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1435580

	registered interest
	date	25/02/2022
	answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	answering dept id	211
	answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	hansard heading	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities: Coronavirus
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will take steps to ensure that his Department and its agencies remove all internal covid-19 related policies, restrictions and mask mandates.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	129768
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2022 answer text <p>Throughout the pandemic, the Department and all Civil Service employers have followed government guidance in setting out their internal COVID-19 related policies. This includes complying with the <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fguidance%2Fworking-safely-during-covid-19&amp;data=04%7C01%7CParliamentary%40levellingup.gov.uk%7Cec54a1d44eff44c68d9d08da00595976%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637822680988942337%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=qx9IikcJ2zcveAmkpNNTS3awfZ3JX3sAOzwEQKR609E%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Working Safely during Coronavirus (COVID-19): Guidance</a> which sets out the key actions organisations should take to protect employees and customers in order to reduce the risk of COVID-19 spreading in workplaces, along with carrying out <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hse.gov.uk%2Fcoronavirus%2Fworking-safely%2Frisk-assessment.htm&amp;data=04%7C01%7CParliamentary%40levellingup.gov.uk%7Cec54a1d44eff44c68d9d08da00595976%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637822680988942337%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=rTwiY9vPS2kRks8M9QXjqoqLJ01kEA3oVKwD7GdFvO4%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">health and safety risk assessments</a> that include the ongoing risk from COVID-19.</p><p>On 21 February 2022, the Government published their <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fcovid-19-response-living-with-covid-19&amp;data=04%7C01%7CParliamentary%40levellingup.gov.uk%7Cec54a1d44eff44c68d9d08da00595976%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637822680988942337%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=ZPO%2FE6JAMjdKSkE9LTmdVRb0%2FbeggUeoUw%2FR3%2FGj1WQ%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank"><em>COVID-19 Response: Living with COVID-19</em></a><em>.</em> This document sets out how and when the remaining restrictions will be lifted in England. Government guidance was subsequently amended, including the <em>Working Safely </em>guidance.</p><p>The Government's <em>Working Safely</em> guidance, which was last updated on 24 February, continues to require organisations to carry out a risk assessment which includes the risk from COVID-19. It also sets out additional actions organisations can take to protect employees and customers in the workplace, such as ensuring adequate ventilation, frequent cleaning, asking people to wash their hands frequently and asking people with COVID-19 to stay away. The guidance advises that people continue to wear face coverings in crowded and enclosed settings where they come into contact with people they do not normally meet, when rates of transmission are high. The Department will continue to follow this guidance and align its policies accordingly.</p> answering member constituency Walsall North answering member printed Eddie Hughes question first answered 07/03/2022 17:32:53 answering member 4635 label Biography information for Eddie Hughes
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1484301

	registered interest
	date	28/06/2022
	answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	answering dept id	211
	answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	hansard heading	Homes for Ukraine Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assurance process he has put in place to ensure funding provided to local authorities for the Homes for Ukraine initiative is being used solely for that purpose.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	26729
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2022 answer text <p>The department monitors data submitted from councils who are responsible for reporting the number of guests who arrive, the number of “thank you” payments awarded to sponsors and the amount of tariff funding they are entitled to receive. The department expects councils to use the tariff to support costs associated with the scheme and final assurance will be conducted within a reconciliation process at the end of the financial year.</p> answering member constituency Walsall North answering member printed Eddie Hughes question first answered 12/07/2022 15:58:57 answering member 4635 label Biography information for Eddie Hughes
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1454999

	registered interest
	date	28/03/2022
	answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	answering dept id	211
	answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	hansard heading	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities: Public Expenditure
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will detail the losses and special payments valued at under £300,000 for his departmental group as defined by section A4.10.7 in HM Treasury's Managing Public Money for (a) 2018-19, (b) 2019-20 and (c) 2020-21.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	148129
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2022 answer text <p>The losses and special payments valued at under £300,000 for the main department for the years 2018-19, 2019-20 and 2020-21 as already held on the record of losses for the public sector organisations within the departmental group, in accordance with Managing Public Money (Annex A4.10.7), or as otherwise held for the purposes of special payment disclosures, are set out below. These disclosures are consistent with the organisations’ obligations under the Data Protection Act 2018.</p><p>(a) 2018-19 Total individual losses recorded for core department under £300,000 were 33 with a combined value of £1,191,342.49. These relates to write offs on the ERDF and Regional Growth Fund Programmes and losses of IT equipment. Total individual special payments recorded for core department under £300,000 were 66 with a combined value of £1,987,285.56. These relates to annual payments for historic personal injury claims.</p><p>(b) 2019-20 Total individual losses recorded for core department under £300,000 were 43 with a combined value of £555,063.05. These relates to write offs on the ERDF, Great Britain High Streets and Regional Growth Fund Programmes and losses of IT equipment. Total individual special payments recorded for core department under £300,000 were 60 with a combined value of £1,934,852.67. These relate to annual payments for historic personal injury claims and payments to local authorities related to NNDR guidance on the business rates retention scheme.</p><p>(c) 2020-21 Total individual losses recorded for core department under £300,000 were 10 with a combined value of £294,350.00. These relates to write offs on the ERDF Programmes and losses of IT equipment. Total individual special payments recorded for core department under £300,000 were 44 with a combined value of £981,366.53. These relates to annual payments for historic personal injury claims.</p><p>Due to the number of payments made, the full breakdown is in the attached excel file. Losses and Special Payments registers for Arm’s Length Bodies are not held centrally, and are excluded from the numbers above. The data for the wider department will be provided in follow up to this initial response.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 05/04/2022 17:04:41 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch attachment 1 file name -Losses and Special Payments CORE Dept.xlsx title Full breakdown
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1457860

	registered interest
	date	14/04/2022
	answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	answering dept id	211
	answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	hansard heading	Local Government: Meetings
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will require all local authorities to publish a transcript of full council meetings.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	153834
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2022 answer text <p>The Government has no plans to require local authorities to publish a transcript of full council meetings. Government does not regulate the content of councils’ minutes or decision notices; this is a matter for individual local authorities.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 26/04/2022 15:28:09 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1454902

	registered interest
	date	28/03/2022
	answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	answering dept id	211
	answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	hansard heading	Coal: Cumbria
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, when his Department expects the planning inspector to announce his decision following the public inquiry into West Cumbria coal mine planning application; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	148122
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2022 answer text <p>The date for the Secretary of State’s decision on this case will be set when the independent planning inspector’s report and recommendation is submitted to the Department, and will be 13 weeks after the date of that submission. The Inspector’s report has not yet been received.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 05/04/2022 16:06:15 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1627071

	registered interest
	date	11/05/2023
	answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	answering dept id	211
	answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	hansard heading	Leasehold
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he plans to take steps to ensure statutory leaseholder protections apply to those leaseholders currently extending or varying their leases; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	184606
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/05/2023 answer text <p>We are aware that leaseholders protected under the statutory leaseholder protections in the Building Safety Act 2022 may no longer be protected if they have extended or varied their lease since 14 February 2022.</p><p>We are looking at how we can extend the remit of the leasehold protections to cover circumstances where there was a qualifying lease, as at 14 February 2022, and where a new lease with an extended term has since been entered into. This would need to be done via primary legislation and we are looking to legislate to resolve this issue as soon as Parliamentary time allows.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley question first answered 19/05/2023 11:44:04 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1651883

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2023
	answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	answering dept id	211
	answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	hansard heading	Leasehold
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of to Question 184606 on Leasehold, whether that legislation will apply retrospectively.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	193316
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2023 answer text <p>As I outlined in response to my Hon. Friend, in Question 184606, we are looking to legislate to resolve this issue as soon as parliamentary time allows.</p><p>We do not hold data on the number of people who are not protected due to an extension or variation of a lease since 14 February 2022, however, we believe the number to be relatively small.</p><p>We have not made an assessment as to the estimate of the potential legal and valuation costs for leaseholders who are in the process of extending or varying a lease. However, it should be noted that, in the normal course of events, all leaseholders typically require legal support in the course of seeking a lease extension or variation, so we do not anticipate that there will be significant 'additional' costs to those which they ordinarily would have incurred.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley grouped question UIN 193317 193318 question first answered 19/07/2023 16:59:20 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1651884

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2023
	answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	answering dept id	211
	answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	hansard heading	Leasehold
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 19 May 2023 to Question 184606 on Leasehold, what data his Department holds on the number of people who are not protected due to an extension or variation of a lease since 14 February 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	193317
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2023 answer text <p>As I outlined in response to my Hon. Friend, in Question 184606, we are looking to legislate to resolve this issue as soon as parliamentary time allows.</p><p>We do not hold data on the number of people who are not protected due to an extension or variation of a lease since 14 February 2022, however, we believe the number to be relatively small.</p><p>We have not made an assessment as to the estimate of the potential legal and valuation costs for leaseholders who are in the process of extending or varying a lease. However, it should be noted that, in the normal course of events, all leaseholders typically require legal support in the course of seeking a lease extension or variation, so we do not anticipate that there will be significant 'additional' costs to those which they ordinarily would have incurred.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley grouped question UIN 193316 193318 question first answered 19/07/2023 16:59:20 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1651885

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2023
	answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	answering dept id	211
	answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	hansard heading	Leasehold
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 19 May 2023 to Question 184606 on Leasehold, what estimate his Department has made of the potential additional legal and valuation costs to leaseholders who are currently in the process of extending or varying a lease.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	193318
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2023 answer text <p>As I outlined in response to my Hon. Friend, in Question 184606, we are looking to legislate to resolve this issue as soon as parliamentary time allows.</p><p>We do not hold data on the number of people who are not protected due to an extension or variation of a lease since 14 February 2022, however, we believe the number to be relatively small.</p><p>We have not made an assessment as to the estimate of the potential legal and valuation costs for leaseholders who are in the process of extending or varying a lease. However, it should be noted that, in the normal course of events, all leaseholders typically require legal support in the course of seeking a lease extension or variation, so we do not anticipate that there will be significant 'additional' costs to those which they ordinarily would have incurred.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley grouped question UIN 193316 193317 question first answered 19/07/2023 16:59:20 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1688998

	registered interest
	date	16/02/2024
	answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	answering dept id	211
	answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	hansard heading	Ground Rent: Reform
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he is taking to assess the risk of legal challenge to proposed policies in the consultation entitled Modern leasehold: restricting ground rent for existing leases.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	13943
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2024 answer text <p>Government has consulted on a range of options to restrict ground rent in existing leases and asked questions about the effects of these proposals. We received a significant number of responses from a variety of sources. A consultation impact assessment has been published and can be found at: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fconsultation-impact-assessment-modern-leasehold-restricting-ground-rent-for-existing-leases&amp;data=05%7C02%7CPS.Advisers%40levellingup.gov.uk%7Cf20b2cd141f84ffc48b808dc322d5261%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C638440417443619306%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=USJ%2F085W%2BAYS0EKwSzrLCADue1oD0pB4c6xUBcDfDKo%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">​​Consultation impact assessment - modern leasehold: restricting ground rent for existing leases​</a>.</p><p>That consultation closed on 17 January, and Government is currently analysing the responses before taking a decision on how to restrict ground rents through the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill.</p><p>In line with the practice of successive administrations details of internal discussions are not normally disclosed.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley grouped question UIN 13944 13945 13946 13947 question first answered 21/02/2024 14:31:31 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies