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750719

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2017
	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	Building Regulations: Fires
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 6 July 2017 to Question 750, on building regulations: fires, when his Department plans to publish new fire safety guidance.
	tabling member constituency	Derby North
	tabling member printed	Chris Williamson
	uin	4447
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>Work to simplify the guidance was being progressed. Following the tragedy at Grenfell Tower, we will need to consider the position on guidance further alongside the Prime Minister’s commitment to look at wider issues.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 20/07/2017 16:47:26 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma previous answer version 5060 answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	3976 label Biography information for Chris Williamson

750720

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2017
	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	Building Regulations: Fires
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 6 July 2017 to Question 750, on building regulations: fires, whether his Department plans to call for written submissions when reviewing fire safety guidance relating to Building Regulations (Approved Document B).
	tabling member constituency	Derby North
	tabling member printed	Chris Williamson
	uin	4448
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>Work to simplify the guidance was being progressed. Following the tragedy at Grenfell Tower, we will need to consider the position on guidance further alongside the Prime Minister’s commitment to look at wider issues.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 20/07/2017 16:45:45 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma previous answer version 5079 answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	3976 label Biography information for Chris Williamson

750718

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2017
	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	Building Regulations: Fires
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 6 July 2017 to Question 750, on building regulations: fires, what progress his Department has made on simplifying the fire safety guidance relating to Building Regulations (Approved Document B).
	tabling member constituency	Derby North
	tabling member printed	Chris Williamson
	uin	4446
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>Work to simplify the guidance was being progressed. Following the tragedy at Grenfell Tower, we will need to consider the position on guidance further alongside the Prime Minister's commitment to look at wider issues.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 20/07/2017 16:46:06 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma previous answer version 5036 answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	3976 label Biography information for Chris Williamson

746706

	registered interest
	date	29/06/2017
	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	Council Housing: Fire Prevention
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if the Government will cover the costs incurred by leaseholders of council-owned property for any necessary fire safety improvements.
	tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
	tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
	uin	2002
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>We are aware of the potential impact on leaseholders in council owned properties and are currently working to understand them.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 20/07/2017 16:52:49 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

748077

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2017
	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	Grenfell Tower: Fires
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will guarantee that no resident who lost their home as a result of the Grenfell Tower fire will be rehoused in a property where they (a) pay a higher rent or (b) have less security of tenure.
	tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
	tabling member printed	John Healey
	uin	2715
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>The Prime Minister said clearly in her statement on 22 June that families who lost their homes as a result of the Grenfell Tower fire will be guaranteed a new home on the same terms as the one they lost. We are working closely with the families to ensure the properties made available will match what they want.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 20/07/2017 16:56:16 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

748469

	registered interest
	date	05/07/2017
	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	Grenfell Tower: Fires
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the possibility of local asbestos contamination as a result of the fire at Grenfell Tower.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds West
	tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
	uin	2995
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>Safety officers working with the emergency services currently on site have tested the air within Grenfell Tower for asbestos and have not detected any levels of concern. When work commences to clear the site there will be a system of engineering work that will prevent any asbestos being released from the site and a programme of regular environmental air monitoring conducted to minimise the risk to local residents and contractors. Public Health England is monitoring air quality around the site and to date has not detected any asbestos in the environment. The results of the monitoring tests are available on the PHE website along with a health explanation at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/628925/Environmental_monitoring_following_the_Grenfell_Tower_fire.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/628925/Environmental_monitoring_following_the_Grenfell_Tower_fire.pdf</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 20/07/2017 16:58:29 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves

747144

	registered interest
	date	30/06/2017
	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	High Rise Flats: Insulation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether he plans to require formal planning for all proposals involving cladding.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
	tabling member printed	Emma Hardy
	uin	2262
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>Generally the installation of cladding will be development that requires planning permission. There may be circumstances where the external appearance of the building is not materially altered where planning permission is not required, depending on the scale of the operation, but this is a matter for each local planning authority to determine in the first instance.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 20/07/2017 16:54:35 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4645 label Biography information for Emma Hardy

748466

	registered interest
	date	05/07/2017
	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	Homes and Communities Agency: Complaints
	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 complaints were received by the Homes and Communities Agency's regulatory committee in each year since 2012, and how many such complaints were investigated within a year of being received.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	3258
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>The Regulator of Social Housing, part of the Homes and Communities Agency, sets consumer standards covering a range of issues, including the quality of accommodation and tenancy arrangements. They publish an annual Consumer Regulation Review which sets out their approach to consumer regulation, how many cases they have considered and case summaries of their findings.</p><p>The process they use to consider complaints which fall under the consumer standards and the number of such complaints is set out in the Consumer Regulation Review for each year, which is published on the Homes and Communities Agency website: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/consumer-regulation-review" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/consumer-regulation-review</a></p><p>The Regulator of Social Housing will publish the Consumer Regulation Review for 2016-17 in the autumn.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 20/07/2017 16:54:17 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

749306

	registered interest
	date	06/07/2017
	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	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 steps he has taken to increase housebuilding.
	tabling member constituency	North Swindon
	tabling member printed	Justin Tomlinson
	uin	3393
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government is providing support to housebuilders through the £3 billion Home Building Fund. This will provide £1 billion of loans for small and medium builders, custom builders and offsite construction, with an aim to deliver 25,000 homes by 2020, as well as a further £2 billion loan funding for infrastructure and large sites throughout England, unlocking a pipe line of up to 200,000 homes over the longer term. Furthermore, the £2.3 billion Housing Infrastructure Fund, which is now open for bids, will unlock up to 100,000 new homes.</p><p>The Government is also taking direct action to increase housebuilding. Since 2015 departments have released land with capacity for 21,217 homes and identified land to be released by 2020 for a further 120,394 homes. We are investing £7.1 billion in more affordable housing and have helped over 400,000 households into home ownership through Government schemes including Help to Buy and Right to Buy.</p><p>The Housing White Paper, <em>Fixing Our Broken Housing Market</em>, published in February 2017, set out a long term, comprehensive strategy to build more homes, through encouraging better, more realistic plan making which recognises housing need; consulting on a new standardised way of assessing housing need; boosting the capacity and capability of planning authorities and giving them stronger tools to ensure sites with permission are built on; and supporting custom build homes and the use of modern methods of construction.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 20/07/2017 16:51:33 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson

748604

	registered interest
	date	05/07/2017
	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	Insulation: Safety
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which regulations set out the safety requirements for cladding and external wall insulation systems; when those requirements were last reviewed; and who last reviewed those requirements.
	tabling member constituency	Poplar and Limehouse
	tabling member printed	Jim Fitzpatrick
	uin	3108
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>A number of parts of the Building Regulations are relevant - particularly those relating to structural safety, fire safety, resistance to moisture and conservation of fuel and power. The Building Regulations are kept under review, and the Prime Minister has made clear that we need to look at wider issues in the light of the Grenfell Tower fire.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 20/07/2017 16:52:49 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	197 label Biography information for Jim Fitzpatrick