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1081154

	registered interest
	date	04/03/2019
	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	Housing: Construction
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps his Department is taking to ensure that safety standards are maintained when residences are created under permitted development.
	tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
	tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
	uin	909533
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2019 answer text <p>I can confirm that all homes, whether granted permission through a national permitted development right or by a planning application are required to meet Building Regulations, including fire safety.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 04/03/2019 16:42:03 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1049380

	registered interest
	date	28/01/2019
	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	Carbon Monoxide: Alarms
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What progress his Department has made in its review of the rules that require carbon monoxide alarms to be fitted in homes across England.
	tabling member constituency	Walsall North
	tabling member printed	Eddie Hughes
	uin	908853
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 answer text <p>We are making good progress with the review of carbon monoxide alarms. This has included constructive engagement with industry to gather new evidence and information. We are now considering this updated evidence and will set out the Government response in due course.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 28/01/2019 16:58:05 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4635 label Biography information for Eddie Hughes

908454

	registered interest
	date	21/05/2018
	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	Children: Maintenance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What plans the Government has to increase compliance with child maintenance responsibilities.
	tabling member constituency	Mid Worcestershire
	tabling member printed	Nigel Huddleston
	uin	905454
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2018 answer text <p>The Child Maintenance Service has wide ranging powers to enforce the collection of both ongoing child maintenance liability and arrears.</p><p> </p><p>We publish regular information about this activity which shows for example, increasing use of the Financial Investigation Unit with over 1000 more complex earner investigations referred this year compared with last.</p><p> </p><p>We recently consulted on a new Compliance and Arrears Strategy with the aim of increasing these powers. The Government’s response to this consultation will be published later this summer.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 21/05/2018 16:27:59 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston

1081155

	registered interest
	date	04/03/2019
	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	Green Belt
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What his policy is on house building on the green belt.
	tabling member constituency	Amber Valley
	tabling member printed	Nigel Mills
	uin	909534
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2019 answer text <p>The Government remains committed to protecting the areas that communities value, including the Green Belt. I cannot comment on plans undergoing examination, including Amber Valley, but national policy is clear that Green Belt should only be used for housing as a last resort, and if exceptional circumstances exist.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 04/03/2019 16:45:38 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4136 label Biography information for Nigel Mills

908453

	registered interest
	date	21/05/2018
	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	Food Banks
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What assessment her Department has made of trends in the number of people signposted or referred to food banks in areas where full service universal credit has been rolled out.
	tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
	tabling member printed	Ged Killen
	uin	905453
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2018 answer text <p>We have made no assessment of food bank use.</p><p> </p><p>The reasons for food banks use are complex, so it’s wrong to attribute it to any one cause. The best way to help people improve their lives is through employment, and people on Universal Credit move into work faster and stay in work longer.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 21/05/2018 16:18:24 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4672 label Biography information for Ged Killen

942680

	registered interest
	date	16/07/2018
	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	Buildings: Insulation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the Government plans to require the removal of combustible cladding and insulation from (a) schools, (b) care homes and (c) hospitals.
	tabling member constituency	Lincoln
	tabling member printed	Karen Lee
	uin	164527
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2018 answer text <p>As of 12 July, 2018, fourteen publicly-owned buildings (including schools and hospitals) have failed large-scale system tests on their cladding systems. One building has now completed the remediation process, including removal and replacement of its aluminium composite material cladding. The other building owners are working with the relevant fire and rescue service and other specialists to consider remedial work, and are taking account of building users’ needs when they do so. We are not aware of any high-rise care homes with aluminium composite material cladding systems.</p><p>We are working with the Department of Health and Social Care, NHS Improvement and Department for Education to ensure that appropriate remediation steps are being taken on public buildings.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 25/07/2018 15:51:34 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4664 label Biography information for Karen Lee

927841

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2018
	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	Children: Maintenance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Department of Work and Pensions, if she will increase resources at the Child Maintenance Service to improve response times to enquiries.
	tabling member constituency	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
	tabling member printed	Drew Hendry
	uin	155855
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>The numbers of people working within the Child Maintenance Service is reviewed regularly to ensure we have sufficient resources to answer customer calls and progress cases. So far in 2018, we have recruited 210 people into the Child Maintenance Service, with these people joining us between February 2018 and June 2018, and we are currently undertaking recruitment for a further 300 people to join the Child Maintenance Service during July and August. We will continue to review the volumes of work against our forecasting model to ensure that we adjust staffing levels as required.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 25/06/2018 11:30:43 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4467 label Biography information for Drew Hendry

927837

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2018
	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	Children: Maintenance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Department of Work and Pensions, how many Child Maintenance Service enquiries have been processed in each month of the last twelve months.
	tabling member constituency	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
	tabling member printed	Drew Hendry
	uin	155854
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>We have interpreted CMS enquiries as CMS calls for these PQ’s. We do not publish call data however we have been able to obtain an overall internal figure for the year end 17/18 and can confirm we received 2,273,130 calls.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 155852 question first answered 25/06/2018 14:12:10 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4467 label Biography information for Drew Hendry

914866

	registered interest
	date	01/06/2018
	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	Housing Benefit: Expenditure
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions,what assessment he has made of the adequacy of funding to (a) Salford City Council and (b) all local authorities to meet their statutory requirements on benefits.
	tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
	tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
	uin	148834
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2018 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) provides core funding for local authorities (LAs) to deliver Housing Benefit through the Housing Benefit Administration Subsidy (HBAS). This provides a contribution to the total cost of the service.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, DWP provides additional funding in line with the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government New Burdens Doctrine. This ensures that, where central government requires or exhorts that LAs do something new or additional, there is no additional pressure on Council Tax payments.</p><p> </p><p>DWP is proactive in assessing and monitoring the level of funding and costs to LAs and continues to work with LAs to determine the total cost of delivering Housing Benefit.</p><p> </p><p>DWP has established a new consultation forum called the LA Funding Group in conjunction with the Local Authority Associations. The aim of the group is to provide adequate time to discuss funding related issues and includes LA Chief Finance Officers on the group to gain stronger LA financial input and to explore funding methodologies</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 08/06/2018 09:17:51 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey

896401

	registered interest
	date	02/05/2018
	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	Support for Mortgage Interest
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Family Support, Housing and Child Maintenance of 26 March 2018, Official Report, column 506, whether there is a time limit for Support for Mortgage Interest claimants to reconsider their decision not to apply for a loan and apply for that loan backdating their claim to 6 April 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral West
	tabling member printed	Margaret Greenwood
	uin	140792
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2018 answer text <p>Claimants may change their mind whether to take or decline a loan at any time. Should an eligible claimant decline the loan then later change their mind, they will also be entitled to receive payments back-dated to 6 April 2018, if required. There is no time limit set for a claimant to change their mind or for backdating their claim as long as the claimant remains eligible.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 09/05/2018 14:41:06 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4400 label Biography information for Margaret Greenwood