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1012535

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2018
	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	Religious Hatred
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what further support they will give to Nissar Hussain and his family, and others, who have left the Islamic faith and if facing persecution in the UK.
	tabling member printed	Lord Pearson of Rannoch
	uin	HL11727
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2018 answer text <p>Everyone in Britain has the right to feel safe and at ease in the place where they live. Any individual or group is free to express views and beliefs, but have a duty to behave responsibly and to respect other people’s rights as defined by the law. Freedom of speech, freedom of worship, democracy, the rule of law, and equal rights define us as a society, and the Government is determined to promote these values. Britain has a strong legal framework in place to deal with hate crimes, and these must be reported to the police.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 05/12/2018 15:47:58 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
	tabling member	3153 label Biography information for Lord Pearson of Rannoch

1006982

	registered interest
	date	14/11/2018
	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: Insulation
	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 8 November 2018 to Question 186182 on High Rise Flats: Insulation, who the members are of the (a) ministerially-chaired taskforce and (b) joint expert inspection team.
	tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
	tabling member printed	John Healey
	uin	191288
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2018 answer text <p>The Private Sector Building Remediation Ministerial Taskforce core membership is:</p><p>Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government</p><p>Minister of State for Housing</p><p>Chair of the Local Government Association</p><p>London Councils, Executive Member for Housing</p><p>Chair National Fire Chiefs Council</p><p>The Taskforce is also attended by officials from MHCLG, the Home Office and HM Treasury and by representatives from local authorities and experts from other external organisations depending on the agenda.</p><p>The joint expert inspection team is being established to support the next phase of work.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 05/12/2018 14:15:07 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1015370

	registered interest
	date	28/11/2018
	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	Homelessness: Veterans
	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 number of veterans who are homeless in (a) the UK, (b) Scotland and (c) Linlithgow and East Falkirk Constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	196216
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government collects quarterly and annual statistics on how many people make homelessness applications to local authorities in England. This information can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/homelessness-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/homelessness-statistics</a>.</p><p>Details on homelessness in Scotland can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www2.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Housing-Regeneration/RefTables" target="_blank">https://www2.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Housing-Regeneration/RefTables</a>.</p><p>Current data tools do not allow for an estimate of the number of veterans who are homeless. However, in April 2018 the Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government introduced a new, case-level data collection called H-CLIC (Homelessness Case Level Information Collection), from which the first tranche of data will be released in due course. This will give local authorities and Government more information regarding homelessness and those presenting as homeless, including if they are a previous member of the armed forces and have support needs.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 05/12/2018 14:16:55 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1015520

	registered interest
	date	27/11/2018
	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	Sleeping Rough
	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 26 November 2018 to Question 191290 on Sleeping Rough, if he will publish a summary of the data collected.
	tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
	tabling member printed	John Healey
	uin	196104
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2018 answer text <p>Next year we will publish an evaluation of the Rough Sleeping Initiative. This will include relevant information collected from the 83 local authorities as part of the department’s monitoring of the initiative. Official Rough Sleeping statistics providing information on the single night snapshot of rough sleeping in England will be published on the 31 January 2019.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 05/12/2018 14:21:01 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 89684 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1015525

	registered interest
	date	27/11/2018
	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	Housing
	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 he plans to publish his Department's response to the consultation paper, Strengthening consumer redress in housing, announced in February 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
	tabling member printed	John Healey
	uin	196105
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2018 answer text <p>The recent consultation “Strengthening consumer redress in the housing market” sought views on how to ensure consumers from all tenures have access to appropriate redress when things go wrong with their housing.</p><p>This included considering how best to bring together all different mechanisms and structures for providing housing related redress, so consumers are always clear who is best placed to resolve their complaint.</p><p>We have been considering responses to the consultation and intend to publish our response shortly.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 05/12/2018 14:18:04 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1017258

	registered interest
	date	29/11/2018
	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	Affordable 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, with reference to the statistical data set, Affordable housing starts and completions funded by Homes England and the GLA, published by his Department, what steps he is taking to identify the units labelled as unknown tenure type.
	tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
	tabling member printed	John Healey
	uin	197329
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2018 answer text <p>The affordable housing starts and completions of unknown tenure are all reported to the department by the Greater London Authority (GLA) as part of their affordable housing statistics <a href="https://www.london.gov.uk/what-we-do/housing-and-land/increasing-housing-supply/affordable-housing-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.london.gov.uk/what-we-do/housing-andland/increasing-housing-supply/affordable-housing-statistics</a>.</p><p>The GLA has reported that due to transitional changes in implementing the GLA's new project management system the tenure information for some schemes within GLA programmes will be updated in the quarterly publications until transitional system changes are complete.</p><p>The Department will continue to work with the GLA and when they finalise the information on tenure type of these units it will be updated and included in our statistics.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 05/12/2018 14:20:23 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1017296

	registered interest
	date	29/11/2018
	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	Building Regulations and Fire Safety Independent Review
	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 Written Statement of 19 July 2018 on Grenfell Update, HCWS890, what progress he has made on (a) establishing a more effective regulatory regime for fire and building safety and (b) producing an implementation plan for that regime.
	tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
	tabling member printed	Kate Green
	uin	197421
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government will set out how it intends to take forward the recommendations of the Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety in due course. This will include an outline of the progress it has made to establish a more effective regulatory regime for fire and building safety.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 05/12/2018 16:55:13 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

1017475

	registered interest
	date	30/11/2018
	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	Housing Revenue Accounts
	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 his Department is taking to support local authorities to increase housebuilding as a result of the removal of the HRA borrowing cap.
	tabling member constituency	Harrow East
	tabling member printed	Bob Blackman
	uin	197621
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2018 answer text <p>We are developing the planning capacity local authorities need to increase the delivery of new homes through the Planning Delivery Fund. Local authorities are able to draw from a wide range of sector led advice, good practice, and case study examples and we will also be working closely with local authorities to ensure they are able to make the most of the tools we have given them.</p><p>Local authorities can bid alongside housing associations for the £9 billion Affordable Homes Programme to build affordable homes. We are also providing a longer term rent deal for 5 years from 2020 to provide local authorities with a stable investment environment to deliver new homes and we have consulted on options for allowing local authorities more flexibility in the use of their Right to Buy receipts.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 05/12/2018 16:55:47 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4005 label Biography information for Bob Blackman

1019527

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2018
	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	Affordable 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, what steps the Government has taken to increase the number of affordable homes being built each year since 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Warrington South
	tabling member printed	Faisal Rashid
	uin	198362
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to increasing the supply of social housing and has made £9 billion available through the Affordable Homes Programme to March 2022 to deliver 250,000 new affordable homes of a wide range of tenures, including social rent</p><p><br> Our expanded programme will now provide a wider range of homes to meet the housing needs of a range of people in different circumstances and different housing markets – building the right homes in the right places</p><p><br> We have listened to the sector. We have increased the size of the Affordable Homes Programme and re-introduced social rent to it, lifted the Housing Revenue Account borrowing cap for local authorities, and are setting a long term rent deal for councils and housing associations in England from 2020. <br> <br> In September 2018, the Prime Minister announced an additional £2 billion of long term funding certainty for housing associations. This extra funding will deliver more affordable homes and stimulate the sector’s wider building ambitions, through strategic partnerships</p><p><br> Our ten year funding commitment marks the first time any government has offered housing associations such long-term funding certainty.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 05/12/2018 16:58:30 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4670 label Biography information for Faisal Rashid

1019529

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2018
	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	Business Premises: Solar Power
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department has plans to issue a public consultation on the rules governing permitted development in relation to the installation of commercial rooftop solar.
	tabling member constituency	Lincoln
	tabling member printed	Karen Lee
	uin	198363
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2018 answer text <p>There are extensive permitted development rights for the installation or alteration of solar equipment on non-domestic premises. They are set out in Class J of Part 14, Schedule 2 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015. These rights are subject to limitations as well as conditions on where the equipment can be installed. There are no plans to consult on any changes to these permitted development rights.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 05/12/2018 16:54:06 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4664 label Biography information for Karen Lee