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1178555

	registered interest
	date	13/02/2020
	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	Building Regulations
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to include measures to promote water sustainability and re-use in building regulations for the construction of new properties.
	tabling member printed	Lord Smith of Finsbury
	uin	HL1691
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2020 answer text <p>The Building Regulations 2010 Parts G &amp; H include requirements relating to water efficiency and grey water harvesting. For new homes, statutory guidance for Part G of the Building Regulations includes a minimum standard for estimated water consumption set at 125 litres per person per day, and an optional standard of 110 litres per person per day, which may be adopted in water stressed areas at the discretion of the local planning authority.</p><p>In 2019, Government launched a consultation ( <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fconsult.defra.gov.uk%2Fwater%2Fmeasures-to-reduce-personal-water-use%2Fsupporting_documents%2FConsultation%2520on%2520reducing%2520personal%2520water%2520use%2520FINAL.pdf&amp;data=02%7C01%7CPeter.Rankin%40communities.gov.uk%7C80a81b5b34aa455fe71408d7b517e619%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637176986549413128&amp;sdata=kq6ZueVtH17OXvyx0C4i8XGWoDVt%2BqlvATTr2XzMSAU%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://consult.defra.gov.uk/water/measures-to-reduce-personal-water-use/supporting_documents/Consultation%20on%20reducing%20personal%20water%20use%20FINAL.pdf</a> ) on measures to reduce personal water use. The consultation considers whether the current minimum standard and the optional standard set through the Building Regulations should be changed. The consultation is now closed and the Government will respond in due course.</p> answering member printed Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist question first answered 27/02/2020 12:50:50 answering member 4582 label Biography information for Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist
	tabling member	186 label Biography information for Lord Smith of Finsbury

1177114

	registered interest
	date	07/02/2020
	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	Cooperatives
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what support they provide to individuals and communities to establish cooperative community facilities.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL1439
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2020 answer text <p>The Government continues to recognise the importance of community involvement in the ownership and management of local facilities and supports several approaches to achieving this outcome. The £4 million More Than a Pub programme, jointly funded with Power to Change championed the cooperative model of community ownership and has supported 42 groups to achieve ownership of their local pub in England between March 2016 and March 2019. Since 2015, the Government has also provided £6 million funding through its Pocket Parks programme to support 350 partnerships between community-led organisations and their local authority to create useable green space community facilities. Community groups can also access the support and advice they need to take action in their neighbourhood through visiting online resources such as My Community. We are currently exploring the manifesto commitment for a £150 million Community Ownership Fund which will support people who want to protect and bring local assets into community ownership.</p> answering member printed Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist question first answered 25/02/2020 14:32:23 answering member 4582 label Biography information for Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

1177115

	registered interest
	date	07/02/2020
	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	Community Housing
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what support they provide to the cooperative housing sector in England, outside of London.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL1440
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2020 answer text <p>The Government supports the community-led housebuilding sector – of which housing co-operatives are an important part – through the Community Housing Fund. The Fund is delivered outside of London by Homes England. Capital and revenue grants are available to community-based groups wishing to take forward schemes to build locally affordable housing.</p><p>The Government has also provided a £6 million grant from the Community Housing Fund to support Community Led Homes: a consortium of the major stakeholder groups (including the Confederation of Co-operative Housing). Community Led Homes is able to award secondary “seedcorn” grants of up to £4000 to community-based groups to enable those groups to establish an appropriately constituted body corporate, such as a housing co-operative. Community Led Homes is also using its grant to develop a network of technical advisors to support community-based groups though the process of taking forward their local housebuilding schemes.</p><p>The Community Housing Fund is currently scheduled to close in March 2020. Ministers are considering all budgets in the round and allocations for 2020/21 will be confirmed through a business planning exercise. Allocations for future years will be considered at the forthcoming Budget and Spending Review.</p> answering member printed Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist question first answered 25/02/2020 14:17:42 answering member 4582 label Biography information for Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

1177116

	registered interest
	date	07/02/2020
	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	Community Land Trusts
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what support they provide to communities to establish community land trusts.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL1441
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2020 answer text <p>The Government supports the community-led housebuilding sector – of which community land trusts are an important part – through the Community Housing Fund. The Fund is delivered outside of London by Homes England and within London by the Greater London Authority. Capital and revenue grants are available to community-based groups wishing to take forward schemes to build locally affordable housing.</p><p>The Government has also provided a £6 million grant from the Community Housing Fund to support Community Led Homes: a consortium of the major stakeholder groups (including the National Community Land Trust Network). Community Led Homes is able to award secondary “seedcorn” grants of up to £4000 to community-based groups to enable those groups to establish an appropriately constituted body corporate, such as a community land trust. Community Led Homes is also using its grant to develop a network of technical advisors to support community-based groups though the process of taking forward their local housebuilding schemes.</p><p>The Community Housing Fund is currently scheduled to close in March 2020. Ministers are considering all budgets in the round and allocations for 2020/21 will be confirmed through a business planning exercise. Allocations for future years will be considered at the forthcoming Budget and Spending Review.</p> answering member printed Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist question first answered 25/02/2020 14:31:31 answering member 4582 label Biography information for Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

1178517

	registered interest
	date	13/02/2020
	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	Local Government
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their policy aim in England for (1) unitary, and (2) two-tier, authorities.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL1653
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2020 answer text <p>This Government believes that local government is the bedrock of our democracy and we will ensure that councils continue to deliver essential local services. We are committed to devolving power to people and places, so that every part of the country has power to shape its own destiny, and this year we will publish an English Devolution White Paper setting out our plans.</p> answering member printed Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist question first answered 25/02/2020 14:37:31 answering member 4582 label Biography information for Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

1178127

	registered interest
	date	12/02/2020
	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	Carbon Monoxide: Alarms
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government wat assessment they have made of the research conducted by Which? into the effectiveness of carbon monoxide alarms, published in June 2018.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL1582
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2020 answer text <p>In 2019, the Office for Product Safety and Standards examined a small sample of carbon monoxide and smoke alarms for compliance with safety requirements. It found that nine out of ten were compliant and the remaining carbon monoxide product was over-sensitive which did not give rise to safety concerns.</p><p>UK product safety legislation requires products, including carbon monoxide alarms, to be safe before they can be sold to consumers. Where the installation of carbon monoxide alarms is required by law or recommended, Government advice is that they should comply with British Standard BS EN 50291.</p> answering member printed Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist question first answered 25/02/2020 14:18:07 answering member 4582 label Biography information for Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1178118

	registered interest
	date	12/02/2020
	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	Government Departments: Land
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government for each government department, (1) what was the target for the amount of land to be released for housing in the past ten years; (2) how much land has been disposed of for this purpose and what are the estimated numbers of housing units to be provided; (3) how many of those houses were for (a) affordable housing, and (b) social housing; and (4) what are the targets for this (a) year, and (b) the forthcoming five year period starting with this year.
	tabling member printed	Lord Greaves
	uin	HL1573
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2020 answer text <p>The Public Land for Housing programme (2015-2020) supports the government’s Estate Strategy aim to identify and release surplus central government land. The aim of the programme is to release land with capacity for at least 160,000 homes in England from the central government estate by 31 March 2020. This followed delivery of the 2011-15 Public Land for Housing programme through which surplus land with capacity for 109,000 homes against a target of 100,000 homes was released.</p><p>The new performance data released on the Public Land for Housing Programme was published on Thursday 6 th February 2020, (data release attached) and shows that since the start of the current programme to the end of June 2019, departments had sold 508 sites with capacity for c48,000 homes. We confirmed to the Public Accounts Committee in 2019 that land release for 160,000 homes will be achieved to a longer timeframe due to the complexities of disposal and the evolving demands placed on departments’ estates.</p><p>Full details of the data requested are set out in the data tables document attached. To note in regards to data on affordable housing, once a site has been sold by the department, the allocation of affordable housing is agreed between local authorities and developers on a site by site basis.</p><p>We are currently considering options for a future programme that supports the government’s emerging priorities, reflecting on lessons learnt from both programmes. Decisions on a future programme, including targets for departments, will be made at Spending Review</p> answering member printed Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist attachment 1 file name Data tables in response to PQ HL 1573.docx title Data table in response to PQ HL 1573 2 file name Public Land for Housing Programme Data Release February 2020.pdf title Public Land Housing Programme data release question first answered 26/02/2020 17:57:57 answering member 4582 label Biography information for Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist
	tabling member	2569 label Biography information for Lord Greaves

1176191

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2020
	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	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to encourage 'self-build' housing.
	tabling member printed	Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
	uin	HL1311
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2020 answer text <p>Government has put in place a range of measures to encourage self and custom housebuilding including the Self &amp; Custom Housebuilding legislation. The legislation is focussed on bringing forward more suitable land, providing access to developer finance through the £2.5 billion Home Building Fund and working with finance providers to increase mortgage availability. We have allocated £95,000 of new burdens funding to each relevant authority to support them to fulfil their duties under the legislation to maintain a register of people who want to acquire serviced plots of land in their area; and permission serviced land to satisfy demand on the register. Additionally, we strengthened the National Planning Policy Framework to state that self and custom build properties can provide affordable housing and that demand must be taken into account when determining housing need and reflected in planning policies. The Department also supports the National Custom and Self Build Association’s ‘Right to Build Task Force’ which helps local authorities, community groups and other organisations to deliver affordable self and custom build housing across the UK.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist question first answered 25/02/2020 14:35:28 answering member 4582 label Biography information for Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist
	tabling member	4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

1177220

	registered interest
	date	10/02/2020
	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	Combined Authorities: Finance
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have for the future funding of combined authority areas.
	tabling member printed	Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
	uin	HL1466
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2020 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring an effective funding model for Mayoral Combined Authorities, including gainshare investment funds. We will publish an English Devolution White Paper in 2020. It will consider the future role of local growth funding and will provide further information on our plans for full devolution across England, whilst levelling up powers between Mayoral Combined Authorities.</p> answering member printed Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist question first answered 25/02/2020 14:35:54 answering member 4582 label Biography information for Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist
	tabling member	4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

1177221

	registered interest
	date	10/02/2020
	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: Design
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to promote high quality design in the provision of housing.
	tabling member printed	Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
	uin	HL1467
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2020 answer text <p>Design quality is emphasised within the National Planning Policy Framework and the National Design Guide. We have committed to producing a National Model Design Code this year, which will set detailed standards for key elements of successful design.</p><p>We convened the Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission in 2019 to advise on the promotion of high-quality design for new build homes, whose final report and recommendations were published on 30 January to which we will respond in due course. In addition, we have hosted two national design quality conferences, with a third planned this year.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist question first answered 25/02/2020 14:18:59 answering member 4582 label Biography information for Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist
	tabling member	4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth