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1353822

registered interest
date	08/09/2021
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	Floods: Ellesmere Port and Neston
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 providing grants and support to Ellesmere Port and Neston constituents affected by flooding in January 2021.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	45173
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2021 answer text <p>Following severe weather events which have significant and wide area impacts, support may be made available to impacted local authorities through the activation of the Flood Recovery Framework</p><p><br> Before activating the Framework, Government considers many factors - such as the severity, duration, and the extent of reported impacts and how these compare to past events. The overall reported impacts affecting areas including Ellesmere Port and Neston following Storm Christoph in January 2021 were far lower than the trigger for previous activations in November 2019 and February 2020, and therefore the Framework was not activated.</p> answering member constituency Walsall North answering member printed Eddie Hughes question first answered 16/09/2021 16:43:52 answering member 4635 label Biography information for Eddie Hughes
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1348378

registered interest
date	19/07/2021
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: 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 discussions he has had with property developers in response to the Competition and Markets Authority agreement with Persimmon on freehold costs.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	35704
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2021 answer text <p>Ministers meet a range of stakeholders from the development industry on a regular basis. However, no meetings with developers have specifically covered the CMA’s agreements with Persimmon. The commitments secured by the CMA are a hugely important step and demonstrate our determination to support affected leaseholders. We urge other developers to follow suit.</p> answering member constituency Walsall North answering member printed Eddie Hughes question first answered 26/07/2021 10:00:39 answering member 4635 label Biography information for Eddie Hughes
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1339511

registered interest
date	23/06/2021
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	Leasehold: Legal Costs
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 conducted a recent review of the legal fees charged to leaseholders for the legal process of purchasing the freehold of their property.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	21253
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2021 answer text <p>The Government is committed to promoting fairness and transparency for homeowners and ensuring that consumers are protected from abuse and poor service. We are taking forward a comprehensive programme of reform to end unfair practices in the leasehold market.</p><p>Under the current system, too many leaseholders find the process for extending their lease or buying their freehold (a process known as enfranchisement) too complex, lacking transparency and prohibitively expensive.</p><p>We will reform the process of enfranchisement valuation that leaseholders must follow to calculate the cost of extending their lease or buying their freehold.</p><p>The Government will abolish marriage value, cap the treatment of ground rents at 0.1% of the freehold value, and prescribe rates for the calculations at market value. The Government will also introduce an online calculator, further simplifying the process for leaseholders and ensuring standardisation and fairness for all those looking to enfranchise. These changes to the enfranchisement valuation process will result in substantial savings for some leaseholders, particularly those with less than 80 years left on their lease.</p><p>The Law Commission’s report on enfranchisement includes recommendations relating to lease extensions, including payment of costs incurred by this process and under the terms of the new lease. We will bring forward a response to these and the other remaining Law Commission recommendations in due course.</p> answering member constituency Walsall North answering member printed Eddie Hughes question first answered 01/07/2021 16:48:16 answering member 4635 label Biography information for Eddie Hughes
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1302277

registered interest
date	12/03/2021
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	Service Charges: Research
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 Answer of 3 March 2021 to Question 157189 on Service Charges: Research, when the Government will consider the findings of Cambridge University's report.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	167890
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2021 answer text <p>The Government is considering the findings of the Cambridge University report alongside the recommendations made on service charges in the report of the Lord Best working group on the Regulation of Property Agents.</p> answering member constituency Walsall North answering member printed Eddie Hughes question first answered 18/03/2021 16:49:30 answering member 4635 label Biography information for Eddie Hughes
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1301448

registered interest
date	10/03/2021
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	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, what his planned timescale is for the national roll out of the Voluntary Right to Buy scheme.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	166468
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2021 answer text <p>The Voluntary Right to Buy Midlands pilot is in its final stages, and has been fully evaluated. The Government committed to evaluate new pilot areas, and further details will be provided shortly.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 18/03/2021 15:00:48 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1301456

registered interest
date	10/03/2021
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: Parking
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 proportion of households have driveway access in England.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	166472
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2021 answer text <p>MHCLG does not collect data specifically on driveway access, but the Department's English Housing Survey collects information on parking provision (i.e. garage/off street/street parking etc.). The latest data show that 38% of dwellings have garage parking and an additional 29% have off street parking.</p><p>This data is available at: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/898459/DA2201_Parking_and_mains_gas_-_dwellings.xlsx" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/898459/DA2201_Parking_and_mains_gas_-_dwellings.xlsx</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 18/03/2021 15:01:29 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1300858

registered interest
date	09/03/2021
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	Service Charges: Research
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 3 March 2021 to Question 157189, when he plans to publish (a) Lord Best's working group final report, (b) Cambridge University's report, and (C) the Government's response to both of those reports.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	165586
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2021 answer text <p>The report from the independent working group on the regulation of property agents, chaired by Lord Best, has been published at: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fregulation-of-property-agents-working-group-report&amp;data=04%7C01%7CParliamentary%40communities.gov.uk%7C7c629a87a99846b131ab08d8e8a1ae01%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637515128389978886%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=2O4iC1%2FABLejoAUloLfNoPolkn82taLubwDrfM6vidQ%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/regulation-of-property-agents-working-group-report</a> .  The Government is considering the recommendations in the report alongside the report from Cambridge University on service charges. We believe that service charges should be transparent and communicated effectively, and that there should be a clear route to challenge or redress if things go wrong.</p> answering member constituency Walsall North answering member printed Eddie Hughes question first answered 16/03/2021 18:15:22 answering member 4635 label Biography information for Eddie Hughes
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1289055

registered interest
date	23/02/2021
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	Service Charges: Research
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 the Cambridge Centre for Housing & Planning Research's findings on leasehold and freehold charges commenced in 2018 will be published.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	157189
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2021 answer text <p>The Government believes that service charges should be transparent and communicated effectively, and that there should be a clear route to challenge or redress if things go wrong.</p><p>The Government commissioned Cambridge University to produce research on service charges as well as establishing an independent working group, chaired by Lord Best, to raise professionalism and standards across the property agent sector, which also considered how fees such as service charges should be presented to consumers. The working group published its final report to Government and we are considering the report’s recommendations, alongside Cambridge University’s report.</p> answering member constituency Walsall North answering member printed Eddie Hughes question first answered 03/03/2021 17:46:09 answering member 4635 label Biography information for Eddie Hughes
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1285677

registered interest
date	10/02/2021
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	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, with reference to his oral statement of 10 February 2021 on Building Safety, what estimate he has made of the number of leaseholders who will be covered by the loan scheme.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	152553
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2021 answer text <p>With reference to the oral statement of 10 February 2021 on Building Safety, we will publish details of the finance scheme which will contain estimates of the number of leaseholders covered by it.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 22/02/2021 17:24:52 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1280664

registered interest
date	26/01/2021
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	Regional Planning and Development
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 the Government's official definition is of levelling up.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	143799
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2021 answer text <p>As reaffirmed at the Spending Review, the Government is levelling up opportunity across the UK so that people feel that they can succeed in their local area. The Spending Review established a set of provisional priority outcomes and metrics across all departments and policy areas which have been published here: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fspending-review-2020-documents&amp;data=04%7C01%7CThomas.ReesGara%40communities.gov.uk%7Cc824e463ba6c49f1636208d8c378f8e1%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637474271619618359%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=GRLON6BDv221F52MxGgX48g34fKMs3Bfj2D16AUWN4E%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/spending-review-2020-documents</a>.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 01/02/2021 17:28:35 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders