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917778

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date	05/06/2018
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: Council Tax
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government which local authorities in England have yet to take up the opportunity to apply a council tax premium of 50 per cent on unoccupied homes.
tabling member printed	Lord Patten
uin	HL8372
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2018 answer text <p>35 billing authorities in England did not apply a council tax premium in 2017-18 on homes that have been empty for two years or more – which is the latest year for which data is available centrally (see table below). Some of these authorities may have introduced the premium in 2018-19. Of the 291 billing authorities that applied a premium in 2017-18, three applied premiums at less than the 50% rate. These are Harrogate (25%), Richmondshire (10%) and Rutland (10%)</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Billing authorities that did not apply a council tax empty homes premium in 2017-18</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Amber Valley</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Blaby</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bolsover</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bromley</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bromsgrove</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Broxbourne</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Castle Point</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cheltenham</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chiltern</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>City of London</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Corby</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Derbyshire Dales</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dover</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Forest of Dean</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gloucester</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gosport</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hambleton</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Harborough</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hinckley &amp; Bosworth</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Isles of Scilly</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>New Forest</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East Derbyshire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Lincolnshire UA</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Somerset UA</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Tyneside</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West Leicestershire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Redditch</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ribble Valley</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rushcliffe</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tendring</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tewkesbury</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Westminster</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Winchester</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wyre</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wyre Forest</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 14/06/2018 16:49:18 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten

917779

registered interest
date	05/06/2018
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
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have any plans to publish regularly the numbers of unoccupied homes in each English local authority area.
tabling member printed	Lord Patten
uin	HL8373
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2018 answer text <p>Statistics on vacant dwellings in England and in each local authority district are published in the Ministry’s live table 615 (attached) which is available at the following link. This table shows the annual total numbers of empty homes and those vacant longer than six months and also vacants in the local authority, housing association and other public sector tenures.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-dwelling-stock-including-vacants" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-dwelling-stock-including-vacants</a></p><p>The number of long-term vacant dwellings across England remains lower than when records began.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 12/06/2018 16:36:01 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth attachment 1 file name 180607 Live table 615 HL8373.xlsx title Table 615
tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten

867255

registered interest
date	19/03/2018
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	Heart of the South West Joint Committee
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their assessment of the democratic accountability of the new Heart of the South West Joint Committee.
tabling member printed	Lord Patten
uin	HL6462
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2018 answer text <p>The Heart of the South West Joint Committee is a voluntary arrangement of the 17 local authorities in the Heart of the South West geographical area.</p><p>A Joint Committee can be created using the provisions of sections 101 to 103 of the Local Government Act 1972, but has no decision making power. Such committees make recommendations to their constituent authorities, who may then choose whether or not to implement them using the usual democratic processes. In the Heart of the South West, the Joint Committee has the delegated function to approve the Heart of the South West Productivity Strategy.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 04/04/2018 13:22:36 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten

834502

registered interest
date	31/01/2018
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	High Rise Flats: Fire Extinguishers
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth on 23 January (HL4567), whether, since the statutory guidance was revised, they are satisfied that all new blocks of flats over 30 metres in height have had sprinklers fitted; and in the same period, how many existing buildings have been retro-fitted with sprinklers.
tabling member printed	Lord Patten
uin	HL5308
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2018 answer text <p>Building control bodies have a statutory responsibility to check the plans for building work (consulting fire and rescue authorities as appropriate) and to inspect work on site during the construction phase to assess whether it complies with the requirements in the Building Regulations. Where the work does not comply, under provisions in the Building Act, it is for local authorities to decide when a prosecution for non-compliance with the requirements in the Building Regulations would be appropriate.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 14/02/2018 16:36:57 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten

819365

registered interest
date	09/01/2018
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	High Rise Flats: Fire Extinguishers
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their assessment of the commitment by Westminster City Council to retrofit sprinklers in all of their blocks of flats over 30 metres in height.
tabling member printed	Lord Patten
uin	HL4567
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>Sprinklers can be an effective fire safety measure but they are one of many such measures that can be adopted. It is for building owners to decide whether to fit sprinklers, on the basis of their assessment of the risk. Government advice is clear; for new blocks of flats over 30 metres in height the statutory guidance states that sprinklers should be fitted. For existing buildings it is a decision for the building owner whether to retro-fit sprinklers as part of a whole fire-safety strategy for the building, based on expert advice and taking into account of other fire safety measures present.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 23/01/2018 17:51:17 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten