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1468909

registered interest
date	09/06/2022
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: Repairs and Maintenance
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 plans he has to provide financial support to leaseholders affected by high costs associated with remedial fire-safety works and unsafe cladding in residential buildings of betweeen 11 and 18 metres.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	15316
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2022 answer text <p>No leaseholder living in their own flat above 11m will pay a penny to fix unsafe cladding and our new levy will protect leaseholders even if their developer has so far refused to sign up to our pledge.</p><p>The Government is also launching a new 11-18m cladding remediation scheme to fund work on buildings where a responsible developer cannot be identified. The new scheme will be funded by expanding the scope of the Building Safety Levy to raise an additional estimated £3 billion, providing the necessary funds to address cladding issues on these remaining buildings. We will announce further detail on the launch of the 11-18m Remediation Fund shortly.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 20/06/2022 10:54:39 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1468910

registered interest
date	09/06/2022
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	Building Safety Fund
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 he plans to announce additional funding for the Building Safety Fund.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	15317
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2022 answer text <p>The Government is providing £5.1 billion, including £4.5 billion through the Building Safety Fund, to address the fire safety risks caused by unsafe cladding on high-rise residential buildings. This will be used where the original developer and/or the building owner are not funding the works. On 13 April, the Department announced that leading residential developers had pledged to remediate life critical fire safety works in buildings over 11 metres that they have played a role in developing or refurbishing over the last 30 years in England. As of 13 June, over 45 have signed the pledge. <br> <br> Developers making this commitment have also agreed to reimburse any funding received from government remediation programmes in relation to buildings they had a role in developing or refurbishing. This action will make sure that funding grants will only be used where there is no industry solution available and there should be no need for additional funding from the tax payer.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 17/06/2022 13:30:27 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1468408

registered interest
date	08/06/2022
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	Regional Planning and Development: York
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 make an assessment of the effect of the City of York Council's investment strategy for the York Central Development Infrastructure Project on the (a) security and risk profile of that local authority's budget and (b) value for money in spending from the public purse.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	14521
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2022 answer text <p>City of York Council (CYC) Enterprise Zone funding was a key part of the HIF funding request for the infrastructure required to enable York Central to come forward. The decision by the SoS to provide funding was done on the basis that the scheme demonstrated the strategic case to unlock homes and wider uses on publicly owned land, working alongside CYC, demonstrated value for money, and was considered deliverable. Homes England was Commissioned in 2020 to deliver the project in collaboration with Network Rail.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 13/06/2022 17:00:37 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1468522

registered interest
date	08/06/2022
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	Pedestrian Areas: Licensing
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 he will take to ensure that pavement licensing does not hinder access for disabled people.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	14532
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2022 answer text <p>Our pavement licence measures have a mandatory national ‘no-obstruction’ condition which is applied to all licences granted. This requires that when local authorities are determining whether furniture put on the highway would be an unacceptable obstruction, they will also need to have specific regard to the needs of disabled people, and to any recommended distances required for access by disabled people as set out in guidance issued by the Secretary of State. We have worked closely with groups representing disabled people in developing the guidance.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 16/06/2022 14:58:49 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1468524

registered interest
date	08/06/2022
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: Flood Control
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill, what steps he is taking to ensure flood plans are included in the planning system.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	14533
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2022 answer text <p>There are already strong protections in place and the National Planning Policy Framework is clear that areas at little to no risk of flooding from any source should always be developed in preference to areas at a higher risk of flooding. The Government maintains that the best way of delivering resilient development is to ensure a plan-led approach, since this is the best way of taking account of flood risk when determining site allocation.</p><p>The reforms represent a pragmatic package of structural and procedural changes that are designed to improve the efficiency of local plan-making. Plans are to be simpler and shorter, and underpinned by better data to ensure they are more transparent and understandable.</p><p>Local communities will have more certainty that the right homes will be built in the right places, with a greater emphasis on effective and timely community engagement.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 16/06/2022 15:02:30 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1468527

registered interest
date	08/06/2022
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	Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill: Housing
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 impact of the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill on housing (a) supply and (b) purchasing opportunities for first-time buyers.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	14535
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2022 answer text <p>I expect that changes to the planning system made by the Bill will enable an increased supply of homes, including for first time buyers, by fostering the types of development that are more likely to be supported by communities and speeding up the process of planning for and delivering homes. An impact assessment of the Bill will be published in due course.</p><p>On 9 June, the Prime Minister announced new measures to help first-time buyers, including exploring reform of the mortgage market and extending the Right to Buy to Housing Association tenants.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 16/06/2022 15:04:56 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1468612

registered interest
date	08/06/2022
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	Social Rented Housing: Construction
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 make it his policy to (a) give councils the power to build 100,000 high-quality, climate-friendly social homes a year and (b) reform the Right to Buy scheme to make it easier for councils to build replacement homes at the rate at which they are sold.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	14606
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2022 answer text <p>Building more high-quality, climate-friendly social and affordable homes is an absolute priority for this Government.</p><p>To enable local authorities to deliver this social housing, including through their own housebuilding programmes, we have given local authorities a comprehensive range of tools. This includes our £11.5 billion Affordable Homes Programme (AHP) which councils can bid for, the abolition of the Housing Revenue Account (HRA) borrowing cap in 2018, as well as continued access to low-cost borrowing via the Public Works Loan Board. The AHP will provide up to 180,000 new homes across the country, should economic conditions allow.</p><p>From 2025, the Future Homes Standard will ensure that all new homes, regardless of tenure, produce at least 75% less CO2 emissions than those built to the 2013 standards. Ahead of the Future Homes Standard, we have introduced an uplift in energy efficiency standards, which will come into force in June 2022, this means all new homes will deliver around 30% fewer CO2 emissions than those built to the 2013 standards.</p><p>The Right to Buy scheme is also an important contributor to new housing supply with additional properties sold under the scheme being replaced with new affordable homes. In March 2021 we announced a package of reforms that will give councils more freedom on how they spend the money they receive from Right to Buy sales to help them build even more council homes, including homes for social rent. These reforms give local authorities greater flexibility to invest in new homes and the next generation of council housing.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 16/06/2022 15:11:51 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1468179

registered interest
date	07/06/2022
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	Help to Buy Scheme: Liverpool
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 recent estimate he has made of the number homes for sale in (a) Liverpool Walton constituency and (b) the Liverpool local authority area that are eligible for the Government's Help to Buy: Equity Loan scheme.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	13812
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2022 answer text <p>The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities does not collect data on the number of homes that are eligible for the Help to Buy Home Equity Loan. We can confirm that between 1 April 2013 and 31 December 2021, 2,184 homes were purchased in the Liverpool Local Authority and 225 in the Liverpool Walton Constituency using the Help to Buy Equity Loan Scheme. Further data on the number of households in England which have benefitted from the Help to Buy Equity Loan scheme can be found in the latest Help to buy Equity Loan scheme statistics.</p><p><a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistics%2Fhelp-to-buy-equity-loan-scheme-data-to-31-december-2021&amp;data=05%7C01%7CLisa.Binns-Sykes%40levellingup.gov.uk%7C62812435f4224411d30508da4a03a852%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637903676802657632%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=jhvBxLY3gaymIlGAWz9EQUAQ6IAT5nlOXRyAx9b2L8A%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/help-to-buy-equity-loan-scheme-data-to-31-december-2021</a></p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 13/06/2022 17:02:42 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1467659

registered interest
date	06/06/2022
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	Help to Buy Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the Answer of 21 April 2022 to Question 154173 on Help to Buy Scheme, in the event that a first time buyer has saved for their mortgage under the Help to Buy: Equity Loan scheme but no affordable new Help to Buy properties are available, for what reason that first time buyer cannot use the equity loan against a second hand property.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	13171
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2022 answer text <p>The Help to Buy: Equity Loan scheme was designed to support people into homeownership, but also has a second key objective to increase housing supply. As a result, the scheme is only available on new build properties in order to support new house building and supply. Making the scheme available on second-hand properties would not have the same supply impact. For customers who are not able to utilise the Help to Buy scheme, the Government has a range of other housing products to support people into homeownership such as First Homes and the mortgage guarantee scheme.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 14/06/2022 14:37:45 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1467688

registered interest
date	06/06/2022
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	Private Rented Housing: Rents
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 commit to not developing any forms of rent control as part of the planned white paper and legislation on reform of the private rented sector.
tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
tabling member printed	Kevin Hollinrake
uin	13196
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2022 answer text <p>The Government does not support the introduction of controls on the amount of rent that landlords can charge in the private rented sector. Historical evidence suggests that rent controls would discourage investment in the sector and would lead to declining property standards as a result, which would not help landlords or tenants.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 14/06/2022 14:39:06 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake