Question follow-through · 831

Buildings: Solar Power

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, by what date she intends to make it a requirement that all new homes and buildings should have solar panels as default except in defined cases; and by what date she will issue gu

answeredMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

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Answering body
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Tabled
19 Jul 2024
Target answer date
23 Jul 2024
Answer
29 Jul 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 19 Jul 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, by what date she intends to make it a requirement that all new homes and buildings should have solar panels as default except in defined cases; and by what date she will issue gu

  2. 23 Jul 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 29 Jul 2024

    Answer published

    As set out in our manifesto, the Government will take steps to ensure we are building more high-quality, well-designed and sustainable homes. We will publish our response to the Future Homes and Buildings Standards 2023 consultation in due course.

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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Local Government: Devolution

30 Jul 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her letter of 16 July 2024 to local council leaders, whether devolution settlements are available to district councils.

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Local Government: Employers' Contributions

4 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to provide additional funding to local authorities for the cost of increases to employer National Insurance contributions.

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Local Government: Hertfordshire

15 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether (a) Ministers and (b) officials from her Department have had recent discussions with Hertfordshire County Council on the two-tier system of local government in that count

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Planning Permission: Local Press

2 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of including local online news publications in the definition of local newspapers for the advertisement of planning not

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Homelessness

6 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when her Department will publish a breakdown of planned spending on homelessness (a) support and (b) prevention for 2025-26.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Sleeping Rough

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Housing: Bricks

6 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 12 September 2024 to Question 4279 on Housing: Bricks, what steps she plans to take to increase rates of swift brick installation in new build propertie

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Local Government: Employers' Contributions

13 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the publication entitled Explanatory note on the National Insurance Contribution compensation 2025 to 2026, published 18 December 2024, for what reason the allo

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Homelessness

15 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has made an estimate of how many people with acquired brain injury are experiencing (a) homelessness and (b) rough sleeping.

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Local Government: Employers' Contributions

22 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 21 January 2025 to Question 23431 on Local Government: Employers' Contributions, whether she made a comparative assessment of the potential impact of th

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Flats: Fire Prevention

3 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has had recent discussions with (a) mortgage lenders and (b) insurers on their approach to (i) mortgages and (ii) building insurance policies relating to buildings th