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Kemi Badenoch
CON✓ Current MP
🏛️ North West Essex
📅 2017–2026
1,465 speeches on Hansard record
✅ Votes attended: 92.87% (#69 of 650 MPs)
🟢 Rebelled against party: 0.23%
📝 Topics: Housing: Construction, Local Plans, Local Government: Devolution
Written Answers
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Cabinet Office
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Deputy Prime Minister's remit includes responsibility for ethics and integrity in government.
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Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of requiring landlords to improve the energy efficiency of their properties to a EPC C rating by 2030 on (a) rent prices and (b) trends in the number of private sector landlords…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to his Department's press release entitled Home upgrade revolution as renters set for warmer homes and cheaper bills published on 23 September 2024, what account the Regulatory Impact Assessment for the changes to…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, pursuant to the answer of 30 August 2024 to Question 1617 on Energy Performance Certificates: Rented Housing and with reference to his Department's press release entitled Home upgrade revolution as renters set for warmer homes and…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing minimum energy performance certificate requirements for owner occupied dwellings at (a) sale and (b) purchase.
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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department was consulted prior to the publication of the revised planning policy on onshore wind.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 20 September 2024 to Question 5409 on Recycling, what his planned timetable is for bringing forward the secondary legislation to meet the timescales set out in Annex A.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of the recommendations of the Mayor of London's London Climate Resilience Review to levy charges on households that pave their front gardens.
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Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether (a) officials, (b) special advisers and (c) Ministers have met representatives of Hope Not Hate since the general election.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much has been spent on refurbishment of Ministerial offices in her Department since 4 July 2024, broken down by (a) furniture, (b) fixtures, (c) fittings and (d) shoe racks.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many special advisers have been appointed to her Department as of 30 August 2024; and whether she plans to recruit more.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the written ministerial statement of 30 July 2024 entitled Building the homes we need, HCWS48, what the evidential basis is for the assessment that large areas of the Green Belt have little ecological…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer of 29 July 2024 to Question 815 on High Rise Flats: Insulation, what steps she plans to take to empower (a) regulators and (b) local authorities to act.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, Pursuant to the answer of 29 July 2024 to Question 815 on High Rise Flats: Insulation, what steps her Department has taken to increase the pace of remediation programmes.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer of 29 July 2024 to Question 815,on High Rise Flats: Insulation, what enforcement actions her Department plans to take against uncooperative parties.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will publish the papers produced for her meeting with local authorities to discuss housing reforms in August 2024.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of giving prisoners the right to vote. .
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans her Department has to ensure that a regulatory impact assessment for the Renters' Rights Bill will include an assessment of that Bill's (a) cumulative potential impact on and (b) potential interaction with the…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what (a) estimate her Department has made of the cost of and (b) her Department's planned timetable is for providing homes to all veterans; and what are the metrics by which it will be assessed.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer of 26 July 2024 to Question 565 on Derelict Land, whether grey belt will become a formal designation.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to take steps to support self and custom build housing.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, Pursuant to the answer of 26 July 2024 to Question 569 on Affordable Housing: Construction, what the evidential basis is that changes to national planning policy introduced in December 2023 were damaging.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer of 25 July 2024, to Question 1010, on Housing: Northstowe, if she will set out the remit of the accelerator taskforce.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, Pursuant to the answer of 25 July 2024, to Question 1010 on Housing: Northstowe, what the site specific reasons that the project was stalled are.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 26 July 2024 to Question 556 on Housing: Construction, when her Department plans to make changes to nutrient neutrality rules.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer of 25 July 2024 to Question 1007 on Planning Authorities: Staff, how the 300 planners her Department plans to hire over the next five years will be funded.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, Pursuant to the answer of 25 July 2024, to Question 1007, on Planning Authorities: Staff, whether the 300 planning officers will be recruited in addition to the Planning Capability and Capacity programme.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 25 July 2024, to Question 1007 on Planning Authorities: Staff, what budget is being used to fund the additional 300 planning officers.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer of 26 July 2024, to Question 1315 on Environment Protection, when the new framework of Environmental Outcomes Reports will be introduced.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether (a) it remains her Department's policy to retain the social care precept on council tax and (b) past social care precepts will continue to be ring-fenced; and what plans she has to increase the threshold above…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 30 July 2024, to Question 1748, on Levelling Up Fund, if she will publish the details of where agreements are in place.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to improve voter registration.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer of 29 July 2024 to Question 814 on Local Government: Devolution, what role the Council of Nations and Regions will have in the development of local growth plans.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she is a member of the National Security Council.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer of 23 September 2024, to Question 2981, on Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Civil Servants, if she will list the (a) Recruitment Principles exception and (b) job title of the…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what guidance her Department has issued to local authorities on (a) producing and (b) updating productivity plans since 4 July 2024.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she made an assessment of the potential merits of publishing a regulatory impact assessment of the Renters’ Rights Bill.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will publish a (a) regulatory impact assessment, (b) equality impact assessment, (c) family test assessment and (d) environmental principles assessment for the Renters’ Rights Bill.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer of 23 September 2024, to Question 2979, on Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Departmental Responsibilities, if she will list the job title of each member of the Policy and…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many photographers her Department has hired as (a) staff and (b) contractors since since 4 July 2024; from what dates; and what estimate she has made of the annual cost of those photographers.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of local authorities divesting their Local Government Pension Scheme assets from the oil and gas industry.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer of 10 September 2024 to Question 5232 on Local Government: Elections, whether her Department holds a list of (a) councils, (b) mayors and (c) combined authority mayors subject to elections in May…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 18 September 2024 to Question 5232, what (a) council and (b) mayoral elections are (i) scheduled and (ii) expected, subject to the passage of secondary legislation, to take place in May (A) 2025…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 18 September 2024 to Question 5229 on Empty Property and Second Homes: Council Tax, whether she plans to publish a response to the consultation; and what her planned timetable is for bringing…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the implications for her policies of the level of intimidation experienced by candidates during the general election in 2024.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to Written Ministerial Statement of 30 July 2024 on Building the Homes We Need, HCWS48, what steps she plans to take to provide new build affordable housing through social rent; and what assessment she has…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 2 September 2024 to Question 900289 on Affordable Housing, whether her Department has made changes to the (a) tenure, (b) stock profile and (c) proportion of homes available for (i) social rent…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, which measures in the Electoral Integrity Programme have been implemented; and what her planned timetable is for implementing the remaining the measures.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has received representations on the potential effect of proposed private renters legislation on the student accommodation market, and what steps her Department has taken to support that market.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer of 28 March 2024 to Question 19849 on Private Rented Housing: Registration, whether her Department the Ministry of Justice and HM Courts and Tribunal Service have a joint plan for improvements…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of higher Section 106 affordable housing quotas on (a) the sale price of non-subsidised new build private sector homes in the same development and (b) overall house…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the net increase in the number of dwellings in 2023-24 in England was in (a) the Valuation Office Agency's dwelling list and (b) dwellings registered with an Energy Performance Certificate.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of levels remuneration of local authority chief executives.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to issue hardship tests in the private rented sector before landlords can evict tenants.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer of 10 September 2024, to Question 3830, on Development Plans: Greater London, if she will place in the Library of the House of Commons a copy of the minutes for the meeting.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 10 September 2024 to Question 3824, on Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Flags, whether she plans to amend the Town and Country Planning (Control of Advertisements) (England)…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of her Department's proposals for (a) higher quality standards, (b) cladding removal, (c) decarbonisation and energy efficiency requirements in the social housing sector…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the estimated cost to (a) councils and (b) housing associations is of requiring all social housing to be EPC 'C' compliant by 2030; and what (i) funding and (ii) loans her Department plans to provide to these…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment has she made of the potential impact of requiring landlords to improve the energy efficiency of their properties to a EPC C rating by 2030 on the finances of (a) local authorities and (b) housing…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what her planned timetable is for the commencement of the Renters’ Rights Bill and the passage of associated secondary legislation, including any planned differences for the application of (a) new and (b) existing…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the total (a) funding under the Build to Rent Fund and (b) finance supported from the Private Rented Sector Housing Debt Guarantee Scheme was; and what estimate she has made of the number of additional dwellings…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to Table 2 of HM Treasury's publication entitled Fixing the foundations: public spending audit 2024-25, CP 1133, published in July 2024, what plans her Department has to reduce spending on (a) communications…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 18 September 2024 to Question 4681 on Public Houses, what steps her Department is taking to help support community pubs.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her policy on lowering the voting age to 16 and to the Answer of 2 August 2024 to Question HL382 on Caffeine: Children, what steps she plans to take to help support 16 year-olds to verify their identity…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to hold discussions with (a) the Parliamentary Parties Panel and (b) electoral administrators on electoral law.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her oral statement of 30 July 2024 on Building homes, what guidance her Department issues to local authorities on the last date at which a local plan should have been revised in order to be considered…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the merits of providing additional resources to ensure local authorities have an up to date local plan.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward proposals to sanction local planning authorities that do not have up-to-date local plan by 31 December 2024.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her department intends to introduce legislation as a result of the Supreme Court decision of [2024] UKSC 20, R (on the application of Finch on behalf of the Weald Action Group) (Appellant) v Surrey County Council…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of the use of private planes by her Department.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of an automatic electoral registration on the number of Parliamentary seats in each constituent nation of the United Kingdom.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of a four day week for full pay in local government on the provision of services.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether any of (a) her Parliamentary staff, (b) the Parliamentary staff of other Ministers and (c) Labour Party staff have joined her Department as civil servants, rather than special advisers, since the general election.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, which legislative provisions from the Levelling Up and Regeneration Act 2023 have been commenced; which provisions have not been commenced; and whether she plans to commence the remaining provisions.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her Department's guidance entitled, Retained Right to Buy receipts and their use for replacement supply, updated on 30 July 2024, if she will make a forecast of the total number of new build affordable…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many staff (a) work in the Deputy Prime Minister’s Policy and Strategy Unit, at each grade, (b) have been recruited from outside the Civil Service, (c) were appointed through open competition, (d) positions have…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the (a) remit and (b) responsibilities are of her Policy and Strategy Unit.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many and what proportion of civil servants by (a) title and (b) pay band have been employed by her Department without open competition since the General Election.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether Mr Haydon Etherington was appointed to her Department following open competition; on what date he was appointed; what his pay band is; and for what reason he was appointed as a civil servant rather than a…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, which religious leaders she has met as Secretary of State.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to page eight of HM Treasury's technical note entitled Applying VAT to Private School Fees and Removing the Business Rates Charitable Rates Relief for Private Schools, what provisions will be included in the…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the status is of the (a) Suffolk and (b) Norfolk devolution deal; and what type of local elections will take place in those local authorities in May 2025.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 2 August 2023 to Question 1758 on Social Rented Housing, what assessment she made of the potential merits of implementing the proposed changes on requiring a (a) local and (b) UK connection for…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer of 2 August 2023 to Question 1758, on Social Rented Housing, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of restricting access to social housing for people connected with (a) terrorism and…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the number of new homes that were built in London in the last five years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her Department's consultation entitled Proposed reforms to the National Planning Policy Framework and other changes to the planning system, published on 30 July 2024, if the proposed changes to Green Belt…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her Department's consultation entitled Proposed reforms to the National Planning Policy Framework and other changes to the planning system, published on 30 July 2024, whether the proposed changes to…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the consultation entitled Proposed reforms to the National Planning Policy Framework and other changes to the planning system, published on 30 July 2024, whether unmet need for traveller sites would…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the consultation entitled Proposed reforms to the National Planning Policy Framework and other changes to the planning system, published on 30 July 2024, whether the absence of a five-year land supply for…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the consultation entitled Proposed reforms to the National Planning Policy Framework and other changes to the planning system, published on 30 July 2024, whether increased demand due to the presence of…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the written ministerial statement of 30 July 2024 entitled Building the homes we need, HCWS48, if she will publish a list of the numerical reduction in the local housing target over this Parliament as a…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what her policy is on promoting the use of Local Development Orders by local planning authorities.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her Department's press release on new towns, published on 31 July 2024, at what time the press release was issued by her Department under embargo to the media; and for what reason the announcement was…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make it her policy to bring forward secondary legislation on street naming under the Levelling Up and Regeneration Act 2023; and whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of allowing people to…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much was spent on (a) communications, (b) stationery and business cards, (c) IT and websites and (d) new signage when her Department changed its name to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG)…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, which of her Department's closed consultations have not received a formal Government response.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to promote integration, in the context of the public disorder in August 2024.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will commence the street votes programme through the Levelling Up and Regeneration Act 2023.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make it her policy to make the reuse and recycling of materials a material consideration in the granting of planning permission for a replacement building; and what her policy is on local authorities adopting…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the impact of current building regulations on the feasibility of high density, new build, terraced housing in urban areas.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her Department's open consultation entitled Proposed reforms to the National Planning Policy Framework and other changes to the planning system, published on 2 August 2024, if she will make an assessment…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to update the guidance note published by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, entitled Permitted development rights for householders: technical guidance, updated on 10 September 2019.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to amend the guidance by her Department entitled Selective licensing in the private rented sector: a guide for local authorities, published on 20 June 2023.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of re-introducing (a) regional planning guidance and (b) regional spatial strategies.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will amend building regulations to allow new homes to be built with openable sash windows.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what her policy is on build to rent; and what assessment she has made of the impact of her policies on private rented sector regulation on future investment in the build to rent sector.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many affordable homes were delivered through the Affordable Homes Programme in England between 2016 and 2023.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate she has made of the number of affordable homes that are being delivered through the Affordable Homes Programme 2016-2023 in London; what the original targets were; and what assessment (a) her Department and…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the written ministerial statement of 30 July 2024 entitled Building the homes we need, HCWS48, what changes have been made to the (a) estimated number of new affordable units, (b) the tenure, and (c)…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department takes to help ensure that new homes are in keeping with existing communities.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans she has to review local planning authorities that are in special measures.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she plans to take to help ensure landlords do not leave the rental market.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she plans to take to help ensure Jewish communities feel safe.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her department is taking to help reduce cases of anti-Semitism.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will publish a list of local planning authorities which (a) have and (b) do not have up to date local plans.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to ensure local planning authorities without an up to date local plan get their plans up to date.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she took account of net migration in setting the target for new homes in this Parliament.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether (a) she and (b) her special advisers have held discussions with representatives of (i) Sovereign Strategy and (ii) Pentland Communications since the general election.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many meetings Ministers in her Department have had with (a) Labour, (b) Liberal Democrat and (c) Conservative councillors since the general election.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when she plans to respond to the correspondence from the Rt Hon. Member for North West Essex of 13 July 2024 on Parliamentary boundaries.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to tackle extremism.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to tackle islamophobia.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of simplifying the process for creating new Combined County Authorities.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans she has for new efficiency savings in (a) her Department and (b) each of its arms length bodies.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what underspends there are within (a) her Department and (b) each of her Department's arms length bodies in this (a) financial year and (b) spending review period.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the speech by the Chancellor of the Exchequer on 8 July 2024, for which other sectors spatial plans will be developed.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the speech of 8 July 2024 by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what methodology she plans to use to prioritise energy projects.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she plans to take to help those impacted by high insurance premiums in properties affected by (a) cladding and (b) remediation issues.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what her planned timetable is for publishing a response to her Department's consultation on reforms to social housing allocations, published on 30 January 2024.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department plans to implement the conclusions of the London Plan review, published on 15 January 2024.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the speech of the Chancellor of the Exchequer on 8 July 2024, whether the Government's house building target will include houses that began construction in the previous Parliament.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of regulatory changes resulting from the UK's departure from the EU on her Department's ability to meet its housing targets.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how she plans to permit the fast-tracking of brownfield land.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an estimate of the projected size of the greenbelt by the end of this Parliament.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether funds allocated through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund will be delivered.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the report by the National Audit Office entitled The effectiveness of government in tackling homelessness, published on 23 July 2024, HC 119, if she will accept the recommendation of that report to…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans she has to support home ownership for first-time buyers.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many local authorities do not have up-to-date local plans.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many local authorities she expects to have up-to-date local plans on (a) 4 July 2025, (b) 4 July 2026, (c) 4 July 2027, (d) 4 July 2028 and (e) at the end of this Parliament.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to introduce legislation to allow housebuilding delayed by nutrient neutrality rules derived from European Union case law.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what her planned timetable is for introducing measures on nutrient neutrality.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when she plans to appoint a chair of Oflog.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she plans to take to modernise planning committees.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Policy statement on onshore wind, published on 8 July 2024, whether her Department has made an estimate of trends in the number of bird deaths caused by changes in the number of onshore wind farms;…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the Planning and Infrastructure Bill will include measures to reform the judicial review process to speed up planning decisions.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will publish the environmental principles assessment for the Policy statement on onshore wind, published on 8 July 2024.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what her target is for increasing net housing supply in (a) 2024-25 and (b) 2025-26.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to set a council tax referendum threshold for 2025-26.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to review council tax (a) discounts, (b) exemptions and (c) disregards.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to cap council tax rises.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans she has to consult the Electoral Commission's parliamentary parties panel on proposed changes to electoral law.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to make (a) regulatory and (b) deregulatory changes to building regulations.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to pages 23 to 24 of the policy paper entitled, King's Speech 2024: background briefing notes, published by the Prime Minister's Office on 17 July 2024, on the proposed English Devolution Bill, whether she…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to require minimum quotas of affordable housing in her Department’s proposed new towns.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to support the right to buy; and what her policy is on uprating right to buy discounts with inflation.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what methodology she plans to use to allocate the proposed 300 new planning officers; what the (a) average salary and (b) local government grade of those planning officers will be; and what estimate she has made of the…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to pages 23 to 24 of the policy paper entitled, King's Speech 2024: background briefing notes, published by the Prime Minister's Office on 17 July 2024, on the proposed English Devolution Bill, what plans…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much her Department (a) has spent on departmental rebranding since 4 July 2024 and (b) plans to spend on such rebranding in the next 12 months.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to pages 23 to 25 of the policy paper entitled, King's Speech 2024: background briefing notes, published by the Prime Minister's Office on 17 July 2024, on the proposed English Devolution Bill, what role she…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether local authorities will remain subject to the environmental and land supply framework set out in the previous National Planning Policy Framework under proposed mandatory housing targets.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether residential gardens within the curtilage of a domestic property will continue to be classified as brownfield land under proposed planning reforms.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what her policy is on the building of solar farms on land categorised as best and most versatile agricultural land.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans she has for (a) restrictions on rent increases and (b) other rent controls in the domestic private rented sector.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make it her policy to introduce secondary legislation to recognise the Veterans Card as a form of identification in polling stations across (a) Great Britain and (b) Northern Ireland.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many submitted planning permission applications are unable to progress due to nutrient neutrality rules.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to amend nutrient neutrality rules.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what her Department’s planning definition is of the grey belt; and whether the grey belt includes (a) greenfield land and (b) residential gardens within the green belt.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to establish a separate Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the speech of 8 July 2024 by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what her planned timetable is to start consulting on bringing onshore wind into the Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects regime.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the speech of the Chancellor of the Exchequer on 8 July 2024, whether her Department plans to introduce penalties for local planning authorities that do not meet housing targets.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department plans to require local authorities to amend neighbourhood plans.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many new towns her Department plans to help build; what her timetable is for building those towns; and if she will publish a list of their locations.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether money allocated through the Levelling Up Fund will be given to local authorities to spend.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of her policies on leasehold reform on the average costs leaseholders in properties with building safety issues will incur.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what her responsibilities are as Deputy Prime Minister; and whether those responsibilities include the implementation of the Government’s planned reforms of employment law.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will publish her Department's submission on the legal challenge by Friends of the Earth and South Lakes Action on Climate Change to the West Cumbria Mining planning permission.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what methodology her Department will use to set mandatory housing targets.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many houses will be constructed as part of the Affordable Housing Programme 2021 - 2026.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether (a) councils will be required to review their Local Plans in order to undertake Green Belt reviews and (b) Local Plans will be required to be updated after the Green Belt review through a public examination led by…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many existing planning permissions there are where building has not yet started.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether houses that were given planning permission under the previous Government but not yet built are included in her 1.5 million housebuilding target for this Parliament.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent estimate she has made of the number of houses that will be built in 2024.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to speed up cladding remediation programmes.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her Department's press release entitled Deputy Prime Minister kickstarts new devolution revolution to boost local power, published on 16 July 2024, how she plans that the new partnership approach and…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her Department's press release entitled Deputy Prime Minister kickstarts new devolution revolution to boost local power, published on 16 July 2024, how she plans to assess the impact of the new…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her Department's press release entitled Deputy Prime Minister kickstarts new devolution revolution to boost local power, published on 16 July 2024, how her Department defines local growth plans.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the press release entitled Deputy Prime Minister kickstarts new devolution revolution to boost local power, published on 16 July 2024, whether local growth plans will be put on a statutory footing.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department plans to take steps to review postal voting delays that occurred during the general election 2024.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the impact of net immigration on housing supply.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what her Department's policy is on (a) Strategic Environmental Assessments and (b) Environmental Impact Assessments.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to (a) remove or (b) curtail permitted development rights that were introduced since May 2010; and what her policy is on Article 4 directions.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what her planned timetable is for completion of each of the revised National Policy Statements.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her Department's press release entitled, Deputy Prime Minister kickstarts new devolution revolution to boost local power, published on 16 July 2024, what her expected timetable is for signing off the…
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Treasury
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will take steps to allow local authorities to levy (a) hotel and (b) tourist taxes.
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To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 18 September 2024, to Question 5155, on Council tax: Wales, if she will list each individual type of variable used in the Valuation Office Agency's Automated Valuation Model.
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To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 17 September 2024 to Question 5223 on Council Tax: Wales, if she will publish the contract between the Valuation Office Agency and the Centre for Appraisal Research and Technology.
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To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Pursuant to the answer of 17 September 2024, to Question 5223, on Council Tax: Wales, if she will place in the House of Commons Library a copy of any report or documentation provided by CART to the Valuation Office Agency.
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To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 12 September 2024, to Question 4354, on Public Houses: Business Rates, whether (a) pavement licences under the Business and Planning Act 2020 and (b) outdoor licensing under the Licensing Act 2003 affect the assessment of a Fair…
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To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of asking the Valuation Office Agency to develop an automated valuation model for calculating (a) council tax and (b) business rates valuations in England.
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To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when she plans to (a) increase stamp duty for non-UK residents and (b) recruit additional planning officers.
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