Show Search Form

Search Results

registered interest	true false
date	exactly: or between: and
answering body
answering dept id
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name
hansard heading
house id
legislature	pref label
question text
tabling member constituency
tabling member printed
uin
answer	is ministerial correction true false date of answer exactly: or between: and answer text answering member constituency answering member printed grouped question UIN question first answered answering member label
tabling member	label

Search

1692701

registered interest
date	29/02/2024
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	Temporary Accommodation
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 make an assessment of the adequacy of his Department's data collection on the number of households in emergency temporary accommodation.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	16406
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2024 answer text <p>The department’s temporary accommodation statistics are classified as accredited official statistics by the Office for National Statistics.</p> answering member constituency Kensington answering member printed Felicity Buchan question first answered 07/03/2024 14:56:16 answering member 4821 label Biography information for Felicity Buchan
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1692550

registered interest
date	28/02/2024
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: 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, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that developers do not use unsuitable materials when constructing buildings.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	16260
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2024 answer text <p>Regulation 7(1) of the Building Regulations 2010 places a duty on the person carrying building work to ensure that it is carried out with adequate and proper materials which are appropriate for the circumstances in which they are used, adequately mixed or prepared, and are applied, used or fixed so as to adequately perform the functions for which they are designed.</p><p>The Building Regulations etc. (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2023 amended the Building Regulations to require that individuals and organisations carrying out building work or design work must have the necessary competence to ensure that the work they do meets the requirements of the Building Regulations.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley question first answered 05/03/2024 16:26:45 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1692555

registered interest
date	28/02/2024
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 Infrastructure 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, how his Department plans to allocate the remainder of the Housing Infrastructure Fund.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	16265
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2024 answer text <p>The £4.2 billion Housing Infrastructure Fund is fully allocated. The full £4.2 billion budget is expected to be spent by the programme end date of 31 March 2028.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley question first answered 05/03/2024 16:23:59 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1692557

registered interest
date	28/02/2024
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: Temporary Accommodation
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 potential implications for his policies of trends in levels of profits made by private landlords by letting emergency temporary accommodation.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	16267
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2024 answer text <p>Local authorities procure temporary accommodation from a range of sources, including council-owned stock, from housing associations, and from private landlords, and must ensure it is suitable.</p><p>Government has an ambition to increase quality of all accommodation, including temporary accommodation.</p> answering member constituency Kensington answering member printed Felicity Buchan grouped question UIN 16269 question first answered 07/03/2024 14:51:58 answering member 4821 label Biography information for Felicity Buchan
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1692559

registered interest
date	28/02/2024
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	Temporary Accommodation
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 adequacy of regulation for emergency temporary accommodation.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	16269
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2024 answer text <p>Local authorities procure temporary accommodation from a range of sources, including council-owned stock, from housing associations, and from private landlords, and must ensure it is suitable.</p><p>Government has an ambition to increase quality of all accommodation, including temporary accommodation.</p> answering member constituency Kensington answering member printed Felicity Buchan grouped question UIN 16267 question first answered 07/03/2024 14:51:58 answering member 4821 label Biography information for Felicity Buchan
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1692560

registered interest
date	28/02/2024
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Housing Benefit: Supported Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department spent on exempt accommodation in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	16270
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2024 answer text <p>Providing the requested information would incur disproportionate costs to the Department due to the resource required to resolve data quality issues on exempt accommodation, which is a particular type of supported housing.</p><p><em> </em></p><p>Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is working to resolve a historical data quality issue in relation to how supported housing status is captured on Housing Benefit claims. The resulting fix will be for new claims and will not address historic claims.</p><p> </p><p>In 2022, DWP made investments to deliver improvements to local authority (LA) IT systems, to accurately record all new Housing Benefit claims. This has substantially improved data quality for new claims. DWP have also taken action to improve data on existing claims. LAs have received funding to review their Housing Benefit caseload and set the supported housing status accurately by 31<sup>st</sup> March 2024.</p><p> </p><p>The Departments’ analysts will then make a final assessment of these case reviews in Summer 2024, once they have received the full relevant data set, and will determine whether it is sufficiently robust to support quantification of the scale and cost of specified accommodation.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 06/03/2024 11:16:50 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1692562

registered interest
date	28/02/2024
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: Inspections
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 estimate of the number of building inspectors that are expected to have registered with the Building Safety Regulator by 6 April 2024.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	16272
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2024 answer text <p>The deadline to register is 6 April 2024, and we continue to review the progress of registrations in advance of that.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley question first answered 05/03/2024 16:27:23 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1692563

registered interest
date	28/02/2024
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	High Rise Flats: 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, how many buildings over 18 meters with aluminium composite material cladding have not been remediated as of 28 February 2024.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	16273
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2024 answer text <p>The latest data on remediation progress of high-rise buildings (over 18 metres) with aluminium composite material (ACM) cladding systems unlikely to meet Building Regulations is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/building-safety-remediation-monthly-data-release-january-2024" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/building-safety-remediation-monthly-data-release-january-2024</a>.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley grouped question UIN 16274 question first answered 05/03/2024 16:14:24 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1692564

registered interest
date	28/02/2024
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	High Rise Flats: 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 information he holds on the number and proportion of buildings over 18 meters with aluminium composite material cladding that have started remediation works.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	16274
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2024 answer text <p>The latest data on remediation progress of high-rise buildings (over 18 metres) with aluminium composite material (ACM) cladding systems unlikely to meet Building Regulations is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/building-safety-remediation-monthly-data-release-january-2024" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/building-safety-remediation-monthly-data-release-january-2024</a>.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley grouped question UIN 16273 question first answered 05/03/2024 16:14:24 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1690374

registered interest
date	20/02/2024
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	Homelessness: Coronavirus
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 data his Department holds on the number and proportion of individuals housed under the Everyone In initiative who continued to be provided with accommodation after covid-19 restrictions were lifted.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	14924
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2024 answer text <p>Rough sleeping data collections are available here: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fcollections%2Fhomelessness-statistics%23rough-sleeping&amp;data=05%7C02%7CPS.Advisers%40levellingup.gov.uk%7C4bd5788c10184121e97d08dc34550589%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C638442786992745752%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=5CyB5C2wuut4dKANcHaSkVOrvlwWW2CmzCbKm4Uqw%2B4%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Homelessness statistics</a>.</p> answering member constituency Kensington answering member printed Felicity Buchan question first answered 27/02/2024 14:50:38 answering member 4821 label Biography information for Felicity Buchan
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury