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1246790

registered interest
date	27/10/2020
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	Allotments: Coronavirus
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the demand for allotments since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic; and what assistance they intend to provide to local authorities, including parish councils, to increase the provision of allotments.
tabling member printed	Lord Greaves
uin	HL9637
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2020 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for allotments in their area. It is for them to consider issues around local demand and supply. To support immediate and on-going pressures during the pandemic, the government has provided £4.6 billion of un-ringfenced funding to principal councils. We will continue to support local government in managing the pandemic and will keep financial support under review.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Greenhalgh question first answered 10/11/2020 14:25:51 answering member 4877 label Biography information for Lord Greenhalgh
tabling member	2569 label Biography information for Lord Greaves

1246505

registered interest
date	23/10/2020
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	Westferry Printworks: 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, what discussions he has had with his (a) advisers and (b) Departmental officials on the Westferry Printworks development since June 2020.
tabling member constituency	Poplar and Limehouse
tabling member printed	Apsana Begum
uin	108301
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2020 answer text <p>As the Secretary of State has said, he will not be involved in deciding the redetermined planning appeal and has had no discussions or meetings on the redetermination of this case. No decision has yet been made as to which Minister will decide the appeal. My officials will be writing to the parties in due course setting out the arrangements for the redetermination of the appeal.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher grouped question UIN 108204 108302 question first answered 05/11/2020 17:19:29 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4790 label Biography information for Apsana Begum

1246507

registered interest
date	23/10/2020
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	Westferry Printworks: 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, which role in his Department is leading the reconsideration of Westferry Printworks development planning proposal; and what progress has been made on that matter.
tabling member constituency	Poplar and Limehouse
tabling member printed	Apsana Begum
uin	108302
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2020 answer text <p>As the Secretary of State has said, he will not be involved in deciding the redetermined planning appeal and has had no discussions or meetings on the redetermination of this case. No decision has yet been made as to which Minister will decide the appeal. My officials will be writing to the parties in due course setting out the arrangements for the redetermination of the appeal.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher grouped question UIN 108204 108301 question first answered 05/11/2020 17:19:29 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4790 label Biography information for Apsana Begum

1246538

registered interest
date	23/10/2020
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	Evictions: Coronavirus
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 his policy is on eviction for private rental tenants in (a) Tier 1, (b) Tier 2 and (c) Tier 3 local covid-19 alert areas.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	108215
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2020 answer text <p>Bailiffs have been asked not to enforce evictions across England whilst the new, toughened national restrictions apply from 5th November. The only exceptions to this will be the most egregious cases, including cases of illegal occupation, fraud, where tenants have demonstrated anti-social behaviour or are the perpetrator of domestic abuse in social housing and where a property is unoccupied following the death of a tenant. We also intend to introduce an exemption for extreme pre-Covid rent arrears and will provide more detail in due course.</p><p>Together with the pause on evictions starting in December, this means that evictions will not be enforced in England until the 11 January at the earliest, except in the most serious circumstances. We believe this strikes the right balance between prioritising public health and supporting the most vulnerable renters, whilst ensuring landlords can access and exercise their right to justice for the most serious cases.</p><p>To further protect renters over winter, we legislated in August to increase notice periods to 6 months in all but the most serious circumstances. This means that most tenants served notice now would not be asked to leave until at least May 2021.</p><p>We have worked closely with the judiciary on new court arrangements to ensure appropriate support to all parties as the courts restart possession proceedings. These arrangements include new court rules which require landlords to set out any information they are aware of in relation to how their tenant, or any dependent of their tenant, has been affected by the coronavirus pandemic when bringing a possession claim to court. Landlords are also required to notify the court and their tenant where they wish to continue pursuing a possession claim that was already in the system before 3 August. These new arrangements apply in all courts across all tiers.</p><p>The listing of the cases is a matter for the judiciary, but they will be prioritising the most serious cases, including anti-social behaviour, domestic abuse, and extreme rent arrears. Again, this will apply across all tiers of local COVID alert areas.</p><p>Prior to the introduction of national restrictions, the Government had announced additional surge funding to support areas moving into the second alert level as well as the third. Areas moving into the Tier 2 (alert level ‘high’) will receive £3 per person, with a further £5 per person (totalling £8 per person) provided for areas moving into Tier 3 (alert level ‘very high’).</p><p>In addition to this, on Thursday 22 October the Government announced details of the further £1 billion of financial support for local authorities to support their communities through this pandemic. This further support reaffirms the Government’s continued support to councils during this unprecedented time. Over £900 million will be provided in an un-ringfenced grant in line with previous tranches of funding, recognising local authorities are best placed to decide how to meet the major COVID-19 service pressures in their local area – including supporting renters.</p><p>This brings the total funding given directly to councils during the pandemic, so far, to £6.4 billion. This includes £4.6 billion in un-ringfenced funding, £1.1 billion from the Infection Control Fund, and £300 million to support Test and Trace, as well as funding allocated to councils from the new Local Alert Level system and a number of grants to support communities and vulnerable people.</p><p>These measures build on the Government’s major economic package of support to help renters continue to meet their housing costs. This includes the Chancellor’s recent announcement to extend the Job Retention Scheme to March 2021 and over £9 billion boost to the welfare system, including an extra £1 billion to increase Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rates so that they cover the lowest 30 per cent of market rents.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 09/11/2020 17:36:20 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher previous answer version 58228 answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

1246587

registered interest
date	23/10/2020
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	Children: Social 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, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the Devolution White Paper on the provision of local authority children’s services.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	108203
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2020 answer text <p>My department works closely with the Department for Education and partners across the country to ensure local authorities have the right tools and approaches to deliver high quality children’s services. The Devolution and Local Recovery White Paper will set out government’s place-based regional economic strategy to move us from recovery into levelling up. <br> <br> Where any devolution involves proposals for local government restructuring, these should be locally led by those who best know the area; and any such proposals would need to demonstrate that the services to be delivered by new organisations, including children’s services where appropriate, would be improved.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 05/11/2020 17:49:49 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1246588

registered interest
date	23/10/2020
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	Westferry Printworks: 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, what the timescale is for his Department's re-consideration of the Westferry Printworks planning application by North and Shell.
tabling member constituency	Poplar and Limehouse
tabling member printed	Apsana Begum
uin	108204
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2020 answer text <p>As the Secretary of State has said, he will not be involved in deciding the redetermined planning appeal and has had no discussions or meetings on the redetermination of this case. No decision has yet been made as to which Minister will decide the appeal. My officials will be writing to the parties in due course setting out the arrangements for the redetermination of the appeal.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher grouped question UIN 108301 108302 question first answered 05/11/2020 17:19:29 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4790 label Biography information for Apsana Begum

1246459

registered interest
date	22/10/2020
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: Cumbria
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Invitation for Proposals for a Single Tier of Local Government issued to principal authorities in Cumbria by the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government on 9 October, what plans they have to consider proposals that cross existing county boundaries.
tabling member printed	Lord Walney
uin	HL9496
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2020 answer text <p>The Secretary of State will carefully consider any proposal for single tier local government received in response to the invitation issued on 9 October 2020 on the basis of the longstanding criteria for establishing unitary councils, namely that, if implemented, it must be likely to improve local government in the area, commands a good deal of local support overall across the area, and lead to unitary councils covering a credible geography.</p><p>The statutory Guidance accompanying the invitation states that in formulating a proposal an authority should take into account the impact of any proposed unitary authorities on other local boundaries and geographies; if the area of any proposed unitary authority crosses existing police force and fire and rescue authority boundaries, the proposal should include an assessment of what the impact would be on the police forces and/or fire and rescue authorities and include the views of the relevant Police and Crime Commissioners and Fire and Rescue Authorities.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Greenhalgh question first answered 03/11/2020 17:12:43 answering member 4877 label Biography information for Lord Greenhalgh
tabling member	3917 label Biography information for Lord Walney

1245386

registered interest
date	21/10/2020
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	Rented Housing: Coronavirus
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 support renters; and what assessment he has made of the potential merits of a (a) compulsory and (b) permanent ban on rental increases in (i) private, (ii) public and (iii) shared ownership housing after the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
tabling member printed	Duncan Baker
uin	107115
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2020 answer text <p>The Government has no plans to ban rent increases and we have put in place an unprecedented package of support to protect renters during this period.</p><p>We have legislated to increase notice periods to 6 months in all but the most serious circumstances and bailiffs have been asked not to enforce evictions across England whilst the new, toughened national restrictions apply from 5 November. The only exceptions to this will be the most egregious cases, including cases of illegal occupation, fraud, where tenants have demonstrated anti-social behaviour or are the perpetrator of domestic abuse in social housing and where a property is unoccupied following the death of a tenant. We also intend to introduce an exemption for extreme pre-Covid rent arrears and will provide more detail in due course.</p><p>Together with the pause on evictions starting in December, this means that evictions will not be enforced in England until 11 January at the earliest, except in the most serious circumstances.</p><p>These measures build on the Government’s major economic package of support to help renters continue to meet their housing costs, including the Chancellor’s recent announcement to extend the Job Retention Scheme to March 2021 .</p><p>We have also strengthened the welfare safety-net with an over £9 billion boost to the welfare system, which includes an extra £1 billion to increase Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rates so that they cover the lowest 30 per cent of market rents. For renters who require additional support, there is also an existing £180 million of Government funding for Discretionary Housing Payments made available this year, an increase of £40 million from last year, which is for councils to distribute to support renters needing additional help.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 09/11/2020 17:36:54 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher previous answer version 58222 answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4784 label Biography information for Duncan Baker