Kevin Hollinrake MP: written questions
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Local Government: ElectionsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 5 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28998More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has plans to postpone district council elections in 2026.
Answer: Legislation to postpone an election to a principal local election will be in place before the deadline for the posting of notice of that election, which is 25 working days before the scheduled date of election.There are no plans to postpone district counc...
Answered 17 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: DevolutionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 5 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28997More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the written statement of 5 February 2025, HCWS418, on English Devolution and Local Government, what additional funding will be provided to councils in the Devol
Answer: The Devolution Priority Programme aims to see a new wave of mayors elected in May 2026 across new mayoral combined authorities. Areas on the Programme will receive the full backing of government, this will include a long-term Mayoral Investment Fund. Fund...
Answered 11 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Written QuestionsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 5 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28996More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when she plans to answer Question 16192 on Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Corporate Hospitality and Official Gifts, published on 26 November 2024.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer to Question UIN 16192 on 6 February 2025.
Answered 10 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordAntisemitismMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 5 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28995More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, which Department is responsible for policy on tackling antisemitism; and what role the Home Office plays on that issue.
Answer: The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is responsible for addressing racial and religious hate crime, including antisemitism.Tackling antisemitism in all parts of our society requires a cross-Government effort. The Home Office provide f...
Answered 14 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: ElectionsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 5 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28994More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the latest date is to postpone local elections due to take place on 1 May 2025.
Answer: Legislation to postpone an election to a principal local election will be in place before the deadline for the posting of notice of that election, which is 25 working days before the scheduled date of election.There are no plans to postpone district counc...
Answered 17 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordAntisemitismMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 5 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28993More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department plans to reconvene the cross-Government working group on tackling anti-Semitism.
Answer: Announcements will be set out in the usual way.
Answered 14 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordChurches: Repairs and MaintenanceChurch CommissionersTabled 5 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28992More
Question: To ask the Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, what assessment the Church Commissioners have made of the potential impact of the Law Commission's consultation on burial and cremation, published on 3 October 2024, on the finances o
Answer: The National Institutions of the Church of England submitted a response to the Law Commission’s consultation on burial and cremation. That response supported the introduction of a statutory code of practice for local authorities’ maintenance of burial gro...
Answered 21 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: StaffMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 3 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28154More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer of 13 January 2025, to Question 21618, on MHCLG: Staff, how many desks are currently assigned in each of those offices.
Answer: Please find a table below of how many desks MHCLG have in each of their offices:- DesksNotesBelfast17 Birkenhead38 Birmingham 76 Bristol66Currently in temporary office space as our new office is being refurbishedCambridge30 Cardiff25 Darlington30MHCLG ha...
Answered 11 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordWoking Borough Council: DebtsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 3 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28152More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the Government has received representations from local authorities to write off the Public Works Loan Board debts of Woking Borough Council.
Answer: Previous Secretaries of State used statutory powers to intervene in a small number of councils failing their Best Value Duty partly associated with high levels of unsustainable debt, including Woking. We continue to work with Best Value Commissioners in t...
Answered 11 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against Children: InquiriesHome OfficeTabled 3 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28151More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 8 January 2025, to Question 21677 on Offences against Children, what funding is being made available to support council-led local inquiries.
Answer: In January, the Home Secretary announced to Parliament a raft of measures and an investment of £10 million that will allow us to protect more victims and survivors and drive change at a local level.This includes appointing Baroness Louise Casey to oversee...
Answered 11 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Services: Council TaxMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 3 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28149More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Council Tax (Demand Notices and Prescribed Classes of Dwellings) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2025, for what reason the Government is changing the requ
Answer: Since 2016-17 councils with responsibility for adult social care services have been given additional flexibility to increase their council tax without a referendum, provided this revenue is spent exclusively on these services. This flexibility is known as...
Answered 10 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordCivil Society: IslamMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 3 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28148More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 3 January 2025, to Question 20228, on Civil Society: Islam, whether her Department has a list of organisations which it does not engage with.
Answer: Individual policy teams are responsible for the stakeholder engagements within their portfolio. As such, there is no centralised list of organisations which the Department will not engage with.
Answered 12 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordMayorsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 3 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28147More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 6 January 2025 to Question 20571 on Mayors, who will determine the (a) allowance and (b) salaries of Commissioners; whether they will receive local gove
Answer: As announced in the English Devolution White Paper the Government will give Mayors the ability to appoint and remunerate ‘Commissioners’. They will be able to support in the delivery of key functions, complementing the existing portfolio system by providi...
Answered 11 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: Local GovernmentHome OfficeTabled 3 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28146More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made changes to the level of funding to local authorities for asylum seekers since July 2024.
Answer: The Home Office has a statutory obligation to support asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute.In recent years, the Home Office has had various grants through which we provide funds to support local authorities, with responsibilities for housing as...
Answered 10 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordHouseboatsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 3 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28057More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to increase the availability of (a) houseboats and (b) houseboat moorings.
Answer: It is for individual local authorities to assess whether any existing or new waterway should accommodate houseboats, and to grant such permissions as are necessary to change land-use or authorise access and service connections to boats.However, the Nation...
Answered 14 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordSmall Businesses: Business RatesTreasuryTabled 3 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28055More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how the proposed lower multiplier for hospitality, leisure and retail from 2026-27 will interact with small business rate relief; and what estimate she has made of the impact of the lower multiplier on the cost of s
Answer: The government is committed to retaining Small Business Rate Relief, which is a permanent relief set down in legislation. Small Business Rate Relief (SBRR) is available to businesses with a single property below a set rateable value. Eligible properties u...
Answered 10 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordRight to Buy SchemeMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 3 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28054More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 5 December 2024 to Question 16195 on Right to Buy Scheme, if she will publish figures for the amount of Right to Buy receipts retained by local authorit
Answer: The Department does not publish the amount of Right to Buy receipts retained by local authorities in each financial year.
Answered 12 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordChinese Embassy: Planning PermissionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 3 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28053More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will publish all correspondence, including electronic communications, between the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and her Department on the planning applicati
Answer: The government does not routinely publish correspondence between departments.
Answered 13 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordAffordable Housing: ConstructionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 3 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28051More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 16 December 2024 to Question 16935 on Affordable Housing: Construction, how many homes of each type of tenure will be delivered from the £500 million ad
Answer: The government has made clear that it expects the £500 million in new funding for the Affordable Homes Programme announced in October 2024 to deliver up to 5,000 homes.As set out in my answer to Question UIN 16935 on 16 December 2024, the government will ...
Answered 12 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordInfrastructure: Planning PermissionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 3 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28050More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 5 December 2024 to Question 16199 on Infrastructure: Planning Permission, what steps she is taking to speed up Ministerial decision-making on national s
Answer: As part of the government’s Plan for Change, we are committed to fast-tracking planning decisions on at least 150 major economic infrastructure projects by the end of this Parliament.The reasons that Ministerial decisions on individual applications can ex...
Answered 12 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government Boundary Commission for EnglandMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 3 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28045More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the English Devolution White Paper, published on 16 December 2024, whether additional resources will be provided to the Local Government Boundary Commission for
Answer: The Local Government Boundary Commission for England is independent of Government and accountable to Parliament through the Speakers Committee. The Commission is resourced via that committee on estimates approved by Parliament.
Answered 10 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: ElectionsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 3 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28044More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 30 January 2025 to Question HL4145 on Local Government: Elections, whether (a) county and (b) district council by-elections will take place in areas whe
Answer: As set out in my Statement on 5 February 2025 (HCWS418), I will make secondary legislation to postpone elections to nine local authorities from May 2025 to 2026. No further secondary legislation is planned before May 2025.Where elections have been postpon...
Answered 6 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government FinanceMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 3 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28037More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when she plans to publish the final local government finance settlement for financial year 2025-26.
Answer: The final Local Government Finance Settlement for 2025-26 was published on the 3rd of February, 2025. The Local Government Finance Settlement and supporting documents are available here.
Answered 11 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordRight to Buy SchemeMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 3 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28036More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Policy paper entitled A review of the increased Right to Buy discounts introduced in 2012, published by her Department on 30 October 2024, if she will publi
Answer: The government does not intend to publish any other documentation in relation to the review of Right to Buy discounts.
Answered 13 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordBuildings: Carbon EmissionsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 3 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28035More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what guidance her Department issues on embodied carbon as a material consideration in the planning process when assessing planning applications for the (a) replacement of existin
Answer: The government provides guidance on how carbon impacts can be taken into account in the planning process through its Planning Practice Guidance on Climate Change, the National Design Guide and the National Model Design Code. The revised National Planning ...
Answered 18 Feb 2025
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