Written Questions
Written parliamentary questions and answers between MPs and government departments.
199,266 questions
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what is the average time taken from council approval to development commencement for mixed-use brownfield sites in (a) the West Midlands and (b) England as a whole.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what mechanisms exist to provide financial support for housing developments that include community facilities and retail space in areas lacking basic amenities.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many brownfield sites in Birmingham have been awaiting regeneration for more than (a) five years, (b) ten years, and (c) fifteen years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of derelict (a) retail and (b) community sites on economic development in Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North constitue
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what funding has been allocated to brownfield regeneration projects in Birmingham in each of the last five years, and what is planned for the next three years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is able to take in instances when local authorities do not deliver on promised regeneration schemes within reasonable timeframes.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the Poolway Centre site in Garretts Green, Birmingham, is eligible for funding under current brownfield regeneration schemes.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment has been made of funding availability for brownfield housing schemes in areas of high deprivation.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to ensure brownfield regeneration funding reaches projects in the most deprived constituencies.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what progress has been made towards meeting the Government's brownfield-first housing delivery targets in urban areas with high unemployment.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what proportion of new housing starts in the West Midlands in the last year were on brownfield sites.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Does she intend to ask the UK Bus Manufacturing Expert Panel to reconvene to examine it's projected numbers before the end of the current Parliamentary term.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to support homeless Armed Forces veterans.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he has taken to support local authorities in investigating fraudulent businesses.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent steps he has taken to support local authorities in supporting market traders.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent steps he has taken to enable local authorities to better support small business leaders.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent steps he has taken to support victims of domestic abuse.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent steps he has taken to support victims of fraud.
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Baroness Chapman of Darlington on 24 June (HL Deb cols 663-6), what assessment they have made of the report from the UN, Sudan: Drone attacks endanger civilians and shut down critical services in E
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent steps he has taken to expand the capacity of English prisons.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make it his Department’s policy to build more prisons.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to mark Armed Forces Week.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make it his policy to fund the Type 83 Destroyer programme.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make it his department’s policy to upgrade the fleet of RAF Envoy IV jets.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he has taken to procure long-range strike drones.