Blake Stephenson

12 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Voting Rights: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of reducing the voting age to 16 on the electoral equality of parliamentary constituencies.

12 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Neighbourhood Policing: Bedfordshire

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's news story entitled New powers for police to tackle neighbourhood crime, how many of the 13,000 additional neighbourhood policing roles will be in Bedfordshire.

12 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Schools: Admissions and Pupil Numbers

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 31 January 2025 to Question 26151 on Schools: Admissions, what estimate she has made of the (a) number of pupils and (b) school capacity for (i) Central Bedfordshire, (ii) Bedford Boro

11 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Planning Permission: Environment Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to section 4.4 of the ADAS and Stephenson Halliday report entitled Review of the implementation of National Planning Policy Framework para 186c, issued on 27 Augus

11 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Property Development: Environment Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring (a) arboricultural reports and (b) impact assessments for major developments.

11 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Planning: Environment Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to page 15 of the ADAS and Stephenson Halliday report entitled Review of the implementation of National Planning Policy Framework para 186c, issued on 27 August 20

11 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Planning Permission: Forests

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an estimate of the average number of planning permissions expected to be granted within 15 metres of ancient woodland each year for the next five years.

11 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Planning: Environment Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to page 7 of the ADAS and Stephenson Halliday report entitled Review of the implementation of National Planning Policy Framework para 186c, issued on 27 August 202

11 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Property Development: Floods

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the average time was between completion of a development in areas at risk of flooding and installation of flood defences agreed at planning stage since 2019; and how many de

11 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Property Development: Floods

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to paragraph 182c of the National Planning Policy Framework, what penalties can be imposed on developers that do not comply with agreed maintenance arrangements on

11 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Flood Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to paragraph 182c of the National Planning Policy Framework, how she defines the lifetime of the development.

11 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Flood Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to paragraph 182c of the National Planning Policy Framework, if she will publish guidance provided to local authorities on enforcement.

11 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Flood Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to Paragraph 182c of the National Planning Policy Framework, how she plans to enforce those maintenance arrangements.

10 Mar 2025 · Treasury

Agriculture and Business: Inheritance Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 13 February 2025 to Question 29188 on Agriculture and Business: Inheritance Tax, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of reviewing her Department's data collection methods

10 Mar 2025 · Treasury

Personal Income: Expenditure

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the second bullet point in paragraph 2.3 of the document Impact on households: distributional analysis to accompany Autumn Budget 2024 and Spending Review 2025, Phase 1, whether her Department regu

10 Mar 2025 · Treasury

Personal Income: Expenditure

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has considered the marginal propensity to consume when developing policies affecting individuals since 5 July 2024.

10 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Environment Protection: Planning

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will hold discussions with the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities & Local Government on the potential merits of requiring arboricultural (a) reports and (b) impact asses

10 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Environment Protection: Planning

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to page 6 of the ADAS and Stephenson Halliday's report entitled Review of the implementation of National Planning Policy Framework para 186c, published on 27 August 2024

10 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Environment Protection: Planning

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to page 3 of the ADAS and Stephenson Halliday's report entitled Review of the implementation of National Planning Policy Framework para 186c, published on 27 August 2024

10 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Environment Protection: Planning

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to page 3 of the ADAS and Stephenson Halliday's report entitled Review of the implementation of National Planning Policy Framework para 186c, published on 27 August 2024

10 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Environment Protection: Planning

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to page 3 of the ADAS and Stephenson Halliday's report entitled Review of the implementation of National Planning Policy Framework para 186c, published on 27 August 2024

10 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Trees: Conservation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how often the Ancient Woodland Inventory is audited.

10 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Trees

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an estimate of the proportion of all (a) ancient and (b) veteran trees included in the Ancient Woodland inventory.

7 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he will take to support mental health services for children in Bedfordshire.

7 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of mental health services for children in Bedfordshire.

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

New Towns Taskforce

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her Department's policy paper entitled New Towns Taskforce: Terms of Reference, published on 18 September 2024, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy o

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

New Towns

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Minister for Housing and Planning's oral contribution of 3 March 2025, Official Report, columns 3 and 4, whether the New Towns Taskforce can recommend more

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

Housing: Land

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Minister for Housing and Planning's oral contribution of 3 March 2025, Official Report, columns 3 and 4, what her Department's policy is on whether housing

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

New Towns: Local Plans

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Minister for Housing and Planning's oral contribution of 3 March 2025, Official Report, columns 3 and 4, what her Department's policy is on whether local au

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

Housing: Sustainable Development

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Minister for Housing and Planning's oral contribution of 3 March 2025 in response to a Question from the hon. Member for Mid Bedfordshire, Official Report,