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1345971

registered interest
date	12/07/2021
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 applications have been received to the Waking Watch Relief Fund in each month since that Fund opened.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	31407
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2021 answer text <p>Data on the Waking Watch Relief Fund, including the number of applications received, successful and rejected and the amount of funding approved, has been published at <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fguidance%2Fwaking-watch-relief-fund&amp;data=04%7C01%7CParliamentary%40communities.gov.uk%7C08048e3aa832459a8b5208d9476c879a%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637619353720205806%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=Y%2BIOfqcwmVVPtC87iHA%2B1BlvktUP2AYHa7FAH9bwrYU%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/waking-watch-relief-fund</a></p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher grouped question UIN 31408 31409 question first answered 15/07/2021 15:43:57 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

1345972

registered interest
date	12/07/2021
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 applications to the Waking Watch Relief Fund (a) have been approved, (b) have been rejected and (c) are yet to be reviewed.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	31408
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2021 answer text <p>Data on the Waking Watch Relief Fund, including the number of applications received, successful and rejected and the amount of funding approved, has been published at <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fguidance%2Fwaking-watch-relief-fund&amp;data=04%7C01%7CParliamentary%40communities.gov.uk%7C08048e3aa832459a8b5208d9476c879a%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637619353720205806%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=Y%2BIOfqcwmVVPtC87iHA%2B1BlvktUP2AYHa7FAH9bwrYU%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/waking-watch-relief-fund</a></p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher grouped question UIN 31407 31409 question first answered 15/07/2021 15:43:57 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

1345973

registered interest
date	12/07/2021
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 applications to the Waking Watch Relief Fund have been reviewed in each month since that Fund opened.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	31409
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2021 answer text <p>Data on the Waking Watch Relief Fund, including the number of applications received, successful and rejected and the amount of funding approved, has been published at <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fguidance%2Fwaking-watch-relief-fund&amp;data=04%7C01%7CParliamentary%40communities.gov.uk%7C08048e3aa832459a8b5208d9476c879a%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637619353720205806%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=Y%2BIOfqcwmVVPtC87iHA%2B1BlvktUP2AYHa7FAH9bwrYU%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/waking-watch-relief-fund</a></p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher grouped question UIN 31407 31408 question first answered 15/07/2021 15:43:57 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

1343561

registered interest
date	05/07/2021
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	First Time Buyers
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 from the Affordable Homes Programme is planned to support First Homes by the end of 2021.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	27165
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2021 answer text <p>The Government will shortly be launching a First Homes pilot using Affordable Homes Programme funding, which will deliver 1,500 First Homes by March 2023. The quantity of grant to be allocated within calendar year 2021 will be established once we have received bids for the pilot, and awarded contracts.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 08/07/2021 15:46:52 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

1343322

registered interest
date	02/07/2021
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: Insulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department's press release, Government steps in to help homeowners caught up in EWS1 process, published on 21 November 2020, how many of the 6,000 building assessors are qualified to carry out the EWS1 assessment.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	26111
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2021 answer text <p>The Government has provided the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) with a grant for nearly £700,000 to develop and deliver training for up to 2,000 assessors who will be able to carry out EWS1 assessments.</p><p><br>This training enables these assessors to undertake external wall system assessments for low to medium rise residential buildings of up to 18 metres. The newly qualified assessors will help increase the number of professionals qualified to carry out such assessments, and free up the specialist engineers who are able to assess buildings over 18 metres and those which are high risk and require specialist testing.</p><p> </p><p>Training commenced in January and course enrolments are currently around 870. If fewer than 2,000 individuals enrol on the course, then RICS will repay part of the grant to the Department.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher grouped question UIN 26112 26113 question first answered 07/07/2021 16:45:38 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

1343323

registered interest
date	02/07/2021
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: Insulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department's press release, Government steps in to help homeowners caught up in EWS1 process, published on 21 November 2020, how much of the £700,000 to train more assessors has been allocated to date.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	26112
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2021 answer text <p>The Government has provided the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) with a grant for nearly £700,000 to develop and deliver training for up to 2,000 assessors who will be able to carry out EWS1 assessments.</p><p><br>This training enables these assessors to undertake external wall system assessments for low to medium rise residential buildings of up to 18 metres. The newly qualified assessors will help increase the number of professionals qualified to carry out such assessments, and free up the specialist engineers who are able to assess buildings over 18 metres and those which are high risk and require specialist testing.</p><p> </p><p>Training commenced in January and course enrolments are currently around 870. If fewer than 2,000 individuals enrol on the course, then RICS will repay part of the grant to the Department.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher grouped question UIN 26111 26113 question first answered 07/07/2021 16:45:38 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

1343324

registered interest
date	02/07/2021
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: Insulation
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 increase the number of qualified fire assessors that are qualified to carry out the EWS1 assessment for buildings over 18m.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	26113
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2021 answer text <p>The Government has provided the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) with a grant for nearly £700,000 to develop and deliver training for up to 2,000 assessors who will be able to carry out EWS1 assessments.</p><p><br>This training enables these assessors to undertake external wall system assessments for low to medium rise residential buildings of up to 18 metres. The newly qualified assessors will help increase the number of professionals qualified to carry out such assessments, and free up the specialist engineers who are able to assess buildings over 18 metres and those which are high risk and require specialist testing.</p><p> </p><p>Training commenced in January and course enrolments are currently around 870. If fewer than 2,000 individuals enrol on the course, then RICS will repay part of the grant to the Department.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher grouped question UIN 26111 26112 question first answered 07/07/2021 16:45:38 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

1341444

registered interest
date	28/06/2021
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	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Email
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 any departmental business has been conducted on private email addresses; and what mechanisms are in place to ensure that full records are kept of that business.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	23206
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2021 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member to the Cabinet Office guidance to departments <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-to-departments-on-private-email-use" target="_blank">on use of private emails</a> .</p> answering member constituency Walsall North answering member printed Eddie Hughes question first answered 01/07/2021 16:41:13 answering member 4635 label Biography information for Eddie Hughes
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

1341445

registered interest
date	28/06/2021
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	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: CCTV
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 a risk assessment has been carried out on the secure holding of CCTV footage within his Department.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	23207
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2021 answer text <p>As has been the case under successive Administrations, it is not government policy to comment on security procedures in government buildings.</p> answering member constituency Walsall North answering member printed Eddie Hughes grouped question UIN 23209 question first answered 01/07/2021 16:44:02 answering member 4635 label Biography information for Eddie Hughes
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

1337898

registered interest
date	17/06/2021
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	Rents: Arrears
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government on Monday 14 June, Official Report, col 4, that over nine out of 10 people are not in rent arrears at all; what recent estimate he has made of the number and proportion of people in rent arrears.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	17746
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2021 answer text <p>The latest published data from the English Housing Survey Household Resilience Study from November – December 2020, suggests that the vast majority (91%) of private renters are up to date with their rent. Of the 9% (353,000 households) in arrears, two thirds are in arrears of less than 2 months.</p><p>The UK Government has provided an unprecedented package of financial support which is available to tenants.</p><p>The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and £20 per week uplift in Universal Credit are in place until the end of September helping renters to continue paying their rent. Local housing allowance rates have been maintained at their increased level in cash terms in 2021/22, meaning claimants renting in the private rented sector continue to benefit from the significant increase in the local housing allowance rates applied in April 2020. For those who require additional support, Discretionary Housing Payments (DHP) are available. For 2021-22 the Government has made £140 million available in DHP funding, building on the £180 million provided last year.</p><p>Renters will continue to benefit from longer notice periods, giving them more time to make alternative arrangements. As of 1 June, until at least 30 September, notice periods will be at least 4 months except in the most egregious cases.</p> answering member constituency Walsall North answering member printed Eddie Hughes question first answered 22/06/2021 11:32:51 answering member 4635 label Biography information for Eddie Hughes
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell