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1046946

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2019
	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	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Sikhs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many Sikhs are employed in his Department; and whether they are recorded as (a) an ethnic or (b) religious group.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
	tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
	uin	211864
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2019 answer text <p>At 31 December 2018, 15 (1.3 per cent) civil servants in my Department were recorded as being Sikhs, as a religious group.</p><p>This information is offered voluntarily by staff and as such we can only report on those that have chosen to provide details of their religious group.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 31/01/2019 13:56:16 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
	tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1048051

	registered interest
	date	25/01/2019
	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	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, pursuant to Question 207151 and with reference to the oral contribution of the Prime Minister on 21 January 2019, Official Report Column 52, when he plans to start the consultation on the UK Shared Prosperity Fund; and for what reason that consultation has been postponed.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	212622
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2019 answer text <p>Whilst the Government remains committed to securing a good Brexit deal, it is right that we also plan for a no-deal scenario and we have therefore continued to review our approach to the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) consultation accordingly. The Government recognises the importance of reassuring local areas on the future of local growth funding once we have left the European Union and providing clarity on UKSPF. Therefore we intend to publish the full consultation document shortly.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 30/01/2019 17:43:37 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1050015

	registered interest
	date	28/01/2019
	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	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, if he will ensure Metro Mayors in England will have a formal role in the consultation on the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	213368
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2019 answer text <p>We intend to publish our consultation on the UK Shared Prosperity Fund shortly. During the consultation period Metro Mayors will have the opportunity to respond and we welcome your views and those of other Mayors. The Government will continue to engage with stakeholders across the UK during the consultation and thereafter to ensure the fund works for all places.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 31/01/2019 14:00:35 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1050503

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2019
	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	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, whether his Department plans to give Metro Mayors a formal role in the (a) design and (b) delivery of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	214087
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2019 answer text <p>I met with the Metro Mayors on the 22 January and will carry on this engagement throughout the year.</p><p>We intend to consult shortly on the design of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. Final decisions on UK Shared Prosperity Fund will be made during Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry grouped question UIN 214088 question first answered 04/02/2019 16:03:31 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1050504

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2019
	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	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, if the Government will make it its policy to make funding for the UK Shared Prosperity Fund available at the same level as EU Structural Fund spending after the UK leaves the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	214088
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2019 answer text <p>I met with the Metro Mayors on the 22 January and will carry on this engagement throughout the year.</p><p>We intend to consult shortly on the design of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. Final decisions on UK Shared Prosperity Fund will be made during Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry grouped question UIN 214087 question first answered 04/02/2019 16:03:32 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1042992

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2019
	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	Housing
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth on 4 December 2018 (HL Deb, cols 932–3), when they expect to publish new planning guidance for local authorities on housing for older and disabled people.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Thomas of Winchester
	uin	HL12942
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2019 answer text <p>We have strengthened national planning policy so that local planning authorities are expected to have clear policies for addressing the housing needs of older and disabled people. We will publish further planning guidance that will assist councils to put these policies in place, in due course.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 31/01/2019 14:02:33 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
	tabling member	3785 label Biography information for Baroness Thomas of Winchester

1043059

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2019
	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	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Legal Costs
	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 highest hourly rate was that (a) his Department and (b) each of his Department's arms-length bodies paid for legal advice in 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	209815
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2019 answer text <p>a. <strong>Main Department</strong></p><p>The highest hourly rate that the main Department paid for legal advice in 2018 was £165 excluding VAT. Where the Department has sought advice from counsel, Attorney General’s Office rates will apply. For external legal firms on the General Legal Advice Services (GLAS) panel, rates are agreed under the framework.</p><p> </p><p>b. <strong>Arm’s Length Bodies (ALBs)</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>ALBs</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>ALB’s Highest Hourly Rate 2018 Legal Advise (ex-VAT)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>ARB (Architects Registration Board)</p></td><td><p>Commercially sensitive</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>BRAC (Building Advisory Committee)</p></td><td><p>NIL. Not Applicable</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>EDC (Ebbsfleet Development Corporation)</p></td><td><p>£250</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HE (Homes England)</p></td><td><p>Commercially sensitive</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>LEASE (Leasehold Advisory Service)</p></td><td><p>NIL paid</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>LGSCO (Local Government &amp; Social Care Ombudsman)</p></td><td><p>£190</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>PINS (The Planning Inspectorate)</p></td><td><p>£123</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>QEIIC (Queen Elizabeth II Centre)</p></td><td><p>£445</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>VTS (Valuation Tribunal Service)</p></td><td><p>£164</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>RSH (Regulator of Social Housing)</p></td><td><p>Commercially sensitive</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>THO (The Housing Ombudsman)</p></td><td><p>£260</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Three of our Arms–Length Bodies (ALB) did not disclose a figure due to commercial sensitivities. The highest hourly rate was that for the QEIIC who were engaged to provide specialist commercial advice on employment legislation. The rate quoted was for the Director who was only engaged for part of the project. The differences in hourly rates across the other ALBs reflects the degree of specialisms.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 30/01/2019 17:46:46 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1045454

	registered interest
	date	21/01/2019
	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	High Rise Flats: Insulation
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to safety concerns for residents in tower blocks where responsibility for the removal of combustible cladding is disputed.
	tabling member printed	Lord Ouseley
	uin	HL12990
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring that residents are safe, and feel safe, in their homes.</p><p>We are working closely with local authorities and Fire and Rescue Services to ensure that interim safety measures are in place in all buildings until the cladding is replaced. We are backing local authorities to take enforcement action where building owners are refusing to remediate high-rise buildings with unsafe cladding. This will include financial support where this is necessary for the local authority to carry out emergency remedial work. We have also established a Joint Inspection Team to support local authorities and give them the confidence to pursue enforcement action.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 04/02/2019 16:04:19 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
	tabling member	2170 label Biography information for Lord Ouseley

1045461

	registered interest
	date	21/01/2019
	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	Sleeping Rough: Migrants
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of immigration on the increase in rough sleeping in England since 2013.
	tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
	uin	HL12997
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government has not made an assessment of the impact of immigration on the number of people sleeping rough.</p><p>However, national street counts and intelligence driven estimates of people sleeping rough are conducted every year in autumn and these take account of an individual’s nationality. The most recent data (for England) is from the autumn 2018 annual street count and estimate, which returned a total figure of 4,677 rough sleepers in England - showing a fall in numbers for the first time in 8 years - 1,048 of these self-reported as non-UK nationals.</p><p>To tackle this issue, we are making £5 million of funding available to help local areas support non-UK national rough sleepers off the streets. This funding will complement the projects which we have already funded through the £100 million Controlling Migration Fund (CMF) for local authorities to work with non-UK nationals who sleep rough. Further CMF funding allocations will be announced shortly.</p><p>This Government is committed to reducing homelessness and rough sleeping. No one should ever have to sleep rough. That is why last summer we published the cross-government Rough Sleeping Strategy which 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 Government has now committed over £1.2 billion to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping over the spending review period.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 04/02/2019 16:02:23 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
	tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon

1045940

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2019
	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	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, whether the Government provides support for new house buyers with snagging issues; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Stirling
	tabling member printed	Stephen Kerr
	uin	211342
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2019 answer text <p>This Government is committed to making the housing market work. By the mid-2020s, we aim to have increased house building to an average of 300,000 net new homes a year. And as we move towards achieving this target, we will not sacrifice higher quality and standards.</p><p>We have already made commitments to provide better protection for purchasers of new build homes who experience snagging issues and we know more needs to be done. On 1 October 2018, we announced our intention for there to be a New Homes Ombudsman to protect the rights of homebuyers and hold developers to account. We also announced our intention to bring forward legislation to require all developers to belong to a New Homes Ombudsman.</p><p>On 24 January, following a wide-ranging consultation with consumers and industry, we set out our plans to strengthen consumer redress for the whole housing market. I want to help plug the gaps in available redress services so that more people can get their housing disputes resolved without going through the courts. We have also made great strides to create greater fairness in the rental market by banning unfair letting fees, capping tenancy deposits and cracking down on rogue landlords.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 30/01/2019 17:47:51 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	4604 label Biography information for Stephen Kerr