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1249455

registered interest
date	09/11/2020
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, with reference to the oral contribution of the Lord Privy Seal on 3 November 2020, Official Report, Column HL683, what plans he has to set out in detail what steps the Government plans to to protect renters facing hardship from eviction, and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	113139
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2020 answer text <p>The Government has established an unprecedented package of support throughout the COVID-19 pandemic to support renters to sustain tenancies and continue paying rent. This includes a range of support for businesses to pay staff salaries, including through the furlough scheme which has now been extended to March 2021. We have also strengthened the welfare safety-net with 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. For those renters who require additional support, there is an existing £180 million of Government funding for Discretionary Housing Payments made available this year, an increase of £40 million from last year and which is for councils to distribute to support renters with housing costs.</p><p>In addition, bailiffs have been asked not to enforce evictions across England whilst the new, 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.</p><p>Together with the pause on enforcement of evictions over the Christmas period, this means bailiffs have been asked not to enforce evictions in England until the 11 January at the earliest, except in the most serious circumstances.</p><p>This builds on protections from legislation introduced in August to increase notice periods to 6 months in all but the most serious circumstances, meaning that most tenants served notice now cannot be legally evicted before at least May 2021.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 12/11/2020 15:47:22 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

1249492

registered interest
date	09/11/2020
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	Sleeping Rough: 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, when the Cold Weather Fund to support councils get rough sleepers off the streets will be available; and how that funding will be distributed in London.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	113121
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2020 answer text <p>The Government recently announced a new £10 million Cold Weather Fund to support councils in helping rough sleepers off the streets during the winter by assisting them in providing more self-contained accommodation. We have written to local authorities to set out how they can access the Cold Weather Fund. Applications should be made by 4 December. <br> <br> We have also announced a £15 million Protect Programme to support the ongoing efforts to provide accommodation for rough sleepers during the coming winter months. This programme will help areas that need additional support most during the restrictions and throughout this period. London is one of the areas to receive support under the Protect Programme. <br> <br> This is alongside an additional £2 million for faith and community groups to help them provide COVID-19 secure winter accommodation for rough sleepers, and comprehensive guidance to the sector, produced with Public Health England, Homeless Link and Housing Justice to help shelters open more safely, where not doing so would endanger lives.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 12/11/2020 16:21:54 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

1249574

registered interest
date	09/11/2020
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	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, if he will reassess the potential merits of making sustainable drainage systems compulsory in new housing developments at risk from flooding.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	113197
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2020 answer text <p>The National Planning Policy Framework sets out that inappropriate development in areas at risk of flooding should be avoided and directed away from areas at highest risk. If new homes are necessary in a flood risk area, and no suitable sites at lower risk are available, the local authority should ensure that the development will be safe and will not increase flood risk elsewhere, and include sustainable drainage systems where appropriate.</p><p>Additionally, developers must comply with the Building Regulations which give priority to sustainable drainage systems in their hierarchy of arrangements for dealing with rainwater draining from roofs and paving giving access to the building.</p><p>We are reviewing our policy for building in areas at flood risk. This will seek to ensure that communities across the country know that future development will be safe from floods. We will assess whether current protections in the National Planning Policy Framework are enough and consider options for further reform.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 12/11/2020 15:47:48 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1249576

registered interest
date	09/11/2020
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	Landlords: 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 steps he is taking to support landlords who rely on income from less than three rental properties during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	South Northamptonshire
tabling member printed	Andrea Leadsom
uin	113089
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2020 answer text <p>The Government is supporting landlords by helping tenants to pay their rent and has brought forward a significant economic response, including support for businesses to pay staff salaries through the furlough scheme, which has been extended to March.</p><p>As made clear in our COVID renting guidance to tenants and landlords, tenants who are able to pay rent must continue to do so. Where landlords find themselves in coronavirus-related hardship, mortgage lenders have agreed to offer payment holidays of up to six months, with applications now open until 31 January 2021.</p><p>Housing possession claims can be actioned through the courts and we have worked with the judiciary to introduce new court arrangements to ensure appropriate protection for all parties</p><p>While we have asked bailiffs not to carry out evictions during the national restrictions in England (from 5 November), there will be a number of serious circumstances which will be exempt. This we hope can serve as reassurance to landlords. These serious circumstances are cases of illegal occupation, anti-social behaviour, fraud, eviction of a 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. Together with the pause on enforcement of evictions over the Christmas period, this means bailiffs have been asked not to enforce evictions in England until the 11 January at the earliest, except in the most serious circumstances.</p><p>The Government believes 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> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 12/11/2020 15:46:06 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom

1249620

registered interest
date	09/11/2020
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	Homelessness: Pregnancy
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 estimate he has made of the number of pregnant women who are homeless in (a) Coventry, (b) the West Midlands and (c) England.
tabling member constituency	Coventry North East
tabling member printed	Colleen Fletcher
uin	113124
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2020 answer text <p>In the quarter April – June 2020, national homelessness data shows that, of households assessed as unintentionally homeless and owed a main duty by priority need, the following numbers of households included a pregnant woman:</p><p>1. 10 in Coventry</p><p>2. 60 in the West Midlands</p><p>3. 480 in England</p><p>The Homelessness Reduction Act, the most ambitious reform to homelessness legislation in decades, came into force in April 2018. It means that local authorities and other public bodies must work together to actively prevent homelessness for people at risk. Local authorities must do so irrespective of whether they are a family or single person, the reason they are at risk, or if they have a local connection to the area.</p><p>Pregnant women are in priority need for housing assistance. This means that if a local authority is satisfied that a household which includes a pregnant woman has become homeless through no fault of their own and are eligible for assistance, they have a duty to place them into accommodation.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 12/11/2020 16:33:05 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4378 label Biography information for Colleen Fletcher

1249621

registered interest
date	09/11/2020
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	Temporary Accommodation: Children
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 families with children were housed in temporary accommodation for more than (a) six months, (b) one year and (c) two years in (i) Coventry, (ii) the West Midlands and (iii) England in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Coventry North East
tabling member printed	Colleen Fletcher
uin	113125
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2020 answer text <p>The Department does not currently publish information on the duration of households in temporary accommodation.</p><p>Related published statistics can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistical-data-sets%2Flive-tables-on-homelessness&amp;data=04%7C01%7CParliamentary%40communities.gov.uk%7Ca0e4f1e5e6a246250da808d88724f45a%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637407940066616432%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=Lshe4M0lPxBTlSzv6ErwSKegh8VKbc8TtgLUfjt7FGg%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 12/11/2020 16:33:24 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4378 label Biography information for Colleen Fletcher

1250030

registered interest
date	06/11/2020
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	Coronavirus: Disease Control
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 5 November 2020 to Question 110236, how much additional funding his Department will provide for local authorities per clinically vulnerable person in their council area for the duration of the November 2020 covid-19 lockdown in England.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	91921
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2020 answer text <p>Council tax data on the number of empty properties and second homes for council tax purposes as at October 2020 have been published today (Wednesday 11 November). Figures for England can be found in the statistical release and for Coventry within the local authority level tables. The release and tables can be found at the following link <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fcollections%2Fcouncil-taxbase-statistics&amp;data=04%7C01%7CParliamentary%40communities.gov.uk%7C4bce456e62c54b8070a508d8865d771f%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637407083265047925%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=1NYOdS5Z2zCpp8MoIM5SuPXaWJA2%2BdwcyjBFnAEUbUw%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/council-taxbase-statistics</a> . <br> <br> Regional data are not published but can be aggregated from the local authority level table published.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 11/11/2020 16:45:10 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1250037

registered interest
date	06/11/2020
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	Empty Property and Second Homes: Council Tax
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 estimate he has made of the (a) number and (b) proportion of houses in (i) Coventry, (ii) the West Midlands and (iii) England that are marked as (A) empty and (B) a second home for Council Tax purposes.
tabling member constituency	Coventry North East
tabling member printed	Colleen Fletcher
uin	91891
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2020 answer text <p>Council tax data on the number of empty properties and second homes for council tax purposes as at October 2020 have been published today (Wednesday 11 November). Figures for England can be found in the statistical release and for Coventry within the local authority level tables. The release and tables can be found at the following link <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/council-taxbase-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/council-taxbase-statistics</a> . <br> <br> Regional data are not published but can be aggregated from the local authority level table published.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 11/11/2020 16:45:26 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4378 label Biography information for Colleen Fletcher

1249294

registered interest
date	05/11/2020
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	Coronavirus: Disease Control
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 it his policy to account for population age in the Covid-19 Relative Needs Formula.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	112036
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2020 answer text <p>When developing the Covid-19 Relative Needs Formula, the Government used data provided by councils themselves through monitoring returns. We used this data to test potential drivers of this reported covid-related expenditure. Total population and deprivation, as well as a consideration of how costs of delivery vary across the country, were found to have a good statistical fit with this data.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 10/11/2020 17:14:34 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1249322

registered interest
date	05/11/2020
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	Employment: 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 financial support the Government plans to provide in addition to statutory sick pay to ensure that (a) people with cystic fibrosis and (b) other clinically extremely vulnerable people can access essential (i) items and (ii) services for themselves and their families during the covid-19 lockdown.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	112017
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2020 answer text <p>MHCLG is providing councils with over £32 million to support Clinically Extremely Vulnerable (CEV) people for the 28-day period that the additional guidance is in place. It is designed to give councils flexibility in providing appropriate support to CEV individuals, such as access to food and to local support services, enabling them to stay as safe as possible over this period. The Government has extended the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (furlough) until March, which CEV individuals may be eligible for. CEV employees may also be able to get help through the Access to Work scheme. Those who cannot work from home may be eligible for Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) or Employment Support Allowance (ESA), as well as Universal Credit (UC).</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 10/11/2020 17:36:21 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma