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1110557

registered interest
date	09/04/2019
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: Sales
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 his Department has made of the number and proportion of residential property transactions that do not complete the legal purchase process in the latest period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	242798
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/04/2019 answer text <p>The Government does not collect data on the number of housing transactions which fall through. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the fall through rate is around 25 per cent, which is why the Government is working with industry to trial reservation agreements which will increase commitment between buyers and sellers and should reduce the failure rate.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 17/04/2019 13:15:07 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1110558

registered interest
date	09/04/2019
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: Sales
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 his Department has made of the financial cost to vendors of residential property transactions failing to complete the legal purchasing process, in the latest period for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	242799
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2019 answer text <p>The Government does not collect data on the costs to vendors of residential property transactions which fall through. In a 2017 Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy survey, the average cost for a failed transaction for those respondents who only sold a property was £582, for those sellers who also bought a property it was £740 and for sellers who never successfully sold it was £650.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 16/04/2019 11:56:56 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1110621

registered interest
date	09/04/2019
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: Sikhs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 8 April 2019 to Question 240066 on Homelessness: Sikhs, what steps her Department is taking to determine how many homeless people are Sikh.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	242925
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/04/2019 answer text <p>My Department has no current plans to collect information on the number of homeless people who are Sikh.</p><p>In April 2018 the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government introduced a new case-level data collection called H-CLIC (Homelessness Case Level Information Collection). This gives local authorities and Government more information regarding homelessness and those presenting as homeless, including demographic information.</p><p>The Government is committed to reducing homelessness and rough sleeping. No one should ever have to sleep rough. That is why last summer we published the cross-government Rough Sleeping Strategy. This sets out an ambitious £100 million package to help people who sleep rough now, but also puts in place the structures that will end rough sleeping once and for all. The Government has now committed over £1.2 billion to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping over the spending review period.</p><p>In its first year, our Rough Sleeping Initiative provided over 1,750 new bed spaces and 500 staff.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 17/04/2019 13:16:23 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1110807

registered interest
date	09/04/2019
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 Housing: Standards
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 proportion of council homes meet the decent homes standard in each local authority in England.
tabling member constituency	Nuneaton
tabling member printed	Mr Marcus Jones
uin	242815
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2019 answer text <p>Everyone deserves a decent and safe place to live. We have seen clear improvements in decency in recent years. As at 1 April 2018, 4 per cent of local authority owned dwellings were non-decent across England. Over 516,000 local authority homes have been bought up to the Decent Homes Standard since 2010.</p><p>The Department publishes data on the proportion of local authority owned non-decent homes in each local authority area at the Local Authority Housing Statistics (LAHS) section F question 17, which can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/local-authority-housing-statistics-data-returns-for-2017-to-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/local-authority-housing-statistics-data-returns-for-2017-to-2018</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 16/04/2019 11:57:31 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones

1110257

registered interest
date	08/04/2019
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	Community Development: Young People
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 recent assessment his Department has made of the potential benefits of youth in promoting community cohesion and inclusion.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	242173
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2019 answer text <p>Government is committed to building stronger, better integrated communities where people – whatever their background – live, learn, work and socialise together based on shared rights, responsibilities and opportunities.</p><p>The importance of young people in this agenda is highlighted in both our <em>Integrated Communities Strategy Green Paper</em> and <em>Integrated Communities Action Plan. </em>This includes the role that youth engagement and social action can play in forging meaningful connections and relationships with people from different backgrounds. That’s why we have committed to working with the National Citizen Service (NCS) Trust and DCMS to support social mixing opportunities for young people in areas of high segregation.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 11/04/2019 15:06:15 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1110310

registered interest
date	08/04/2019
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	Regeneration: Coventry
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 support his Department plans to provide to the regeneration project in Palmer Lane in Coventry.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	242013
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2019 answer text <p>My Department is not providing specific support for the Palmer Lane project in Coventry.</p><p>However, through the Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) the Government has invested over £131 million of Local Growth Funding into Coventry and Warwickshire, which is supporting 16 projects across the region. This is forecast to deliver 7,500 new jobs, 3,400 new homes and bring in a total of £240 million of investment. The Government has additionally announced a new Stronger Towns Fund, a £1.6 billion fund to support towns in England to harness their unique strengths to grow and prosper.</p><p>Following our departure from the European Union, we will create the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF), a programme of investment to tackle inequalities between communities by raising productivity and which will invest across the foundations of productivity, identified in our Industrial Strategy.</p><p>The Coventry and Warwickshire LEP continues to identify projects which can bring additional growth and jobs to the region.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 11/04/2019 15:36:25 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1110316

registered interest
date	08/04/2019
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	Buildings: Insulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 4 April 2019 to Question 239242, whether paragraph 12.7 of Approved Document Part B Volume 2 (2006) applied to all key components of external wall systems between its publication in 2007 and the publication of the amendment to the 2013 Edition in December 2018.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	242143
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2019 answer text <p>I refer the honourable member to my answer of 21 March to Question UIN 233494. The guidance in approved documents should be considered in full and in the context to the requirements of the regulations themselves.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 11/04/2019 15:06:33 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1110322

registered interest
date	08/04/2019
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	Buildings: Insulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	o ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant the Answer of 27 March 2019 to Question 235314 on Buildings: Insulation, whether the testing has commended; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	242144
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2019 answer text <p>The test programme has not yet commenced because the test rig was damaged during a calibration test and has needed to be repaired. The schedule for the tests is being reappraised in the light of the delay to the start of the programme.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 242145 question first answered 11/04/2019 15:07:30 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1110323

registered interest
date	08/04/2019
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	Buildings: Insulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	o ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant the Answer of 27 March 2019 to Question 235314 on Buildings: Insulation, if he will publish a confirmed schedule for that testing.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	242145
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2019 answer text <p>The test programme has not yet commenced because the test rig was damaged during a calibration test and has needed to be repaired. The schedule for the tests is being reappraised in the light of the delay to the start of the programme.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 242144 question first answered 11/04/2019 15:07:30 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1110361

registered interest
date	08/04/2019
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	UK Shared Prosperity Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the attendee lists for shared prosperity fund stakeholder engagement events were chosen by (a) Ministers in his Department or (b) staff in his Department.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	242029
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2019 answer text <p>The attendee lists for the stakeholder engagement events were decided by officials from across UK Government. We spoke to businesses, public bodies, educational institutions, the voluntary and charity sector and rural partnership groups</p><p><br> The list of stakeholder engagement events we have held in Wales are as follows:<br> <br> Cardiff – 8 November 2018 (2 Events);<br> Cardiff – 9 November 2018 (2 Events);<br> St Asaph – 30 January 2019.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry grouped question UIN 242030 question first answered 11/04/2019 15:38:09 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane