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62477

registered interest
date	18/06/2014
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	Affordable Housing
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how they define affordable housing in terms of (1) maximum proportion of after-tax income of those on average earnings needed to pay rent, and (2) multiple of gross income needed to buy a house.
tabling member printed	Lord Marlesford
uin	HL406
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>We do not define affordable housing in those terms. The Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (sections 68 – 70) defines social housing as low cost rental accommodation and low cost home ownership accommodation. In the Act, a low cost rent is simply defined as below the market rate. Low cost home ownership is defined by its availability for occupation on a shared ownership or equity percentage basis. This provides flexibility to support a range of people with different housing needs through our affordable housing programmes.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>For planning purposes, the definition set out in the National Planning Policy Framework is as follows:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>“ Social rented, affordable rented and intermediate housing, provided to eligible households whose needs are not met by the market. Eligibility is determined with regard to local incomes and local house prices. Affordable housing should include provisions to remain at an affordable price for future eligible households or for the subsidy to be recycled for alternative affordable housing provision.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Social rented housing is owned by local authorities and private registered providers (as defined in section 80 of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008), for which guideline target rents are determined through the national rent regime. It may also be owned by other persons and provided under equivalent rental arrangements to the above, as agreed with the local authority or with the Homes and Communities Agency.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Affordable rented housing is let by local authorities or private registered providers of social housing to households who are eligible for social rented housing. Affordable Rent is subject to rent controls that require a rent of no more than 80% of the local market rent (including service charges, where applicable).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Intermediate housing is homes for sale and rent provided at a cost above social rent, but below market levels subject to the criteria in the Affordable Housing definition above. These can include shared equity (shared ownership and equity loans), other low cost homes for sale and intermediate rent, but not affordable rented housing.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Homes that do not meet the above definition of affordable housing, such as “low cost market” housing, may not be considered as affordable housing for planning purposes.“</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Stowell of Beeston question first answered 30/06/2014 12:37:21 answering member 4205 label Biography information for Baroness Stowell of Beeston
tabling member	1854 label Biography information for Lord Marlesford

62439

registered interest
date	17/06/2014
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	Forests
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what effect they consider that the provisions contained within clause 21 of the Infrastructure Bill will have onthe policy stated in their response to recommendation 27 of the Independent Panel on Forestry's Final Report.
tabling member printed	Baroness Royall of Blaisdon
uin	HL377
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>There has been some uninformed and misleading speculation on this issue, as I am happy to make clear that the Infrastructure Bill's provisions will have no impact on the Public Forest Estate. This point was also made by my noble Friend, Baroness Kramer, during Second Reading on 18 June 2014, <em>Official Report</em>, Column 899.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Clause 21 of the Infrastructure Bill is completely unconnected to the Government's stated policy to establish a new public body to hold the Public Forest Estate.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government has no intention of transferring land from the new body to the Homes and Communities Agency, as the Public Forest Estate is currently in use and not declared surplus. As such, the powers will not be used in relation to this body and will therefore have no effect on it.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Instead, Clause 21 simply enables surplus land to transfer directly from named public bodies directly to the Homes and Communities Agency, rather than being transferred into the ownership of a Whitehall department first, saving unnecessary bureaucracy. The underlying policy intention is to make it easier for surplus and redundant brownfield land to be sold and help build more homes.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Clause 21 arrangements will only apply to public bodies included on a list set out in secondary legislation. I can confirm that this list will not include the new body to hold the Public Forest Estate.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Stowell of Beeston question first answered 30/06/2014 12:54:39 answering member 4205 label Biography information for Baroness Stowell of Beeston
tabling member	3703 label Biography information for Baroness Royall of Blaisdon

61944

registered interest
date	16/06/2014
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many households have been formed and how many housing units have been built in England in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member printed	Lord Patten
uin	HL362
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Annual statistics on house building completions by tenure in England are published in the Department's live tables 209 (financial year) and 244 (calendar year), which are available at the following link.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-house-building" target="_blank">http://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-house-building</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Estimates of numbers of households in 2001 and 2011 are published in the Department's live table 401, which is available at the following link.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-household-projections" target="_blank">http://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-household-projections</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Annual statistics on net housing supply in England, which as well as house building include change of use and conversions, are published in the Department's live table 120 (financial year) which is available at the following link.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-net-supply-of-housing" target="_blank">http://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-net-supply-of-housing</a></p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Stowell of Beeston question first answered 30/06/2014 15:59:39 answering member 4205 label Biography information for Baroness Stowell of Beeston
tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten

61565

registered interest
date	12/06/2014
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	Private Rented Sector Taskforce
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Stowell of Beeston on 6 May (WA 392), with which organisations representing private tenants the Private Rented Sector Task Force has engaged since its establishment.
tabling member printed	Baroness King of Bow
uin	HL334
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2014 answer text <p>The Private Rented Sector Taskforce work closely with my officials in developing our policies in relation to the private rented sector. Together they engage with a wide range of private sector tenant groups including Shelter, Crisis, Generation Rent and its predecessor the National Private Tenant's Organisation, the National Union of Students, as well as individual private tenant organisations.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Stowell of Beeston question first answered 25/06/2014 13:53:36 answering member 4205 label Biography information for Baroness Stowell of Beeston
tabling member	143 label Biography information for Baroness King of Bow

61566

registered interest
date	12/06/2014
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	Homelessness
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Stowell of Beeston on 6 May (WA 384), when they expect to receive the report of the review being carried out by Social Finance into innovative models of providing temporary accommodation for homeless families.
tabling member printed	Baroness King of Bow
uin	HL335
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2014 answer text <p>A final report from Social Finance has been received. The report will be published in due course and I will write to the Noble Lady with a copy when it is available.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Stowell of Beeston question first answered 25/06/2014 13:52:47 answering member 4205 label Biography information for Baroness Stowell of Beeston
tabling member	143 label Biography information for Baroness King of Bow

61567

registered interest
date	12/06/2014
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	Homelessness
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Stowell of Beeston on 10 March (WA 351) on homelessness, how much was awarded to each of the 47 local authorities for preventing homelessness in 2011–12.
tabling member printed	Baroness King of Bow
uin	HL336
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Under this and the last Administration, the Department for Communities and Local Government has provided grant funding to a number of local authorities to support the provision of advice on preventing homelessness to complement the funding we provide to the voluntary sector.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The London Borough of Croydon received £1,591,050 in grant in 2010-11 for homelessness prevention, which was intended to support a range of activities including a contribution to the costs of providing homelessness advice to local authorities in London. The payment to Croydon was made under Section 31 of the Local Government Act 2003 (the general power to pay grant to local authorities towards expenditure incurred or to be incurred). The grant was unring-fenced and not subject to any conditions.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As was the position with funding provided to Newham, as set out in the answers to the noble Lady on 13 February 2013, <em>Official Report</em>, column WA165 and of 27 March 2013, <em>Official Report</em>, column WA247, there was no contract either between the Department and the London Borough of Croydon or the Department and Andy Gale.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>While departmental officials had discussions with Croydon about how the grant was to be spent, Ministers in this Administration had no involvement with local authorities on commissioning such services.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>A copy of the The Homelessness Revenue Grant Determination 2011-12 (31/1974) dated 1 March 2012 which lists the amount of funding received by 47 local authorities in 2011-12 for homelessness prevention work has been placed in the Library of the House.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Stowell of Beeston grouped question UIN HL337 question first answered 26/06/2014 16:21:19 answering member 4205 label Biography information for Baroness Stowell of Beeston attachment 1 file name 120106-Single Homelessness 31-1974.pdf title Homelessness Revenue grant Determination2011/12
tabling member	143 label Biography information for Baroness King of Bow

61568

registered interest
date	12/06/2014
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	Homelessness: Croydon
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how much funding was provided to the London Borough of Croydon in 2010–11 to host Andy Gale as a homelessness advisor and what work was required under the terms of that contract.
tabling member printed	Baroness King of Bow
uin	HL337
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Under this and the last Administration, the Department for Communities and Local Government has provided grant funding to a number of local authorities to support the provision of advice on preventing homelessness to complement the funding we provide to the voluntary sector.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The London Borough of Croydon received £1,591,050 in grant in 2010-11 for homelessness prevention, which was intended to support a range of activities including a contribution to the costs of providing homelessness advice to local authorities in London. The payment to Croydon was made under Section 31 of the Local Government Act 2003 (the general power to pay grant to local authorities towards expenditure incurred or to be incurred). The grant was unring-fenced and not subject to any conditions.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As was the position with funding provided to Newham, as set out in the answers to the noble Lady on 13 February 2013, <em>Official Report</em>, column WA165 and of 27 March 2013, <em>Official Report</em>, column WA247, there was no contract either between the Department and the London Borough of Croydon or the Department and Andy Gale.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>While departmental officials had discussions with Croydon about how the grant was to be spent, Ministers in this Administration had no involvement with local authorities on commissioning such services.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>A copy of the The Homelessness Revenue Grant Determination 2011-12 (31/1974) dated 1 March 2012 which lists the amount of funding received by 47 local authorities in 2011-12 for homelessness prevention work has been placed in the Library of the House.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Stowell of Beeston grouped question UIN HL336 question first answered 26/06/2014 16:21:18 answering member 4205 label Biography information for Baroness Stowell of Beeston attachment 1 file name 120106-Single Homelessness 31-1974.pdf title Homelessness Revenue grant Determination2011/12
tabling member	143 label Biography information for Baroness King of Bow