Kevin Hollinrake MP: written questions
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Foreign Investment in UKDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20223More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has had recent discussions with participants at the UK Investment Summit 2024 on the status of their planned investments in the context of the Autumn Budget 2024.
Answer: The International Investment Summit brought together the world’s most important companies and investors to showcase the UK’s strengths and opportunities. Since it took place, the Secretary of State for Business and Trade has been working closely with the ...
Answered 24 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordHospitality Industry and Leisure: Business RatesTreasuryTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20222More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 4 December 2024 to Question 16139, on Hospitality Industry and Leisure: Business Rates, and to the Answer of 10 December 2024, to Question 17139, on Business Rates, on what basis and using
Answer: To deliver our manifesto pledge, from 2026-27, the Government intends to protect the high street by introducing permanently lower tax rates for retail, hospitality, and leisure (RHL) properties with Rateable Values below £500,000. This permanent tax cut w...
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordHoliday Accommodation: TaxationMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20221More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 29 November 2024 to Question 15209 on Holiday Accommodation: Taxation, whether she has received representations from local authorities on providing powe
Answer: Whilst both hotels and short-term lets are vital to many local economies, some Mayors have called for the introduction of a tourist levy and some local authorities have called for further powers to manage the impacts of short-term lets where they are affe...
Answered 24 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordFilm: Business RatesTreasuryTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19716More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the forecast gross cost is of film studio business rate relief in (a) 2024-25, (b) 2025-26 and (c) 2026-27.
Answer: At Autumn Budget 2024, the Government announced that it intends to introduce permanently lower tax rates for retail, hospitality, and leisure (RHL) properties, with rateable values below £500,000, from 2026-27. This permanent tax cut will ensure that they...
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordFilm: Business RatesTreasuryTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19715More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans she has to continue the 2024 to 2034 film studio business rate relief announced in March 2024 at the rate announced at that time.
Answer: At Autumn Budget 2024, the Government announced that it intends to introduce permanently lower tax rates for retail, hospitality, and leisure (RHL) properties, with rateable values below £500,000, from 2026-27. This permanent tax cut will ensure that they...
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordSwimming Pools: Business RatesTreasuryTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19714More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Valuation Office Agency holds data on the average rateable value of municipal swimming pools.
Answer: The Valuation Office Agency publishes this data as part of its official statistics on the stock of non-domestic properties:www.gov.uk/government/statistics/non-domestic-rating-stock-of-properties-2024. The mean rateable value for municipal swimming pools ...
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordPublic Houses: Business RatesTreasuryTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19713More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what information other than address and rateable value the Valuation Office Agency holds on pubs for business rate purposes.
Answer: The Valuation Office Agency (VOA) holds information about pubs to assess them for non-domestic rating purposes, one of the VOA’s statutory duties. The vast majority of the information held is sent by occupiers of pubs following a statutory request for inf...
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordCouncil Tax: Disposable IncomeMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19712More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of trends in the level of council tax on Real Household Disposable Income per person.
Answer: Local authorities are responsible for deciding the level of council tax, and as such the government has not undertaken such an assessment of impact on disposable income.
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordAirports: Business RatesTreasuryTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19711More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment (a) her Department and (b) the Valuation Office Agency has been of the potential impact on airports of the (a) surcharge on business hereditaments above £500,000 Rateable Value from 2026-27 and (b) 2
Answer: The Valuation Office Agency (VOA) conducts analysis of changes in rateable value to prepare for regular revaluations. The VOA is currently working on a revaluation of all non-domestic properties, which will come into effect on 1 April 2026. The revaluatio...
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordPrivate Education: Business RatesTreasuryTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19710More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the average Rateable Value is of an independent school.
Answer: The Valuation Office Agency publishes this data as part of its official statistics on the stock of non-domestic properties: www.gov.uk/government/statistics/non-domestic-rating-stock-of-properties-2024 The mean rateable values for pre-school nurseries and...
Answered 19 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordNurseries: Business RatesTreasuryTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19709More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the average Rateable Value is of a pre-school nursery.
Answer: The Valuation Office Agency publishes this data as part of its official statistics on the stock of non-domestic properties: www.gov.uk/government/statistics/non-domestic-rating-stock-of-properties-2024 The mean rateable values for pre-school nurseries and...
Answered 19 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordEnergy Performance Certificates: Rented HousingDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19708More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to his Department’s press release of 23 September 2024 entitled Home upgrade revolution as renters set for warmer homes and cheaper bills announcement, if he will list the exem
Answer: The Government will consult on increasing minimum energy efficiency standards in the domestic private rented sector and on introducing a minimum energy efficiency standard for the social rented sector. The Government will work closely with both the privat...
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordLawn Mowers: PetrolDepartment for TransportTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19707More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the Government ban on the sale of new petrol-fuelled vehicles from 2030 includes sit-on, petrol-fuelled lawnmowers for (a) domestic and (b) non-domestic use.
Answer: The Government’s commitment is for the phase out of new cars that rely solely on an internal combustion engine from 2030. Petrol-fuelled lawnmowers are considered non-road mobile machinery and therefore would not be in scope of the commitment for either d...
Answered 16 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordRoads: LightingDepartment for TransportTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19706More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what her policy is on local highways authorities delivering carbon savings by turning off street lighting at night.
Answer: The management of street lighting in England is the responsibility of local highway authorities, and it is for each local highway authority to decide the level of service they wish their street lighting network to deliver, and at what times. In reaching t...
Answered 18 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordEnergy Performance Certificates: Listed BuildingsDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19705More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to his Department’s announcement of 23 September 2024, on minimum energy efficiency standards, what assessment he has made of the average cost of making a listed dwelling meet
Answer: The Government will consult shortly on increasing minimum energy efficiency standards in the domestic private rented sector. The consultation includes proposals on required spend from landlords and potential exemptions. It will be accompanied by the Depar...
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordHousing: ConstructionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19704More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to page 24 of the document entitled Plan for Change, published on 5 December 2024, CP1210, what her target is for the number of net additional dwellings that need
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to my answer to Question UIN 19066 on 20 December 2024.
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordNational Policy StatementsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19703More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to page 25 of the document entitled Plan for Change, published on 5 December 2024, CP1210, which National Policy Statements she expects to update by next summer.
Answer: Consenting departments are working closely with MHCLG and Treasury to explore which National Policy Statements can be updated.
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordHousing: ConstructionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19702More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment Homes England has made of the viability of delivering the Government’s 1.5 million housebuilding target in this Parliament.
Answer: The government’s Plan for Change milestone of building 1.5 million new homes in this Parliament is hugely ambitious but achievable.
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordEmpty Property and Second Homes: Council TaxMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19701More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 29 November 2024 to Question 15447, on Empty Property and Second Homes: Council Tax, what steps he plans to take if a local authority does not meet the
Answer: Councils have a duty to set their determinations in line with the government’s regulations. As the government has set out in the guidance, a council’s determination to charge the premium will not be invalidated where they do not publish this notice.
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordAirports: Business RatesTreasuryTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19700More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what changes have been made to the valuation of airports for business rates in the last 24 months; and what representations her Department has received on that issue in that period.
Answer: The Valuation Office Agency (VOA) conducts analysis of changes in rateable value to prepare for regular revaluations. The VOA is currently working on a revaluation of all non-domestic properties, which will come into effect on 1 April 2026. The revaluatio...
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: HOPE not hateMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 11 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19364More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 15 November 2024 to Question 12772, if she will publish details of (a) discussions and (b) other meetings between officials and Hope Not Hate since 5 Ju
Answer: I refer the Hon Member to the answer to Question UIN 12772 on 15 November 2024. The department has no plans to publish further details.
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordINTERREG ProgrammeMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 11 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19363More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether (a) her Department and (b) its agencies have had recent discussions with representatives of INTERREG on INTERREG programmes.
Answer: MHCLG officials continue to work with 2014-20 INTERREG programmes as required to support the delivery and closure of INTERREG programmes, following the terms established in the UK-EU Withdrawal Agreement.
Answered 19 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordRegional Planning and Development: FinanceMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 11 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19362More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 6 December 2024 to Question 16892 on Regional Planning and Development: Finance, what her Department's policy is on the (a) Oxford to Cambridge Pan-Regi
Answer: At Autumn Budget, the government announced its intention to end core funding for all Pan-Regional Partnerships and consult on the impacts of this decision, if it were taken forward. This public consultation is now live and accessible on Gov.uk and Governm...
Answered 19 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordCommunity Relations: English LanguageMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 11 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19361More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer of 6 December 2024, to Question HL2740 on English Language: Education, what steps the her Department is taking to help promote English language profi
Answer: I refer the Hon Member to the answer given to Question UIN HL2739 on 4 December 2024.
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordEmbassies: Planning PermissionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 11 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19360More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what guidance her Department issues on whether embassies are subject to planning enforcement decisions by (a) local authorities and (b) the courts.
Answer: Embassies are required to apply for planning permission for development proposals, including those within the curtilage of their land, similar to other properties. They are expected to comply with the same planning regulations as other entities. Enforceme...
Answered 20 Dec 2024
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