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932333

registered interest
date	28/06/2018
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	Occupational Therapy: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will encourage officials working on local strategic planning to include contributions from occupational therapists in that planning to seek to improve the physical health and activity of local populations.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	158741
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2018 answer text <p>Contributions from development towards local infrastructure are collected primarily through two mechanisms, Section 106 planning obligations and the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL). Local authorities can use both mechanisms to help fund public health infrastructure.</p><p>Local planning authorities should work closely with healthcare infrastructure providers to identify infrastructure capacity and requirements over the plan period. Local planning authorities should assess the quality and capacity of infrastructure and the ability to meet forecasted demands to determine if such infrastructure is required.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 05/07/2018 15:54:54 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab previous answer version 67304 answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

928718

registered interest
date	21/06/2018
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	Derelict Land: 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 steps his Department is taking to support local authorities in Coventry that have a shortage of brownfield sites with exemptions under the proposals for the National Plan.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	156329
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2018 answer text <p>The draft revised National Planning Policy Framework promotes the effective use of land, including brownfield sites.</p><p>The Government has agreed a bespoke housing package with the West Midlands Combined Authority, which includes Coventry, that will see 215,000 homes delivered by 2030/1. Through the package we have backed the ambition of the Mayor through a Land Fund of up to £100 million to acquire and bring land forward around priority sites across the area.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 27/06/2018 16:04:29 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab previous answer version 65817 answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

927890

registered interest
date	20/06/2018
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	Social Rented 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 proportion of the homes developed on surplus public land which has been sold off as part of the Public Land for Housing Programme is social housing.
tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
tabling member printed	Matt Western
uin	155916
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2018 answer text <p>Ordnance Survey has been commissioned to monitor the progress of sites sold through both the 2011-15 and 2015-20 Public Land for Housing Programmes and is gathering information on the planned number of affordable homes, which will be made available in due course. Decisions on affordable housing provision are taken at a local level according to local need.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 26/06/2018 10:24:13 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab previous answer version 65505 answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

927914

registered interest
date	20/06/2018
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	Social Rented Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when he plans to publish regulations on local Tenancy Strategies in relation to the Housing and Planning Act 2016.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	155938
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2018 answer text <p>The Housing and Planning Act 2016 introduced changes to local authority tenancies by making it mandatory for most new council tenancies to be for a fixed term.</p><p>Regulations and statutory guidance are necessary to implement the fixed term tenancy provisions in the Housing and Planning Act and the next steps will be set out in due course.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 04/07/2018 15:59:12 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab previous answer version 65509 answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

923979

registered interest
date	14/06/2018
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: 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, how much funding his Department has allocated for the purposes of delivering new homes in Coventry in each of the last eight years.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	153736
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>The Government funds affordable housing through the Affordable Homes programme. The information requested is not available for Coventry, as we do not publish funding details at a local level.</p><p>The Affordable Homes programme as a whole received £4.5 billion of funding from 2011 - 2015, and a further £2.9 billion of funding from 2015 – 2018.</p><p>The 2016 - 2022 Shared Ownership and Affordable Homes programme received £5.7 billion of funding which includes £1 billion of commitments from the 2015 - 2018 programme. There was also an additional £1.4 billion announced at Autumn Statement 2016 and then a further £2 billion announced on 4 October 2017, which brings the total funding for 2016 - 2022 to more than £9 billion.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 25/06/2018 16:28:43 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab previous answer version 64465 answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

922298

registered interest
date	12/06/2018
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	Multiple Occupation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many houses in multiple occupation there have been in each year since 2013.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	152795
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2018 answer text <p>An estimate of houses in multiple occupation in England is publicly available in the Local Authority Housing Statistic (LAHS) return Section F Question 8 <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-housing-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-housing-data</a>.</p><p>These are estimated figures for the number of Houses in Multiple Occupation in England only, information relating to other parts of the United Kingdom is the responsibility of the relevant devolved administration.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 15/06/2018 14:46:57 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab previous answer version 63775 answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

915163

registered interest
date	01/06/2018
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	Help to Buy Scheme: Greenwich
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make an assessment of the effect on the public purse of Help to Buy equity loans being redeemed at a fraction of their original value on leasehold properties on New Capital Quay development in Greenwich whose valuation has significantly decreased because of blight resulting from cladding and insulation throughout that site failing category 3 safety tests arranged through his Department; whether his Department is taking steps to reduce the effect on the public purse of such valuations; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Greenwich and Woolwich
tabling member printed	Matthew Pennycook
uin	148983
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2018 answer text <p>Homes England have identified 29 flats where Help to Buy: Equity Loan held a share of the equity for the New Capital Quay development. Further work is ongoing to validate this information.</p><p>The Department has not made an assessment of the future valuation of such properties because it would rely on the individual situation and judgement of an independent valuer at the time the property owner decides they wish to redeem their equity loan.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 08/06/2018 13:21:43 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab previous answer version 61618 answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook

909149

registered interest
date	21/05/2018
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: North East
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much of the Homes England Home Building Fund has been spent in the North East since October 2016.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	146134
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/05/2018 answer text <p>The £3 billion Home Building Fund provides short term and long term loan finance to build the homes this country needs.</p><p>An additional £1.5 billion funding was announced in the Autumn 2017 Budget to provide loans specifically targeted at supporting SMEs who cannot access the finance they need to build.</p><p>The Home Building Fund has been a great success and since launched in October 2016 has delivered 10,747 starts and unlocked 14,704 homes.</p><p>Also since its launch, a total of £14.2 million has been contracted of which £4.9 million has been spent in the North East of England</p><p>The average Loan Amount for Contracted Schemes since October 2016 is £6.5 million and the average length of time to process loans are:</p><ul><li><p>284 days between enquiry submitted and contract date</p></li><li><p>229 days between application submitted and contract date</p></li><li><p>153 days between approval date and contract date</p></li></ul><p>The figures quoted are for both long term and short term funds, which often include complex applications involving infrastructure and site development which may take longer to assess.</p><p>Due to the different nature of the schemes supported, the time taken from submission to be approved ranged from 11 to 230 days and the time taken from approval to contract ranged from 75 to 354 days. The time taken at both stages reflects the interaction required between the agency and the borrower on each case.</p><p>There has been a large amount of interest in the funds with over 2,000 enquiries, receiving on average 25 a week since the funds launched and Homes England are working hard to speed up the application process.</p><p>In order to meet demand, Homes England has introduced a new streamlined enquiry and application process as part of their improved Service Standards and has recruited more staff to manage applications and reduce the timescales.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab grouped question UIN 146135 146136 question first answered 29/05/2018 16:56:10 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab previous answer version 60220 answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

909150

registered interest
date	21/05/2018
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 the average Homes England Home Building Fund loan amount has been since October 2016.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	146135
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/05/2018 answer text <p>The £3 billion Home Building Fund provides short term and long term loan finance to build the homes this country needs.</p><p>An additional £1.5 billion funding was announced in the Autumn 2017 Budget to provide loans specifically targeted at supporting SMEs who cannot access the finance they need to build.</p><p>The Home Building Fund has been a great success and since launched in October 2016 has delivered 10,747 starts and unlocked 14,704 homes.</p><p>Also since its launch, a total of £14.2 million has been contracted of which £4.9 million has been spent in the North East of England</p><p>The average Loan Amount for Contracted Schemes since October 2016 is £6.5 million and the average length of time to process loans are:</p><ul><li><p>284 days between enquiry submitted and contract date</p></li><li><p>229 days between application submitted and contract date</p></li><li><p>153 days between approval date and contract date</p></li></ul><p>The figures quoted are for both long term and short term funds, which often include complex applications involving infrastructure and site development which may take longer to assess.</p><p>Due to the different nature of the schemes supported, the time taken from submission to be approved ranged from 11 to 230 days and the time taken from approval to contract ranged from 75 to 354 days. The time taken at both stages reflects the interaction required between the agency and the borrower on each case.</p><p>There has been a large amount of interest in the funds with over 2,000 enquiries, receiving on average 25 a week since the funds launched and Homes England are working hard to speed up the application process.</p><p>In order to meet demand, Homes England has introduced a new streamlined enquiry and application process as part of their improved Service Standards and has recruited more staff to manage applications and reduce the timescales.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab grouped question UIN 146134 146136 question first answered 29/05/2018 16:56:10 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab previous answer version 60222 answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

909153

registered interest
date	21/05/2018
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 the average length of time has been to process loans provided by the Homes England Home Building Fund since October 2016.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	146136
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/05/2018 answer text <p>The £3 billion Home Building Fund provides short term and long term loan finance to build the homes this country needs.</p><p>An additional £1.5 billion funding was announced in the Autumn 2017 Budget to provide loans specifically targeted at supporting SMEs who cannot access the finance they need to build.</p><p>The Home Building Fund has been a great success and since launched in October 2016 has delivered 10,747 starts and unlocked 14,704 homes.</p><p>Also since its launch, a total of £14.2 million has been contracted of which £4.9 million has been spent in the North East of England</p><p>The average Loan Amount for Contracted Schemes since October 2016 is £6.5 million and the average length of time to process loans are:</p><ul><li><p>284 days between enquiry submitted and contract date</p></li><li><p>229 days between application submitted and contract date</p></li><li><p>153 days between approval date and contract date</p></li></ul><p>The figures quoted are for both long term and short term funds, which often include complex applications involving infrastructure and site development which may take longer to assess.</p><p>Due to the different nature of the schemes supported, the time taken from submission to be approved ranged from 11 to 230 days and the time taken from approval to contract ranged from 75 to 354 days. The time taken at both stages reflects the interaction required between the agency and the borrower on each case.</p><p>There has been a large amount of interest in the funds with over 2,000 enquiries, receiving on average 25 a week since the funds launched and Homes England are working hard to speed up the application process.</p><p>In order to meet demand, Homes England has introduced a new streamlined enquiry and application process as part of their improved Service Standards and has recruited more staff to manage applications and reduce the timescales.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab grouped question UIN 146134 146135 question first answered 29/05/2018 16:56:10 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab previous answer version 60224 answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones