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1336773

	registered interest
	date	15/06/2021
	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	First Time Buyers: Hampstead and Kilburn
	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 introduce First Homes housing in the Hampstead and Kilburn constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	16173
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2021 answer text <p>On 24 May we issued a written ministerial statement implementing new planning policy to ensure that First Homes will be delivered in all parts of England in the future, and I look forward to seeing First Homes come forward as part of developments in Hampstead and Kilburn and across the country.</p><p>We also recently launched the first batch of First Homes in Bolsover, Derbyshire, meaning that First Homes are now on sale and this manifesto commitment is now a reality. We will be bringing more pilots out in other areas across England, and we are also keen to work with local authorities to deliver First Homes at the earliest opportunity, so that local residents and key workers can benefit from this flagship new home ownership offer as quickly as possible.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 21/06/2021 16:07:29 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1287214

	registered interest
	date	19/02/2021
	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	Leasehold: National Trust
	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 he is taking to implement the Law Commission’s recommendations on leasehold reform of National Trust properties.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	155272
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2021 answer text <p>The Government is committed to promoting fairness and transparency for homeowners and ensuring that consumers are protected from abuse and poor service. We are taking forward a comprehensive programme of reform to end unfair practices in the leasehold market, and in January we announced reforms to the valuation process and length of lease extensions, in response to Law Commission recommendations.</p><p>The Law Commission’s report on enfranchisement includes recommendations relating to the qualifying criteria for enfranchisement and lease extensions, including the applicability of these to leaseholders of the National Trust. We will bring forward a response to these and the other remaining Law Commission recommendations in due course.</p> answering member constituency Walsall North answering member printed Eddie Hughes question first answered 01/03/2021 15:53:03 answering member 4635 label Biography information for Eddie Hughes
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1281041

	registered interest
	date	27/01/2021
	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	Buildings: Hampstead and Kilburn
	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 estimate his Department has made of the number of buildings in Hampstead and Kilburn constituency that (a) have combustible non-ACM cladding and (b) require EWS1 forms.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	144776
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2021 answer text <p>Summary information from the External Wall Systems data collection are published in this Building Safety Programme data release: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fbuilding-safety-programme-estimates-of-ews1-requirements-on-residential-buildings-in-england%2Fbuilding-safety-programme-estimates-of-ews1-requirements-on-residential-buildings-in-england&amp;data=04%7C01%7CBSP_PQ%40communities.gov.uk%7Ca202cc706f194c88da3f08d8c3a6ceff%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637474468502536225%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=ioODFbLQUbAThFpouXXsfVku1DPqAWQHE4ekHamBG7k%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/building-safety-programme-estimates-of-ews1-requirements-on-residential-buildings-in-england/building-safety-programme-estimates-of-ews1-requirements-on-residential-buildings-in-england</a>.</p><p>Constituency analysis is not available.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 04/02/2021 18:13:47 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1281042

	registered interest
	date	27/01/2021
	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	Buildings: 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 he is taking to reimburse leaseholders and tenants for increased service payments related to remedial cladding works since June 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	144777
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2021 answer text <p>Government guidance is clear that building safety is the responsibility of building owners and we have given expert advice on a range of safety issues to provide clarity.</p><p>The Department has ongoing engagement with developers and building owners of private sector high-rise residential buildings (over 18 metres or six storeys, whichever is reached first) with unsafe cladding. This has led to the remediation of over half of high-rise residential buildings with unsafe Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) cladding being funded by the developer, freeholder or through warranty claims, without passing the costs onto leaseholders. Furthermore, the Private Sector ACM Remediation Fund and the Building Safety Fund for the remediation of buildings with unsafe non-ACM cladding both require applicants to demonstrate that they have taken all reasonable steps to recover the costs of replacing the unsafe cladding from those responsible through insurance claims, warranties or legal action.</p><p>Government also expects building owners who have already committed to pay for the removal and replacement of unsafe cladding systems to honour their commitments.</p><p>We recognise that there are cases where leasehold agreements will allow building owners or their managing agents to pass on remediation costs to leaseholders. That is why the Government is developing proposals to help to protect leaseholders, and we will provide more details as soon as we are in a position to do so.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 04/02/2021 18:08:25 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1281043

	registered interest
	date	27/01/2021
	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	Buildings: Hampstead and Kilburn
	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 he is taking to prohibit building owners from passing the remediation cost of cladding replacement to leaseholders and tenants in Hampstead and Kilburn constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	144778
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2021 answer text <p>Government guidance is clear that building safety is the responsibility of building owners and we have given expert advice on a range of safety issues to provide clarity.</p><p>Building Owners should consider all routes to meet costs, including 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 cladding.</p><p>Government also expects building owners who have already committed to pay for the removal and replacement of unsafe non-ACM cladding systems to honour their commitments.</p><p>We recognise that there are cases where leasehold agreements will allow building owners or their managing agents to pass on remediation costs to leaseholders. That is why the Government is developing proposals to help to protect leaseholders, and we will provide more details as soon as we are in a position to do so.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 04/02/2021 18:15:24 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1280745

	registered interest
	date	26/01/2021
	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	Homelessness: Coronavirus
	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 he is taking to support the continuation of the Everyone In scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	143855
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2021 answer text <p>We have taken huge steps working with local authorities and their partners to protect rough sleepers during the pandemic. This work has not stopped, and through Everyone In, by November we had supported around 33,000 people with nearly 10,000 in emergency accommodation and over 23,000 already moved on into longer-term accommodation.</p><p>Given the new variant of COVID-19, and the new national lockdown, we are redoubling our efforts to ensure that people who sleep rough are kept as safe as possible and that we do everything we can to protect the NHS.   This is backed by £10 million to protect rough sleepers and ensure their wider health needs are addressed.</p><p>We have written to all local authorities, to ensure that even more rough sleepers are safely accommodated, and to ask that this opportunity is actively used to make sure that all rough sleepers are registered with a GP where they are not already and are factored into local area vaccination plans, in line with JCVI prioritisation for COVID-19 vaccinations.</p> answering member constituency Walsall North answering member printed Eddie Hughes question first answered 01/02/2021 11:54:20 answering member 4635 label Biography information for Eddie Hughes
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1280764

	registered interest
	date	26/01/2021
	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	Estate Agents: Coronavirus
	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 scientific evidence his Department is using to inform the decision to allow estate agent offices to remain open to staff during the covid-19 lockdown announced in January 2021.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	143858
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2021 answer text <p>We have worked with both the estate agency sector and Public Health England to develop our guidance and make sure that agents are operating in a Covid-Secure way, as such businesses are required to do in order to remain open.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 03/02/2021 16:05:29 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1276392

	registered interest
	date	13/01/2021
	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	Estate Agents: Coronavirus
	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 scientific evidence his Department is using to guide the decision to allow estate agent offices to remain open to staff during the January 2021 covid-19 lockdown restrictions.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	137260
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2021 answer text <p>We have worked with both the estate agency sector and Public Health England to develop our guidance and make sure that agents are operating in a Covid-Secure way, as such businesses are required to do in order to remain open.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 18/01/2021 16:38:51 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1258186

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2020
	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: Energy
	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 he has taken to (a) identify at-risk and vulnerable groups in unlawful F- and G-rated homes for energy and (b) ensure that the landlords of those homes comply with minimum energy efficiency standards regulations.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	124810
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2020 answer text <p>This Government is committed to ensuring that everyone has a decent home, which is why minimum energy efficiency standards apply to all privately rented homes which are required to have an EPC, not just those occupied by vulnerable people.</p><p>As of April 2020, privately rented homes in England and Wales must have a minimum energy performance rating of EPC Band E, unless a valid exemption has been registered, but we are currently consulting on raising the minimum energy standard to EPC C by 2028.</p><p>Key to the effective delivery of minimum energy efficiency standards is their enforcement, which is the responsibility of local authorities. If a breach is confirmed, a local authority can issue a publication penalty and/or a total financial penalty of up to £5000 per breach per property.</p><p>To support local authorities, my colleagues at BEIS are conducting a Private Rented Sector Enforcement Pilot Study. The first phase of the study, which involved seven local authorities in England, explored and tested bottom-up, local authority-generated solutions to monitoring, compliance and enforcement of minimum energy efficiency standards.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 11/12/2020 11:29:50 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1258187

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2020
	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	Housing: Health Hazards
	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 he has taken to provide (a) oversight of and (b) funding for the process of tackling damp and mould in the homes of at-risk and vulnerable groups.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	124811
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2020 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring that everyone, including vulnerable people, has a decent home. We are committed to improving standards in rented accommodation, including tackling damp and mould. MHCLG collects and published data on damp and mould here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/dwelling-condition-and-safety" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/dwelling-condition-and-safety</a></p><p>Social homes must be kept in a reasonable state of repair. On 14 November 2020, we published The Charter for Social Housing Residents: social housing white paper that sets out actions the government will take to ensure that residents, including those who are vulnerable and at risk, are safe, listened to, live in good quality homes and have access to redress when things go wrong.</p><p>For privately rented homes, we have given local authorities tough new powers to tackle poor conditions in the private rented sector including financial penalties of up to £30,000, Rent Repayment Orders, Banning Orders and the Database of Rogue landlords. Since 2019, we have awarded £6.7 million of grant funding - helping over 180 local authorities boost their enforcement work and support innovation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 11/12/2020 11:30:20 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq