Kevin Hollinrake MP: written questions
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Political Parties: FinanceSpeaker's Committee on the Electoral CommissionTabled 2 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64451More
Question: To ask the Right hon. Member for Kenilworth and Southam, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, whether the Electoral Commission has issued guidance on (a) companies and (b) unincorporated associations raising funds from foreign
Answer: The Commission’s guidance for political parties covers permissibility of donations from companies and unincorporated associations. If an organisation makes a donation on behalf of another source without disclosing the details of the original donor, this i...
Answered 9 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPolitical Parties: FinanceSpeaker's Committee on the Electoral CommissionTabled 2 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64450More
Question: To ask the Right hon. Member for Kenilworth and Southam, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, pursuant to the Answer of 10 June 2025 to Question 56565 on Political Parties: Crypocurrencies, if he will publish the guidance on n
Answer: The Commission’s published guidance on donation permissibility, includes information on cryptocurrencies.This guidance states that the controls which apply to donations of crypto assets are the same as the controls which apply to other types of donations....
Answered 9 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordElectoral Commission: FinanceSpeaker's Committee on the Electoral CommissionTabled 2 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64449More
Question: To ask the Right hon. Member for Kenilworth and Southam, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what the value is of the (a) RDEL and (b) CDEL settlement for the Electoral Commission in each year of the Spending Review 2025; and
Answer: The Electoral Commission’s five-year Corporate Plan was approved by Parliament in February 2025. The plan outlines the benefits that the Commission’s work and spending will deliver for voters, electoral administrators and political parties and campaigners...
Answered 9 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordAirports: National Policy StatementsDepartment for TransportTabled 1 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64090More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 16 June 2025 to Question 57460 on Policy, what her planned timetable is for the revision of the National Policy Statement on airport expansion.
Answer: The government supports airport expansion and has invited proposals for a third runway at Heathrow. It expects any proposals to be brought forward by the summer and is clear that any scheme must be delivered in line with the UK’s legal, climate and enviro...
Answered 7 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal GovernmentMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 1 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64089More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has published guidance to local authorities on transferring internal council (a) personal data and (b) papers to political parties where such information i
Answer: MHCLG has not published guidance of this nature. Local authorities must comply with the FOI Act in relation to access to information held by public bodies, with GDPR guidelines in relation to personal data, and with Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)...
Answered 10 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: London AllowanceMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 1 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64088More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 12 June 2025 to Question 56482 on Civil Service: London allowances, if she will take steps to ensure that the London weighted salaries for civil servant
Answer: MHCLG has separate National pay ranges and London pay ranges. The MHCLG London pay range is only applicable to colleagues formally assigned to 2 Marsham St and MHCLG’s Hemel Hempstead office.
Answered 7 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordCouncil Tax: ReferendumsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 1 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64087More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Spending Review 2025, published on 11 June 2025, what assumptions have been made on the level of the (a) shire district, (b) police precept, (c) parish prec
Answer: For the shire district and fire precept, the Spending Review assumes that precept levels increase in line with those in 2025/26 over the coming SR period (3%/£5, and £5 respectively). The SR assumes a fire precept level of £5. No assumptions were made in ...
Answered 8 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: Cost EffectivenessMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 1 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64086More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Written Statement of 12 June 2025 on Local Government Best Value, HCWS697, which (a) external individuals, (b) external organisations, (c) hon. Members and
Answer: On 12 June I announced that I was minded to exercise powers of direction under section 15(5) and 15(6) of the Local Government Act 1999 to ensure London Borough of Croydon’s compliance with the Best Value Duty. As I told the House, before making this anno...
Answered 9 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordOxford Growth Commission: Public AppointmentsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 1 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64085More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 28 May 2025 to Question 53573 on Oxford Growth Commission: Public Appointments, what the level of remuneration is for the Chair of the Oxford Growth Com
Answer: The Chair of the Oxford Growth Commission’s (OGC) remuneration is commensurate with the seniority of the role and in line with current policy on senior pay levels. We understand that the Chair has written to Kevin Hollinrake to disclose his level of renum...
Answered 17 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordNight Time Industries AssociationMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 1 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64084More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 28 May 2025 to Question 52627 on Night Time Industries Association, what correspondence her Department has received from the Night Time Industries Assoc
Answer: The Chief Executive Officer of the Night Time Industries Association wrote to the Department on 29 October 2024. Their letter was passed to the Department for Business and Trade for a response.
Answered 9 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordFast Food: PlanningMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 1 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64082More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 16 June 2025 to Question 58054 on Fast Food, whether local authority powers under the National Planning Policy Framework to block new fast-food outlets
Answer: It is for local planning authorities, when receiving a planning application, to consider whether, given the type of food and service to be provided at the location proposed, they consider the outlet to be either a hot food takeaway or a fast food outlet.
Answered 9 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPlanning Permission: DocumentsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 1 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64081More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 16 June 2025 to Question 57269 on Planning Permission, if she will introduce a policy requiring plain English in planning documents produced by her Depa
Answer: The government has no plans to introduce a specific policy related to the use of plain English in planning documents. We would expect local planning authorities to ensure that planning documents are clear and easy to understand.
Answered 9 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordHomes England: StaffMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 1 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64080More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many Homes England staff are undergoing redeployment.
Answer: Homes England have no staff currently undergoing redeployment.
Answered 9 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordSleeping Rough: DecriminalisationMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 1 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64079More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her Department's press release entitled Rough sleeping to be decriminalised after 200 years, published on 10 June 2025, how the approach to a replacement regime
Answer: As we work to fulfil our manifesto commitment to get the country back on track to ending homelessness, one principle must be clear – no one should be criminalised for simply sleeping rough. We will be the government that repeals the Vagrancy Act 1824.This...
Answered 8 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordFilm: Business RatesTreasuryTabled 1 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64077More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 9 June 2025 to Question 55222 on Film: Business Rates, how many film studios in England will be subject to the higher multiplier on Rateable Values above £500,000, from April 2026.
Answer: At Autumn Budget 2024, the Government announced an intention to introduce a higher business rates multiplier on the most valuable properties – those with Rateable Values (RVs) of £500,000 and above – from April 2026 to fund permanently lower multipliers f...
Answered 8 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordCouncil Tax: ValuationTreasuryTabled 1 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64076More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 9 June 2025 to Question 56711 on Council tax: valuation, how many complaints have been made to (a) Tier 1 complaints process, (b) Tier 2 complaints process and (c) the Adjudicator's Office
Answer: Between 1 July 2024 and 30 June 2025, the VOA received the following number of complaints about delays: Tier 1 – 677Tier 2 - 103Adjudicator’s Office (Council Tax complaints)– 9 For context, on average the VOA deals with around 60,000 cases each year in En...
Answered 8 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: ReorganisationTreasuryTabled 1 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64050More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 13 June 2025 to Question 57280 on Local Government: Reorganisation, what estimate she has made of the change in public sector net borrowing from local government reorganisation in each of t
Answer: HM Treasury has not undertaken an assessment of the impact of local government reorganisation on local authority borrowing nor the impact on public sector net borrowing. The OBR will continue to update its forecast for overall local government borrowing a...
Answered 9 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordAlcoholic DrinksTreasuryTabled 1 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64049More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 9 June 2025 to Question 54866 on Alcoholic Drinks, if she will remove the exclusion of the direct manufacture of alcoholic beverages from paragraph 2.12 of the UK Government Green Financing
Answer: The Green Financing Framework, published in 2021, explains how proceeds from green gilts and NS&I’s retail Green Savings Bonds will finance public expenditures that demonstrate a direct and positive environmental impact. The Framework includes guideli...
Answered 9 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordConsumer Prices Index: Council TaxCabinet OfficeTabled 1 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64048More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, for what reason council tax is not included in the measure of consumer price inflation.
Answer: The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. A response to the Hon gentleman’s Parliamentary Question of 1st July is attached.
Answered 8 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPolice: FinanceHome OfficeTabled 1 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64047More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 17 June 2025 to Question 59321 on Police: Finance, what the grant funding to police is in cash terms in each financial year between 2024-25 and 2028-29.
Answer: The police settlement is an annual process and allocations will be confirmed for 2026-27 later this year.
Answered 10 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government FinanceMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 1 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64046More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 17 June 2025 to Question 59314 on Local Government Finance, what the grant funding to local government is in cash terms in each financial year between 2
Answer: The Local Government Finance Settlement (LGFS) for 2024-25 made available £64.7 billion for local government, a cash increase in core spending power of 7.5% compared with 2023-24. The LGFS for 2025-26 made available over £69 billion, a cash increase in co...
Answered 8 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordCivil Servants: TrainingTreasuryTabled 30 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63629More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the guidance entitled Civil Service 2024/2025 External Expenditure on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, published on 30 May 2025, which suppliers were used to provide Antisemitism and Anti-Islamop
Answer: HM Treasury volunteers coordinated 3 events on Antisemitism and Anti-Islamophobia with 2 paid for speakers- TellMAMA and Antisemitism Policy Trust (APT).
Answered 8 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordHousing: StatisticsCabinet OfficeTabled 30 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63628More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Office for National Statistics holds comparative data on new dwellings in each nation of the UK in each year since 2008-09.
Answer: The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. A response to the Hon gentleman’s Parliamentary Question of 30th June is attached.
Answered 7 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordGovernment Departments: SanitationCabinet OfficeTabled 30 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63625More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 9 June 2025 to Question 55304 on Government Departments: Sanitation, whether the Government Property Agency plans to repurpose more gender-neutral toilets into separate male and female
Answer: The Government Property Agency continues to monitor the requirements of its estate. Changes are made as necessary to provide the best delivery for our clients and in line with legislative requirements.
Answered 7 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordAdmiralty House: Energy Performance CertificatesCabinet OfficeTabled 30 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63624More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the Energy Performance Certificate rating is of the Deputy Prime Minister’s residence in Admiralty House.
Answer: The residences at Admiralty House are not separately measured for Energy Performance. The Energy Performance Certificate Rating for Admiralty House is B.
Answered 7 Jul 2025
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