Question follow-through · 44230
Local Government: Elections
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has issued guidance to local authorities on making (a) licensing, (b) planning and (c) gambling decisions during local election periods.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 4 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 14 Apr 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Housing and planning
- Planning Permission: Environment Protection · 7 Apr 2025
- Housing: Construction · 7 Apr 2025
- Palestine Action · 7 Apr 2025
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Meetings · 7 Apr 2025
- Birmingham City Council · 7 Apr 2025
Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.
Votes on this topic
- Social Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 10 Sept 2026
- Draft Town and Country Planning (Discharge of Local Planning Authority Functions) (England) Regulations 2026 · 8 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
4 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has issued guidance to local authorities on making (a) licensing, (b) planning and (c) gambling decisions during local election periods.
8 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Apr 2025
Answer published
Local authorities are required to consider the Recommended Code of Practice for Local Authority Publicity (‘the Code’) in coming to any decision on any communication, in whatever form, addressed to the public or a section of the public. A Code principle i...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Planning Permission: Environment Protection
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Housing: Construction
7 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate her Department has made of the number of houses that will be built in each year between 2025-26 and 2029-30.
Palestine Action
7 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department engages with Palestine Action.
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Meetings
7 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether there was a cost to the public purse for the hire of Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club for the roundtable event she attended on 4 April 2025.
Birmingham City Council
7 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will publish the minutes of her meeting with Birmingham City Council on 5 April 2025; and what the conclusions were of the meeting.
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Communication and Consultants
7 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the value is of the baseline spending on (a) communications and (b) consultancy on which her Department's targets to reduce such spending is based.
Local Government Finance
8 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the statutory guidance entitled Guidance on the flexible use of capital receipts, updated on 26 March 2025, whether the sale of a local authority school playing
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Cost Effectiveness
8 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 24 March 2025 to Question 38372 on MHCLG: Cost Effectiveness, if she will list each of those individual media campaigns which were halted; and the previ
Combined Authorities
8 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer of 24 March 2025, to Question 38621, on Combined Authorities, and with reference to the publication of the report by Professor Alice Sullivan, Independent
Council Tax
8 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to freeze council tax.
Council Tax
8 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 24 March 2025 to Question 38622 on Council tax, whether there is a (a) minimum and (b) maximum level of average Band D council tax in England that the s
Admiralty House: Council Tax
8 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the Ministerial residence in Admiralty House pays council tax as a (a) sole or main residence, (b) single person discount or (c) second home.