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753307

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	01/08/2017
	date	18/07/2017
	date tabled	18/07/2017
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	ddp created	18/07/2017 22:06:04 18/07/2017 22:06:04
	ddp modified	18/07/2017 22:06:04 11/09/2017 15:25:03
	house id	2
	identifier	HL995
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	parliament number	56
	question first answered	11/09/2017 14:53:48
	question text	Her Majesty's Government what is their estimate of the number of children housed in temporary accommodation in each year from 2005 to 2016.
	session	2017/19
	session number	2
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	title	House of Lords Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 HL995
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL995
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>Time spent in temporary accommodation means that no family with a child ever has to be without a roof over their heads. The number of households in temporary accommodation is well below the peak over a decade ago, in 2005.</p><p>But temporary accommodation is an intermediate measure. This government changed the law to allow councils to place families in decent and affordable private rented homes. This means homeless households do not have to wait as long for settled accommodation, spending less time in temporary accommodation.</p><p>We have also replaced DWP’s Temporary Accommodation Management Fee with a Flexible Homelessness Support Grant which local authorities can use more strategically to prevent and tackle homelessness. This amounts to £402m over the two years from 2017/18.</p><p>This government is implementing the most ambitious legislative reform in decades, the Homelessness Reduction Act, which significantly reforms England’s homelessness legislation, ensuring that more people get the help they need earlier to prevent them from becoming homeless in the first place.</p><p>The Act places duties on local authorities to intervene at earlier stages to prevent homelessness in their areas. It also requires local authorities to provide new homelessness services to all those affected, not just those who are protected under existing legislation.</p><p>I will place detailed figures in the Library of the House.</p><p> </p>
	creator	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	publisher	25277 pref label House of Lords
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

753306

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	01/08/2017
	date	18/07/2017
	date tabled	18/07/2017
	ddp created	18/07/2017 22:06:03
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	ddp modified	18/07/2017 22:06:03 11/09/2017 15:25:09
	house id	2
	identifier	HL994
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	parliament number	56
	question first answered	11/09/2017 14:53:48
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many households were housed in temporary accommodation in each year from 2005 to 2016.
	session	2017/19
	session number	2
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	title	House of Lords Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 HL994
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL994
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>Time spent in temporary accommodation means that no family with a child ever has to be without a roof over their heads. The number of households in temporary accommodation is well below the peak over a decade ago, in 2005.</p><p>But temporary accommodation is an intermediate measure. This government changed the law to allow councils to place families in decent and affordable private rented homes. This means homeless households do not have to wait as long for settled accommodation, spending less time in temporary accommodation.</p><p>We have also replaced DWP’s Temporary Accommodation Management Fee with a Flexible Homelessness Support Grant which local authorities can use more strategically to prevent and tackle homelessness. This amounts to £402m over the two years from 2017/18.</p><p>This government is implementing the most ambitious legislative reform in decades, the Homelessness Reduction Act, which significantly reforms England’s homelessness legislation, ensuring that more people get the help they need earlier to prevent them from becoming homeless in the first place.</p><p>The Act places duties on local authorities to intervene at earlier stages to prevent homelessness in their areas. It also requires local authorities to provide new homelessness services to all those affected, not just those who are protected under existing legislation.</p><p>I will place detailed figures in the Library of the House.</p><p> </p>
	creator	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	publisher	25277 pref label House of Lords
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

753305

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	01/08/2017
	date	18/07/2017
	date tabled	18/07/2017
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	ddp created	18/07/2017 22:06:01 18/07/2017 22:06:01
	ddp modified	18/07/2017 22:06:01 11/09/2017 15:25:15
	house id	2
	identifier	HL993
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	parliament number	56
	question first answered	11/09/2017 14:53:48
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many households were accepted as unintentionally homeless in each year from 2005 to 2016.
	session	2017/19
	session number	2
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	title	House of Lords Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 HL993
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL993
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>Time spent in temporary accommodation means that no family with a child ever has to be without a roof over their heads. The number of households in temporary accommodation is well below the peak over a decade ago, in 2005.</p><p>But temporary accommodation is an intermediate measure. This government changed the law to allow councils to place families in decent and affordable private rented homes. This means homeless households do not have to wait as long for settled accommodation, spending less time in temporary accommodation.</p><p>We have also replaced DWP’s Temporary Accommodation Management Fee with a Flexible Homelessness Support Grant which local authorities can use more strategically to prevent and tackle homelessness. This amounts to £402m over the two years from 2017/18.</p><p>This government is implementing the most ambitious legislative reform in decades, the Homelessness Reduction Act, which significantly reforms England’s homelessness legislation, ensuring that more people get the help they need earlier to prevent them from becoming homeless in the first place.</p><p>The Act places duties on local authorities to intervene at earlier stages to prevent homelessness in their areas. It also requires local authorities to provide new homelessness services to all those affected, not just those who are protected under existing legislation.</p><p>I will place detailed figures in the Library of the House.</p><p> </p>
	creator	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	publisher	25277 pref label House of Lords
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

753289

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	01/08/2017
	date	18/07/2017
	date tabled	18/07/2017
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	ddp created	18/07/2017 22:05:43 18/07/2017 22:05:43
	ddp modified	18/07/2017 22:05:43 01/08/2017 15:51:04
	house id	2
	identifier	HL977
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	parliament number	56
	question first answered	01/08/2017 15:19:27
	question text	Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the incidence of abuse and violence conducted by occupants of short-term holiday lets on neighbouring long-term residents; and what evidence they have for that assessment.
	session	2017/19
	session number	2
	tabling member printed	Baroness Gardner of Parkes
	title	House of Lords Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 HL977
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL977
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Government has not made an assessment. Agencies have strong powers for tackling anti-social behaviour through the Anti-Social Behaviour Crime and Policing Act, requiring landlords to deal with nuisance.</p><p>Residents affected can request from their Local Authority an Anti-Social Behaviour Case Review - also called Community Trigger – in which they can insist on a multi-agency review of their case if they have reported the problem three times in the past six months and yet the problem has not yet been resolved</p><p>Any incidence of abuse or violence should be reported to the police. The police and local authorities have a significant range of powers and we expect these to be used, putting the needs of victims at the heart of their response, promptly and proportionately.</p>
	creator	3596 label Biography information for Baroness Gardner of Parkes
	publisher	25277 pref label House of Lords
	tabling member	3596 label Biography information for Baroness Gardner of Parkes

753287

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	01/08/2017
	date	18/07/2017
	date tabled	18/07/2017
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	ddp created	18/07/2017 22:05:39 18/07/2017 22:05:39
	ddp modified	18/07/2017 22:05:39 01/08/2017 15:50:06
	house id	2
	identifier	HL975
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	parliament number	56
	question first answered	01/08/2017 15:18:25
	question text	Her Majesty's Government what proposals they have to protect long-term residents from the adverse impacts of unlawful short-term holiday lets in neighbouring properties.
	session	2017/19
	session number	2
	tabling member printed	Baroness Gardner of Parkes
	title	House of Lords Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 HL975
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL975
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Government supports the sharing economy, and welcomes Airbnb’s recent decision to amend its systems so that entire home listings in London are not available for more than 90 nights in any given year without appropriate planning permission. The Government also welcomes the formation of the UK Short Term Accommodation Association and its work to develop an industry code of conduct.</p><p>Changes in section 44 of the Deregulation Act in no way weaken existing protection for residents against statutory nuisances and anti-social behaviour.</p><p>Where short term lets breach the rules, responsibility for enforcement lies with the local authority, as it does for any breaches of planning control, and householders who breach the rules face significant fines.</p>
	creator	3596 label Biography information for Baroness Gardner of Parkes
	publisher	25277 pref label House of Lords
	tabling member	3596 label Biography information for Baroness Gardner of Parkes

753270

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	01/08/2017
	date	18/07/2017
	date tabled	18/07/2017
	ddp created	18/07/2017 22:05:22
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	ddp modified	18/07/2017 22:05:22 26/07/2017 13:46:04
	house id	2
	identifier	HL958
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	parliament number	56
	question first answered	26/07/2017 13:45:40
	question text	Her Majesty's Government what progress they have made in providing local authorities with the means to alleviate rises in business rates as announced in the Budget, particularly in relation to independent bookshops.
	session	2017/19
	session number	2
	tabling member printed	Lord Bird
	title	House of Lords Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 HL958
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL958
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Government confirmed local authority allocations for the £300 million discretionary relief in April 2017 enabling councils to design and press on with implementing their own schemes. Many authorities have already issued reduced bills, and we continue to urge other councils to follow suit as quickly as possible.</p>
	creator	4564 label Biography information for Lord Bird
	publisher	25277 pref label House of Lords
	tabling member	4564 label Biography information for Lord Bird

731077

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	05/07/2017
	date	21/06/2017
	date tabled	21/06/2017
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	ddp created	21/06/2017 22:05:14 21/06/2017 22:05:14
	ddp modified	21/06/2017 22:05:14 03/07/2017 17:11:04
	house id	2
	identifier	HL85
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	parliament number	56
	question first answered	03/07/2017 16:39:08
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many meetings with Electrical Safety First and other stakeholders have taken place to develop the regulations for electrical safety checks in the private rented sector since the Housing and Planning Act 2016 was granted Royal Assent.
	session	2017/19 (57/1)
	session number	2
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	title	House of Lords Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 (57/1) HL85
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL85
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>Following Royal Assent of the Housing and Planning Act 2016, a Working Group of relevant experts, including Electrical Safety First, was established to provide recommendations to ministers on what, if any, legislative requirements for electrical safety in the private rented sector should be introduced. The Working Group met four times in, August, October, November and December 2016.</p>
	creator	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	publisher	25277 pref label House of Lords
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

731076

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	05/07/2017
	date	21/06/2017
	date tabled	21/06/2017
	ddp created	21/06/2017 22:05:13
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	ddp modified	21/06/2017 22:05:13 03/07/2017 17:14:02
	house id	2
	identifier	HL84
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	parliament number	56
	question first answered	03/07/2017 16:42:18
	question text	Her Majesty's Government what progress they have made in the drafting of the regulations under Part 5 of the Housing and Planning Act 2016 for electrical safety checks in private rented sector accommodation; and when they expect those regulations to be laid before Parliament.
	session	2017/19 (57/1)
	session number	2
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	title	House of Lords Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 (57/1) HL84
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL84
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>Following Royal Assent of the Housing and Planning Act 2016, a Working Group of relevant experts was established to provide recommendations to ministers on what, if any, legislative requirements for electrical safety in the private rented sector should be introduced. The Working Group’s report and recommendations will now be considered by the new Housing Minister.</p>
	creator	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	publisher	25277 pref label House of Lords
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

731075

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	05/07/2017
	date	21/06/2017
	date tabled	21/06/2017
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	ddp created	21/06/2017 22:05:12 21/06/2017 22:05:12
	ddp modified	21/06/2017 22:05:12 11/07/2017 15:41:05
	house id	2
	identifier	HL83
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	parliament number	56
	question first answered	11/07/2017 15:09:37
	question text	Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to review the rights of social housing tenants.
	session	2017/19 (57/1)
	session number	2
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	title	House of Lords Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 (57/1) HL83
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL83
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>While the Government does not have immediate plans to review the rights of social housing tenants, in light of the terrible tragedy of the Grenfell Tower fire, we have been clear in that more attention must be focused on social housing and listening to its tenants. We are determined to do all that we can to make sure that something like this never happens again.</p><p>Our immediate priority is to support the victims, to find homes for those made homeless by the fire, and to make sure the country's housing stock is safe. The Secretary of State also announced on 5 July that an independent Recovery Taskforce will be appointed to advise the Council on the longer term recovery needs, and will answer directly to the Secretary of State. The Taskforce will remain in place for as long as is required.</p>
	creator	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	publisher	25277 pref label House of Lords
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

1172796

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	05/02/2020
	date	22/01/2020
	date tabled	22/01/2020
	ddp created	22/01/2020 22:25:59
	answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	ddp modified	28/01/2020 17:45:13 03/02/2020 17:35:03
	house id	2
	identifier	HL727
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	parliament number	58
	question first answered	03/02/2020 17:03:00
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Viscount Younger of Leckie on 21 January (HL187), what criteria they use to assess what constitutes a “legitimate criticism” of a religion when investigating any incident that has been reported by someone who has perceived it to “be motivated by a hostility or prejudice based on a person’s religion or perceived religion”; and what steps they take to ensure freedom of expression is upheld.
	session	2019/20
	session number	1
	tabling member printed	Lord Vinson
	title	House of Lords Tabled Parliamentary Question 2019/20 HL727
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL727
	version	2
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>Once a hate crime has been reported it is for the police to investigate whether a hate crime has been committed, in line with the relevant legislation, and to refer cases to the Crown Prosecution Service to decide whether there should be a charge.</p><p>In order for a crime to be charged and prosecuted as a hate crime, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) uses the legal definitions contained in the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (CDA 1998) and the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (CJA 2003).</p><p>The CPS assesses each case on its individual facts and circumstances. Prosecutions can only be brought in line with legislation and in accordance with the Code for Crown Prosecutors.</p><p>The CPS legal guidance on hate crime recognises the right to freedom of expression set out in Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights. The legal guidance makes it clear that it is not only speech which is well-received and popular that is protected but also speech which is potentially offensive, shocking or disturbing. The CPS seeks to balance the right to freedom of speech and expression against the duty of the state to act proportionately.</p>
	creator	1807 label Biography information for Lord Vinson
	publisher	25277 pref label House of Lords
	tabling member	1807 label Biography information for Lord Vinson