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1134815

registered interest
date	26/06/2019
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	Neighbourhood Plans
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 to improve the quality of planning advice made available to the neighbourhood planning process.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	269613
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government has recently published updated neighbourhood planning guidance to support communities in the preparation of their plans. The amended guidance includes changes to reflect the updated National Planning Policy Framework which is clear about the important role that neighbourhood plans play in our plan-led system. Additional practical advice is provided through the Government’s £26 million Neighbourhood Planning Support Programme, which includes support from a national network of local neighbourhood planning champions.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 01/07/2019 16:14:34 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1134816

registered interest
date	26/06/2019
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	Neighbourhood Plans
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 funding is available to communities wishing to undertake a neighbourhood plan.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	269614
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2019 answer text <p>Government is making available £34.5 million of support for neighbourhood planning for 2018-22. This is comprised of our £26 million Neighbourhood Planning Support Programme and an additional £8.5 million funding, announced in May 2019, to help communities bring forward affordable homes for sale in their neighbourhood plans.</p><p><em> <br> <br></em></p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 01/07/2019 16:17:19 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1134844

registered interest
date	26/06/2019
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	Carbon Monoxide: Alarms
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 Written Statement of 30 April 2018, HCWS657 on Carbon Monoxide Detection and Safety, when the review of the requirements and the evidence base for improving carbon monoxide detection and safety will be concluded; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Walsall North
tabling member printed	Eddie Hughes
uin	269761
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government carried out a review of carbon monoxide alarm requirements in 2018. The findings of this review are being considered alongside responses to the Social Housing Green Paper. We will set out the findings of the review and next steps in the Government response to the Green Paper in September 2019.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 01/07/2019 15:19:53 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4635 label Biography information for Eddie Hughes

1134966

registered interest
date	26/06/2019
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	Coal: Opencast Mining
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 Government's policy is on planning permission for the creation of additional opencast coal mines.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	269800
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to clean growth and we are taking action to reduce our reliance on coal. We have set out our aim to end electricity generation from unabated coal by 2025 and we are also taking action to reduce coal use in industry and heating.</p><p>In terms of planning policy, the National Planning Policy Framework is already clear that planning permission should not be granted for the extraction of coal unless the proposal is environmentally acceptable or the national, local or community benefits outweigh its likely impacts. The National Planning Policy Framework is a material consideration in the determination of all applications for coal extraction in England.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 01/07/2019 16:15:19 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1134975

registered interest
date	26/06/2019
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	Garden Communities
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 as part of the loneliness strategy to ensure that community cohesion is considered in the assessment process for prospective Garden Communities.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	269717
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2019 answer text <p>Prospective garden communities were required to outline how they would achieve ten design qualities in their proposals. These qualities help create places that support cohesive communities, and proposals were assessed against these criteria.</p><p>More broadly, we included tackling loneliness as a theme at our national design quality conference in February and are currently developing proposals around housing and placemaking for phase 2 of the loneliness strategy.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 01/07/2019 15:14:56 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

1135023

registered interest
date	26/06/2019
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	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, whether his Department is aware of any large-scale fire tests carried out in other EU Member States on High Pressure Laminate cladding since June 2017.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	269830
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2019 answer text <p>We are not aware of any test carried out in the EU on High Pressure Laminates panels since June 2017 other than the tests the Government is currently undertaking.</p><p>The Department is aware that manufacturers routinely carry out fire safety tests of their products but is not automatically made aware of these.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 01/07/2019 15:20:50 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1135024

registered interest
date	26/06/2019
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	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, whether his Department has asked private manufacturers to disclose the large-scale fire tests they have carried out on High Pressure Laminate cladding since June 2017.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	269831
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2019 answer text <p>In summer 2017, the Department asked Building Research Establishment (BRE) to contact all of their customers to ask them to publish information about large scale tests. BRE contacted their customers who had tested and achieved BR 135 classifications for their external cladding systems. Where permission to publish details of a cladding system has been granted, the BRE produced a database which summarises the generic components included within the successfully tested cladding systems. The data base is available at the following: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bre.co.uk%2Fregulatory-testing&amp;data=02%7C01%7CCharles-Elie.Romeyer%40communities.gov.uk%7C197206014b1b499f27f708d6fbc3519f%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C636973213638804895&amp;sdata=jRS2yIRqDq%2FUTii11618SWq2%2B9ZZbwyrJkfx23H33es%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.bre.co.uk/regulatory-testing</a></p><p>In addition the Department is aware that a number of product manufacturers have voluntarily made this information available on their websites.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 269832 question first answered 01/07/2019 15:19:10 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1135025

registered interest
date	26/06/2019
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	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, whether his Department has asked manufacturers of High Pressure Laminate cladding to disclose the result of large-scale fire tests they have carried out on High-Pressure Laminate cladding since 2005.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	269832
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2019 answer text <p>In summer 2017, the Department asked Building Research Establishment (BRE) to contact all of their customers to ask them to publish information about large scale tests. BRE contacted their customers who had tested and achieved BR 135 classifications for their external cladding systems. Where permission to publish details of a cladding system has been granted, the BRE produced a database which summarises the generic components included within the successfully tested cladding systems. The data base is available at the following: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bre.co.uk%2Fregulatory-testing&amp;data=02%7C01%7CCharles-Elie.Romeyer%40communities.gov.uk%7C197206014b1b499f27f708d6fbc3519f%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C636973213638804895&amp;sdata=jRS2yIRqDq%2FUTii11618SWq2%2B9ZZbwyrJkfx23H33es%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.bre.co.uk/regulatory-testing</a></p><p>In addition the Department is aware that a number of product manufacturers have voluntarily made this information available on their websites.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 269831 question first answered 01/07/2019 15:19:10 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1134059

registered interest
date	24/06/2019
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	Derelict Land
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 make it easier and quicker for (a) local and (b) combined authorities to take ownership of unused brownfield sites through compulsory purchase with adequate compensation for owners to bring them back into economic use for (i) homes and (ii) employment and remove derelict properties from local communities.
tabling member constituency	Walsall North
tabling member printed	Eddie Hughes
uin	268521
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2019 answer text <p>Local and combined authorities already have broad compulsory purchase powers, which can be used to bring brownfield land back into use. We have recently introduced wide-ranging reforms to make the Compulsory Purchase Order process clearer, fairer and faster. Our reforms in the Neighbourhood Planning Act 2017 and Housing and Planning Act 2016 include clarification of the ‘no scheme principle’ which underpins compensation for compulsory purchase, making it easier and quicker to establish the fair market value of sites. We are keen to let these important reforms bed-in, but will keep the operation of the system under review.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 01/07/2019 16:16:54 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4635 label Biography information for Eddie Hughes

1134063

registered interest
date	24/06/2019
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	Shared Ownership Schemes: Consumers
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 he has made of what consumer protections are required as private providers enter the shared ownership market.
tabling member constituency	Walsall North
tabling member printed	Eddie Hughes
uin	268525
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2019 answer text <p>The vast majority of private shared ownership providers are Registered Providers, regulated by the Regulator of Social Housing. In England, all registered providers of social housing must comply with the regulatory standards set by the independent Regulator of Social Housing.</p><p>Shared ownership leaseholders with private landlords who are not Registered Providers will have the same rights as other private leaseholders.</p><p>By law, residential managing agents are required to belong to one of the following two redress schemes: The Property Redress Scheme and The Property Ombudsman. Further information can be found at <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Flettings-agents-and-property-managers-redress-schemes&amp;data=02%7C01%7CDeji.Ishola%40communities.gov.uk%7Ca6a0cd8a244040d2ada508d6fae8501d%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C636972273013434847&amp;sdata=y60nhv3Af7oMbOT1vEwd%2F2l13%2BoKue4Qi2nQaCHTLBw%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/lettings-agents-and-property-managers-redress-schemes</a>.</p><p>Outside of this framework, Government is also committed to exemplary consumer protection across all areas of the housing market. We have established the Regulation of Property Agents Working Group – chaired by Lord Best – to advise on a new regulatory structure for property agents (including letting, managing and sales agents) with an independent regulator and a mandatory code of practice. We expect the group to make their recommendations in July.</p><p>As new private sector products are developed we will keep the regulatory framework under review to ensure that consumer protections are maintained and enhanced.</p><p>We also know more needs to be done to strengthen consumer redress for purchasers of new build homes, which is why we have announced our intention for there to be a New Homes Ombudsman to protect the rights of all homebuyers and hold developers to account.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 01/07/2019 16:18:25 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4635 label Biography information for Eddie Hughes