Lewis Cocking MP: written questions 2025
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Stoma AppliancesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71667More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of centrally coordinating stoma services.
Answer: Integrated care boards (ICBs) are legally responsible for commissioning the majority of health services, including stoma services, in accordance with their populations’ health needs. There are currently no plans for centrally coordinating stoma services a...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: Children and Young PeopleHome OfficeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71666More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of asylum seekers on the safeguarding of children and young people.
Answer: All those who claim asylum undergo a series of security checks against immigration and police databases and are screened to identify individuals who may have been involved in criminality both in the UK and outside the UK or are of national security intere...
Answered 16 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HousingHome OfficeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71665More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the proximity of (a) schools and (b) other youth facilities is taken into account when procuring dispersal accommodation.
Answer: The Home Office does not publish detailed information on the location of asylum accommodation sites for safety and security reasons. Data, published quarterly, on the number of supported asylum seekers in accommodation can be found within the Asy_D11 tab ...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HousingHome OfficeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71664More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of using dispersal accommodation for asylum seekers on the availability of housing for British citizens.
Answer: Under the Immigration Act of 1999, any government has a legal obligation to provide accommodation to asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute.The Home Office and its accommodation providers work closely with local authorities across the country to ...
Answered 9 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: Dental ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71663More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much has been spent on providing dental care for asylum seekers in hotels in the last year.
Answer: The overall management of asylum seekers is a matter for the Home Office.The Department of Health and Social Care does not hold data on the expenditure on dental care provided to asylum seekers in hotels in the last year.
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: BroxbourneHome OfficeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71662More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many properties have been procured by (a) her Department and (b) contracted companies to serve as dispersal housing for asylum seekers in Broxbourne constituency.
Answer: The Home Office does not publish detailed information on the location of asylum accommodation sites for safety and security reasons. Data, published quarterly, on the number of supported asylum seekers in accommodation can be found within the Asy_D11 tab ...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordPolitical PartiesSpeaker's Committee on the Electoral CommissionTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71661More
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 15 July 2025 to Question 65798 on Companies: Political Parties, whether the Electoral Commission has issue
Answer: Electoral law does not dictate the legal structure of a party. Parties can be registered with a range of structures, including unincorporated associations, limited or unlimited companies.If a party includes company arrangements, the Commission expects thi...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordBusiness Premises: RentsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71660More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what public consultation her Department has undertaken in relation to the proposed prohibition of upward-only rent reviews for commercial leases in the English Devolution and Com
Answer: No formal public consultation was undertaken prior to the announcement of the policy. However, upwards only rent reviews are an issue of a longstanding concern that artificially inflated rents make it harder for businesses to access commercial property. T...
Answered 5 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordBaroness Gray of TottenhamCabinet OfficeTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69875More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to his Department's publication entitled Special adviser data releases: numbers and costs, July 2025, published on 17 July 2025, how much was Sue Gray’s salary.
Answer: The Annual Report for Special Advisers releases salary information for individuals in post as at 31 March 2025. We do not release salary details outside of this publication.
Answered 2 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordBaroness Gray of TottenhamCabinet OfficeTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69874More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to his Department's publication entitled Special adviser data releases: numbers and costs, July 2025, published on 17 July 2025, how much of severance costs in 2024-25 related to the severance pay
Answer: In line with the Model Contract for Special Advisers which is published online and details the circumstances in which severance is payable, Baroness Gray was not eligible for a severance payment, therefore no such payment was made.
Answered 2 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordBusiness RatesTreasuryTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69873More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate has been made of the number of (a) retail, (b) hospitality and (c) leisure hereditaments ineligible for the retail, hospitality and leisure business rate relief under the £110,000 cap per business.
Answer: Retail, Hospitality and Leisure (RHL) relief has been extended year-by-year by previous Governments since the pandemic – creating uncertainty for businesses and an unsustainable fiscal pressure for the Government. Without any Government intervention, the ...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordProperty and Wealth: TaxationTreasuryTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69872More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of (a) wealth taxes and (b) taxes on high-value residential property.
Answer: The Government is committed to making sure the wealthiest in our society pay their fair share of tax. That is why the Chancellor announced a series of reforms at Autumn Budget 2024 to help fix the public finances in as fair a way as possible. These and o...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordCombined Authorities: ElectionsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69871More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, which (a) existing and (b) new combined mayoral elections will take place in May (i) 2026 and (ii) 2027.
Answer: The government announced on 17 July that we are taking forward all six places on the Devolution Priority Programme and establishing mayoral strategic authorities via secondary legislation. Subject to the consent of local councils, legislation will be brou...
Answered 1 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordElections: ReformMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69870More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she consulted the Parliamentary Parties Panel on the policy paper entitled Restoring trust in our democracy: Our strategy for modern and secure elections, published on 17
Answer: The government has worked closely with its partners in local and devolved government, with the electoral sector, with education providers and civil society, and with citizens themselves in the development of the strategy for modern and secure elections. W...
Answered 3 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordRentsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69869More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the ban on upward-only rent reviews on (a) pension funds and (b) property investments owned by councils.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to Question UIN 68122 on 24 July 2025.
Answered 3 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordHospitality Industry: Business RatesTreasuryTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69868More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) pubs, (b) hotels and (c) restaurants in England have a Rateable Value over £500,000.
Answer: The Valuation Office Agency published this information, as at 31 March 2025, in its latest 'Non-domestic rating: stock of properties' release here: Non-domestic rating: stock of properties, 2025 - GOV.UK
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordEstate Agents: RegulationMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69867More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to help tackle conditional selling by estate agents.
Answer: It is unacceptable for estate agents to withhold offers from sellers because the potential buyer declines to use their additional services. Where there is evidence of such practices, agents can face sanctions including a ban.The government is committed to...
Answered 3 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordPlanning Permission: Local GovernmentMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69866More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether mayors in (a) mayoral and (b) county combined authorities will have rights of veto.
Answer: The English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill, introduced to the House of Commons on 10 July 2025, makes provision to standardise voting arrangements for mayoral combined authorities and mayoral county combined authorities when making decisions. U...
Answered 1 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordHousing: Greater LondonMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69865More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the Molior London report entitled Residential Development in London: Q1 2025, April 2025.
Answer: The government recognises the significant challenges affecting housing delivery challenge in London. We are committed to working in partnership with the Mayor of London, boroughs, and others to significantly increase rates of housebuilding in the capital.
Answered 3 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordPrivate Rented Housing: LicensingMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69864More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 14 July 2025 to Question 65373 on Private Rented Housing: Licensing, what estimate she has made of the average annual licensing and registration fee und
Answer: Selective licensing schemes are introduced by local authorities. Fees differ based on regional variations in the administrative and operational costs of schemes. Due to these factors, no estimate of an annual average across all schemes has been made.Fees ...
Answered 3 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordPrivate Rented Housing: LicensingMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69863More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 14 July 2025 to Question 65373 on Private Rented Housing: Licensing, whether the restrictions on using selective licensing revenues is in scope of the F
Answer: As stated in the answer to Question UIN 65367 on 14 July 2025, selective licensing fees paid by landlords to local authorities should only be used to cover the costs of running schemes, and local authorities are not expected to profit, nor should they use...
Answered 1 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordAirports: National Policy StatementsDepartment for TransportTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69862More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what her planned timetable is for each stage of (a) consulting on and (b) ratifying the updated Airports National Policy Statement.
Answer: The Government published a letter to potential promoters inviting proposals for a third runway at Heathrow to be brought forward by the summer. The government is now assessing the proposals against the criteria set out in the letter. Once this is complete...
Answered 2 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: ElectionsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69638More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 14 July 2025 to Question 65428 on Local Government: Elections, if he will list the councils which could have their elections replaced with elections to
Answer: Government is working with local leaders in Surrey to facilitate reorganisation to the most ambitious timeframe possible, meaning that Surrey could have elections to new unitary councils in May 2026, in advance of those councils going live in April 2027.E...
Answered 1 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordAffordable HousingMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69637More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer of 4 July 2025 to Question 63255 on Property Development: Repairs and Maintenance, whether the 2026-36 Affordable Homes Programme will allow a proportion o
Answer: The government’s new Social and Affordable Homes Programme will not have numerical targets for particular types of homes other than Social Rent nor will it have ringfenced budgets for particular regions or types of home beyond the portion allocated to the...
Answered 3 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordHousing: ConstructionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69636More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 4 July 2025 to Question 62977 on Housing Construction, what financial guarantees for housing will be provided by her Department for 2025-26.
Answer: As of 30 June 2025, MHCLG has provided £270 million of financial guarantees for housing in the 2025-26 financial year.My Department’s guarantees schemes are demand-led and it is therefore not possible to estimate the total guarantees the Department will p...
Answered 3 Sept 2025
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