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753354

registered interest
date	18/07/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Construction: Regulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans he has to enforce the Construction Products Regulation EU 305/2011.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	5704
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2017 answer text <p>The European Construction Products Regulation (EU 305/2011) is enforced under the UK Construction Products Regulation 2013 (SI 2013/1387).</p><p>Compliance monitoring and enforcement duties fall to local authorities’ Weights and Measures (Trading Standards) in England, Scotland and Wales and District Councils in Northern Ireland.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 26/07/2017 11:31:59 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

753395

registered interest
date	18/07/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	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 Communities and Local Government, on which date he plans to publish the findings of the consultation, entitled Banning letting agent fees paid by tenants, published on 7 April 2017.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	5669
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government's eight week consultation on banning letting fees paid by tenants closed on 2 June. Over 4,700 responses were received, which are being analysed. The Government will publish its response in due course once all the data and responses have been considered.</p><p>The Government recently announced in the Queen’s Speech its intention to publish a draft Bill to ban letting fees paid by tenants in England. A ban will help to deliver a more competitive, more affordable and more transparent lettings market. The approach taken in the draft Bill will be informed by the consultation responses.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 24/07/2017 15:58:53 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

753397

registered interest
date	18/07/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Private Rented Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to improve the mechanisms of support for people facing hardship while renting in the private sector.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	5656
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2017 answer text <p>Government spends around £24 billion a year on housing benefit to support people with their housing costs. Government is also providing local authorities with over £800 million in Discretionary Housing Payments funding between 2016 and 2021 to help support vulnerable claimants.</p><p>In addition, 30 per cent of potential savings from the Local Housing Allowance freeze will be used to create further Targeted Affordability Funding from 2017 to help tenants in those areas where local housing allowance rates have diverged the most from local rents.</p><p>The key to improving affordability in the private rented sector across England is to build more homes. Our Housing White Paper, published in February, included measures to deliver more homes and reform the housing market. A copy is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/fixing-our-broken-housing-market" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/fixing-our-broken-housing-market</a></p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 24/07/2017 16:02:51 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

753398

registered interest
date	18/07/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Letting Agents
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if his Department will make it mandatory for letting agents to (a) display details of the Tenancy Deposit Scheme used for each property and (b) be a member of a client money protection scheme.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	5657
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2017 answer text <p>Letting agents are required, under the transparency requirements in the Consumer Rights Act 2015, to publicise prominently in their offices and on their website, a full tariff of their fees, whether they are a member of a client money protection scheme and of which redress scheme they are a member.</p><p>Landlords, or letting agents acting on their behalf, are required to protect a tenant’s deposit in a Government authorised tenancy deposit protection scheme and to provide the tenant with the details of the scheme under which their deposit has been protected.</p><p>Baroness Hayter and Lord Palmer of Childs Hill carried out a review of Client Money Protection earlier this year. The Government published the report in March 2017 and announced its intention to accept the working group’s recommendation to make Client Money Protection mandatory.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 24/07/2017 15:59:54 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

753399

registered interest
date	18/07/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Fires: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if the Grenfell public enquiry will give due regard to the needs of disabled people and make recommendations on their protection and means of escape in case of fire.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	5745
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2017 answer text <p>Before the public inquiry starts, the inquiry Chair will consult all those with an interest, including survivors and victims’ families, about the terms of reference. Following that consultation the Chair will make a recommendation to the Prime Minister, who will return to Parliament with the final terms of reference for the inquiry once this process has taken place. Matters of procedure and conduct for the inquiry are for the Chair to determine.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 24/07/2017 16:01:00 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

753401

registered interest
date	18/07/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Forests and Trees: Conservation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether the Government response to the Housing White Paper will consider ancient woodland and veteran trees.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	5744
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2017 answer text <p>We are currently analysing responses to the public consultation on the Housing White Paper, which included proposals to strengthen the protections afforded to ancient woodland and aged or veteran trees when preparing plans or making decisions on planning applications. This change to national planning policy would place these irreplaceable habitats alongside other policies, such as Sites of Special Scientific Interest, Green Belt, National Parks and designated heritage assets.</p><p /> <p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 24/07/2017 16:01:49 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

753404

registered interest
date	18/07/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Department for Communities and Local Government: Welsh Language
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which of his Department's online services are only available in the Welsh language on request.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	5890
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring that the needs of Welsh language speakers are recognised and met, in accordance with the requirements of departmental Welsh Language Schemes.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 26/07/2017 16:02:21 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

753673

registered interest
date	18/07/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Department for Communities and Local Government: European Union (Withdrawal) Bill
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate his Department has made of the potential number of Acts or parts of Acts that will be subject to repeal as a result of provisions in the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	5988
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2017 answer text <p>Government departments have been analysing the UK statute book and directly applicable EU law in areas of responsibility to enable an assessment of the scale of the changes needed. This is likely to include the repeal, but also the amendment, of provisions in Acts but we are not in a position to give a sense of scale at this time. <br> <br> In the Government White Paper on the Repeal Bill, published on 30 March 2017, we estimated around 800-1,000 EU-exit Statutory Instruments will be required.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 26/07/2017 10:54:44 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

752516

registered interest
date	17/07/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Buildings: Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what advice he has sought from Local Resilience Forums on ensuring building safety following the Grenfell Tower fire.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	5242
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2017 answer text <p>Since the Grenfell Tower fire the Department has worked in partnership with multiple agencies. Officials have continued to support local resilience forums and have participated in meetings with key emergency planning stakeholders.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 24/07/2017 15:57:51 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

752544

registered interest
date	17/07/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Department for Communities and Local Government: Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what amount of his Department's annual expenditure is allocated to work relating to the UK's exit from the EU.
tabling member constituency	Arfon
tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
uin	5373
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2017 answer text <p>The Department for Communities and Local Government is working with the Department for Exiting the EU to support the UK's exit from the EU. Given the interactions between EU exit work and the Department's other priorities, it would not be possible to give a precise figure on the annual expenditure allocated to work relating to the UK's exit from the EU.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 25/07/2017 16:44:53 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams