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1109458

registered interest
date	03/04/2019
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: 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, whether the Government is taking steps to prevent the development of policies which result in restrictions on playground use similar to the case of Henley Homes in Lambeth.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	240480
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2019 answer text <p>The Government has been clear that unfair stigmatisation of social residents will not be tolerated, whether that be through restrictions on playground use or otherwise.</p><p>We are looking closely at how we encourage and support genuinely mixed homes and communities. I have asked officials to explore strengthening our existing planning guidance to emphasise the importance of integrated communities and help prevent this kind of thing from ever happening again.</p><p>MHCLG has been consulting widely on the question of stigma including through the Social Housing Green Paper. Many people living in England’s social homes told us they feel ignored and stigmatised and the Green Paper committed to tackling this. Our response to the Green Paper will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 08/04/2019 15:05:46 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1055990

registered interest
date	06/02/2019
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	Social Rented Housing: Overcrowding
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 steps he has taken to tackle overcrowding in social housing.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	217447
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to increasing the supply of social housing to provides homes for those who need them.</p><p>We have made £9 billion available through the Affordable Homes Programme to March 2022 to deliver 250,000 new affordable homes, including for social rent. Since 2010, we have delivered over 407,000 new affordable homes, including over 293,000 affordable homes for rent.</p><p>On 18 September we announced an additional £2 billion of long-term funding certainty for housing associations to 28/29. This extra funding will deliver more affordable homes and stimulate the sector’s wider building ambitions, through strategic partnerships.</p><p>Further, by abolishing the Housing Revenue Account borrowing cap at Autumn Budget, we have given councils the tools they need to deliver a new generation of council housing. Local authorities are now free to borrow to build new council homes in line with the Prudential Code, and we expect them to double building to deliver up to 10,000 homes per year by 21/22.</p><p>Through the Localism Act 2011 we have retained the statutory ‘reasonable preference’ requirements that ensure that social housing is prioritised for those in housing need, including people who are in overcrowded housing.</p><p>In the Social Housing Green Paper we set out our intention to undertake an evidence gathering exercise to help us understand how the allocations system is working and whether it is striking the right balance between fairness, support and aspiration.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 14/02/2019 14:58:36 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1050376

registered interest
date	29/01/2019
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	Social Rented Housing: Mental Illness
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 he is taking to ensure that people with mental health issues receive support to access social housing.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	213928
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2019 answer text <p>The Regulator of Social Housing’s tenancy standard requires registered providers to develop and deliver allocations processes in a way which supports their effective use by the full range of actual and potential tenants, including those with support needs.</p><p>In the Social Housing Green Paper we set out our intention to undertake an evidence collection exercise to help us understand how the allocations system is working and whether it is striking the right balance between fairness, support and aspiration. The Social Housing Green Paper also recognises that many landlords play a role that goes beyond their key responsibilities, which includes providing signposting to vital services such as mental health services. Through the Green Paper, we sought to gather evidence on the impact of the important role that many social landlords are playing. We are considering responses to the Green Paper and will respond in Spring 2019.</p><p>Within social housing, and more widely, supported housing provides a vital service for vulnerable people, including people with mental health issues. Safeguarding provision and supply of appropriate supported accommodation is a priority for my Department and we will continue to provide capital grant funding to promote new supply of supported housing. Our August 2018 announcement confirming that funding for all supported housing is staying in Housing Benefit will have given increased confidence to the sector to continue to invest in new supply. We are also reviewing oversight arrangements for all supported housing. As a Government, we are investing record levels in mental health, spending £11.98 billion in 2017/18.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 06/02/2019 16:52:28 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1035120

registered interest
date	04/01/2019
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	Leasehold: Reform
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 his Department plans to publish the results of the consultation into Implementing reforms to the leasehold system.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	205164
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2019 answer text <p>The Department’s consultation, “Implementing reforms to the leasehold system”, set out how the Government intends to tackle excessive and unjustifiable practices in the leasehold system. We are currently analysing responses and plan to publish the Government’s response in due course.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 10/01/2019 15:09:59 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1035121

registered interest
date	04/01/2019
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	Leasehold
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 made an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward proposals to protect existing homeowners who are prevented from selling their properties due to the amount of time left on the lease.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	205165
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2019 answer text <p>We are working with the Law Commission to make it easier, faster, fairer and cheaper for leaseholders to buy their freehold or extend their lease. The Law Commission have recently consulted on possible measures, including introducing a prescribed formula that provides fair compensation to the landlord, whilst also helping leaseholders avoid incurring additional court costs. This consultation closed on 7 January 2019 and the Law Commission will be providing recommendations to Government later this year.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 09/01/2019 17:48:13 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

997144

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
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	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, whether someone seeking to port their right to buy discount for a second time is entitled to if their first attempt to purchase and use that discount is unsuccessful.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	184845
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2018 answer text <p>If a tenant is offered and accepts the opportunity to 'port' their Right to Buy discount to another property through the Voluntary Right to Buy Midlands pilot, their application will be paused to allow them time to discuss alternative properties with their housing association. It is up to individual housing associations to determine the extent of their porting offer, and the number of alternative properties that will be made available to tenants, depending on what is reasonable for the circumstances locally.</p><p>The Government has not collected information on the number of homes that are available to buy under the porting arrangements. This will be gathered as part of the Government’s evaluation of the pilot that will follow its completion.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 184846 question first answered 01/11/2018 15:17:09 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

997145

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
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	Right to Buy Scheme: Midlands
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 homes that are available to buy under the porting arrangements of the Midlands voluntary right to buy pilot.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	184846
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2018 answer text <p>If a tenant is offered and accepts the opportunity to 'port' their Right to Buy discount to another property through the Voluntary Right to Buy Midlands pilot, their application will be paused to allow them time to discuss alternative properties with their housing association. It is up to individual housing associations to determine the extent of their porting offer, and the number of alternative properties that will be made available to tenants, depending on what is reasonable for the circumstances locally.</p><p>The Government has not collected information on the number of homes that are available to buy under the porting arrangements. This will be gathered as part of the Government’s evaluation of the pilot that will follow its completion.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 184845 question first answered 01/11/2018 15:17:09 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

997146

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
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	Right to Buy Scheme: Midlands
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 everyone who is successful in the ballot and deemed eligible for the Midlands voluntary right to buy pilot will have the opportunity to buy a property under that scheme.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	184847
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2018 answer text <p>The Department will closely monitor the progress of the Midlands pilot, and the spending of the budget as the pilot progresses, to ensure that as many eligible tenants as possible have the opportunity to become home owners under the scheme.</p><p>6,000 tenants were successful in the ballot. Evidence from the scheme for council tenants, and the initial small-scale pilot that completed in 2017, suggests that a high number of tenants who make an application may not go on to complete a sale, for example because they do not meet the eligibility criteria, or because they are unable to fund the remainder of the purchase.</p><p>It is expected that the pilot budget of £200 million will fund somewhere in the region of 3,000 sales, though this figure may vary, depending on the average discount being claimed, and the level of drop out.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 184863 question first answered 01/11/2018 16:07:33 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

997147

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
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	Right to Buy Scheme: Midlands
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will undertake a mid-point review of the Midlands voluntary right to buy pilot to assess whether there is sufficient funding in place to cover all sales.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	184863
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2018 answer text <p>The Department will closely monitor the progress of the Midlands pilot, and the spending of the budget as the pilot progresses, to ensure that as many eligible tenants as possible have the opportunity to become home owners under the scheme.</p><p>6,000 tenants were successful in the ballot. Evidence from the scheme for council tenants, and the initial small-scale pilot that completed in 2017, suggests that a high number of tenants who make an application may not go on to complete a sale, for example because they do not meet the eligibility criteria, or because they are unable to fund the remainder of the purchase.</p><p>It is expected that the pilot budget of £200 million will fund somewhere in the region of 3,000 sales, though this figure may vary, depending on the average discount being claimed, and the level of drop out.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 184847 question first answered 01/11/2018 16:07:33 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

994596

registered interest
date	25/10/2018
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	Right to Buy Scheme: Midlands
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will provide full details of the discount available to tenants under the Midlands Voluntary Right to Buy pilot.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	183852
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2018 answer text <p>The discounts available to tenants under the Voluntary Right to Buy are calculated in the same way as for the statutory Right to Buy. Discounts increase in line with the length of tenancy, up to a maximum discount of £80,900 or 70 per cent of the value of the property, whichever is the lower. Full details can be found on the Government’s website at <a href="https://righttobuy.gov.uk/what-discount-could-you-get/" target="_blank">https://righttobuy.gov.uk/what-discount-could-you-get/</a>.</p><p>Under the voluntary agreement between the Government and the National Housing Federation, housing associations have discretion as to which homes they will sell under the Voluntary Right to Buy. Associations taking part in the Midlands pilot have published their individual policies on their websites. The Government has not collected information on the total number of properties falling into each category.</p><p>9,146 individuals entered the ballot for the Midlands pilot and 6,000 of these were given Unique Reference Numbers, enabling them to apply in full to their housing association. The Government has not collected information on how many of these tenants will be able to apply to buy the homesthat they are living in, and how many will be offered a portable discount, to buy an alternative housing association property. This information will be gathered as part of the Government’s full evaluation of the pilot that will follow its completion.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 183853 183854 question first answered 30/10/2018 17:01:50 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe