Rachael Maskell MP: written questions
4 Jul 2025–3 Jul 2026
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Written questions
Pride in Place ProgrammeMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 18 May 2026AnsweredUIN 2080More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what criteria will be used to allocate future Pride in Place grants; and if he will use the lower tier indices of deprivation to provide support to communities.
Answer: Our £5.8 billion Pride in Place programme is supporting 284 communities across the UK with up to £20 million in funding to address the local issues that matter most to them. The neighbourhoods have been selected using a robust methodology which identified...
Answered 27 May 2026
Original Parliament recordLocal Government Finance: Yorkshire and the HumberMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 15 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 106130More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of Government funding to (a) local authorities in Yorkshire and (b) York Central constituency.
Answer: This Local Government Finance Settlement is our most significant move yet to make English local government more sustainable. The government is making good on long overdue promises to fundamentally update the way we fund local authorities. We are deliverin...
Answered 23 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordFloods: Fire and Rescue ServicesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 6 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 103321More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she is ensuring that Fire and Rescue services have a statutory duty to support flood events.
Answer: Protecting communities from flooding is a key priority for this Government. Fire and Rescue Authorities already have duties under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 to prepare for emergencies, including major flooding. However, we recognise the interest in ...
Answered 9 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordCrime PreventionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 4 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 75020More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make it her policy to publish a community safety strategy.
Answer: The Government’s Safer Streets Mission led by the Home and Plan for Change commitments set out a whole-system approach to reduce serious harm and restore public confidence in policing and the criminal justice system. Central to this is our ambitions to st...
Answered 12 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordFlagsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 4 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 75017More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment her Department has made of the potential risks of the unauthorised placing of flags on lampposts; and whether she has issued guidance to local authorities on (a)
Answer: The Government supports the flying of flags across the country. Flags should be an embodiment of bringing our country and our communities together. Guidance exists, such as ‘Flying flags: a plain English guide” - as set out in the Town and Country Plannin...
Answered 12 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordFlags and Graffiti: Local GovernmentMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 4 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 75016More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to help support local authorities to (a) remove and (b) protect the safety of staff who are removing (i) graffiti and (ii) flags that have bee
Answer: The Government supports the flying of flags across the country. Flags should be an embodiment of bringing our country and our communities together. Guidance exists, such as ‘Flying flags: a plain English guide” - as set out in the Town and Country Plannin...
Answered 12 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government FinanceMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67911More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her Department's consultation document Fair Funding Review 2.0 updated on 23 June 2025, what the funding formula used for the review is.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to chapter 4 of the Fair Funding Review 2.0 consultation which sets out the approach to assessing local authority demand through seven formulae. Government have also published detailed technical annexes for each formula. We will pu...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
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