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931774

registered interest
date	27/06/2018
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	High Rise 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, with reference to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government of 16 May 2018, Official Report, column 399,what discussions he has had with Abacus Land 4 Ltd, the freeholder at Heysmoor Heights in Liverpool, in relation to funding cladding removal; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Riverside
tabling member printed	Dame Louise Ellman
uin	158171
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>I spoke with Richard Silva, the Chief Executive of Long Harbour which administer Abacus Land 4 Ltd, on 23 May. Mr Silva informed me that Abacus Land 4 Ltd is owned by pension fund holders. I affirmed the Government's position that leaseholders should not have to pay for the removal and replacement of unsafe aluminium composite material cladding in the Heysmoor Heights building.</p><p>We expect building owners in the private sector to explore all options to protect leaseholders from incurring the costs associated with replacing unsafe cladding. The Secretary of State recently held roundtables with leaseholders to understand their concerns and with industry to discuss the barriers to remediation and potential solutions. We are considering the proposals made and have not ruled out any options.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 02/07/2018 16:36:38 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	484 label Biography information for Dame Louise Ellman

931794

registered interest
date	27/06/2018
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	Affordable 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, what plans the Department has to develop local connection criteria for the homes built on Entry Level Exception Sites.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	158151
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>The draft National Planning Policy Framework proposal for Entry Level Exception Sites did not include a local connection criteria. The policy is designed to provide additional housing for first time buyers and renters, where it is needed. This will not always involve a local connection. This was consulted on as part of the draft National Planning Policy Framework. We are currently considering responses to the consultation and will publish the final National Planning Policy Framework in the summer.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 02/07/2018 16:38:04 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

931796

registered interest
date	27/06/2018
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	Sheltered Housing: Service Charges
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 discussions he has had with sheltered housing providers on their concerns on the effect of any caps on service charges on their ability to adapt to meet the changing needs of their residents.
tabling member constituency	Waveney
tabling member printed	Peter Aldous
uin	158232
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>Ministers and officials have been engaging closely with sheltered accommodation and extra care housing providers. We value the role this type of housing plays in enabling older people to maintain their independence and are clear our approach to sheltered housing must enable providers to continue delivering these important services for their vulnerable residents.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 02/07/2018 16:39:37 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
tabling member	4069 label Biography information for Peter Aldous

931806

registered interest
date	27/06/2018
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	Public Health Funerals
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 estimate he has made of the number of Public Health Funerals arranged by local authorities or local hospitals in every year since 2005.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Ged Killen
uin	158360
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>The Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government does not collect the information requested. Figures on local authority expenditure on, and income from, the provision of cemetery, cremation and mortuary services, including closed churchyards and post-mortem services within mortuaries, are collected on the Revenue Outturn (RO) form available from:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/local-authority-revenue-expenditure-and-financing-england-2016-to-2017-individual-local-authority-data-outturn" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/local-authority-revenue-expenditure-and-financing-england-2016-to-2017-individual-local-authority-data-outturn</a></p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 02/07/2018 16:39:05 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4672 label Biography information for Ged Killen

931885

registered interest
date	27/06/2018
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	Temporary Accommodation
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 his Department has made of the reasons for increases in the number of households in temporary accommodation in England since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Blackburn
tabling member printed	Kate Hollern
uin	158265
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>There has been a rise in the number of households in temporary accommodation for a variety of complex reasons. The number of households in temporary accommodation varies across the country as there are different issues in different areas, e.g. affordability pressure in London and the South East.</p><p>England has a strong homelessness safety net, providing protection to the most vulnerable in our society. Time spent in temporary accommodation means people are getting help and it ensures no child or family is without a roof over their head.</p><p>Successful homelessness prevention and relief has risen by 30 per cent between 2009/10 and 2016/17. However, the Government remains clear that one person without a home is one too many. We are committed to doing more to prevent people becoming homeless in the first place.</p><p>That’s why we have implemented the most ambitious legislative reform in decades, the Homelessness Reduction Act.</p><p>We have also committed £1.2 billion to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping including:</p><p>· £316 million of core funding for local authorities to prevent homelessness.</p><p>· £617 million in Flexible Homelessness Support Grant which local authorities can use strategically to prevent and tackle homelessness in their area;</p><p>· £72.7 million to support the implementation of the Homelessness Reduction Act;</p><p>· £20m Access to the Private Rented Sector Fund to increase access and sustainment of tenancies for those who are, or at risk of becoming homeless; and</p><p>· our £50 million to support 84 projects delivering an end-to-end approach to homelessness prevention.</p><p>MHCLG publishes regular statistics on temporary accommodation, rough sleeping, statutory homelessness and homelessness prevention and relief in England. These are published at a local authority level. The latest statistics can be found at: <a title="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/homelessness-statistics" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/homelessness-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/homelessness-statistics</a></p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams grouped question UIN 158266 158270 question first answered 02/07/2018 16:24:49 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
tabling member	4363 label Biography information for Kate Hollern

931886

registered interest
date	27/06/2018
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	Temporary Accommodation: Blackburn
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 estimate his Department has made of the number of children living in temporary accommodation in Blackburn.
tabling member constituency	Blackburn
tabling member printed	Kate Hollern
uin	158266
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>There has been a rise in the number of households in temporary accommodation for a variety of complex reasons. The number of households in temporary accommodation varies across the country as there are different issues in different areas, e.g. affordability pressure in London and the South East.</p><p>England has a strong homelessness safety net, providing protection to the most vulnerable in our society. Time spent in temporary accommodation means people are getting help and it ensures no child or family is without a roof over their head.</p><p>Successful homelessness prevention and relief has risen by 30 per cent between 2009/10 and 2016/17. However, the Government remains clear that one person without a home is one too many. We are committed to doing more to prevent people becoming homeless in the first place.</p><p>That’s why we have implemented the most ambitious legislative reform in decades, the Homelessness Reduction Act.</p><p>We have also committed £1.2 billion to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping including:</p><p>· £316 million of core funding for local authorities to prevent homelessness.</p><p>· £617 million in Flexible Homelessness Support Grant which local authorities can use strategically to prevent and tackle homelessness in their area;</p><p>· £72.7 million to support the implementation of the Homelessness Reduction Act;</p><p>· £20m Access to the Private Rented Sector Fund to increase access and sustainment of tenancies for those who are, or at risk of becoming homeless; and</p><p>· our £50 million to support 84 projects delivering an end-to-end approach to homelessness prevention.</p><p>MHCLG publishes regular statistics on temporary accommodation, rough sleeping, statutory homelessness and homelessness prevention and relief in England. These are published at a local authority level. The latest statistics can be found at: <a title="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/homelessness-statistics" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/homelessness-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/homelessness-statistics</a></p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams grouped question UIN 158265 158270 question first answered 02/07/2018 16:24:49 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
tabling member	4363 label Biography information for Kate Hollern

931891

registered interest
date	27/06/2018
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	Temporary Accommodation: Blackburn
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 his Department has made of regional disparity in the number of households in temporary accommodation; and how many households are living in temporary accommodation in Blackburn.
tabling member constituency	Blackburn
tabling member printed	Kate Hollern
uin	158270
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>There has been a rise in the number of households in temporary accommodation for a variety of complex reasons. The number of households in temporary accommodation varies across the country as there are different issues in different areas, e.g. affordability pressure in London and the South East.</p><p>England has a strong homelessness safety net, providing protection to the most vulnerable in our society. Time spent in temporary accommodation means people are getting help and it ensures no child or family is without a roof over their head.</p><p>Successful homelessness prevention and relief has risen by 30 per cent between 2009/10 and 2016/17. However, the Government remains clear that one person without a home is one too many. We are committed to doing more to prevent people becoming homeless in the first place.</p><p>That’s why we have implemented the most ambitious legislative reform in decades, the Homelessness Reduction Act.</p><p>We have also committed £1.2 billion to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping including:</p><p>· £316 million of core funding for local authorities to prevent homelessness.</p><p>· £617 million in Flexible Homelessness Support Grant which local authorities can use strategically to prevent and tackle homelessness in their area;</p><p>· £72.7 million to support the implementation of the Homelessness Reduction Act;</p><p>· £20m Access to the Private Rented Sector Fund to increase access and sustainment of tenancies for those who are, or at risk of becoming homeless; and</p><p>· our £50 million to support 84 projects delivering an end-to-end approach to homelessness prevention.</p><p>MHCLG publishes regular statistics on temporary accommodation, rough sleeping, statutory homelessness and homelessness prevention and relief in England. These are published at a local authority level. The latest statistics can be found at: <a title="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/homelessness-statistics" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/homelessness-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/homelessness-statistics</a></p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams grouped question UIN 158265 158266 question first answered 02/07/2018 16:24:49 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
tabling member	4363 label Biography information for Kate Hollern

931977

registered interest
date	27/06/2018
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	Optical Fibres: Non-domestic Rates
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 plans he has for the rating of fibre communications infrastructure when the five year moratorium on rating of new fibre infrastructure expires.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	158145
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>The business rates relief for new fibre communications infrastructure supports telecom companies who invest in their fibre network by installing new fibre lines.</p><p>The relief will ensure that no rates are paid on those new fibre lines for 5 years up to 31 March 2022. This will provide important support in the early stages of roll out of new investment. As with all tax reliefs, the Government will keep under review the operation of the new fibre relief scheme.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 02/07/2018 15:10:01 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

931316

registered interest
date	26/06/2018
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	Antisemitism
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 April 2018 final update to the All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry into Antisemitism, when he plans to hold the Departmental roundtable on concerns relating to the media which was agreed by his predecessor.
tabling member constituency	Makerfield
tabling member printed	Yvonne Fovargue
uin	157721
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>Following the ministerial roundtable with social media companies on 19 December 2017, it was agreed to host a similar roundtable with the print media. The roundtable will focus on the impact stories in the print media have on social media. Plans are already underway and the roundtable will be held before the end of the year.</p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 02/07/2018 16:40:13 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
tabling member	4034 label Biography information for Yvonne Fovargue

931378

registered interest
date	26/06/2018
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	Homelessness: Children
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 16 and 17-year-olds who presented as homeless in 2017-18 (a) did not receive a formal assessment under the Housing Act 1996 or the Children Act 1989 and (b) received a joint assessment by children's services and housing services.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	157765
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>The Department currently holds limited data on 16 and 17 year olds receiving support under housing legislation, including the numbers accepted for assistance and types of temporary accommodation provided to them. On the 31 December 2017, 20 households headed by 16-17 year olds were living in the accommodation listed in paragraph 5.10, that is (unsuitable) bed and breakfast or nightly paid accommodation with shared facilities. A further 40 households in hostel-type accommodation were reported by local authorities, but it is not possible to determine from the data whether or not these were or were not suitable placements as recommended in the guidance.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is overhauling statutory homelessness data collection alongside the introduction of the Homelessness Reduction Act. This will give us case-level data and better insights into the causes of homelessness and the support homeless applicants need and receive, including accommodation provided under homelessness legislation. The new statutory homelessness data collection arrangements, known as H-CLIC, were implemented by local authorities in England from April 2018. We expect to see improved data relating to youth homelessness as a result of this change.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally, many 16 and 17 year olds who are homeless or require accommodation will be provided with accommodation and support under the Children’s Act 1989.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams grouped question UIN 157766 question first answered 02/07/2018 16:22:51 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck