Kevin Hollinrake MP: written questions
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Returning OfficersSpeaker's Committee on the Electoral CommissionTabled 2 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43477More
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 produced guidance on the inclusion of local Electoral Returning Officers within the definition
Answer: The Electoral Commisson has not produced guidance on the inclusion of local Electoral Returning Officers within the definition of local authorities for the Re-Use of Public Sector Information.The Electoral Commission produces guidance on the roles and res...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordHousing: PylonsDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43102More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what estimate his Department has made of the potential impact of proximity to an electricity pylon on the average capital value of an average house.
Answer: The Government does not assess the impact of new transmission network infrastructure on house prices. Landowners, businesses and homeowners that have electrical equipment, such as pylons or towers, sited on their land have the right to compensation for th...
Answered 9 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordTower of LondonDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43101More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 11 March 2025 to Question 35700 on Tower of London, whether the Government has had discussions with UNESCO on the potential impact of the planning application for a new
Answer: On 28 February 2025, DCMS submitted a ‘paragraph 172 notification’ letter to the World Heritage Centre that included updated information on a range of developments relating to the Tower of London World Heritage Site. The letter included an update on the p...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordRefuges: Business RatesTreasuryTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43100More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many refuges are in each local authority area in England and Wales according to hereditament data held by the Valuation Office Agency to the closest associated Special Category Code.
Answer: The Valuation Office Agency does not record data on refuges by Special Category Code.
Answered 9 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordHousingTreasuryTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43099More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 19 March 2025 to Question 37570 on Housing, whether the Valuation Office Agency collects data on the (a) total plot size of the curtilage of a dwelling and its surrounds including any garde
Answer: The Valuation Office Agency only requires data on a dwelling’s total plot size when it is non-standard for a typical property of that type. Plot size is recorded in these instances because an unusually large or small plot could influence the property’s as...
Answered 9 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordBusiness Rates: ValuationTreasuryTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43098More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the £500,000 rateable value threshold will be uprated in April 2026 in line with the average percentage uplift in aggregate rateable values from the 2026 business rates revaluation.
Answer: The Government intends to introduce permanently lower tax rates for high street retail, hospitality, and leisure properties, with rateable values below £500,000, from 2026-27. This tax cut must be sustainably funded, and so the Government intends to apply...
Answered 9 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HousingHome OfficeTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43097More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 12 March 2025 to Question 35307, on Asylum: Contracts, whether her Department directly procures asylum accommodation itself, separate to those contracts.
Answer: The Home Office is working closely with a range of stakeholders to fulfil its statutory obligations, while seeking to reduce the overall cost of asylum accommodation for the taxpayer.As part of this programme, the Home Office works with its contracted Est...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPublic Spaces Protection Orders: Fixed PenaltiesHome OfficeTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43096More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 20 March 2025 to Question 38055 on Public Space Protection Orders: Fixed Penalties, whether (a) local authorities and (b) outsourced contracts can generate a profit from the
Answer: The Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 provides the police, local authorities and other local agencies with a range of tools and powers they can use to respond to anti-social behaviour (ASB), including the Public Spaces Protection Order (P...
Answered 9 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordDemocracy and ElectionsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43094More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 20 March 2025 to Question 38627 on Democracy and Elections, if she will name each of the stakeholders who have been consulted to date.
Answer: The Government engages with a broad range of stakeholders including local authorities, Civil Society Organisations and electoral bodies including the Electoral Commission, the Association of Electoral Administrators, The Society of Local Authority Chief E...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPublic Spaces Protection OrdersHome OfficeTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43093More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department holds data on the Public Space Protection Orders in force by local authority.
Answer: The Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 provides the police, local authorities and other local agencies with a range of tools and powers they can use to respond to anti-social behaviour (ASB), including the Public Spaces Protection Order (P...
Answered 9 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordJews: SafetyHome OfficeTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43092More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 28 November 2023 to Question 2562 on Jewish Safety, when the Jewish Community Crime, Policing and Security Taskforce last met.
Answer: The taskforce last met on October 23rd, 2023. To discuss the surge in antisemitism seen in UK following the Hamas attacks in Israel on October 7th, 2023.We continue to work closely with the Community Security Trust (CST) and other stakeholders in the Jewi...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordHome OfficeHome OfficeTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43091More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 11 March 2025 to Question 33043 on Home Office, what steps her Department is taking to ensure consistency of approach in its engagement policy.
Answer: Decisions on engagement are always best made on a case-by-case basis, after consulting the relevant evidence and priorities.
Answered 9 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordWritten Questions: Government ResponsesLeader of the HouseTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43090More
Question: To ask the Leader of the House, pursuant to the Answer of 19 March 2025 to Question 37209 on Government Departments: Written Questions, whether it is her policy that if information would be released under the Environmental Information Regulations it shoul
Answer: I refer the Hon. Member to the response provided to Question 37209, which answers his question.I encourage the Hon. Member to raise any specific issues they may have regarding PQ responses with myself and my office.
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordRoads: Repairs and MaintenanceDepartment for TransportTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43089More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much local highway authorities in England will receive in 2025-26 from the (a) pothole fund, (b) highways maintenance block needs, (c) highways maintenance block incentive, (d) integrated transport block, (
Answer: During 2025/26, the Department will provide a total of £1,567 million to local highway authorities in England under a new single, consolidated highway maintenance capital grant. This consolidates into one single funding stream the previous pothole fund, h...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPolitical Parties: FinanceCabinet OfficeTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43088More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Answer of 20 March 2025 to Question HL5597 on Political Parties: Finance, if he will place in the Library an unredacted version of the guidance.
Answer: As set out in response to question HL5597, the guidance document in question is owned by the House of Lords Appointments Commission and is an internal document for Commission members. When ordering release of the guidance in December 2021, the Information...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordElections: ExpenditureSpeaker's Committee on the Electoral CommissionTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43087More
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 19 March 2025 to Question 37583 on Elections: Expenditure, what guidance the Commission has issued on (a)
Answer: The Elecotoral Commission has published guidance for candidates and agents on reporting notional expenditure. Property, goods, services or facilities received over the value of £50, provided for free or at a non-commercial discount, must be reported as ca...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordHomes England: EqualityMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43085More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 3 March 2025 to Question 32222 on Homes England: Equality, whether this expenditure was signed off by the Principle Accounting Officer for Homes England
Answer: The Whitehall Diversity & Industry Group (WIG) Diversity & Inclusion event is a conference with key note speakers, panel discussions and interactive sessions and therefore does not fall under the EDI restrictions and/or require sign off from the P...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordHousing: ParkingDepartment for TransportTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42475More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 12 March 2025 to Question 36099 on Housing: Parking, whether local authorities may recover costs of dropping a kerb greater than the actual cost of the (a) works and (b) administration
Answer: Section 184 of the Highways Act 1980 provides that local authorities may recover the expenses reasonably incurred by them in carrying out works to create a dropped kerb.Local authorities are responsible for managing and maintaining the roads in their area...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordRoads: Repairs and MaintenanceDepartment for TransportTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42474More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 18 March 2025 to Question 38041 on Roads: Repairs and Maintenance, whether the complete resurfacing of an existing road is classed as capital or revenue expenditure.
Answer: It is up to local highway authorities’ Section 151 officers to determine what types of highway maintenance expenditure can legitimately be classed as capital and what as revenue expenditure, following the advice provided by the Chartered Institute of Publ...
Answered 4 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordRoads: Repairs and MaintenanceDepartment for TransportTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42473More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much local highway authorities in England received from the (a) pothole fund, (b) highways maintenance block needs, (b) highways maintenance block incentive, (d) integrated transport block, (e) Maintenance
Answer: In 2024/25, the Department provided a total of £1,067 million to local highway authorities in England under the pothole fund and highways maintenance block (needs and incentive elements). Nominally, this broke down into approximately £407 million from the...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPublic Appointments: Disclosure of InformationCabinet OfficeTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42472More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether every regulated public (a) appointment and (b) re-appointment is published on the Announcement section of the website entitled Apply for a public appointment; and how long each announcement page remains
Answer: All regulated appointment and reappointment announcements should be published on the Apply for a public appointment digital service, unless the appointing department determines that the appointment is of a sensitive nature. All announcements remain on the...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordAdmiralty House: Repairs and MaintenanceCabinet OfficeTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42471More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what information his Department holds on the total planned cost of the repairs to doors in Flat 1 of Admiralty House; and whether any other works are planned for that property.
Answer: We are not able to comment on specific repairs to Admiralty House on security grounds. Admiralty House is a Grade I listed government freehold property and any necessary repairs undertaken have to be compliant with those regulations.
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordElectoral Commission: Companies HouseSpeaker's Committee on the Electoral CommissionTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42467More
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 17 March 2025 to Question 37580 on Electoral Commission: Companies House, what discussions the Electoral C
Answer: The Electoral Commission has not had discussions with Companies House on the legislation referred to by the Hon. Gentleman.
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordNature Restoration FundMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42466More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the nature restoration fund levy will be subject to economic viability assessments; and whether other development levies will take in account the cost of the nature resto
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to Question UIN 41863 on 4 April 2025.
Answered 16 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordHousing: ConstructionDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42465More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of biodiversity net gain on (a) housebuilding costs and (b) levels of development.
Answer: Mandatory biodiversity net gain establishes a consistent set of requirements which give developers clarity on how they can meet their net gain obligations and deliver developments which leave biodiversity in a better state. The biodiversity net gain regul...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
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