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1722821

registered interest
date	23/07/2024
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 Ownership 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, whether she plans to continue the Community Ownership Fund with the same terms of reference.
tabling member constituency	North Dorset
tabling member printed	Simon Hoare
uin	1308
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2024 answer text <p>This Government is committed to empowering communities with a strong new ‘right to buy’ beloved community assets, such as empty shops, pubs and community spaces.</p><p>We will confirm plans on the Community Ownership Fund in due course.</p> answering member constituency Nottingham North and Kimberley answering member printed Alex Norris question first answered 26/07/2024 15:32:54 answering member 4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris
tabling member	4494 label Biography information for Simon Hoare

1722879

registered interest
date	23/07/2024
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	Planning: Staff
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 she plans to recruit additional planning inspectors to support the Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project process.
tabling member constituency	North West Essex
tabling member printed	Mrs Kemi Badenoch
uin	1313
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2024 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring that the Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects regime is capable of delivering the UK’s infrastructure needs, including sufficient resourcing in the Planning Inspectorate and government expert bodies to support infrastructure consenting.</p> answering member constituency Greenwich and Woolwich answering member printed Matthew Pennycook question first answered 26/07/2024 12:38:55 answering member 4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook
tabling member	4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch

1722880

registered interest
date	23/07/2024
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	National Policy Statements
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 her planned timetable is for completion of each of the revised National Policy Statements.
tabling member constituency	North West Essex
tabling member printed	Mrs Kemi Badenoch
uin	1314
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2024 answer text <p>As the Chancellor set out on 8 July, the Government will review relevant National Policy Statements over the next twelve months, ensuring the planning system is simplified and improved to deliver Government missions around growth and clean energy. This is one of a number of changes the Government intends to make to build the infrastructure that we need.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Greenwich and Woolwich answering member printed Matthew Pennycook question first answered 26/07/2024 12:42:34 answering member 4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook
tabling member	4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch

1722881

registered interest
date	23/07/2024
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	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Environment Protection
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 her Department's policy is on (a) Strategic Environmental Assessments and (b) Environmental Impact Assessments.
tabling member constituency	North West Essex
tabling member printed	Mrs Kemi Badenoch
uin	1315
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2024 answer text <p>The powers secured through the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023 would allow Strategic Environmental Assessment and Environmental Impact Assessment to be replaced with a new framework of Environmental Outcomes Reports.</p><p>The government is committed to securing better environmental outcomes alongside securing the development we need, and will consider how best to reform environmental assessment with this objective in mind. In the meantime, the current legislation on environmental assessment and its supporting guidance continues to apply.</p> answering member constituency Greenwich and Woolwich answering member printed Matthew Pennycook question first answered 26/07/2024 12:47:57 answering member 4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook
tabling member	4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch

1722883

registered interest
date	23/07/2024
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	Permitted Development 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 she plans to (a) remove or (b) curtail permitted development rights that were introduced since May 2010; and what her policy is on Article 4 directions.
tabling member constituency	North West Essex
tabling member printed	Mrs Kemi Badenoch
uin	1316
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2024 answer text <p>The Government has not announced plans to remove or curtail permitted development rights.</p><p>We intend to set out proposed changes to national planning policy in the forthcoming National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) update.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Greenwich and Woolwich answering member printed Matthew Pennycook question first answered 26/07/2024 12:46:29 answering member 4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook
tabling member	4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch

1722885

registered interest
date	23/07/2024
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	General Election 2024: Absent Voting
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 her Department plans to take steps to review postal voting delays that occurred during the general election 2024.
tabling member constituency	North West Essex
tabling member printed	Mrs Kemi Badenoch
uin	1317
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2024 answer text <p>The Electoral Commission will publish a report on the administration of the General Election held on 4 July later this year, and the Government will give careful consideration to any findings or recommendations made in the report in relation to the current arrangements for postal voting.</p> answering member constituency Nottingham North and Kimberley answering member printed Alex Norris question first answered 26/07/2024 15:34:56 answering member 4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris
tabling member	4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch

1722906

registered interest
date	23/07/2024
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	Flats: 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, what her planned timescales are for banning new leasehold flats and ensuring that commonhold is the default tenure.
tabling member constituency	Norwich South
tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
uin	1309
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2024 answer text <p>The Government is committed to bringing the feudal leasehold system to an end.</p><p>As part of that commitment, we intend to reinvigorate commonhold through a comprehensive new legal framework and ban the sale of new leasehold flats so commonhold becomes the default tenure.</p><p>As set out in the King’s Speech, draft legislation will be published on leasehold and commonhold reform during this session.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Greenwich and Woolwich answering member printed Matthew Pennycook question first answered 26/07/2024 12:51:31 answering member 4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook
tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

1722957

registered interest
date	23/07/2024
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, pursuant to the Answer of 22 July 2024 to Question 207 on Vagrancy Act 1824, whether it is her Department's policy to de-criminalise homelessness.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	1337
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2024 answer text <p>The Government is clear that homelessness has a devastating impact on those affected.</p><p>We need to take a long term approach and to tackle the different factors that can cause people to become homeless.</p><p>We will consider these issues carefully and, working with Mayors and councils across the country, develop a new cross-government strategy to put Britain back on track to ending homelessness. This will include consideration of any relevant legislation.</p> answering member constituency Nottingham North and Kimberley answering member printed Alex Norris question first answered 26/07/2024 15:33:43 answering member 4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1723045

registered interest
date	23/07/2024
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	Unadopted Roads
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 she will make an estimate of the number of households in (a) the UK and (b) Hitchin constituency that are located on estate roads that have not been adopted by their local authority as of 23 July 2023.
tabling member constituency	Hitchin
tabling member printed	Alistair Strathern
uin	1429
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2024 answer text <p>The requested information is not held by the department.</p><p>The Government is committed to taking steps to bring the injustice of ‘fleecehold’ private estates and unfair maintenance costs to an end and we will consult on the best way to achieve this.</p><p>In the interim, we will act quickly to provide residential freeholders with greater protections by implementing the relevant provisions of the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Greenwich and Woolwich answering member printed Matthew Pennycook question first answered 26/07/2024 12:53:25 answering member 4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook
tabling member	5000 label Biography information for Alistair Strathern

1722470

registered interest
date	22/07/2024
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 Replacement 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 much and what proportion of the Waking Watch Replacement Fund was spent.
tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
uin	964
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2024 answer text <p>Data on the progress and costs of the Waking Watch Relief and Replacement Funds, launched prior to 2023, are published as part of the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/building-safety-remediation-monthly-data-release-june-2024/building-safety-remediation-monthly-data-release-june-2024#:~:text=As%20at%2030%20June%202024%2C%201%2C569%20buildings%2011%20metres%20and,change%20since%20end%20May%202024." target="_blank">Building Safety Remediation: monthly data release - June 2024 - GOV.UK</a>. The Waking Watch Replacement Fund 2023 opened on 25 May 2023 and closed for new applications on 31 March 2024. Waking Watch Replacement Fund 2023 data is not currently reported as part of the Building Safety Remediation Monthly Data Release, however we will include full fund data within future releases in due course.</p><p>As of the end of June 2024, there are currently 14 buildings eligible for remediation through the Building Safety Fund in the constituency of Brentford and Isleworth. Of these 14, it is estimated that 11 buildings have received funding for their remediation, covering approximately 700 residential units across the constituency.</p><p>As of the end of June 2024, there are 423 London buildings that have had grant funding approved, of these 169 have not started on site building remediation. Outside of London, there are 315 buildings that have had grant funding approved. Of these, 76 have not started on site building remediation.</p> answering member constituency Nottingham North and Kimberley answering member printed Alex Norris grouped question UIN 965 966 question first answered 25/07/2024 16:10:47 answering member 4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris
tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury