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date	16/01/2018
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	Landlords
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 tenants will be able to access the database of rogue landlords and property agents due to be published in April 2018.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	122877
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2018 answer text <p>The national rogue landlord database will be a new tool to help local housing authorities with their housing standards enforcement work. It is part of a package of measures introduced by the Government under the Housing and Planning Act 2016, including new powers to ban landlords and to issue civil penalties for housing offences of up to £30,000.</p><p>The Act makes clear that information held on the database may not be published unless it is anonymised and the database will not be made public. Local housing authorities may wish to consider locally publicising successful banning orders they obtain. Once launched, we will keep under review the operation of the database and its use by local housing authorities to tackle rogue landlords</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 30/01/2018 15:47:18 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler previous answer version 35481 answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab answering member 4007
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

822997

registered interest
date	15/01/2018
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Slaughterhouses: Animal Welfare
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to protect animal welfare standards in slaughterhouses after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	122680
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>The UK already has stricter national rules to protect animal welfare at slaughter than those laid down in the EU regulation and we will maintain those stricter national rules, alongside rolling-over current EU regulations, when we leave the EU.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, to increase protection of animals at slaughter, this year we will be introducing regulations to make it mandatory for all approved slaughterhouses in England to have CCTV installed.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 23/01/2018 18:07:28 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

822999

registered interest
date	15/01/2018
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	Veterinary Medicine: Migrant Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure that slaughterhouse vets who are non-UK EU citizens can continue to work here after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	122682
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>Veterinarians play a vital role in safeguarding United Kingdom public health, maintaining animal health and welfare and enabling trade. We value their work, and we want to ensure that they can continue to make an important contribution. Ministers in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and officials at the Food Standards Agency have been talking to representatives of the profession to ensure that those who do such an essential job continue to feel valued and to play the important role they do in assuring the public of the very high standards of food hygiene.</p><p> </p><p>The Food Standards Agency are working on a number of contingencies to ensure that we maintain the excellent standards of food safety that the UK currently enjoys, and maintain an effective workforce.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 23/01/2018 14:07:02 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

778767

registered interest
date	27/10/2017
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	Sleeping Rough
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment has been made of potential changes to the number of people sleeping rough during winter 2017-18.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	110152
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2017 answer text <p>This Government is committed to prevent and reduce homelessness in England. That is why we are aiming to halve rough sleeping by 2022 and eliminate it altogether by 2027. No one should have to sleep rough, especially in winter.</p><p>DCLG publishes regular statistics on rough sleeping, statutory homelessness, temporary accommodation and homelessness prevention and relief. These are published at national and local authority level. The latest statistics can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/homelessness-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/homelessness-statistics</a></p><p>We are taking action by implementing the most ambitious legislative reform in decades, the Homelessness Reduction Act, in April 2018, which will ensure that more people get the help they need earlier, to prevent them from becoming homeless in the first place.</p><p>One person without a home is one too many, and we are determined that we provide earlier and more effective support and advice to those at risk of homelessness. We have allocated over £950 million until 2020 to reduce homelessness and rough sleeping in England.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 06/11/2017 17:42:42 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse