Kevin Hollinrake MP: written questions
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European 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
Original Parliament recordHousing: FinanceMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31946More
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, if she will l
Answer: On 12 February 2025, the government announced the allocation of a further £300 million to the Affordable Homes Programme. This will support the near-term delivery of more social and affordable housing, delivering up to 2,800 new homes with more than half ...
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: ElectionsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31945More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will publish the correspondence referred to in paragraph 7.4 of the Explanatory Memorandum to the Local Authorities (Changes of Years of Ordinary Elections) (England) Orde
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
Original Parliament recordAsylum: AppealsHome OfficeTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31944More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the potential cost to the public purse of implementing the decision of the Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) of 28 January 2025 with reference: UI-2024-00
Answer: It is longstanding government policy that we do not routinely comment on individual cases.
Answered 26 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPlanning PermissionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31943More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 10 February 2025 to Question 27158 on Planning Permission, for what reason planning powers are being transferred to a sub-regional level.
Answer: The government intends to implement strategic planning at a sub-regional level through the production of Spatial Development Strategies to facilitate effective cross-boundary working to address development and infrastructure needs.
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: ElectionsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31942More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Local Authorities (Changes of Years of Ordinary Elections) (England) Order 2025, whether elections for specified councils will happen if local government re
Answer: The date of elections to new unitary authorities will depend on the nature of proposals and progress on development of those proposals.The position remains that elections to authorities specified in the Local Authorities (Changes of Years of Ordinary Elec...
Answered 27 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: ElectionsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31941More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether Surrey will have (a) mayoral combined authority and (b) unitary council elections in (i) 2026 and (ii) 2027.
Answer: Surrey will not have a mayoral election in 2026 as it has not been included in the Devolution Priority Programme; decisions on subsequent devolution have not yet been taken. The date of any unitary council elections will depend on the nature of proposals ...
Answered 28 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordUnitary CouncilsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31940More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to paragraph 5.15 of the Explanatory Memorandum to the Local Authorities (Changes of Years of Ordinary Elections) (England) Order 2025, published on 10 February 20
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
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: ReorganisationMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31939More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her Department's correspondence entitled Local government reorganisation: invitation to local authorities in two-tier areas, published on 6 February 2025, wheth
Answer: The formal invitations to submit unitary proposals were sent to the leaders of all the councils in two tier areas and their neighbouring small unitaries. These letters have been published on gov.uk. The letters set out the criteria for the development of ...
Answered 28 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: ReorganisationMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31938More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her Department's correspondence entitled Local government reorganisation: invitation to local authorities in two-tier areas, published on 6 February 2025, what
Answer: The formal invitations to submit unitary proposals were sent to the leaders of all the councils in two tier areas and their neighbouring small unitaries. These letters have been published on gov.uk. The letters set out the criteria for the development of ...
Answered 28 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordCivil Society: IslamMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31936More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 24 December to Question 20228 on Civil Society: Islam, for what reason her Department has not engaged with (a) MEND, (b) CAGE, (c) the Muslim Associatio
Answer: The Government will only engage with organisations when it is in the public interest.
Answered 3 Mar 2025
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