Every parliamentary written question tabled by Kevin Hollinrake this session, with the full answer and department. Back to the MP page.
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When the Cabinet Secretary plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for Thirsk and Malton of 10 June 2025 on the proposed Chinese Embassy and pre-determination.
I apologise for the delayed response to the Hon. Member’s letter. He will have received a letter of apology for this. He will receive a substantive reply as soon as possible.
What estimate his Department has made of the cost to the public purse of paying council tax on the former Deputy Prime Minister's flat in Admiralty House in each of the next three months.
The council tax charges levied by Westminster City Council are available online on their website at https://www.westminster.gov.uk/council-tax/council-tax-bands-and-charges.
Pursuant to the Answer of 3 September 2025 to Question 73832 on Special Advisers: Political Parties, whether special advisers have been asked to undertake opposition research.
As has been the case under successive governments, special advisers are required to adhere to the Code of Conduct for Special Advisers at all times.
Further to the Prime Minister's visit to the offices of Palantir Technologies in Washington with Lord Mandelson on 27 February 2025, whether any minutes were taken at that meeting.
This was not a formal meeting, therefore we do not hold any minutes.
Whether Ministers who left government in the reshuffle were spoken to directly by the Prime Minister.
It would not be appropriate to comment on private conversations held with Ministers who left the Government.
How much the Prime Minister has spent from the annual allowance on the official residence in Downing Street since 4 July 2024.
Any associated costs would be noted in the next Cabinet Office Annual Report and Accounts in the usual way.
Which ministers will have an official residence following the reshuffle.
Allocation of official residences will be confirmed in due course.
Pursuant to the Answer of 1 September 2025 to Question HL9809 on Business Interests, whether every Minister has now signed a Ministerial waiver to enforce the provisions of the Ministerial Code in relation to their statutory entitlement to severance payments; and whether the former Deputy Prime Minister had signed one before she left Ministerial office.
The reforms to ministerial severance payments, including the use of waivers, will take effect from 13 October.
Whether President Trump was offered the opportunity to address Parliament during his state visit.
This is a matter for Parliament. The House of Commons was in recess during the state visit of President Trump.
Whether the Prime Minister has had recent discussions with the British Ambassador to the United States on his relationship with Jeffery Epstein.
In light of additional information in emails written by Lord Mandelson, the Prime Minister asked the Foreign Secretary to withdraw him as Ambassador to the United States.
Pursuant to the Answer of 4 June 2025 to Question 53898 on Senior Civil Servants: Pay, whether that list will be published in 2025.
The ‘high earner’ list will be published after departments and their partner organisations have implemented the 2025/26 senior pay award and they have fully quality assured the personal data being published about individuals. Departments also publish salary information for all their Senior Civil Service (SCS) roles in quarterly organograms on data.gov.uk and for all SCS operating at Board level in their Annual Accounts.
Pursuant to the Answer of 28 July 2025 to Question 57266 on Domestic Visits: Doncaster, which events the special advisers who travelled with the Prime Minister to Doncaster took part in on 10 April 2025.
I refer the Hon Member to my answer of 28 July 2025, Official Report, PQ 57266.
With reference to his Department's press release entitled Internship Scheme To Get More Working Class Students Into Civil Service, published on 1 August 2025, whether children of asylum seekers that (a) are permitted to work and (b) have a parent that is also an asylum seeker would be classified as working class for these purposes.
As we set out in August, we will be opening our Fast Stream Summer Internship Programme exclusively for undergraduates from lower socio-economic backgrounds for 2026. We will determine eligibility based on parental occupation at age 14 in line with guidance from the Social Mobility Commission and the Office for National Statistics definition. Regardless of whether or not a person is eligible under the social mobility criteria all applicants must meet the Civil Service Nationality rules (CSNR). Under this, asylum seekers are not permitted to work unless they have been waiting for a decision on their claim for 12 months or more and the delay is through no fault of their own. If granted permission to work, they are able to take up employment in jobs included on the Shortage Occupation List (replaced by the Immigration Salary List in April 2024). We do not consider roles offered on the Fast Stream Summer Internship Programme to be included on the ‘Immigration Salary List’.
For what reason his Department pays council tax on Ministerial residences which are deemed to be second homes.
It has been long-standing government policy, in place for successive administrations, including for the previous government the Hon member served in, that where a minister occupies an official residence on a second home basis, the government pays the council tax.
How much council tax was paid by his Department on the Deputy Prime Minister’s flat in Admiralty House in each month since 4 July 2024.
The council tax charges levied by Westminster City Council are available online on their website at https://www.westminster.gov.uk/council-tax/council-tax-bands-and-chargesFollowing the introduction of the second homes premium, this has been paid in full in a one-off full payment in July 2025. This payment was made by the Government Property Agency on the date the Notice was received from Westminster City Council.
Whether his Department has issued guidance to special advisers on undertaking opposition research involving individual politicians.
As has been the case under successive governments, special advisers are required to adhere to the Code of Conduct for Special Advisers at all times. No specific guidance has been issued on special advisers undertaking opposition research involving individual politicians.
Whether his Department has provided guidance on whether Ministerial meetings arranged through the Labour Infrastructure Forum should be declared in Ministerial transparency returns.
The Ministerial Code sets out principles for Ministers on meetings with external organisations. Guidance published by the Cabinet Office at the following link sets out the information departments are required to publish as part of their Ministerial transparency return: -https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ministers-overseas-travel-and-meetings-publication-guidance/ministers-overseas-travel-and-meetings-publication-guidance.
Pursuant to the Answer of 23 July 2025 to Question 68481 on 10 Downing Street: ICT, whether Number 10 has its own operational Bloomberg terminal, independent from the Treasury ones.
I refer my Hon Friend to the answer of 23 July, Official Report, PQ 68481.
Whether he has issued guidance to special advisers on undertaking (a) national and (b) local political activities during working hours when accompanying Ministers in a local election purdah period.
The rules for national and local political activities are set out in the Code of Conduct for Special Advisers.
Pursuant to the Answer of 12 June 2025 to Question 54875 on Admiralty House: Council Tax, whether Council Tax (a) discount, exemption, disregard and (b) premium is applied to the Government's bill for each of the unoccupied Admiralty House ministerial residences in 2025-26.
Discount, exemption, disregard and premiums billing for Admiralty House are determined by the Local Authority. In this instance, this would be Westminster City Council.