Mr Clive Betts

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what estimate his Department had made of the number of households that did not pay council tax by direct debit by local authority when the Council Tax Energy Rebate was announced.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much and what proportion of the Household Support Fund has been used to help renters pay off rent arrears by (a) region and (b) local authority as on 22 July 2022.

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the £65 million support package for vulnerable renters announced by his Department on 23 October 2021, how much and what proportion of that funding has been distrib...

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department is taking to monitor arrangements made by councils to determine the allocation of the discretionary fund for the Council Tax Energy Rebate; and if he will m...

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to a situation where a landlord's name appears on a Council Tax direct debit and where that landlord is also the liable person, but where the tenant pays a rent to the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to his Department’s guidance on the Council Tax Energy Rebate which states that councils can choose whether to offer £150 credit to an eligible household’s council tax...

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many households had received the £150 Council Tax Energy Rebate payment on (a) 1 April, (b) 1 May, (c) 1 June and (d) 1 July 2022.

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the Council Tax Energy Rebate, whether households that were not resident on 1 April 2022 are entitled to a payment from the discretionary fund.

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the Council Tax Energy Rebate, whether (a) a house in multiple occupation and (b) any other properties would be entitled to receive a £150 payment plus an additiona...

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to his Department’s guidance on the Council Tax Energy Rebate, published on 16th March 2022 which states that councils can use the discretionary fund to offer carefull...

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the guidance entitled Support for energy bills - the council tax rebate 2022-23: billing authority guidance, published on 16 March 2022, whether the requirement tha...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to notify immunocompromised people who are eligible for a covid-19 spring booster vaccination; and which part of the NHS is responsible for informing those peopl...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in what way allocations to local authorities are to be calculated in the context of the £500 extension to the household support fund.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to his statement on the economic update on the 26 May 2022 and his commitment to legislate to deliver support on the same terms in every part of the UK, whether it is his policy that people with the s...

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what his latest estimate is of the real terms change in the spending powers of local authorities in the current financial year taking into account relevant price and wage increases.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many retired civil servants are members of the civil service classic scheme.

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what exact questions his Department asked local authorities in relation to additional homelessness pressures arising from Ukrainian individuals and households entering the country th...

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of the total number of retired civil servants in receipt of the Civil Service Classic Scheme pension are women.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many retired civil servants are in receipt of a pension via the civil service Classic scheme; and how many of those individuals are in receipt of a (a) widows and (b) widowers’ pension.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many (a) widows and (b) widowers that were in receipt of their partner's Civil Service Classic Scheme pension have seen their payments stopped as a result of (a) remarrying and (b) cohabiting with a partner ...