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1138858

	registered interest
	date	15/07/2019
	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, what assessment his Department has made of the implications for residential properties of less than 13 square metres in the provisions of the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Hendon
	tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
	uin	277169
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2019 answer text <p>The Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018 is helping to drive up standards in the private and social rented sectors by putting an obligation on landlords to ensure that any rented residential properties are free of all hazards, including overcrowding, from which a risk of harm may arise to the health or safety of the tenant or another occupier of the property. This requirement applies from the outset and for the duration of the tenancy.</p><p>This Department has not made a specific assessment of the implications for properties that are smaller than 13 square metres in relation to the Homes Act. The courts will decide whether a property is fit for human habitation by considering the matters set out in section 10 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985, which includes the ‘overcrowding’ hazard prescribed in the Housing Health and Safety (England) Regulations 2005. Each property is assessed on its own merits, and if a property is so small as to be hazardously overcrowded, tenants will have the right to take action in the courts for breach of contract on the grounds that the property is unfit for human habitation.</p><p>Government is also reviewing the hazards set out in the 2005 Regulations as part of the comprehensive review of the Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS).</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 18/07/2019 12:56:12 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1139001

	registered interest
	date	15/07/2019
	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	Refuges: North West
	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 availability of refuges for victims of domestic violence in (a) St Helens borough and (b) the North West.
	tabling member constituency	St Helens North
	tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
	uin	277215
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2019 answer text <p>The Department does not hold centrally the availability of refuges for victims of domestic violence in St Helens borough and the North West.</p><p>We are currently consulting on the Future Delivery of Support to Victims and their Children in Accommodation-Based Domestic Abuse Services closing on 2 August. The proposals for a statutory duty will require local authorities to convene a Local Partnership Board. Local Partnership Boards will be responsible for robustly assessing need for support for victims and their children in safe accommodation, developing, agreeing and publishing an area-wide Domestic Abuse Strategy, ensuring local commissioning of support services is in line with this to meet the diverse support needs of victims and their children and report to central Government on progress.</p><p>It is our intention that the proposals for a statutory duty, subject to the outcome of the public consultation, will form part of the Domestic Abuse Bill at a later stage.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 18/07/2019 13:06:47 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn

1138480

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2019
	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	Anti-muslim Hatred Working Group
	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 (a) persons and (b) organisations the Anti-Muslim Hatred Working Group has met with in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Ilford North
	tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
	uin	276245
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2019 answer text <p>The Anti-Muslim Hatred Working Group was established to consider and take forward proposals to tackle anti-Muslim hatred. Members are expected to interact regularly with a broad range stakeholders at an individual and organisational level. This includes Muslim communities, key partners, government departments, local service providers, police and interfaith groups.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 16/07/2019 11:47:37 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

1138482

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2019
	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	Anti-muslim Hatred Working Group
	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 the terms of reference of the Anti-Muslim Hatred Working Group (a) were last and (b) are next due to be reviewed.
	tabling member constituency	Ilford North
	tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
	uin	276246
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2019 answer text <p>The terms of reference of the Anti-Muslim Hatred Working Group were last reviewed during the process to refresh the membership this year. The terms of reference are reviewed regularly.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 16/07/2019 11:47:57 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

1138484

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2019
	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	Anti-Muslim Hatred Working Group
	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 engagement the Anti-Muslim Hatred Working Group has had with the (a) Attorney General’s Office, (b) Cabinet Office, (c) Crown Prosecution Service, (d) Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, (e) Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, (f) Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport; (g) Department for Education, (h) Foreign and Commonwealth Office, (i) Home Office, (j) Ministry of Justice, and (k) Department for Transport in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Ilford North
	tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
	uin	276247
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2019 answer text <p>The Anti-Muslim Hatred Working Group meets quarterly. Independent members of the Working Group work alongside the listed departments, representatives from the Muslim communities, independent experts, academics, and ex-officio members of the Working Group to tackle anti-Muslim hatred.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 18/07/2019 13:03:56 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

1137800

	registered interest
	date	09/07/2019
	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	Temporary 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, with reference to Justlife's report or April 2018, Lifting the Lid on Hidden Homelessness: A New Analysis and its estimate that over 51,500 homeless households are living in bed and breakfast accommodation in England, if he will make an assessment of the accuracy of that estimate; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	275094
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2019 answer text <p>The ‘Lifting the Lid on Hidden Homelessness’ report asked local authorities for the number of tenants claiming housing benefit for bed and breakfast in a financial year. The MHCLG experimental statistics on statutory homelessness record the stock of households in temporary accommodation (including bed and breakfast) at the end of each quarter who are owed a homelessness duty. The 51,500 figure in the Justlife report includes anyone who has spend any time in bed and breakfast accommodation over the financial year, however short. MHCLG figures for the 2015/16 financial year are shown below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="5"><p><strong>Number of households in bed and breakfast hotels 2015/16</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>Q3</p></td><td><p>5,910</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Q4</p></td><td><p>5,120</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>Q1</p></td><td><p>5,960</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Q2</p></td><td><p>6,490</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to reducing homelessness and rough sleeping. No one should ever have to sleep rough. That is why we have made a manifesto commitment to halve rough sleeping by 2022 and end it altogether by 2027, placing a priority on preventing people from becoming homeless in the first place.</p><p>Last summer we published the cross-government Rough Sleeping Strategy. This 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> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 15/07/2019 15:49:58 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1137801

	registered interest
	date	09/07/2019
	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	Temporary 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, what steps his Department is taking to collect data on households living in unsupported temporary accommodation who are homeless and not currently included in official homelessness statistics.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	275095
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to reducing homelessness and rough sleeping. No one should ever have to sleep rough. That is why we have made a manifesto commitment to halve rough sleeping by 2022 and end it altogether by 2027, placing a priority on preventing people from becoming homeless in the first place.</p><p>Last summer we published the cross-government Rough Sleeping Strategy. This 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><br> The Homelessness Reduction Act (HRA) brings more people such as single homeless households into scope to receive assistance from their local authority. These households were not assisted or reported through the old P1E collection, until the end of March 2018. The HRA has placed additional duties on local authorities to work to prevent and relieve homelessness for all eligible homeless applicants and to secure interim/permanent accommodation for those in priority need. The Department’s new case level data collection system, H-CLIC, since April 2018 includes information on households whose homelessness has been prevented and relieved, as well as those currently in different types of temporary accommodation, including bed and breakfast accommodation and hostels. This data can be found online here: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistical-data-sets%2Flive-tables-on-homelessness&amp;data=02%7C01%7CCatherine.Barham%40communities.gov.uk%7Ce6d2de6e6066400e9b7208d70560a8f4%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C636983785025299486&amp;sdata=4o4VNejDER%2B7hW4HXY68ZzNpg28qf%2F1%2FnnNwU4ym%2F9g%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness</a></p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 15/07/2019 15:51:15 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1137802

	registered interest
	date	09/07/2019
	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	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, with reference to paragraph 1.6 on page 14 of the National Audit Office's report of Session 2017-18, Homelessness, published on 13 September 2017, what steps his Department is taking to tackle concerns raised in that report that his Department’s measures of homelessness do not capture its full extent; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	275096
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2019 answer text <p>Measuring “hidden homelessness” is a complex issue. It will always be difficult by its nature – people are often not in contact with services, and it is challenging to establish everything that is going on in people’s lives. <br> <br> The Department does collect information on overcrowding and on concealed households (usually defined as single adults or groups of adults, with or without children, who occupy the accommodation with, but do not belong to, the household reference person’s family unit) through the English Housing Survey. Additional information is being collected through this survey to identify people who have experienced homelessness. <br> <br> The Homelessness Reduction Act brings more people such as single homeless households into scope to receive assistance from their local authority. These households were not assisted or reported through the old P1E collection, until the end of March 2018. Details on these non-priority need, single households often living with friends and family have been captured through the Department’s new case level data collection system, Homelessness Case Level Information Collection (H-CLIC), since April 2018. This data can be found online here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness</a><br> <br> The new data collection system, H-CLIC, captures information on households approaching for and receiving homelessness assistance, household demographics and the circumstances surrounding their homelessness. This includes any support needs of the homeless household. In time it will enable MHCLG to monitor repeat homelessness where people come back to services. It will help identify more detail on the circumstances of households vulnerable to homelessness and the interventions that are successful in preventing homelessness in the first place.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 15/07/2019 15:52:35 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1137803

	registered interest
	date	09/07/2019
	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	Temporary 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, what plans he has to collate statistics on the number of families who are not owed a statutory duty by a local authority but are living temporarily in bed and breakfast accommodation, private hostels, short-stay houses of multiple occupancy or guesthouses.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	275097
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2019 answer text <p>The Homelessness Reduction Act brings more people into scope to receive assistance from their local authority. The Government has now committed over £1.2 billion to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping over the spending review period. A household who has become homeless unintentionally and contains dependent children is considered to be priority need and a local authority has a duty to secure accommodation for these households. A household may have to spend time in temporary accommodation before a final offer of accommodation is made. Details on these priority need, households with children have been captured through the Department’s new case level data collection system, H-CLIC, since April 2018. This data can be found online here: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistical-data-sets%2Flive-tables-on-homelessness&amp;data=02%7C01%7CParliamentary%40communities.gov.uk%7Cf33bb7fde4d64dbf9d4908d7090dc500%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C636987827045950319&amp;sdata=Y4MFkZodKHSJdNri9IPkv0lKh8RaQ4zyOptLtL5M88o%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness</a></p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 15/07/2019 14:45:53 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1137023

	registered interest
	date	08/07/2019
	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	Tenants: Forfeiture
	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 make an assessment of the effectiveness of the use of forfeiture against tenants.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	273464
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government believes forfeiture is a draconian measure and should only be used as a last resort. We are reviewing the use of forfeiture and as a first step, have asked the Law Commission to update their 2006 report, <em>Termination of Tenancies for Tenant Default, </em> given the passage of time, and to take into account the implications of leasehold reforms currently underway.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 09/07/2019 09:46:20 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq