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1364012

registered interest
date	27/10/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Land Registry: Public Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to page 41 of the Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021 Policy Costings document, what plans he has for the allocation of the £225m that is expected to be made from the increase in Land Registry caseworker capacity.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	64623
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2021 answer text <p>As part of the Spending Review, Her Majesty’s Land Registry (HMLR) is investing in additional caseworker capacity in the short term to address a backlog of cases for updating or changing the Land Register. Processing these outstanding registrations will provide additional exchequer revenue.</p><p> </p><p>Over the Spending Review period we will also be investing in digital transformation and automation at HMLR to provide better, faster and more efficient services for customers.</p><p> </p><p>This includes a new national digital register, which will reduce the time and costs for property buyers to receive an official search. The roll out of this service will reduce the average time it takes for customers to receive a search to minutes.</p> answering member constituency Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland answering member printed Mr Simon Clarke question first answered 01/11/2021 15:38:57 answering member 4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

1364071

registered interest
date	27/10/2021
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	Local Housing Allowance: Homelessness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021 policy costings document, published 27 October 2021, what assessment he has made of the potential effect on homelessness of the decision to maintain local housing allowance at 2020-21 cash levels.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	64625
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2021 answer text <p>The causes of homelessness are complex and it is driven by a range of factors, both personal and structural.</p><p>In April 2020 we boosted investment in Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rates by nearly £1 billion providing 1.5 million claimants of Housing Benefit or the housing element of Universal Credit with around £600 more housing support in 2020/21 than they would otherwise have received. In 2021/22 we have maintained LHA rates at the same cash level.</p><p>As set out at the Autumn Budget, the forecast default is that LHA rates for 2022-23 will be maintained at the elevated cash rates agreed for 2020/21. This will be confirmed at the benefits uprating review.</p><p>For those who require additional support Discretionary Housing Payments (DHP) are available.    Since 2011 we have provided over £1 billion in DHPs to local authorities to support households with their housing costs.</p><p>The Government has also announced an additional £65 million this year to help those with rent arrears who may be at risk of homelessness. This means the Government is spending more than £800 million this year alone on tackling homelessness and rough sleeping.</p> answering member constituency Walsall North answering member printed Eddie Hughes question first answered 01/11/2021 17:08:19 answering member 4635 label Biography information for Eddie Hughes
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

1364086

registered interest
date	27/10/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Property Development: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the impact on viability of development of the Residential property developer tax; and what steps he is taking to ensure developers do not use the tax to reduce their affordable housing or other infrastructure investment obligations.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	64626
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2021 answer text <p>The Government has designed the Residential Property Developer Tax in a way that will minimise any detrimental impact on housing supply, including the supply of affordable housing.</p><p> </p><p>In particular, taxing profits will help to ensure contributions are proportionate to economic returns and will help to minimise distortions that might come from alternative tax bases.</p><p> </p><p>The new tax will not affect developers’ planning obligations, including obligations under Section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 01/11/2021 17:06:05 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

1364116

registered interest
date	27/10/2021
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	Right to Buy Scheme
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 estimate he has made of the number of homes sold through right to buy that will be replaced with (a) First Homes and (b) shared ownership.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	64627
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2021 answer text <p>In March 2021, the Government announced a package of flexibilities to how local authorities can spend their Right to Buy receipts including allowing replacements to be delivered as Shared Ownership or First Homes. This will help local authorities to build the types of home that they think are most needed in their communities. As part of these reforms, information ​will be collected from local authorities on whether Right to Buy replacements are delivered as Affordable Rent, Social Rent, First Homes or Shared Ownership. This information will be published as official statistics annually from Summer 2022.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 01/11/2021 16:48:17 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

1363627

registered interest
date	26/10/2021
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	Housing: Construction
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he plans to deliver 300,000 new homes a year by the mid-2020s.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	63733
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2021 answer text <p>The Government is committed to building the homes this country needs. This will help to get more people on the housing ladder, support local economic growth, and create stronger and more sustainable communities.</p><p>We are making strong progress towards delivering our ambition to build 300,000 homes a year, and to build 1 million homes over the course of this parliament. From April 2019 to March 2020 around 244,000 homes were delivered - the highest level for over 30 years and the seventh consecutive year that net supply has increased.</p><p>COVID 19 stoppages inevitably had an impact on housebuilding, but government took swift action to support the sector through this period, including a stamp duty land tax holiday and issuing developers with guidelines on operating in an effective and safe manner. Housing completions have started to rebound; ONS figures show that the first two quarters of 2021 saw completions 67% higher than in the same period of 2020.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 29/10/2021 11:40:03 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

1363119

registered interest
date	25/10/2021
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	Land: Valuation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 21 October to Questions 58403, 58404, 58405 and 58406, what the average value is per hectare (a) nationally and (b) regionally of land designated for (i) agricultural, (ii) industrial and (iii) residential use.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	62733
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2021 answer text <p>Given the large variation in land values within the country and within regions, we do not publish national or regional average land values estimates. However, we do publish land value estimates at local authority level for residential and industrial land and at local enterprise partnership (LEP) level for agricultural and commercial office land.</p><p>As set out in my response to Question UIN 58403, the latest published land value estimates for all of the required typologies are published at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/land-value-estimates-for-policy-appraisal-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/land-value-estimates-for-policy-appraisal-2019</a>.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 28/10/2021 16:44:28 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

1360596

registered interest
date	18/10/2021
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	Local Housing Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households are in receipt of local housing allowance (LHA) in payment; how many of those households have rents which exceed the local housing allowance rate; and of the latter households, what the median gap is between the rent and the LHA, by the number of children in the household in (a) England, (b) Scotland and (c) Wales, for the most recent period for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	58402
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2021 answer text <p>In May 2021 there were 1,896k households in receipt of LHA via Housing Benefit or Universal Credit in Great Britain. Of these, 982k had rents which exceeded the LHA and the median gap was £100/month. This breaks down as attached table.</p><p> </p><p>In response to Covid-19 we increased LHA rates to the 30th percentile of local rents in April 2020. This significant investment of nearly £1billion has provided 1.5 million claimants with an average £600 more housing support last year than they would otherwise have received. We have also maintained Local Housing Allowance rates at the same cash level for 2021/22.</p><p>For those who require additional housing support Discretionary Housing Payments are available. Since 2011 we have provided over £1 billion in Discretionary Housing Payments funding. We have allocated a further £140 million for Discretionary Housing Payments for 2021/22 in England and Wales.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 21/10/2021 16:57:02 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley attachment 1 file name Local Housing Allowance (LHA) table.xlsx title 58402 attachment
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

1360602

registered interest
date	18/10/2021
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	Land: Agriculture
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 the national average value is of land designated for agricultural use per hectare.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	58403
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2021 answer text <p>The latest estimates of land values published by the department and produced for it by the Valuation Office Agency can be found here; <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fland-value-estimates-for-policy-appraisal-2019&amp;data=04%7C01%7CPSChristopherPincher%40communities.gov.uk%7C4997d1a46e484c53e73f08d993ee7cd0%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637703474761059371%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=VWV0p30T3I40qmhXs27HRbJEHrzvgG4blg7G5zWHDQw%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/land-value-estimates-for-policy-appraisal-2019</a> .</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher grouped question UIN 58404 58405 58406 question first answered 21/10/2021 15:13:06 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

1360603

registered interest
date	18/10/2021
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	Land: Agriculture
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 the (a) national and (b) regional average value is of land designated for agricultural use per hectare for the most recent period for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	58404
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2021 answer text <p>The latest estimates of land values published by the department and produced for it by the Valuation Office Agency can be found here; <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fland-value-estimates-for-policy-appraisal-2019&amp;data=04%7C01%7CPSChristopherPincher%40communities.gov.uk%7C4997d1a46e484c53e73f08d993ee7cd0%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637703474761059371%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=VWV0p30T3I40qmhXs27HRbJEHrzvgG4blg7G5zWHDQw%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/land-value-estimates-for-policy-appraisal-2019</a> .</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher grouped question UIN 58403 58405 58406 question first answered 21/10/2021 15:13:07 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

1360604

registered interest
date	18/10/2021
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	Land: Housing
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 the (a) national and (b) regional average value is of land designated for residential use per hectare, for the most recent period for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	58405
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2021 answer text <p>The latest estimates of land values published by the department and produced for it by the Valuation Office Agency can be found here; <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fland-value-estimates-for-policy-appraisal-2019&amp;data=04%7C01%7CPSChristopherPincher%40communities.gov.uk%7C4997d1a46e484c53e73f08d993ee7cd0%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637703474761059371%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=VWV0p30T3I40qmhXs27HRbJEHrzvgG4blg7G5zWHDQw%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/land-value-estimates-for-policy-appraisal-2019</a> .</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher grouped question UIN 58403 58404 58406 question first answered 21/10/2021 15:13:07 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell