Kevin Hollinrake MP: written questions
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Local Government FinanceMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62597More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to Table 5.17 in the Spending Review 2025, CP1336, published on 11 June 2025, whether local government core spending power includes revenue from (a) GLA council ta
Answer: Local government core spending power includes revenue from the Greater London Authority (GLA) council tax, including the policing element. It also includes the fire precept flexibility for standalone fire authorities, and combined police and fire commissi...
Answered 2 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordHousing: Greater ManchesterMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62596More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what (a) funding and (b) financing support her Department has allocated to Greater Manchester Combined Authority for housing development loans since 2011.
Answer: In line with the English Devolution White Paper Homes England is working closely will all Mayoral Combined Authorities, supporting them to achieve their housing growth, regeneration and placemaking ambitions. Since 2011 Homes England have provided investm...
Answered 4 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordCouncil TaxMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62595More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what representations she has received on council tax (a) revaluation and (b) rebanding since 5 July 2024.
Answer: The government recognises interest from a number of groups in reforming council tax. However, it does not collect statistics on the issued raised in correspondence it receives. The government currently has no plans to reform council tax.
Answered 2 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordAnti-Muslim Hatred/Islamophobia Definition Working GroupMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62594More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps the Islamophobia Working Group is taking to consult with stakeholders in (a) private and (b) public.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer to Question UIN 61355 on 24 June 2025.
Answered 3 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordNeighbourhood Plans: ExpenditureMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62593More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much funding was allocated by her Department to support local communities to develop neighbourhood plans in the (a) 2023-24, (b) 2024-25, (c) 2025-26 financial years; and how
Answer: Details of the contracts that the Department awarded to support neighbourhood planning are available on the contracts finder website. Funding was allocated to support contracts worth, excluding VAT, (a) £6.37m in 2023/24, (b) £6.96m in 2024/25 and c) £0.4...
Answered 7 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: TransportDepartment for EducationTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62591More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment has been made of trends in the level of cost of providing school transport for SEND children in the last five years.
Answer: The department knows that the cost of delivering home to school travel has increased steeply over recent years. In particular, challenges within the wider special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system have created significant pressure on home t...
Answered 2 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HousingMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 24 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62200More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 10 June 2025 to Question 54886 on Asylum: Housing, whether she has made an estimate of the number of appeal decisions that have been made by the Plannin
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to Question UIN 60845 on 30 June 2025.
Answered 2 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordHousing: ConstructionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 24 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62199More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer of 10 June 2025 to Question 55284 on Housing: Construction, and with reference to Annex 10 of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill: Impact assessment, publ
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to Question UIN 55284 on 10 June 2025.
Answered 2 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: TransportDepartment for EducationTabled 24 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62198More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of trends in the level of the cost to local authorities of providing school transport for SEND children in the last five years.
Answer: The department knows that the cost of delivering home to school travel has increased steeply over recent years. In particular, challenges within the wider special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system have created significant pressure on home t...
Answered 2 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordEU Countries: Youth Mobility SchemeForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 20 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61520More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 30 May 2025 to Question 53071 on Youth Mobility Scheme: EU Countries, whether he plans to make further bilateral agreements.
Answer: We have existing bilateral agreements with Denmark, Spain, Portugal, Poland and Luxembourg, which were negotiated by the previous government. The UK is open to further, fully reciprocal bilateral voting agreements but these would be subject to the detail ...
Answered 28 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordRight to Buy SchemeMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 20 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61519More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much was raised in right to buy receipts in each year since 2011-12; and what proportion of those receipts was spent on affordable housing.
Answer: Receipts from Right to Buy (or equivalent) sales of local authority stock for the financial year 2012-13 onwards are published in the attached Table. There are no published figures for earlier years. With regard to the proportion of such receipts spent on...
Answered 30 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Civil ServantsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 20 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61518More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the target number of civil servants in her Department is in each year of the Spending Review 2025.
Answer: We are aiming to reduce the number of Civil Servants working in this department by at least 10% over the course of the Spending Review period. This in line with the government’s wider Civil Service reform plan and commitment to reducing administration cos...
Answered 30 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordLicensing Laws: Fees and ChargesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 20 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61517More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 10 June 2025 to Question 53762 on Licensing Laws: Fees and Charges, what her planned timetable is for publishing the response to that consultation.
Answer: The response to the consultation Local Authority Principles and Objectives: gov.uk (Local authority funding reform: objectives and principles) was published on Friday 20 June 2025. The link to the response can be found gov.uk here.In parallel, the Ministr...
Answered 30 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HousingMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 20 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61516More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the Planning Inspectorate has made appeal decisions on asylum accommodation in the last 12 months.
Answer: Planning appeals are not routinely categorised by whether an appeal features a decision on asylum accommodation. As such, it is not possible to confirm whether any appeals relating to this have been considered in the last 12 months in the time given.
Answered 30 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordBuildings: InsulationMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 20 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61515More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what funding her Department has provided for cladding removal and remediation in (a) 2023-24, (b) 2024-25, (c) 2025-26 and (d) each other year of the Spending Review; and how muc
Answer: MHCLG has provided for cladding removal and remediation:(a) 2023-24, £647m (Actuals)(b) 2024-25, £438m (Actuals)(c) 2025-26 £1003m (Current financial year budget allocation) Following the Spending Review which agreed the overall funding envelope for MHCLG...
Answered 30 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: CoramDepartment for EducationTabled 20 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61514More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the publication entitled MHCLG: spending over £25,000, March 2025, published on 28 April 2025, if she will publish the full specification of the research commissioned from Thomas Coram Foundat
Answer: The Thomas Coram Foundation research contract was commissioned by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) as part of the Supporting Families programme in 2023. When the programme moved to the Department for Education (DfE) as par...
Answered 26 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Frontier EconomicsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 20 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61513More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her Department's transparency data, MHCLG: spending over £25,000, March 2025, published on 28 April 2025, if she will publish the specification of the research
Answer: The research commissioned from Frontier Economics Ltd. referenced in MHCLG’s transparency data published on 28 April 2025 refers to two separate contracts: the Towns Fund Evaluation and the UKSPF Intervention Evaluation. A feasibility study for these eval...
Answered 30 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Allied Publicity Services (Manchester)Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 20 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61512More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her Department's publication entitled MHCLG: spending over £25,000, April 2025, published on 30 May 2025, what the services commissioned from Allied Publicity S
Answer: These data lines were published in error. The relevant publication has now been updated
Answered 30 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordMatthew PennycookMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 20 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61508More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, who will cover the duties of the Minister for Housing and Planning whilst he is on jury service.
Answer: Duties will be shared amongst the MHCLG Ministerial team when required. As with all departmental business, the Secretary of State maintains overall responsibility for the work of the department
Answered 1 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordHousing: ConstructionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 19 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61198More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many active sites being developed by private housebuilders the Minister of State for Housing and Planning has visited since 6 July 2024.
Answer: I have visited seven active development sites in a ministerial capacity since 6 July 2024 as per the table below. I have also visited a number of active development sites in my own constituency during that same period
Answered 11 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordLitter: Codes of PracticeDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 19 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61182More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his Department's planned timetable is for responding to the consultation on making the Code of Practice on Litter and Refuse statutory, which closed in April 2024.
Answer: A copy of the consultation document on publishing statutory litter enforcement guidance will be deposited in the Library. This consultation was run in March 2024 under the previous Government. This Government has yet to make a decision on whether to publi...
Answered 27 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordCoastal Erosion: Flood ControlDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 19 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61181More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Written Statement of 3 June 2025, HCWS680, on Consulting on a reformed approach to investing in flood resilience and coastal erosion, how much of the £2.65 millio
Answer: Delivering on the Government’s Plan for Change, this Government is investing a record £2.65 billion over 2024/25 and 2025/26 for the construction of new flood schemes, and the maintenance and repair of existing ones. With this funding, 1,000 flood schemes...
Answered 27 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordLitter: Codes of PracticeDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 19 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61180More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will place in the Library a copy of the consultation document on making the Code of Practice on Litter and Refuse statutory guidance.
Answer: A copy of the consultation document on publishing statutory litter enforcement guidance will be deposited in the Library. This consultation was run in March 2024 under the previous Government. This Government has yet to make a decision on whether to publi...
Answered 27 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Oxford EconomicsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 19 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61179More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her Department's publication entitled MHCLG: spending over £25,000, March 2025, published on 28 April 2025, what the goods or services were commissioned from Ox
Answer: The department commissioned Oxford Economics to model economic growth in Greater Cambridge.
Answered 24 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordNeighbourhood PlansMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 19 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61147More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to support neighbourhood planning; and whether there is a target on neighbourhood plan take-up.
Answer: The government remains of the view that neighbourhood plans can play an important role in the planning system. Communities can continue to prepare neighbourhood plans where they consider that doing so is in their best interests. The government has no targ...
Answered 30 Jun 2025
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