Kevin Hollinrake MP: written questions
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Housing: MigrantsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20655More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of higher levels of immigration on (a) house prices and (b) rental costs.
Answer: The government is determined to address the dire inheritance left by its predecessor and restore order to the asylum and immigration systems, delivering lower net migration.Boosting the supply of homes of all tenures must be at the heart of any strategy t...
Answered 3 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordRadicalismMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20654More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has contributed to the extremism review.
Answer: I refer the hon Member to the answer given to Question UIN 15694 on 2 December 2024. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has supported the rapid review ordered by the Home Secretary, and the government will set out its approach to co...
Answered 6 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPlanning: ReformMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20653More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Government response to the proposed reforms to the National Planning Policy Framework and other changes to the planning system consultation, published on 12
Answer: The Department does not routinely publish responses received to public consultations. Many organisations, including councils, choose to publish their responses on their websites.
Answered 24 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordLocal Government Services: Rural AreasMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20652More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much each eligible local authority received in Rural Services Delivery Grant in 2024-25; and how much was allocated in total.
Answer: The provisional settlement, published on 18 December, increases the total additional grant funding which will be made available to local councils in England through the settlement to over £2 billion. This Government is absolutely committed to tackling the...
Answered 27 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordHousing: ConstructionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20651More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has an annual house building target for England.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to my answer to Question UIN 19066 on 20 December 2024.
Answered 30 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordAffordable HousingMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20650More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has an affordable housing target for this Parliament.
Answer: The government has not set an affordable housing target to date, but we are committed to delivering the biggest increase in social and affordable housebuilding in a generation. With regard to grant funded affordable housing, the government will set out de...
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordRight to Buy SchemeMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20649More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 11 December 2024 to Question 17553 on Housing: Ownership, whether she has made an estimate of potential changes in the levels of Right to Buy sales aris
Answer: A review of Right to Buy discounts was published alongside the Budget. In this review, our modelling suggests a reduction in Right to Buy sales under the new maximum cash discounts with a long run average of c. 1,700 sales annually.On 20 November we launc...
Answered 24 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordLocal Government FinanceMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20648More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 11 December 2024 to Question 17562 on Local Government Finance, how many councils will receive that funding.
Answer: The government is taking immediate action to begin addressing the challenges facing local government by ensuring that funding goes to the places that need it most in the 2025-26 Local Government Finance Settlement. We are taking difficult decisions to rep...
Answered 27 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordLocal Government FinanceMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20647More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 11 December 2024 to Question 17562 on Local Government Finance, what deprivation data her Department will use.
Answer: The government is taking immediate action to begin addressing the challenges facing local government by ensuring that funding goes to the places that need it most in the 2025-26 Local Government Finance Settlement. We are taking difficult decisions to rep...
Answered 27 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordLocal Government FinanceMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20646More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 11 December 2024 to Question 17562 on Local Government Finance, how the Recovery Grant will be funded.
Answer: The government is taking immediate action to begin addressing the challenges facing local government by ensuring that funding goes to the places that need it most in the 2025-26 Local Government Finance Settlement. We are taking difficult decisions to rep...
Answered 27 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordLocal Government Services: Rural AreasMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20645More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 11 December 2024 to Question 17560 on Local Government Services: Rural Areas, whether her Department has carried out an environmental principles assessm
Answer: The provisional settlement, published on 18 December, increases the total additional grant funding which will be made available to local councils in England through the settlement to over £2 billion. This Government is absolutely committed to tackling the...
Answered 27 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: Employers' ContributionsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20644More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 11 December 2024 to Question 17552 on Local Government: Employers’ Contributions, what representations her Department has received on the cost of local
Answer: The department regularly engages with a wide range of councils and representative bodies. Alongside the provisional Settlement, the government launched a consultation that seeks views, in particular from representatives of local government, on proposals f...
Answered 27 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordParking (Code of Practice) Act 2019Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20643More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to implement the Parking (Code of Practice) Act 2019.
Answer: The Parking (Code of Practice) Act 2019 places a duty on the Government to prepare a code of practice containing guidance about the operation and management of private parking facilities.This government is determined to drive up standards in the private p...
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: SecondmentMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20642More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 11 December 2024 to Question 17559 on Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Secondment, which organisations second staff to her Departm
Answer: Organisations provided are for secondments active on 30/11/2024 within the Ministry for Housing Communities and Local Government. OrganisationUniversity of CambridgeAylesbury Vale District CouncilNewcastle City CouncilHomes EnglandLocal Government Associa...
Answered 27 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordLocal Government Services: Rural AreasMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20641More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 11 December 2024 to Question 17560 on Local Government Services: Rural Areas, if she will publish that equality impact assessment.
Answer: The provisional settlement, published on 18 December, increases the total additional grant funding which will be made available to local councils in England through the settlement to over £2 billion. This Government is absolutely committed to tackling the...
Answered 27 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordHousing: OwnershipMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20640More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 11 December 2024 to Question 17553 on Housing: Ownership, if she will make an estimate of the number of replacement affordable housing units in each of
Answer: As detailed in the review of the increased Right to Buy discounts introduced in 2012 published on 30 October 2024 alongside the Budget, during the period 1 April 2012 to 31 March 2021 the replacement target was 62,485 but only 47,864 replacements were del...
Answered 24 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordChinese Embassy: Planning PermissionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20232More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer of 9 December 2024 to Question 16572 on Chinese Embassy: Planning Permission and with reference to paragraphs 18 and 19 of her Department's Guidance on pla
Answer: We do not routinely make requests to call in planning applications available to interested parties.
Answered 24 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordChinese Embassy: Planning PermissionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20231More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the letter to her from the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China of 4 December 2024, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies
Answer: I refer the hon Member to the answer given to Question HL3240 on 19 December 2024.
Answered 19 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordChinese Embassy: Planning PermissionCabinet OfficeTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20230More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether officials from 10 Downing Street had discussions with the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office on the call-in of the Chinese Embassy planning application prior to the decision being taken.
Answer: I refer the Hon Member to my Hon Friends answer of 6 December, Official Report, 17009.
Answered 19 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordChinese Embassy: Planning PermissionCabinet OfficeTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20229More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 4 December 2024 to Question 14994 on Chinese Embassy: Planning Permission, if he will provide a readout of the Prime Minister's discussions with President Xi on the planning application
Answer: I refer the Hon Member to my answer of 4 December, Official Report, 14994. The official read-out is a summary of the issues discussed at their meeting.
Answered 19 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordCivil Society: IslamMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20228More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 10 December 2024 to Question 17299 on Muslim Council of Britain, whether her Department engages with (a) MEND, (b) CAGE and (c) the Muslim Association o
Answer: The department does not engage with MEND, CAGE or the Muslim Association of Britain.
Answered 24 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordChinese Embassy: Planning PermissionCabinet OfficeTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20227More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 4 December 2024 to Question 14994 on Chinese Embassy: Planning Permission, if he will publish a summary of any discussions with President Xi on 18 November 2024 on the planning applicat
Answer: I refer the Hon Member to my answer of 4 December, Official Report, 14994. The official read-out is a summary of the issues discussed at their meeting.
Answered 19 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordEnvironmental Impact AssessmentMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20226More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 26 July 2024 to Question 1315 on environmental assessments, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of repealing the environmental as
Answer: As set out in the Written Ministerial Statement I made on 16 December 2024 (HCWS317), the government will, in due course, replace the current systems of environmental assessment with Environmental Outcomes Reports.
Answered 24 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordPrisons: ConstructionMinistry of JusticeTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20225More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether any recent proposals to (a) build and (b) expand prisons have been affected by nutrient neutrality rules.
Answer: Within the prison expansion programmes, the Rapid Deployment Cells Programme has been affected by nutrient neutrality rules at four sites. Developments in these catchment areas need to either secure nutrient credits or other nutrient mitigation for planni...
Answered 23 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordRetail Trade: Business RatesTreasuryTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20224More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many hereditaments were classified per individual special category codes within the shops sub-sector special category code grouping by the Valuation Office Agency in each of the last ten years for which figures
Answer: As part of its official statistics, the Valuation Office Agency publishes the number of hereditaments by special category code under the shops sub-sector for England and Wales for the past 10 years. This can be found under the stock of non-domestic proper...
Answered 20 Dec 2024
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