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637010

	registered interest
	date	15/11/2016
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Right to Buy Scheme: Housing Associations
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what progress has been made on ensuring that all registered social housing association tenants have the right to buy their own homes since the conclusion of the pilot scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
	uin	53037
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2016 answer text <p>We remain committed to the Voluntary Right to Buy for housing association tenants and the pilot scheme is informing the design of the main scheme. The Government is continuing to work closely with the National Housing Federation and the housing association sector on the implementation of the main scheme and will announce more details in due course.</p> answering member constituency Croydon Central answering member printed Gavin Barwell question first answered 18/11/2016 13:28:05 answering member 3955 label Biography information for Lord Barwell
	tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile

420982

	registered interest
	date	13/10/2015
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Social Rented Housing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to promote tenant management.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
	uin	11634
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2015 answer text <p>We have allocated funding of £1million in 2015/16 (through the Tenant Empowerment Programme) to support social housing tenants' involvement in their local communities. This includes support to those who wish to manage delivery of services to their homes and estates by taking up their Statutory Right To Manage.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 19/10/2015 14:16:53 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile

442272

	registered interest
	date	04/01/2016
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Social Rented Housing: Construction
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many affordable rent-to-buy houses are being constructed.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
	uin	20729
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2016 answer text <p>Through the Autumn Statement 2015, the Government has committed to investing £8 billion to deliver over 400,000 affordable housing starts by 2020/21. This includes £1.7 billion to deliver around 100,000 homes for affordable or intermediate rent, of which 10,000 are to be affordable rent to buy homes that enable tenants to have the opportunity to save for a deposit while renting.</p><p>Bids into the Rent to Buy 2015-2017 programme are currently being considered<strong>. </strong>The prospectus for the new Affordable Homes Programme 2016-21 will be launched shortly.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 07/01/2016 14:47:43 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile

101331

	registered interest
	date	28/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Private Rented Housing: Evictions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what records his Department keeps of the number of retaliatory evictions; what criteria he uses to define retaliatory eviction; and how many retaliatory evictions took place in the last (a) 12 months and (b) five years.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
	uin	212213
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p>This information is not centrally recorded.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 11/11/2014 16:37:48 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile

720275

	registered interest
	date	13/04/2017
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	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 Communities and Local Government, whether he plans to strengthen provisions in building regulations on ensuring that materials and methods used in housing construction are more resilient to the risk of flooding and damage caused by water leaks.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
	uin	70791
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2017 answer text <p>The statutory guidance in Approved Document C (Site preparation and resistance to contaminants and moisture) which supports the Building Regulations promotes the use of flood resilience and resistance measures in flood prone areas. The document references guidance produced jointly by the Department for Communities and Local Government, Defra and the Environment Agency – <em>Improving the flood performance of new buildings – Flood resilient construction</em>. Much of the information is applicable to resilient repair as well as new build.</p><p>The Building Regulations also require that floors, roof and walls of buildings should be adequately protected from harmful effects caused by spillage of water from or associated with sanitary fittings or fixed appliance. Guidance on how to meet this requirement is set out in Approved Document C.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon Central answering member printed Gavin Barwell question first answered 24/04/2017 14:47:09 answering member 3955 label Biography information for Lord Barwell
	tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile

693178

	registered interest
	date	21/02/2017
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	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 Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to build and develop more homes.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
	uin	908913
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2017 answer text <p>The Government is committed to building the homes our country needs.</p><p>Measures in the recent White Paper will ensure more homes are planned for where they are needed most, that homes are built more quickly once they have planning permission, and will diversify the housing market so it works for everyone.</p> answering member constituency Bromsgrove answering member printed Sajid Javid question first answered 27/02/2017 16:42:15 answering member 3945 label Biography information for Sir Sajid Javid
	tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile

164325

	registered interest
	date	24/11/2014
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Pedestrian Areas: Trees
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assistance his Department provides to local authorities on replacing trees in pavements.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
	uin	215690
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2014 answer text <p>The Government has funded the “Big Tree Plant” scheme, giving up to £4 million in grants from 2011 to 2015 to help pay for the planting of at least once million new trees in urban areas. The scheme is now closed to new applicants, but nearly 820,000 new trees have already been planted.</p><p> </p><p>Councils also receive general funding from central government and locally-raised sources which can be used to support tree planting, if they wish.</p><p> </p><p>The “Manual for Streets”, while out of date in certain areas (e.g. on parking and density), contains some guidance on street trees and tree planting. It can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/manual-for-streets" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/manual-for-streets</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 08/12/2014 17:02:48 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile

101332

	registered interest
	date	28/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Private Rented Housing: Evictions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many section 21 notices were served in each of the last (a) 12 months and (b) five years.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
	uin	212214
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2014 answer text <p>The Government does not collect this information.<br><br>A section 21 notice is a notice served under section 21 of the Housing Act 1988 by a landlord on their tenant which informs the tenant that the landlord requires possession of the property and that it must be vacated by the tenant. <br><br>The service of a section 21 notice, like any other termination of a contract, is a private matter between the landlord and tenant.<br><br></p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 05/11/2014 16:03:14 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile

456059

	registered interest
	date	29/02/2016
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Housing: Tenure
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what information his Department holds on which local authorities hold information on the tenure of a property from completed council tax registration forms.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
	uin	28790
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2016 answer text <p>The Department does hold information on which local authorities hold information on the tenure of a property from completed council tax registration forms.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 08/03/2016 16:49:05 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile

712376

	registered interest
	date	20/03/2017
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Social Rented Housing: Letting Agents
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if his Department will publish a definition of the term social lettings agencies as used in the white paper, Fixing our broken housing market, published in February 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
	uin	68432
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2017 answer text <p>Social letting agencies can support vulnerable people and people on low incomes to access and sustain tenancies in the private rented sector. We want to prevent people reaching crisis point, and for those who are already homeless to be able to move out of temporary accommodation or hostels to a settled home as quickly as possible. There are a number of different models of social letting agencies and in the Housing White Paper we set out our interest in exploring the relative effectiveness of these different models with the aim of securing more housing for households who would otherwise struggle – providing security for landlords and support for tenants.</p> answering member constituency Croydon Central answering member printed Gavin Barwell question first answered 23/03/2017 11:03:51 answering member 3955 label Biography information for Lord Barwell
	tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile