Kevin Hollinrake MP: written questions
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Fast Food: PlanningMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 1 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64082More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 16 June 2025 to Question 58054 on Fast Food, whether local authority powers under the National Planning Policy Framework to block new fast-food outlets
Answer: It is for local planning authorities, when receiving a planning application, to consider whether, given the type of food and service to be provided at the location proposed, they consider the outlet to be either a hot food takeaway or a fast food outlet.
Answered 9 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPlanning Permission: DocumentsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 1 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64081More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 16 June 2025 to Question 57269 on Planning Permission, if she will introduce a policy requiring plain English in planning documents produced by her Depa
Answer: The government has no plans to introduce a specific policy related to the use of plain English in planning documents. We would expect local planning authorities to ensure that planning documents are clear and easy to understand.
Answered 9 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordHomes England: StaffMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 1 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64080More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many Homes England staff are undergoing redeployment.
Answer: Homes England have no staff currently undergoing redeployment.
Answered 9 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordSleeping Rough: DecriminalisationMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 1 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64079More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her Department's press release entitled Rough sleeping to be decriminalised after 200 years, published on 10 June 2025, how the approach to a replacement regime
Answer: As we work to fulfil our manifesto commitment to get the country back on track to ending homelessness, one principle must be clear – no one should be criminalised for simply sleeping rough. We will be the government that repeals the Vagrancy Act 1824.This...
Answered 8 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordFilm: Business RatesTreasuryTabled 1 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64077More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 9 June 2025 to Question 55222 on Film: Business Rates, how many film studios in England will be subject to the higher multiplier on Rateable Values above £500,000, from April 2026.
Answer: At Autumn Budget 2024, the Government announced an intention to introduce a higher business rates multiplier on the most valuable properties – those with Rateable Values (RVs) of £500,000 and above – from April 2026 to fund permanently lower multipliers f...
Answered 8 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordCouncil Tax: ValuationTreasuryTabled 1 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64076More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 9 June 2025 to Question 56711 on Council tax: valuation, how many complaints have been made to (a) Tier 1 complaints process, (b) Tier 2 complaints process and (c) the Adjudicator's Office
Answer: Between 1 July 2024 and 30 June 2025, the VOA received the following number of complaints about delays: Tier 1 – 677Tier 2 - 103Adjudicator’s Office (Council Tax complaints)– 9 For context, on average the VOA deals with around 60,000 cases each year in En...
Answered 8 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: ReorganisationTreasuryTabled 1 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64050More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 13 June 2025 to Question 57280 on Local Government: Reorganisation, what estimate she has made of the change in public sector net borrowing from local government reorganisation in each of t
Answer: HM Treasury has not undertaken an assessment of the impact of local government reorganisation on local authority borrowing nor the impact on public sector net borrowing. The OBR will continue to update its forecast for overall local government borrowing a...
Answered 9 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordAlcoholic DrinksTreasuryTabled 1 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64049More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 9 June 2025 to Question 54866 on Alcoholic Drinks, if she will remove the exclusion of the direct manufacture of alcoholic beverages from paragraph 2.12 of the UK Government Green Financing
Answer: The Green Financing Framework, published in 2021, explains how proceeds from green gilts and NS&I’s retail Green Savings Bonds will finance public expenditures that demonstrate a direct and positive environmental impact. The Framework includes guideli...
Answered 9 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordConsumer Prices Index: Council TaxCabinet OfficeTabled 1 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64048More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, for what reason council tax is not included in the measure of consumer price inflation.
Answer: The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. A response to the Hon gentleman’s Parliamentary Question of 1st July is attached.
Answered 8 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPolice: FinanceHome OfficeTabled 1 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64047More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 17 June 2025 to Question 59321 on Police: Finance, what the grant funding to police is in cash terms in each financial year between 2024-25 and 2028-29.
Answer: The police settlement is an annual process and allocations will be confirmed for 2026-27 later this year.
Answered 10 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government FinanceMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 1 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64046More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 17 June 2025 to Question 59314 on Local Government Finance, what the grant funding to local government is in cash terms in each financial year between 2
Answer: The Local Government Finance Settlement (LGFS) for 2024-25 made available £64.7 billion for local government, a cash increase in core spending power of 7.5% compared with 2023-24. The LGFS for 2025-26 made available over £69 billion, a cash increase in co...
Answered 8 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordCivil Servants: TrainingTreasuryTabled 30 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63629More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the guidance entitled Civil Service 2024/2025 External Expenditure on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, published on 30 May 2025, which suppliers were used to provide Antisemitism and Anti-Islamop
Answer: HM Treasury volunteers coordinated 3 events on Antisemitism and Anti-Islamophobia with 2 paid for speakers- TellMAMA and Antisemitism Policy Trust (APT).
Answered 8 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordHousing: StatisticsCabinet OfficeTabled 30 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63628More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Office for National Statistics holds comparative data on new dwellings in each nation of the UK in each year since 2008-09.
Answer: The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. A response to the Hon gentleman’s Parliamentary Question of 30th June is attached.
Answered 7 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordGovernment Departments: SanitationCabinet OfficeTabled 30 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63625More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 9 June 2025 to Question 55304 on Government Departments: Sanitation, whether the Government Property Agency plans to repurpose more gender-neutral toilets into separate male and female
Answer: The Government Property Agency continues to monitor the requirements of its estate. Changes are made as necessary to provide the best delivery for our clients and in line with legislative requirements.
Answered 7 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordAdmiralty House: Energy Performance CertificatesCabinet OfficeTabled 30 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63624More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the Energy Performance Certificate rating is of the Deputy Prime Minister’s residence in Admiralty House.
Answer: The residences at Admiralty House are not separately measured for Energy Performance. The Energy Performance Certificate Rating for Admiralty House is B.
Answered 7 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordGovernment Departments: SanitationCabinet OfficeTabled 30 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63623More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 3 June 2025 to Question HL7758 on Government Departments: Sanitation, if he will publish the Government Property Agency's guidance document that is now used in (a) new build and (b) ref
Answer: The Government Property Agency’s latest Workplace Design Guide (published March 2022) is available on GOV.UK. This is kept under review.
Answered 8 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordHousing: ConstructionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 30 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63622More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment her Department has made of the potential implications for her policies of the findings by Savills Research entitled Housing Completions Forecast for England: May
Answer: The government does not recognise the analysis presented in the Savills’ research in question. The housing completions forecast it contains does not take into account the supply impacts of the measures announced at Spending Review 2025 or the further refo...
Answered 10 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordChinese Embassy: Planning PermissionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 30 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63621More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer of 28 May 2024, to Question 53574, on Chinese Embassy: Planning Permission, and with reference to page 26 of the Section 106 agreement, for what reason the
Answer: As the application in question is before ministers in MHCLG to determine, it would not be appropriate to comment on specific elements of it.
Answered 8 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordLand Use: DocumentsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 30 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63620More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make it a requirement for the new Spatial Development Strategies to be written in plain English.
Answer: The government would expect strategic planning authorities to ensure that Spatial Development Strategies are clear and easy to understand.
Answered 7 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPermitted Development RightsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 30 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63619More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many local authorities have introduced Article 4 directions which restrict office to residential conversion permitted development rights.
Answer: 46 local authorities have made Article 4 Directions which remove the permitted development right which enables buildings in the Class E Commercial, Business and Service use class to change to residential use.
Answered 7 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal GovernmentMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 30 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63618More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what guidance has been given to local authorities on the delegation of decisions by councillors to council officers in (a) executive, (b) mayoral and (c) committee systems of gov
Answer: The Local Authorities (Functions and Responsibilities) (England) Regulations 2000, as amended, set out what types of decisions are to be taken by a council’s executive (whether leader and cabinet or mayor and cabinet) and which are to be taken by the full...
Answered 7 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: Disciplinary ProceedingsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 30 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63617More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what guidance her Department has provided to local councils on (a) discipline and (b) grievance in local government relating to senior officers.
Answer: Local authorities are independent employers responsible for the management of their own workforces. This includes managing their disciplinary and grievance procedures, complying with relevant legislation.
Answered 7 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordRented Housing: ConstructionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 30 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63616More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the Renters' Rights Bill on the (a) popularity and (b) take-up of Build to Rent new build.
Answer: My Department has engaged with a range of organisations, including Build to Rent operators, to understand their interests in the development of the Renters’ Rights Bill. We do not expect the Bill to have a destabilising effect on the rental market or the ...
Answered 7 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Rented Housing: ConstructionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 30 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63615More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate she has made of the amount of capital (a) grant and (b) subsidy to build a new social rent dwelling.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the Written Ministerial Statement made on 2 July (HCWS771).In awarding contracts under the new Social and Affordable Homes Programme, Homes England and the GLA will assess the need for grant on the basis of bids from social hous...
Answered 10 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordAffordable Housing: FinanceMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 30 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63614More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what proportion of funding for the new Affordable Housing Programme will finance (a) additional, purpose-built new-build homes on land acquired for that purpose, (b) the acquisit
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the Written Ministerial Statement made on 2 July (HCWS771).
Answered 10 Jul 2025
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