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1314956

registered interest
date	17/05/2021
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: Construction
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the analysis by the Local Government Association, published on 20 February 2020, which found that more than a million homes granted planning permission in the past decade have not yet been built; and what plans they have empower local authorities to incentivise developers to expedite the building of housing already granted planning permission.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL248
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2021 answer text <p>As the Local Government Association have themselves stated, in some cases there are legitimate reasons as to why development stalls. Perhaps, for example, the landowner cannot get the price for the site they want, or the development approved is not viable, or supply chain constraints hinder starting. Sir Oliver Letwin highlighted in his 2018 review on the topic, building on the work of Dame Kate Barker and many others before them, that, as such, the often-repeated idea of housebuilders ‘sitting on’ land is overstated.</p><p>Nevertheless, this Government is clear that new homes should be built out as soon as possible. Where build-out is delayed, it is for councils and developers to work closely together to overcome any barriers. To ensure this happens, we are exploring further options to support faster build-out as part of our proposed planning reforms.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Greenhalgh question first answered 01/06/2021 12:13:05 answering member 4877 label Biography information for Lord Greenhalgh
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

1314761

registered interest
date	14/05/2021
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	Affordable Housing: Young People
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 bringing forward legislative proposals to make housing more affordable for young people.
tabling member constituency	Ynys Môn
tabling member printed	Virginia Crosbie
uin	1417
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/05/2021 answer text <p>We are building the homes our country needs and helping a new generation to own their own home – and making sure young people are not priced out of their area.</p><p>We are investing over £12 billion in affordable housing over 5 years, the largest investment in affordable housing in a decade. This includes our new £11.5 billion Affordable Homes Programme which will leverage up to £38 billion of private finance and deliver up to 180,000 homes should economic conditions allow. Half of these homes will be for affordable home ownership, supporting aspiring homeowners to take their first step on to the housing ladder. This includes our new, fairer model for Shared Ownership and 1,500 First Homes for first-time buyers and key workers.</p><p>First Homes are homes which are sold to first-time buyers with a discount of at least 30 per cent from full market value, making both deposits and mortgage requirements cheaper and opening up the dream of home ownership to even more people. The discount will be funded by developers themselves as part of their contributions through planning obligations, without a direct cost to central Government or local authorities.</p><p>Crucially, the discount will be passed on to all future purchasers in perpetuity, so these homes will keep helping first-time buyers onto the property ladder for generations to come.</p><p>In future, 25 per cent of all affordable homes delivered by developers as part of their obligatory contributions will be First Homes. This new First Homes Requirement means that there will be a steady and sustained supply of these homes, helping first-time buyers across England.</p><p>This is in addition to our Help to Buy: Equity Loans, which have helped over 257,000 first-time buyers into homeownership since its launch in 2013 to 1 December 2020. The new Help to Buy: Equity Loan scheme opened on 1 April 2021 and will run to March 2023. It is targeted at first-time buyers only and has regional property price caps based on average first time buyer property prices.</p><p>The mortgage guarantee scheme launched on 19 April 2021 and will be available until December 2022, enabling lenders to offer 95% loan-to-value (LTV) mortgages to both first-time buyers and existing homeowners, throughout the whole UK, on homes up to £600,000 in value. 95% mortgages supported through the scheme are open to all adults, including young adults.</p><p>For renters, in response to Covid-19 pressures, the Government has put in place an unprecedented support package to help renters and ensure they can continue to afford their housing costs, including retaining the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and Universal Credit uplift until September.</p><p>In the long run we need to build more homes to tackle affordability. This is why we are bringing forward an ambitious near-£20 billion investment to underpin the Government’s long-term housing strategy. We are also pushing forward with our planning reforms to establish a simpler, faster and more predictable system and ensure that the right homes are built in the right places where they are needed.</p><p>We are making good progress towards achieving our supply ambitions of delivering 1 million homes this Parliament and building 300,000 homes a year over the longer term. Last year, around 244,000 homes were delivered – the highest level for over 30 years and the seventh consecutive year that net supply has increased.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 19/05/2021 16:59:18 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher previous answer version 1148 answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4859 label Biography information for Virginia Crosbie

1314793

registered interest
date	14/05/2021
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	Waking Watch Relief 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, how many buildings have been allocated funding to pay for the costs of installing an alarm system in buildings with unsafe cladding from the £30 million Waking Watch relief fund.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	1380
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/05/2021 answer text <p>The Waking Watch Relief Fund opened for applications for buildings in England, except private sector buildings in London, on 31 January 2021 and closed on 14 March. For private sector buildings in London the Fund opened on 18 March 2021 and closed 30 April. All applications received are currently being processed. We will publish complete data on the Waking Watch Relief Fund, including the number of applications and funding approvals so far, shortly.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher grouped question UIN 1382 1383 1384 question first answered 19/05/2021 16:52:21 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1314796

registered interest
date	14/05/2021
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	High Rise Flats: 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 estimate he has made of the number of buildings outside London over 17.7 metres in height with (a) unsafe cladding and (b) other fire safety issues that have had waking watches put in place since 15 March 2021.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	1381
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2021 answer text <p>The Department continues to work closely with the National Fire Chiefs Council to understand the extent to which waking watch measures are used in Residential Buildings. We do not hold specific information on the number of buildings over 17.7 metres in height which have had waking watches put in place since 15 March 2021.</p><p>The Government’s £30 million Waking Watch Relief Fund is designed to incentivise buildings to install a common alarm system and to reduce the dependency on waking watch measures. The Government funding does not remove responsibilities for fire safety from the responsible persons. We are keeping the operation of the Waking Watch Relief Fund under review.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 20/05/2021 15:12:15 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher previous answer version 1155 answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1314799

registered interest
date	14/05/2021
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
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 bring forward legislative proposals on proposed limits on the cost of extending a lease; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	1286
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2021 answer text <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. 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>Through our reforms, the length of a statutory lease extension will increase to 990 years, from 90 years (for flats) and 50 years (for houses). Leaseholders will be able to extend their lease with zero ground rent on payment of a premium. Leaseholders will also be able to voluntarily agree to a restriction on future development of their property to avoid paying ‘development value’</p><p><br>The Law Commission’s report on enfranchisement includes recommendations relating to lease extensions, including payment of costs incurred by this process and 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 24/05/2021 16:11:12 answering member 4635 label Biography information for Eddie Hughes
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1314821

registered interest
date	14/05/2021
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	Property Development: Green Belt
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 requirements are in place to ensure that local people are fully consulted prior to previously developed land that is part of the green-belt is built on.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South West
tabling member printed	Stuart Anderson
uin	1396
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2021 answer text <p>Applications for development on previously developed land in the Green Belt are subject to the statutory publicity requirements as outlined in article 15 of The Town and Country Planning (Development Procedure) (England) Order 2015. Local planning authorities must give notice by site display in at least one place on or near the land to which the application relates or by serving the notice on any adjoining owner or occupier. The Government is committed to protecting and enhancing the Green Belt in line with our manifesto. The National Planning Policy Framework outlines strong protections for Green Belt land, making it clear that most new building is inappropriate in Green Belt, and should be refused planning permission unless there are very special circumstances.</p><p>Where an application is a departure from the local plan they must also advertise in a local newspaper and publish information about the application on their website. A local planning authority may not determine an application until the period of public consultation, a minimum of 21 days, has been completed but they can extend this period of time if necessary. Local planning authorities also have discretion to undertake additional publicity on a case by case basis and may take into consideration the level of public interest in an application.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 24/05/2021 16:39:32 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4742 label Biography information for Stuart Anderson

1314823

registered interest
date	14/05/2021
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	Buildings: 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, how many buildings in (a) Greater London, (b) Greater Manchester, (c) Birmingham, (d) Leeds, (e) Liverpool, (f) Bristol, (g) Newcastle and (h) Sheffield have (i) applied for funding to pay for the costs of installing an alarm system in buildings with unsafe cladding and (ii) were granted that funding.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	1382
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/05/2021 answer text <p>The Waking Watch Relief Fund opened for applications for buildings in England, except private sector buildings in London, on 31 January 2021 and closed on 14 March. For private sector buildings in London the Fund opened on 18 March 2021 and closed 30 April. All applications received are currently being processed. We will publish complete data on the Waking Watch Relief Fund, including the number of applications and funding approvals so far, shortly.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher grouped question UIN 1380 1383 1384 question first answered 19/05/2021 16:52:21 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1314824

registered interest
date	14/05/2021
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	Buildings: 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, how many eligible buildings applied for the fund to pay for the costs of installing an alarm system in buildings with unsafe cladding.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	1383
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/05/2021 answer text <p>The Waking Watch Relief Fund opened for applications for buildings in England, except private sector buildings in London, on 31 January 2021 and closed on 14 March. For private sector buildings in London the Fund opened on 18 March 2021 and closed 30 April. All applications received are currently being processed. We will publish complete data on the Waking Watch Relief Fund, including the number of applications and funding approvals so far, shortly.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher grouped question UIN 1380 1382 1384 question first answered 19/05/2021 16:52:21 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1314826

registered interest
date	14/05/2021
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 role his Department will have in the preparation of the Levelling Up White Paper.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	1315
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/05/2021 answer text <p>Levelling up all areas of the country remains at the centre of government’s agenda. Later this year we will publish a Levelling Up White Paper setting out how bold new policy interventions will improve livelihoods across the country as we recover from the pandemic.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 19/05/2021 15:10:51 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1314827

registered interest
date	14/05/2021
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	Buildings: 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, how much funding on average has been paid out per building from the £30 million fund to pay for the costs of installing an alarm system in buildings with unsafe cladding.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	1384
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/05/2021 answer text <p>The Waking Watch Relief Fund opened for applications for buildings in England, except private sector buildings in London, on 31 January 2021 and closed on 14 March. For private sector buildings in London the Fund opened on 18 March 2021 and closed 30 April. All applications received are currently being processed. We will publish complete data on the Waking Watch Relief Fund, including the number of applications and funding approvals so far, shortly.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher grouped question UIN 1380 1382 1383 question first answered 19/05/2021 16:52:21 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury