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732350

	registered interest
	date	23/06/2017
	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	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 information his Department holds on the number of people rehoused as a result of the Grenfell Tower fire who are facing potential increases in rent; and if he will take steps to ensure that no person has to pay increased rent who has been so rehoused.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
	uin	895
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2017 answer text <p>People whose homes were destroyed in the fire will be provided with temporary accommodation at no cost. They will be offered permanent social housing at a social rent. This will mean that their rent will be no higher than their rent in Grenfell Tower, for a similar-sized property.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 28/06/2017 16:52:37 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones previous answer version 606 answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

524221

	registered interest
	date	09/06/2016
	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	Hull City Council
	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 Oral Answer of 6 June 2016, Official Report, column 825, what the source is for the comments attributed to the Leader of Hull City Council.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
	uin	40188
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2016 answer text <p>The source was the Hull Daily Mail on the 4th February 2016. The full article can be found through the following link:</p><p><a href="http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Hull-people-happy-UK-average-official-statistics/story-28672567-detail/story.html" target="_blank">http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Hull-people-happy-UK-average-official-statistics/story-28672567-detail/story.html</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 21/06/2016 13:31:39 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark previous answer version 3912 answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

731841

	registered interest
	date	22/06/2017
	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: 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, whether the Government's undertaking to test cladding in high-rise residential tower blocks will extend to other tall buildings including those occupied by (a) hospitals and (b) businesses.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
	uin	588
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2017 answer text <p>Testing in residential tower blocks is well underway. Local authorities and housing associations have been instructed to submit samples of Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) cladding for testing. We have also alerted owners, landlords and managers of private sector residential blocks, and made the testing facility available to them.</p><p>We are initiating testing in other priority buildings across the public sector, including NHS Trust and Foundation Trust buildings. We are prioritising testing on buildings where people sleep overnight, which have ACM cladding and are of a certain height. We will identify further priorities for testing in the coming days.</p><p>All building owners are responsible for ensuring the safety of their buildings.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 29/06/2017 10:07:57 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma previous answer version 377 answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

731848

	registered interest
	date	22/06/2017
	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: 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, what additional fire safety arrangements will be put in place in tall residential tower blocks which may have flammable cladding; and what central Government funding is available to finance such arrangements.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
	uin	656
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2017 answer text <p>The Department wrote to local authority and housing association landlords on 18 June, setting out immediate actions that should be taken to identify residential tower blocks over 18 metres in height with aluminium type external cladding. The Department wrote again on 19 June to set out the process they should follow to submit samples of Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) cladding for testing.</p><p> </p><p>On 30 June, we published a note at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/explanatory-note-on-safety-checks-and-testing" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/explanatory-note-on-safety-checks-and-testing</a>. This note confirms the advice in those letters to local authorities, with further specific information about the tests being carried out.</p><p> </p><p>On 6 July we published details of further tests to be carried out as the next step in helping landlords to ensure the safety of their buildings. These large scale tests will help establish how different types of ACM panels in combination with different types of insulation behave in a fire. Further detail about the next testing stage can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/expert-panel-recommends-further-tests-on-cladding-and-insulation" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/expert-panel-recommends-further-tests-on-cladding-and-insulation</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Where work is necessary to ensure the fire safety of social housing, we will ensure that lack of financial resources will not prevent it going ahead.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 14/07/2017 10:22:09 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma previous answer version 385 answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

731855

	registered interest
	date	22/06/2017
	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	Private Rented 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, (a) how many private rented sector households have approached his Department for advice about the combustibility of their buildings, (b) in how many buildings tested since the Grenfell Tower fire have inflammable materials been identified and (c) what estimate he has made of the number of private rented sector properties that need to be investigated.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
	uin	707
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2017 answer text <p>The safety of tower block residents is paramount. The Government is asking all landlords of high rise buildings (including those in the private sector) to take action to check cladding and to act on interim safety advice.</p><p>The department has made our government funded testing process available to private residential building owners so that landlords can quickly check the safety of their cladding, take the necessary action and reassure their residents that they are safe in their homes. The department has received over 150 enquiries from private residential building owners about the testing process since the offer of tests was made on 21st June.</p><p>The number of high rise buildings from which cladding samples have failed a combustibility test at the Building Research Establishment is now 190 across 51 local authority areas. The department has not made an estimate of the number of private rented sector properties with Aluminium Composite (ACM) cladding. Private Sector Landlords are responsible for the safety of their buildings. We encourage them to use the testing facilities offered by the government.</p><p /><p><br></p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 04/07/2017 10:16:28 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones previous answer version 387 answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

746945

	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	Public Buildings: 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, pursuant to the Answer of 29 June 2017 to Question 588, what (a) number and (b) proportion of public sector buildings where people are (i) required and (ii) not required to sleep overnight have had their cladding tested; and when he expects all such buildings in each group to have been tested.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
	uin	2088
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>On 5 September 2017, we published consolidated advice for building owners following large-scale testing which can be viewed here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/building-safety-programme-update-and-consolidated-advice-for-building-owners-following-large-scale-testing" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/building-safety-programme-update-and-consolidated-advice-for-building-owners-following-large-scale-testing</a></p><p>The results include a category for public buildings, which includes hospitals and schools. This shows that there were 16 buildings in England with Aluminium Composite Material (ACM), all of which have cladding systems which the Expert Panel advise are unlikely to meet current Building Regulations guidance and therefore present fire hazards on buildings over 18 metres. All government departments have been assessing their estate for high-rise buildings with ACM cladding.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 11/09/2017 15:07:53 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma previous answer version 1903 answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1064747

	registered interest
	date	21/02/2019
	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	Private Rented 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 plans he has to bring forward legislative proposals to amend the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018 to extend the terms of that Act to people who have been tenants of private landlords for longer than seven years.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
	uin	224313
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2019 answer text <p>The Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act (2018) does not have regard to the total number of years a person has been a tenant of a private landlord but rather the length of the term of the tenancy and the date the tenancy was agreed.</p><p>The Act will apply to tenants who have:</p><ul><li>a tenancy agreed before 20 March 2019, with a term of less than seven years, from 20 March 2020.</li><li>a tenancy agreed on or after 20 March 2019 or have made a significant change in their tenancy, with a term of less than seven years, from the date the Act comes into force.</li></ul><p>The Act will apply in the same way to tenants of a private landlord where the term of the tenancy is for more than seven years, but where the landlord has the option to terminate the tenancy before the expiry of the seven years.</p><p>There are currently no plans to amend the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 26/02/2019 16:13:07 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1143379

	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	Welfare Assistance Schemes
	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 take steps to help ensure that local authorities provide funding for local welfare assistance schemes after 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
	uin	284815
	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 Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 09/09/2019 16:46:57 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

532428

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2016
	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	Hull City Council
	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 21 June 2016 to Question 40188, on Kingston upon Hull City Council, what the source is for the comment that the response from the Leader of Hull City Council was in response to a point made by the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull North.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
	uin	41703
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2016 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to her less than postive remarks about Hull on 8 February 2016, Official Report, column 1343.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 07/07/2016 16:32:38 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

578734

	registered interest
	date	08/09/2016
	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	Letting Agents: Fees and Charges
	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 fines have been issued to letting agents for failure to publicise their fees to landlords and prospective tenants since section 83 of the Consumer Rights Act came into force on 27 May 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
	uin	45741
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2016 answer text <p>The Department does not hold data on such convictions.</p> answering member constituency Croydon Central answering member printed Gavin Barwell question first answered 16/09/2016 14:04:17 answering member 3955 label Biography information for Lord Barwell
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson