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1733763

registered interest
date	14/10/2024
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	Private Rented Housing: Tenants' Rights
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of increasing private rented sector tenants' protections and rights of redress against (a) landlords and (b) letting agencies under private rented sector deposit protection schemes.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool Wavertree
tabling member printed	Paula Barker
uin	8915
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2024 answer text <p>Tenancy Deposit Protection (TDP) schemes play a vital role in protecting tenant deposits and providing free alternative dispute resolution, should a deposit dispute arise at the end of a tenancy. TDP providers are appointed as authorised schemes through government concession contracts.</p><p>My department is responsible for managing these contracts and monitoring schemes’ performance. The contracts are due to expire in 2026, and as part of the re-procurement we will be reviewing the current system and exploring what improvements can be made to ensure the best possible service for tenants and landlords.</p> answering member constituency Greenwich and Woolwich answering member printed Matthew Pennycook question first answered 17/10/2024 12:54:42 answering member 4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook
tabling member	4828 label Biography information for Paula Barker

1733893

registered interest
date	14/10/2024
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: Regeneration
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 she will make it her policy to review the funding criteria of Homes England to help facilitate investment in regeneration projects covering areas with high-density colliery housing that have significant numbers of (a) void, (b) derelict and (c) poor-quality homes, even if such regeneration schemes may result in a net reduction in the overall housing supply.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	8794
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2024 answer text <p>The department works closely with Homes England to ensure investment in housing and regeneration schemes supports the delivery of the Government’s wider housing ambitions, including providing high-quality new homes in the areas where they are most needed. We will carefully consider investment criteria for future funding against these ambitions to ensure they are being met.</p><p>The 2021-2026 Affordable Homes Programme can fund regeneration schemes where they are being delivered alongside net additional affordable housing. We plan to address the significant unmet need for affordable housing through the biggest increase in social and affordable housebuilding in a generation. Any assessment of the role of grant funding in the future delivery of affordable housing will be made at the next Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency Greenwich and Woolwich answering member printed Matthew Pennycook question first answered 17/10/2024 12:56:21 answering member 4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1733230

registered interest
date	10/10/2024
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	Devolution
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 her Department is taking to increase cross-government collaboration with the devolved Administrations.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	8447
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2024 answer text <p>The Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of State made clear the importance of resetting her department’s relationship with devolved governments so that we are increasing collaboration on shared opportunities and challenges.</p><p>The Deputy Prime Minister has held productive meetings with First Ministers and Deputy First Ministers across the UK, and look forward to continuing positive engagement in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.</p><p>Ministers are also working actively with counterparts in the devolved governments, with recent meetings on housing and the Grenfell announcement.</p> answering member constituency Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton answering member printed Jim McMahon question first answered 18/10/2024 10:03:29 answering member 4569 label Biography information for Jim McMahon
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1733233

registered interest
date	10/10/2024
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	Commonhold and Leasehold: Reform
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has plans for legislation changes on (a) enfranchisement rights, (b) ground rents, (c) default tenure and (d) cladding remediation liability for (i) leasehold and (ii) commonhold ownership.
tabling member constituency	Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner
tabling member printed	David Simmonds
uin	8491
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2024 answer text <p>The Government intend to act quickly to provide homeowners with greater rights, powers, and protections over their homes by implementing the provisions of the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024. We will set out details in due course about the extensive programme of secondary legislation need to bring the Act into force.</p><p>Over the course of this Parliament, the Government will further reform the leasehold system. We will enact remaining Law Commission recommendations relating to enfranchisement and the Right to Manage, tackle unregulated and unaffordable ground rents, reinvigorate commonhold through a comprehensive new legal framework, and ban the sale of new leasehold flats so commonhold becomes the default tenure.</p><p>The Government has made clear it intends to publish draft legislation on leasehold and commonhold reform in this session so that it may be subject to broad consultation and additional parliamentary scrutiny. We will announce further details in due course.</p> answering member constituency Greenwich and Woolwich answering member printed Matthew Pennycook question first answered 18/10/2024 12:56:16 answering member 4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook
tabling member	4872 label Biography information for David Simmonds

1733285

registered interest
date	10/10/2024
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	Homelessness: Men
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 the Homelessness code of guidance for local authorities, published on 22 February 2018, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the guidance on (a) priority need and (b) emergency accommodation provision for single men who (i) do not fit the priority categories and (ii) are rough sleeping.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Oliver Ryan
uin	8548
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2024 answer text <p>Homelessness legislation and guidance makes clear people who are vulnerable have priority need. This includes a duty to provide the household with temporary accommodation until settled accommodation is secured.</p><p>Homelessness levels are far too high. We are determined to tackle this and will develop a new cross government strategy, working with mayors and councils across the country, to get us back on track to ending homelessness once and for all.</p> answering member constituency Bethnal Green and Stepney answering member printed Rushanara Ali question first answered 18/10/2024 10:02:22 answering member 4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali
tabling member	5135

1733300

registered interest
date	10/10/2024
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	Local Government Finance
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 she has made of the (a) equality of and (b) potential impact on councils in low income areas of the funding formula for local government; and whether she has plans to reform that formula.
tabling member constituency	Tipton and Wednesbury
tabling member printed	Antonia Bance
uin	8511
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2024 answer text <p>This Government is committed to fixing the foundations by reforming and rebuilding local government.</p><p>We will work hand-in-hand with councils by moving towards multi-year funding settlements and ending competitive bidding processes.</p><p>Over the coming months, we want to hear from local councils about the financial challenges they face and about improvements we can make to ensure the system works in support of local areas, not against them.</p> answering member constituency Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton answering member printed Jim McMahon question first answered 18/10/2024 09:59:52 answering member 4569 label Biography information for Jim McMahon
tabling member	5048

1733303

registered interest
date	10/10/2024
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: Health
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 she has made of the potential impact of (a) newbuild housing quality and (b) housing prices on health outcomes for residents.
tabling member constituency	Worthing West
tabling member printed	Dr Beccy Cooper
uin	8602
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2024 answer text <p>Building Regulations set standards for the design and construction of buildings to ensure the safety and health of people in or about those buildings. The impacts of these standards are assessed when changes are made to individual parts of the Building Regulations and Approved Documents.</p> answering member constituency Greenwich and Woolwich answering member printed Matthew Pennycook question first answered 18/10/2024 13:17:06 answering member 4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook
tabling member	5307

1733363

registered interest
date	10/10/2024
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: Carbon Emissions
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 her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of amending the Building Regulations Act 2010 to introduce mandatory reporting on embodied carbon emissions for projects (a) with a gross internal area of 1000m2 or more and (b) that create more than 10 dwellings to help meet the UK's climate change commitments.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	8459
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2024 answer text <p>Reducing embodied carbon emissions from the built environment is a key part of meeting the country’s net zero targets. These emissions predominantly come from the supply chains leading to new buildings, and there is work across government to decarbonise those supply chains. The Building Regulations are one of several mechanisms that could be used to encourage reporting of embodied carbon in construction, and my department is currently considering the role they might play.</p> answering member constituency Bethnal Green and Stepney answering member printed Rushanara Ali question first answered 18/10/2024 10:23:57 answering member 4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1733422

registered interest
date	10/10/2024
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	Kent County Council: Finance
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 her Department will make an estimate of the (a) change in funding to Kent County Council (i) in real terms and (ii) as a percentage since 2010 and (b) forecast funding level for 2024 in the event that 2010 funding levels had been maintained in real terms.
tabling member constituency	East Thanet
tabling member printed	Ms Polly Billington
uin	8535
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2024 answer text <p>This Government recognises that council funding has been under pressure since 2010.</p><p>The Local Government Finance Settlement for 2024-25 was worth up to £64.7 billion for local authorities in England. For Kent County Council, the 2024-25 Local Government Finance Settlement made available up to £1.4 billion.</p><p>Future local authority funding decisions will be a matter for the next Spending Review and Local Government Finance Settlement in which we are engaged. The department will work with local government leaders to ensure they are better able to fulfil their statutory duties.</p> answering member constituency Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton answering member printed Jim McMahon question first answered 15/10/2024 15:44:28 answering member 4569 label Biography information for Jim McMahon
tabling member	5123

1733430

registered interest
date	10/10/2024
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	Incinerators: Portland
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 her Department has made of the potential impact of the Portland Incinerator on local infrastructure in West Dorset constituency.
tabling member constituency	West Dorset
tabling member printed	Edward Morello
uin	8613
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2024 answer text <p>The full reasons for the decision to grant the permission in question are set out in the published decision letter and Inspector’s Report. The Inspector’s Report provides a complete list of the evidence which was before the Inquiry. Having issued this decision, the Secretary of State has no further jurisdiction in the matter, and it would not be appropriate to comment further.</p> answering member constituency Greenwich and Woolwich answering member printed Matthew Pennycook question first answered 18/10/2024 13:18:38 answering member 4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook
tabling member	5326