Question follow-through · 53087
Mayors: North of England
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her comments to the Convention of the North in Preston on 28 February 2025, on what evidential basis she said that the whole of the North will have elected mayo
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 19 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 21 May 2025
- Answer
- 2 Jun 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Communities and local government
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- Planning · 20 May 2025
- Chinese Embassy: Planning Permission · 20 May 2025
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Recorded timeline
19 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her comments to the Convention of the North in Preston on 28 February 2025, on what evidential basis she said that the whole of the North will have elected mayo
21 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Jun 2025
Answer published
Earlier this month, inaugural mayoral elections were held in Greater Lincolnshire and Hull & East Yorkshire. They now join the rest of Yorkshire, the North East, Tees Valley, Liverpool City and Greater Manchester as mayoral combined authorities. Conti...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Elections: Essex
20 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the scheduled local council elections in Essex in 2026 will be (a) postponed and (b) cancelled.
Combined Authorities: Sex
20 May 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, if she will make it her departmental policy to ask for sex not gender in future consultations.
Land: Greater London
20 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what data her Department holds on the amount of (a) Metropolitan Open Land and (b) Green Belt land in Greater London, broken down by (i) electoral ward and (ii) division.
Planning
20 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she intends to lay regulations to commence the substantive provisions in section 113 of the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023 on Power to decline to determine applic
Chinese Embassy: Planning Permission
20 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether interested parties will be able to submit written representations on the proposed Chinese Embassy to the Secretary of State after the planning inspector’s report has been
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Flags
20 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what county flags have been flown from her Department's headquarters in Marsham Street since 4 July 2024.
Oxford Growth Commission: Public Appointments
20 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her Department's correspondence on the appointment of the Oxford Growth Commission Chair, published on 12 May 2025, whether the Chair is remunerated; and if she
Chinese Embassy: Planning Permission
20 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will publish a copy of the Section 106 agreement that was submitted to the planning inquiry for the proposed Chinese Embassy in London.
Lancashire Combined County Authority: Mayors
20 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if there will be a mayoral election for Lancashire County Combined Authority in May 2026.
Returning Officers
21 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 1 May 2025 to Question 47263 on Returning Officers, whether she provides guidance to local authorities on whether Electoral (a) Returning Officers and (
Asylum: Housing
21 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has issued guidance to relevant authorities on whether the use of a hotel as asylum hostel accommodation constitutes a material change of use.
Second Homes: Council Tax
21 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether (a) her Department and (b) the Valuation Tribunal Service has issued guidance to local billing authorities on the definition of a second home for council tax purposes.