Kevin Hollinrake MP: written questions
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Business RatesTreasuryTabled 29 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16947More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Government’s non-school business rate changes announced at Autumn Budget 2024, whether she has made a (a) regulatory impact assessment or (b) tax information and impact note on (i) the changes
Answer: At Autumn Budget 24, the Government announced its intention 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 benef...
Answered 9 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordBusiness Rates: Tax YieldsTreasuryTabled 29 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16946More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the gross increase in business rate receipts from the 2026-27 business rate multiplier surcharge on hereditaments above £500,000 Rateable Value.
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 9 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordBusiness Rates: Tax YieldsTreasuryTabled 29 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16945More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of how much business rates receipts in England will raise gross in 2025-26.
Answer: The Office for Budget’s Responsibility’s (OBR) October 2024 Economic and Fiscal Outlook includes forecasts for UK business rates receipts. This is available online: https://obr.uk/docs/dlm_uploads/OBR_Economic_and_fiscal_outlook_Oct_2024.pdf.
Answered 9 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordBusiness RatesTreasuryTabled 29 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16944More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the methodological basis was for setting the proposed business rate multiplier surcharge for hereditaments above £500,000 rateable value at a level of up to 10 pence in the pound.
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 9 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordBusiness Rates: Tax AllowancesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 29 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16943More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, which types of hereditament are eligible for the retail, hospitality and leisure business rate relief by Valuation Office Agency special category code.
Answer: The eligibility criteria for the 2024-25 retail, hospitality and leisure business rate relief are set out in guidance published by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Guidance for the 2025-26 scheme will be published in due course. ...
Answered 9 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordPublic Houses: Business RatesTreasuryTabled 29 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16942More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what information the Valuation Office Agency holds on the average proportionate reduction in rateable value for special category code 226 (pubs) in the 2023 business rates revaluation.
Answer: Statistics on the change in rateable value of non-domestic properties as a result of the 2023 Revaluation are published here:Non-domestic rating: change in rateable value of rating lists, England and Wales, 2023 Revaluation (compiled list) - GOV.UK Table ...
Answered 9 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordCouncil Tax: WalesTreasuryTabled 29 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16941More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 16 October 2024 to Question 7830 on Council Tax: Wales, what each of the property attributes are under the headings dwelling type to bathroom count.
Answer: Descriptions of most of the property attributes can be found on GOV.UK here: www.gov.uk/guidance/property-attribute-data-pad#the-data-we-hold. Subsidised Housing Indicator - this indicates if a property has been purpose-built by a Local Authority, Housing...
Answered 9 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordCouncil TaxMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 29 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16940More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many dwellings were liable for council tax in (a) England and (b) Wales in (i) 2009-10 and (ii) the most recent financial year for which figures are available.
Answer: Council tax is a devolved matter. You will appreciate therefore it would only be appropriate for me to comment on council tax data for England. Data on the number of dwelling liable for council tax in 2009 is available here. Data for 2024 is available her...
Answered 9 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordBusiness RatesTreasuryTabled 29 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16939More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will publish the (a) address, (b) local authority, (c) special category code and (d) rateable value of each hereditament on the business rates valuation list.
Answer: The VOA makes the Non-Domestic Rating (NDR) lists publicly available. This is to allow a person “access to information to enable them to establish the state of the list” and is set out under paragraph 8(1) of schedule 9 of the Local Government Finance Act...
Answered 9 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordSportsgrounds: Business RatesTreasuryTabled 29 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16938More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether (a) football, (b) rugby and (c) cricket stadiums or clubs with a Rateable Value over £500,000 will be liable to pay the business rates Rateable Value multiplier surcharge from 2026-27.
Answer: At Autumn Budget 2024, the Government announced its intention 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 high stre...
Answered 9 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordBusiness Rates: Tax AllowancesTreasuryTabled 29 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16937More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 25 November 2024 to Question 14625 on Business Rate: Tax Allowances and with reference to line 18 of Table 5.1 of the Autumn Statement 2023, CP 977, for what reason the forecasts differ.
Answer: Autumn Statement 2023 (AS23) announced 75 per cent relief to Retail, Hospitality and Leisure (RHL) properties up to a cash cap of £110,000 per business. Based on local authorities’ Non-Domestic Rates form (NNDR1) returns, the static cost of RHL relief is ...
Answered 9 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordAffordable Housing: ConstructionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 29 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16935More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answers of (a) 14 October 2024 to Question 6386 and (b) 9 September 2024 to Question 2997 on Affordable Housing, what estimate he has made of the aggregate change
Answer: As per my response to Question UIN 2997 on 9 September 2024, in July we confirmed that the previous government had agreed, but had chosen not to publish, a reduction in the 2021-26 programme's delivery targets from “up to 180,000 homes should economic con...
Answered 16 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordDevolution: EssexMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 29 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16934More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what progress she has made on a devolution deal for Essex; and whether she plans to amend the date of the local elections scheduled for May 2025.
Answer: In July, the Deputy Prime Minister invited places without devolution agreements, such as Essex, to come forward with proposals for their areas. This process closed in September and we are engaging closely with local leaders and stakeholders to review prop...
Answered 9 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordBusiness Rates and Employers' ContributionsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 29 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16933More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to paragraph 4.63 of the Autumn Budget 2024, published on 30 October, HC 295, whether the £1.3 billion new grant funding includes central government funding for (a
Answer: On 28 November we published a policy statement setting out details on the Local Government Finance Settlement for the next year for councils across England, as well as the government’s wider intentions to fix the foundations of local government over the c...
Answered 9 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordCouncil Tax: Greater LondonMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 28 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16765More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Written Statement of 28 November 2024 on Local Government Finance, HCWS265, and to the Answer of 28 November 2024 to Question 15204, if he will publish the counci
Answer: The local government finance policy statement 2025 to 2026 (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/local-government-finance-policy-statement-2025-to-2026/local-government-finance-policy-statement-2025-to-2026), set out a proposed referendum principle ...
Answered 6 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordPrivate Education: Business RatesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 28 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16748More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer of 9 September 2024 to Question 2820 on Private Education: Business Rates, whether business rates will be levied on (a) nurseries and (b) pre-school premis
Answer: The Non Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill will remove the eligibility for charitable rate relief from private schools that are charities in England. Standalone private nursery schools with their own rates bills are outside of the scop...
Answered 6 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordPrivate Education: Business RatesTreasuryTabled 28 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16747More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 9 September 2024 to Question 2820 on Private Education: Business Rates, whether a (a) sports playing field and (b) playground is a positive material consideration by the Valuation Office Ag
Answer: All intrinsic physical characteristics of the school are taken into consideration, and both sports playing fields and playgrounds are material considerations which positively impact the calculated rateable value.
Answered 5 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordDevolution: East of EnglandMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 28 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16746More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answers of 8 October 2024 to Questions 5762 and 5607 on Devolution: Norfolk and Devolution: Suffolk, what the evidential basis is for the Government's policy that
Answer: This government strongly believes that the benefits of devolution are best achieved through the establishment of combined authorities or combined county authorities over sensible economic geographies and supported by a directly elected mayor. These instit...
Answered 6 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Public ExpenditureHome OfficeTabled 28 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16736More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 5 September 2024 to Question 2635 on Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Public Expenditure, if she will state how her department has changed the previous
Answer: The Home Secretary commissioned the counter extremism sprint to identify gaps in current policy approaches and to recommend a new approach to tackling radicalisation that can draw people to hateful ideologies, both online and offline. The aim was to devel...
Answered 6 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordCivil Society: IslamMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 27 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16499More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what her Department's policy is on (a) Ministerial and (b) official-level engagement with (i) the Muslim Association of Britain, (ii) Cage and (iii) MEND.
Answer: I refer the Hon Member to the answer given to Question UIN 20228 on 24 December 2024.
Answered 8 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordAffordable Housing: ConstructionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 27 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16498More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the average grant subsidy per unit to build an average affordable dwelling under the (a) social rent, (b) affordable rent and (c) affordable home ownership tenures was in th
Answer: The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government delegates delivery of the government’s Affordable Homes Programme to Homes England (outside London) and to the Greater London Authority (GLA) in London.The government agrees budgets and targets wit...
Answered 3 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordHousing: ConstructionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 27 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16497More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to Homes England press release of 15 October 2024, entitled Homes England invests in Schroders Capital’s Real Estate Impact Fund, whether the £50 million of fundin
Answer: The Homes England investment into Schroders Capital’s Real Estate Impact Fund was announced following the government’s International Investment Summit. The investment of £50 million was a Financial Transaction from Capital Spending budgets (CDEL- FT) and ...
Answered 5 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordHousing: ConstructionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 27 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16496More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her Department's press release of 15 October 2024 entitled Thousands of new homes to be built as government unlocks brownfield sites, what the target date is to
Answer: Round three Brownfield Land Release Fund 2 land release milestones are set for 31 March 2028. Housing is then delivered up to three years after the land release milestone. The 5,200 homes forecast applies only to the Brownfield Land Release Fund 2, round ...
Answered 5 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordLocal Government and Mayors: ElectionsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 27 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16495More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2024 to Question 7872 on Local Government: Elections, if she will update the list of years in which each council’s elections will be held wit
Answer: The Government will update the list of local authority elections in England - which can be found here - to include elections for mayors for combined authorities and combined county authorities. The list already includes elections for councils and is easil...
Answered 5 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordVoting Rights: Young PeopleMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 27 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16494More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 11 October 2014 to Question 5416 on Civil Dignitaries and Members: Age, for what reason the Government deems 16 and 17 year olds to be old enough to vot
Answer: Pursuant to the Answer of 11 October 2024, to Question 5416, the introduction of Votes at 16 is about building long lasting engagement with our democracy among young people. By engaging voters early, when they are young, we will build the foundations for ...
Answered 5 Dec 2024
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