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1019309

registered interest
date	03/12/2018
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	Islamophobia
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they consider Islamophobia to be a form of racism; and if so, whether they will adopt a definition of Islamophobia comparable to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism.
tabling member printed	Baroness Tonge
uin	HL11998
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government takes the issue of Islamophobia extremely seriously. The Prime Minister made this unequivocally clear after the Finsbury Park Mosque terror attack in 2017.</p><p>The Government is committed to tackling all hate crime, and to taking the issues of anti-Muslim hatred and Islamophobia forward. It is now of vital importance that we hear a range of views on the proposed definition.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 10/12/2018 15:39:01 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	200 label Biography information for Baroness Tonge

1019364

registered interest
date	03/12/2018
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	Right to Buy Scheme: Greater Manchester
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 social housing properties have been sold in each constituency in Greater Manchester under right to buy in each year between 2010 and 2018; and how many of those properties have been replaced by (a) local authorities and (b) housing associations.
tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
uin	198301
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2018 answer text <p>Information on the sale and supply of social and affordable housing is not disaggregated to constituency level.</p><p>Information on the sale of social homes under the Right to Buy by lower-tier or unitary local authority can be found in Table 691 of the Live Tables on Social Housing Sales, which can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-social-housing-sales" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-social-housing-sales</a>.</p><p>Information on the sale of preserved right to buy by housing associations can be found in Homes England Statistical Data Return Stock Balance sheet <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistical-data-return-statistical-releases" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistical-data-return-statistical-releases</a> but this information is presented by housing association not by local authority.</p><p>Information on the total supply of new affordable housing by lower-tier or unitary authority since 2015-16 can be found in Table 1008C of the Live Tables on Affordable Housing Supply, which can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-affordable-housing-supply" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-affordable-housing-supply</a>.</p><p>Figures new supply delivered by housing associations and local authorities for the last three years are included in Live Table 1011. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-affordable-housing-supply" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-affordable-housing-supply</a>.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 06/12/2018 17:06:50 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey

1019377

registered interest
date	03/12/2018
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	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 he plans to publish a formal response to his Department's consultation on implementing reforms to the leasehold system, which closed on 26 November 2018.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	198304
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2018 answer text <p>The Department’s consultation, “Implementing reforms to the leasehold system” closed on 26 November. It set out how the Government intends to tackle excessive and unjustifiable practices in the leasehold system. We received almost 1300 responses, which we are currently analysing, and plan to publish the Government response in due course.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 06/12/2018 13:25:40 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1019463

registered interest
date	03/12/2018
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
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 he plans to publish statutory homelessness statistics in December 2018.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	198242
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2018 answer text <p>The number of statutory homeless people in England, from April to June 2018, will be published in December 2018.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 06/12/2018 13:16:18 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1019470

registered interest
date	03/12/2018
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, how many (a) families with children and (b) children were placed in temporary accommodation in another local authority area in the most recent period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	198249
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2018 answer text <p>We do not collect this information. However, figures for the number of total households in temporary accommodation in another local authority district are published in live table 775 of the Statutory Homelessness and Prevention and Relief publication, which can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/homelessness-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/homelessness-statistics</a>.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 06/12/2018 13:19:36 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1019484

registered interest
date	03/12/2018
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	Grenfell Tower: Fires
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 officials from his Department have met with representatives of the insurance industry on limiting liability exposure after the Grenfell Tower fire.
tabling member constituency	Kensington
tabling member printed	Emma Dent Coad
uin	198346
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2018 answer text <p>Officials from my department have had no meetings with the insurance industry to discuss limiting liability exposure.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 06/12/2018 17:05:12 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4683 label Biography information for Emma Dent Coad

1019527

registered interest
date	03/12/2018
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 steps the Government has taken to increase the number of affordable homes being built each year since 2014.
tabling member constituency	Warrington South
tabling member printed	Faisal Rashid
uin	198362
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to increasing the supply of social housing and has made £9 billion available through the Affordable Homes Programme to March 2022 to deliver 250,000 new affordable homes of a wide range of tenures, including social rent</p><p><br> Our expanded programme will now provide a wider range of homes to meet the housing needs of a range of people in different circumstances and different housing markets – building the right homes in the right places</p><p><br> We have listened to the sector. We have increased the size of the Affordable Homes Programme and re-introduced social rent to it, lifted the Housing Revenue Account borrowing cap for local authorities, and are setting a long term rent deal for councils and housing associations in England from 2020. <br> <br> In September 2018, the Prime Minister announced an additional £2 billion of long term funding certainty for housing associations. This extra funding will deliver more affordable homes and stimulate the sector’s wider building ambitions, through strategic partnerships</p><p><br> Our ten year funding commitment marks the first time any government has offered housing associations such long-term funding certainty.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 05/12/2018 16:58:30 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4670 label Biography information for Faisal Rashid

1019529

registered interest
date	03/12/2018
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	Business Premises: Solar Power
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 his Department has plans to issue a public consultation on the rules governing permitted development in relation to the installation of commercial rooftop solar.
tabling member constituency	Lincoln
tabling member printed	Karen Lee
uin	198363
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2018 answer text <p>There are extensive permitted development rights for the installation or alteration of solar equipment on non-domestic premises. They are set out in Class J of Part 14, Schedule 2 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015. These rights are subject to limitations as well as conditions on where the equipment can be installed. There are no plans to consult on any changes to these permitted development rights.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 05/12/2018 16:54:06 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4664 label Biography information for Karen Lee

1017475

registered interest
date	30/11/2018
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 steps his Department is taking to support local authorities to increase housebuilding as a result of the removal of the HRA borrowing cap.
tabling member constituency	Harrow East
tabling member printed	Bob Blackman
uin	197621
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2018 answer text <p>We are developing the planning capacity local authorities need to increase the delivery of new homes through the Planning Delivery Fund. Local authorities are able to draw from a wide range of sector led advice, good practice, and case study examples and we will also be working closely with local authorities to ensure they are able to make the most of the tools we have given them.</p><p>Local authorities can bid alongside housing associations for the £9 billion Affordable Homes Programme to build affordable homes. We are also providing a longer term rent deal for 5 years from 2020 to provide local authorities with a stable investment environment to deliver new homes and we have consulted on options for allowing local authorities more flexibility in the use of their Right to Buy receipts.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 05/12/2018 16:55:47 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4005 label Biography information for Bob Blackman

1017258

registered interest
date	29/11/2018
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, with reference to the statistical data set, Affordable housing starts and completions funded by Homes England and the GLA, published by his Department, what steps he is taking to identify the units labelled as unknown tenure type.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	197329
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2018 answer text <p>The affordable housing starts and completions of unknown tenure are all reported to the department by the Greater London Authority (GLA) as part of their affordable housing statistics <a href="https://www.london.gov.uk/what-we-do/housing-and-land/increasing-housing-supply/affordable-housing-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.london.gov.uk/what-we-do/housing-andland/increasing-housing-supply/affordable-housing-statistics</a>.</p><p>The GLA has reported that due to transitional changes in implementing the GLA's new project management system the tenure information for some schemes within GLA programmes will be updated in the quarterly publications until transitional system changes are complete.</p><p>The Department will continue to work with the GLA and when they finalise the information on tenure type of these units it will be updated and included in our statistics.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 05/12/2018 14:20:23 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey