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1064364

registered interest
date	20/02/2019
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	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 steps his Department taking to (a) monitor and (b) tackle levels of antisemitism in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	223838
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <p>We work closely with the Community Security Trust and other representative community partners through the Cross-Government Working Group to Tackle Antisemitism. The Working Group is held up as an example of best practice internationally for cooperation between government and minority communities. Through the Working Group we have funded projects to highlight and counter antisemitism directed at women, and to combat the dissemination of antisemitic tropes in society.</p><p>We have also worked with the police to improve the recording of hate crime. This includes a requirement to record the targeted faith or belief in incidents of religiously motivated hate crime. The first set of statistics reflecting this new requirement with disaggregated figures for religiously motivated hate crime were published in October 2018. These statistics can be found at <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/748598/hate-crime-1718-hosb2018.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/748598/hate-crime-1718-hosb2018.pdf</a>.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 25/02/2019 16:06:17 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

1063979

registered interest
date	19/02/2019
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	Homelessness: Veterans
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 estimate he has made of the number of people who were homeless in 2018 who had previously served in the armed forces.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
uin	223170
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government collects quarterly and annual statistics on the number of people who present as homeless to English local authorities. Until April 2018, veterans formed part of a wider vulnerable group category that included care leavers, ex-offenders and those who have fled their home because of violence or the threat of violence (other than domestic violence). As a result we are not able to identify the number of veterans presenting as homeless from this period.</p><p>In April 2018 the Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government introduced a new case-level data collection called H-CLIC (Homelessness Case Level Information Collection). This gives local authorities and Government more information regarding homelessness and those presenting as homeless, including people who self-declared as having served in the armed forces as a separate category</p><p>In England from April to June 2018, of the 58,660 households to who, at the point of initial decision, were owed a homelessness duty by the local authority, 0.7 per cent (430) of main applicants stated they had served in the armed forces.</p><p>The latest local authority level statistics, and quarterly statistics since 2009, can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness</a>.</p><p>This Government is committed to reducing homelessness and rough sleeping. No one should ever have to sleep rough. That is why last summer we published the cross-government Rough Sleeping Strategy which sets out an ambitious £100 million package to help people who sleep rough now, but also puts in place the structures that will end rough sleeping once and for all. The Government has now committed over £1.2 billion to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping over the spending review period.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 22/02/2019 17:30:00 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

1063599

registered interest
date	18/02/2019
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	Homelessness: Nottinghamshire
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 much funding (a) Ashfield District Council and (b) Broxtowe Borough Council have received from the Homelessness Relief Fund.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	222603
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2019 answer text <p>Local authorities, including both Ashfield District Council and Broxtowe Borough Council, receive funding to prevent and relieve homelessness from my Department. This includes preventing homelessness core funding and flexible homelessness support grant funding. However, we do not operate a fund called the Homelessness Relief Fund and are therefore unable to provide the specific information you request.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 21/02/2019 13:38:43 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

1061036

registered interest
date	14/02/2019
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	Tenancy Deposit Schemes: Small Businesses
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 make an assessment of the effect of the introduction of a tenancy deposit scheme for small and medium-sized enterprises and their landlords on trends in the level of legal cases in relation to rent brought before the courts.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	221794
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2019 answer text <p>The Department does not hold the information requested, as the terms on whether, and how much, deposit will be paid by the tenants of a commercial property is agreed by the landlord and tenant on an individual basis and this information is not reported centrally.</p><p>This information should be included within the commercial lease agreement agreed by both the landlord and the tenant. It is considered to be best practice to include a rent deposit deed, which sets out how a landlord secures a commercial tenant's deposit.</p><p>We do not currently have any plans to require the use of a tenancy deposit scheme for commercial tenancies.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler grouped question UIN 221795 221796 question first answered 20/02/2019 14:03:09 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1061038

registered interest
date	14/02/2019
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	Tenancy Deposit Schemes: Small Businesses
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 assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing a tenancy deposit scheme for small and medium-sized enterprises to assist the financial security of those businesses.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	221795
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2019 answer text <p>The Department does not hold the information requested, as the terms on whether, and how much, deposit will be paid by the tenants of a commercial property is agreed by the landlord and tenant on an individual basis and this information is not reported centrally.</p><p>This information should be included within the commercial lease agreement agreed by both the landlord and the tenant. It is considered to be best practice to include a rent deposit deed, which sets out how a landlord secures a commercial tenant's deposit.</p><p>We do not currently have any plans to require the use of a tenancy deposit scheme for commercial tenancies.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler grouped question UIN 221794 221796 question first answered 20/02/2019 14:03:09 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1061039

registered interest
date	14/02/2019
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	Tenancy Deposit Schemes: Small Businesses
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 make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to implement a mandatory tenancy deposit scheme for commercial premises with a rateable value of £51,000 or less.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	221796
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2019 answer text <p>The Department does not hold the information requested, as the terms on whether, and how much, deposit will be paid by the tenants of a commercial property is agreed by the landlord and tenant on an individual basis and this information is not reported centrally.</p><p>This information should be included within the commercial lease agreement agreed by both the landlord and the tenant. It is considered to be best practice to include a rent deposit deed, which sets out how a landlord secures a commercial tenant's deposit.</p><p>We do not currently have any plans to require the use of a tenancy deposit scheme for commercial tenancies.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler grouped question UIN 221794 221795 question first answered 20/02/2019 14:03:09 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1060763

registered interest
date	13/02/2019
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	Homelessness: Coastal Areas
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 assessment he has made of changes in the level of homelessness since 2013 in (a) coastal communities and (b) Southport.
tabling member constituency	Southport
tabling member printed	Damien Moore
uin	221028
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2019 answer text <p>The government has not assessed the changes in the level of homelessness since 2013 in coastal communities. However, the number of households accepted as being homeless and in priority need for all local authorities in England from the financial year 2004–05 can be found in Table 784 here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness</a>.</p><p>The above link provides information on levels of homelessness by local authority, so please refer to the Local Authority of Sefton.</p><p>A new case-level homelessness data collection system was introduced in April 2018 and will provide a much richer source of information at the household level, including information on support needs. The latest published information is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statutory-homelessness-in-england-april-to-june-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statutory-homelessness-in-england-april-to-june-2018</a>.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 22/02/2019 13:37:56 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	4669 label Biography information for Damien Moore

1059756

registered interest
date	12/02/2019
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	Landlords: South Yorkshire
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 7 February 2019 to Question 216296 on Landlords: South Yorkshire, for what reasons (a) Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council and (b) Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council did not meet the assessment criteria.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	220223
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2019 answer text <p>The terms of the Rogue Landlord Enforcement Grant Fund were set out in the bidding prospectus, from which the assessment criteria were drawn. This included that funds were for the financial year 2018/19. Both Barnsley and Doncaster requested funding for salaried positions continuing into the next financial year, and so falling outside the scope of the Fund.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 18/02/2019 15:52:19 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1059791

registered interest
date	12/02/2019
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	Cemeteries: Vandalism
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 funding his Department has allocated to (a) local authorities and (b) the police to protect Jewish and Islamic cemeteries from targeted vandalism in each of the last four years.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	220301
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2019 answer text <p>Vandalism and the desecration of cemeteries are criminal offences and we are confident that these offences will be dealt with appropriately by the police, local services, and criminal justice system. Where these criminal offences are aggravated by hostility towards particular religious communities these will be investigated as hate crimes.</p><p>The Government provides funding support to specialist third party organisations the Community Security Trust and Tell Mama, both of which report hate crimes to the police, spread awareness about hate crimes, and provide victim support.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 18/02/2019 16:45:12 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1059816

registered interest
date	12/02/2019
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	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, if he publish the (a) count, (b) estimate, and (c) average number of people rough sleeping in each local authority in each year since 2011.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	220174
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2019 answer text <p>The annual single night snapshot of rough sleeping in Autumn 2018 was published on January 31 2019 at the link below:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/rough-sleeping-in-england-autumn-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/rough-sleeping-in-england-autumn-2018</a>.</p><p>Table 1 provides figures from annual rough sleeping snapshots in all local authorities in England since 2010 and whether this was derived through a count or an estimate. Each local authority in England chooses whether to inform this annual snapshot via a street count, an evidence-based estimate, or an estimate informed by a spotlight street count.</p><p>The methodology for providing this snapshot has been in place since 2010 and provides a way of approximating the number of people sleeping rough across England on a single night, and tracking change over time. Detailed guidance is provided to authorities on how to conduct counts and estimates; hundreds of local partner agencies participate in the process and Homeless Link are funded to verify all local counts and validate local estimates and demographic information.</p><p>MHCLG is encouraging local authorities with larger numbers of people sleeping rough to improve their year-round monitoring. Due to the difficulties involved in collecting such information, it is not practical to request all local authorities to gather data on the flow of people sleeping rough across the year. This would require extensive local outreach work as well as a substantial database and, especially for local authorities with small numbers of people sleeping rough, would not be an appropriate use of resources.</p><p>In some areas, including London, this is already in place. London’s CHAIN data, which provides information on the individuals seen sleeping rough by outreach teams in London throughout the year as opposed to a single night, was published alongside our own statistics and can be found at the link below.</p><p><a href="https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/chain-reports" target="_blank">https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/chain-reports</a>.</p><p>This Government is committed to reducing homelessness and rough sleeping. No one should ever have to sleep rough. That is why last summer we published the cross-government Rough Sleeping Strategy which sets out an ambitious £100 million package to help people who sleep rough now, but also puts in place the structures that will end rough sleeping once and for all. The Government has now committed over £1.2 billion to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping over the spending review period.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 20/02/2019 16:30:35 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas