Written Questions

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the answer of 6 February 2026, to Question 109625, on Personal Care Service: Fraud, through what mechanism will councils be able to block fake barbers that was

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps are being taken to prevent abuse of the Independent Office for Police Conduct regime in relation to (a) politically-motivated complaints, and (b) complaints which do n

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department provides guidance to local authorities on the circumstances in which they must rehouse statutory homeless households who are not UK nationals; and whether

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the correspondence of 21 March 2026 from the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government to the Rt hon. Member for North West Essex, what estimate her Department has made of th

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the answer of 23 January 2026, to Question 106143, on Government Departments: Translation Services, if her Department will make it their policy to collate data on Government spending on (a) transla

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the Valuation Office Agency's business rates estimator tool's accuracy in producing estimated bills before it was removed.

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of evidence indicating damage to marine life caused by offshore windfarms and whether they will commission further research into this area.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if her Department will undertake a review of the slab system being proposed under the council tax surcharge.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to her Department's policy paper entitled Effects of the business rates retail, hospitality and leisure multipliers and high-value multiplier, 26 November 2025, what is the equivalent cost to the £270

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the answer of 24 March 2026, to Question 123198, on local government: elections, what was the value of the initial payment, and what is the budget for the remai

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the devolution of powers for a vacant land tax in Wales on (a) housebuilding and (b) regeneration.

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what (a) representations his Department has received from and (b) what correspondence his Department has sent to the Greater London Authority in relation to reviews of (i) Green

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the answer of 23 March 2026, to Question 121211, on Houseboats, whether his Department has issued guidance on unauthorised moorings on rivers in relation to (a)

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of fines for breaches of UK laws issued by UK bodies based on global turnover on the willingness of multinationals to invest and base themselves in t

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, further to the written statement on the UK-EU Competition Cooperation Agreement, of 25 February 2026, HCWS1364, whether (a) payments and (b) payments in kind will be made to the EU as a result of that

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether Ministerial-appointed trade envoys are required to obtain Developed Vetting security clearance.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will investigate archived records to determine whether Lord Mandelson visited Jeffery Epstein's Zorro Ranch whilst Business Secretary.

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the extent to which all 15 recommendations of the report of the Paterson Inquiry, published in 2020, have been applied consistently across (1) the independent healthcare sector, and (2) the

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the answer of 20 April 2026 to Question 126604 on UK Export Finance: Media, how multicultural representation is measured for that metric; and whether this requires non-white ethniciti

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, for what reason the Regulatory Policy Committee blog post entitled Too many Impact Assessments are submitted late, published on 24 February 2025, is no longer available on the Regulatory Policy Committ

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the answer of 28 April 2026, to Question HL16533, on Treaties: Parliamentary Scrutiny, whether any Memoranda of Understanding and other non-legally binding agreements that do not have

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many and what proportion of full-time staff on full pay (1.0 FTE) in his Department work compressed hours over a four day week.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the Regulatory Policy Committee's document Post-implementation reviews outstanding across government 2015 to 2026, updated 12 May 2026, what steps his Department is taking to (a) unde

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for government’s most important contracts, Data for October to December 2025 for all departments, published on 31 March 2026, if he will list the

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the answer of 10 March 2026, to Question 117995, on Stamp Advisory Committee, if he will place in the Library a copy of the minutes for each of those Committee meetings.