Asked by: Lord Wills (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they are proposing to take any new measures to prescribe the inclusion of swift boxes in new housing.
Answered by Baroness Taylor of Stevenage - Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)
I refer the noble Lord to the answer to Question UIN 62367 on 2 July 2025.
Asked by: Lord Wills (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether, in calculating the Local Government Finance Settlement, they make any assumptions about the sums that will be spent by local authorities on electoral registration.
Answered by Baroness Stowell of Beeston
Revenue Support Grant and retained business rates are un-hypothecated, and no assumptions of spend on any particular service were used in the settlement calculations. The methodology for the Local Government Finance settlement for 2014-15 was set out for consultation in the technical consultation of July 2013 and the consultation on the provisional settlement of December 2013.
Asked by: Lord Wills (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Stowell of Beeston on 14 May (WA 507), what allowance was made in each of the last five years for funding local authorities to pay the expenses incurred by a registration officer in the performance of their registration duties.
Answered by Baroness Stowell of Beeston
Funding for local authorities provided by central Government through Formula Grant up until 2012-13 or the current Business Rates Retention scheme is un-hypothecated and, therefore, it is not possible to provide a figure for any specific service in a year. Funding for all net costs of the transition to Individual Electoral Registration is paid through non-ring fenced section 31 grants to local authorities in England. Spending decisions are made by local authorities and details of expenditure can be found in the annual Local Government statistics at:
www.gov.uk/government/publications/local-government-financial-statistics-england-2014
Details of the Individual Electoral Registration funding are available at: