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1125289

	registered interest
	date	08/05/2019
	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	Sleeping Rough: Veterans
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans he has to implement a data collection exercise system of similar quality to the Greater London Authority’s Combined Homelessness and Information Network throughout England to allow accurate data capture on the number of rough sleeping veterans; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Harrow West
	tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
	uin	251879
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2019 answer text <p>Our veterans play a vital role in keeping our country safe and we are committed to ensuring that they are provided with all the support they need to successfully adjust back into civilian life.</p><p>In March we allocated an additional £1 million of bespoke funding to support ex-members of the armed forces who are or are at risk of becoming homeless. The funding has been allocated between the Combined Authorities and the Greater London Authority, and will be used to develop new services and support them in engaging with existing service provision.</p><p>As recommended by the UKSA, we have included CHAIN (Combined Homelessness and Information Network) statistics within the Rough Sleeping Statistics release. Overall, 7 per cent of people seen sleeping rough by outreach workers across London during 2017/18 had served in the armed forces at some point in their lives. 3 per cent of these were UK nationals - around 135 people. Although CHAIN offers more information on the flows and characteristics of people rough sleeping, data quality is influenced by the number of outreach workers active on any one night. Therefore a local authority which does not have a commissioned outreach team may appear to have fewer rough sleepers than an adjacent borough which does have an active outreach service.</p><p>MHCLG is actively encouraging local authorities with significant numbers of rough sleepers to improve their year-round data. We are working collaboratively with local authorities to develop improved homelessness data and outcomes that can measure progress in reducing rough sleeping and homelessness.</p><p>In April 2018, we introduced a new data capture tool called H-CLIC. H-CLIC captures information on all those who engage with local authority homelessness services and will collect information on the support needs of a household, including support need resulting from being in the armed forces.</p><p>We are also establishing local data pilots which will seek to improve the evidence on rough sleeping in some areas. These data pilots will help to provide a richer picture on the characteristics of rough sleepers in some areas.</p><p>The Government is committed to reducing homelessness and rough sleeping. No one should ever have to sleep rough. That is why last summer we published the cross-government Rough Sleeping Strategy. This sets out an ambitious £100 million package to help people who sleep rough now, but also puts in place the structures that will end rough sleeping once and for all.</p><p>We have committed over £1.2 billion to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping over the spending review period. In its first year, our Rough Sleeping Initiative provided over 1,750 new bed spaces and 500 staff. This year we have expanded the RSI with investment of £46 million for 246 areas – providing funding for an estimated 2,600 bed spaces and 750 staff.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 16/05/2019 09:20:32 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

1129846

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2019
	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	Redrow Homes: Complaints
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many complaints his Department has received on Redrow Housing developments in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Harrow West
	tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
	uin	259834
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to promoting fairness and transparency for leaseholders and residential freeholders and ensuring that consumers are protected from abuse and poor service. The Department does not collect data on complaints it receives relating to specific developers or management companies.</p><p>In the Government’s response to its consultation <em>Strengthening redress in housing </em>we committed to creating a new Housing Complaints Resolution Service to act as a single point of access to redress for housing consumers. In October 2018 we announced a New Homes Ombudsman for buyers of new build homes, and our intention to bring forward legislation to close the gaps in redress services for consumers including to require all private landlords to sign up to a redress scheme.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler grouped question UIN 259835 question first answered 11/06/2019 09:28:21 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

1129847

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2019
	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	Redrow Homes: Complaints
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many complaints his Department received on management companies employed by Redrow Housing developments in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Harrow West
	tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
	uin	259835
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to promoting fairness and transparency for leaseholders and residential freeholders and ensuring that consumers are protected from abuse and poor service. The Department does not collect data on complaints it receives relating to specific developers or management companies.</p><p>In the Government’s response to its consultation <em>Strengthening redress in housing </em>we committed to creating a new Housing Complaints Resolution Service to act as a single point of access to redress for housing consumers. In October 2018 we announced a New Homes Ombudsman for buyers of new build homes, and our intention to bring forward legislation to close the gaps in redress services for consumers including to require all private landlords to sign up to a redress scheme.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler grouped question UIN 259834 question first answered 11/06/2019 09:28:21 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

1129848

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2019
	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	Veterans: Housing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much his Department has spent in each of the last five years on accommodation for homeless veterans; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Harrow West
	tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
	uin	259836
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2019 answer text <p>Our veterans play a vital role in keeping our country safe and many have dedicated their lives to the services. For those who fall on hard times it is only right that we give them all the support they need to put a roof over their head.</p><p>We recognise that there are limited statistics on homelessness; that is the why the MOD and MHCLG are working together to gather more comprehensive data on this issue. The Combined Homelessness and Information Network (CHAIN) statistics suggest that 3 per cent of the rough sleeping population in London have served in the Armed Forces and other independent research shows that the rough sleeping figures for veterans are around 3-4 per cent across the UK. The same research shows that an individual is less likely to be homeless if they have served in the Armed Forces.</p><p>There are, however, a number of existing support services available to veterans who are, or at risk of homelessness. This includes, the Veterans Gateway, an online web and telephone resource for veterans, within which is a housing specialist who has up-to-date information of any vacancies with the 4,000+ homes in the country specifically ringfenced for Veterans.</p><p>This is in addition to the £1.2 billion my Department has now committed to tackling all forms of homelessness and rough sleeping. This includes £1 million of specific funding targeted at ensuring veterans receive the right support and guidance required to ensure more veterans are prevented from becoming homeless.</p><p>In April 2018, we also introduced the Homelessness Reduction Act, its Duty to Refer requires public bodies to refer members of the armed forces, who maybe homeless or threatened with homelessness in England, to a local housing authority within 56 days, having gained the individual’s consent. A person who is vulnerable as a result of having been a member of Her Majesty’s regular armed forces (a veteran) has priority need for accommodation and will be housed by a local authority if they become homeless.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 11/06/2019 09:25:18 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

1136034

	registered interest
	date	01/07/2019
	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	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Credit Unions
	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 his Department offers employees a payroll deduction service to enable staff to join a credit union; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Harrow West
	tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
	uin	271347
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2019 answer text <p>The Department is aware that there are a number of credit union schemes on offer and that some departments have chosen to offer this facility through payroll. For a number of reasons, not least the administrative issue when employees leave the civil service or move between departments, we have decided not to pursue this benefit. We do however encourage MHCLG employees to make use of other Civil Service wide opportunities such as the Charity for Civil Servants ‘Money Matters’ service and the Department’s Employee Assistance provider who are available to aid in financial management and provide advice where required.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 09/07/2019 11:19:28 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
	tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

1147603

	registered interest
	date	01/10/2019
	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	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Jainism
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will invite representatives of the Jain community to national events organised by his Department; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Harrow West
	tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
	uin	292807
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>Britain’s Jain community makes a positive contribution to life in this country. This government values its contribution immensely.</p><p>The government is always keen to work with the Jain community on matters that are important to them, and we will continue to do so.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 08/10/2019 14:17:24 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
	tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

1151054

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2019
	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	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Jainism and Zoroastrianism
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when representatives of the (a) Jain and (b) Zoroastrian community were invited to national events organised by his Department in each of the last two years.
	tabling member constituency	Harrow West
	tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
	uin	2653
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2019 answer text <p>Ministers have attended a number of key events coordinated by Jain and Zoroastrian organisations, and officials have invited representatives from both communities to participate in roundtable discussions where relevant issues are discussed.</p><p>The Jain and Zoroastrian communities of this country have made, and continue to make a positive contribution to life in the United Kingdom. The government values this contribution enormously.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 28/10/2019 15:48:01 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
	tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

1185824

	registered interest
	date	17/03/2020
	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	Private Rented Housing: Coronavirus
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that landlords cannot evict tenants who are self-isolating as a result of covid-19.
	tabling member constituency	Harrow West
	tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
	uin	30672
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2020 answer text <p>On 18 March, we announced a radical package of measures to protect renters and landlords affected by coronavirus. Emergency legislation will be taken forward as an urgent priority so that landlords will not be able to start proceedings to evict tenants for at least a three-month period. As a result of these measures, no renters in private or social accommodation needs to be concerned about the threat of eviction.</p><p>More information on these plans can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/complete-ban-on-evictions-and-additional-protection-for-renters" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/complete-ban-on-evictions-and-additional-protection-for-renters</a>.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 25/03/2020 17:21:37 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
	tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

1185825

	registered interest
	date	17/03/2020
	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	Local Government Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to ensure local authorities have adequate resources to support their most vulnerable residents.
	tabling member constituency	Harrow West
	tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
	uin	30673
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2020 answer text <p>The 2020-21 settlement for local government provided local authorities with access to the largest increase in spending power in a decade to help local authorities meet rising demand in supporting the most vulnerable people in society, such as those in need of social care. In total, local authorities will have access to almost £6 billion of dedicated funding across adult and children’s social care in 2020-21.</p><p>The Government has also announced additional funding of £2.9 billion to support hospitals, councils and social care providers through the Covid-19 outbreak. Of this, £1.6 billion will go to local authorities to allow them to address increased pressures on services in their local areas, including those services that are vital for protecting vulnerable people.</p><p>In addition, we have confirmed £500 million of funding to provide additional council tax relief, and other support, for vulnerable households</p><p>The Government is also providing £3.2 million in initial emergency funding to help rough sleepers, or those at risk of rough sleeping, self-isolate to prevent the spread of coronavirus.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 25/03/2020 13:58:10 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
	tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

1186136

	registered interest
	date	18/03/2020
	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	Local Government Finance: Coronavirus
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will increase funding to all local authorities to provide financial support for people who struggle to meet increased food costs as a result of the effect of Covid-19; and if he will make statement.
	tabling member constituency	Harrow West
	tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
	uin	31424
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2020 answer text <p>The Government has announced £1.6 billion of additional funding to support local authorities in responding to the Covid-19 pandemic. This funding is un-ringfenced and is intended to help local authorities address any pressures they are facing in response the Covid-19 pandemic, across all service areas. We will continue to monitor the impact of Covid-19 on local government and are taking steps to address and support individuals and local authorities.</p><p>We have also confirmed £500 million of funding to provide additional council tax relief, and other support, for vulnerable households.</p><p>Additionally, the Government is working with the food industry and local authorities to deliver free basic food parcels to those defined on medical grounds as extremely vulnerable from Covid-19 and who do not have a network of friends and family to support them, while they self-isolate in their homes over the next 12 weeks.</p><p>Further details on people covered by this definition can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fguidance-on-shielding-and-protecting-extremely-vulnerable-persons-from-covid-19%2Fguidance-on-shielding-and-protecting-extremely-vulnerable-persons-from-covid-19&amp;data=02%7C01%7CGrace.Death%40communities.gov.uk%7Ca3ef991561654d93bb7608d7cf3b0b09%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637205724797212760&amp;sdata=lXqaZto1xlftaiHW%2BPl2zIaWhKbdlqXaFA0fob6scio%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-on-shielding-and-protecting-extremely-vulnerable-persons-from-covid-19/guidance-on-shielding-and-protecting-extremely-vulnerable-persons-from-covid-19</a></p> answering member constituency Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland answering member printed Mr Simon Clarke question first answered 27/03/2020 13:16:45 answering member 4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke
	tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas