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1130538

	registered interest
	date	06/06/2019
	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	5G
	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 review planning requirements with regard to the rollout of 5G technology to ensure that safety concerns are taken into account.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	261101
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2019 answer text <p>As announced by the Secretary of State for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on 12 June, we will shortly be consulting on proposals to simplify planning processes in England to support the rollout of 5G and further improve mobile coverage in rural areas.</p><p>Public Health England’s (PHE’s) Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards takes the lead on public health matters associated with radiofrequency electromagnetic fields, or radio waves, used in telecommunications. Central to PHE advice is that exposure to radio waves should comply with the guidelines published by the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP). ICNIRP is formally recognised by the World Health Organization (WHO).</p><p>While a small increase in overall exposure to radio waves is possible when 5G is added to the existing network, the overall exposure is expected to remain low and well within the ICNIRP guidelines.</p><p>National planning policy sets out that applications for electronic communications equipment should be supported by a statement that self-certifies that when operational, ICNIRP guidelines will be met.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 12/06/2019 14:05:50 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

935005

	registered interest
	date	05/07/2018
	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
	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 ensure that public bodies use and share their expertise in identifying, buying and assembling land for affordable housing before procuring partners openly and transparently.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	161091
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2018 answer text <p>We encourage public bodies to dispose of their surplus land for housing. Homes England, the Government’s national housing agency, because of its expertise in land disposal, can provide advice and support to public bodies that need it to realise their land disposal plans.</p><p>MHCLG is also working closely with the Office of Government Property (OGP) in Cabinet Office. OGP leads the Government's Property Function and delivers the One Public Estate programme in partnership with the Local Government Association, supporting public sector bodies to collaborate on the shared use of their assets. OGP also leads the Government Property Profession, which promotes sharing of skills, practices and experience across Government.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 12/07/2018 15:40:05 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

935008

	registered interest
	date	05/07/2018
	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
	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 has taken to ensure that all combined authorities introduce a locally appropriate, minimum affordable housing threshold on private and public land.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	161092
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2018 answer text <p>Combined authorities and their mayors have planning responsibilities only where as part of an agreed devolution deal these functions have been conferred on them, as is the case with the mayors of Greater Manchester, Liverpool City Region and West of England, who are required to publish a Spatial Development Strategy, where they could set out an affordable housing threshold.</p><p>Whilst Government policy, as set out in the draft revised National Planning Policy Framework, is that planning policies and decisions should consider what level of affordable housing provision is appropriate having regard to local circumstances, deciding to use an affordable housing threshold to achieve this is a local decision.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 12/07/2018 15:40:44 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1125695

	registered interest
	date	09/05/2019
	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	Affordable Housing: Rural Areas
	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 reassess the threshold for affordable housing on rural exception sites.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	252509
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2019 answer text <p>Rural exception sites are used for affordable housing provided in perpetuity, on land that would not normally be released for development. While some market housing may be allowed on such sites, this is at the local planning authority’s discretion, and no threshold applies. On sites that are not exception sites, national policy is that affordable housing should be sought only on sites that involve major development, except in designated rural areas where a lower threshold may be set.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 15/05/2019 09:45:43 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse previous answer version 117984 answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1126498

	registered interest
	date	14/05/2019
	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	Community Land Trusts: Rural Areas
	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 plans to extend the role of Community Land Trusts in rural areas.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	254103
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2019 answer text <p>The Government recognises that the community-led housing sector – of which Community Land Trusts are an important part – offers significant potential for helping to meet housing need across England, especially in rural areas. In addition to helping increase the rate of delivery of new housing, the sector will help deliver a range of benefits including diversifying the housebuilding sector, improving design and construction quality, developing modern methods of construction, and sustaining local communities and local economies. The support and close involvement of the local community enables the community-led approach to secure planning permission and deliver housing that could not be brought forward through speculative development.</p><p>The principal means by which my Department supports Community Land Trusts is through the annual £60 million Community Housing Fund. This fund makes revenue and capital grant available to support community-led housebuilding schemes, and supports a programme of training and development for organisations providing technical advice and guidance to community-led housebuilding groups. The Fund is currently scheduled to close in March 2020 and decisions on funding for 2020-21 onwards are a matter for the Spending Review, which will take place this year.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 20/05/2019 14:38:50 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

935003

	registered interest
	date	05/07/2018
	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	Compulsory Purchase: Compensation
	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 reform compulsory purchase orders compensation rules to ensure that a larger proportion of the value uplift created by residential planning permission can support affordable housing, infrastructure and remediation.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	161089
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2018 answer text <p>Through the Housing and Planning Act 2016 and the Neighbourhood Planning Act 2017, MHCLG has introduced a substantial package of reforms to make the compulsory purchase process clearer, fairer and faster for all.</p><p>Compulsory purchase can be an important tool for assembling land needed to help deliver a range of development, regeneration and infrastructure projects. However, it must be recognised that the expropriation of private property interferes with the rights of those whose land is taken. As such, there must always be a compelling case in the public interest to justify the use of compulsory purchase powers and compensation must be fair.</p><p>The overriding principle of compulsory purchase compensation is ‘equivalence’, so that an owner is left neither better nor worse off (at least in monetary terms) as a result of their property being compulsorily acquired. Compensation is based on the open market value of the interest acquired, in the absence of the scheme (for example, regeneration project or railway line) underlying the compulsory purchase order. This is known as the “no scheme principle”. Under the no-scheme principle, any increases or decreases in the value of the land attributable to the scheme of the acquiring authority, or the prospect of the scheme, are disregarded when assessing compensation.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 13/07/2018 10:43:53 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1007789

	registered interest
	date	15/11/2018
	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	Energy Performance Certificates
	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 buildings with a total floor area between 250 and 1,000 square metres which are required to possess a display energy certificate; and what proportion of those buildings are compliant to date.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	191856
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2018 answer text <p>There is no recent estimate of the number of public authority buildings between 250 and 1,000 square metres which are required to possess a Display Energy Certificate (DEC). The current number of DECs for buildings of between 250 and 1,000 square meters, including voluntary DECs, is 29,209.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 21/11/2018 13:47:26 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1005709

	registered interest
	date	12/11/2018
	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	Fuel Poverty
	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 his Department has made of the spending by social housing providers on reducing fuel poverty over the next (a) five and (b) 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	190337
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2018 answer text <p>The Department has made no such estimates.</p><p>The Regulator of Social Housing requires that homes in the social housing sector meet the Decent Homes Standard, which includes having efficient heating and effective insulation. It is for providers of social housing to make decisions on how and when they maintain and improve their stock.</p><p>In 2017, expenditure on all maintenance and major repairs by private registered providers of social housing (mainly housing associations and excluding local authorities) was £4.8 billion. The Social Housing Green Paper is considering a review of the Decent Homes Standard that includes criteria on thermal comfort.</p><p>We are investing £9 billion in the Affordable Homes Programme, which will deliver 250,000 affordable homes by March 2022</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 190336 question first answered 20/11/2018 17:25:42 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1006893

	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	Fuel Poverty
	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 Regulator of Social Housing has information on the spending plans of housing providers to tackle fuel poverty among people in their housing stock over the next (a) five and (b) 10 years; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	191264
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2018 answer text <p>The Regulator of Social Housing does not produce estimates of, or collect information on, future spending on energy efficiency by housing providers.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 191263 question first answered 21/11/2018 13:47:57 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1107787

	registered interest
	date	29/03/2019
	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	Hedges and Ditches
	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 strengthen regulations to prevent developers and landowners putting netting on hedgerows.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	238587
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2019 answer text <p>Wild birds are protected by law and therefore any development project must consider the impact on local wildlife and take precautionary action to protect their habitats. The revised National Planning Policy Framework is clear that planning policies and decisions should contribute to and enhance the natural and local environment by minimising the impacts on and providing net gains for biodiversity. The Government has announced plans to require developers to deliver biodiversity net gain through the forthcoming Environment Bill. This will mean habitats for wildlife must be left in a measurably better state than they were before any development.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 03/04/2019 14:35:04 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew