Katie Lam MP: written questions 2026
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Written questions
Council Tax: City of Westminster and WandsworthMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 10 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28983More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer of 20 July 2026, to Question 18022, on Council Tax: City of Westminster and Wandsworth, whether an assessment has been made of the impact of potential incr
Answer: The equalities impacts of the proposed approach to referendum principles was considered as part of the multi-year Settlement for the period 2026-27 to 2028-29. This included the proposal to not set council tax referendum principles for six councils includ...
Answered 16 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordHousing: SalesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 10 Sept 2026Awaiting answerUIN 28982More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer of 28 August 2026, to Question 14204, on Housing: Sales, if he will place in the Library the full methodology on which the £550 cost of a sales pack is bas
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
Original Parliament recordMultiple Occupation: Council TaxMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 9 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28661More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the council tax surcharge will be levied on HMOs not subdivided into individual dwellings; and whether there will be any exemption.
Answer: The Government has consulted on the surcharge, including the treatment of different property types and possible exemptions and will publish a response in due course.
Answered 17 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: DevolutionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 9 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28657More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Dear Colleague letter on Introducing No10 North, of 1 September 2026, whether the policy of devolution by default will apply to requests for devolution by (
Answer: The Right to Request was introduced by the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act, and allows Mayors of Established Mayoral Strategic Authorities to submit requests for new powers and funding, and the Government then has six months to respond. T...
Answered 23 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordPolitical Parties: FinanceMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 9 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28655More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether grants to political parties through the Westminster Foundation for Democracy will be permissible given the new profit test for company donations in the Representation of
Answer: We are legislating in the Representation of the People Bill so that companies that wish to make political donations will need to meet new eligibility criteria showing they have made sufficient profit to fund their donations; and that they are majority own...
Answered 28 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordDefending Democracy TaskforceCabinet OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2026Awaiting answerUIN 28652More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what are the terms of reference of the democracy review.
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
Original Parliament recordSocial and Affordable Homes ProgrammeMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 9 Sept 2026Awaiting answerUIN 28651More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, further to the written statement of 1 September 2026, HCWS299, on the Social and Affordable Homes Programme and the reinvigoration of council housebuilding, how much funding is b
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
Original Parliament recordCommunity Relations: Tower HamletsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 9 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28650More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer of 1 September 2026, to Question 19120, on Community Relations: Tower Hamlets, what specific activities were funded through the £25,000 of departmental fun
Answer: I refer the Hon Member to the answer to UIN 19120 on 1 September 2026.
Answered 23 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: ExpenditureMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 9 Sept 2026Awaiting answerUIN 28649More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer of 28 August 2026, to Question17449, on MHCLG: Expenditure, for what reason the Local Authority Housing Fund expenditure was returned by the Greater London
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: ReorganisationMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 9 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28615More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate the Department has made of the total expenditure incurred by local authorities in preparing for local government reorganisation prior to the decision to pause those
Answer: As set out by the Secretary of State in her oral statement of 7 September, the government has withdrawn the March 2026 decisions for Essex, Hampshire, Norfolk and Suffolk, and paused decisions for the other 14 areas while a full review of the local govern...
Answered 15 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: ReorganisationMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 8 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28170More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her Department's press release entitled Review of local government reorganisation launched, published on 7 September 2026, whether local authorities will be req
Answer: On 7 September 2026 the Secretary of State announced to Parliament that a review of the local government reorganisation programme would be undertaken and that reorganisation activity in affected areas should be paused while the Government considers next s...
Answered 21 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordSocial Rented Housing: EligibilityMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 8 Sept 2026Awaiting answerUIN 28159More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, Pursuant to the answer of 28 August 2026, to Question 18023, on Social Rented Housing: Eligibility, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of allowing councils to
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
Original Parliament recordPolitical Parties: DonorsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 7 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 27855More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the new profit test for political donations, whether there will be bespoke provisions for not-for-profit registered companies which do not make a profit as part
Answer: We acknowledge that there are many legitimate non-profit organisations that are established as companies. These companies may still be eligible to make donations, provided they can provide evidence of income equivalent to profit, in accordance with Genera...
Answered 24 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: ExpenditureMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 7 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 27854More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what specific departmental savings are being made to fund increased defence spending as a consequence of the 1% reduction in CDEL allocations.
Answer: I refer the Hon. Member to the answer given to UIN 20319 on 10 September 2026.
Answered 15 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordIslam: RadicalismHome OfficeTabled 7 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 27853More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the answer of 1 September 2026 to Question 18019 on Islam: Radicalism, for what public interest reason the Government name MCB, MAB, CAGE and MEND.
Answer: Although the Government has a policy of not commenting about groups or individuals, there are cases where it is in the public interest to do so. The Government has previously made the decision to not engage with organisations that have taken positions tha...
Answered 16 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordIndependent Inquiry Into Grooming GangsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 7 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 27850More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what material support, including provision of documentary evidence, her Department will provide to the Independent Inquiry into Grooming Gangs during the course of its work.
Answer: MHCLG is fully committed to supporting the Independent Inquiry into Grooming Gangs and will co-operate with the Inquiry throughout the course of its work. In accordance with its legal obligations and the Inquiry’s procedures, my department will respond to...
Answered 15 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordIndependent Inquiry Into Grooming GangsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 7 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 27849More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what meetings she has had with (1) Baroness Longfield, (2) any other members of the Independent Inquiry into Grooming Gangs’ panel, or (3) any other interested parties, on the to
Answer: The Secretary of State has not had any meetings with interested external parties, including Baroness Longfield and other panel members, regarding the progress of the Independent Inquiry into Grooming Gangs since her reappointment to the department on 20 J...
Answered 15 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordCrown Court: Criminal ProceedingsMinistry of JusticeTabled 9 Jul 2026AnsweredUIN 17591More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, why his Department's Crown Court Information data tool, which previously published receipts, disposals, guilty plea and trial effectiveness statistics broken down by individual Crown Court centre, has not been up
Answer: The Ministry of Justice retired use of the Crown Court Information data tool in 2024 because we rationalised outputs to avoid duplicating published measures, and moved towards other software solutions. Much of the data previously available in the tool and...
Answered 17 Jul 2026
Original Parliament recordCrown Court: StandardsMinistry of JusticeTabled 9 Jul 2026AnsweredUIN 17590More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many court sitting days were sat in each individual Crown Court centre in England and Wales in each financial year from 2019–20 to 2024–25.
Answer: Information on the number of court sitting days sat in each individual Crown Court Centre in England and Wales for each financial year from 2019-2020 to 2024-25 is provided in the attached table.This Government inherited a justice system in crisis. There ...
Answered 17 Jul 2026
Original Parliament recordCrown Court: TrialsMinistry of JusticeTabled 9 Jul 2026AnsweredUIN 17589More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what was the (a) average length of a trial and (b) average time taken for a case to reach completion following receipt at the Crown Court, broken down by individual Crown Court centre, for each financial year fro
Answer: The Ministry of Justice regularly publishes data on the average amount of time a case spends being heard and the average time taken for a case to reach completion following receipt at the Crown Court, as part of the Criminal Court Statistics Quarterly: Cr...
Answered 17 Jul 2026
Original Parliament recordCrown Court: Criminal ProceedingsMinistry of JusticeTabled 9 Jul 2026AnsweredUIN 17588More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of Crown Court defendants entered an early guilty plea, broken down by individual Crown Court centre, for each financial year from 2019–20 to 2024–25.
Answer: Where appropriate, early guilty pleas (EGPs) can have benefits for both the administration of justice (by saving court time) and victims (by saving them from having to give potentially traumatic evidence). Data on early guilty pleas (EGPs) is published as...
Answered 17 Jul 2026
Original Parliament recordImmigration Controls: Northern IrelandHome OfficeTabled 19 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 11531More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of the Republic of Ireland's implementation of the New Pact on Migration and Asylum on the flow of illegal migrants and asylum see
Answer: We note that the EU’s Pact on Migration and Asylum entered into force on 12 June. We will continue to monitor the impact of the introduction of the Pact across EU Member States including Ireland. The UK and Ireland work closely together to prevent abuse o...
Answered 30 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordVisas: Northern IrelandHome OfficeTabled 19 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 11530More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to extend the British-Irish visa scheme to any further nationalities.
Answer: The UK and Ireland have a close and collaborative working relationship on a range of issues, including migration and border security.The British-Irish visa scheme is a good example of this collaboration and whilst it remains in operation for Indian and Ch...
Answered 24 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordImmigration Controls: Northern IrelandHome OfficeTabled 19 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 11529More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish a breakdown of the nationality of immigration offenders identified by Operation Gull since June 2025.
Answer: Operation Gull is an ongoing Home Office Immigration Enforcement intelligence led initiative and deployments are carried out on that basis.The information requested is not currently available from published statistics, and the relevant data could only be ...
Answered 24 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordImmigration Controls: Northern IrelandHome OfficeTabled 19 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 11528More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) days of action have been conducted under and (b) immigration offenders have been identified by Operation Gull since July 2024 by month.
Answer: Operation Gull is an ongoing Home Office Immigration Enforcement intelligence led initiative and deployments are carried out on that basis.The information requested is not currently available from published statistics, and the relevant data could only be ...
Answered 24 Jun 2026
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