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1434172

registered interest
date	22/02/2022
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Buildings: Insulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department has taken to ensure there is a supply of qualified builders and engineers to undertake cladding remediation works.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Dr Rosena Allin-Khan
uin	127507
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2022 answer text <p>Remediation of buildings with unsafe cladding must be carried out by professionals with appropriate competence and experience, and anyone applying for public funds is required to demonstrate that their remediation plan meets those requirements. Demand for those professionals is high and the Government is working with industry to increase the supply of trained professionals</p><p><br> We are supporting industry-led work to raise competence standards for safety-critical roles, including fire engineers, structural engineers, installers and fire risk assessors and provisions in the Building Safety Bill will increase competence requirements. We are supporting industry-led work to upskill professionals in those roles, including investing nearly £700k to train assessors to carry out valuations where EWS1 forms are required (over 1,000 people now enrolled in a Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors course).</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 25/02/2022 14:30:25 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4573 label Biography information for Dr Rosena Allin-Khan

1434306

registered interest
date	22/02/2022
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Buildings: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department is taking to support leaseholders to ensure that buildings conform with new building standards.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	127354
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2022 answer text <p>Through the Building Safety Bill, we will be ensuring that building owners of higher-risk buildings have clear accountabilities for managing building safety as Accountable Persons. Residents will have a clear voice under the new regime and will be empowered to hold their Accountable Person to account, with the ability to raise complaints for breach of accountable person duties, and escalate such complaints to the regulator.</p><p>The new Building Safety Regulator will enforce the more stringent regulatory regime for higher-risk buildings and oversee the safety and performance of all buildings.</p><p>The Government funds the Leasehold Advisory Service (LEASE) to provide free and independent advice to leaseholders, including those affected by building safety issues. This aims to help them make informed decisions on next steps and engage confidently with freeholders, developers and managing agents. Advice is open to all and there is no limit on the amount of advice an individual can seek to support their chances of achieving the best possible outcome in their case.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 25/02/2022 14:29:40 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

1433827

registered interest
date	21/02/2022
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Flood Control: Property Development
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the potential merits giving flood risk authorities a statutory right of veto on a development until such time as a suitable technical solution to that flood risk is advanced.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
tabling member printed	Emma Hardy
uin	126778
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2022 answer text <p>Planning law requires that applications for planning permission be determined in accordance with the local development plan, subject to other material considerations. These considerations include advice received from statutory consultees, as well as the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF). The local planning authority must take into account and weigh up all the material planning considerations in reaching its decision.</p><p>The NPPF is clear that inappropriate development in areas at risk of flooding should be avoided. Where development is necessary, it should be made safe for its lifetime without increasing flood risk elsewhere.</p><p>As part of the planning determination process, we expect local planning authorities to take flood risk advice from the Environment Agency and lead local flood authority seriously. Statutory consultees do not have a veto on new development. It is for the local planning authority, which is democratically accountable to the local electorate, to take planning decisions on development in its area. As an added safeguard, where a local planning authority is minded to approve a planning application for major development in a flood risk area against an outstanding Environment Agency objection on flood risk grounds, that application must first be referred to the Secretary of State to consider whether it should be called-in.</p><p>Furthermore, as part of our wider ambitions for an improved planning system we intend to review the National Planning Policy Framework to ensure that it contributes to climate change mitigation and adaption as fully as possible.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 24/02/2022 17:04:30 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4645 label Biography information for Emma Hardy

1433886

registered interest
date	21/02/2022
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Aerials
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what representations he has received on ensuring that telecoms operators and providers carry out adequate consultation with elected members and communities prior to the installation of telecommunications masts.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	126622
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2022 answer text <p>The Government consulted last year on changes to nationally set permitted development rights. We will be responding to the consultation shortly, including on matters where representations were received on consultation with elected members and local communities, in relation to telecommunications infrastructure.</p><p>Mobile Network Operators have also committed to following the Code of Best Practice on Mobile Network Development in England, which sets out best practice on community engagement, when deploying equipment. The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has developed a new Code of Practice which will provide updated guidance on consultation with local communities.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 24/02/2022 17:06:11 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1422686

registered interest
date	18/02/2022
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Green Belt
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what the process is by which land that has been removed from the green belt can be returned to the green belt.
tabling member constituency	Chesham and Amersham
tabling member printed	Sarah Green
uin	125612
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2022 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for creating and protecting Green Belt. Our National Planning Policy Framework states that a local authority can take land out of Green Belt only in exceptional circumstances, through the local plan process. Similarly, if a local authority considers that certain land would, and should, serve the purposes of Green Belt as set out in the Framework, it could propose the new designation as a policy in a revised local plan, and consult the local community. After any further revision, the draft plan would be submitted for formal examination in public by an independent Planning Inspector, acting on behalf of the Secretary of State. The plan (including any new Green Belt boundary) is checked thoroughly to confirm whether it is sound: that is, positively prepared, justified, effective, and consistent with the Framework.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 23/02/2022 17:39:51 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4918 label Biography information for Sarah Green

1422704

registered interest
date	18/02/2022
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Housing: Older People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether the task force on older people’s housing announced in the Levelling Up White Paper will include a focus on housing options which include CQC-regulated care provision onsite.
tabling member constituency	Mitcham and Morden
tabling member printed	Siobhain McDonagh
uin	124955
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2022 answer text <p>As part of the Levelling Up White Paper, we announced a new taskforce to look at ways we can provide more choice, better quality and greater security of housing for older people, and support the growth of a thriving older people's housing sector. This includes considering how to increase the supply of a range of specialist housing, including housing with care, across the country.</p><p>This work will be taken forward in partnership with the Department of Health and Social Care, building on the commitments set out in their recent white paper on adult social care reform.</p><p>The taskforce will examine barriers to increasing the supply of older peoples housing, as well as the issues older people face when it comes to considering their housing options in later life. This includes the role of the planning system in ensuring new development caters for a diverse range of housing needs. Further information on the taskforce will be announced soon.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew grouped question UIN 124956 125469 125470 125471 125472 question first answered 28/02/2022 17:44:09 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	193 label Biography information for Dame Siobhain McDonagh

1422705

registered interest
date	18/02/2022
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Housing: Older People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether the task force on older people’s housing announced in his Department's Levelling Up the United Kingdom White Paper plans to explore appropriate tenure models for housing-with-care.
tabling member constituency	Mitcham and Morden
tabling member printed	Siobhain McDonagh
uin	124956
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2022 answer text <p>As part of the Levelling Up White Paper, we announced a new taskforce to look at ways we can provide more choice, better quality and greater security of housing for older people, and support the growth of a thriving older people's housing sector. This includes considering how to increase the supply of a range of specialist housing, including housing with care, across the country.</p><p>This work will be taken forward in partnership with the Department of Health and Social Care, building on the commitments set out in their recent white paper on adult social care reform.</p><p>The taskforce will examine barriers to increasing the supply of older peoples housing, as well as the issues older people face when it comes to considering their housing options in later life. This includes the role of the planning system in ensuring new development caters for a diverse range of housing needs. Further information on the taskforce will be announced soon.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew grouped question UIN 124955 125469 125470 125471 125472 question first answered 28/02/2022 17:44:09 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	193 label Biography information for Dame Siobhain McDonagh

1422712

registered interest
date	18/02/2022
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Housing: Older People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether the task force on older people’s housing announced in the Levelling Up in the United Kingdom White Paper plans to consider expanding the provision of housing-with-care and integrated retirement communities.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	125469
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2022 answer text <p>As part of the Levelling Up White Paper, we announced a new taskforce to look at ways we can provide more choice, better quality and greater security of housing for older people, and support the growth of a thriving older people's housing sector. This includes considering how to increase the supply of a range of specialist housing, including housing with care, across the country.</p><p>This work will be taken forward in partnership with the Department of Health and Social Care, building on the commitments set out in their recent white paper on adult social care reform.</p><p>The taskforce will examine barriers to increasing the supply of older peoples housing, as well as the issues older people face when it comes to considering their housing options in later life. This includes the role of the planning system in ensuring new development caters for a diverse range of housing needs. Further information on the taskforce will be announced soon.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew grouped question UIN 124955 124956 125470 125471 125472 question first answered 28/02/2022 17:44:09 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1422713

registered interest
date	18/02/2022
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Housing: Older People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether his Department has plans, through the task force on older people’s housing announced in the Levelling Up in the United Kingdom White Paper, to reform the planning system to define different kinds of housing for older people.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	125470
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2022 answer text <p>As part of the Levelling Up White Paper, we announced a new taskforce to look at ways we can provide more choice, better quality and greater security of housing for older people, and support the growth of a thriving older people's housing sector. This includes considering how to increase the supply of a range of specialist housing, including housing with care, across the country.</p><p>This work will be taken forward in partnership with the Department of Health and Social Care, building on the commitments set out in their recent white paper on adult social care reform.</p><p>The taskforce will examine barriers to increasing the supply of older peoples housing, as well as the issues older people face when it comes to considering their housing options in later life. This includes the role of the planning system in ensuring new development caters for a diverse range of housing needs. Further information on the taskforce will be announced soon.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew grouped question UIN 124955 124956 125469 125471 125472 question first answered 28/02/2022 17:44:09 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1422747

registered interest
date	18/02/2022
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Planning Permission
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will introduce a mechanism for the Police to advise planning committees where there are concerns that a planning application has a connection to an organised crime gang.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	125100
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2022 answer text <p>Planning policies and decisions should ensure that developments create safe places and ensure that crime and disorder, and the fear of crime, do not undermine the quality of life or community cohesion. The National Planning Policy Framework states that local planning policies should use non-strategic policies such as establishing design principles which can set out more detailed crime prevention policies for specific areas, neighbourhoods and types of development.</p><p>Planning permission is not granted on the basis of the applicant but considered on the presumption of securing sustainable development. However, I am aware these matters have been raised in the Hon Member's constituency and officials will be discussing further with the Durham Police and Crime Commissioner's Office.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 23/02/2022 17:37:59 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris