Written Questions
Written parliamentary questions and answers between MPs and government departments.
187,198 questions
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 11 June 2026 to Question 6857 on Islamophobia, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of issuing guidance on the new definition that speci
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer of 11 June 2026 to Question 6420 on Hospitality industry, whether there will be new primary and secondary legislation to implement hospitality zones.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has made an assessment of the cause of the collapse of the Ardmore Construction Group and the potential impact on housebuilding in London.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer of 12 June 2026 to Question 2016 on Labour Together: Special Advisers, how many informal lobbying approaches have been recorded with a diarised engagement
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether any informal lobbying approaches were recorded by special advisers following Labour YIMBY events.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she intends to amend secondary legislation to require photographic identification for candidates to nominate.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the publication of the Social Housing Bill Impact Assessment on 15 June 2026, for what reason was the the Impact Assessment published after the Bill was introdu
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what is the timetable for the central government payments in relation to Woking Borough Council’s debt.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the MHCLG: Annual statement of compliance with the Concordat to Support Research Integrity, 2025 to 2026, published 10 June 2026, para 32, if she will provide a
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much local authorities spent on (a) exit costs and (b) pension-related exit costs, in each of the last three years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer of 10 June 2026 to Question 6410 on Council tax, if she will list the estimates of the total taxbase and the average Band D council tax levels in each of t
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the answer of 21 January 2025 to Question 23347 on INTERREG Programme, whether any financial corrections were issued by the European Commission or European Cour
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Chief Planner newsletter of 4 June 2026, page 4, whether there is a target date for the repeal of Strategic Environmental Assessments and Environmental Impa
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Chief Planner newsletter of 4 June 2026, page 7, whether the new planning guidance for councils by Active Travel England will be incorporated in the nationa
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what representations her Department has received in relation to the thresholds for transparency on severance payments as a part of unitary restructuring.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her department has issued guidance on whether council tax can be levied on new build, structurally completed dwellings which are not connected to utilities and are not ha
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer of 15 June 2026, to Question 7167, on Nuclear Power: Regulation, whether changes will be made to planning policy and planning legislation as a consequence
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether any Local Government Pension Schemes have been blocked from joining a LGFS pool.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, on what dates her department ceased using Palantir software, and what was the previous use of the software.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, further to the No10 press release, PM meets mayors in drive to get Britain building and take on blockers, of 3 June 2026, whether she plans to mandate the New Town development on
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her department is taking to support local authorities in tackling (a) social housing letting fraud and (b) unauthorised beds in sheds.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the national plan of delegation on planning decisions, whether local planning authorities will be able to provide for a call-in procedure to (a) Full Council, o
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the press release, Cheers! Football fans to raise a glass for the World Cup, published 8 June 2026, and with reference to the answer of 12 September 2025, to Qu
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the answer of 22 December 2025 to Question HL12934, on Housing: Greater London, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the London Plan policy o
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what discussions he plans to have with the (a) retail, (b) hospitality and (c) leisure industry on the potential impact of the Employment Rights Act on access to entry-level and fl