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1293318

registered interest
date	01/03/2021
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	Society of Antiquaries: Burlington House
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 he has taken to help the Society of Antiquaries remain at New Burlington House.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Zarah Sultana
uin	160824
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2021 answer text <p>The current rent agreement with the Society of Antiquaries was put in place following a legal decision by the High Court in 2005 and subsequent arbitration in 2015. The Societies accepted the new rent agreement which allowed them to occupy New Burlington House on a significantly discounted basis.</p><p>We are continuing to explore solutions with all the Learned Societies based at New Burlington House that can deliver public value while enabling them to remain in situ.</p> answering member constituency Walsall North answering member printed Eddie Hughes question first answered 04/03/2021 15:54:03 answering member 4635 label Biography information for Eddie Hughes
tabling member	4786 label Biography information for Zarah Sultana

1293501

registered interest
date	01/03/2021
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, pursuant to the Answer of 25 February to Question 156575, on Building Safety Fund, whether he plans to re-open registration for the Building Safety Fund for those buildings that received confirmation of dangerous cladding on their external wall after the Fund closed to registrations on 31 July 2020.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Daisy Cooper
uin	160813
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2021 answer text <p>We will publish more details on how the additional funding for the removal of unsafe cladding announced on 10 February will work alongside the Building Safety Fund as soon as possible.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 04/03/2021 13:17:20 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4769 label Biography information for Daisy Cooper

1293509

registered interest
date	01/03/2021
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, pursuant to the Answer of 22 February 2021 to Question 153161 on Housing: Insulation, what estimate his Department has made of the number of leaseholders likely to (a) lose their home and (b) declare bankruptcy as a result of the costs of resolving fire safety issues relating to (i) cladding removal, (ii) balcony remediation, (iii) replacing combustible insulation, (iv) replacing missing fire breaks, (v) increased insurance premiums and (vi) waking watches.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	160570
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2021 answer text <p>The information requested is not held.</p><p>The Government has announced over £5 billion in grant towards removal of unsafe cladding on buildings over 18 metres in height. This unprecedented investment in building safety will help hundreds of thousands of leaseholders, who will be protected from the cost of replacing unsafe cladding on their homes</p><p><br>Alongside this a generous finance scheme will also provide for remediation of unsafe cladding on buildings of 11-18 metres in height. Leaseholders will pay no more than £50 a month towards this scheme. We will publish more details on how these schemes will work as soon as we are in a position to do so.</p><p>These schemes will also ultimately help to end interim measures and reduce building insurance costs. They build on steps already taken to support leaseholders, including the £30 million waking watch fund to incentivise the purchase of alarm systems in buildings where there is currently a waking watch in place and there is no common alarm system.</p><p><br></p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 04/03/2021 13:15:15 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

1293574

registered interest
date	01/03/2021
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	Park Homes: Fees and 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, whether the Government has plans to bring forward legislative proposals in the next session of Parliament to change the inflationary index for park home pitch fees from RPI to CPI.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Sir Christopher Chope
uin	160516
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2021 answer text <p>The Government remains committed to improving protections for park home residents.</p><p>We will introduce primary legislation to change the pitch fee review inflationary index from the Retail Prices Index (RPI) to the Consumer Prices Index (CPI), when the parliamentary timetable allows.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 04/03/2021 13:16:13 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

1293606

registered interest
date	01/03/2021
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, whether an application to the Building Safety Fund that has been rejected can be re-submitted in the event of new information on fire risks.
tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
uin	160534
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2021 answer text <p>An appeal process is open for responsible entities which have applied for the Building Safety Fund if they can demonstrate that the building meets the published definitions of eligibility.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 04/03/2021 13:17:04 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

1293617

registered interest
date	01/03/2021
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: Coronavirus
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 he is taking to fully compensate local authorities for costs incurred and revenue lost as a result of the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	160743
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2021 answer text <p>The Government has allocated over £8 billion directly to councils since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Chancellor also announced at the 2020 Spending Review that local authorities will receive over £3 billion of additional support in 2021-22. The latest data from our monthly financial monitoring exercise suggests that estimated additional expenditure over the course of the current financial year 2020-21 is £7.3 billon</p><p><br>As part of our support package, councils have access to a compensation scheme for lost income from sales, fees and charges, which has been extended to June 2021, through which the Government will support local councils with 75% of losses beyond the first 5%.</p><p>We will continue to closely monitor the situation and work with local government to ensure they are managing as the pandemic progresses and we have a collective understanding of the costs they are facing.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 04/03/2021 13:21:46 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1293668

registered interest
date	01/03/2021
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	Buildings: Safety
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 potential merits of using the proposed Building Safety Bill to Amend Section 1 of the Building Act for the power to make regulations to facilitate the protection of property in a proportionate manner.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	160571
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2021 answer text <p>The Building Act 1984 already enables building regulations to be made on matters such as sustainable development and the security of buildings, as well as the health and safety of persons using buildings, and measures to meet these objectives can also have benefits for property protection. The Government has no plans to extend the scope of building regulations at present specifically to address property protection, but will keep this matter under review. In particular, Government will be undertaking research into how fire safety legislation in other countries addresses property protection issues.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 04/03/2021 13:16:43 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

1290221

registered interest
date	26/02/2021
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, with reference to registrations to the Building Safety Fund, if he will provide a breakdown of pre-tender support allocated under that fund.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	159326
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2021 answer text <p>The amount of funding for pre-tender support allocated from the Building Safety Fund so far can be found in the Building Safety Fund Registration Statistics, available at: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fguidance%2Fremediation-of-non-acm-buildings%23building-safety-fund-registration-statistics&amp;data=04%7C01%7CBSP_PQ%40communities.gov.uk%7C878a5a4b16a04b8bfe6708d8dccd0a31%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637502120475581132%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=eMQQe01Wxktt0s0vdAeG52Rmf8AuJzj9M2iGcZ87740%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/remediation-of-non-acm-buildings#building-safety-fund-registration-statistics</a> . <br> <br> The amount allocated to each individual project, and how that will be used, will vary according to each project’s needs. Pre-tender support is limited to 10 per cent of the estimated cost of work. <br> <br> More information on pre-tender support is available in the Building Safety Fund Application Guidance at: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fguidance%2Fremediation-of-non-acm-buildings%23fund-application-guidance&amp;data=04%7C01%7CBSP_PQ%40communities.gov.uk%7C878a5a4b16a04b8bfe6708d8dccd0a31%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637502120475591132%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=0HrqTTqwXyR%2BBtxUT28XII1E4a9E%2Fc4%2BmYFPwWKCMZg%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/remediation-of-non-acm-buildings#fund-application-guidance.</a> <br> <br> <br></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 03/03/2021 16:01:18 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

1290225

registered interest
date	26/02/2021
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	Waking Watch Relief 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 to the waking watch fund have been (a) received and (b) approved as at 26 February 2021.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	159330
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2021 answer text <p>The Waking Watch Relief Fund opened on 31 January for all buildings with the exception of private sector buildings located in Greater London.</p><p>Local authorities in Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Liverpool, Newcastle and Sheffield are responsible for administering the Fund for buildings located in their respective areas. The Greater Manchester Combined Authority is responsible for administering the fund for buildings located in Greater Manchester. MHCLG is responsible for administering the Fund for buildings in all other areas, except Greater London, and for all social sector applications regardless of location.</p><p>Information on the number of applications received will be published as soon as possible.</p><p>The Greater London Authority will be administering the Fund in Greater London, subject to a Mayoral Decision. The Fund will open to applications from eligible private sector buildings in Greater London on 18 March.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 03/03/2021 16:04:40 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

1290229

registered interest
date	26/02/2021
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 methodology his Department used to calculate the £1.5 billion per year that will be required for the UK Shared Prosperity Fund to match EU Structural Funds; and if he will publish that calculation.
tabling member constituency	Blackburn
tabling member printed	Kate Hollern
uin	159322
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2021 answer text <p>The UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) will help to level up and create opportunity across the UK for people and places.   <br> <br> Funding for the UKSPF will ramp up so that total domestic UK-wide funding will at least match receipts from EU structural funds, on average reaching around £1.5 billion per year. Its funding profile will be set out at the next Spending Review. <br> <br> £1.5 billion is the average annual investment from EU Structural Funds (including ERDF, ESF and ETC) over the previous EU funding round.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 03/03/2021 15:26:10 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	4363 label Biography information for Kate Hollern