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1236555

registered interest
date	22/09/2020
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	Property Development: Floods
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 guidance the Government provides to local authorities on planning permission rules for roof terraces on buildings on flood plains.
tabling member constituency	North West Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Richard Holden
uin	93709
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/09/2020 answer text <p>National planning policy and guidance on managing flood risk is clear that inappropriate development in areas at current or future risk of flooding should be avoided by directing development away from areas at highest risk, including floodplains, towards areas at least risk. Only water compatible or essential infrastructure developments are allowed in the functional floodplain, where water has to flow or be stored during times of flood. Where development is necessary in a flood risk area, and where there are no suitable sites available in areas with a lower risk of flooding, it should be made safe without increasing flood risk elsewhere and be appropriately flood resistant and resilient.</p><p>Policy is clear that householder applications for minor development and changes of use require a site-specific flood risk assessment for all development in Flood Zones 2 and 3. Furthermore, the Environment Agency are a statutory consultee for minor development in Flood Zone 3 that is within 20 metres of a main river, and also provide advice for minor development in other areas.</p><p>We are reviewing our policy for building in areas at flood risk, and alongside the Government’s £5.2 billion investment in additional flood defences announced at Budget, this will seek to ensure that communities across the country know that future development will be safe from floods. We will assess whether current protections in the National Planning Policy Framework are enough and consider options for further reform .</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 25/09/2020 13:33:47 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden

1236759

registered interest
date	22/09/2020
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	Planning Permission: Local Press
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 regulatory impact assessment he has carried out on the proposal to remove statutory requirements for planning applications to be publicised in local newspapers; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Sir Christopher Chope
uin	93517
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/09/2020 answer text <p>Local planning authorities are required to publicise certain types of planning applications in local newspapers as set out in Article 15 of the Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 2015. In response to coronavirus restrictions, temporary regulations have been introduced to supplement the existing statutory publicity arrangements for planning applications. Local planning authorities now have the flexibility to take other reasonable steps to publicise applications if they cannot discharge the specific requirement for newspaper publicity – for instance, if the local newspaper is not now in circulation. These steps can include the use of social media and other electronic communications, such as local online news portals, and must be proportionate to the scale and nature of the proposed development. However, if a local planning authority is required to publicise a planning application in a local newspaper, and that paper is still in circulation, then they must continue to do so.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 25/09/2020 13:34:38 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

1236058

registered interest
date	21/09/2020
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 he plans to respond to the letter of the 24 July 2020 from the Rt. hon. Member for Leeds Central on the draft building safety bill.
tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
uin	92700
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/09/2020 answer text <p>The response was emailed to the Rt Hon Member on Tuesday 22 September.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 24/09/2020 14:56:02 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

1236133

registered interest
date	21/09/2020
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	Flats: 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, if he will provide support to leaseholders in flats that require cladding safety works.
tabling member constituency	Stevenage
tabling member printed	Stephen McPartland
uin	92764
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/09/2020 answer text <p>The Government is providing £1.6 billion to speed up the removal of unsafe cladding and make homes safer, quicker. We have also appointed construction experts who are reviewing remediation timescales and identifying what can be done to increase pace. Where building owners have failed to act, despite government support, the Government has supported enforcement action.</p><p>However, we recognise that there are wider remediation costs which will need to be met to ensure the safety of existing blocks of flats. We have asked MHCLG advisor Michael Wade to accelerate work on identifying options for financing solutions that remove barriers to fixing historic defects and protect leaseholders from unaffordable costs; but we must also ensure that the bill does not fall on taxpayers.</p><p>The new building safety regime will prevent similar safety defects occurring in new builds in the future. It will also systematically address historic defects by requiring safety case reviews and reasonable improvements.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher grouped question UIN 92765 question first answered 24/09/2020 14:55:29 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4093 label Biography information for Stephen McPartland

1236134

registered interest
date	21/09/2020
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: 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, if he will provide a Government loan facility for leaseholders needing to fund cladding safety works.
tabling member constituency	Stevenage
tabling member printed	Stephen McPartland
uin	92765
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/09/2020 answer text <p>The Government is providing £1.6 billion to speed up the removal of unsafe cladding and make homes safer, quicker. We have also appointed construction experts who are reviewing remediation timescales and identifying what can be done to increase pace. Where building owners have failed to act, despite government support, the Government has supported enforcement action.</p><p>However, we recognise that there are wider remediation costs which will need to be met to ensure the safety of existing blocks of flats. We have asked MHCLG advisor Michael Wade to accelerate work on identifying options for financing solutions that remove barriers to fixing historic defects and protect leaseholders from unaffordable costs; but we must also ensure that the bill does not fall on taxpayers.</p><p>The new building safety regime will prevent similar safety defects occurring in new builds in the future. It will also systematically address historic defects by requiring safety case reviews and reasonable improvements.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher grouped question UIN 92764 question first answered 24/09/2020 14:55:29 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4093 label Biography information for Stephen McPartland

1236137

registered interest
date	21/09/2020
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	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 Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the voluntary right to buy pilot scheme for housing association tenants in the West Midlands; and what plans he has to extend that scheme to (a) County Durham and (b) other parts of the country.
tabling member constituency	North West Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Richard Holden
uin	92916
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/09/2020 answer text <p>The Voluntary Right to Buy Midlands pilot will complete later this year, and is being fully evaluated. The Government committed to evaluate new pilot areas, and further details will be provided in due course.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 24/09/2020 14:56:17 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden

1236179

registered interest
date	21/09/2020
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	Building Safety 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, how many applications have been recieved for the Building Safety Fund.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	92878
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/09/2020 answer text <p>We are currently reviewing registrations to the Building Safety Fund and verifying the registration data. We will publish registration statistics in due course.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 24/09/2020 14:55:45 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1236183

registered interest
date	21/09/2020
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, what progress he has made on the (a) establishment and (b) operational details of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	92879
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/09/2020 answer text <p>The Government understands the importance of local growth funding to places and people and is committed to creating the UK Shared Prosperity Fund to succeed European structural funds, providing vital investment in local economies, cutting out bureaucracy and levelling up those parts of the UK whose economies are furthest behind.</p><p>The 2019 Conservative Manifesto committed to targeting the UK Shared Prosperity Fund at the UK’s specific needs, at a minimum matching the size of European structural funds in each nation. This builds upon previous commitments to create a fund which tackles inequalities between communities by raising productivity, especially in those parts of the UK whose economies are furthest behind.</p><p>Final decisions on the design and operation of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund will need to be made following a cross-Government Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 24/09/2020 16:36:46 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1236252

registered interest
date	21/09/2020
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	Listed Buildings: Council Tax
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing an exemption from council tax for unoccupied listed buildings to reflect the application of business rates to listed buildings.
tabling member constituency	Staffordshire Moorlands
tabling member printed	Karen Bradley
uin	92766
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/09/2020 answer text <p>The Government is committed to the protection of the historic environment and has put in place a strong legislative and planning policy framework to achieve this. The Government also supports the maintenance of listed properties through “Our Heritage” funding, further information about which is available at: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hlf.org.uk%2Flooking-funding%2Four-grant-programmes%2Four-heritage&amp;data=02%7C01%7CParliamentary%40communities.gov.uk%7C2f19bc82160648e5642608d8609dedcc%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637365578693690611&amp;sdata=wVHlz5BQQZpr3S6%2BkLgydC%2Fm2bJYmqQaLOkHd5VuvDM%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.hlf.org.uk/looking-funding/our-grant-programmes/our-heritage</a>. Although there are no plans to introduce a council tax exemption for unoccupied listed buildings, local authorities do have powers to provide discretionary council tax discounts where they consider such action appropriate.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 24/09/2020 16:37:22 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley

1235751

registered interest
date	18/09/2020
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 Rented 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, with reference to his Department's press release, Jenrick unveils huge £12 billion boost for affordable homes, September 2020, whether grant levels for social rent homes in areas that do not face a high affordability challenge may be higher than the level for affordable rent.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	91775
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/09/2020 answer text <p>The Affordable Homes Programme is delivered through Homes England and the GLA in London. Each bid into the programme is evaluated on its own merits and based on the value for money of the scheme as a whole. The Government does not set grant rates for the programme, however we would expect grant rates to be lower in areas where it is cheaper to build and which face lower affordability challenges.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 23/09/2020 12:03:16 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire