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1131017

registered interest
date	10/06/2019
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	Help to Buy Scheme: Wolverhampton North East
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 homes purchased using the Help to Buy equity loan scheme in Wolverhampton North East constituency in each year since that policy was introduced.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
uin	262361
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2019 answer text <p>Data on Help to Buy: Equity Loan is not available by constituency but is published by local authority.</p><p>For Wolverhampton, total completions from April 2013 to December 2018 were 1,116.</p><p>Further detail is in Table 1 of the official quarterly statistics to end December 2018 (Wolverhampton is at line 138):</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/help-to-buy-equity-loan-scheme-statistics-april-2013-to-31-december-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/help-to-buy-equity-loan-scheme-statistics-april-2013-to-31-december-2018</a></p><p>Totals by year for Wolverhampton were:</p><p>2013 - 99</p><p>2014 - 196</p><p>2015 - 188</p><p>2016 - 218</p><p>2017 - 203</p><p>2018 - 212</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 13/06/2019 16:31:48 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds

1131074

registered interest
date	10/06/2019
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 ThermoWood class D cladding is permitted on buildings below 18 metres in height.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	262394
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2019 answer text <p>The Building Regulations guidance indicates that timber cladding at least 9mm thick may be used in certain circumstances. But this must be considered in the context of Requirement B4 of Schedule 1 of the Regulations , which applies to all buildings regardless of height, that the external walls of buildings must adequately resist the spread of fire over the walls.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 13/06/2019 16:32:03 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1131077

registered interest
date	10/06/2019
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 commissioned the Building Research Establishment to carry out any tests on High Pressure Laminate cladding prior to June 2017.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	262395
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2019 answer text <p>The Department did not commission the Building Research Establishment to carry out any tests on High Pressure Laminate cladding prior to June 2017.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 13/06/2019 16:26:30 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1130732

registered interest
date	07/06/2019
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, on what date his Department plans to write to building owners eligible for the aluminium composite material cladding fund.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	261509
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2019 answer text <p>On 17 May 2019, we sent letters to all building owners eligible for the private sector remediation fund. We will continue to engage with building owners, managing agents, developers, local authorities and others to establish the fund.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 12/06/2019 14:00:43 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

1130733

registered interest
date	07/06/2019
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, what criteria his Department is using to determine whether building owners should be sent a letter regarding the aluminium composite material Cladding Fund.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	261510
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2019 answer text <p>The fund will include all high-rise (over 18 metres) residential private sector buildings with unsafe Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) cladding, except where a warranty claim has been accepted.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 12/06/2019 14:01:11 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

1130734

registered interest
date	07/06/2019
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, what the timescale is for (a) the testing regime for non-aluminium composite material cladding to be completed and (b) publishing the results from the testing regime for non-aluminium composite material cladding.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	261511
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2019 answer text <p>I refer the Rt Hon Member to the written ministerial statement HCWS1533 made on 1 May 2019.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 12/06/2019 14:01:34 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

1130735

registered interest
date	07/06/2019
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, what steps his Department plans to take in cases where building owners eligible for the aluminium composite material Cladding Fund do not apply within three months of being written to.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	261512
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2019 answer text <p>We are engaging with all relevant building owners to encourage swift applications. We are backing local authorities to take enforcement action where building owners are refusing to remediate high-rise buildings with unsafe cladding, including by establishing a Joint Inspection Team to support local authorities and give them the confidence to pursue enforcement action.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 12/06/2019 14:02:15 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

1130379

registered interest
date	06/06/2019
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	Affordable Housing
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 many affordable houses have been built in (a) the UK, (b) Greater London and (c) Ealing in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Ealing Central and Acton
tabling member printed	Dr Rupa Huq
uin	261275
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to increasing the supply of social housing and has made £9 billion available through the Affordable Homes Programme to March 2022 to deliver 250,000 new affordable homes of a wide range of tenures, including social rent.</p><p>In 2017-18 47,355 affordable homes were completed, an increase of 12 per cent on the previous year, of these over 7,100 (15 per cent) were in London.</p><p>Details for homes delivered in 2018 -19 will be published in the Departments annual Affordable Housing Supply statistics.</p><p>Breakdowns of delivery by borough are available in live table 1011 can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-affordable-housing-supply" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-affordable-housing-supply</a>.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 11/06/2019 09:30:54 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4511 label Biography information for Dr Rupa Huq

1130420

registered interest
date	06/06/2019
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	Grenfell Tower: Fires
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 discussions he has had with community groups affected by the Grenfell Tower fire on the potential reform of fire safety legislation.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	261282
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2019 answer text <p>The Minister of State for Housing has regular meetings with Grenfell United and met with them to seek the group’s views on the proposals set out in our consultation <em>Building a safer future: proposals for reform of the building safety regulatory system</em>, which was published on 6 June.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/building-a-safer-future-proposals-for-reform-of-the-building-safety-regulatory-system" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/building-a-safer-future-proposals-for-reform-of-the-building-safety-regulatory-system</a></p><p>There will be further engagement with Grenfell United during the consultation period.</p><p>More generally, the Government is committed to putting residents at the heart of the new, stronger system of building safety for high-rise residential buildings.</p><p>We want residents to:</p><ul><li>Be empowered to hold their buildings’ owners to account;</li></ul><ul><li>Have a strong voice in decision-making about the safety of their building;</li></ul><ul><li>Be listened to straight away when they have safety concerns.</li></ul><p>To bring about this culture change, we are consulting on proposals to give residents:</p><ul><li>more access to safety information about their buildings;</li></ul><ul><li>more involvement in decisions about safety in their buildings through engagement with their building safety managers; and</li></ul><ul><li>a quick, clear route to escalate safety concerns.</li></ul><p>These proposals have been shaped by our Residents’ Reference Panel members, who are residents of high-rise buildings, and our call for evidence, which has helped us to identify best practice in how residents and their landlords, or their building managers, can work together to make sure that their buildings are safe.</p><p>We want to hear residents’ views on these proposals, and we will be engaging with people who live in high-rise residential buildings over the summer to gather feedback as part of the consultation.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 13/06/2019 15:05:38 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1130421

registered interest
date	06/06/2019
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	Grenfell Tower: Fires
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 many survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire are waiting for permanent housing.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	261283
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2019 answer text <p>According to the latest data from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Council (RBKC), as of 6 June 2019, of the 201 households from Grenfell Tower and Walk that require rehousing, there are currently 14 households in temporary accommodation, and 3 households in emergency accommodation that are have not yet moved into permanent accommodation. Of these 17 households, 7 have not yet accepted an offer of permanent accommodation. <br> <br> RBKC reports that a suitable property has been reserved for each household. We continue to provide support and challenge to RBKC to ensure every survivor of the Grenfell fire is able to find a home that meets their long-term needs as soon as possible.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 13/06/2019 15:06:33 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West