Written questions

248 written questions tabled, most recent first.

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

Estate Agents: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to help tackle conditional selling by estate agents.

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

Planning Permission: Local Government

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether mayors in (a) mayoral and (b) county combined authorities will have rights of veto.

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

Housing: Greater London

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the Molior London report entitled Residential Development in London: Q1 2025, April 2025.

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

Private Rented Housing: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 14 July 2025 to Question 65373 on Private Rented Housing: Licensing, what estimate she has made of the average annual licensing and registration fee und

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

Private Rented Housing: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 14 July 2025 to Question 65373 on Private Rented Housing: Licensing, whether the restrictions on using selective licensing revenues is in scope of the F

22 Jul 2025 · Department for Transport

Airports: National Policy Statements

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what her planned timetable is for each stage of (a) consulting on and (b) ratifying the updated Airports National Policy Statement.

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

Local Government: Elections

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 14 July 2025 to Question 65428 on Local Government: Elections, if he will list the councils which could have their elections replaced with elections to

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

Affordable Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer of 4 July 2025 to Question 63255 on Property Development: Repairs and Maintenance, whether the 2026-36 Affordable Homes Programme will allow a proportion o

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

Housing: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 4 July 2025 to Question 62977 on Housing Construction, what financial guarantees for housing will be provided by her Department for 2025-26.

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

Parish and Town Councils: Council Tax

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many (a) town and (b) parish councils have Band D council tax precepts above £100.

21 Jul 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Swifts: Bricks

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether swift bricks count towards biodiversity net gain.

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

Elections: Public Consultation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will undertake a public consultation on proposed changes to election law.

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

Political Parties: Registration

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to paragraph 63 of her Department's policy paper entitled Restoring trust in our democracy: Our strategy for modern and secure elections, published on 17 July 2025

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

Political Parties: Registration

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to paragraph 63 of her Department's policy paper entitled Restoring trust in our democracy: Our strategy for modern and secure elections, published on 17 July 2025

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

Elections

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her Department's policy paper entitled Restoring trust in our democracy: Our strategy for modern and secure elections, published on 17 July 2025, whether the co

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

Anti-Muslim Hatred/Islamophobia Definition Working Group

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will hold discussions with the Chair of the Working Group on Anti-Muslim Hatred/Islamophobia Definition on the potential merits of publishing all responses to the call for

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

Deputy Prime Minister: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many staff assigned to work for the Deputy Prime Minister are based in (a) 70 Whitehall and (b) 26 Whitehall.

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

Planning Permission

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make it her policy to ensure that Ministers who make decisions on (a) called-in planning applications, (b) recovered planning appeals and (c) Special Development Orde

16 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Afghanistan: Resettlement

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the data breach relating to the Afghan relocations and assistance policy on military spending.

16 Jul 2025 · Department for Education

Citizenship: Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will publish revised guidance for schools on promoting British values.

14 Jul 2025 · Home Office

Offenders: Deportation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign national offenders are living in the UK and have received deportation orders.

14 Jul 2025 · Home Office

Immigration

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to review (a) citizenship and (b) settlement criteria to place greater emphasis on (i) cultural integration and (ii) long-term contribution to the UK.

14 Jul 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of net zero policies on (a) energy security and (b) industrial competitiveness.

14 Jul 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

BBC: Political Impartiality

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has made an assessment of the adequacy of political impartiality in the BBC’s news and current affairs output.

14 Jul 2025 · Home Office

Undocumented Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential (a) economic and (b) social impact of uncontrolled migration on communities.

14 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Council Housing: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many and what proportion of local authority housing allocations were made to households where the primary applicant was not a UK national in the last 12 months.

14 Jul 2025 · Home Office

Undocumented Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many individuals with no legal right to remain in the UK are in receipt of (a) accommodation and (b) subsistence.

14 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Asylum and Foreign Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what proportion of (a) emergency and (b) long-term accommodation has been allocated to (i) asylum seekers and (ii) foreign nationals in the last 12 months.

14 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Courts and Prisons: Translation Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much was spent on (a) translation and (b) interpretation services in the (i) courts and (ii) prison system in the last financial year.

14 Jul 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Translation Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much she spent on providing (a) translation and (b) interpretation services for benefit claimants in the last year.

Source: official written-questions record.