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date	24/04/2024
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	Housing: Safety
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 his Department is taking steps to support owner-occupiers to fix safety issues in their homes.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	23440
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2024 answer text <p>The Government has made multiple statements and policy announcements on this issue. The Building Safety Act 2022 can be found here: <a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/30/contents/enacted" target="_blank">Building Safety Act 2022 (legislation.gov.uk)</a>.</p><p>We continue to update the House on our progress including in Written Ministerial Statements in November 2023 and April 2024.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley question first answered 29/04/2024 15:07:14 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

1472414

registered interest
date	22/06/2022
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	Buildings: Fire Prevention
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 his Department's policy is on whether the (a) developer, (b) contractors hired during construction, (c) leaseholders and (d) other associated parties are responsible for remediating historic fire safety issues on affected buildings.
tabling member constituency	Ealing North
tabling member printed	James Murray
uin	23440
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2022 answer text <p>The Government is clear that those responsible for historical building safety defects must pay to put them right.</p><p>The Government has delivered a wide-ranging industry agreement with 47 major residential property developers that they will remediate all buildings above 11 metres in height that they had a role in developing or refurbishing in the past 30 years. These developers have also pledged to refund money paid out by existing Government remediation schemes to fix buildings that they originally developed and will not apply for further funding. Where the developer cannot be traced or fails to agree to cover the costs, cladding remediation will be met by Government grant funding.</p><p>The Building Safety Act 2022 contains new powers to ensure that those responsible for building safety defects can be held to account. The Act retrospectively extends the limitation period under section 1 of the Defective Premises Act 1972 to 30 years; this provides a route to cost recovery from a wide range of parties, including contractors, developers and architects, where shoddy workmanship and corner cutting have caused buildings to be unsafe. In addition, other new powers in the Act ensure that construction product manufacturers can be held to account for their failures.</p><p>The Building Safety Act brings forward legal protections for leaseholders from historical building safety costs. The Act legally protects qualifying leaseholders (those living in their own home or with up to three UK properties in total) from all costs relating to the remediation of unsafe cladding and contains robust and far-reaching protections from non-cladding costs, including those relating to interim measures such as waking watches. Where those directly responsible (e.g. developers) cannot be held to account, building owners and landlords will now be the first port of call to pay for historical safety defects, not leaseholders.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 01/07/2022 16:20:17 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew previous answer version 9336 answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4797 label Biography information for James Murray

1181886

registered interest
date	02/03/2020
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Female Genital Mutilation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much and what proportion of Official Development Assistance was spent on tackling female genital mutilation in each financial year since 2015.
tabling member constituency	Arfon
tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
uin	23440
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2020 answer text <p>The UK leads the world in our support to the Africa-led movement to end Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). In 2018, we announced a further £50 million UK aid package – the biggest single donor investment worldwide to date – to tackle this issue across the most-affected countries in Africa.</p><p>The table below sets out how much DFID spent on specific programmes to end FGM in the years 2015-18. Estimates for 2019 spending will be available in autumn 2020.</p><p>DFID also supports efforts to end FGM through wider programmes and multi-donor funds which address sexual and reproductive health and rights issues, including FGM. It is not possible to disaggregate the FGM-specific spend in these programmes, so the table does not reflect the entirety of DFID spend in this area.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>in £</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>FGM programme specific ODA Spend</strong></p></td><td><p>£8.1 m</p></td><td><p>£10.0m</p></td><td><p>£9.4m</p></td><td><p>£5.2m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>FGM spend as % of DFID ODA</strong></p></td><td><p>0.083%</p></td><td><p>0.102%</p></td><td><p>0.093%</p></td><td><p>0.048%</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 06/03/2020 15:01:33 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

446239

registered interest
date	20/01/2016
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	Universal Credit: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 23 November 2015 to Question 16318, what recent progress he has made on discussions with stakeholders on proposals to exempt certain groups from the removal of automatic entitlement to housing support for 18 to 21 years olds on universal credit; and when he plans to publish proposals resulting from those discussions.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	23440
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2016 answer text <p>The Department continues to liaise with a range of key stakeholders as it develops exemptions to the removal of automatic entitlement to housing support for 18-21 year olds in Universal Credit. This includes discussing this policy with landlords, housing associations and charities.</p><p>Once this work has been completed we will bring forward detailed proposals.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 28/01/2016 13:26:16 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell