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1135009

registered interest
date	26/06/2019
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	Leasehold: Reform
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 timeline is for the proposed leasehold reform as set out in the Written Statement entitled Housing Policy Update, published on 2 July 2018, HCWS818.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	269822
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to promoting fairness and transparency for leaseholders and freeholders and ensuring that consumers are protected from abuse and poor service. On 27 June, we published the Government response to the technical consultation <em>Implementing reforms to the leasehold system in England</em>.</p><p>We have confirmed our commitment to legislate to ensure that in future all new houses will be sold on a freehold basis, with specific exemptions for exceptional circumstances, and to reduce ground rents on future leases to a peppercorn (zero financial value).</p><p>We will also give freeholders on private and mixed-use estates the right to challenge the reasonableness of estate rent charges and the right to apply to the First-tier Tribunal to appoint a new property manager. In addition, we will mandate that freeholders and managing agents must provide leasehold information – when a home is being sold – within 15 days and set the maximum fee for providing this information at £200 (plus VAT).</p><p>We will bring forward the legislation to implement these changes as soon as Parliamentary time allows.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 01/07/2019 15:06:38 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1134493

registered interest
date	25/06/2019
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: 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 steps he has taken to reduce the (a) level and (b) risk of homelessness among young people.
tabling member constituency	Luton South
tabling member printed	Mr Gavin Shuker
uin	269037
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to reducing homelessness and rough sleeping, including for young people. The Homelessness Reduction Act came into force last year. It placed new duties on local housing authorities to take reasonable steps to try to prevent and relieve a person’s homelessness irrespective of whether a person has ‘priority need’ or may be regarded as being ‘intentionally homeless’, which of course includes young people. Last year we also updated guidance on the ‘Prevention of homelessness and provision of accommodation for 16 and 17-year-old young people who may be homeless and/or require accommodation’ setting out the respective duties of children’s services and housing services. <br> <br> The Government has now committed over £1.2 billion to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping over the spending review period. 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 Rough Sleeping Strategy committed to creating a new social impact bond, the Young Futures Fund. This builds on the success of the Fair Chances Fund which ran from 2015-2017 and rehoused 1657 18-24 year old's who were or at risk of homelessness.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 01/07/2019 14:57:47 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	4013 label Biography information for Mr Gavin Shuker

1134565

registered interest
date	25/06/2019
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	Temporary Accommodation
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 people living temporarily on license agreements in privately-owned (a) bed and breakfast accommodation, (b) hostels, (c) short-stay house in multiple occupation and (d) guesthouses were placed by local authorities in discharge of a statutory homelessness duty.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	268956
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2019 answer text <p>In October to December 2018 there were a) 6,980 households in bed and breakfast hotels (including shared annexes), of which 2,420 households contained children and b) 5,740 households in hostels (including reception centres, emergency units and refuges) in England.</p><p>The figures provided are for all people who are owed a statutory homelessness duty by a local authority. They include people in temporary accommodation under assessment, who are owed the main rehousing duty, and who are accommodated for a short period to allow them to source alternative accommodation</p><p><br>These figures are taken from an experimental statistical release and caution should be taken when using the data. Further information is provided in the release available at this link <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statutory-homelessness-in-england-october-to-december-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statutory-homelessness-in-england-october-to-december-2018</a>.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 01/07/2019 15:05:29 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1134145

registered interest
date	24/06/2019
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 17 June 2019 to Question 262396 on Buildings: Insulation, what steps his Department took after learning of the failed BS 8414 test of high pressure laminate cladding with combustible insulation.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	268567
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2019 answer text <p>The failed BS 8414 test was one of the factors that the Expert Panel and the Department took into account when revising Advice note 14 in December 2018 as well as carrying further tests on High Pressure Laminate panels.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 27/06/2019 16:32:49 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1134149

registered interest
date	24/06/2019
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 to the statement by his Department in the newspaper article entitled, Labour blasts government for not acting on potential deathtraps after Grenfell, published on 21 June 2019, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that there are no buildings with a combination of (a) High Pressure Laminate, (b) aluminium composite material cladding and insulation.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	268571
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2019 answer text <p>We issued unambiguous advice to building owners over 18 months ago to reinforce existing building safety requirements which state only materials which are of limited combustibility or have passed a BS 8414 test should be used on buildings. <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/765761/Expert_Panel_advice_note_on_non-ACM.pdf" 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></p><p><br> Building owners should reassure themselves that any cladding used on their buildings is of limited combustibility or has passed a BS 8414 test. If not, building owners should take action to make the building safe.</p><p><br> The large scale (BS 8414) test referred to in the article was commissioned by a third party. The details of the test are commercially confidential. The Department is not party to the detail of the class of High Pressure Laminate (HPL) or type of system tested. <br> <br> The Department has commissioned a full-scale BS 8414 test on HPL panels with non-combustible insulation. When the results are available they will inform whether any additional action is necessary over and above the advice already issued.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 268575 question first answered 27/06/2019 16:33:19 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1134158

registered interest
date	24/06/2019
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: 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 to the statement by his Department in the newspaper article entitled, Labour blasts government for not acting on potential deathtraps after Grenfell, published on 21 June 2019, whether he will be mandating the remediation of the combination of cladding and insulation on (a) social and (b) privately owned housing.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	268575
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2019 answer text <p>We issued unambiguous advice to building owners over 18 months ago to reinforce existing building safety requirements which state only materials which are of limited combustibility or have passed a BS 8414 test should be used on buildings. <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/765761/Expert_Panel_advice_note_on_non-ACM.pdf" 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></p><p><br> Building owners should reassure themselves that any cladding used on their buildings is of limited combustibility or has passed a BS 8414 test. If not, building owners should take action to make the building safe.</p><p><br> The large scale (BS 8414) test referred to in the article was commissioned by a third party. The details of the test are commercially confidential. The Department is not party to the detail of the class of High Pressure Laminate (HPL) or type of system tested. <br> <br> The Department has commissioned a full-scale BS 8414 test on HPL panels with non-combustible insulation. When the results are available they will inform whether any additional action is necessary over and above the advice already issued.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 268571 question first answered 27/06/2019 16:33:19 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1134217

registered interest
date	24/06/2019
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
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 accuracy of the finding, reported in the Guardian on 17 June 2019, that the number of homeless camps forcibly removed by local authorities across the UK has risen from 72 in 2014 to 254 in 2018; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	268596
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2019 answer text <p>The Ministry of Housing, Commnunities and Local Government does not collect any statistics on the number of homeless camps who have been forcibly removed by local authorities.</p><p>The Guardian article on 17 June 2019 says the estimate is based on a Freedom of Information request to all councils in the UK about how many homeless encampments they had cleared since 2014, how many complaints about encampments they had received and details on charges for confiscated tents and possessions. The article says ‘an encampment was defined as a location where one or more homeless people were living in the area in private or public land’. 336 local authorities out of total of 408 in the UK provided a response. No further details about the overall quality and robustness of these statistics is provided so we are unable to make an assessment of the accuracy of these findings.</p><p>The Guardian article is available at the following link: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jun/17/removal-of-homeless-camps-trebles-as-charities-warn-of-out-of-control-crisis" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jun/17/removal-of-homeless-camps-trebles-as-charities-warn-of-out-of-control-crisis</a></p><p>These statistics do not adhere to same rigour as government statistics. The Rough Sleeping Statistics, published on 31 January 2019, which are produced in compliance with the UK Statistics Authority’s Code of Practice for Statistics, include people sleeping rough in makeshift camps but no separate figures about the types of sites where people are sleeping rough are recorded or whether they have been forcibly removed by local authorities.</p><p>These statistics show the total number of people counted or estimated to be sleeping rough in each local authority area in England, on a single night in Autumn 2018 was 4,677. This was down by 74 people or 2 per cent from the 2017 total of 4,751 and was up 2,909 people or 165 per cent from the 2010 total of 1,768. Local authorities use a specific definition to identify people sleeping rough. This includes people sleeping or who are about to bed down in open air locations and other places including tents, cars, and makeshift shelters. The full definition of people sleeping rough is as follows:</p><p><em>People sleeping, about to bed down (sitting on/in or standing next to their bedding) or actually bedded down in the open air (such as on the streets, in tents, doorways, parks, bus shelters or encampments). People in buildings or other places not designed for habitation (such as stairwells, barns, sheds, car parks, cars, derelict boats, stations, or “bashes” which are makeshift shelters, often comprised of cardboard boxes). The definition does not include people in hostels or shelters, people in campsites or other sites used for recreational purposes or organised protest, squatters or travellers. Bedded down is taken to mean either lying down or sleeping. About to bed down includes those who are sitting in/on or near a sleeping bag or other bedding.</em></p><p><br>These statistics are available at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/rough-sleeping-in-england-autumn-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/rough-sleeping-in-england-autumn-2018</a>.</p><p>This 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 which 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. This year, Rough Sleeping Initiative investment totals £46 million and has been allocated to 246 areas – providing funding for an estimated 750 additional staff and over 2,600 bed spaces.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 01/07/2019 14:56:03 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1134218

registered interest
date	24/06/2019
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
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 guidance his Department has issued to local authorities on the forcible removal of camps containing homeless people.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	268597
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2019 answer text <p>The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government does not issue guidance on the removal of tents containing homeless people. Each local authority, together with the police, will make their own plans and decisions about how to best support rough sleepers and ensure their safety in their own area, based on local circumstances. This can include the removal of encampments, alongside support. Encampments can present serious safety risks for the people living in encampments and it is right that local authorities, who know their area best, have the powers they need to respond. A summary of the powers that public bodies have to help them deal with illegal and unauthorised sites, published in 2015, is available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dealing-with-illegal-and-unauthorised-encampments" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dealing-with-illegal-and-unauthorised-encampments</a></p><p>Where local areas are taking action to remove encampments, we are clear that this needs to go hand-in-hand with considering how to support the people residing in them away from rough sleeping. Safeguards are in place to ensure powers are used appropriately. For example, for Public Space Protection Orders councils must consult with the police and relevant community representatives before making the order, and before the order is made councils must also publish the draft order. The Government guidance on Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act is available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/anti-social-behaviour-crime-and-policing-bill-anti-social-behaviour" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/anti-social-behaviour-crime-and-policing-bill-anti-social-behaviour</a></p><p>This 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 which 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. This year, Rough Sleeping Initiative investment totals £46 million and has been allocated to 246 areas – providing funding for an estimated 750 additional staff and over 2,600 bed spaces.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 01/07/2019 14:49:39 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1134245

registered interest
date	24/06/2019
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
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 list the 10 local authorities with the greatest real terms reduction in central government funding since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	268408
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2019 answer text <p>Due to changes in the finance and function of local government, there is no consistent measure of central government funding since 2010. The Department’s preferred measure of local government funding is Core Spending Power. Core Spending power is comparable over the period 2015-16 to 2019-20 and published in cash terms on the Department's website:<br> <br> <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/core-spending-power-final-local-government-finance-settlement-2019-to-2020" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/core-spending-power-final-local-government-finance-settlement-2019-to-2020</a> <br> <br> The 10 local authorities with the greatest reduction in Core Spending Power over the period 2015-16 to 2019-20 are listed below:</p><p> </p><p>Basingstoke and Deane</p><p>Brentwood</p><p>East Cambridgeshire</p><p>Epsom and Ewell</p><p>Forest Heath</p><p>Gedling</p><p>Huntingdonshire</p><p>North Dorset</p><p>St Albans</p><p>Watford</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 27/06/2019 09:43:18 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1134284

registered interest
date	24/06/2019
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	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, whether his Department plans to publish a social housing White Paper.
tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
tabling member printed	Matt Western
uin	268636
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2019 answer text <p>There are no plans for a White Paper. The consultation on the Green Paper, ‘A new deal for social housing’, closed on 6 November 2018. We received a large number of responses, along with feedback from eight engagement events held with social housing residents around the country. We are currently assessing the responses and finalising our response.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 27/06/2019 16:32:32 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western