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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

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

931880

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	Private Rented Housing: Discrimination
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 have taken to tackle discrimination in the private rented sector in the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	158345
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2018 answer text <p>The law is clear - agents and landlords must not advertise or let a property in a way that unlawfully discriminates on the basis of a person’s disability, gender, pregnancy/maternity, race, religion or belief, gender reassignment or sexual orientation. It is important that these equirements are clearly understood and, on 26 June 2018, we published a new “How to Let “guide to help landlords better understand their rights and responsibilities. We also updated the “How to Rent” guide, which was first introduced in 2015, to support tenants to understand and exercise their rights.</p><p>A number of other MHCLG policies work to combat discrimination and unfair practices. These include the introduction, in April 2018, of banning orders and a rogue landlord database designed to remove the worst landlords and agents from the sector and the requirement, since 1 October 2014, for letting and managing agents in England to belong to a Government approved redress scheme, giving tenants access to free dispute resolution where problems, including those related to discrimination, occur in relation to their agent. on 2 July we launched a consultation seeking views on how to overcome the barriers to longer tenancies to ensure that all tenants have the security they want and need.</p><p><br>In addition, we are committed to regulating letting agents and requiring them to meet minimum training standards and comply with a code of practice, which will include treating all tenants equally. We will also require all landlords to be members of a redress scheme to ensure that all tenants, not just those who use agents, have access to quick and easy dispute resolution when things go wrong. Our eight week consultation on strengthening redress in housing closed on 16 April. We are analysing responses with a view to publishing a Government response in the Autumn.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler grouped question UIN 158346 question first answered 05/07/2018 16:06:42 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

931881

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	Private Rented Housing: Discrimination
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 plans to take to tackle discrimination in the private rented sector.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	158346
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2018 answer text <p>The law is clear - agents and landlords must not advertise or let a property in a way that unlawfully discriminates on the basis of a person’s disability, gender, pregnancy/maternity, race, religion or belief, gender reassignment or sexual orientation. It is important that these equirements are clearly understood and, on 26 June 2018, we published a new “How to Let “guide to help landlords better understand their rights and responsibilities. We also updated the “How to Rent” guide, which was first introduced in 2015, to support tenants to understand and exercise their rights.</p><p>A number of other MHCLG policies work to combat discrimination and unfair practices. These include the introduction, in April 2018, of banning orders and a rogue landlord database designed to remove the worst landlords and agents from the sector and the requirement, since 1 October 2014, for letting and managing agents in England to belong to a Government approved redress scheme, giving tenants access to free dispute resolution where problems, including those related to discrimination, occur in relation to their agent. on 2 July we launched a consultation seeking views on how to overcome the barriers to longer tenancies to ensure that all tenants have the security they want and need.</p><p><br>In addition, we are committed to regulating letting agents and requiring them to meet minimum training standards and comply with a code of practice, which will include treating all tenants equally. We will also require all landlords to be members of a redress scheme to ensure that all tenants, not just those who use agents, have access to quick and easy dispute resolution when things go wrong. Our eight week consultation on strengthening redress in housing closed on 16 April. We are analysing responses with a view to publishing a Government response in the Autumn.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler grouped question UIN 158345 question first answered 05/07/2018 16:06:42 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

931882

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	Housing
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 implement the recommendations of the 2013 Report of the UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and on the right to non-discrimination in this context.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	158347
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2018 answer text <p>In our 2014 response to the 2013 Report, we were clear that we were disappointed that the UN Special Rapporteur had failed to correct a number of inaccuracies, which reflected on the relevance of her recommendations.</p><p><br>We have since set out an ambitious package of long-term reform to fix the dysfunctional housing market, which includes raising the Housing Revenue Account borrowing cap by a total of £1 billion in areas of high affordability pressure for local authorities who are ready to start building new homes, and increasing the Affordable Homes Programme budget to over £9 billion to deliver a wide range of affordable housing, including social rent homes. Our recent announcements, together with our Housing White Paper, put us on track to create, fund and drive a housing market which delivers 300,000 homes a year on average by the mid-2020s.</p><p>To protect the most vulnerable claimants impacted by welfare reforms affecting Housing Benefit and the housing element of Universal Credit, we are providing an enhanced Discretionary Housing Payment fund (from 2011 around £1 billion to date) for local authorities. The funding enables local authorities to provide help to those in most need, allow extra time for those affected to find suitable alternative accommodation, or provide longer-term support for vulnerable households.</p><p><br>Furthermore, to consider issues relating to social housing, including wider issues of place and community, we are publishing a Social Housing Green Paper before the summer recess – a broad review which has been informed by direct engagement with nearly 1,000 social housing residents.</p><p><br>We are also taking action to protect tenants in the private rented sector, and on 2 July we published a consultation on Overcoming the Barriers to Longer Tenancies in the Private Rented Sector where we propose a new three year tenancy model with a six month break clause.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 05/07/2018 16:08:14 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

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

931979

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	Homelessness: 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, whether new statistics to be published from December 2018 on (a) statutory homelessness, (b) homelessness prevention and relief and (c) temporary accommodation will be directly comparable with previous statistics published by his Department.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	158161
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2018 answer text <p>The homelessness statistics published in December 2018 will be the first set of statistics published since we overhauled the statutory homelessness data collection to give us better insights into the causes of homelessness and the support people need. Under this new system, headline figures showing the number of homeless acceptances will be broadly comparable and the number of households in temporary accommodation will be comparable with previous statistics published by the Department.</p><p>The Homelessness Reduction Act which commenced on 3 April brought in a new duty to help prevent anyone at risk of homelessness within 56 days and a new statutory duty to relieve homelessness for those who are already homeless. As a result of these changes, homelessness prevention and relief statistics will not be directly comparable with previous statistics published by the Department.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 04/07/2018 16:03:33 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 66997 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