on cancelling the planned local elections in May 2026.

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Independent Commission on Community & Cohesion

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether councillors and mayors will be able to sit on her Department's new social cohesion taskforce.

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Electoral Register: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to help tackle fraudulent electoral registration.

10 Oct 2025 · Treasury

Second Homes: Taxation

To ask the Chancellor for the Exchequer, whether she plans to increase (a) regulation or (b) taxation on second homes.

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Allotments: Green Belt

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 26 March 2025 to Question 40156 on Green Belt, whether allotments are deemed to be Grey Belt land.

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

HM Land Registry: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the average amount of time is for the Land Registry to update the title deeds on gov.uk following a purchase of a dwelling.

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Asylum: Hotels

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what guidance her Department has issued on whether public disturbances outside asylum hotels are a material consideration in relation to (a) planning harm and (b) change of use f

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Empty Property: Council Tax

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many dwellings in each local authority in England are classified as Class F under regulation 2 of the Council Tax (Liability for Owners) Regulations 1992.

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Flags

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what discussions she has had with (a) Brighton and Hove council, (b) Tower Hamlets council and (c) Birmingham City Council on the taking down of St George’s flags.

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Islamophobia

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what discussions the Government had with the US Government on the definition of Islamophobia.

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what his policy is on the (a) use of Special Development Orders to obtain planning approval, (b) planning application call-in and (c) planning appeal recovery for asylum seeker a

9 Sep 2025 · Department for Transport

Blue Badge Scheme: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of removing the separate eligibility criteria for children under three for the Blue Badge scheme.

5 Sep 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mayor of London: Planning

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 21 March 2025 to Question 38045 on Councillors: Planning, if she will make it her policy to require the Mayor of London to undertake the same compulsory

5 Sep 2025 · Home Office

Migrant Workers: Visas

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the correspondence of July 2025 from the Leader of Kent County Council on visas for social care workers from overseas, if she will publish her Department's response to Kent County Co

29 Aug 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Broxbourne

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers are being housed in homes of multiple occupation in Broxbourne constituency.

29 Aug 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Hotels

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of asylum seeker hotels on (a) local crime rates and (b) police resource allocation.

29 Aug 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Legal Aid Scheme: Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost to the public purse was of providing legal aid to asylum seekers charged with criminal offences in the UK in the last year.

29 Aug 2025 · Home Office

Offenders: Deportation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign nationals have avoided deportation following criminal convictions due to the absence of a removal agreement with their country of origin.

29 Aug 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Women

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of asylum accommodation on women's safety in those communities.