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1287924

	registered interest
	date	22/02/2021
	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	Green Belt: Coventry South
	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 is taking to ensure that greenbelt land surrounding Coventry South constituency is protected from development.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Zarah Sultana
	uin	156592
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2021 answer text <p>This Government will continue to support the protection and enhancement of the Green Belt and other valued greenfield land, and to strongly encourage re-use of suitable brownfield land for development, in line with manifesto commitments and our National Planning Policy Framework. The Framework states that most new building is inappropriate in Green Belt and should be refused planning permission unless there are very special circumstances, and that only in exceptional circumstances may a Green Belt boundary be altered. We have been clear in our reform proposals, set out in the White Paper <em>Planning for the Future,</em> that existing policy for protecting the Green Belt would remain.</p><p>Consultation on the White Paper closed on 29 October 2020. My Department is undertaking further detailed policy development on individual elements of the proposals, and we will announce any next steps as soon as practicable.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 02/03/2021 14:57:03 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
	tabling member	4786 label Biography information for Zarah Sultana

1289001

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2021
	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	Regional Planning and Development: Finance
	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 every region in England will be allocated funding through the proposed levelling up fund.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon North
	tabling member printed	Steve Reed
	uin	157140
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2021 answer text <p>The Levelling Up Fund will invest in local infrastructure that has a visible impact on people and their communities. Further details of how the Fund will operate will be announced shortly.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall grouped question UIN 157141 question first answered 02/03/2021 15:30:17 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall previous answer version 86299 answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1289004

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2021
	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	Regional Planning and Development: Finance
	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 a proportion of the Levelling Up Fund will be pre-committed.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon North
	tabling member printed	Steve Reed
	uin	157141
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2021 answer text <p>The Levelling Up Fund will invest in local infrastructure that has a visible impact on people and their communities. Further details of how the Fund will operate will be announced shortly.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall grouped question UIN 157140 question first answered 02/03/2021 15:30:16 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall previous answer version 86296 answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1289610

	registered interest
	date	24/02/2021
	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	Towns Fund
	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 it is his policy that remaining Town Deal bids will be assessed by 29 March 2021.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon North
	tabling member printed	Steve Reed
	uin	158067
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2021 answer text <p>My officials are currently conducting assessment of the final set of Town Investment Plans and I look forward to making further announcements in due course.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall grouped question UIN 158068 question first answered 02/03/2021 15:30:44 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall previous answer version 86305 answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1289612

	registered interest
	date	24/02/2021
	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	Towns Fund
	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 successful Town Deal bids are planned to be announced on or before 29 March 2021.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon North
	tabling member printed	Steve Reed
	uin	158068
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2021 answer text <p>My officials are currently conducting assessment of the final set of Town Investment Plans and I look forward to making further announcements in due course.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall grouped question UIN 158067 question first answered 02/03/2021 15:30:44 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1287913

	registered interest
	date	22/02/2021
	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	UK Shared Prosperity Fund
	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 to ensure that a proportion of the Shared Prosperity Fund will be ringfenced for spending in each of the devolved regions; and whether such sums will reflect historic allocations of Structural Funds based on relative need rather than the Barnett Formula.
	tabling member constituency	North Down
	tabling member printed	Stephen Farry
	uin	156633
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2021 answer text <p>The UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) will help to level up and create opportunity across the UK in places most in need, such as ex-industrial areas, deprived towns and rural and coastal communities, and for people who face labour market barriers.</p><p>The November 2020 Spending Review set out the main strategic elements of the UKSPF in the Heads of Terms.  The Government will publish a UK-wide investment framework in 2021 and confirm multiyear funding profiles at the next Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 02/03/2021 15:29:14 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
	tabling member	4856 label Biography information for Stephen Farry

1290013

	registered interest
	date	25/02/2021
	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	Homes England: Finance
	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 schemes have been supported by Homes England through the (a) small sites scheme and (b) land assembly fund; and how much Homes England has invested in each of those schemes.
	tabling member constituency	Harborough
	tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
	uin	159025
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2021 answer text <p>The £1.3 billion Land Assembly Fund enables Homes England to work alongside private developers to acquire and de-risk sites and make them attractive for private sector firms to rapidly build out homes. This will help release land to deliver 300,000 new homes a year by the mid-2020s. To date, Homes England have acquired 18 sites under the Land Assembly Fund programme.</p><p>In line with the Department's plan to bring together existing capital programmes across land and infrastructure into the National Home Building Fund, funds allocated to the Small Sites Fund have been used accordingly across the Department’s land funds and other Departmental priorities. This will meet the immediate need to support local economies and protect jobs across the supply chain, and help to build the homes this country needs.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 02/03/2021 17:13:10 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
	tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1288285

	registered interest
	date	22/02/2021
	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	Community Infrastructure Levy
	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 he has made an assessment of the potential merits of the community infrastructure levy and infrastructure levy falling due within 12 months of planning permission being granted to help deliver infrastructure with and in advance of housing.
	tabling member constituency	Wealden
	tabling member printed	Ms Nusrat Ghani
	uin	156456
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2021 answer text <p>The Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) must be paid within sixty days of works commencing on a development, unless an authority chooses to exercise discretion by setting its own instalment policy allowing payment over a longer term. An authority is also able to make use of temporary flexibilities to defer payments from small or medium enterprises, introduced in response to COVID-19. Overall therefore, CIL payments can, and often will, be payable, and be available to an authority to fund infrastructure, prior to the completion of the development liable to pay.</p><p>However, we intend to reform the current approach to developer contributions by creating a new, single system, the Infrastructure Levy. This new levy would be a flat rate, value-based charge, set nationally, at either a single rate, or at area specific rates, and charged on the final value of a development. We also intend to allow authorities to borrow against revenues from the new levy to better enable them to forward fund infrastructure.</p><p>Our proposals were set out in our ‘Planning for the Future’ consultation which closed on 29 October. We are analysing the consultation feedback thoroughly and holding meetings with industry and local authority representatives to understand the effects of our proposals. We will respond formally as soon as possible.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 02/03/2021 14:59:25 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
	tabling member	4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani

1288284

	registered interest
	date	22/02/2021
	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: Wealden
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, for what reason housing allocations in the Wealden district council area are based not on 2018 population projections but on 2014 data used in the Current Standard Method.
	tabling member constituency	Wealden
	tabling member printed	Ms Nusrat Ghani
	uin	156455
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2021 answer text <p>Following consultation last year on the standard method for assessing local housing need, and after a year of uncertainty due to COVID-19, it became apparent that it was particularly important to provide stability and certainty for plan-making and decision-making. This is so local areas can plan based on a method and level of ambition that they are familiar with. <br> <br> The Government therefore carefully considered whether to use the 2018-based household projections and concluded that, in the interests of stability for local planning and for local communities, it will continue to expect only the use of the 2014-based household projections. This gives local areas the best possible chance of meeting the deadline of December 2023, the date by which all authorities are expected to have up-to-date plans.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 02/03/2021 14:48:56 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
	tabling member	4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani

1288288

	registered interest
	date	22/02/2021
	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: Wealden
	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 in place to ensure that housing allocations take into account protected areas in Wealden which has no green belt but with the Ashdown Forest and the protected Pevensey Levels is more than 60 per cent AONB.
	tabling member constituency	Wealden
	tabling member printed	Ms Nusrat Ghani
	uin	156457
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2021 answer text <p>The standard method for assessing local housing need is only the starting point in the process of planning for new homes, it is not a housing target. Local authorities will still need to consider the constraints they face locally, to assess how many homes can be delivered in their area.</p><p>The National Planning Policy Framework is clear that great weight should be given to conserving and enhancing landscape and scenic beauty in Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Specific strong protections are enshrined for protected areas or assets of particular importance within footnote 6 of the Framework, including, for example, Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Sites of Special Scientific Interest, Green Belt, irreplaceable habitats, and designated heritage assets.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 02/03/2021 14:55:29 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
	tabling member	4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani