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882298

registered interest
date	13/04/2018
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	Affordable 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, what recent steps his Department has taken to ensure that developers meet their quotas for affordable housing.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	135430
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2018 answer text <p>In March, the Government published a draft revised National Planning Policy Framework for consultation which sets out a new approach to viability. The approach will create more certainty about the contributions developers are expected to make towards affordable housing.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 19/04/2018 14:38:34 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

882785

registered interest
date	13/04/2018
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	Affordable 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, what steps his Department is taking to close legal loopholes that allow housing developers to avoid meeting quotas on affordable housing.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	135843
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2018 answer text <p>In March, the Government published a draft revised National Planning Policy Framework for consultation which sets out a new approach to viability. Our proposals place greater focus on viability assessments at the plan making rather than planning application stage, ensuring that local plans set clearer policy requirements for affordable housing. The proposed changes will also enable communities to hold developers to account by setting an expectation that all viability assessments should be publicly available.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 18/04/2018 10:22:50 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

861030

registered interest
date	13/03/2018
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	Wind Power: Planning Permission
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 to the Written Statement of 18 June 2015, HCWS42, on local planning, whether the Government plans to remove those additional planning conditions which apply on onshore wind projects in England.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	132179
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2018 answer text <p>The written ministerial statement of 18 June 2015 HCWS42 on Local Planning, has been incorporated into the draft revised National Planning Policy Framework which was published on 5 March 2018. Consultation on this and other revisions to the Framework is underway, closing on 10 May 2018 (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/draft-revised-national-planning-policy-framework" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/draft-revised-national-planning-policy-framework</a>).The Government will consider all responses and publish the revised Framework in the summer.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 22/03/2018 11:33:52 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

861033

registered interest
date	13/03/2018
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: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, for what reasons his Department returned £817m of housing funding to HM Treasury; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	132182
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2018 answer text <p>In line with standard practice where funding cannot be spent, within a financial year, it is returned to the Treasury. This is part of good budget management within the Department, and in line with established processes. Underspends are not unusual. For comparison, in 2009-10, the Department underspent by £504 million in total.</p><p>Overall, funding for housing has been substantially increased, with an additional £15.3 billion of investment in housing over the next 5 years. This includes an extra £2 billion for Affordable Housing, taking the programme to £9 billion. In 2017/18, we have also invested an additional £1.5 billion in our Help to Buy scheme, supporting thousands of first time buyers to move into their first home. We will be investing over £10 billion in that programme in the next 3 years.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 22/03/2018 11:39:26 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab previous answer version 47921 answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler answering member 4053
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

845506

registered interest
date	20/02/2018
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 steps his Department is taking to support local authorities in building more social housing.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	128478
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2018 answer text <p>In October 2017, we announced plans to set a longer term rent deal for local authorities, which will provide a stable financial environment for them to support the delivery of new homes. This gives local authorities the security and certainty they need to plan investment, and provides greater confidence about their future rental income to underpin their future house building plans.</p><p>At Autumn Budget 2017 the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced that we will raise the Housing Revenue Account borrowing cap by a total of up to £1 billion in areas of high affordability pressure for local authorities that are ready to start building new homes. Local authorities will be able to bid for increases in their caps from 2019/20, up to a total of £1 billion by the end of 2021/22.</p><p>Local authorities, as well as housing associations, will also be able to bid for funding from the £9 billion Affordable Homes Programme to deliver more affordable homes, including at a social rent. Funding for social rent will be targeted at areas with acute affordability pressures.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 28/02/2018 11:38:18 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

843770

registered interest
date	19/02/2018
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 plans his Department has to encourage the use of quick build, flat pack homes for social and affordable housing.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	128208
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2018 answer text <p>I refer the Hon Member to the answer to Question UIN 124260 on 29 January 2018.</p><p>In addition to the measures set out in that answer, we specifically encourage use of modern and innovative methods of construction through the Affordable Homes Programme 2016-21. This includes offsite construction and we expect to fund an increasing number of bids using either partial or fully offsite or innovative methods of construction within the Programme.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 27/02/2018 17:43:56 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

820920

registered interest
date	11/01/2018
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	Letting Agents: Fees and Charges
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 timetable is for the introduction of the draft Tenant Fees Bill into the House.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	122338
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2018 answer text <p>On 1 November 2017, the Government published a draft Bill, proposing a ban on letting agent fees for tenants. The draft Bill and explanatory notes can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/draft-tenants-fees-bill" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/draft-tenants-fees-bill</a></p><p><br>The Communities and Local Government Select Committee are conducting an inquiry into the draft Bill. The Government will consider any recommendations of the Committee and then seek to introduce the Bill formally to Parliament as soon as Parliamentary time allows.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 16/01/2018 10:38:56 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel