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100675

registered interest
date	23/10/2014
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Housing: Construction
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what methodology his Department recommends for the calculation of five year land supplies; whether planning authorities are required to use regional spatial strategy figures in such calculations; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	211685
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2014 answer text <p>The Coalition Government has abolished the last Administration’s top-down Regional Strategies which imposed housing numbers on local councils and fuelled resentment against new development.<br><br>Our planning reforms have ensured that councils should determine where new homes should and should not go through their Local Plans. It is for elected local councils working with their local communities to decide how best to meet their objectively assessed housing needs.</p><p><br>Our Planning Guidance, which we published on 6 March, sets out a clear and simplified methodology for assessing development needs for housing. Planning ahead for housing is the best way to make sure communities and business can have confidence and ensure enough housing is delivered to meet local needs.</p><p> </p><p>Housing projections provide the starting point estimate of overall housing need, but can then be adjusted to reflect other factors including any constraints on land. This creates a housing requirement figure, which is used as the starting point for calculating a five-year land supply.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 28/10/2014 14:24:51 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

93484

registered interest
date	15/10/2014
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Housing: Construction
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many houses were given planning permission to be built in (a) Ribble Valley, (b) Lancashire and (c) the UK in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Ribble Valley
tabling member printed	Mr Nigel Evans
uin	210692
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2014 answer text <p>Figures for parts of the UK outside England are a matter for the relevant devolved administration.</p><p>In the year to June 2014, English local planning authorities gave permission for 230,000 new homes.</p><p>The Department does not collect figures for the numbers of homes given planning permission at local authority level. It does, however, collect figures on the numbers of residential planning applications decided and granted by each local planning authority. They are published in the Department's live tables P136 (annual) and P135 (quarterly), which are available at the following link:</p><p><br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-planning-application-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-planning-application-statistics</a></p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 20/10/2014 16:00:03 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	474 label Biography information for Mr Nigel Evans

92906

registered interest
date	13/10/2014
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Housing: Construction
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what proportion of new houses completed in the last 12 months in England have been built on sites of (a) less than one ha, (b) one to two ha, (c) two to four ha, (d) four to six ha, (e) six to eight ha, (f) eight to 10 ha and (f) above 10 ha.
tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
uin	210274
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2014 answer text <p>The requested information is not available centrally.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 16/10/2014 15:13:26 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

92476

registered interest
date	10/10/2014
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Housing: Construction
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what housing target has been set under the regional spatial strategy for each local authority in (a) the East Midlands and (b) Yorkshire and the Humber.
tabling member constituency	Bassetlaw
tabling member printed	John Mann
uin	209983
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2014 answer text <p>None, as they have been abolished.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 15/10/2014 15:59:43 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	1387 label Biography information for Lord Mann

91918

registered interest
date	26/09/2014
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Housing: Construction
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what proportion of completed new houses were built on brownfield land in the latest period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	209511
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2014 answer text <p>The proportion of new dwellings in England built on previously-developed land can be found in Table P211 of the Live Tables on Land Use Change Statistics, which is available from:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-land-use-change-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-land-use-change-statistics</a></p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 14/10/2014 16:08:33 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

91249

registered interest
date	09/09/2014
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Housing: Construction
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many local authorities have a policy requiring that some or all homes in their area should be built to Lifetime Homes Standards, or to a comparable standard; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	208792
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2014 answer text <p>Survey work undertaken to support the Housing Standards Review impact assessment indicates that around 42% of local authorities in England have a plan policy requiring compliance of all or some of new housing development with Lifetme Homes Standards. The same survey indicates that a further 34% have a policy encouraging (but not mandating) compliance. As a result of the Housing Standards Review the Govenment is proposing to introduce an optional requirement in to the Building Regulations similar to the Lifetime Home Standard, and to enable authorities to chose when to apply this. This will ensure that older and disabled people can have a choice of housing that meets their needs.<br><br>The proposed new standard has been developed in concert with accessibility and disability groups, and is an improvement on current lifetime home standards, not least by reducing the regulatory cost which would otherwise force up the cost of housing. For example, our Impact assessment has estimated a £521 cost under the new optional standard for a 3 bedroom home; this compares with a £1,097 cost under the existing standard.</p> answering member constituency Bristol West answering member printed Stephen Williams question first answered 20/10/2014 16:10:48 answering member 1492 label Biography information for Stephen Williams
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

79223

registered interest
date	22/07/2014
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Housing: Construction
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many houses have been completed in each local authority area in each of the last five years; how many such houses are affordable houses built under a section 106 agreement; and what proportion of the total number of houses on each scheme built in that time are houses built under section 106 agreements.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	206859
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Statistics on house building completions by tenure in each local authority district are published in the Department’s live tables 253 (annual) and 253a (quarterly), which are available at the following link.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-house-building" target="_blank">http://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-house-building</a></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>Statistics on the numbers of affordable homes built through section 106 agreements and without Government grant funding are published in Live Table 1000, which is available at the following link.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-affordable-housing-supply" target="_blank">http://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-affordable-housing-supply</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The estimates exclude affordable homes built through section 106 supported with grant funding.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The proportion of the total number of houses on each scheme built that are houses built under section 106 agreements is not centrally collected.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 01/09/2014 14:20:56 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

77874

registered interest
date	15/07/2014
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Housing: Construction
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when he plans to publish his Department's review of the New Homes Bonus.
tabling member constituency	Greenwich and Woolwich
tabling member printed	Mr Nick Raynsford
uin	206022
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Officials are currently finalising the evaluation report before submitting it to Ministers. The findings of the evaluation will then be published in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 21/07/2014 14:29:07 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	171 label Biography information for Mr Nick Raynsford

77545

registered interest
date	14/07/2014
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Housing: Construction
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much of his £10 billion for housing guarantees schemes has now been paid to house builders; and how many homes have been completed.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham East
tabling member printed	Heidi Alexander
uin	205558
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Government guarantee schemes do not involve the direct payment of funds. Instead, the Government guarantees the borrowing of approved housing providers in order to reduce the risk for lenders and therefore the risk for investors in lending to house builders. This lower risk leads to borrowers paying a lower interest rate and the schemes enable them to access more finance. As this finance is also cheaper, it leaves more money for the house builders in the schemes to plough back into house building.</p><p>There are two housing guarantee schemes: one to support the delivery of additional affordable homes, and one to support the delivery of large scale professionally managed purpose built accommodation for private rent. Both schemes run to 2016.</p><p>The Government will guarantee up to £10 billion of housing providers’ debt through the two schemes: up to £3.5 billion of guaranteed debt is available for affordable housing, up to £3.5 billion of guaranteed debt is available for the private rented sector and up to £3 billion of guarantee capacity is held in reserve. The debt on both schemes is to be raised primarily through a delivery partner. The debt can be in the form of loans, through the European Infrastructure Fund, or through bond issuance.</p><p>Under the Affordable Housing Guarantee Scheme, the Government has so far announced commitments to guarantee £633 million worth of debt for 16 housing providers, which together are expected to deliver 5,900 additional affordable homes.</p><p>On 30 May 2014, the first bond of the affordable housing guarantees scheme was issued by our delivery partner, Affordable Housing Finance backed by a full faith guarantee from Department for Communities and Local Government. With Government backing, this bond achieved the lowest price for debt in the affordable housing sector’s history and supported £208 million of the £633 million of approved borrowing. We are considering further proposals for credit and expect to announce further additional borrowers shortly.</p><p>Under the Private Rented Sector Guarantee scheme, the Government has been procuring a delivery partner and has been actively engaging with large borrowers interested in the scheme. We expect that a delivery partner when appointed will significantly increase access to the scheme and maximise the number of new build homes for private rent. We will be making further announcements on this scheme in due course.</p><p>In addition to this, the Build to Rent Fund provides development phase finance to large-scale private rented sector developments, delivering up to 10,000 new homes for private rent and demonstrating the viability of developing and investing in private rented sector developments. Eleven deals have so far been announced to date worth £151 million, which will deliver approximately 2,000 new homes for private rent. More schemes will be announced in due course.</p><p>Such institutional investment in private sector accommodation is dependent on an environment which is free of excessive regulation. Disproportionate regulation on the private rented sector, which this Government opposes, would discourage and undermine such private investment in new homes.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 18/09/2014 16:16:05 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis previous answer version 11032 answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4038 label Biography information for Heidi Alexander

77547

registered interest
date	14/07/2014
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Housing: Construction
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what proportion of new dwellings in England were built on previously developed land in each year since 2008.
tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
uin	205554
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The proportion of new dwellings in England built on previously-developed land in each year since 2008 can be found in Table P211 of the Live Tables on Land Use Change Statistics, which is available from:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-land-use-change-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-land-use-change-statistics</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>I also refer the rt. hon. Member to the Written Ministerial Statement of 16 June 2014, <em>Official Report</em>, Column 71-72WS, which outlines the steps we are taking to increase house building on brownfield land.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 17/07/2014 16:40:21 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis previous answer version 11035 answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn