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1435490

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date	25/02/2022
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Leasehold: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department is taking to (a) retrospectively amend and (b) amend existing unfair leasehold contracts.
tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
uin	129824
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2022 answer text <p>We are taking forward a comprehensive programme of reform to end unfair practices in the leasehold market. The Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Act will put an end to ground rents for most new residential leasehold properties as part of the most significant changes to property law in a generation. It is absolutely right that leaseholders should know about the coming changes that might affect them. We are preparing a number of activities to help with this as part of ensuring a smooth implementation of the Act. <br> <br>We understand the difficulties some existing leaseholders face with high and escalating ground rents. Unfair practices have no place in the housing market and the Government is committed to ending them. This is why we asked the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to investigate potential mis-selling of homes and unfair terms in the leasehold sector. The Government has welcomed the action to tackle potential mis-selling and unfair terms in the leasehold sector and wants to see homeowners who have been affected obtain the justice and redress they deserve.</p><p>The Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Act is the first of a two-part seminal legislation programme to reform the leasehold system in this Parliament. On 7 January 2021 the Government announced reforms to enfranchisement valuation, 990-year leases, and established a new Commonhold Council. We will reform the process of enfranchisement valuation making it cheaper and simpler for leaseholders to extend their lease or purchase their freehold. For leaseholders buying the freehold or extending their lease, we will also cap ground rent to 0.1% of the freehold value for the purposes of calculating the premium. We will also prescribe rates and introduce an online calculator which will make it simpler for leaseholders to find out how much it will cost them to enfranchise.</p> answering member constituency Walsall North answering member printed Eddie Hughes grouped question UIN 129825 question first answered 04/03/2022 13:04:51 answering member 4635 label Biography information for Eddie Hughes
tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey

1435491

registered interest
date	25/02/2022
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Leasehold: Ground Rent
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department is taking to (a) retrospectively address and (b) reform practices leading to unfair ground rent contracts.
tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
uin	129825
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2022 answer text <p>We are taking forward a comprehensive programme of reform to end unfair practices in the leasehold market. The Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Act will put an end to ground rents for most new residential leasehold properties as part of the most significant changes to property law in a generation. It is absolutely right that leaseholders should know about the coming changes that might affect them. We are preparing a number of activities to help with this as part of ensuring a smooth implementation of the Act. <br> <br>We understand the difficulties some existing leaseholders face with high and escalating ground rents. Unfair practices have no place in the housing market and the Government is committed to ending them. This is why we asked the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to investigate potential mis-selling of homes and unfair terms in the leasehold sector. The Government has welcomed the action to tackle potential mis-selling and unfair terms in the leasehold sector and wants to see homeowners who have been affected obtain the justice and redress they deserve.</p><p>The Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Act is the first of a two-part seminal legislation programme to reform the leasehold system in this Parliament. On 7 January 2021 the Government announced reforms to enfranchisement valuation, 990-year leases, and established a new Commonhold Council. We will reform the process of enfranchisement valuation making it cheaper and simpler for leaseholders to extend their lease or purchase their freehold. For leaseholders buying the freehold or extending their lease, we will also cap ground rent to 0.1% of the freehold value for the purposes of calculating the premium. We will also prescribe rates and introduce an online calculator which will make it simpler for leaseholders to find out how much it will cost them to enfranchise.</p> answering member constituency Walsall North answering member printed Eddie Hughes grouped question UIN 129824 question first answered 04/03/2022 13:04:51 answering member 4635 label Biography information for Eddie Hughes
tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey

1435492

registered interest
date	25/02/2022
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Advisory Committee On Borderline Substances: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 26 January 2022 to Question 110446 on Advisory Committee on Borderline Substances: Standards, what extent of response the Advisory Committee on Borderline Substances provides to all types of applications within 28 working days.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	129843
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2022 answer text <p>Following a review of an application by the Advisory Committee on Borderline Substances (ACBS), the applicant will be notified of the Committee’s decision. This will set out whether the application has been approved, that further information is required to continue conducting the review or that the product is not supported for listing on Part XV of the Drug Tariff. This includes the reasons for the decision.</p><p>No recent assessment of the time taken by the ACBS to provide an application outcome to all application types has been made. This assessment could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 129844 question first answered 03/03/2022 10:44:32 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1435493

registered interest
date	25/02/2022
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Advisory Committee On Borderline Substances: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 26 January 2022 to Question 110447 on Advisory Committee on Borderline Substances: Standards, what assessment he has made of the time it takes for the Advisory Committee on Borderline Substances to provide an application outcome to all application types.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	129844
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2022 answer text <p>Following a review of an application by the Advisory Committee on Borderline Substances (ACBS), the applicant will be notified of the Committee’s decision. This will set out whether the application has been approved, that further information is required to continue conducting the review or that the product is not supported for listing on Part XV of the Drug Tariff. This includes the reasons for the decision.</p><p>No recent assessment of the time taken by the ACBS to provide an application outcome to all application types has been made. This assessment could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 129843 question first answered 03/03/2022 10:44:32 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1435494

registered interest
date	25/02/2022
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Uprating
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the impact of not uprating benefits in line with inflation on levels of child poverty in York Central.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	129845
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2022 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member to my response to Parliamentary Question <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2022-02-21/126529" target="_blank">126529</a> answered 25<sup>th</sup> February 2022.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley grouped question UIN 132294 133169 133201 133254 question first answered 07/03/2022 17:50:14 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1435495

registered interest
date	25/02/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Energy Bills Rebate
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an assessment of the potential effect on consumer (a) rights and (b) choice of the introduction of the energy bills rebate.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	129811
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2022 answer text <p>All domestic electricity customers in Great Britain will receive a £200 reduction in their electricity costs from this October. This will be delivered via energy suppliers and will be clearly identifiable as a line item on electricity bills.</p><p> </p><p>The reduction in costs will help people with the increase in energy bills by spreading the increased costs over a few years, so they are more manageable for households.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 02/03/2022 10:30:07 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1435496

registered interest
date	25/02/2022
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Transgender People: Pupils
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what information she holds on the process that was used for the production of planned EHRC guidance for schools on how to support trans children over the past five years; and what plans the EHRC has to publish such guidance in the next year.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Ms Lyn Brown
uin	129779
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2022 answer text <p>We recognise that appropriately supporting all children in schools can involve balancing complex and sensitive matters. The Government continues to work across departments and with the LGBT sector to better understand these issues and how best we can support schools. The Secretary of State for Education has recently written to the Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission to accept her offer of advice as they determine their next steps in this area and other equalities issues for schools.</p><p>The Equality and Human Rights Commission is the independent regulator for equality law and regularly issues guidance on areas of equality law that span across several sectors.</p><p>It is not unusual for regulators and the Government to engage on relevant issues nor for Government departments to issue guidance relevant to their specific briefs. In this specific instance, that approach will enable Department for Education sectoral expertise, on safeguarding for example, to be taken fully into account in any next steps.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 01/03/2022 14:25:24 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1435497

registered interest
date	25/02/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Transgender People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department plans to publish guidance for schools on how to support trans children in 2022; and what contact his Department has had with the Equality and Human Rights Commission on previous plans for that guidance.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Ms Lyn Brown
uin	129780
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2022 answer text <p>The department is continuing to work with others across government and in the sector to understand how we can support schools with these complex and sensitive matters.</p><p>My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, has recently written to the Chair of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission to accept her offer of advice and support as we determine our next steps in this area and across other equalities issues for schools.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 07/03/2022 16:59:55 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1435498

registered interest
date	25/02/2022
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Fertility
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions his Department has held with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence regarding a review into fertility guidelines.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Ms Lyn Brown
uin	129781
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2022 answer text <p>Departmental officials have met with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) to discuss the review of the guidelines. Officials have also attended workshops with NICE and stakeholders to discuss the scope of the fertility guidelines review.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 03/03/2022 10:50:16 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1435499

registered interest
date	25/02/2022
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Democratic Republic of Congo: Detainees
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent representations she has made to the Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo in relation to the arrest and detention of (a) members of the organisation Lutte Pour Le Changement and (b) other human rights defenders.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Ms Lyn Brown
uin	129782
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2022 answer text <p>The UK Government remains deeply concerned about the human rights situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), including the consistently high number of abuses and violations and the restriction of civil and political rights. We expressed our concerns about repression of journalists, human rights defenders, and civil society actors at the 48th UN Human Rights Council (HRC) in October 2021. We are following the arrest and sentencing of members of Lutte Pour Le Changement (LUCHA) and continue to raise the importance of free, peaceful democratic activism with our counterparts in DRC. The UK supports the work carried out by the UN Peacekeeping Mission MONUSCO, to protect civilians, humanitarian personnel and human rights defenders under imminent threat of physical violence. In 2021/22, the UK will contribute approximately £45 million and three military staff officers to MONUSCO, who contribute to the UN Joint Human Rights Office (UNJHRO). UNJHRO continue to implement protection mechanisms for human rights defenders and journalists. In 2021, 762 cases of threats and human rights violations against beneficiaries were addressed, including 595 human rights defenders.</p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford grouped question UIN 129796 question first answered 07/03/2022 15:51:40 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown