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909357

	registered interest
	date	22/05/2018
	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	High Rise Flats: Fires
	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 in place to ensure that all residents are aware of whether they should stay put or evacuate their flats in the event of a high-rise fire.
	tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
	tabling member printed	John Healey
	uin	146737
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/05/2018 answer text <p>'Stay put’ is an operational policy overseen by fire and rescue services. The National Fire Chiefs Council has issued a statement on this, which can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.nationalfirechiefs.org.uk/News/national-fire-chiefs-council-reiterate-stay-put-advice/200686" target="_blank">https://www.nationalfirechiefs.org.uk/News/national-fire-chiefs-council-reiterate-stay-put-advice/200686</a></p><p>Existing advice on the policy and guidance about its suspension in certain circumstances is annexed to this letter and can be found on the National Fire Chiefs Council website at:</p><p><a href="https://www.nationalfirechiefs.org.uk/Simultaneous-evacuation-guidance" target="_blank">https://www.nationalfirechiefs.org.uk/Simultaneous-evacuation-guidance</a></p><p>In the case of a comprehensive fire risk assessment undertaken by a competent fire risk assessor deciding on the maintenance or suspension of a ‘stay put’ policy, residents and the local fire and rescue service should be informed.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 30/05/2018 17:51:05 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1349206

	registered interest
	date	21/07/2021
	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: Insulation
	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 (a) prevent homeowners who purchased their homes through a Government shared ownership scheme from facing liability for all fire safety remediation costs and (b) extend funding to homeowners facing cladding remediation costs whose buildings do not meet the height threshold for existing support schemes.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	37550
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2021 answer text <p>(A) The Government has announced a globally unprecedented investment in building safety, under which, hundreds of thousands of residents, including shared owners, will be protected from the cost of remediating unsafe cladding on their homes. We are providing over £5 billion in grant funding for the removal of unsafe cladding on residential buildings over 18 metres, as well as establishing a generous finance scheme which will provide leaseholders in residential buildings of 11-18 metres with access to finance for cladding remediation costs. Under this scheme leaseholders in residential buildings between 11-18 metres will pay no more than £50 per month towards the cost of cladding remediation.</p><p>We have also introduced a new model for Shared Ownership which will include a 10 year period during which the landlord will support with the cost of repairs in new build homes. The changes will prevent new shared owners from being hit with unexpected repairs and maintenance bills and will help to bridge the gap between renting and homeownership.</p><p>(B) Longstanding safety advice is clear that height is a central factor in assessing risk. Buildings below 18 metres will not carry the same risk as a building above 18  metres.  It is right that we prioritise action on higher rise buildings where risk to multiple households is greater when fire spreads, which is why we have taken a risk based, proportionate approach.</p><p>Government funding does not absolve building owners of their responsibility to ensure that their buildings are safe.  They should consider all routes to meet costs, protecting leaseholders where they can - for example through warranties and recovering costs from contractors for incorrect or poor work.  We have seen many responsible developers and building owners stepping up to take responsibility for correcting these defects - for example, in more than half of the high-rise private sector buildings with ACM.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 06/09/2021 10:57:11 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1081747

	registered interest
	date	04/03/2019
	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	Leasehold
	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 leasehold properties were (a) built and (b) approved in (i) England and (ii) Lancashire in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Preston
	tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
	uin	227950
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2019 answer text <p>(a) Leasehold properties built are included within the quarterly statistics on <em>house building; new build dwelling completions</em> that the Department collects from each building control inspector. However, figures for them are not separately identified.</p><p>The Department’s statistics on the Help to Buy: Equity Loan scheme are published and available at the following link. This includes Tables 9, 9a and 9b with legal completions by property type and tenure (freehold and leasehold) on a cumulative, quarterly and local authority basis.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/help-to-buy-equity-loan-scheme-statistics-april-2013-to-30-september-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/help-to-buy-equity-loan-scheme-statistics-april-2013-to-30-september-2018</a>.</p><p>In December 2017, the Government announced new measures to cut out unfair practices within the leasehold system, including a ban on leaseholds for almost all new build houses. We consulted on the technical detail of this in October 2018, and are currently analysing the almost 1,300 responses. We will publish our response in due course.</p><p>The Government has also announced that no future Government funded schemes will support the build and sale of leasehold houses. This will apply to the new Help to Buy scheme from April 2021.</p><p>(b) Planning approvals for leasehold properties are included within the quarterly statistics on <em>planning decisions</em> that the Department collects from each local planning authority. However, figures for them are not separately identified.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 11/03/2019 17:44:59 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

1247049

	registered interest
	date	30/10/2020
	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, what steps his Department takes to (a) monitor and (b) regulate the standard of housing in the private rental sector; and if he will place in the Library the criteria used as part of that monitoring process.
	tabling member constituency	Poplar and Limehouse
	tabling member printed	Apsana Begum
	uin	109708
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2020 answer text <p>(a) Standards of housing in the private rented sector are monitored through the English Housing Survey, which my Department publishes and which can be found at <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fcollections%2Fenglish-housing-survey&amp;data=04%7C01%7CPSChristopherPincher%40communities.gov.uk%7Cde2c115f67d64aadbc9b08d882650b4a%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637402717776928740%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=BEgxBb3dzyeZ6yA7s58NkFuip0c5m3gF22Gdo3aSkE4%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/english-housing-survey</a>. The survey reports that in 2008 44 per cent of privately rented homes did not meet the Decent Homes Standard, but that this had improved to 25 per cent by 2018.</p><p>(b) Local authorities have strong powers to tackle poor standards in the private rented sector. These powers were strengthened by the Housing and Planning Act 2016 which introduced financial penalties of up to £30,000, extended Rent Repayment Orders and introduced Banning Orders for the most serious and prolific offenders.</p><p>In addition, the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018 has empowered tenants, for the first time, to take action in the courts for breach of contract on the grounds that the property is unfit for human habitation. The remedies available to the tenant are an order by the court requiring the landlord to take action to reduce or remove the hazard and damages to compensate them for having to live in a property which was not fit for human habitation.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 09/11/2020 14:36:01 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
	tabling member	4790 label Biography information for Apsana Begum

905488

	registered interest
	date	16/05/2018
	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: Public Expenditure
	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 much money from the public purse was spent on housing in (a) Coventry South constituency, (b) Coventry, (c) the West Midlands and (d) the UK in each year since 1998.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	144793
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>(a-c) The Department does not hold financial outturn data categorised by region or constituency. HMT release their analysis of total public expenditure spend by region in the Country and Regional Analysis. This can be found here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/657987/Country_and_Regional_Analysis_November_2017.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/657987/Country_and_Regional_Analysis_November_2017.pdf</a></p><p>(d) The Department does not hold the information requested. Public expenditure on housing will include Housing Benefit, MHCLG expenditure and local authority costs. HMT publish their country and regional analysis which provides the estimate requested for England. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/country-and-regional-analysis#history" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/country-and-regional-analysis#history</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 22/05/2018 15:34:05 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab previous answer version 59121 answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

874690

	registered interest
	date	29/03/2018
	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	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 estimate his Department has made of the number of new homes that will be built between March 2018 and March 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Ashford
	tabling member printed	Damian Green
	uin	134991
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2018 answer text <p>1,111,000 additional homes have been delivered in England since April 2010, and housing supply increased by 217,350 net additional dwellings in 2016-17 – the highest level since 2007-08.</p><p>The reforms in our Housing White Paper, together with the measures announced at Autumn Budget, put Government on track to create, fund and drive a housing market which delivers 300,000 homes a year on average by the mid-2020s. We will meet our 2015 commitment to deliver a million homes by the end of 2020 and half a million more by the end of 2022.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 19/04/2018 14:23:42 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
	tabling member	76 label Biography information for Damian Green

844030

	registered interest
	date	19/02/2018
	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	Housing: Telford
	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 (a) new-build planning approvals were granted and (b) how many new houses were built in Telford constituency in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Telford
	tabling member printed	Lucy Allan
	uin	128145
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2018 answer text <p>1. Numbers of major and minor residential planning applications decided by each local authority district, in the year to 30 September 2017, are shown in Live Table P136 at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-planning-application-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-planning-application-statistics</a></p><p>Earlier versions of table P136 are also available from the same link:</p><ul><li><p>those for years ending July 2012 to June 2017 are under the heading, “Historical Live Tables”, and</p></li><li><p>those for years ending September 2010 to June 2012 are available from the relevant link to the National Archives.</p></li></ul><p>These statistics are not available by parliamentary constituency.</p><p>2. Estimates of house building for new build dwellings completions for England and in each local authority district, to September quarter 2017, are shown in Live Table 253a at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-house-building" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-house-building</a></p><p>These cover new build dwellings only and should be regarded as a leading indicator of overall housing supply. The department also publishes an annual release entitled ‘Housing supply: net additional dwellings, England’, which is the primary and most comprehensive measure of housing supply.</p><p>These statistics are not available by parliamentary constituency.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 27/02/2018 09:31:31 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
	tabling member	4411 label Biography information for Lucy Allan

882521

	registered interest
	date	13/04/2018
	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	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Recruitment
	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 proportion of job roles advertised within his Department in (a) 2016 and (b) 2017 excluded the box under the Ban the Box initiative.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	135583
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2018 answer text <p>100 per cent of roles advertised by the Department during (a) 2016 and (b) 2017 excluded the box under the Ban the Box initiative. The Department was compliant with the Ban the Box initiative prior to the Civil Service adopting the policy as a default position in February 2016.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 19/04/2018 14:30:57 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1181905

	registered interest
	date	02/03/2020
	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	Towns Fund
	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 the capital budget was for each lead local authority in the 100 areas selected to apply for the Towns Fund in the financial year 2019-20.
	tabling member constituency	North West Norfolk
	tabling member printed	James Wild
	uin	23600
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2020 answer text <p>100 places were selected to develop proposals for Town Deals as part of the Towns Fund. In December 2019, local authorities received a share of £16.4 million revenue capacity funding to support the development of a Town Deal Board and Investment Plan for each of the selected towns in their area, up to a maximum of £173,029 per town. To date, no capital funding has been allocated.</p> answering member constituency Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland answering member printed Mr Simon Clarke question first answered 05/03/2020 11:12:36 answering member 4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke
	tabling member	4787 label Biography information for James Wild

934200

	registered interest
	date	03/07/2018
	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	Housing Revenue Accounts
	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 it his policy to extend to all local authorities the permission to bid for additional housing revenue account borrowing to build new council housing.
	tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
	tabling member printed	Justin Madders
	uin	160271
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2018 answer text <p>104 of the 166 local authorities with a Housing Revenue Account are in an area of high affordability pressure and so are eligible to bid for the additional borrowing programme. We will review how authorities respond to this opportunity, and consider whether any further action is needed.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 10/07/2018 16:42:29 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse previous answer version 68088 answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
	tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders