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1134966

registered interest
date	26/06/2019
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	Coal: Opencast Mining
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 policy is on planning permission for the creation of additional opencast coal mines.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	269800
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to clean growth and we are taking action to reduce our reliance on coal. We have set out our aim to end electricity generation from unabated coal by 2025 and we are also taking action to reduce coal use in industry and heating.</p><p>In terms of planning policy, the National Planning Policy Framework is already clear that planning permission should not be granted for the extraction of coal unless the proposal is environmentally acceptable or the national, local or community benefits outweigh its likely impacts. The National Planning Policy Framework is a material consideration in the determination of all applications for coal extraction in England.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 01/07/2019 16:15:19 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1134596

registered interest
date	25/06/2019
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	Homelessness
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 is taking to reduce homelessness in lower layer super output areas.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	269138
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to reducing homelessness and rough sleeping.</p><p>Homelessness is a priority for our Ministerial team. The Government has now committed over £1.2 billion to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping over the spending review period. This includes supporting local authorities in the implementation of the Homelessness Reduction Act, increasing access to the private rented sector for families in temporary accommodation and supporting London boroughs to procure more efficiently.</p><p>No one should ever have to sleep rough. That is why last summer we published the cross-government Rough Sleeping Strategy. This sets out an ambitious £100 million package to help people who sleep rough now, but also puts in place the structures that will end rough sleeping once and for all. In its first year, our Rough Sleeping Initiative (RSI) provided over 1,750 new bed spaces and 500 staff.  This year we have expanded the RSI with investment of £46 million for 246 areas – providing funding for an estimated 2,600 bed spaces and 750 staff.</p><p>Local authorities are ultimately responsible for the allocation of funding resources within their respective geographical areas. This means that they will oversee the work done to reduce homelessness in any lower super output areas that fall within their remit.</p><p>As with all local government work to tackle homelessness, local authorities will be both supported and, where necessary, challenged by the MHCLG’s Homelessness Advice and Support Team (HAST). This team of advisers, drawn from local authorities and charities with expertise in the homelessness sector, help local authorities with work around statutory homelessness and single homelessness. These advisers have visited or had one-to-one contact with all 326 local authorities, focusing on the implementation of the Homelessness Reduction Act and also working very closely with them to bring down the number of people in bed and breakfasts over 6 weeks.</p><p>In addition to the above, MHCLG have overhauled the statutory homelessness data collection alongside the introduction of the Homelessness Reduction Act. This will give us better insights into the causes of homelessness and the support people need, with data broken down to local authority level. The new statutory homelessness data collection is called Homelessness Case Level Information Classification (H-CLIC). H-CLIC data is reported quarterly and the first case level H-CLIC returns were submitted to MHCLG over summer 2018.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 03/07/2019 15:58:45 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1123853

registered interest
date	30/04/2019
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	Solar Power: 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, whether the business rates exemption for <50kW solar systems will be maintained under the smart export guarantee scheme.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	249356
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2019 answer text <p>The Government is continuing business rates relief for solar microgeneration plant and machinery of less than 50kW. These arrangements would also apply under the Smart Export Guarantee as proposed. The current relief provides a 100 per cent business rates exemption for qualifying solar plant and machinery between the installation of the equipment and the next revaluation for business rates planned in 2021.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 08/05/2019 12:52:46 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1086560

registered interest
date	11/03/2019
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	Local Government: Land
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 effect of maintaining a five-year land supply on the ability of local authorities to reject planning applications.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	230864
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2019 answer text <p>The Government does not monitor the decisions made by local authorities on planning applications. Planning applications must be determined in accordance with the development plan unless material considerations, including national planning policy, indicate otherwise. This means that the best way for local authorities to prevent the success of speculative applications is to have an up-to-date development plan and maintain a five year land supply of deliverable sites for housing.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 15/03/2019 14:26:45 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1086561

registered interest
date	11/03/2019
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	Homelessness: Veterans
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 homeless veterans in Yorkshire and the Humber in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	230865
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to reducing homelessness and rough sleeping. No one should ever have to sleep rough. That is why this summer we published the cross-government Rough Sleeping Strategy. This sets out an ambitious £100 million package to help people who sleep rough now, but also puts in place the structures that will end rough sleeping once and for all. Already, this has provided over 1,750 new bed spaces and 500 staff– this means there are more people in warm beds tonight as direct result of government funding. In all, the Government has now committed over £1.2 billion to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping over the spending review period.</p><p>The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government does not collect information on the number of homeless veterans in Yorkshire and Humber.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 19/03/2019 17:28:50 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1086563

registered interest
date	11/03/2019
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	Sleeping Rough: Yorkshire and the Humber
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much has been spent on the Rough Sleeping Initiative in Yorkshire and the Humber in each month of financial year 2018-19.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	230867
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2019 answer text <p>This Government is committed to reducing homelessness and rough sleeping. No one should ever have to sleep rough. That is why last summer we published the cross-government Rough Sleeping Strategy which sets out an ambitious £100 million package to help people who sleep rough now, but also puts in place the structures that will end rough sleeping once and for all. Already, this has provided over 1,750 new bed spaces and 500 staff– this means there are more people in warm beds tonight as direct result of government funding. In all, the Government has now committed over £1.2 billion to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping over the spending review period.</p><p>Rough Sleeping Initiative payments are not issued monthly. Yorkshire and Humber received a total of £1,356,829 for the Rough Sleeping Initiative in 2018/19 financial year.</p><p>A list of provisional local authority funding allocations can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/funding-allocated-for-councils-to-help-rough-sleepers" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/funding-allocated-for-councils-to-help-rough-sleepers</a>.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 14/03/2019 14:13:35 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1054670

registered interest
date	04/02/2019
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	Community Housing Fund
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 to maintain funding for the Community Housing Fund after March 2020.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	216386
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2019 answer text <p>The Community Housing Fund is currently scheduled to close on 31 March 2020 – the end of the current Spending Review period. Decisions on funding for 2020-21 onwards are a matter for the Spending Review, which will take place this year.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 12/02/2019 15:51:43 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1052427

registered interest
date	17/12/2018
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	Human Rights
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's review of the consultation on powers for dealing with unauthorised development considered compliance with the (a) the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance, (b) the UN Committee on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, (c) the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and (d) the Council of Europe Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	215610
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government considered its compliance with all its international commitments, and its duties under the Equality Act 2010, in preparing the consultation on powers for dealing with unauthorised development and encampments, and in preparing its response. The Government’s response to the consultation was published on 6 February, and includes a range of measures to promote the provision of traveller sites, and sets out details of wider support to improve outcomes for the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller community.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 11/02/2019 17:12:33 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1003709

registered interest
date	09/11/2018
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	Fireworks: Yorkshire and the Humber
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 information his Department holds on the number of (a) people and (b) animals injured in incidents involving fireworks at private, non-organised events during November in each of the last five years in Yorkshire and Humber.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	189805
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2018 answer text <p>MHCLG does not hold data for people or animals injured in incidents involving fireworks.</p><p>Government takes firework safety very seriously and the Office for Product Safety and Standards is currently working with industry, retailers, charities and others, including the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) and Netmums, to promote the safe and responsible use of fireworks and to raise consumer awareness on firework safety.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 14/11/2018 10:44:07 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

944792

registered interest
date	19/07/2018
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	Non-domestic Rates: Valuation
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 plans to make an assessment of the adequacy of the Check, Challenge, Appeal system in England.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	166261
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>The Government has previously set out its intention to carry out a review of the implementation of the overall package of reforms under Check, Challenge and Appeal by 2019. We will also work with the Valuation Office Agency to monitor implementation of the new system and ongoing improvements to ensure it is working effectively for ratepayers.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 24/07/2018 14:49:31 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel