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1225654

registered interest
date	16/07/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the local authorities that were consulted in advance of the implementation of the asylum dispersal scheme.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	75240
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2020 answer text <p>Birmingham has been a dispersal area for a number of years, and we do not hold records of the engagement held.</p><p>With regards to current dispersal, the Home Office is working in partnership with Local Authority Chief Executives through the Home Office Local Government Chief Executive group’s, who have agreed a change plan, that seeks to achieve a more equitable dispersal of asylum seekers across the UK and seeks to overcome barriers to ensure availability of service provision.</p><p>The plan has been paused in light of the current covid-19 crisis but will resume once restrictions on accommodation moves have been lifted.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 75241 question first answered 22/07/2020 16:10:03 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

1225655

registered interest
date	16/07/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what correspondence her Department had with Birmingham City Council in advance of the implementation of the asylum dispersal scheme.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	75241
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2020 answer text <p>Birmingham has been a dispersal area for a number of years, and we do not hold records of the engagement held.</p><p>With regards to current dispersal, the Home Office is working in partnership with Local Authority Chief Executives through the Home Office Local Government Chief Executive group’s, who have agreed a change plan, that seeks to achieve a more equitable dispersal of asylum seekers across the UK and seeks to overcome barriers to ensure availability of service provision.</p><p>The plan has been paused in light of the current covid-19 crisis but will resume once restrictions on accommodation moves have been lifted.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 75240 question first answered 22/07/2020 16:10:03 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

1225657

registered interest
date	16/07/2020
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	Supported Housing: Registration
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 estimate he has made of the number of properties in the exempt accommodation sector that were ineligible to register as social landlords between 2015 and 2020.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	75242
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2020 answer text <p>Whether or not accommodation is ‘exempt’ is a matter for local authority housing benefit departments. The Regulator of Social Housing regulates only those landlords that wish to register with it and who are able to meet its registration requirements (other than local authorities who own homes who are automatically registered). This includes being able to demonstrate that it is a provider of homes at rents below market levels. Not all providers of exempt accommodation provide sub-market rent.</p><p>The Department has not made an estimate of the number of properties that are ineligible for registration or an estimate of what proportion have been investigated by the Regulator of Social Housing and have subsequently resulted in penalties.</p><p>Exempt accommodation is often delivered through providers entering into short-term lease agreements with private landlords or property owners. The regulator issued a report in 2019 setting out its concerns about this type of “lease-based” supported housing.</p><p>There are 11 lease-based providers of supported housing that currently have either non-compliant regulatory judgements or notices.</p><p>The Government is clear that all supported housing – both the accommodation and support – must be of good quality and meet the needs of the vulnerable people it supports. We will continue to work closely with local government and the sector to develop a range of oversight measures to help ensure this is the case.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher grouped question UIN 75243 75244 question first answered 21/07/2020 13:17:35 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

1225658

registered interest
date	16/07/2020
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	Supported Housing: Registration
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 proportion of properties in the exempt accommodation sector were investigated by the Regulator for Social Housing each year between 2015 and 2020.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	75243
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2020 answer text <p>Whether or not accommodation is ‘exempt’ is a matter for local authority housing benefit departments. The Regulator of Social Housing regulates only those landlords that wish to register with it and who are able to meet its registration requirements (other than local authorities who own homes who are automatically registered). This includes being able to demonstrate that it is a provider of homes at rents below market levels. Not all providers of exempt accommodation provide sub-market rent.</p><p>The Department has not made an estimate of the number of properties that are ineligible for registration or an estimate of what proportion have been investigated by the Regulator of Social Housing and have subsequently resulted in penalties.</p><p>Exempt accommodation is often delivered through providers entering into short-term lease agreements with private landlords or property owners. The regulator issued a report in 2019 setting out its concerns about this type of “lease-based” supported housing.</p><p>There are 11 lease-based providers of supported housing that currently have either non-compliant regulatory judgements or notices.</p><p>The Government is clear that all supported housing – both the accommodation and support – must be of good quality and meet the needs of the vulnerable people it supports. We will continue to work closely with local government and the sector to develop a range of oversight measures to help ensure this is the case.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher grouped question UIN 75242 75244 question first answered 21/07/2020 13:17:35 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

1225659

registered interest
date	16/07/2020
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	Supported Housing: Registration
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 proportion of investigations into properties in the exempt accommodation sector resulted in the Regulator for Social Housing issuing penalties between 2015 and 2020.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	75244
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2020 answer text <p>Whether or not accommodation is ‘exempt’ is a matter for local authority housing benefit departments. The Regulator of Social Housing regulates only those landlords that wish to register with it and who are able to meet its registration requirements (other than local authorities who own homes who are automatically registered). This includes being able to demonstrate that it is a provider of homes at rents below market levels. Not all providers of exempt accommodation provide sub-market rent.</p><p>The Department has not made an estimate of the number of properties that are ineligible for registration or an estimate of what proportion have been investigated by the Regulator of Social Housing and have subsequently resulted in penalties.</p><p>Exempt accommodation is often delivered through providers entering into short-term lease agreements with private landlords or property owners. The regulator issued a report in 2019 setting out its concerns about this type of “lease-based” supported housing.</p><p>There are 11 lease-based providers of supported housing that currently have either non-compliant regulatory judgements or notices.</p><p>The Government is clear that all supported housing – both the accommodation and support – must be of good quality and meet the needs of the vulnerable people it supports. We will continue to work closely with local government and the sector to develop a range of oversight measures to help ensure this is the case.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher grouped question UIN 75242 75243 question first answered 21/07/2020 13:17:35 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood