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449184

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2016
	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	Neighbourhood Plans
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many Neighbourhood Development Orders have been approved by referendum in each year since and including 2012; where those referendums were held; and what development each referendum authorised.
	tabling member printed	Lord Greaves
	uin	HL5694
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>The Department does not undertake formal monitoring of Neighbourhood Development Orders, however we are aware of four Neighbourhood Development Orders that have passed referendum since 2012, including three Community Right to Build Orders. Details are set out in the attached table.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 11/02/2016 12:45:03 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford attachment 1 file name 160211 PQ HL5694 Neigbourhood Development Orders.docx title Neighboorhood Development Orders
	tabling member	2569 label Biography information for Lord Greaves

174087

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2015
	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	Recreation Spaces
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many adopted local plans include the designation of local green spaces; and how many such spaces have been designated.
	tabling member printed	Lord Greaves
	uin	HL4190
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2015 answer text <p>We do not collect detailed statistics on individual policies within Local Plans.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 23/01/2015 12:05:38 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
	tabling member	2569 label Biography information for Lord Greaves

643777

	registered interest
	date	24/11/2016
	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	Council Housing: Construction
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many of the 40,000 affordable housing starts announced in the Autumn Statement they expect to be council houses.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL3537
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2016 answer text <p>In the Autumn Statement the Chancellor announced a £1.4 billion expansion of the Shared Ownership and Affordable Homes Programme (SOAHP) 2016-21 and a relaxation of restrictions on tenure. The expanded and more flexible programme will allow providers to have the agility to quickly and effectively respond with the right products to local needs and markets. Local authorities, along with other providers, are able to bid into the programme, and so the proportion of the 40,000 starts that local authorities build will become clear through the bids that are submitted during the continuous market engagement phase.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 07/12/2016 15:35:02 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

427455

	registered interest
	date	10/11/2015
	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	Owner Occupation
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many people owned their own home in each year from 1997 until the last year for which records are available.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL3499
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2015 answer text <p>The numbers of owner occupier households in England, estimated from DCLG's English Housing Survey, are provided in the table below</p><p><strong><br>Number (000s) of owner occupied households, 1997 to 2013-14: England</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>1997</p></td><td><p><strong> 13,629 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1998</p></td><td><p><strong> 13,817 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1999</p></td><td><p><strong> 14,091 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2000</p></td><td><p><strong> 14,340 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2001</p></td><td><p><strong> 14,359 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2002</p></td><td><p><strong> 14,559 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2003</p></td><td><p><strong> 14,701 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2004</p></td><td><p><strong> 14,678 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005</p></td><td><p><strong> 14,791 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006</p></td><td><p><strong> 14,791 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007</p></td><td><p><strong> 14,733 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p><strong> 14,628 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008-09</p></td><td><p><strong> 14,621 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p><strong> 14,525 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p><strong> 14,450 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p><strong> 14,388 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p><strong> 14,337 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p><strong> 14,319 </strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br><strong>Source: English Housing Survey </strong>https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/469214/2013-14_Section_1_Households_tables_and_figures_FINAL.xlsx</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 23/11/2015 12:26:27 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

643776

	registered interest
	date	24/11/2016
	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	Council Housing: Construction
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much of the new £18 million fund to accelerate house building will be used to build council houses.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL3536
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2016 answer text <p>The £18 million fund is a ‘capacity fund’ to tackle planning issues that can cause delay and prevent builders from getting on site and starting work quickly.</p><p>It can be used to facilitate house building on all ownership and tenure models.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 08/12/2016 15:32:50 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

643781

	registered interest
	date	24/11/2016
	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	Community Housing: Cooperatives
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much of the £7.2 billion housing investment announced in the Autumn Statement is earmarked for co-operative housing.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL3541
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2016 answer text <p>We have expanded the Shared Ownership and Affordable Homes Programme 2016-21 with an additional £1.4billion to deliver a further 40,000 housing starts by 2021, increasing the overall capital budget to over £7 billion. Housing Co-Operatives and others will be able to apply when the expanded programme opens to new bids early in the new-year through continuous market engagement. However, there will be no artificially imposed limit or quota on how much will be available for Housing Co-Operatives or other providers. The greater tenure flexibility we have introduced in the expanded programme will also make it easier for Co-Operatives to bid to deliver new homes.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 07/12/2016 15:32:56 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

348821

	registered interest
	date	08/06/2015
	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	Derelict Land
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much was spent from the £1 billion fund for remediation of brownfield land in each district or unitary local authority in England in each of the last five years.
	tabling member printed	Lord Greaves
	uin	HL300
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2015 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring that brownfield land is used as much as possible for new development. This is supported by our intention to create a £1 billion Brownfield Fund to unlock homes on brownfield land. The Fund is a new initiative and as such no payments from it were made in previous years.</p><p> </p><p>The focus of the Fund will be on unlocking homes on brownfield land to create additional housing. Ministers are finalising the details of how it will operate and are clear that the role of local authorities such as Pendle Borough Council will be crucial.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL301 question first answered 16/06/2015 13:51:03 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	2569 label Biography information for Lord Greaves

147396

	registered interest
	date	10/11/2014
	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	Council Housing
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action are they taking to support council tenants who want to form housing cooperatives.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL2800
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2014 answer text <p>We encourage local authorities to work closely with their communities to look at the range of options open to them. This may include forming community led groups, such as co-operatives, Community Land Trusts or Tenant Management Organisations. My officials continue to discuss issues affecting co-operative housing more generally with the co-operative sector.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Council tenants have the Right to Manage, which enables them to set up a Tenant Management Organisation (a management co-operative) to manage the homes in their area, with a management allowance from the Council. The Tenant Empowerment Programme, £2 million in 2014/15 and £1 million in 2015/16, supports social housing tenants to engage in, manage and/or take control of their housing services. This includes training, support and funding to enable tenant groups to take up their Right to Manage. There are currently over 200 Tenant Management Organisations across England, managing around 80,000 homes.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In October 2012, we funded the Co-operatives UK to establish and run the Community Shares Unit to grow a sustainable market and promote the long term success of the community shares model, as a means to raising equity finance and increasing participation in community enterprises and projects. Community-led housing is one of the areas identified as requiring development.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We are also encouraging community led organisations, including co-operatives, to apply for funding through the 2015-18 Affordable Homes Programme. The Homes and Communities Agency has held back over 25% of their £1.7 billion budget, for which it is now inviting bids. This should be of particular help to smaller community-led organisations.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 20/11/2014 15:55:45 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

600981

	registered interest
	date	13/10/2016
	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	Housing: Construction
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they are taking to encourage house building on sites where planning permissions have been given for house building.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL2321
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2016 answer text <p>We are keen to drive up delivery of new housing once permission has been granted and we are actively taking steps to tackle some of the factors which can delay a start to development. We are taking forward measures through the Neighbourhood Planning Bill, which was introduced on 7 September, to improve the use of planning conditions to avoid unnecessary delays to development. We have also, through the Housing and Planning Act 2016, introduced a provision for a section 106 dispute resolution process. This will assist in speeding up negotiations on the content of section 106 planning obligations, where developers and local authorities have failed to reach an agreement. Secondary legislation is required to implement the provision. We also expect the members of the Home Builders Federation to adhere to their commitments in May to provide local authorities with transparent annual returns on build-out rates. And we will be setting out further measures in the forthcoming Housing White Paper.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 27/10/2016 15:58:12 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

427457

	registered interest
	date	10/11/2015
	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: Fees and Charges
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they are taking to prevent excessive letting fees being charged to private-sector tenants.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL3501
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2015 answer text <p>The Government has acted to protect tenants against unfair and excessive letting agency fees by requiring agents to publish a full breakdown of all charges prominently in their offices and on their website. A fine of up to £5,000 can be levied against agents who fail to comply.</p><p>Transparency is the key to keeping fees low, giving tenants the necessary information to make informed decisions and compare prices and, therefore, creating effective competition that should force agents to keep fees fair.</p><p>The Government has also made it a legal requirement, since 1 October 2014, for letting and managing agents in England to belong to one of the three Government approved redress schemes, offering a clear route for landlords and tenants to pursue complaints and, therefore, driving up standards.</p><p>We will continue to monitor the impact of these new requirements.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 17/11/2015 15:43:15 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark