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1081885

registered interest
date	06/03/2019
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	Housing: Construction
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 he has taken to stimulate increased lending from high street banks to small and medium-sized house builders in England.
tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
tabling member printed	Kevin Hollinrake
uin	228146
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2019 answer text <p>The Government fully recognises the important role small and medium sized house builders (SME) play in delivering much needed housing in this country. We have already put in place a number of initiatives to help SME builders overcome barriers, specifically access to finance through the provision of the £4.5 billion Home Building Fund. £2.5 billion of which provides short term loans to SME housebuilders, custom builders and innovators. £110 million of that funding has been used to set up The Housing Growth Partnership. <br> <br>Launched in 2015, this is a £220 million partnership between Lloyds Bank and Homes England and is supporting the growth of SME house builders and expansion in the UK housing stock. It will deliver 3,400 homes. In addition, the Home Building Fund has also provided £125 million for the the Housing Delivery Fund launched by Barclays Bank and Homes England, in September 2018. The £1 billion development finance Fund will help build thousands of new homes across England. Of the £1 billion fund, Barclays is providing £875 million. <br> <br>A key priority of The Housing Delivery Fund is to support small and medium sized businesses to develop homes for rent or sale including social housing, retirement living and the private rented sector, whilst also supporting innovation in the model of delivery such as brownfield land and urban regeneration projects.</p><p>The Chancellor announced at Budget 2018 that the British Business Bank will deliver a new scheme providing guarantees to support up to £1 billion of lending to SME house builders. My Department and Homes England are currently working with the British Business Bank to implement this scheme.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 228143 228147 question first answered 11/03/2019 17:49:47 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake

1082569

registered interest
date	06/03/2019
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	Buildings: Insulation
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 5 March 2019 to Question 227110 on Buildings: Insulation, when the BS 8414 test will take place; and whether combustible insulation behind that cladding will be tested.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	229147
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2019 answer text <p>The date for the test will be dependent on the availability of test rigs. It is proposed that the test should be carried out with an HPL panel and stone wool insulation. The advice of the Department’s Independent Expert Advisory Panel, set out in a Departmental advice note to building owners issued in December 2017 and revised in December 2018, is clear that combustible insulation or cladding presents a risk of fire spread on existing high rise buildings unless installed as part of a system that has passed the BS 8414 test. Their advice to building owners is that unsafe materials should be replaced with materials that are non-combustible or of limited combustibility.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 11/03/2019 16:25:08 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1082574

registered interest
date	06/03/2019
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	Social Services: Dementia
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 his Department is using for projected rates of dementia in the technical review of local authorities’ needs and resources.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	229089
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2019 answer text <p>The Government is undertaking a review of the relative needs and resources of local authorities in England, with a view to setting fresh baseline funding levels in 2020-21. We are working closely with local government representatives and others to consider the drivers of local authorities’ costs, the resources available locally to fund services, and how we should account for these in a way that draws a more transparent and understandable link between local circumstances and resource allocations.</p><p>The Government recognises the importance of getting its approach to Adult Social Care funding right and has identified this as a service area which will require a specific funding formula. The Government believes that the best available option is to deploy the most up-to-date formula available, which offers appropriate levels of analytical robustness. Our leading option, as set out in our December 2018 consultation, is to base a formula on work commissioned by the Department of Health and Social Care and undertaken by LG Futures (a specialist consultancy firm), together with the Personal Social Services Research Unit at the University of Kent and the London School of Economics and Political Science. This formula uses population projections and provides a robust and contemporary measure of need for all Adult Social Care services across England, including care for those with dementia.</p><p>Further information on this research can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.pssru.ac.uk/project-pages/adult-social-care-rnf-review/" target="_blank">https://www.pssru.ac.uk/project-pages/adult-social-care-rnf-review/</a>.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 11/03/2019 17:20:37 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

1082578

registered interest
date	06/03/2019
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	Buildings: Insulation
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 11 February 2019 to Question 217589 on Buildings: Insulation, for what reasons his Department has decided to use a bespoke test methodology.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	229149
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2019 answer text <p>The test is designed to investigate the behaviour in a fire of the cladding materials being tested in a way that identifies risks that might not be identified in a standardised classification test. The test methodology was developed in consultation with an expert steering group.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 11/03/2019 16:25:35 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1082579

registered interest
date	06/03/2019
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	Buildings: Insulation
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 26 February 2019 to Question 227111 on Buildings: Insulation, when his Department plans to announce the results of the call for evidence to form the basis for a technical review of Approved Document B (Fire Safety).
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	229150
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2019 answer text <p>The Department is considering the responses to the call for evidence and will announce its conclusions as soon as possible.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 11/03/2019 16:24:02 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1082581

registered interest
date	06/03/2019
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	UK Shared Prosperity Fund
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 19 December 2018 to Question 202313 on the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, what the timetable is for the public consultation on the design of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund; and when he plans to publish that consultation document.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	229152
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2019 answer text <p>We will consult widely on the design of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, which will give all interested parties the chance to contribute their views to Government. Their responses will inform final decisions on the Fund, which are due to be taken during the spending review.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 11/03/2019 16:49:05 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1082582

registered interest
date	06/03/2019
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	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when his Department plans to respond to the letter of 5 February 2019 from the hon. Member for Croydon North on fire safety and cladding.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	229153
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2019 answer text <p>I have replied to the Hon Member's letter.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 11/03/2019 17:07:30 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1082584

registered interest
date	06/03/2019
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, how the £100 million investment in the Government's Rough Sleeping Strategy will be spent; over what timescale that money will be spend; and how much of that funding will be allocated to local authorities.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	229222
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to reducing homelessness and ending rough sleeping. No one should ever have to sleep rough. That is why we published the cross-government Rough Sleeping Strategy. This 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. In its first year, the Rough Sleeping Initiative provided over 1,750 new bed spaces and 500 staff.</p><p>As part of the Strategy, we recently announced:</p><p>· funding for the 53 Early Adopter local authorities, including 11 Somewhere Safe to Stay hubs as part of our Rapid Rehousing Pathway that will spend around £16 million over 2018-19 and 2019-20;</p><p>· the opening of the 2019/20 funding round for the Rapid Rehousing Pathway, worth up to £26 million;</p><p>· just over £6 million, beginning in 2019-20, for piloting support and suitable accommodation tailored for those leaving prison;</p><p>· provisional allocations for £34 million in funding for 2019-20 through the Rough Sleeping Initiative to help tackle rough sleeping; and</p><p>· an £11 million fund in 2019-20 for local authorities areas outside the 83 local authorities we are already funding through the Rough Sleeping Initiative.</p><p>The remaining funding will include £5 million to support non-UK nationals who are sleeping rough, and funding to deliver the remaining Rough Sleeping Strategy commitments, including training packages for frontline staff as well as improving data and accountability structures around homelessness and rough sleeping.</p><p>We are committed to working with all local authorities as we move towards a country where no one should sleep rough and the majority of our programmes are delivered through local authorities and their partners.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 11/03/2019 16:41:34 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

1082678

registered interest
date	06/03/2019
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	Stronger Towns Fund
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 criteria was used to assess deprivation in communities as part of allocating funding via the Stronger Towns Fund.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
uin	229248
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2019 answer text <p>The formula for allocating the £1 billion of the Stronger Towns Fund assesses need according to metrics of: income, productivity, deprivation, skills, and the number of people living in towns. In this formula, deprivation is assessed based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 11/03/2019 16:46:32 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1082094

registered interest
date	05/03/2019
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	Housing: Construction
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 effect of the criteria for the distribution of the (a) Housing Infrastructure Fund Forward Fund, (b) Estates Regeneration Fund, (c) Home Building Fund, (d) Small Sites Fund and (e) Land Assembly Fund on the number of houses built in different local authority areas.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	228561
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2019 answer text <p>The criteria of these funds have been designed to ensure homes are built in the areas that need them most. It is absolutely right that government tackles the issue of affordability where it is most acute, and ensure value for money for the taxpayer.</p><p>The effect of this funding will be to build more homes in areas where affordability pressures are most severe.</p><p>These five funds will continue to deliver on the Government's ambitious housing targets including the aim to deliver 300,000 homes per annum by the mid 2020’s.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 11/03/2019 16:23:39 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts