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1485096

registered interest
date	30/06/2022
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	Empty Property
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 effectiveness of Empty Dwelling Management Orders at enabling local authorities to bring empty properties back into use; and whether he plans to introduce new ways of enabling local authorities to achieve that goal.
tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
uin	28402
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2022 answer text <p>It is for local housing authorities to decide when to use their powers to deal with empty properties, and they have the flexibility to focus on locally determined priorities and allocate their resources accordingly.</p><p>The Government is taking action to encourage empty homes back into use. In certain circumstances, local authorities can exercise powers to take over the management of long-term empty homes in order to bring them back into use in the private rented sector. Local authorities can apply for an Empty Dwelling Management Order (EDMO) when a property has been empty for more than two years, subject to the production of evidence that the property has been causing a nuisance to the community and evidence of community support for their proposal.</p><p>Similarly, Compulsory Purchase Orders can be used by local authorities to acquire empty properties where the authority can demonstration that the acquisition would be in the public interest.</p><p>The Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill will give councils the power to apply the 100% premium on properties left empty after a year, rather than the current two years. The premium will provide local leaders with additional flexibility to help address the impacts of empty homes and improve the sustainability of local services where they consider that appropriate.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 05/07/2022 16:08:57 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

1484302

registered interest
date	28/06/2022
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	Right to Buy Scheme: Housing Associations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 16 June 2022 to Question 16928 on Right to Buy Scheme, what assessment he has made of the potential effectiveness of the extension of the Right to Buy scheme to housing associations in the context of the funding arrangements intended for that scheme; and when he plans to publish the full details of the scheme.
tabling member constituency	Wigan
tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
uin	26753
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2022 answer text <p>The Right to Buy has helped nearly two million council tenants to become homeowners since 1980, and we want to give housing association tenants the same opportunity. We want the scheme to work effectively for tenants and housing associations, and we will be working closely with the housing association sector as we develop the scheme.</p><p>The scheme will be funded from within the overall envelope of Government spending. We will announce further details in due course.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 04/07/2022 15:33:33 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

1484394

registered interest
date	28/06/2022
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, when he plans to reopen the Building Safety Fund for applications in 2022.
tabling member constituency	Hackney South and Shoreditch
tabling member printed	Dame Meg Hillier
uin	26721
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2022 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. We will be opening the next phase of the Building Safety Fund at the earliest opportunity.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 04/07/2022 15:31:20 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	1524 label Biography information for Dame Meg Hillier

1483269

registered interest
date	27/06/2022
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	Garden Communities
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 progress his Department has made on supporting garden communities.
tabling member constituency	Darlington
tabling member printed	Peter Gibson
uin	900731
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2022 answer text <p>This Government is committed to supporting the development of locally-led garden communities. In May this year, I announced a package of £15 million to support 43 garden communities from Cornwall to Carlisle. This brings the total support since the launch of the programme in 2014 to over £69.4 million.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 27/06/2022 15:11:13 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4754 label Biography information for Peter Gibson

1483272

registered interest
date	27/06/2022
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: Reform
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 progress he has made on reforming the planning system.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
tabling member printed	Emma Hardy
uin	900735
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2022 answer text <p>We introduced the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill to the House on 11 May this year.</p><p>This sets out a wide-ranging set of changes to put communities more in control of planning decisions which affect them and drive better outcomes on the thing’s communities care most about: the design of development, infrastructure delivery, the environment and their local neighbourhoods.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 27/06/2022 15:11:53 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4645 label Biography information for Emma Hardy

1483404

registered interest
date	27/06/2022
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: Romford
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 hold discussions with the Mayor of London on the reasons for which Romford is deemed an Opportunity Area within the London Plan and therefore required to accommodate an additional 5,000 new homes.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	25755
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2022 answer text <p>The identification and justification for Opportunity Areas in the London Plan is a matter for the Mayor, and for the independent examiners who consider the draft proposals which it contains. It is, though, important that London does as much as it can to address its housing requirements.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 05/07/2022 16:08:15 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1483415

registered interest
date	27/06/2022
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, with reference to the statement in Building Safety Fund Annex A - Technical: Measuring the height of your building that the measurement should be taken from the lowest ground level, how his Department defines that level in relation to (a) lower ground floors and (b) basement flats which are partly but not fully underground and the floor above is the first floor; and whether the measurement of height should start at (I) the lowest part of street level, (b) the lower ground floor, (c) floor level, (d) the first floor level or (e) another level.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
uin	25969
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2022 answer text <p>The height of a building for the purpose of the Building Safety Fund, as set out in the <em>Building Safety Fund: Annex A - Technical Information,</em> should be measured in accordance with Diagram D6 of Approved Document B (Fire Safety) to the Building Regulations, which is available at: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Ffire-safety-approved-document-b&amp;data=05%7C01%7CParliamentary%40levellingup.gov.uk%7C02e709e61b8f442b437a08da5a9d3b38%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637921928583324366%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=trc1NTxxmOiA%2F%2FJK6O9OtBhD1phjSlUNAkRjUzk%2F%2Be4%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/fire-safety-approved-document-b</a>.</p><p>This specifies that the height should be measured from the upper floor surface of the top floor to ground level on the lowest side of building. Diagram D6 clearly demonstrates that this measurement is taken externally. Therefore items such as lower ground floors and basement flats which are understood to be internal features of a building are generally not considered.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 30/06/2022 16:44:58 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

1483566

registered interest
date	27/06/2022
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: Vacant Land
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many planning applications for the construction of new homes on greenfield sites in England have been granted in the last five years; and how many of those applications have been upheld at appeal by the Planning Inspectorate.
tabling member constituency	Somerton and Frome
tabling member printed	David Warburton
uin	25961
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2022 answer text <p>The data required to answer this question are not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 30/06/2022 16:49:48 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4526 label Biography information for David Warburton

1483568

registered interest
date	27/06/2022
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: 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, how many planning applications for the construction of new homes in England he has (a) called in and (b) recovered; and how many of those planning applications were on greenfield sites.
tabling member constituency	Somerton and Frome
tabling member printed	David Warburton
uin	25962
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2022 answer text <p>All decisions taken by Ministers on called-in applications and recovered appeals are published. They can be found on gov.uk at: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fcollections%2Fplanning-applications-called-in-decisions-and-recovered-appeals&amp;data=05%7C01%7CParliamentary%40levellingup.gov.uk%7C02e709e61b8f442b437a08da5a9d3b38%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637921928583324366%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=f4H6G3wngHUED59SEZ3SdvmMAxHKdufhDVNAXZPhWSI%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/planning-applications-called-in-decisions-and-recovered-appeals</a></p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 30/06/2022 16:51:06 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4526 label Biography information for David Warburton

1473210

registered interest
date	24/06/2022
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	Affordable Housing: Taxation
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 ensuring that all forms of affordable housing, including homes at Discount Market Sale, are granted exemption from the infrastructure levy proposed in the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill.
tabling member constituency	Northampton South
tabling member printed	Andrew Lewer
uin	24656
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2022 answer text <p>The Infrastructure Levy will be a mandatory, non-negotiable charge, set and collected locally, to largely replace the complex and discretionary section 106 regime and CIL charge.</p><p>The Government is committed to the delivery of on-site affordable housing through the Levy, and to delivering at least as much, if not more, affordable housing than at present. We will introduce through regulations a new 'right to require'. Local authorities will be able to require that a proportion of the Levy liability to be paid as in-kind, onsite affordable housing.</p><p>We do not intend to charge the Levy on affordable housing, and will consult on the details of our proposed approach. Exemptions and reductions with regards to the Levy will be set out through regulations.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 04/07/2022 15:30:29 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4659 label Biography information for Andrew Lewer