Paul Holmes MP: written questions
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MADE PartnershipMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 18 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9955More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what public procurement process was followed by Homes England when establishing the MADE Partnership.
Answer: It is estimated that the MADE Partnership will bring forward in excess of 5650 homes by acting as master developer to unlock large, complex residential sites that have stalled due to lack of market capability, coordination capacity, patient capital and re...
Answered 28 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordHousing: ConstructionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 18 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9954More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate she has made of the number of additional homes that will be provided by the MADE Partnership.
Answer: It is estimated that the MADE Partnership will bring forward in excess of 5650 homes by acting as master developer to unlock large, complex residential sites that have stalled due to lack of market capability, coordination capacity, patient capital and re...
Answered 28 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordMinisters: Members' InterestsCabinet OfficeTabled 16 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9561More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the oral contribution of the Minister without Portfolio during the debate on Reporting Ministerial Gifts and Hospitality of 14 October 2024, Official Report, column 594, if he will make an asse
Answer: As set out by the Minister without Portfolio, the updated Ministerial Code will be published in due course. It will include details of a new Register of Ministers' Gifts and Hospitality, which will bring the publication of ministerial transparency data mo...
Answered 24 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordRoyal and VIP Executive CommitteeHome OfficeTabled 16 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9549More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has participated in discussions on the provision of escorted policing to private individuals who are not formally classified as protected individuals in its capacity as her repr
Answer: The government’s protective security system is rigorous and proportionate. It is our long-standing policy not to provide detailed information on protective security arrangements, as doing so could compromise their integrity and affect individuals’ securit...
Answered 22 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordTaylor SwiftCabinet OfficeTabled 14 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9001More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether (a) the Prime Minister and (b) the Prime Minister’s officials had discussions with the (i) the Home Department, (ii) Attorney General and (iii) Metropolitan Police on Special Escort Group policing for (A
Answer: The safety of the British public is the first priority of this Government. We make no apologies for ensuring citizens are protected. It is entirely right that for major events in the capital, the Government has a dialogue with the Metropolitan Police and ...
Answered 7 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordPrime Minister: Universal Music Publishing GroupCabinet OfficeTabled 14 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9000More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what discussions (a) the Prime Minister has and (b) the Prime Minister’s officials have had with representatives of Universal Music Publishing Group since 4 July 2024.
Answer: As was the practice under the previous Administration, information about official ministerial meetings with external organisations and individuals will be published as part of the Cabinet Office transparency returns and made available on the GOV.UK websit...
Answered 21 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordSpecial Advisers: Corporate HospitalityCabinet OfficeTabled 14 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8999More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether planned revised guidance on Ministers accepting hospitality from the (a) football and (b) music industry will apply to specialist advisers.
Answer: Ministerial Code guidance on hospitality applies to ministers. The Code of Conduct for Special Advisers sets out the requirements for Special Advisers in respect of hospitality. .
Answered 7 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordGovernment Departments: Corporate HospitalityCabinet OfficeTabled 14 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8998More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what plans the Government has for revising his policy on accepting hospitality from the (a) football and (b) music industry.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answers by my hon. Friend, the Minister without Portfolio, during the Urgent Question, Reporting Ministerial Gifts and Hospitality, on 14 October 2024, Official Report, Columns 594-602.
Answered 7 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordTaylor SwiftAttorney GeneralTabled 14 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8997More
Question: To ask the Solicitor General, whether (a) the Attorney General has had and (b) officials in his Department have had discussions with the Metropolitan Police on Special Escort Group policing for (i) Taylor Swift and (ii) her entourage.
Answer: It is a long-standing convention that the fact that the Law Officers have advised or have not advised and the content of their advice must not be disclosed outside Government without their authority. This is known as the Law Officers’ Convention, is provi...
Answered 28 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordYvette CooperHome OfficeTabled 14 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8996More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on what date she declared the hospitality of tickets to the Taylor Swift concert in August 2024 to her Permanent Secretary.
Answer: As is standard practice, all ministerial gifts and hospitality received are declared on the Ministerial gifts, hospitality, travel and meetings transparency data on gov.ukHome Office: ministerial gifts, hospitality, travel and meetings, January to March 2...
Answered 22 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordHome Office: Official HospitalityHome OfficeTabled 14 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8995More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to revise guidance issued to her Department on accepting hospitality from the (a) football and (b) music industry.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answers by my hon. Friend, the Minister without Portfolio, during the Urgent Question, Reporting Ministerial Gifts and Hospitality, on 14 October 2024, Official Report, Columns 594-602.
Answered 22 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordTaylor SwiftHome OfficeTabled 14 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8994More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the estimated cost to the public purse of the special escort group policing for Taylor Swift and her entourage; and whether any external sources contributed to
Answer: The safety of the British public is the first priority of this Government. We make no apologies for ensuring citizens are protected.It is entirely right that for major events in the capital, the Government has a dialogue with the Metropolitan Police and M...
Answered 22 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordTaylor SwiftHome OfficeTabled 14 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8993More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Metropolitan Police originally recommended that the Special Escort Group was necessary to escort Taylor Swift to and from Wembley Stadium.
Answer: The safety of the British public is the first priority of this Government. We make no apologies for ensuring citizens are protected.It is entirely right that for major events in the capital, the Government has a dialogue with the Metropolitan Police and M...
Answered 22 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordTaylor SwiftHome OfficeTabled 14 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8992More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions (a) she has had and (b) officials in her Department have had with the Metropolitan Police on Special Escort Group policing for (i) Taylor Swift and (ii) her entourage.
Answer: The safety of the British public is the first priority of this Government. We make no apologies for ensuring citizens are protected.It is entirely right that for major events in the capital, the Government has a dialogue with the Metropolitan Police and M...
Answered 22 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordDepartment of Health and Social Care: Corporate HospitalityDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8903More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has for revising his policy on accepting hospitality from the (a) football and (b) music industry.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answers by my hon. Friend, the Minister without Portfolio, during the Urgent Question, Reporting Ministerial Gifts and Hospitality, on 14 October 2024, Official Report, Columns 594-602.
Answered 22 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordSmokingDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8902More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had discussions with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the impact of the generational smoking ban on Exchequer revenues in the context of the findings of the Office for Budget Respo
Answer: The Tobacco and Vapes Bill will be the biggest public health intervention in a generation, tackling the harms of smoking and paving the way for a smoke-free United Kingdom. Smoking costs the economy and wider society £21.8 billion a year. This includes an...
Answered 21 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordTobacco: Excise DutiesTreasuryTabled 14 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8901More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Institute of Fiscal Studies' finding relating to the fall in revenues from tobacco duty over the last decade, outlined on page 42 of its report entitled The outlook for the public finances in t
Answer: HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) launched its first strategy to tackle illicit tobacco in 2000. This, and consequent strategies with Border Force, have reduced the overall tobacco duty tax gap from 21.7% in 2005/6 to 14.5% in 2022/23. During this time, the d...
Answered 22 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordTobacco: Excise DutiesTreasuryTabled 14 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8900More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether (a) her Department and (b) the Office for Budget Responsibility has made an assessment of a potential Laffer Curve effect relating to (i) tobacco and (ii) alcohol duties.
Answer: Under the assumptions used in tobacco and alcohol costings certified by the Office for Budget Responsibility at Spring Budget 2024, increasing tobacco and alcohol duties increases overall duty receipts.
Answered 22 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordTobacco: Excise DutiesTreasuryTabled 14 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8899More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to page 42 of the Institute of Fiscal Studies' report entitled The outlook for the public finances in the new parliament, published on 10 October 2024, if her Department will make an assessment of the
Answer: The Government is committed to delivering its two key objectives on tobacco duty; to raise revenue and protect public health. High taxes reduce the affordability of tobacco products and supports the Government’s objective to reduce smoking prevalence. The...
Answered 22 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordTreasury: Corporate HospitalityTreasuryTabled 14 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8898More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans she has for revising her policy on accepting hospitality from the (a) football and (b) music industry.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answers by my hon. Friend, the Minister without Portfolio, during the Urgent Question, Reporting Ministerial Gifts and Hospitality, on 14 October 2024, Official Report, Columns 594-602.
Answered 22 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordTobacco: Excise DutiesTreasuryTabled 14 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8897More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential implications for its policies of the Institute of Fiscal Studies' finding relating to tobacco excise duty outlined in paragraph 10, page 3 of its report
Answer: The Government is committed to delivering its two key objectives on tobacco duty; to raise revenue and protect public health. High taxes reduce the affordability of tobacco products and supports the Government’s objective to reduce smoking prevalence. The...
Answered 22 Oct 2024
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