Kevin Hollinrake MP: written questions
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Councillors and Mayors: Workplace PensionsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32139More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 31 January 2025 to Question 26040 on Councillors and Mayors: Workplace Pensions, whether the Minister for Local Government and English Devolution has ha
Answer: As the Responsible Authority for the Local Government Pension Scheme, MHCLG keeps access to the scheme under regular review. As part of this regular review, the Minister for Local Government has been approached by representatives of local government about...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government Pension Scheme: Birmingham City CouncilMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32138More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what information her Department holds on the amount Birmingham City Council (a) raised in council tax in 2024-25 and (b) paid out in employer contributions to the Local Governmen
Answer: The government will publish data on the amount of council tax collected by billing authorities through the financial year in June, in the usual way. The Department collects limited information on employers’ retirement benefit costs for a sample of authori...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: ReorganisationMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32137More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the correspondence entitled Local government reorganisation: invitation to local authorities in two-tier areas, published on 6 February 2025, whether members of
Answer: The formal invitations to submit unitary proposals were sent to the leaders of all the councils in two tier areas and their neighbouring small unitaries. These letters have been published on gov.uk. The letters set out the criteria for the development of ...
Answered 28 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordBusiness Premises: Change of UseMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32136More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 7 February 2025 to Question 26551 on Business Premises: Change of Use, how many additional dwellings were provided from the prior approval applications
Answer: The office to residential permitted development right (Class O) was subsumed into the commercial, business and service uses to residential permitted development right (Class MA) in August 2022.The Department publishes an annual release entitled ‘Housing s...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordValuation Office Agency: Disclosure of InformationTreasuryTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32135More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will publish the presentations by the Valuation Office Agency to the International Association of Assessing Officers Annual Conference 2023 between 28 and 30 August 2023.
Answer: As outlined in the response to PQ UIN 15200, the Valuation Office Agency (VOA) will publish further information on the model and its use in supporting the Welsh Government’s Council Tax reform ambitions on GOV.UK before April 2025.The information that wil...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordValuation Office Agency: Freedom of InformationTreasuryTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32134More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Valuation Office Agency: Freedom of Information disclosure log, last updated on 26 October 2023, for what reason no information is available on this webpage.
Answer: The VOA’s Freedom of Information (FOI) releases log is due to be updated shortly with FOI releases that are of wider public interest. This follows a review (in line with section 19 of the FOI Act and ICO guidance) of the information previously published, ...
Answered 28 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordBusiness RatesTreasuryTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32133More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the abolition of the £110,000 relief cap on (a) the level of retail, hospitality and leisure rate relief under the new 2026-27 multiplier system and
Answer: As set out at Autumn Budget 2024, the Government intends to introduce permanently lower tax rates for retail, hospitality, and leisure (RHL) properties, including those on the high street, from 2026-27. This permanent tax cut will ensure that they benefit...
Answered 28 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordParliamentary Parties PanelSpeaker's Committee on the Electoral CommissionTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32132More
Question: To ask the Right hon. Member for Kenilworth and Southam, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, how many times the Parliamentary Parties Panel has met since February 2024.
Answer: The Westminster Parliamentary Parties Panel meets four times a year, but it can meet more or less often if it needs to. It met in February, September and December 2024, and again in February 2025.The scheduled June 2024 meeting was cancelled due to the UK...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordGeneral Election 2024: ExpenditureSpeaker's Committee on the Electoral CommissionTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32131More
Question: To ask the Right hon. Member for Kenilworth and Southam, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what the Electoral Commission's timetable is for the publication of the spending returns for the 2024 General Election by (a) major
Answer: On 13 February, the Commission published the 2024 general election spending returns from political parties and campaigners that spent less the £250,000. The data can be viewed on the Commission's website.The Commission will publish data relating to partie...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordElectric Vehicles: Charging PointsDepartment for TransportTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32130More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 27 January 2025 to Question 27600 on Electric Vehicles: Charging Points, what steps her Department has taken to introduce a unified consent regime for all street charging point (a) con
Answer: The Government is committed to accelerating the roll-out of charging infrastructure so that everyone, no matter where they live or work, can make the transition to an electric vehicle. Several changes have been made over time to simplify and accelerate th...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordLevelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32129More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer of 7 February 2025 to Question 27566 on Levelling Up and Regeneration Act 2023, if she will list each substantive policy measure in that Act that has not y
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to Question UIN 27566 on 7 February 2025.
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HousingHome OfficeTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32128More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the total cost to the public purse is of providing accommodation to asylum seekers and refugees in (a) England and (b) the Untried Kingdom; and if she will list each contractor which is funded to
Answer: The Home Office publishes information on asylum expenditure in the Home Office annual report and accounts: 2023 to 2024 - GOV.UK.
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: Local GovernmentHome OfficeTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32127More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 10 February 2025, to Question 28146 on Asylum: Local Government, what the estimated aggregate budget is for (a) Grant 6 and (b) Grant 7 funding to local authorities in (i) En
Answer: I refer the Honourable Member to the Answer he received on 10 February 2025 to UIN 28146.
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordHousing Estates: RegenerationMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32126More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what her policy is on the regeneration of estates.
Answer: The government is committed to supporting estate regeneration schemes to transform neighbourhoods by delivering high-quality, well-designed places, more homes, and opportunities for residents.Tenants are key partners in estate regeneration, and their enga...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordLand: ContaminationMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32125More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much funding her Department has provided to Homes England for the remediation of (a) contaminated and (b) brownfield land.
Answer: The Department is unable to provide the information requested as Homes England is not delegated a budget specifically for the remediation of land.The government’s Brownfield, Infrastructure and Land Programme (National and London) is designed to unlock br...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordHousing: Greater LondonMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32124More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what discussions she has had with the Mayor of London on the potential impact of regulatory requirements (a) in the London Plan and (b) nationally on levels of housebuilding in L
Answer: The Secretary of State meets with the Mayor of London regularly to discuss a range of matters, including regulatory requirements and housing delivery.The Mayor of London has commenced work on the next London Plan which will be submitted to the Secretary o...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordHousing: ConstructionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31981More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department is taking steps to increase densification of developments and housing on brownfield land in inner cities.
Answer: The revised National Planning Policy Framework published on 12 December 2024 broadened the definition of brownfield land, set a strengthened expectation that applications on brownfield land will be approved, and made clear that plans should promote an upl...
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPlanningMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31980More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to streamline (a) planning policy and (b) planning guidance.
Answer: The government published a revised National Planning Policy Framework on 12 December 2024.Last week, the government published revising Planning Practice Guidance to support local planning authorities in their plan making. Further details can be found in t...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordHousing: ValuationTreasuryTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31979More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many dwellings were on the Valuation Office Agency’s valuation list in (a) England and (b) Wales in (i) 2009-10 and (ii) the most recent financial year for which figures are available.
Answer: Information regarding the total number of properties (dwellings) on the Council Tax lists in England and Wales are published each year in the Council Tax Stock of Properties publication - www.gov.uk/government/statistics/council-tax-stock-of-properties-20...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordBusiness Rates: ValuationTreasuryTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31978More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what information her Department holds on when the Valuation Office Agency plans to publish the draft Rateable Values for all hereditaments in England as part of the 2026 business rates revaluation.
Answer: In line with Section 41 of The Local Government Finance Act 1988, the VOA will publish the 2026 rating lists in draft on Gov.uk by 31 December 2025.
Answered 28 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSwimming Pools: Business RatesTreasuryTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31977More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the potential impact of changes to retail, hospitality and leisure rate relief between 2024-25 and 2025-26 on levels of business rates for municipal swimming pools.
Answer: Without any Government intervention, Retail, Hospitality and Leisure (RHL) relief would have ended entirely in April 2025, creating a cliff-edge for businesses. Instead, the Government has decided to offer a 40 per cent discount to RHL properties up to a ...
Answered 28 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: ReorganisationMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31976More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the letter of 16 December 2024 to council leaders from the Minister for Local Government and English Devolution, whether her Department has undertaken an equali
Answer: I can confirm that my Department has undertaken analysis fulfilling the requirements of the Public Sector Equality Duty as set out in section 149 of the Equality Act 2010, in relation to the postponement for one year of the May 2025 elections to the counc...
Answered 28 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: DebtsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31975More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer of 5 February 2025 to Question 26838 on Local Government: Debts, whether councils which are (a) in two-tier areas and (b) have high levels of unsustainable
Answer: It is the responsibility of councils to manage their budgets, and it is standard for councils to borrow and to hold debt, which they will do in the normal course of business. In general, as with previous restructures including those very recently, there i...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordBusiness Rates: Tax AllowancesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31974More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate she has made of the number of (a) businesses and (b) hereditaments eligible for Retail Hospitality and Leisure business rate relief which are subject to the £110,00
Answer: The Government does not collect business-level data regarding recipients of business rate reliefs. All available hereditament-level data is published here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-non-domestic-rates-collected-by-councils. This d...
Answered 28 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordAffordable Housing: ConstructionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31973More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many homes for (a) social rent, (b) affordable rent and (c) low-cost ownership she expects to be built under the Affordable Homes Programme 2021 to 2026.
Answer: My department published an update on targets in respect of the 2021-26 Affordable Homes Programme on 30 July 2024. It can be found on gov.uk here.In October 2024, the government announced £500 million in new in-year funding for the Affordable Homes Progra...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
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