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147449

registered interest
date	10/11/2014
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Housing: Construction
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, under what circumstances an environmental impact assessment can be requested when a housing development is proposed; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Faversham and Mid Kent
tabling member printed	Sir Hugh Robertson
uin	214064
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p>An environmental impact assessment is required for development proposals which are likely to have a significant impact on the environment. The procedure for establishing whether an environmental impact assessment is necessary (the screening process) is set out in planning regulations and explained in planning guidance (<a href="http://planningguidance.planningportal.gov.uk/" target="_blank">http://planningguidance.planningportal.gov.uk/</a>).</p><p>The guidance makes it clear that only a very small proportion of developments should require a formal environmental impact assessment. We have consulted on proposals to reduce the number of residential cases that local planning authorities have to screen (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/339528/Technical_consultation_on_planning.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/339528/Technical_consultation_on_planning.pdf )</a> and we will publish the Government's response in due course.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 17/11/2014 16:34:24 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	1415 label Biography information for Sir Hugh Robertson

142119

registered interest
date	06/11/2014
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Housing: Greater London
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many planning applications for new housing developments in London have been agreed under section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 in each year since 2008.
tabling member constituency	Hackney North and Stoke Newington
tabling member printed	Ms Diane Abbott
uin	213667
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to my answer of 1 September, PQ 206859.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 17/11/2014 11:57:46 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	172 label Biography information for Ms Diane Abbott

142122

registered interest
date	06/11/2014
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Council Housing: Hampshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many people in the Test Valley Borough Council area are currently on council housing waiting lists; and how many such people (a) have waited longer than three years, (b) are single persons and (c) have five or more children.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Mr Mike Hancock
uin	213680
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to my written answer of 10 November 2014, PQ 212865.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis grouped question UIN 213695 213696 213697 question first answered 11/11/2014 16:40:48 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	59 label Biography information for Mr Mike Hancock

142130

registered interest
date	06/11/2014
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Council Housing: Portsmouth
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many people in the Portsmouth City Council area are currently on a council housing waiting list; and how many such people (a) have waited longer than three years, (b) are single persons and (c) have five or more children.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Mr Mike Hancock
uin	213695
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to my written answer of 10 November 2014, PQ 212865.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis grouped question UIN 213680 213696 213697 question first answered 11/11/2014 16:40:49 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	59 label Biography information for Mr Mike Hancock

142131

registered interest
date	06/11/2014
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Council Housing: Winchester
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many people in the Winchester City Council area are currently on a council housing waiting list; and how many such people (a) have waited longer than three years, (b) are single persons and (c) have five or more children.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Mr Mike Hancock
uin	213696
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to my written answer of 10 November 2014, PQ 212865.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis grouped question UIN 213680 213695 213697 question first answered 11/11/2014 16:40:49 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	59 label Biography information for Mr Mike Hancock

142133

registered interest
date	06/11/2014
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Council Housing: Southampton
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many people in the Southampton City Council area are currently on a council housing waiting list; and how many such people (a) have waited longer than three years, (b) are single persons and (c) have five or more children.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Mr Mike Hancock
uin	213697
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to my written answer of 10 November 2014, PQ 212865.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis grouped question UIN 213680 213695 213696 question first answered 11/11/2014 16:40:49 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	59 label Biography information for Mr Mike Hancock

142149

registered interest
date	06/11/2014
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Planning
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, for what reason the Government has only responded to part of the consultation launched on 23 March 2014 into planning performance and planning contraventions; and when it intends to respond to the remainder of that consultation.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Mr Christopher Chope
uin	213793
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p>To reduce the burden of consultation paperwork on councils, industry and other interested parties, we seek where possible to bundle up and combine consultations, to make it easier to respond. However, we may respond to the individual topics in stages.</p><p> </p><p>We will publish a formal response to the ‘planning contributions’ part of that consultation document in due course.</p><p> </p><p>We are taking the same approach to the <em>Technical Consultation on Planning</em> published in July, which wrapped up consultations on six separate policy areas.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 11/11/2014 17:33:38 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

114634

registered interest
date	05/11/2014
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Mining
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans he has to ensure that residents can veto proposals to extract minerals in their localities.
tabling member constituency	Eastleigh
tabling member printed	Mr Michael Thornton
uin	213555
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p>Without minerals, the country cannot provide the raw materials for construction, to help build and maintain homes, roads and railway lines. Traditional materials are also needed to maintain historic buildings. Hence, some extraction will always need to take place.</p><p> </p><p>However, as with housing, this Government has abolished top-down regional targets in the Regional Strategies, and given councils more power and discretion through Local Plans to determine where development should and should not go.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 17/11/2014 16:29:45 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4273 label Biography information for Mr Mike Thornton

114648

registered interest
date	05/11/2014
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Private Rented Housing: Codes of Practice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 13 October 2014, to Question 208968, which tenant groups his Department asked the industry to seek the views of in creating a code of practice for the management of residential property; and what steps he took to ensure that the views sought were representative of all tenant groups.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	213488
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>The Government asked industry to develop the code of practice for the management of residential property to promote consistent and high standards of property management. Ensuring that landlords and letting agents are aware of their responsibilities can only be of benefit to all tenants. Industry held a public consultation on the code of practice from 2 to 30 April and a number of groups including Shelter, all three Property Ombudsmen and the Electrical Safety First formally responded. <br><br>The code of practice has been welcomed by the sector and I am confident that the code, the how to rent guide and the model tenancy agreement will all improve standards and increase the satisfaction of tenants living in the private rented sector.<br><br></p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 10/11/2014 16:19:44 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

114650

registered interest
date	05/11/2014
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Private Rented Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department has taken to publicise its How to Rent guide; and whether his Department evaluated its success in communicating with private tenants.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	213490
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p>The How to Rent guide which was published on 10 June 2014, has been viewed on the gov.uk website over 30,000 times and is promoted by a large number of organisations (included Shelter and Citizens Advice) on their websites. We have also used social media to raise awareness of the guide and wrote to all MPs in England asking them to promote the guide amongst their constituents. We closely monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of our marketing strategy to make sure the information reaches as many tenants and potential tenants as possible and continue to promote it through working with tenants organisations, the tenancy deposit protection schemes, advice services, landlords, agents and property search websites.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 17/11/2014 11:42:27 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis previous answer version 27249 answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron