Question follow-through · 51552
Emergency Services: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to increase precept flexibility to devolve spending decisions closer to Police and Fire and Rescue services.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 12 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 May 2025
- Answer
- 16 May 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Communities and local government
- Essex County Fire and Rescue Service and Essex Police · 18 Jun 2025
- Fire and Rescue Services: Finance · 18 Jun 2025
- Planning Permission · 6 Jan 2026
Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.
Recorded timeline
12 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to increase precept flexibility to devolve spending decisions closer to Police and Fire and Rescue services.
16 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 May 2025
Answer published
As of 1 April 2025, Ministerial responsibility for Fire transferred from the Home Office to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG). Home Office retains Ministerial responsibility for policing. Council tax levels are a local deci...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Essex County Fire and Rescue Service and Essex Police
18 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will provide additional funding to restart Essex County Fire and Rescue Service’s joint fleet workshop collaboration with Essex Police.
Fire and Rescue Services: Finance
18 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether future local government finance settlements will increase grants to fire and rescue services in line with inflation.
Planning Permission
6 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he has considered the potential impacts on property owners of planning permission applications being permitted on their property from those who do not own it.