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1134815

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2019
	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	Neighbourhood Plans
	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 plans he has to improve the quality of planning advice made available to the neighbourhood planning process.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	269613
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government has recently published updated neighbourhood planning guidance to support communities in the preparation of their plans. The amended guidance includes changes to reflect the updated National Planning Policy Framework which is clear about the important role that neighbourhood plans play in our plan-led system. Additional practical advice is provided through the Government’s £26 million Neighbourhood Planning Support Programme, which includes support from a national network of local neighbourhood planning champions.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 01/07/2019 16:14:34 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1134816

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2019
	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	Neighbourhood Plans
	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 funding is available to communities wishing to undertake a neighbourhood plan.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	269614
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2019 answer text <p>Government is making available £34.5 million of support for neighbourhood planning for 2018-22. This is comprised of our £26 million Neighbourhood Planning Support Programme and an additional £8.5 million funding, announced in May 2019, to help communities bring forward affordable homes for sale in their neighbourhood plans.</p><p><em> <br> <br></em></p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 01/07/2019 16:17:19 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1134844

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2019
	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	Carbon Monoxide: Alarms
	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 30 April 2018, HCWS657 on Carbon Monoxide Detection and Safety, when the review of the requirements and the evidence base for improving carbon monoxide detection and safety will be concluded; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Walsall North
	tabling member printed	Eddie Hughes
	uin	269761
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government carried out a review of carbon monoxide alarm requirements in 2018. The findings of this review are being considered alongside responses to the Social Housing Green Paper. We will set out the findings of the review and next steps in the Government response to the Green Paper in September 2019.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 01/07/2019 15:19:53 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4635 label Biography information for Eddie Hughes

1134966

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2019
	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	Coal: Opencast Mining
	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 the Government's policy is on planning permission for the creation of additional opencast coal mines.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	269800
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to clean growth and we are taking action to reduce our reliance on coal. We have set out our aim to end electricity generation from unabated coal by 2025 and we are also taking action to reduce coal use in industry and heating.</p><p>In terms of planning policy, the National Planning Policy Framework is already clear that planning permission should not be granted for the extraction of coal unless the proposal is environmentally acceptable or the national, local or community benefits outweigh its likely impacts. The National Planning Policy Framework is a material consideration in the determination of all applications for coal extraction in England.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 01/07/2019 16:15:19 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1134975

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2019
	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	Garden Communities
	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 as part of the loneliness strategy to ensure that community cohesion is considered in the assessment process for prospective Garden Communities.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	269717
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2019 answer text <p>Prospective garden communities were required to outline how they would achieve ten design qualities in their proposals. These qualities help create places that support cohesive communities, and proposals were assessed against these criteria.</p><p>More broadly, we included tackling loneliness as a theme at our national design quality conference in February and are currently developing proposals around housing and placemaking for phase 2 of the loneliness strategy.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 01/07/2019 15:14:56 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

1135009

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2019
	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	Leasehold: Reform
	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 the timeline is for the proposed leasehold reform as set out in the Written Statement entitled Housing Policy Update, published on 2 July 2018, HCWS818.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
	tabling member printed	Layla Moran
	uin	269822
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to promoting fairness and transparency for leaseholders and freeholders and ensuring that consumers are protected from abuse and poor service. On 27 June, we published the Government response to the technical consultation <em>Implementing reforms to the leasehold system in England</em>.</p><p>We have confirmed our commitment to legislate to ensure that in future all new houses will be sold on a freehold basis, with specific exemptions for exceptional circumstances, and to reduce ground rents on future leases to a peppercorn (zero financial value).</p><p>We will also give freeholders on private and mixed-use estates the right to challenge the reasonableness of estate rent charges and the right to apply to the First-tier Tribunal to appoint a new property manager. In addition, we will mandate that freeholders and managing agents must provide leasehold information – when a home is being sold – within 15 days and set the maximum fee for providing this information at £200 (plus VAT).</p><p>We will bring forward the legislation to implement these changes as soon as Parliamentary time allows.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 01/07/2019 15:06:38 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1135023

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2019
	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	Buildings: 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, whether his Department is aware of any large-scale fire tests carried out in other EU Member States on High Pressure Laminate cladding since June 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon North
	tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
	uin	269830
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2019 answer text <p>We are not aware of any test carried out in the EU on High Pressure Laminates panels since June 2017 other than the tests the Government is currently undertaking.</p><p>The Department is aware that manufacturers routinely carry out fire safety tests of their products but is not automatically made aware of these.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 01/07/2019 15:20:50 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1135024

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2019
	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	Buildings: 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, whether his Department has asked private manufacturers to disclose the large-scale fire tests they have carried out on High Pressure Laminate cladding since June 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon North
	tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
	uin	269831
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2019 answer text <p>In summer 2017, the Department asked Building Research Establishment (BRE) to contact all of their customers to ask them to publish information about large scale tests. BRE contacted their customers who had tested and achieved BR 135 classifications for their external cladding systems. Where permission to publish details of a cladding system has been granted, the BRE produced a database which summarises the generic components included within the successfully tested cladding systems. The data base is available at the following: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bre.co.uk%2Fregulatory-testing&amp;data=02%7C01%7CCharles-Elie.Romeyer%40communities.gov.uk%7C197206014b1b499f27f708d6fbc3519f%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C636973213638804895&amp;sdata=jRS2yIRqDq%2FUTii11618SWq2%2B9ZZbwyrJkfx23H33es%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.bre.co.uk/regulatory-testing</a></p><p>In addition the Department is aware that a number of product manufacturers have voluntarily made this information available on their websites.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 269832 question first answered 01/07/2019 15:19:10 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1135025

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2019
	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	Buildings: 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, whether his Department has asked manufacturers of High Pressure Laminate cladding to disclose the result of large-scale fire tests they have carried out on High-Pressure Laminate cladding since 2005.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon North
	tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
	uin	269832
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2019 answer text <p>In summer 2017, the Department asked Building Research Establishment (BRE) to contact all of their customers to ask them to publish information about large scale tests. BRE contacted their customers who had tested and achieved BR 135 classifications for their external cladding systems. Where permission to publish details of a cladding system has been granted, the BRE produced a database which summarises the generic components included within the successfully tested cladding systems. The data base is available at the following: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bre.co.uk%2Fregulatory-testing&amp;data=02%7C01%7CCharles-Elie.Romeyer%40communities.gov.uk%7C197206014b1b499f27f708d6fbc3519f%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C636973213638804895&amp;sdata=jRS2yIRqDq%2FUTii11618SWq2%2B9ZZbwyrJkfx23H33es%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.bre.co.uk/regulatory-testing</a></p><p>In addition the Department is aware that a number of product manufacturers have voluntarily made this information available on their websites.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 269831 question first answered 01/07/2019 15:19:10 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1134493

	registered interest
	date	25/06/2019
	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: Young People
	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 steps he has taken to reduce the (a) level and (b) risk of homelessness among young people.
	tabling member constituency	Luton South
	tabling member printed	Mr Gavin Shuker
	uin	269037
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to reducing homelessness and rough sleeping, including for young people. The Homelessness Reduction Act came into force last year. It placed new duties on local housing authorities to take reasonable steps to try to prevent and relieve a person’s homelessness irrespective of whether a person has ‘priority need’ or may be regarded as being ‘intentionally homeless’, which of course includes young people. Last year we also updated guidance on the ‘Prevention of homelessness and provision of accommodation for 16 and 17-year-old young people who may be homeless and/or require accommodation’ setting out the respective duties of children’s services and housing services. <br> <br> The Government has now committed over £1.2 billion to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping over the spending review period. Last summer we published the cross-government Rough Sleeping Strategy. This sets out an ambitious £100 million package to help people who sleep rough now, but also puts in place the structures that will end rough sleeping once and for all. The Rough Sleeping Strategy committed to creating a new social impact bond, the Young Futures Fund. This builds on the success of the Fair Chances Fund which ran from 2015-2017 and rehoused 1657 18-24 year old's who were or at risk of homelessness.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 01/07/2019 14:57:47 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	4013 label Biography information for Mr Gavin Shuker