Kevin Hollinrake MP: written questions
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Ministry 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
Original Parliament recordRadicalism: IslamMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 18 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 60869More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 5 June 2025 to Question 53914 on Islam, what assessment her Department has made of trends in the level of Islamist sectarianism in England since 4 July
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to Question UIN 53914 on 5 June 2025.
Answered 26 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordCouncil Tax: BillingMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 18 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 60868More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 5 June 2025 to Question 54880 on Council tax: billing, whether local billing authorities are able to require the individual residents of a dwelling to d
Answer: The Council Tax (Administration and Enforcement) Regulations 1992 requires billing authorities to take reasonable steps to determine whether any discounts or premiums are applicable. This includes a power to require information to be provided about the pe...
Answered 30 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: 23redMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 18 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 60848More
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 commissioned from 23 Red
Answer: The Department commissioned 23 Red Limited through approved government procurement frameworks to help deliver two key campaigns addressing housing needs in our communities. The 'consultancy' expenditure covered essential strategic and creative elements of...
Answered 24 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: MG OMDMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 18 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 60847More
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 specific goods or services commissioned fro
Answer: The Department engages Manning Gottlieb OMD as the government's mandated media buying agency in line with Crown Commercial Service agreements.The 'Social housing- Traditional broadcast ra' expenditure covered commercial radio advertisements on stations in...
Answered 26 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: ReorganisationMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 18 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 60846More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether district councils with borough status that are abolished will be able to maintain their borough status through Charter Trustees under her local government restructuring p
Answer: The Government will ensure that the ceremonial rights and privileges of an area will be maintained after any reorganisation of local government and will work with local leaders to ensure that areas retain these, following the submission of proposals from ...
Answered 26 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HousingMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 18 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 60845More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 6 June 2025 to Question 53912 on Asylum: Housing, whether the Planning Inspectorate has considered any planning appeals relating to such change of use f
Answer: The Planning Inspectorate does not hold the requested information in a readily searchable way, and planning appeals are not routinely categorised by the specific nature of the change of use, such as from hotels to asylum accommodation. As such, it is not ...
Answered 30 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordUK Shared Prosperity Fund: Greater LondonMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 18 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 60844More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much will be allocated to London from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund in each year of the Spending Review period; and what the outturn allocation was in each year since the cre
Answer: The UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) will not continue beyond the 2025-26 transition year. As announced at the recent Spending Review, the government is introducing a new, targeted approach to support growth, tackle deprivation, and restore pride to comm...
Answered 26 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordCivil Service: EqualityMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 18 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 60843More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department's publication entitled Civil Service 2024/2025 External Expenditure on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, published on 30 May 2025, if he will li
Answer: Expenditure of £4,853 was approved by Baroness Taylor of Stevenage on 29 October 2024 in line with Civil Service Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Expenditure Guidance.A sum of £4,184 was paid to Inclusive Employers Ltd for the training of Inclusion Allie...
Answered 26 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordUK Shared Prosperity FundMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 18 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 60842More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much funding she plans to provide to each nation of the UK through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund in each year of the Spending Review period.
Answer: The UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) will not continue beyond the 2025-26 transition year. As announced at the recent Spending Review, the government is introducing a new, targeted approach to support growth, tackle deprivation, and restore pride to comm...
Answered 26 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordCouncil Tax: ValuationTreasuryTabled 18 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 60841More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has had recent discussions with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development on council tax (a) revaluation and (b) re-banding.
Answer: The Government engages regularly and constructively with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on a range of economic issues. Property tax reform has not been discussed with the OECD since the current Government took office in ...
Answered 26 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordFinancial Services: Environment ProtectionDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 18 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 60840More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, pursuant to the Answer of 6 June 2025 to Question 54292 on Financial Services: Environment Protection, what information he holds on which councils offer municipal green bonds.
Answer: The Government does not hold information on which councils offer municipal green bonds centrally. It is the responsibility of the local authority to advertise and communicate bond offers at the time of their launch.
Answered 26 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordCouncil Tax: ValuationTreasuryTabled 18 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 60839More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps the Valuation Office Agency is taking to tackle delays in processing council tax valuation challenges.
Answer: The VOA is working as quickly as possible to clear cases, and moving staff to where there is the greatest customer demand. The VOA is focusing on the oldest cases first, and where customers are facing financial hardship. The VOA is replacing IT systems w...
Answered 24 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordMoney Laundering: RegulationTreasuryTabled 17 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 60497More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what guidance she has issued to local authorities on Anti-Money Laundering checks in relation to (a) working with and (b) loaning funds to developers.
Answer: Guidance for local authorities on investments is available here: Guidance_on_local_government_investments.pdf It is for local authorities to determine their own capital strategies as they are best placed to understand local needs and are accountable to th...
Answered 24 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordChinese EmbassyTreasuryTabled 17 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 60486More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she had discussions with the Chinese Government on the proposed Chinese Embassy at the Royal Mint (a) at the 11th round of China-UK Economic and Financial Dialogue and (b) on any other occasion.
Answer: The Chancellor has engaged with the Chinese Government on a number of occasions, including during her visit to China for the 2025 UK-China Economic and Financial Dialogue, and has discussed a range of economic and financial issues. The Chancellor publishe...
Answered 25 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordGreen Belt: PlanningMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 17 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 60485More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has had discussions with the Mayor of London on whether funding for green belt reviews will be used to review the use of Metropolitan Open Land.
Answer: The government has awarded the Greater London Authority £770,000 to undertake a Green Belt review in conjunction with 11 London boroughs. A further six London boroughs have also each received £70,000 to undertake Green Belt reviews. The precise use of thi...
Answered 25 Jun 2025
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