Rebecca Paul MP: written questions
4 Jul 2025–3 Jul 2026
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Written questions
Planning Inspectorate: EmailMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 1 Jul 2026AnsweredUIN 15157More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the Planning Inspectorate email inbox is closed to responses.
Answer: The Planning Inspectorate has a general customer enquiries email address that remains open for customer queries. Where interested parties are permitted to submit representations, they may do so via the Planning Inspectorate's website, which can be found o...
Answered 20 Jul 2026
Original Parliament recordPlanning Permission: AppealsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 1 Jul 2026AnsweredUIN 15156More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will review the Fast Track Appeal Process used by the Planning Inspectorate to enable residents to engage with the appeal process.
Answer: The expedited written representations planning appeal procedure, first introduced in 2009, was recently expanded to a broader range of appeals so that all planning appeals against decisions on applications made on or after 1 April 2026 may be decided thro...
Answered 20 Jul 2026
Original Parliament recordMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Redundancy PayMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 23 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 12309More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, for what reason the final 2025–26 departmental pay settlement was not applied to staff who left the Department under the Voluntary Exit Scheme after being employed on the date fr
Answer: The 2025/26 pay award reflected an exceptional pay flexibility agreement, reached following negotiations with the recognised Trade Unions and approved within the Civil Service pay framework. The award was based on clearly defined criteria that targeted in...
Answered 1 Jul 2026
Original Parliament recordLeasehold: Repairs and MaintenanceMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 9 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 8208More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to ensure that residents’ management companies which hold the freehold on behalf of leaseholders are not treated as commercial freeholders for the purpose
Answer: The leaseholder protections, which cap liability for paying towards certain remediation costs, do not apply to buildings where some or all the leaseholders have acquired the freehold. RMCs who hold the freehold on behalf of leaseholders can use remediatio...
Answered 17 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordPrivate Rented Housing: Domestic AbuseMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 9 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 8207More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of current legal protections for victims of domestic abuse seeking to be released from joint tenancies in the private rent
Answer: Under the Renters’ Rights Act, all tenancies with a fixed term transitioned to periodic tenancies on 1 May 2026. As a result, victims of domestic abuse are no longer locked into fixed terms with perpetrators. The courts have established that any individua...
Answered 17 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordFire and Rescue Services: FinanceMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 2 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 117025More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department plans to review the funding distribution methodology for fire and rescue authorities following the Fair Funding Review 2.0.
Answer: The Government recognises that the current fire funding formula was designed over a decade ago. In line with responses to the principles of reform consultation in December 2024, the Government updated the fire and rescue relative needs formula by using th...
Answered 10 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordFire and Rescue Services: FinanceMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 2 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 117024More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what consideration his Department has given to ensuring that council tax flexibility for fire and rescue services is applied across different governance models, including service
Answer: Local authorities are responsible for deciding the level of their council tax. The Secretary of State sets referendum principles for a range of local authorities with different responsibilities, including fire services. The principles are considered on an...
Answered 10 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordFire and Rescue Services: SurreyMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 2 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 117023More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the Local Government Finance Settlement 2026-27 to 2028-29 on the financial sustainability of Surrey Fire and R
Answer: Multi-year funding allocations were published at the final Local Government Finance Settlement on 9 February 2026. The final 2026-27 Local Government Finance Settlement will make available £78 billion in Core Spending Power for local authorities in Englan...
Answered 10 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordFire and Rescue Services: SurreyMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 2 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 117022More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate his Department has made of the change in the funding available for Surrey Fire and Rescue Service in (a) each financial year between 2026-27 and 2028-29 and (b) 202
Answer: Multi-year funding allocations were published at the final Local Government Finance Settlement on 9 February 2026. The final 2026-27 Local Government Finance Settlement will make available £78 billion in Core Spending Power for local authorities in Englan...
Answered 10 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordLeasehold: Ground RentMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 10 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99005More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what evaluation his Department has made of the need to ensure that planned reforms to the leasehold system address the matter of leaseholders struggling to sell share-of-freehold
Answer: The government is committed to addressing unregulated and unaffordable ground rents and we will do this in legislation. We will set out further details on our detailed plans for existing ground rents in due course.
Answered 5 Jan 2026
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