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1138645

registered interest
date	12/07/2019
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: Construction
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 estimate he has made of the number of Local Plans which include a requirement for new homes to be accessible and adaptable.
tabling member constituency	Hornchurch and Upminster
tabling member printed	Julia Lopez
uin	276602
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2019 answer text <p>At present, the Government does not collect this data. A recent report by Habinteg suggests that less than a third of all English local plans currently set specific requirements for a percentage of new homes to be built to accessible or adaptable standards.</p><p>We have strengthened policy in the revised National Planning Policy Framework, published in July 2018, so that local planning authorities are expected to put in place specific policies to address the housing needs of older and disabled people. We have also strengthened the policy approach to accessible housing by setting out an expectation that planning policies for housing should make use of government standards for accessible and adaptable housing.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 17/07/2019 15:47:20 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez

1138700

registered interest
date	12/07/2019
answering body	Wales Office
answering dept id	28
answering dept short name	Wales
answering dept sort name	Wales
hansard heading	Wales Office: Social Media
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how much his Department has spent on social media advertising in each month since July 2017.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	276557
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2019 answer text <p>The Office of the Secretary of State for Wales has not spent any money on social media advertising since July 2017.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 18/07/2019 12:13:15 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

1138461

registered interest
date	11/07/2019
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, whether his Department is aware of buildings for which cladding has needed to be remediated on more than one occasion since June 2017.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	276196
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2019 answer text <p>MHCLG is not aware of any cases where the cladding on a building has needed to be remediated on more than one occasion since June 2017.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 17/07/2019 15:38:25 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse previous answer version 129432 answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1138476

registered interest
date	11/07/2019
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, with reference the article in the Oxford Mail entitled, Hockmore Tower among five Oxford blocks facing post Grenfell scrutiny, published 11 July 2019, what information his Department has provided to local authorities in July 2019 on the need to remediate high-pressure laminate cladding.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	276198
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2019 answer text <p>The Department has not issued specific advice to local authorities on the remediation of High Pressure Laminate cladding (HPL).</p><p>The Department has published guidance to reiterate the importance of building owners assessing their buildings and ensuring that non-Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) cladding systems are safe. Advice Note 14, published in 2017 and updated in December 2018, reiterates that the clearest way to ensure safety is to remove unsafe materials. This can be found at:<strong> <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fuploads%2Fsystem%2Fuploads%2Fattachment_data%2Ffile%2F765761%2FExpert_Panel_advice_note_on_non-ACM.pdf&amp;data=02%7C01%7CBalraj.Phull%40communities.gov.uk%7C822baa5e0f8045ab0d3e08d708fcefd7%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C636987754750895449&amp;sdata=B0ihsM3pe6VxZrRQaSStWhwRjyZ%2F1SGucZlDXihbf%2FI%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/765761/Expert_Panel_advice_note_on_non-ACM.pdf</a></strong></p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 17/07/2019 15:40:05 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse previous answer version 129428 answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1138477

registered interest
date	11/07/2019
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: Fire Prevention
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 National Fire Chiefs Council or his Department's Independent Expert Panel have been invited to witness the large-scale fire safety tests commissioned by his Department in July 2019.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	276199
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2019 answer text <p>Members of the National Fire Chiefs Council and the Independent Expert Advisory Panel were invited.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 17/07/2019 15:40:31 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse previous answer version 129427 answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1138505

registered interest
date	11/07/2019
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: Fire Prevention
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 11 July 2019 to Question 274551 on Buildings: Fire Prevention, what steps leaseholders are able to take in the event of being presented with high charges for non-cladding fire safety remedial work.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	276200
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government has made it clear that building owners should protect leaseholders from bearing the costs of remediation.</p><p>Specialist advice for help to understand leaseholders’ rights can be accessed through the Leasehold Advisory Service (LEASE). The Government has allocated additional funding to LEASE to provide independent, free, initial advice to leaseholders on building safety issues to ensure they are aware of their rights and are supported to understand the terms of their leases. More information on LEASE, including how to contact them for advice, is available here: <a href="https://www.lease-advice.org/" target="_blank">https://www.lease-advice.org/</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 17/07/2019 15:37:59 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse previous answer version 129426 answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1138525

registered interest
date	11/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probate
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the average time taken by the Probate Service to complete a grant of probate application in each in of the last four quarters.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	276238
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2019 answer text <p>Official statistics are not published on the average length of time from receipt of the application to the issue of a grant of probate. Internal management information, which is not subject to the rigorous quality assurance processes of official statistics, has been used to show the following average time from receipt of an application to a grant being issued:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Quarter </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Average weeks to grant issued</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July 2018 to September 2018</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October 2018 to December 2018</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January 2019 to March 2019</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2019 to June 2019</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>These figures do not include cases which are waiting for a grant to be issued. The data from April to June 2019 has been extracted from the HMCTS Reform Core Case Data system, which is a new system in active development, and may not be directly comparable with figures for earlier periods. All figures, especially those for April 2019 to June 2019, are provisional and subject to revision.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Some grants are experiencing delays of between four and six weeks outside of our targets as a result of significant increases in work during March and April and some IT issues which have now been resolved. We have recruited more staff and are now issuing in excess of 1,000 grants a day that is bringing waiting times down further.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 17/07/2019 17:03:25 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon