Kevin Hollinrake MP: written questions
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Aarhus Convention: PlanningDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45032More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 29 March 2025 to Question 39475 on the Aarhus Convention, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of that convention on the effective operation of
Answer: The Aarhus Convention sets out obligations on Parties to guarantee certain procedural rights for the public relating to access to environmental information, participation in environmental decision-making, and access to justice in environmental matters. Th...
Answered 23 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: ElectionsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45031More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the House of Lords Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee, Eighteenth Report, 2024-25, HL Paper 84, para 32, what steps her Department is taking to to improve
Answer: On 5 February, the Government issued invitations to councils in two-tier areas in England and neighbouring unitary councils to prepare proposals for local government reorganisation. The invitation is clear on the importance of local engagement, and asks c...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPlanning Permission: CostsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45030More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the policy paper entitled New approach to ensure regulators and regulation support growth, published on 17 March 2025, what steps her Department is taking to re
Answer: My Department is progressing a bold set of reforms to the planning system to support the delivery of new homes and critical infrastructure. These reforms will streamline planning procedures and reduce the cost of planning for developers, local planning au...
Answered 22 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordAdmiralty House: Council TaxMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45029More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the Ministerial residence in Admiralty House pays council tax as a (a) sole or main residence, (b) single person discount or (c) second home.
Answer: The council tax arrangements for Admiralty House are as has been the case for successive governments and Ministers occupying it as an official residence. The Deputy Prime Minister’s council tax responsibility is properly discharged.
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordCouncil TaxMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45028More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 24 March 2025 to Question 38622 on Council tax, whether there is a (a) minimum and (b) maximum level of average Band D council tax in England that the s
Answer: The government does not set council tax levels. The government sets referendum principles to give residents the final say over excessive increases. Decisions on council tax referendum principles are taken annually.
Answered 22 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordCouncil TaxMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45027More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to freeze council tax.
Answer: Council tax levels are decided by individual local authorities. The government sets referendum principles to give residents the final say over excessive increases. Decisions on council tax referendum principles are taken annually. The government will set ...
Answered 22 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordCombined AuthoritiesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45026More
Question: 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, and with reference to the publication of the report by Professor Alice Sullivan, Independent
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to Question UIN 38621 on 24 March 2025.
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Cost EffectivenessMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45025More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 24 March 2025 to Question 38372 on MHCLG: Cost Effectiveness, if she will list each of those individual media campaigns which were halted; and the previ
Answer: A number of 24/25 campaigns were halted or postponed following the election. The campaigns and estimated cost of each (excluding VAT) were:Levelling Up – up to £3.15mLeasehold Reforms campaign (planned but didn’t run) - £1mPrivate Rented Sector Reform cam...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordCharities: Business RatesTreasuryTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45024More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the new surcharge on hereditaments over £500,000 from April 2026, whether educational charities will be liable to pay the increase in business rates which is not covered by mandatory charitable rat
Answer: We are creating a fairer business rates system that protects the high street, supports investment, and is fit for the 21st century.As part of its reforms, the Government intends to apply a higher rate from 2026-27 on properties with rateable values of £50...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordFast FoodDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45023More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will hold discussions with the Food Standards Agency on whether it has a working definition of a fast food outlet.
Answer: The Food Standards Agency and Defra Ministers meet regularly to discuss key issues.
Answered 1 May 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government FinanceMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45022More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the statutory guidance entitled Guidance on the flexible use of capital receipts, updated on 26 March 2025, whether the sale of a local authority school playing
Answer: Under the general direction on “Flexible Use of Capital Receipts” (FUCR), authorities may use the proceeds from qualifying asset sales (capital receipts) to fund the revenue costs of projects designed to generate ongoing savings or reduce the costs of ser...
Answered 22 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordBusiness Rates: Tax AllowancesTreasuryTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45021More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 14 March 2025 to Question 36094 on Business Rates: Tax Allowances, if she will consider a tapering system as part of the new multiplier arrangements.
Answer: The Autumn Budget 2024 announcements reflect the Government’s first steps to support the high street. We want to go further to modernise the business rates system, and so, we also published a Discussion Paper setting out priority areas for reform and invi...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordBusiness Rates: Tax AllowancesTreasuryTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44492More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, which retail, hospitality and leisure hereditaments have their rateable value assessed by the Valuation Office Agency using turnover expenditure as part of the metrics.
Answer: The hereditaments that have their rateable value assessed with reference to their trade are those where there is limited reliable rental evidence, and the nature of their occupation is primarily concerned with anticipated profit. In such cases, the rateab...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordBusiness Rates: Tax AllowancesTreasuryTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44491More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 25 March 2025 to Question 39035 on Business Rates: Tax Allowances, whether a retail, hospitality and leisure (RHL) hereditament in receipt of the lower RHL multiplier will (a) lose that mul
Answer: To deliver our manifesto pledge, we intend to introduce permanently lower tax rates for high street retail, hospitality, and leisure (RHL) properties, with rateable values below £500,000, from 2026-27. This tax cut must be sustainably funded, and so we in...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Communication and ConsultantsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44490More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the value is of the baseline spending on (a) communications and (b) consultancy on which her Department's targets to reduce such spending is based.
Answer: Part A: The baseline for communications in 2024/25 was £8m. Part B on consultancy: The baseline against which reductions will be measured is £15.2m. This is based on the initial values included in the 24/25 Spending Review.
Answered 30 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordBirmingham City CouncilMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44489More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will publish the minutes of her meeting with Birmingham City Council on 5 April 2025; and what the conclusions were of the meeting.
Answer: The government has been in frequent dialogue with the leadership of the City Council to ensure the welfare of Birmingham residents and a swift resolution to the dispute. The 5 April meeting provided an update on the clean-up of the waste backlog and indus...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: MeetingsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44488More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether there was a cost to the public purse for the hire of Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club for the roundtable event she attended on 4 April 2025.
Answer: There was no cost to the public purse.
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPalestine ActionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44487More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department engages with Palestine Action.
Answer: No, my department has not engaged with Palestine Action. The responsibility for decisions around who departments engage with sits with those departments and the appropriate policy areas.
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordHousing: ConstructionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44486More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate her Department has made of the number of houses that will be built in each year between 2025-26 and 2029-30.
Answer: As the hon. Member is aware, the government has not set interim annual targets in respect of its ambitious Plan for Change milestone of delivering 1.5 million safe and decent homes in this Parliament. However, due to the reduced levels of housing supply t...
Answered 22 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPlanning Permission: Environment ProtectionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44485More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has undertaken Environment Act environmental principles assessments when issuing (a) new and (b) revised planning practice guidance since July 2024.
Answer: Planning practice guidance published since July 2024 supports the implementation of matters that have been set through legislation or policy. Environmental principles assessments were undertaken for the changes to policy once the requirement for them had ...
Answered 22 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordTravellers: Caravan SitesHome OfficeTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44484More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 28 March 2025 to Question 39632 on Travellers: Caravan Sites, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of this ruling on unauthorised traveller sites.
Answer: The government is carefully considering the judgment issued by the High Court in May 2024 which found that particular sections of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, as amended by the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022, were incompa...
Answered 22 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordHospitality Industry and Retail Trade: Business RatesTreasuryTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44483More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 18 March 2025 to Question 37227 on Hospitality Industry and Retail Trade: Business Rates, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the new (a) lower and (b) higher multiplier
Answer: To deliver our manifesto pledge, we intend to introduce permanently lower tax rates for retail, hospitality, and leisure (RHL) properties, with Rateable Values below £500,000, from 2026-27. This tax cut must be sustainably funded, and so we intend to intr...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordCombined Authorities and Health ServicesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 4 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44236More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has a planned timetable for the alignment of administrative NHS boundaries with mayoral combined authority boundaries.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to Question UIN HL5657 on 24 March 2025.
Answered 14 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordCombined Authorities and Police, Fire and Crime CommissionersMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 4 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44235More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 6 March 2025 to Question 25780 on Police, Fire and Crime Commissioners: Elections, what her planned timetable is for the alignment of the Police Force a
Answer: As outlined in my previous response, the timing of the transfer of Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner functions to new mayors established through the Devolution Priority Programme will be determined in due course.
Answered 16 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPolice, Fire and Crime CommissionersMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 4 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44234More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 6 March 2025 to Question 25780 on Police, Fire and Crime Commissioners: Elections, whether existing Police and Crime Commissioners will serve their full
Answer: As outlined in my previous response, the timing of the transfer of Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner functions to new mayors established through the Devolution Priority Programme will be determined in due course.
Answered 16 Apr 2025
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