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1689845

registered interest
date	19/02/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Private Rented Housing: Older People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he is taking to ensure that digitally excluded older people can access the Government Property Portal.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	14647
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2024 answer text <p>The Property Portal is being designed in line with the Government’s Digital <a href="https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/service-standard" target="_blank">Service Standard</a>. One of these Standards is to ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/service-standard/point-5-make-sure-everyone-can-use-the-service" target="_blank">Make sure that everyone can use the service’</a> including disabled people, people who do not have access to the internet or lack the skills or confidence to use it. We also intend for the Property Portal to have offline routes available to all users. To support this, the next phase of digital development of the Property Portal will include ongoing accessibility testing with representatives from all user groups.</p><p>My officials have recently met with Disability Rights UK and Independent Age to discuss accessibility and the Property Portal and have reassured them of the intent to follow the Service Standard and provide an offline route for users.</p> answering member constituency Redcar answering member printed Jacob Young question first answered 22/02/2024 14:25:30 answering member 4825 label Biography information for Jacob Young
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1689846

registered interest
date	19/02/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Landlords: Convictions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many landlords have been convicted for encashing a deposit placed in a government-approved tenancy deposit scheme before the end of a tenancy agreement in the last two years.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	14481
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2024 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Redcar answering member printed Jacob Young question first answered 22/02/2024 14:27:53 answering member 4825 label Biography information for Jacob Young
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1689942

registered interest
date	19/02/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Holiday Accommodation: Planning Permission
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, for what reason existing short-term lets will automatically be reclassified into the proposed planning use class for short-term lets.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	14629
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2024 answer text <p>Further details of the planning changes will be set out when the Government formally responds to the consultation.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley grouped question UIN 14630 14631 14640 question first answered 22/02/2024 14:12:54 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1689943

registered interest
date	19/02/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Holiday Accommodation: Planning Permission
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many properties will automatically be reclassified into the proposed planning use class for short term lets.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	14630
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2024 answer text <p>Further details of the planning changes will be set out when the Government formally responds to the consultation.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley grouped question UIN 14629 14631 14640 question first answered 22/02/2024 14:12:54 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1689944

registered interest
date	19/02/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Holiday Accommodation: Planning Permission
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of automatically reclassifying existing short-term lets into the proposed planning use class on areas with a high density of short-term lets.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	14631
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2024 answer text <p>Further details of the planning changes will be set out when the Government formally responds to the consultation.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley grouped question UIN 14629 14630 14640 question first answered 22/02/2024 14:12:54 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1689953

registered interest
date	19/02/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Holiday Accommodation: Planning Permission
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what guidance will be given to local authorities on the proposed planning use class for short-term lets.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	14640
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2024 answer text <p>Further details of the planning changes will be set out when the Government formally responds to the consultation.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley grouped question UIN 14629 14630 14631 question first answered 22/02/2024 14:12:54 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1690094

registered interest
date	19/02/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Private Rented Housing: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many disabled people were evicted via section 21 no-fault evictions in the private rented sector in the last year.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham East
tabling member printed	Nadia Whittome
uin	14713
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2024 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Redcar answering member printed Jacob Young question first answered 22/02/2024 14:26:24 answering member 4825 label Biography information for Jacob Young
tabling member	4869 label Biography information for Nadia Whittome

1690095

registered interest
date	19/02/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Housing: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) M4(2) category homes and (b) wheelchair accessible homes that have been built outside of London in the last year.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham East
tabling member printed	Nadia Whittome
uin	14714
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2024 answer text <p>The English Housing Survey collects data on accessibility and adaptations within the home; the most recent report is published online.</p><p>New build homes are constructed to meet Building Regulations accessibility standards in force at the time of build; the most recent data on new build home rates was published by the Office for National Statistics on 30 January 2024.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley question first answered 22/02/2024 14:35:51 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4869 label Biography information for Nadia Whittome

1690113

registered interest
date	19/02/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Building Regulations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what guidance his Department plans to issue (a) to registered professionals, (b) local authorities and (c) registered building control approvers who cease to be able to undertake a building control function after 6 April 2024.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	14722
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2024 answer text <p>It is important that the sector continues to undertake the validation and registration processes in order to meet the competence requirements set by the Building Safety Regulator. We understand that moving to a new oversight regime for building control inspectors requires a managed transition, and that the Building Safety Regulator is closely engaging the sector on this.</p><p>Myself and Departmental officials are talking to the Regulator about steps that are being taken to support building control bodies and inspectors to make sure that they can continue to practice in the new regime. On both supervision and the role of Class 1 Inspectors we are working with the Regulator to make sure that guidance is published in a timely manner.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley question first answered 22/02/2024 14:30:35 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1688998

registered interest
date	16/02/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Ground Rent: Reform
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he is taking to assess the risk of legal challenge to proposed policies in the consultation entitled Modern leasehold: restricting ground rent for existing leases.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	13943
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2024 answer text <p>Government has consulted on a range of options to restrict ground rent in existing leases and asked questions about the effects of these proposals. We received a significant number of responses from a variety of sources. A consultation impact assessment has been published and can be found at: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fconsultation-impact-assessment-modern-leasehold-restricting-ground-rent-for-existing-leases&amp;data=05%7C02%7CPS.Advisers%40levellingup.gov.uk%7Cf20b2cd141f84ffc48b808dc322d5261%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C638440417443619306%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=USJ%2F085W%2BAYS0EKwSzrLCADue1oD0pB4c6xUBcDfDKo%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">​​Consultation impact assessment - modern leasehold: restricting ground rent for existing leases​</a>.</p><p>That consultation closed on 17 January, and Government is currently analysing the responses before taking a decision on how to restrict ground rents through the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill.</p><p>In line with the practice of successive administrations details of internal discussions are not normally disclosed.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley grouped question UIN 13944 13945 13946 13947 question first answered 21/02/2024 14:31:31 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies