Kevin Hollinrake MP: written questions
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Neighbourhood PlansMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31972More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what funding is being provided to support more localities to (a) produce and (b) update neighbourhood plans.
Answer: There is no requirement to update a neighbourhood plan. However, we recognise some communities may wish to update their plans in response to changes to the National Planning Policy Framework.Groups continue to receive the financial and technical support t...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: ElectionsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31971More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of proposed changes to local government on the number of people standing for election to local councils.
Answer: Local government reorganisation, can help strengthen local leadership, improve services, save taxpayers’ money, and improve local accountability.The department has not made an assessment of the potential impact of reorganisation on the number of people st...
Answered 4 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordNeighbourhood PlansMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31970More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether local authorities will be (a) encouraged and (b) required to update neighbourhood plans following changes to the National Planning Policy Framework.
Answer: There is no requirement to update a neighbourhood plan. However, we recognise some communities may wish to update their plans in response to changes to the National Planning Policy Framework.Groups continue to receive the financial and technical support t...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: ReorganisationMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31969More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of (a) unitary structures and (b) fewer councillors on the workload of councillors.
Answer: Unitary councils can lead to better outcomes for residents, save significant money which can be reinvested in public services, and improve accountability with fewer politicians, but more empowered who are more able to focus on delivering for residents. My...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: ReorganisationMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31968More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make it her policy to hold local referendums on proposed local government mergers.
Answer: There are no plans to make a policy to hold local referendums on proposed local government mergers. Proposals for unitary local government must meet local needs and be informed by local views. It is for councils to decide how best to engage locally in a m...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPolicy Development GrantsSpeaker's Committee on the Electoral CommissionTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31967More
Question: To ask the Right hon. Member for Kenilworth and Southam, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, for what reason Policy Development Grants will be linked to candidacy from 2025-26; and which political parties responded to the Ele
Answer: The Commission recently consulted Westminster political parties on its proposals to amend the Policy Development Grants Scheme, following eligibility changes after the 2024 UK parliamentary general election.Parties with at least two sitting members in the...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: ReorganisationMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31966More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to ensure that proposed larger local authorities do not impact economies of scale.
Answer: The government’s long-term vision is for simpler structures which put the right powers at the right scale. On the 5 February, I formally invited proposals for local government reorganisation from all the councils in two tier areas and their neighbouring u...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: ReorganisationMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31965More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to her oral statement of 5 February 2025 on English Devolution and Local Government, Official Report, Column 766, whether she plans to follow article five of the Europea
Answer: The Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007, sets out the process we will follow in undertaking local government reorganisation. The undertakings in the Act are consistent with the UK’s commitments under the European Charter of Local Se...
Answered 28 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: ReorganisationMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31964More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to her oral statement of 5 February 2025 on English Devolution and Local Government, Official Report, Column 766, whether she plans to follow article four of the Europea
Answer: In December 2024, the government published its English Devolution White Paper, which set an ambitious new framework for English devolution, moving power out of Westminster and into the hands of those who know their area best. This devolution programme wil...
Answered 28 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: ReorganisationMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31963More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to her oral statement of 5 February 2025 on English Devolution and Local Government, Official Report, Column 766, whether she plans to follow article six of the European
Answer: The Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007, sets out the process we will follow in undertaking local government reorganisation. The undertakings in the Act are consistent with the UK’s commitments under the European Charter of Local Se...
Answered 28 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordEuropean Charter of Local Self-GovernmentMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31961More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the status is of the European Charter of Local Self-Government in UK (a) law and (b) governance.
Answer: The European Charter of Local Self-Government is an international legal instrument, and as such, the principles of local self-government which it enumerates are recognised in the domestic legislation that makes provision for the powers and procedures of l...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: ReorganisationMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31960More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her oral statement on 5 February 2025 on English Devolution and Local Government, Official Report, Column 766, what the upfront costs are of local government re
Answer: The upfront costs of local government reorganisation will be a matter for local councils to consider as they develop their proposals for reorganisation. As set out in the English Devolution White Paper, a PWC 2020 report estimated that reorganisation of t...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPedestrian Areas: SafetyMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31959More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the reliability of the Pedestrian Comfort Assessment prepared by Arup used by the Metropolitan Police to withdraw their objection.
Answer: An appointed Inspector held a public inquiry which heard a range of evidence for and against the proposals in question.As this case will come before ministers in MHCLG to determine, it would not be appropriate to comment further.Decisions on planning appl...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCommunity Development: RadicalismMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31958More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 10 February 2025 to Question 26476 to Community Development: Radicalism, whether (a) individuals and (b) groups that condone criminal activity are able
Answer: The government does not actively and knowingly consult with any individual or group that condones criminal activity.
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordValuation Office AgencyTreasuryTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31957More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will publish the independent review into the Valuation Office Agency’s Automated Valuation Model.
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 recordEmployers' Contributions: Public SectorTreasuryTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31956More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what methodology her Department used to calculate the allowance for public sector bodies for changes to employer National Insurance contributions.
Answer: The Government will provide support for departments and other public sector employers for additional Employer National Insurance Contributions costs.The amount of public sector support was based on an estimate of the proportion of employer NICs receipts p...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPrivate Education: Business RatesTreasuryTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31955More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answers of 19 December 2024 to Questions 19709 and 19710s on Nurseries: Business Rates and Private Education: Business Rates, whether the inclusion of a nursery in an independent school increases the
Answer: Yes. Where part of the independent school setting includes nursery provision within the same occupation, that accommodation will be included within the valuation and therefore form part of the Rateable Value.
Answered 27 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordCommunity Development: RadicalismMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31954More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 10 February 2025 to Question 26476 to Community Development: Radicalism, whether (a) Standard 1 and (b) Standard 3 of the Government’s principles of eng
Answer: The engagement principles have not been further updated since July 2024. The existing principles remain valid.
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: ReorganisationMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31953More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her Oral Statement of 5 February 2025 on English Devolution and Local Government, Official Report, Column 766, what steps she is taking to monitor the potential
Answer: It will be for the new councils to achieve the efficiencies identified in reorganisation proposals and subsequent detailed implementation and transformation plans while delivering high quality and sustainable public services to local residents and busines...
Answered 28 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordElections: ExpenditureSpeaker's Committee on the Electoral CommissionTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31952More
Question: To ask the Right hon. Member for Kenilworth and Southam, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what guidance the Electoral Commission has issued to political (a) parties, (b) agents and (c) candidates on the (i) use of battlebu
Answer: The Commission has published guidance for parties and candidates and agents on spending by the party to promote a candidate during the candidate regulated period.The guidance sets out how to identify whether an activity promotes a candidate, and if so, ho...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government Boundary Commission for EnglandSpeaker's Committee on the Electoral CommissionTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31951More
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 February 2025 to Question 28045 on Local Government Boundary Commission for England, whether additional
Answer: The Speaker’s Committee has a statutory role to review the annual estimates of resources of the Local Government Boundary Commission for England (LGBCE). It also considers the organisation’s five-year plan at the start of a Parliament.As part of the proce...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Electronic Purchasing Card SolutionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31950More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 10 February 2025 to Question 26612 on Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Electronic Purchasing Card Solution, for what reason the de
Answer: MHCLG has reviewed its publication of spend data and has brought this in line with Cabinet Office requirements.
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordTemporary Accommodation: ConstructionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31949More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Written Statement of 12 February 2025 on Further support for social and affordable housebuilding and next steps on supported housing, HCWS447, what the esti
Answer: The amount of grant provided under the third round of the Local Authority Housing Fund is calculated relative to local property prices. We provide a grant of 40% of the median house price in the local authority area, or 50% for larger homes.On the 12 Febr...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Authority Housing FundMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31948More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Written Statement of 12 February 2025 on Further support for social and affordable housebuilding and next steps on supported housing, HCWS447, what the esti
Answer: The amount of grant provided under the third round of the Local Authority Housing Fund is calculated relative to local property prices. We provide a grant of 40% of the median house price in the local authority area, or 50% for larger homes.On the 12 Febr...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: ElectionsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31947More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will publish the (a) substantive petition text and (b) Government response to each campaign referred to in paragraph 7.4 of the Explanatory Memorandum to the Local Authori
Answer: My Department has no plans to publish the correspondence or substantive text of the petitions mentioned in paragraph 7.4 of the Explanatory Memorandum to the Local Authorities (Changes of Years of Ordinary Elections) (England) Order 2025, or to publish th...
Answered 28 Feb 2025
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