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997675

registered interest
date	30/10/2018
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	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Recruitment
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 the Answer of 20 October 2018 to Question 183862 on Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Recruitment, what the additional annual cost to his Department is of this recruitment.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	185503
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally and could only be collated at disproportionate cost to the Department.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 05/11/2018 15:52:11 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

997681

registered interest
date	30/10/2018
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	Homelessness: Expenditure
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 much his Department has spent on homelessness programmes (a) in total and (b) by programme in each year since 2009-10.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	185504
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2018 answer text <p>The information requested could only be provided at a disproportionate cost. However, over this spending review period we have allocated over £1.2 billion in funding to reduce homelessness and rough sleeping, as well as supporting the implementation of the Homelessness Reduction Act. This includes:</p><ul><li>£316 million of core funding to local authorities;</li><li>£215 million of central Government funding for homelessness programmes, which includes £28 million for our Housing First pilots and the £20 million Private Rented Sector Access Fund announced at Autumn Budget 2017;</li><li>£100 million to deliver low-cost ‘move-on’ accommodation places, for people leaving hostels and refuges to make a sustainable recovery; and</li><li>£617 million in Flexible Homelessness Support Grant funding which gives local authorities greater flexibility to prioritise homelessness prevention in their areas.</li></ul> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 05/11/2018 15:55:25 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

997144

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
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	Right to Buy Scheme
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 someone seeking to port their right to buy discount for a second time is entitled to if their first attempt to purchase and use that discount is unsuccessful.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	184845
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2018 answer text <p>If a tenant is offered and accepts the opportunity to 'port' their Right to Buy discount to another property through the Voluntary Right to Buy Midlands pilot, their application will be paused to allow them time to discuss alternative properties with their housing association. It is up to individual housing associations to determine the extent of their porting offer, and the number of alternative properties that will be made available to tenants, depending on what is reasonable for the circumstances locally.</p><p>The Government has not collected information on the number of homes that are available to buy under the porting arrangements. This will be gathered as part of the Government’s evaluation of the pilot that will follow its completion.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 184846 question first answered 01/11/2018 15:17:09 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

997145

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
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	Right to Buy Scheme: Midlands
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 homes that are available to buy under the porting arrangements of the Midlands voluntary right to buy pilot.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	184846
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2018 answer text <p>If a tenant is offered and accepts the opportunity to 'port' their Right to Buy discount to another property through the Voluntary Right to Buy Midlands pilot, their application will be paused to allow them time to discuss alternative properties with their housing association. It is up to individual housing associations to determine the extent of their porting offer, and the number of alternative properties that will be made available to tenants, depending on what is reasonable for the circumstances locally.</p><p>The Government has not collected information on the number of homes that are available to buy under the porting arrangements. This will be gathered as part of the Government’s evaluation of the pilot that will follow its completion.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 184845 question first answered 01/11/2018 15:17:09 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

997146

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
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	Right to Buy Scheme: Midlands
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 everyone who is successful in the ballot and deemed eligible for the Midlands voluntary right to buy pilot will have the opportunity to buy a property under that scheme.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	184847
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2018 answer text <p>The Department will closely monitor the progress of the Midlands pilot, and the spending of the budget as the pilot progresses, to ensure that as many eligible tenants as possible have the opportunity to become home owners under the scheme.</p><p>6,000 tenants were successful in the ballot. Evidence from the scheme for council tenants, and the initial small-scale pilot that completed in 2017, suggests that a high number of tenants who make an application may not go on to complete a sale, for example because they do not meet the eligibility criteria, or because they are unable to fund the remainder of the purchase.</p><p>It is expected that the pilot budget of £200 million will fund somewhere in the region of 3,000 sales, though this figure may vary, depending on the average discount being claimed, and the level of drop out.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 184863 question first answered 01/11/2018 16:07:33 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

997147

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
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	Right to Buy Scheme: Midlands
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 undertake a mid-point review of the Midlands voluntary right to buy pilot to assess whether there is sufficient funding in place to cover all sales.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	184863
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2018 answer text <p>The Department will closely monitor the progress of the Midlands pilot, and the spending of the budget as the pilot progresses, to ensure that as many eligible tenants as possible have the opportunity to become home owners under the scheme.</p><p>6,000 tenants were successful in the ballot. Evidence from the scheme for council tenants, and the initial small-scale pilot that completed in 2017, suggests that a high number of tenants who make an application may not go on to complete a sale, for example because they do not meet the eligibility criteria, or because they are unable to fund the remainder of the purchase.</p><p>It is expected that the pilot budget of £200 million will fund somewhere in the region of 3,000 sales, though this figure may vary, depending on the average discount being claimed, and the level of drop out.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 184847 question first answered 01/11/2018 16:07:33 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

997276

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
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	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Social Media
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 much his Department has spent from the public purse on promoted content on (a) Twitter, (b) Facebook and (c) Instagram in each month since June 2017.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	185026
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2018 answer text <p>The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has spent the following amounts on promoted content on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram since June 2017:</p><p>a) Twitter £6,289 (March/April 2018)<br>b) Facebook £41,802 (February/March/April/September 2018)<br>c) Instagram Nil</p><p>All figures include VAT</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 05/11/2018 15:47:31 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

997357

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
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	Localism Act 2011
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when his Department plans to publish its post-legislative memorandum on the Localism Act 2011.
tabling member constituency	Redcar
tabling member printed	Anna Turley
uin	185055
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2018 answer text <p>Work is currently underway on a memorandum setting out the Department’s post-legislative scrutiny assessment of the Localism Act 2011. This will be submitted to the Housing, Communities and Local Government Select Committee and published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 01/11/2018 15:16:24 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4449 label Biography information for Anna Turley

997397

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
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 Ombudsman Service: Staff
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 staff are (a) employed directly by, (b) are seconded to and (c) work under contract at the Housing Ombudsmen.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	185155
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2018 answer text <p>The total number of staff employed by the Housing Ombudsman Service as of 30 October 2018 was as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong><em>(a) Directly Employed</em></strong></p></td><td><p><strong><em>(b) Seconded to</em></strong></p></td><td><p><strong><em>(c) Work Under Contract</em></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>63</em></p></td><td><p><em>1</em></p></td><td><p><em>8</em></p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 01/11/2018 15:21:01 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

995618

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	Council Tax: Dorset
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 Answers of 25 October 2018 to Questions 182083 and 182084, on Council Tax: Dorset, whether he plans to consult on the draft secondary legislation providing for harmonisation that he referred to in those Answers; and whether exemplifications of the different methods of calculating average made council tax is planned to be made available to facilitate public understanding.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Sir Christopher Chope
uin	184365
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2018 answer text <p>As I explained in my answer of 22 October to the Hon Member's Question UIN 180627, it is now open to the shadow Dorset Council and the shadow Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council, the membership of which includes the areas' elected representatives, to comment on the approach to council tax harmonisation which we are minded to adopt. Having regard to any comments we receive, we will decide the approach to council tax harmonisation to be adopted, and make any legislation necessary for its implementation which will be accompanied by such an Explanatory Memorandum as Parliamentary procedures require.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak grouped question UIN 184366 question first answered 31/10/2018 16:08:18 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope