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1797277

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2025
	answering body	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
	answering dept id	36
	answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
	answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
	hansard heading	Candidates: Expenditure
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Right hon. Member for Kenilworth and Southam, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, pursuant to the Answer of 23 April 2025 to Question 45675 on Candidates: Expenditure, whether the Electoral Commission releases candidate returns under the Freedom of Information Act.
	tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
	tabling member printed	Kevin Hollinrake
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	48130
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2025 answer text <p>The Electoral Commission does not release candidate spending returns under the Freedom of Information Act.</p><p>The Representation of the People Act 1983 requires returning officers to make candidate spending returns available for two years. As such, spending returns are considered reasonably accessible by other means, and so are exempt from disclosure by the Commission under section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Sir Jeremy Wright question first answered 29/04/2025 15:35:48 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake

1797278

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2025
	answering body	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
	answering dept id	36
	answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
	answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
	hansard heading	Candidates: Expenditure
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Right hon. Member for Kenilworth and Southam, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what guidance the Electoral Commission issues to candidates on declaring notional expenditure associated with policing and security while campaigning in the regulated period as an election expense.
	tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
	tabling member printed	Kevin Hollinrake
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	48131
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2025 answer text <p>The Commission’s <a href="https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/guidance-candidates-and-agents-uk-parliamentary-general-elections-great-britain/candidate-spending/what-candidate-spending/what-doesnt-count-candidate-spending" target="_blank">guidance on candidate spending</a> laws explains that reasonable expenses relating to the protection of persons or property, such as hiring security, do not count as candidate spending. It therefore does not need to be declared on a candidate’s spending return.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Sir Jeremy Wright question first answered 29/04/2025 15:36:04 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake

1797279

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2025
	answering body	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
	answering dept id	36
	answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
	answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
	hansard heading	Elections: Expenditure
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Right hon. Member for Kenilworth and Southam, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, pursuant to the Answer of 7 April 2025 to Question 43087 on Elections: Expenditure, what guidance the Electoral Commission has given on whether items of notional expenditure below £50 count towards the aggregate spending limit.
	tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
	tabling member printed	Kevin Hollinrake
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	48132
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2025 answer text <p>The Commission’s <a href="https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/guidance-candidates-and-agents-uk-parliamentary-general-elections-great-britain/candidate-spending/items-received-free-charge-or-a-discount-and-notional-spending" target="_blank">guidance for candidates</a> states that items provided for free or at a non-commercial discount with a value of £50 or less are not regarded in law as notional spending. They do not need to be recorded on a candidate’s spending return or counted towards their spending limit.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Sir Jeremy Wright question first answered 29/04/2025 15:36:23 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake

1797280

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2025
	answering body	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
	answering dept id	36
	answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
	answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
	hansard heading	Electoral Commission: Companies House
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Right hon. Member for Kenilworth and Southam, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, pursuant to the Answer of 2 April 2025 to Question 42467 on Electoral Commission: Companies House, whether the Electoral Commission plans to access Companies House data.
	tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
	tabling member printed	Kevin Hollinrake
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	48133
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2025 answer text <p>The Commission regularly accesses data published by Companies House as part of its work enforcing political finance laws. It will make decisions on requests for additional data as appropriate to its enforcement work.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Sir Jeremy Wright question first answered 29/04/2025 15:36:38 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake

1797281

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2025
	answering body	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
	answering dept id	36
	answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
	answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
	hansard heading	Electoral Commission: Wales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Right hon. Member for Kenilworth and Southam, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of the Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Act 2024 on the work of the Electoral Commission.
	tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
	tabling member printed	Kevin Hollinrake
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	48134
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2025 answer text <p>The Commission regularly assesses the impact of legislation on its work, including the Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Act 2024. The Act makes a number of changes to electoral law in Wales, including the establishment of an Electoral Management Board, new provisions on voter registration, powers for a wider range of electoral innovation pilots, and alignment with legislation for reserved elections in some areas such as accessibility, undue influence, and notional expenditure.</p><p>The Commission has been working with the Welsh Government and the wider electoral community to ensure that changes to elections in Wales are delivered successfully. It will develop updated guidance and resources for electoral administrators, campaigners and voters to reflect the changes that are being introduced. The Commission also has a duty to evaluate any pilots that are held in Wales.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Sir Jeremy Wright question first answered 29/04/2025 15:36:57 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake

1797282

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2025
	answering body	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
	answering dept id	36
	answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
	answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
	hansard heading	Electoral Commission: Companies House
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Right hon. Member for Kenilworth and Southam, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, pursuant to the Answer of 3 April 2025 to Question 41450 on Electoral Commission: Companies House, whether the Electoral Commission has made requests to Companies House to obtain additional information under the provisions in the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023.
	tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
	tabling member printed	Kevin Hollinrake
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	48135
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2025 answer text <p>The Electoral Commission has not made any requests to Companies House under the provisions in the Economic Crime and Transparency Act 2023.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Sir Jeremy Wright question first answered 29/04/2025 15:37:11 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake

1797441

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2025
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Flood Control: Great Yarmouth
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether new funding streams will be available to support flood prevention measures in Great Yarmouth constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Great Yarmouth
	tabling member printed	Rupert Lowe
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	48258
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2025 answer text <p>Delivering on the Government’s Plan for Change, this government is investing a record £2.65 billion over two years, 2024-2025 and 2025-2026, for the construction of new flood schemes, and the maintenance and repair of existing ones. With this funding, 1,000 flood schemes have been or will continue to be supported, better protecting 52,000 properties by March 2026.</p><p> </p><p>This year (2025-2026): Great Yarmouth Flood Defences (Epoch 3) is receiving £1,968,000 and Great Yarmouth Flood Defence Scheme Works £730,000. The full list of schemes receiving investment this year has been published <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/programme-of-flood-and-coastal-erosion-risk-management-schemes" target="_blank">online</a>.</p> answering member constituency Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice answering member printed Emma Hardy question first answered 29/04/2025 11:27:48 answering member 4645 label Biography information for Emma Hardy
	tabling member	5158

1796686

	registered interest
	date	24/04/2025
	answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Homelessness
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of trends in the level the cost of homelessness support on local government.
	tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
	tabling member printed	Kevin Hollinrake
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	47699
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2025 answer text <p>This Government has inherited record levels of homelessness, and we recognise the cost pressures this has put on councils. That’s why we have increased funding for homelessness services in 2025/26 by £233 million to nearly £1 billion, alongside a local government finance settlement for 2025/26 which makes available over £69bn for local government, a 6.8% cash terms increase on 2024/25.</p> answering member constituency Bethnal Green and Stepney answering member printed Rushanara Ali question first answered 29/04/2025 15:37:31 answering member 4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali
	tabling member	4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake

1796689

	registered interest
	date	24/04/2025
	answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Council Tax
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what discussions (a) Ministers and (b) officials in her Department have had with the Welsh Government on council tax revaluation and re-banding.
	tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
	tabling member printed	Kevin Hollinrake
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	47702
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2025 answer text <p>The government maintains regular engagement with the Welsh Government on a range of issues. Council tax is a devolved matter, but we are aware that the Welsh Government has set out its intention to introduce a revaluation of council tax bands from 2028 and has consulted on wider reforms.</p> answering member constituency Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton answering member printed Jim McMahon grouped question UIN 47268 question first answered 29/04/2025 15:13:11 answering member 4569 label Biography information for Jim McMahon
	tabling member	4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake

1796693

	registered interest
	date	24/04/2025
	answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Housing First
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate she has made of the cost of a national Housing First scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
	tabling member printed	Kevin Hollinrake
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	47706
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2025 answer text <p>I refer the Hon Member to the answers given to <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-02-13/31735" target="_blank">Question UIN 31735</a> on 13 February 2025 and <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2024-11-25/15811" target="_blank">Question UIN 15811</a> on 3 December 2024.</p> answering member constituency Bethnal Green and Stepney answering member printed Rushanara Ali grouped question UIN 47710 question first answered 29/04/2025 15:36:56 answering member 4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali
	tabling member	4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake