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973392

	registered interest
	date	13/09/2018
	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: Domestic Abuse
	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 page 23 of the Victims Strategy, published in September 2018, Cm. 9700, whether the spending commitment of £18.8m on domestic abuse accommodation services will come from existing budgets.
	tabling member constituency	Ashfield
	tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
	uin	174669
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <p>Domestic abuse is an abhorrent crime that nobody should have to suffer. The Government is committed to protecting victims of domestic abuse. In the 2015 Spending Review, my Department secured £40 million to support victims of domestic abuse. Funding for the 2018-20 £18.8 million fund for accommodation-based domestic abuse services comes from this £40 million. The fund was open to all local authorities across England to bid for a share and we will be announcing the successful projects in due course.</p><p>Our 2016-18 £20 million fund was also delivered with Spending Review 2015 funding. This supported 80 projects across 258 local authorities in England, helping to create more than 2,000 bed spaces in safe accommodation, including refuge, and giving support to over 19,000 victims and their families.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 09/10/2018 15:11:46 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

846189

	registered interest
	date	21/02/2018
	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	Bed and Breakfast Accommodation
	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 the ban on local authorities accommodating homeless families and pregnant women in B&B accommodation for longer than 6 weeks is being enforced.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	128875
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2018 answer text <p>Time spent in temporary accommodation means people are getting help and it ensures no family is without a roof over their head. The law is clear that households with dependent children should only be accommodated in B&amp;B in an emergency and then for no longer than 6 weeks</p><p>Our new Homelessness Advice and Support Team, drawn from local authorities and the homelessness sector, is providing support to local authorities to help them address their homelessness challenges, including the use of B&amp;B accommodation for families.</p><p>We are taking unprecedented action to change how we tackle homelessness and rough sleeping. We have committed £1 billion through to 2020 to support local services and changing how local authorities operate by implementing the Homelessness Reduction Act from 3 April 2018 to help more people get tailored support sooner when they are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 26/02/2018 17:58:46 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler previous answer version 43157 answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

856177

	registered interest
	date	06/03/2018
	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, what plans his Department has to reduce rough sleeping.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	131343
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2018 answer text <p>No one should ever have to sleep rough. That is why this Government has committed to halving rough sleeping by 2022 and eliminating it altogether by 2027. A new Rough Sleeping and Homelessness Reduction Taskforce is bringing together relevant ministers from across Government, and will drive forward the implementation of a cross-Government strategy to tackle this issue. They are being supported by an Advisory Panel made up of experts from local government and the homelessness sector.</p><p>We have allocated over £1 billion through to 2020 to prevent and reduce all forms of homelessness including piloting a Housing First approach for some of the most entrenched rough sleepers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 12/03/2018 16:24:54 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

860536

	registered interest
	date	12/03/2018
	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	Private Rented Housing: Students
	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 help students afford the cost of renting properties.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	131893
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to rebalancing the relationship between landlords and tenants to deliver a fairer, higher quality and more affordable private rented sector for all tenants. We will ban unfair letting fees and cap tenancy deposits to ensure that renters have more money in their pockets.</p><p>The single most important thing we can do to tackle affordability is to increase supply. That is why we have delivered over 346,000 new affordable homes since 2010, including 248,000 affordable homes for rent. This will help all tenants, including students, to afford the cost of renting properties.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 15/03/2018 12:49:47 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

861273

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2018
	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	Rented Housing: Low Incomes
	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 average cost of renting a property in (a) the social rented sector and (b) the private rented sector for households on low incomes in the latest period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	132422
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2018 answer text <p>The Department's English Housing Survey collects and publishes data on the average rent in the social and private rented sectors, this can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/english-housing-survey-2016-to-2017-headline-report" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/english-housing-survey-2016-to-2017-headline-report</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 16/03/2018 11:07:38 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

861274

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2018
	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	Social Rented 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, whether the social housing Green Paper is planned to include measures to increase the supply of social housing.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	132423
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2018 answer text <p>The Social Housing Green Paper will be a wide-ranging review of social housing in England.</p><p>Building more affordable homes is an absolute priority for this Government, and we have. announced an additional £2 billion funding for affordable housing in areas of acute affordability pressure, increasing our budget to over £9 billion for a range of affordable homes, including for social rent. As part of this funding, at Spring Statement the Chancellor announced an extra £1.67 billion for an additional 26,000 more affordable homes in London and we made it a condition that some must be social rent. We will also raise the Housing Revenue Account borrowing cap by a total of up to £1 billion in areas of high affordability pressure for councils who are ready to start building new homes.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 16/03/2018 13:16:34 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

864474

	registered interest
	date	15/03/2018
	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	Right to Buy Scheme
	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 assessment he has made of the effect of Right to Buy on the number of young people in rented accommodation.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	132957
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2018 answer text <p>Right to Buy gives tenants of all ages the opportunity to own their home. Since the reinvigoration of Right to Buy increased maximum discounts to realistic levels in 2012, over 80,000 tenants have been enabled to buy their homes.</p><p>In addition, last October the Prime Minister announced an extra £2 billion funding for affordable housing, including social rent homes, in addition to the £1.4 billion announced at the Autumn Statement 2016. This has increased the Governments Affordable Housing Programme 2016-21 Budget to more than £9 billion, which will deliver many more affordable homes by March 2021. The new funding will support councils and housing associations to build more genuinely affordable homes in areas of acute affordability pressure where tenants, including young people, are struggling the most with the costs of rent.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 20/03/2018 17:31:54 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

867366

	registered interest
	date	20/03/2018
	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	Supported Housing: Housing Benefit
	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 paper Funding supported housing: policy statement and consultation announced on 31 October 2017, what assessment he has made of the effect of changes to housing benefit for supported accommodation on refuge providers who rely on rents for income.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	133341
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2018 answer text <p>The short-term supported housing funding model will ensure that the housing costs for people living in refuges and other forms of short-term supported housing will be met by a grant fund administered by local authorities.</p><p>The same amount of funding as would have been available through Housing Benefit in 2020/21 will be made available as grant instead, and will directly fund bed spaces. The overall grant fund, including funding for refuges, will be ring-fenced indefinitely. Everyone who would be eligible under the current system to have their housing costs met by housing benefit will continue to have their housing costs met through the short-term funding model and no refuge should worry about closing or have any doubts over our commitment to ensure a sustainable funding model for them.</p><p>We are continuing to listen to the sector and are considering feedback through the recent consultation which closed on 23 January, and includes sector comments on the effect of the model on the number of and services women’s refuges in England. In addition, we are undertaking a thorough review of the commissioning and funding of all Domestic Abuse services in England and will be working closely with the domestic abuse sector, drawing on their knowledge and expertise, to make sure we get this right.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 26/03/2018 12:24:33 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

867457

	registered interest
	date	20/03/2018
	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	Travellers: Caravan Sites
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, further to the oral contribution of the Minister of State, Department for Communities and Local Government on 9 October 2017, Official Report, column 82, what the timetable is for the publication of public consultation into the effectiveness of enforcement procedures against unauthorised encampments and developments.
	tabling member constituency	Basildon and Billericay
	tabling member printed	Mr John Baron
	uin	133432
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2018 answer text <p>It remains the Government’s intention to publish a consultation on powers for dealing with unauthorised development and encampments. We are working closely with the Home Office and Ministry of Justice in finalising the consultation paper, which we intend to publish shortly.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 26/03/2018 12:25:54 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	1390 label Biography information for Mr John Baron

825501

	registered interest
	date	18/01/2018
	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	Holocaust Memorial Day
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, which Departments have (a) marked and (b) plans to mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Bassetlaw
	tabling member printed	John Mann
	uin	123640
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2018 answer text <p>In 2018, more departments than ever before held events to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day. These include:</p><ul><li>Department for Business, Energy &amp; Industrial Strategy</li><li>Cabinet Office</li><li>Ministry of Defence</li><li>Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport</li><li>Department for Education</li><li>Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs</li><li>Department for Exiting the European Union</li><li>Foreign and Commonwealth Office</li><li>Home Office</li><li>Department of Health and Social Care</li><li>Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government</li><li>Department for International Development</li><li>Department for International Trade</li><li>Ministry of Justice</li><li>Northern Ireland Office</li><li>Department for Transport</li><li>HM Treasury</li></ul><p> </p><p>Officials in all other departments have been invited to attend these events, or given opportunities to view them remotely. A number of non-Ministerial departments have also held events or their staff have been able to attend those held at Ministerial departments; these include (but are not limited to) the Government Legal Department, the Crown Prosecution Service and the Charity Commission.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 07/02/2018 10:32:42 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	1387 label Biography information for Lord Mann