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828002

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2018
	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	Antisemitism
	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 sought the input of the Haredi community on tackling anti-Semitism; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	123962
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2018 answer text <p>As Minister for Faith, Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth has discussed the issue of antisemitism with the Charedi community and has also visited a number of organisations providing services to the Charedi community.</p><p>In addition officials meet regularly with representatives of the Charedi community to discuss antisemitism and other concerns.</p><p>The department also funds through True Vision the police online reporting portal work to encourage the Charedi community to report antisemitism and to provide support during the court process to victims.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 30/01/2018 15:50:00 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

830461

	registered interest
	date	25/01/2018
	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	Homelessness
	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 assessment he has made of the effect of Government policies on levels of homelessness over the last seven years.
	tabling member constituency	Tottenham
	tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
	uin	125027
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2018 answer text <p>My Department publishes regular statistics on rough sleeping, statutory homelessness and homelessness prevention and relief in England. These are published at a local authority level. The latest statistics can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/homelessness-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/homelessness-statistics</a></p><p>England has a strong homelessness safety net, providing protection to the most vulnerable in our society.</p><p>Successful homelessness prevention and relief has risen by 30 per cent between 2009/10 and 2016/17.</p><p>But the Government remains clear that one person without a home is one too many. We are committed to do more to prevent more people becoming homeless in the first place.</p><p>That’s why we are implementing the most ambitious legislative reform in decades, the Homelessness Reduction Act, in April 2018, which will ensure that more people get the help they need earlier to prevent them from becoming homeless in the first place.</p><p>We are also remodelling statutory homelessness data collection alongside the introduction of the Homelessness Reduction Act to give us better insights into the causes of homelessness and the support people need.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 30/01/2018 15:51:09 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

807171

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2017
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Homelessness: Personal Property
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, under what powers the property of a person who is street homeless can be confiscated.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol West
	tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
	uin	119819
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2018 answer text <p>There are no powers to confiscate the property of a person who is street homeless on the basis that they are sleeping rough.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 30/01/2018 15:48:09 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

823395

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2018
	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	Landlords
	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 tenants will be able to access the database of rogue landlords and property agents due to be published in April 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	122877
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2018 answer text <p>The national rogue landlord database will be a new tool to help local housing authorities with their housing standards enforcement work. It is part of a package of measures introduced by the Government under the Housing and Planning Act 2016, including new powers to ban landlords and to issue civil penalties for housing offences of up to £30,000.</p><p>The Act makes clear that information held on the database may not be published unless it is anonymised and the database will not be made public. Local housing authorities may wish to consider locally publicising successful banning orders they obtain. Once launched, we will keep under review the operation of the database and its use by local housing authorities to tackle rogue landlords</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 30/01/2018 15:47:18 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler previous answer version 35481 answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab answering member 4007
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

828119

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2018
	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	Private Rented Housing: Standards
	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 homes in the private rented sector have not met the decent homes standard in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) Gateshead, (d) the North East and (e) the UK in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Jarrow
	tabling member printed	Mr Stephen Hepburn
	uin	124079
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2018 answer text <p>The Department's English Housing Survey assesses the extent to which private rented sector homes in England meet the Decent Homes Standard. Data back to 2010 are published here: <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>The Department does not publish data on non-decent homes in the North East, and the survey is not designed to produce local authority or constituency level estimates.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 30/01/2018 15:26:15 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	520 label Biography information for Mr Stephen Hepburn

829806

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2018
	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	Supported Housing: 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, if he will publish an assessment of the cumulative effect of policy measures on funding for supported housing from those measures set out in the Autumn Statement 2015 to date.
	tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
	tabling member printed	John Healey
	uin	124587
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2018 answer text <p>The consultation on the recent proposals, announced in October 2017 has recently closed. Our priority for reform on this issue throughout has been to ensure that vulnerable people who rely on supported housing are protected, whilst strengthening the role that oversight and value for money play in the funding model and making sure that funding for supported housing is on a secure and sustainable footing for the future.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 30/01/2018 15:51:51 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

830394

	registered interest
	date	25/01/2018
	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	Supported Housing: 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, when he expects to respond to his Department's recent consultation on the funding of supported housing.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	124960
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2018 answer text <p>The consultations on the short-term accommodation grant and sheltered housing model closed on Tuesday 23 January 2018.</p><p>We will now consider all responses and the Government will provide a full response in the early summer of 2018. In the meantime we will continue to work with providers and local government on the details of the proposed funding models.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 30/01/2018 15:43:52 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms