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823395

registered interest
date	16/01/2018
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	Landlords
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 tenants will be able to access the database of rogue landlords and property agents due to be published in April 2018.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	122877
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2018 answer text <p>The national rogue landlord database will be a new tool to help local housing authorities with their housing standards enforcement work. It is part of a package of measures introduced by the Government under the Housing and Planning Act 2016, including new powers to ban landlords and to issue civil penalties for housing offences of up to £30,000.</p><p>The Act makes clear that information held on the database may not be published unless it is anonymised and the database will not be made public. Local housing authorities may wish to consider locally publicising successful banning orders they obtain. Once launched, we will keep under review the operation of the database and its use by local housing authorities to tackle rogue landlords</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 30/01/2018 15:47:18 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler previous answer version 35481 answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab answering member 4007
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

823411

registered interest
date	16/01/2018
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	Homelessness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2018 to Question 118353, for what reasons the homelessness funding announced in Budget 2016 is not being made available until 2018-19 in parts of England outside London.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	122891
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>It is our priority to ensure that the Move On Fund meets the needs of those who are homeless and victims of domestic abuse. As such the Department is taking time to tailor the design of the programme to work for the rest of England.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 23/01/2018 13:01:21 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler previous answer version 35486 answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

823543

registered interest
date	16/01/2018
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	Holocaust Memorial Day
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 his Department will support local authorities to hold memorial events for Holocaust Memorial Day 2018.
tabling member constituency	North Antrim
tabling member printed	Ian Paisley
uin	123010
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2018 answer text <p>The Department funds the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust which provides resources to local authorities to support local Holocaust Memorial Day events. In 2017 there were 7,700 local Holocaust Memorial Day events across the country many of them were hosted by local authorities. We are expecting the same this year but will not have the total numbers until after Holocaust Memorial Day.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 24/01/2018 14:16:31 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	4129 label Biography information for Ian Paisley

823546

registered interest
date	16/01/2018
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	Holocaust Memorial Day
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 plans to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day 2018.
tabling member constituency	North Antrim
tabling member printed	Ian Paisley
uin	123013
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2018 answer text <p>The Department hosted in partnership with the Holocaust Educational Trust and the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, a Holocaust Memorial Day event on Wednesday 17 January for staff. We were honoured to hear the testimony of Holocaust survivor Janine Webber and two Holocaust Educational Trust Ambassadors Jack Pepper from the Glyn School and Chloe Smith from Furze Platt Senior School.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 24/01/2018 14:14:11 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	4129 label Biography information for Ian Paisley

823549

registered interest
date	16/01/2018
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	Antisemitism
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 assessment his Department has made of the level of antisemitism and Holocaust denial; and what steps his Department is taking to tackle antisemitism and Holocaust denial.
tabling member constituency	North Antrim
tabling member printed	Ian Paisley
uin	123016
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2018 answer text <p>We work closely with the Community Security Trust, the Police and the Home Office to tackle antisemitic incidents, which have no place in our communities.</p><p>The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government hosts the Antisemitism Working Group which brings together community representatives and officials from across Government to ensure a coordinated response to antisemitism, whether at home, abroad or online.</p><p>The UK was also the first country in the world to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's working definition of Antisemitism which is a useful tool in understanding how Antisemitism manifests itself in the 21st century.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 24/01/2018 16:33:36 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	4129 label Biography information for Ian Paisley

823560

registered interest
date	16/01/2018
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	Supported Housing: Finance
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 his Department's funding for supported housing policy paper, published in October 2017, what policies the Government is putting in place to ensure funding for non-statutory supported housing is sustained in the long-term.
tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
tabling member printed	Dr Lisa Cameron
uin	123026
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>The government is committed to a long-term sustainable funding model for supported housing as set out in the policy statement published on 31 October.</p><p>We are consulting on this model. The consultation closes on 23 January 2018.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 23/01/2018 13:26:33 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron

823561

registered interest
date	16/01/2018
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	Sleeping Rough
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer of 27 December 2017 to Question 120298, what information his Department holds on the number of people that have died while sleeping rough in each of the last seven years.
tabling member constituency	Warrington South
tabling member printed	Faisal Rashid
uin	123027
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>This department does not collect data on deaths of people sleeping rough. No one should ever have to sleep rough. That is why Government has committed to halving rough sleeping by 2022 and eliminating it altogether by 2027. We have announced a new Rough Sleeping and Homelessness Reduction Taskforce, chaired by the Secretary of State, which will drive forward the implementation of a cross-Government strategy to tackle this issue.</p><p>We have allocated over £1 billion through to 2020 to prevent and reduce all forms of homelessness including piloting a Housing First approach for some of the most entrenched rough sleepers.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 23/01/2018 13:36:29 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	4670 label Biography information for Faisal Rashid

823595

registered interest
date	16/01/2018
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	Holocaust Memorial Day
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 take steps to commemorate the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
tabling member constituency	North Antrim
tabling member printed	Ian Paisley
uin	123057
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2018 answer text <p>The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government funds the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust to deliver the annual Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz –Birkenau on behalf of the nation. This year the ceremony will take place on 25 January 2018.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 24/01/2018 14:18:06 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	4129 label Biography information for Ian Paisley

823616

registered interest
date	16/01/2018
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	Supported Housing: Finance
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 evidential basis was for the Government's proposals for a different funding mechanism for short-term supported housing compared with long-term supported housing.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	123076
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2018 answer text <p>The Department does not hold figures for the number in short-term versus long-term supported housing.</p><p>The short-term model was designed to ensure that funding for short-term supported accommodation is compatible with the modernised welfare system. We have not changed the funding model for long-term supported housing, which remains in the welfare system.</p><p>It reduces administrative burdens for providers in managing claims for housing costs and collecting rent. It also frees residents from concerns about meeting housing costs at a difficult point in their lives.</p><p>This model was designed with input from a range of stakeholders and providers through task and finish groups, the 2016 consultation on supported housing and taking account of the joint Communities and Local Government and Work and Pensions Select Committee report.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 19/01/2018 11:35:34 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

822880

registered interest
date	15/01/2018
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	Homelessness: Portsmouth
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 include Portsmouth in funding allocations for Housing First pilot schemes to reduce homelessness.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	122563
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>At budget the Chancellor announced £28 million of funding to pilot the Housing First approach for some of the country’s most entrenched rough sleepers. The pilots will cover 3 major regions of England. The West Midlands Combined Authority, Greater Manchester, and the Liverpool City Region.</p><p>The pilots will gather data on the effectiveness of Housing First and will inform any wider roll-out of the approach to other parts of the country.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 23/01/2018 13:02:41 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan