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1170437

	registered interest
	date	13/01/2020
	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	Leasehold: Service Charges
	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 review the handling of disputes by (a) housing associations and (b) property management companies in respect of service charge increases for leaseholders.
	tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
	tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
	uin	2546
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2020 answer text <p>The law is clear that service charges must be reasonable and, where costs relate to work or services, these must be of a reasonable standard. Where leaseholders feel that the increase in the level of service charges which they are asked to pay is unreasonable, they can make a complaint to one of the Government-recognised redress schemes: The Property Redress Scheme or The Property Ombudsman, which all managing agents are required to belong to. They may also make an application to the First-tier Tribunal to make a determination on the reasonableness of their service charges.</p><p>In October 2018 the Government established an independent <em>Regulation of Property Agents</em> working group, chaired by Lord Best, to raise standards across the property sector, which also considered how fees such as service charges should be presented to consumers.</p><p>The working group published its final report to Government on 18 July 2019. The report recommended that a new regulator be given a statutory duty to include provisions to ensure transparency of service charges in its regulatory code, as well as responsibility for enforcement action where infringements by managing agents take place. We are considering the report’s recommendations and will announce next steps in due course.</p><p>The Government also announced plans in January 2019 for a new Housing Complaints Resolution Service by establishing a single point of access to all current redress schemes. The Service aims to provide housing consumers with a clear and simple route to redress.</p><p>We have established a Redress Reform Working Group with existing housing redress schemes and consumer bodies, and intend to develop the Service in collaboration with them.</p> answering member constituency Tatton answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 16/01/2020 17:11:31 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
	tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1142995

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2019
	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	Microgeneration: 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, what assessment he has made of the potential for electricity and heat microgeneration technologies to be incorporated into new-build homes.
	tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
	tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
	uin	284532
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Tatton answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 09/09/2019 16:47:20 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
	tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

106401

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2014
	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	Poverty: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the level of child poverty is in (a) each constituency in London, (b) London, (c) England, (d) Scotland, (e) Wales and (f) Northern Ireland.
	tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
	tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
	uin	213451
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>Under this Government, 300,000 fewer children are in relative income poverty, around 390,000 fewer children are growing up in workless families, the attainment gap for deprived pupils has narrowed, and we have just seen the largest annual fall in unemployment on record.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Estimates of the number and proportion of children in relative low income are published in the National Statistics Households Below Average Income (HBAI) series. This information is captured using the Family Resources Survey (FRS) and has been reported since 1998/99. These estimates are available for each financial year up to 2012/13, the latest period for which estimates are available.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>These estimates can be found at the link below:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/households-below-average-income-hbai-199495-to-201213" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/households-below-average-income-hbai-199495-to-201213</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Relevant estimates can be found in the &quot;Supporting Data tables (Microsoft Excel files) WINZIP link. The Excel document is titled &quot;chapter_4ts_risk_hbai14.xls&quot;.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The number and proportion of children in relative low income is not available at constituency level. This is because the survey sample sizes are too small to support the production of robust estimates at this geography.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 10/11/2014 16:56:24 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey previous answer version 26922 answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
	tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra