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982756

	registered interest
	date	08/10/2018
	answering body	Church Commissioners
	answering dept id	9
	answering dept short name	Church Commissioners
	answering dept sort name	Church Commissioners
	hansard heading	Church of England: Social Rented Housing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Honourable Member for Meriden, representing the Church Commissioners, which housing estates (a) in the Greater London area and (b) elsewhere have been sold by the Church Commissioners; and whether guarantees were sought that those estates would remain in social housing ownership.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	175982
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2018 answer text <p>In 2005 and 2006 following careful consideration the Church Commissioners took the decision to sell what were known as the Octavia Hill Estates, comprising approximately 1,580 flats and houses within the Greater London area.</p><p> </p><p>The sales, to a joint venture between Grainger plc and Genesis Housing Group, were subject to the residents’ leases, and the rights and obligations contained in these remained. A commitment was made to engage with residents’ associations and to keep in touch with tenants as the sales progressed to keep them fully informed. Some tenants had the right to purchase their properties and this was communicated to the qualifying tenants.</p><p> </p><p>In 1985 the Church Commissioners took the decision to sell their residential property holdings in Brixton to a housing association. According to the records of the Commissioners covenants were not placed on these properties and to the best of knowledge these properties are still owned by a housing association.</p><p> </p><p>The Church Commissioners are not and have never been a social housing provider and have a statutory duty to deliver the best possible return on their investments to fund the work and mission of the Church of England across the country. The Church Commissioners continue to provide new housing across the country where they have land holdings and affordable housing is a key part of that provision.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Meriden answering member printed Dame Caroline Spelman question first answered 19/10/2018 15:07:24 answering member 312 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Spelman previous answer version 77536 answering member constituency Meriden answering member printed Dame Caroline Spelman answering member 312 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Spelman
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

984794

	registered interest
	date	10/10/2018
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Sexual Offences: Prosecutions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, what assessment his Department carried out to determine whether the CPS requirement for people who have been victims of sexual assault to sign a Stafford statement complies with Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights; what guidelines exist as to whether people reporting sexual assault must agree to sign such a statement; and what information those people are given about what that process involves.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
	tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
	uin	177585
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2018 answer text <p>A “Stafford statement” is not a CPS requirement, but is used by some police forces to seek the consent of the complainant to access material held by third parties when this is relevant to the investigation.</p><p>It is of vital importance that the personal information of complainants who report sexual offences is treated in a way that is consistent with both their right to privacy and with the interests of justice. CPS guidance is clear that requests for access to information held by third parties or on digital devices must be a reasonable line of inquiry, justified by the circumstances of the individual case. It should not be undertaken routinely in every case.</p><p>As part of the National Disclosure Improvement Plan, the CPS are working closely with the police to ensure that complainants are given the opportunity to make an informed decision about allowing police access to their personal information. This will ensure that complainants are aware of both how their digital devices or records will be examined and the use that may be made of any data obtained through that examination, including informing the complainant if it is to be disclosed to the defendant.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 19/10/2018 09:15:31 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

985740

	registered interest
	date	11/10/2018
	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	Community Infrastructure Levy
	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 he has made of the number of local authorities that have imposed a community infrastructure levy.
	tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
	tabling member printed	John Healey
	uin	178238
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2018 answer text <p>152 local authorities in England are currently charging the Community Infrastructure Levy and more than seventy others have taken substantive steps towards doing so. In Wales, the Community Infrastructure Levy is a matter for the Welsh Government.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 19/10/2018 08:59:48 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

984937

	registered interest
	date	10/10/2018
	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: Staff
	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 change there has been in staffing levels in his Department since June 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
	tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
	uin	177726
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2018 answer text <p><em>The Department’s workforce statistics are published on a quarterly basis by the Office for National Statistics as part of its Quarterly Public Sector Employment estimates. Data for the two quarters in question, June 2016 and June 2018 (latest available quarterly release) can be viewed and obtained via the following link: <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/publicsectorpersonnel/datasets/publicsectoremploymentreferencetable" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/publicsectorpersonnel/datasets/publicsectoremploymentreferencetable</a> (table 9) in the attached xlsx files for the dates in question. </em></p><p> </p><p><em>At the end of June 2016 the Department employed a reported 1420 full-time equivalent staff in comparison with 1760 full-time equivalent staff at the end of June 2018. Please note that these figures are roundest to the nearest ten at the point of release and do not include the Department’s Executive Agencies or NDPBs. The difference between the two reported numbers represents a 24 per cent increase in staffing levels during the period in question. It is important to note that In March 2010 there were 2109 full-time equivalent staff working in the Department.</em></p><p> </p><p><em>Please note that the numbers reported to ONS are based on directly employed officials where the Department bears at least 50 per cent of salary costs through its payroll. Staff employed directly by the Department who are on an unpaid leave of absence or paid on a reimbursed basis are not included in management information published on GOV.UK and supplied to ONS.</em></p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 19/10/2018 14:00:58 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
	tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

985663

	registered interest
	date	11/10/2018
	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 Associations: Complaints
	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 the oral contribution of the Minister for Housing and Planning on 12 January 2017, column 576, and the Answer of 8 March 2017 to Question 66020 on Circle Housing, what the outcome of the meeting was between Departmental officials and the Social Housing Regulator and Housing Ombudsman on the interaction between those two organisations when there is a spike in individual complaints from tenants of housing associations.
	tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
	tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
	uin	178311
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2018 answer text <p>A memorandum of understanding, which describes the working relationship between the Regulator of Social Housing and the Housing Ombudsman, was published on 21 April 2017. The memorandum of understanding sets out the arrangements for cooperation and communication between the two bodies in relation to their respective functions. It is available at: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/610108/HOS_HCA_memorandum_of_understanding.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/610108/HOS_HCA_memorandum_of_understanding.pdf</a></p><p>We recently launched a review of the regulatory regime for social housing. This review will look at how the system as a whole is working for tenants, including the arrangements between the Regulator and the Ombudsman.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 19/10/2018 09:52:07 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali

985666

	registered interest
	date	11/10/2018
	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	Regulator of Social Housing: Public Appointments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, for what reason it is not a conflict of interest for a board member of the Social Housing Regulator to be the director of a company that is contracted to provide repair services to housing associations that the regulator regulates.
	tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
	tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
	uin	178313
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2018 answer text <p>As set out in Sections 92N and 92P of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (as amended), the Regulator must maintain a register of interests of its board members and have arrangements for dealing with any potential conflict of interests appropriately. This was the same when the Regulator was operating as the Regulation Committee of the Homes and Communities Agency. These arrangements are published in the board’s Terms of Reference and Standing Orders, which is available here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/748602/Board_Terms_of_Ref_and_Standing_Orders.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/748602/Board_Terms_of_Ref_and_Standing_Orders.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 19/10/2018 09:11:20 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali

988776

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2018
	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	Early Intervention Grant: Nottinghamshire
	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 funding his Department allocated from the early intervention grant to projects in Nottinghamshire in the last 12 months for which information is available.
	tabling member constituency	Mansfield
	tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
	uin	180301
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2018 answer text <p>In 2013-14 MHCLG introduced the business rates retention scheme, under which local authorities retained a proportion of the business rates that they collect. A number of specific grants from other Government Departments were transferred into the business rates retention scheme at this time, including the Department for Education’s Early Intervention Grant.</p><p>In order to maintain the visibility of a number of named, non ring-fenced, elements of funding within the local government finance settlement, the Government currently publishes a Core Spending Power visible lines table (link below). The Early Intervention Grant is one of the visible lines set out in this table. To reflect the fact that local government is transitioning away from a world where councils are dependent on central government grants and towards greater self-sufficiency, these visible lines are shown at a national and local level within local authority Core Spending Power.</p><p>Link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/core-spending-power-visible-lines-of-funding-2018-to-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/core-spending-power-visible-lines-of-funding-2018-to-2019</a></p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 19/10/2018 13:07:43 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
	tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

985662

	registered interest
	date	11/10/2018
	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	Clarion Housing 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, if he will ask the Social Housing Regulator to publish details of the enquiries it made into the accuracy of the information provided by Clarion Housing Group during the in-depth assessment process prior to its decision to upgrade that organisation to a G1-rating on 28 March 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
	tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
	uin	178310
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2018 answer text <p>On 28 March 2018 the Regulator published its latest regulatory judgement for Clarion Housing Group following an in-depth assessment, which gave the Regulator assurance that Clarion’s leadership and governance arrangements are sufficient to support the delivery of its objectives and adequately control the organisation.</p><p>While Parliament sets the framework within which the Regulator operates, the Government cannot interfere in individual regulatory decisions and therefore I cannot direct the Regulator to publish specific details of its investigation. However, the Regulator has published the reasons for its judgement here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/694487/Clarion_Housing_Group_Limited_RJ_20180318_2.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/694487/Clarion_Housing_Group_Limited_RJ_20180318_2.pdf</a>.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 19/10/2018 09:52:54 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali

985632

	registered interest
	date	11/10/2018
	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	Second Homes: Council Tax
	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 effect on the level of Council Tax receipts of the practice of second homeowners avoiding the payment of council tax by registering a second home as a business.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	178364
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2018 answer text <p>Owners of second homes are generally liable for council tax. Only where a property is available for short-term lets for 140 days or more per financial year, is it considered a holiday-let, and therefore assessed for business rates instead. However, the Government is aware of concerns about holiday homes and is looking into this issue to see if the criteria under which holiday lets are valued for business rates are appropriate.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 19/10/2018 09:17:43 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

985664

	registered interest
	date	11/10/2018
	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	Regulator of Social Housing: Public Appointments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, for what reason the Interim Chair of the Social Housing Regulator decided against appointing any tenants of social landlords when the regulator expanded its board in April 2018; and if he will ensure that the regulator now undertakes a process to make such appointments.
	tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
	tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
	uin	178312
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2018 answer text <p>The Assessment Panel considered applications against the essential criteria set out in the published candidate pack. Recommendations were made for appointments, which the then Housing Minister, on behalf of the then Secretary of State and the Prime Minister, agreed to.</p><p>Work has begun to launch a further recruitment campaign to strengthen the board of the Regulator of Social Housing. In the recent Social Housing Green Paper, we committed to recruit someone with extensive experience of consumer regulation.</p><p>Section 80B of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (as amended) sets out how new members of the board are recruited and the criteria they must meet: <a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/1040/schedule/made" target="_blank">https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/1040/schedule/made</a>.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 19/10/2018 09:17:10 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali