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999315

registered interest
date	31/10/2018
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 Revenue Accounts
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 publish a list of the bids the Government has received from local authorities under the scheme announced in Budget 2017 to increase housing revenue account borrowing headroom.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	186186
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2018 answer text <p>The £1 billion additional borrowing programme, which we launched in the summer, was over subscribed with local authorities submitting a total of almost 1,000 bids exceeding £2.8 billion additional borrowing. This scale of bids helped to demonstrate local authority demand for additional borrowing and appetite to increase council house building, and helped to inform the decision to abolish the Housing Revenue Account borrowing cap.</p><p>The Autumn Budget confirmed the complete abolition of the borrowing cap with immediate effect. With the issuing of a determination that revoked the previous determinations specifying local authority limits on indebtedness, local authorities can now borrow for house building in accordance with the Prudential Code without seeking permission for borrowing from the Government. As a result, the bids that local authorities submitted for additional borrowing through the £1 billion borrowing programme have fallen away.</p><p>We anticipate that local authorities may wish to reflect on their house building plans in light of the abolition of the borrowing cap, and may wish to develop new and even more ambitious plans for house building. In light of this, it would not be appropriate to publish details about the schemes that local authorities submitted to the £1 billion borrowing programme, as these schemes may now be out of date.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 186188 question first answered 05/11/2018 15:54:18 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

999324

registered interest
date	31/10/2018
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 Revenue Accounts
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 scheme announced in Budget 2017 to increase housing revenue account borrowing headroom, if he will publish (a) the additional borrowing headroom and (b) any additional linked grant funding applied for by councils under that scheme, by local authority.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	186188
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2018 answer text <p>The £1 billion additional borrowing programme, which we launched in the summer, was over subscribed with local authorities submitting a total of almost 1,000 bids exceeding £2.8 billion additional borrowing. This scale of bids helped to demonstrate local authority demand for additional borrowing and appetite to increase council house building, and helped to inform the decision to abolish the Housing Revenue Account borrowing cap.</p><p>The Autumn Budget confirmed the complete abolition of the borrowing cap with immediate effect. With the issuing of a determination that revoked the previous determinations specifying local authority limits on indebtedness, local authorities can now borrow for house building in accordance with the Prudential Code without seeking permission for borrowing from the Government. As a result, the bids that local authorities submitted for additional borrowing through the £1 billion borrowing programme have fallen away.</p><p>We anticipate that local authorities may wish to reflect on their house building plans in light of the abolition of the borrowing cap, and may wish to develop new and even more ambitious plans for house building. In light of this, it would not be appropriate to publish details about the schemes that local authorities submitted to the £1 billion borrowing programme, as these schemes may now be out of date.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 186186 question first answered 05/11/2018 15:54:18 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

995623

registered interest
date	26/10/2018
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 Revenue Accounts
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 his Department will use in deciding whether local authorities will be able to exceed the housing revenue account borrowing cap; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	184454
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2018 answer text <p>On 29 October 2018, we abolished the Housing Revenue Account borrowing cap in full and with immediate effect. Local authorities are now free to borrow to build new council homes in accordance with the Prudential Code, and will not need to apply to the Government for permission to borrow.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 05/11/2018 15:48:19 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

990374

registered interest
date	18/10/2018
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 Revenue Accounts
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 recent assessment he has made of the number of local authorities without a housing revenue account.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	181173
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2018 answer text <p>There are 160 local housing authorities without a Housing Revenue Account, as they have transferred their housing stock to a housing association. The requirement to account for housing in the HRA is disapplied if an authority has less than 200 homes in its housing stock.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 29/10/2018 14:47:15 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

984468

registered interest
date	09/10/2018
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 Revenue Accounts
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 the timetable is for the removal of the Housing Revenue Account borrowing cap for local authorities.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	177368
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2018 answer text <p>The Housing Revenue Account borrowing cap for local authorities will be removed as soon as possible, with further detail confirmed in the Budget.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 15/10/2018 16:16:10 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

984548

registered interest
date	09/10/2018
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 Revenue Accounts
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 the cost to the public purse is of removing the cap on councils' housing revenue accounts.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	177182
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2018 answer text <p>There is no direct cost of removing the Housing Revenue Account borrowing cap. The cost to the public purse depends on the way in which local authorities use their new freedom to borrow.</p><p>Further details on removal of the cap will be announced shortly.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 17/10/2018 14:52:55 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

944031

registered interest
date	18/07/2018
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 Revenue Accounts
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 consideration was given to the size of social housing waiting lists in local authorities when determining the methodology used to determine the eligibility of local authorities to bid for the Additional Housing Revenue Account Borrowing Programme.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	165682
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2018 answer text <p>The metric used to assess whether a local authority is in an area of high affordability pressure and therefore eligible to make an application under the Additional HRA Borrowing Programme is whether it has a difference of £50 or more per week between average social and average private rents at the local authority level. The Programme is therefore directed at local authorities where rents are most unaffordable and families are struggling to pay their rents. We want to see the Programme heavily subscribed. We will review how local authorities respond to this opportunity, and consider whether any further action is needed.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 165157 165158 165159 question first answered 23/07/2018 14:37:23 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

944032

registered interest
date	18/07/2018
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 Revenue Accounts
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 and what proportion of local authorities that are (a) eligible and (b) ineligible to bid for the Additional Housing Revenue Account Borrowing Programme have a Housing Revenue Account.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	165683
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2018 answer text <p>Out of the 198 housing authorities eligible to bid for the Programme, 104 (or 53 per cent) currently have a Housing Revenue Account. Out of the 128 housing authorities ineligible to bid, 62 (or 48 per cent) currently have a Housing Revenue Account.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 23/07/2018 16:57:16 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse previous answer version 71560 answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

944038

registered interest
date	18/07/2018
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 Revenue Accounts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, for what reasons social rents from local authority stockholding councils were not included in the figures used to determine average social rents in the local authority area where council rents form a part of the social housing stock for the purpose of determining local authorities' eligibility to bid for the additional housing revenue account borrowing programme.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	165685
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2018 answer text <p>Housing association rents are used for the social rent data as they give more complete geographical coverage than local authority rents which are not applicable in all areas.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 23/07/2018 16:59:13 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse previous answer version 71558 answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

943106

registered interest
date	17/07/2018
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 Revenue Accounts
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 16 July to Question 161562, what assessment he has made of the regional disparity in Local Authorities eligible to bid for the Additional Housing Revenue Account Borrowing Programme.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	165157
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2018 answer text <p>The metric used to assess whether a local authority is in an area of high affordability pressure and therefore eligible to make an application under the Additional HRA Borrowing Programme is whether it has a difference of £50 or more per week between average social and average private rents at the local authority level. The Programme is therefore directed at local authorities where rents are most unaffordable and families are struggling to pay their rents. We want to see the Programme heavily subscribed. We will review how local authorities respond to this opportunity, and consider whether any further action is needed.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 165158 165159 165682 question first answered 23/07/2018 14:37:22 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris