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172978

registered interest
date	12/01/2015
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	Right to Buy Scheme
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will review their policy of right to buy in the light of the continued shortages of social housing to rent.
tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
uin	HL4050
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2015 answer text <p>The Government is committed to enabling social tenants to achieve their aspiration for home ownership where this is the right option for them.</p><p> </p><p>We are also committed to ensuring that affordable rented housing is available to those who need it most.</p><p> </p><p>Over £600 million has been generated from additional Right to Buy sales since the policy was reinvigorated, and this is being recycled directly into providing new affordable homes for rent.</p><p><br><br>Since April 2010, this Government has delivered 217,000 affordable homes, and council housebuilding is at its highest rate for 23 years.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 15/01/2015 15:50:35 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon

173161

registered interest
date	12/01/2015
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	Community Relations
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 5 January 2015 to the hon. Member for Brighton, Pavilion, to Question 218133, to which policies he was referring as the Government's broader social inclusion and integration policies.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
tabling member printed	Mr David Blunkett
uin	220410
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2015 answer text <p>I refer the rt. hon. Member to the Written Ministerial Statement on integration made by my rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (Eric Pickles) on 18 December 2014, <em>Official Report,</em> column 110-118WS and to the Government's Social Mobility Strategy Opening Doors, Breaking Barriers, published in 2011.</p> answering member constituency Bristol West answering member printed Stephen Williams question first answered 15/01/2015 17:12:16 answering member 1492 label Biography information for Stephen Williams
tabling member	395 label Biography information for Lord Blunkett

173162

registered interest
date	12/01/2015
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	Help to Buy Scheme: Lewisham
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 (a) Lewisham, Deptford constituency and (b) the Borough of Lewisham have been assisted by the (i) Help to Buy equity loan and (ii) Help to Buy mortgage guarantee schemes; and what the (A) range and (B) average value has been of mortgages so assisted.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Dame Joan Ruddock
uin	220449
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2015 answer text <p>This Government is committed to supporting people’s aspirations to own their own home.</p><p> </p><p>By 30 November 2014, 83 families had bought a home with the assistance of the three Help to Buy schemes in the constituency of Lewisham, Deptford. This includes 59 families using the support of Help the Buy: Equity Loan and 24 families using the support of Help to Buy: Mortgage Guarantee scheme.</p><p> </p><p>By 30 November 2014, 180 families in the London Borough of Lewisham had bought a home with the assistance of the three Help to Buy schemes. This includes 66 families using the Help to Buy: Equity Loan scheme and 85 families using the Help to Buy: Mortgage Guarantee scheme.</p><p> </p><p>Statistics on the average purchase price of a property bought under the schemes are all produced and published at the national level, but not at the level of constituency or local authority.</p><p> </p><p>The Department’s official statistics on sales for the respective Help to Buy schemes are available at:</p><p> </p><p>Help to Buy: Equity Loan (broken down by constituency, local authority and postcode):</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/help-to-buy-equity-loan-scheme-monthly-statistics" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/help-to-buy-equity-loan-scheme-monthly-statistics</a></p><p> </p><p>Help to Buy: Mortgage Guarantee (broken down by constituency, local authority and postcode):</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/help-to-buy-mortgage-guarantee-scheme-quarterly-statistics-october-2013-to-september-2014" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/statistics/help-to-buy-mortgage-guarantee-scheme-quarterly-statistics-october-2013-to-september-2014</a></p><p> </p><p>Help to Buy: New Buy (broken down by local authority):</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/help-to-buy-equity-loan-scheme-and-help-to-buy-newbuy-statistics-april-2013-to-september-2014" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/statistics/help-to-buy-equity-loan-scheme-and-help-to-buy-newbuy-statistics-april-2013-to-september-2014</a>. Figures are not available by constituency.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 15/01/2015 17:15:29 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	190 label Biography information for Dame Joan Ruddock

172712

registered interest
date	08/01/2015
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	Social Rented Housing
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was (1) the total council-owned housing stock, and (2) the stock of other social housing, in each local housing authority in England for each year since 1980.
tabling member printed	Lord Greaves
uin	HL4032
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2015 answer text <p>The Department does not hold figures at local authority district level to fully answer this question. The information published by the Department can provide the numbers of local authority-owned stock from 1994 and numbers of social housing stock from 1997.</p><p> </p><p>These data are available from the Department’s statistical tables at the following link:</p><p><br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-dwelling-stock-including-vacants" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-dwelling-stock-including-vacants</a></p><p> </p><p>Private Registered Provider (housing association) stock can be found in live table 115, local authority-owned stock can be found in live table 116. These can be summed to provide an estimate of social and affordable housing stock. Total housing stock can be found in live table 100 from 2009.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 15/01/2015 15:49:14 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2569 label Biography information for Lord Greaves

172713

registered interest
date	08/01/2015
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	Social Rented Housing
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government for each local housing authority in England, and for England as a whole, how many units of housing were sold under Right to Buy and Right to Acquire provisions in each year since 1980; and how many new units of (1) council housing, and (2) other social housing, were provided (by new build, conversion or purchase) in each of those years.
tabling member printed	Lord Greaves
uin	HL4033
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2015 answer text <p>Statistics on total Right to Buy sales in England for each year since 1980/81 and Right to Acquire sales in England for each year since 1998/99 are published in the Department’s tables 671 and 677 respectively. Annual Right to Buy sales for each local authority district for each year since 1998/99 are published in table 685. These tables are available at the following link:</p><p><br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-social-housing-sales" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-social-housing-sales</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Right to Acquire sales are not available by local authority district.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Annual statistics on delivery since 1991/92 of housing for social rent (table 1006) and since 2011/12 of housing for affordable rent (table 1006a) for each local authority district are published at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-affordable-housing-supply" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-affordable-housing-supply</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>These figures include newly built and acquired housing delivered by both local authorities and Private Registered Providers.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Statistics for Right to Buy starts on site by local authority district are only available from 2012-13 when one for one replacement on additional local authority sales - that is, sales above the level forecast before the changes were made - was introduced. They are published in the Department’s table 693 at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-social-housing-sales" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-social-housing-sales</a></p><p> </p><p>Councils have three years to start building the homes after the sale, which gives them time to ensure new builds maximise value for money.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 15/01/2015 16:30:30 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2569 label Biography information for Lord Greaves

172484

registered interest
date	07/01/2015
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 Tax
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 properties in (a) Swindon, (b) Wiltshire and (c) England were in each council tax band in the latest period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	North Swindon
tabling member printed	Justin Tomlinson
uin	219995
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2015 answer text <p>Details of the number of properties in each council tax band in the Swindon borough council area, the Wiltshire council area and England are shown in the attached table.</p><p> </p><p>The figures are as at September 2014 and are taken from the Council Taxbase October 2014 form completed by all 326 billing authorities in England. These figures are published on the gov.uk website at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/council-taxbase-2014-in-england" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/council-taxbase-2014-in-england</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 14/01/2015 17:04:14 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins attachment 1 file name 219995 Tomlinson.docx title Table on Council Tax Banding
tabling member	4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson

172485

registered interest
date	07/01/2015
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, what estimate he has made of the amount of New Homes Bonus funding allocated to (a) Swindon, (b) Wiltshire and (c) England in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	North Swindon
tabling member printed	Justin Tomlinson
uin	219996
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2015 answer text <p>The table below sets out to the nearest £10,000 how much New Homes Bonus funding has been allocated to the unitary authorities of Swindon and Wiltshire, and to England as a whole. Figures for 2015-16 are provisional allocations announced in December last year. The figures show cumulative totals as new Homes Bonus is paid for six years.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p>2011-12</p><p>(£million)</p></td><td><p>2012-13</p><p>(£million)</p></td><td><p>2013-14</p><p>(£million)</p></td><td><p>2014-15</p><p>(£million)</p></td><td><p>2015-16 <br> (provisional)</p><p>(£million)</p></td><td><p>Total New Homes Bonus</p><p>2011-2016 (£million)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Swindon</p></td><td><p>1.45</p></td><td><p>2.78</p></td><td><p>4.01</p></td><td><p>5.07</p></td><td><p>6.10</p></td><td><p><strong> 19.41</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><br> Wiltshire</p></td><td><p>1.84</p></td><td><p>4.59</p></td><td><p>7.59</p></td><td><p>10.90</p></td><td><p>14.28</p></td><td><p><strong> 39.2</strong><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>199.26</p></td><td><p>431.89</p></td><td><p>668.34</p></td><td><p>916.97</p></td><td><p>1,167.31</p></td><td><p><strong> 3,383.77</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The New Homes Bonus rewards the delivery of additional homes and is a powerful, simple and transparent incentive for housing growth, and getting long-term empty homes back into use.</p><p> </p><p>The Bonus ensures that local authorities who promote and welcome growth can share in its economic benefits, and build the communities in which people want to live and work. Councils are free to spend the Bonus as they choose, including on front-line services and keeping council tax low.</p><p> </p><p>The Bonus also reverses the perverse situation under the last Labour Government, where councils were effectively penalised for building new homes; councils with a larger council tax base from house building found that the amount of formula grant they received from central government was reduced during the equalisation process.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 13/01/2015 14:22:18 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson

172147

registered interest
date	06/01/2015
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	Repossession Orders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what information his Department holds on the number of properties repossessed in (a) Worcester, (b) Worcestershire and (c) England in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Worcester
tabling member printed	Mr Robin Walker
uin	219885
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2015 answer text <p>The Council of Mortgage Lenders collects data on the number of properties that have been repossessed, and provide this to the Ministry of Justice who publish the data and it can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/mortgage-and-landlord-possession-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/mortgage-and-landlord-possession-statistics</a></p><p> </p><p>The data are for the United Kingdom as a whole. No further geographical breakdown is available. Data for 2005-14 is shown in the attached Table 1.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice collects and publishes mortgage and landlord possession statistics, which include mortgage and landlord possession claim actions in county courts in England and Wales. Data is available at county and local authority level and can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/375809/mortgage-and-landlord-statistical-data-june-to-september-2014.zip" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/375809/mortgage-and-landlord-statistical-data-june-to-september-2014.zip</a></p><p> </p><p>Data for Worcester, Worcestershire and England, 2005-14, is shown in the attached Table 2.</p><p> </p><p>According to the Council of Mortgage Lenders, the number of mortgage possessions is at its lowest annual figure since 2007.</p><p> </p><p>Moreover, Bank of England statistics published on 9 December 2014 state that the number of new mortgage arrears cases is at its lowest quarterly level since the statistical series began in 2007.</p><p> </p><p>The action that this Government has taken to tackle the deficit left by the last Administration has kept interest rates down and helped reduce the number of repossessions.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 12/01/2015 15:47:54 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis attachment 1 file name 150112 tables 1and2 PQ643713 (UIN219885) Walker.docx title tables 1 and 2 for PQ UIN:219885
tabling member	4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker

172150

registered interest
date	06/01/2015
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 Permission: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what his policy is on planning appeal costs being awarded against a district council when that appeal has been dismissed.
tabling member constituency	The Cotswolds
tabling member printed	Geoffrey Clifton-Brown
uin	219907
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2015 answer text <p>All parties in planning appeals normally meet their own expenses. They are expected to behave reasonably to support an efficient and timely process, for example in providing all the required evidence and ensuring that timetables are met. Where a party has behaved unreasonably, and this has directly caused another party to incur unnecessary or wasted expense in the appeal process, they may be subject to an award of costs. A party applying for costs may have costs awarded against them, if they themselves have behaved unreasonably. It is a matter for the Planning Inspector, or the Secretary of State if a recovered decision, to determine applications for costs on a case-by-case basis.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 12/01/2015 15:42:34 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	249 label Biography information for Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown

172151

registered interest
date	06/01/2015
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance his Department has issued to local authorities on their responsibility to inform other local authorities when rehousing their residents to those authorities; and what steps his Department takes to ensure that such guidance is followed.
tabling member constituency	Newport East
tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
uin	219933
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2015 answer text <p>This Government has invested over £500 million since 2010 to prevent and tackle all forms of homelessness and rough sleeping. The homelessness legislation in England provides one of the strongest safety nets in the world for families with children and vulnerable people who become homeless through no fault of their own. Local authorities are required to secure suitable accommodation for homeless households within their own district so far as is reasonably practicable. If the authority secures accommodation in another district then section 208 of the Housing Act 1996 requires them to notify the local housing authority in whose district the accommodation is situated. We have made it clear that no council should be sending tenants en masse to a different part of the country. The statutory homelessness guidance “Homelessness Code of Guidance for local authorities” is clear on this matter. In 2012 this Government strengthened the law and supplemented statutory guidance to require authorities to take into account the impact a change in location would have including possible disruption to things like employment and schooling on individual households.</p><p> </p><p>Councils have a responsibility to move homeless households into settled accommodation as quickly as possible. That is why we made common sense changes to the law so that councils can place families in decent and affordable private rented homes more quickly. This will mean homeless households will not have to wait as long for settled accommodation, spending less time in temporary accommodation. Households now spend on average seven months less in temporary accommodation than at the start of 2010.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 14/01/2015 16:56:03 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins previous answer version 37738 answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden