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1063599

registered interest
date	18/02/2019
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: Nottinghamshire
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 (a) Ashfield District Council and (b) Broxtowe Borough Council have received from the Homelessness Relief Fund.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	222603
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2019 answer text <p>Local authorities, including both Ashfield District Council and Broxtowe Borough Council, receive funding to prevent and relieve homelessness from my Department. This includes preventing homelessness core funding and flexible homelessness support grant funding. However, we do not operate a fund called the Homelessness Relief Fund and are therefore unable to provide the specific information you request.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 21/02/2019 13:38:43 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

1063749

registered interest
date	18/02/2019
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	Local Government: Northamptonshire
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 request the Local Government Boundary Commission for England to undertake a structural review under Sections four to six of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 as part of considerations for new local government arrangements for Northamptonshire.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	222684
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2019 answer text <p>We have recently undertaken the statutory consultation on the unitary proposal submitted by seven Northamptonshire councils, and my Right Honourable Friend, the Secretary of State, now intends as soon as practicable to decide whether, subject to Parliamentary approval, to implement that proposal. We do not therefore intend to make a request under section 4 of the 2007 Act for the Local Government Boundary Commission to advise on that proposal.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 21/02/2019 13:49:52 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

1063799

registered interest
date	18/02/2019
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	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 dwellings in planning class C3 have been converted to houses of multiple occupancy class C4 without a planning application since the change to regulations on 1 October 2010.
tabling member constituency	Ipswich
tabling member printed	Sandy Martin
uin	222734
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government has no plans to remove the permitted development rights that allow for change of use between class C(3) dwelling houses and a class C(4) houses in multiple occupation. We do not hold data on the number of dwelling houses that have converted to houses in multiple occupation since 1 October 2010. Paragraph 53 of the National Planning Policy Framework confirms that the use of Article 4 directions to remove national permitted development rights should be limited to situations where it is necessary to protect local amenity or the well-being of the area.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 222740 222744 question first answered 21/02/2019 13:39:29 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4678 label Biography information for Sandy Martin

1063800

registered interest
date	18/02/2019
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	Local Government Finance: South Yorkshire
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 6 February 2019 to Question 215579, by what process those funds were allocated.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	222735
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2019 answer text <p>The funding referred to is part of a £40 million allocation of funding to increase local authorities’ capacity to plan and prepare for Brexit, split between 2018/19 and 2019/20. The funds were allocated on a flat rate basis such that every upper tier authority, lower tier authority and combined authority received the same amount. Unitary authorities received the sum of the upper and lower tier allocations. Funding was split evenly between the two years.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 21/02/2019 13:50:23 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1063805

registered interest
date	18/02/2019
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	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, whether his Department has any plans to revert to the regulatory regime for planning consent for small houses of multiple occupancy that pertained from 6 April 2010 to 30 September 2010.
tabling member constituency	Ipswich
tabling member printed	Sandy Martin
uin	222740
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government has no plans to remove the permitted development rights that allow for change of use between class C(3) dwelling houses and a class C(4) houses in multiple occupation. We do not hold data on the number of dwelling houses that have converted to houses in multiple occupation since 1 October 2010. Paragraph 53 of the National Planning Policy Framework confirms that the use of Article 4 directions to remove national permitted development rights should be limited to situations where it is necessary to protect local amenity or the well-being of the area.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 222734 222744 question first answered 21/02/2019 13:39:29 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4678 label Biography information for Sandy Martin

1063809

registered interest
date	18/02/2019
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	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, whether he plans to enable and encourage local authorities to adopt article 4 directions in respect of houses of multiple occupation by making that process more efficient.
tabling member constituency	Ipswich
tabling member printed	Sandy Martin
uin	222744
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government has no plans to remove the permitted development rights that allow for change of use between class C(3) dwelling houses and a class C(4) houses in multiple occupation. We do not hold data on the number of dwelling houses that have converted to houses in multiple occupation since 1 October 2010. Paragraph 53 of the National Planning Policy Framework confirms that the use of Article 4 directions to remove national permitted development rights should be limited to situations where it is necessary to protect local amenity or the well-being of the area.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 222734 222740 question first answered 21/02/2019 13:39:29 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4678 label Biography information for Sandy Martin

1062033

registered interest
date	15/02/2019
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	Devolution: Yorkshire and the Humber
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 his letter to the Mayor of the Sheffield City Region of 12 February 2019, if he will publish the Government’s devolution criteria.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	222008
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2019 answer text <p>I refer the Hon Member to my answer of 19 February 2019 to his Question UIN221735 which set out our criteria for devolution. These criteria were described in the Department’s written evidence to the Communities and Local Government Committee which was published on the inquiry page of the Committee’s web site along with its report “Devolution: the next five years and beyond. First Report of Session 2015-16” (HC 369).</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 20/02/2019 13:50:46 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1062095

registered interest
date	15/02/2019
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: Students
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 he has made of the effect on local authority finances of student accommodation being exempt from council tax and business rates.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	222032
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2019 answer text <p>The Local Government Finance Settlement takes into account the impact of student exemptions on local authorities’ income in its funding distribution methodology. The way we allocate funding in future – including how to account for differences in ability to raise local taxes - is being considered by the review of relative needs and resources.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 20/02/2019 13:46:23 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1061036

registered interest
date	14/02/2019
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	Tenancy Deposit Schemes: Small Businesses
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 of the introduction of a tenancy deposit scheme for small and medium-sized enterprises and their landlords on trends in the level of legal cases in relation to rent brought before the courts.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	221794
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2019 answer text <p>The Department does not hold the information requested, as the terms on whether, and how much, deposit will be paid by the tenants of a commercial property is agreed by the landlord and tenant on an individual basis and this information is not reported centrally.</p><p>This information should be included within the commercial lease agreement agreed by both the landlord and the tenant. It is considered to be best practice to include a rent deposit deed, which sets out how a landlord secures a commercial tenant's deposit.</p><p>We do not currently have any plans to require the use of a tenancy deposit scheme for commercial tenancies.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler grouped question UIN 221795 221796 question first answered 20/02/2019 14:03:09 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1061038

registered interest
date	14/02/2019
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	Tenancy Deposit Schemes: Small Businesses
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 he has made of the potential merits of introducing a tenancy deposit scheme for small and medium-sized enterprises to assist the financial security of those businesses.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	221795
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2019 answer text <p>The Department does not hold the information requested, as the terms on whether, and how much, deposit will be paid by the tenants of a commercial property is agreed by the landlord and tenant on an individual basis and this information is not reported centrally.</p><p>This information should be included within the commercial lease agreement agreed by both the landlord and the tenant. It is considered to be best practice to include a rent deposit deed, which sets out how a landlord secures a commercial tenant's deposit.</p><p>We do not currently have any plans to require the use of a tenancy deposit scheme for commercial tenancies.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler grouped question UIN 221794 221796 question first answered 20/02/2019 14:03:09 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan