James Cleverly MP: written questions
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Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: StaffMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 28 Aug 2026AnsweredUIN 20297More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 18 June 2026 to Question 8574 on Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Staff and to the Answer of 14 July 2026 to Question 14979 on Min
Answer: We have provided, for each office location, as at the week commencing 24 August 2026:the average office attendance of employees assigned to each office during the week commencing 24 August 2026; andthe proportion of employees assigned to that office who a...
Answered 18 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordJP Morgan: Business RatesTreasuryTabled 28 Aug 2026Awaiting answerUIN 20296More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the London Borough of Tower Hamlet's Cabinet paper entitled JP Morgan Chase’s Canary Wharf Development and Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), of 27 March 2026, if he will place in the Library a cop
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
Original Parliament recordCommunity RelationsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 28 Aug 2026AnsweredUIN 20295More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the membership of the Advisory Group on community tensions will be selected through open competition.
Answer: In Protecting What Matters Government pledged to establish a new Advisory Board to support local authorities should tensions arise. This new function will include frontline practitioners from across the country, with experience responding to crisis incide...
Answered 8 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordRecreation Spaces: Planning PermissionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 28 Aug 2026AnsweredUIN 20294More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 16 July 2026 to Question 17451 on Recreation Spaces: Planning Permission, if she will set out the stakeholders that will be surveyed, and how will they
Answer: The review of existing protections of recreational green spaces will examine the fragmented and outdated nature of current legislative protections for public recreational green spaces. It is not a public consultation.The survey has been distributed to sta...
Answered 8 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: StaffMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 28 Aug 2026AnsweredUIN 20293More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer of 18 June 2026 to Question 8574 on Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Staff and to the Answer of 14 July 2026 to Question 14979 on Min
Answer: We have provided, for each office location, as at the week commencing 24 August 2026:the average office attendance of employees assigned to each office during the week commencing 24 August 2026; andthe proportion of employees assigned to that office who a...
Answered 18 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordDigital Outdoor Advertising: PlanningMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 28 Aug 2026Awaiting answerUIN 20292More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 16 July 2026 to Question 17582 on Digital Outdoor Advertising: Planning, what is the proposed practical effect in planning terms of removing the existin
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
Original Parliament recordHomelessness: FinanceMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 28 Aug 2026AnsweredUIN 20291More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 17 July 2026 to Question 18594 on Homelessness: Finance, how much funding was allocated for rough sleeping in each year of the Spending Review period.
Answer: To support local authorities, we have introduced significant reforms to how we deliver this funding to councils, to provide multi-year certainty and greater flexibility for them to be able to tailor services to meet local needs. The Homelessness and Rough...
Answered 8 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: ReorganisationMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 28 Aug 2026AnsweredUIN 20290More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her Department's Local government reorganisation: decision letters to council leaders, published on 16 July 2026, if she will publish all the responses to the u
Answer: A summary and analysis of consultation responses for areas undergoing local government reorganisation where decisions have been announced is available here. The Government has no plans to publish all of the responses received. On local government reorgani...
Answered 8 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordLocal Government FinanceMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 28 Aug 2026AnsweredUIN 20289More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the Prime Minister’s commitment to transfer more funding to every postcode will mean an increase in the level of local authority funding for every postcode area.
Answer: As set out in the Prime Minister's recent Machinery of Government Statement, No. 10 North will work in close partnership with local leaders, businesses, and communities to deliver good growth in every postcode, with places able to set their own ambitions ...
Answered 8 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: SurreyMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 28 Aug 2026AnsweredUIN 20288More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what is the total estimated amount of Public Works Loan Board borrowing that is expected to be inherited by the new (a) West Surrey and (b) East Surrey unitary authorities accord
Answer: It is the responsibility of councils to manage their budgets, and it is standard for councils to borrow and to hold debt. Local authorities provide the Government with data on their borrowing, including source of borrowing. The data can be found at Live t...
Answered 8 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordSleeping RoughMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 28 Aug 2026Awaiting answerUIN 20287More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to to the 10 Downing Street and Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government joint press release entitled New PM says government can bring back hope to Br
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: Flexible WorkingMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 28 Aug 2026AnsweredUIN 20286More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what is her policy on local authorities operating a four day week on full-pay, and whether she intends to re-issue Best Value guidance or interventions on the matter.
Answer: Local authorities are independent employers responsible for managing and organising their own workforces.The 2024 Best Value guidance includes ‘Council staff undertaking part-time work for full-time pay without compelling justification’ as one indicator o...
Answered 8 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordPolitical Parties: FinanceMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 28 Aug 2026AnsweredUIN 20285More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer of 13 July 2026 to Question 15744 on Political Parties: Finance, whether a donation held in an escrow account whilst a risk assessment was undertaken would
Answer: I refer the Rt Hon. Member to the answer given on 10 July to Question UIN 14977. As set out in that answer, all recipients of political donations will need to carry out enhanced Know Your Donor due diligence checks on donations over £11,180, including whe...
Answered 8 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordPolitical Parties: FinanceMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 28 Aug 2026AnsweredUIN 20284More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer of 13 July 2026 to Question 15744 on Political Parties: Finance, what approach would be taken if a local accounting unit or national party took a different
Answer: I refer the Rt Hon. Member to the answer given on 10 July to Question UIN 14977. As set out in that answer, all recipients of political donations will need to carry out enhanced Know Your Donor due diligence checks on donations over £11,180, including whe...
Answered 8 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordBusiness Rates: ValuationTreasuryTabled 28 Aug 2026AnsweredUIN 20283More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the 2026 business rates revaluation was revenue neutral.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to Question UIN 106114 on 21 January 2026.
Answered 9 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordHoliday Accommodation and Visitor Levy: RegulationMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 28 Aug 2026AnsweredUIN 20282More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what is the timetable for the introduction and implementation of the Overnight Visitor Levy Bill and associated new overnight accommodation tax.
Answer: The King's Speech in May set out the government's legislative priorities for the second session, which include a bill to introduce the overnight visitor levy. Further detail around implementation of the levy will follow the publication of the Government’s...
Answered 4 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordAnti-Muslim HostilityMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 28 Aug 2026AnsweredUIN 20281More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the answer of 20 July 2026 to Question HL2155 on Anti-Muslim Hostility, what guidance and communications have been given to Chief Constables and police forces i
Answer: The Government encourages organisations across the public, private and third sectors to consider how the definition may be applied in their own contexts. Any use of the definition by police forces must be consistent with existing legal obligations.
Answered 8 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordTravellers: Caravan SitesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 28 Aug 2026Awaiting answerUIN 20280More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what guidance has been given to local planning authorities, and what guidance is held by the Planning inspectorate, on human rights and equality obligations in relation to planni
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
Original Parliament recordPlanning: Fees and ChargesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 28 Aug 2026Awaiting answerUIN 20279More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what is the forecast aggregate increase in planning fees revenue from the new planning fee provisions in the first full year of operation.
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
Original Parliament recordPlanning Inspectorate: TrainingMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 28 Aug 2026Awaiting answerUIN 20278More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will place in the Library the current version of the Planning Inspectorate's Inspector Training Manual; and whether there is a separate Planning Inspectors' Handbook.
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
Original Parliament recordSocial Rented Housing: SubsidiesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 28 Aug 2026Awaiting answerUIN 20277More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment has been made of the potential implications for her policies of the calculations in the report, Homes for People We Need, Making Social Rent Homes Viable, October
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
Original Parliament recordAllotments: SalesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 28 Aug 2026AnsweredUIN 20276More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many approvals for the disposal of allotments her Department has made under section 8 of the Allotments Act 1925 since July 2025.
Answer: Since 1 July 2025 the Secretary of State has granted 12 applications for disposal.
Answered 8 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordCombined Authorities: Income TaxTreasuryTabled 28 Aug 2026AnsweredUIN 20275More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether mayoral combined authorities will be able to reduce the level of income tax.
Answer: As set out in the ‘Rewiring the State’ Cabinet Statement, the government will replace grants from central government with a share of local income tax for every mayor beginning in 2028, such that where a region grows its tax base, it benefits from the incr...
Answered 8 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordBusiness Rates: Electronic CigarettesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 28 Aug 2026AnsweredUIN 20274More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Number 10 joint press release entitled Burnham means business: PM slashes business rates bills for pubs, clubs and live music venues, published on 23 July 2
Answer: To give communities and councils greater control over the future of their high streets, we will consult on new planning rules so that most shops changing use to vape shops and adult gaming centres will need to submit a planning application before opening....
Answered 4 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordBusiness RatesTreasuryTabled 28 Aug 2026AnsweredUIN 20273More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the answers of 4 June 2026, to Question HL323, and of 29 June 2026, to Question 11414, on Business Rates: Tax Yields, whether the announcement by the Prime Minister on 23 July 2026 of a £100 millio
Answer: The Government announced on 23 July 2026 an additional 20 per cent business rates relief for pubs, social clubs and all but the very largest live music venues in England from 2027-28. This builds on the support package already provided to ratepayers follo...
Answered 7 Sept 2026
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