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1041611

registered interest
date	15/01/2019
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	Fire Prevention
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 estimate he has made of the cost to building owners of replacing faulty composite fire doors.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	208750
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2019 answer text <p>The remediation of Glass Reinforced Plastic composite fire doors is being led by the fire door industry. We are currently working with the Association of Composite Fire Door Manufacturers on a plan to ensure that doors are replaced where this is required.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 24/01/2019 15:12:47 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1041612

registered interest
date	15/01/2019
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	Fire Prevention
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 has plans to issue additional guidance to building owners on the replacement of faulty composite fire doors.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	208751
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2019 answer text <p>The Independent Expert Panel issued guidance for building owners who are looking to fit or replace fire doors. This information can be found on the Building Safety Programmes website. <br> <br> Social housing providers have also been provided with a ‘Frequently Asked Questions’ document for guidance in replacing fire doors and have been provided with the opportunity to join the Government’s test sharing hub to share the results of current testing of the timber fire doors market with the aim to prevent duplication of testing and inform door replacement programmes. <br> <br> We will continue to keep the content of our advice and guidance under review based on feedback from local government and industry.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 24/01/2019 15:12:28 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1037060

registered interest
date	07/01/2019
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: Standards
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 adequacy of the requirements of the nationally described space standards for housing.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	205823
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2019 answer text <p>The revised National Planning Policy Framework, published in July 2018, set out the Government’s policy on the nationally described space standard which is that local planning authorities may make use of the standard, where the need for an internal space standard can be justified.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 10/01/2019 14:56:40 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1037061

registered interest
date	07/01/2019
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: Standards
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 new dwellings which (a) do and (b) do not meet the nationally described space standards for housing.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	205824
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2019 answer text <p>The Department does not hold this information. It is for local planning authorities to determine whether to apply the nationally described space standard for new development in their area, where the need for an internal space standard can be justified.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 10/01/2019 14:57:09 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1027527

registered interest
date	18/12/2018
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	Housing Estates: Regeneration
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 has been spent on loan funding for estate regeneration since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	203237
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2019 answer text <p>Since 2010, the Government has spent £19 million on loan funding for estate regeneration. This has been paid to Notting Hill Genesis to support the regeneration of Grahame Park in Barnet. The total commitment to Notting Hill Genesis is £56 million.</p><p>A further three schemes have applied for a total of £47 million loan finance and are undergoing due diligence before final approval. We are also continuing to work with partners across the country to develop a pipeline of viable schemes for future funding.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 10/01/2019 14:48:33 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1023314

registered interest
date	11/12/2018
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	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, how much has been disbursed on the land assembly fund since its announcement in Autumn Budget 2017.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	201110
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2018 answer text <p>My Department has recently agreed with the Greater London Authority that it will manage delivery of the Land Assembly Fund across Greater London and has a budget this year of £33.8 million. Outside of the capital Homes England have spent £152 million in 2017/18 and £40 million in 2018/19 on land assembly for this financial year to the month of November from re-purposed Starter Homes Land Fund budget. Homes England is on track to deliver against its capital budget this financial year.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 19/12/2018 15:44:09 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 92266 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1023315

registered interest
date	11/12/2018
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	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, the total sum spent by his Department on the housing infrastructure fund.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	201111
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2018 answer text <p>The Housing Infrastructure Fund (HIF) is a £5.5 billion grant funding programme for infrastructure to unlock up to 650,000 homes. When we launched the fund in July 2017, we received 430 bids, worth almost £14 billion to deliver up to 1.5 million homes.</p><p>In February 2018 we announced £866 million to support 133 HIF Marginal Viability Fund (MVF) projects to unlock up to 200,000 homes. In March 2018 we published the 45 areas that we are working with across England to develop Forward Funding (FF) projects with up to £4.6 billion funding available and the potential to unlock up to 450,000 houses. MVF bids are now going through a process of due diligence before funds are released. We expect this due diligence process to be complete by March 2019.</p><p>In October 2018 we announced the first successful Forward Funding (FF) bid for £291 million of funding to unlock up to 18,000 homes in East London. There are three bidding windows for FF, the first being in September and December 2018 and the next being in March 2019. We are expecting to make all funding decisions by Summer 2019.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 21/12/2018 11:52:36 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1023316

registered interest
date	11/12/2018
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	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, how much has been spent to date through the National Productivity Investment Fund to accelerate the building of homes on small, stalled sites as announced in Budget 2017.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	201112
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2019 answer text <p>There is no single solution to tackling the long-term shortfall in housing supply which is why the Government, together with its agencies and partners, is working on a range of interventions.</p><p>Therefore, the Government has launched a range of programmes aimed at supporting the release of land for housing by providing funding to acquire, de-risk and make them attractive for rapid development. These sites would not have come forward without the Government intervention a demonstration of Government’s commitment to tackling the housing crisis in this country.</p><p>These Programmes include:</p><p>* £630 million Small Sites Fund;</p><p>* £45 million Land Release Fund (LRF), distributed through One Public Estate;</p><p>* £5 billion Housing Infrastructure Fund (HIF) (Homes England and GLA);</p><p>* £465 million Local authority Accelerated Construction Programme (Homes England and GLA); and</p><p>* £1.1 billion Land Assembly Fund.</p><p>We have recently agreed a £226 million memorandum of understanding with the Greater London Authority for delivery of small stalled sites through the Accelerated Construction programme and Small Sites Fund in London. We will make payment to the Greater London Authority on completion of agreed milestones as investments in sites are made.</p><p>Homes England are working with local authorities and others to develop a long-term pipeline of developable land prioritising the identification of sites suitable for housing which have stalled and are not being taken forward, especially in the least affordable places. Once identified, sites are assessed for development potential. We expect to make funding commitments in sites as they are ready over the next 12 months.</p><p>Furthermore, we have committed £866 million to 133 Marginal Viability Funding schemes under the Housing Infrastructure Fund to unlock up to 200,000 homes mostly on smaller sites.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 11/01/2019 13:52:12 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1023317

registered interest
date	11/12/2018
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	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, the total sum spent by his Department on the home building fund.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	201113
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2018 answer text <p>The £4.5 billion Home Building Fund provides short term and long term loan finance to build the homes this country needs. Since the fund was launched, a total of £2.2 billion has been allocated to successful applicants.</p><p>£986 million of the initial £1 billion funding, specifically allocated to support small and medium sized Builders, custom builders and innovators who cannot access the finance they need to build, has been contracted and is expected to deliver 45,554 starts. An additional £1.5 billion was therefore allocated to the Fund in the Autumn 2017 budget to help meet the continuing demand for the Fund</p><p>£1.2 billion of the £2 billion allocated for delivering infrastructure and site preparation for homes, including on brown field land has been contracted and expected to unlock 105,568 housing capacity units.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 19/12/2018 12:41:37 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1023318

registered interest
date	11/12/2018
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	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, how much of the £8 billion of new guarantees to support housebuilding announced in Budget 2017 has been spent.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	201144
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2018 answer text <p>There is no expenditure under guarantees unless and until a guaranteed loan goes into default and a claim is made under the guarantee.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 18/12/2018 16:14:11 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 92267 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey