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1183042

registered interest
date	05/03/2020
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	Multiple Occupation: Luton
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 effect of the increase in multiple occupancy housing on the family housing stock in Luton.
tabling member constituency	Luton South
tabling member printed	Rachel Hopkins
uin	25748
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2020 answer text <p>It is for a local authority to consider the suitability of the composition of housing in their area. An authority may wish to consider whether to have local plan policies in place in relation to the creation of housing in multiple occupation which they can use to inform planning decisions.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 12/03/2020 13:42:22 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4873 label Biography information for Rachel Hopkins

1182596

registered interest
date	04/03/2020
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	Buildings: Energy
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 introduce (a) standards and (b) regulations to replace the EU Directive on the energy performance of buildings after the transition period.
tabling member constituency	East Lothian
tabling member printed	Kenny MacAskill
uin	25192
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2020 answer text <p>There are no plans at this time to repeal the legislation which transposed the requirements of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 12/03/2020 13:41:54 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4772 label Biography information for Kenny MacAskill

1182601

registered interest
date	04/03/2020
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	Affordable 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, pursuant to the Answer of 2 March 2020 to Question 20383 on Affordable Housing, whether the statistics on funding allocations include (a) affordable home ownership, (b) affordable rent and (c) social rented homes funded through the Shared Ownership and Affordable Housing Programme.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	25223
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2020 answer text <p>The Government is committed to increasing the supply of social housing and has made £9 billion available through the Affordable Homes Programme to March 2022 to deliver approximately 250,000 new affordable homes in a wide range of tenures, including Social Rent. <br> <br>We do not break down funding by tenure for the programme however, new affordable home ownership, affordable rent and social rented homes have been funded through the Shared Ownership and Affordable Housing Programme 2016/21.</p><p>The Affordable Homes Programme supports councils and housing associations to build more genuinely affordable homes, in areas of acute affordability pressure, with at least 12,500 social rent homes to be delivered in high cost areas to support families struggling to pay their rent.</p><p>Further information on affordable housing supply may be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/affordable-housing-supply" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/affordable-housing-supply</a></p><p>Building on this, we announced at budget 2020 that we are investing £12 billion to build affordable homes between 2021/22 - 2025/26. This will be the biggest cash investment in affordable housing for a decade.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 12/03/2020 13:41:18 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1182611

registered interest
date	04/03/2020
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	Sleeping Rough
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 (a) deaths, (b) serious injuries and (c) near misses have been recorded as a result of people taking shelter in refuse bins which are then emptied into refuse vehicles; and what steps he plans to take to help prevent such incidents.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
uin	25088
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2020 answer text <p>Every premature death of someone homeless is one too many and we take this matter extremely seriously. It should not happen that people die prematurely and on the street because they are homeless.</p><p>We are absolutely committed to ending rough sleeping by the end of this parliament. To achieve this, we are providing £437 million to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping in 2020/2021.This marks a £69 million increase in funding from the previous year.</p><p>This year we have expanded the Rough Sleeping Initiative with investment of £46 million for 246 areas – providing funding for an estimated 2,600 bed spaces and 750 staff. Next year, we are allocating a further £112 million to around 270 areas, funding up to 6,000 bed spaces and 2,500 staff. And this is having an impact. The RSI impact evaluation shows that the Initiative has reduced the number of people sleeping rough by 32 per cent in the areas funded, compared to the number it would have been had the RSI not been in place.</p><p>We do not hold data on the number of deaths as a result of people taking shelter in refuse bins. However, we understand some local councils and businesses have conducted research and supplied advice on this issue in recent years.</p><p>This Government is aware that a skilled frontline workforce is essential to delivering good services and ultimately reducing homelessness. Delivery of the Key Groups Training programme launched in Summer 2019.  The training programme is expected to cater for 3,450 members of the frontline homelessness workforce by the end of June 2020.</p><p>Local authorities and outreach teams work tirelessly to ensure that appropriate support is given to all rough sleepers regardless of where they are found, be that in tents, doorways, bins or on the street.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall grouped question UIN 25118 25214 question first answered 09/03/2020 17:36:34 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

1182619

registered interest
date	04/03/2020
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	High Rise Flats: Insulation
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 discussions he has had with representatives of the insurance industry on the cost of insurance for leaseholders with unsafe (a) ACM, (b) HPL and (c) other types of cladding on their homes.
tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
uin	25025
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2020 answer text <p>Government has ongoing engagement with the insurance industry on a number of issues, including the cost and availability of insurance for high rise residential buildings.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 09/03/2020 16:49:42 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

1182622

registered interest
date	04/03/2020
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	Sleeping Rough: Death
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 deaths have been recorded as a result of homeless people taking shelter in bins which are then removed by refuse workers in each of the last twelve months; what steps he is taking to help prevent further such deaths; and whether he plans to provide training to refuse workers to help reduce the risk of further deaths.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	25118
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2020 answer text <p>Every premature death of someone homeless is one too many and we take this matter extremely seriously. It should not happen that people die prematurely and on the street because they are homeless.</p><p>We are absolutely committed to ending rough sleeping by the end of this parliament. To achieve this, we are providing £437 million to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping in 2020/2021.This marks a £69 million increase in funding from the previous year.</p><p>This year we have expanded the Rough Sleeping Initiative with investment of £46 million for 246 areas – providing funding for an estimated 2,600 bed spaces and 750 staff. Next year, we are allocating a further £112 million to around 270 areas, funding up to 6,000 bed spaces and 2,500 staff. And this is having an impact. The RSI impact evaluation shows that the Initiative has reduced the number of people sleeping rough by 32 per cent in the areas funded, compared to the number it would have been had the RSI not been in place.</p><p>We do not hold data on the number of deaths as a result of people taking shelter in refuse bins. However, we understand some local councils and businesses have conducted research and supplied advice on this issue in recent years.</p><p>This Government is aware that a skilled frontline workforce is essential to delivering good services and ultimately reducing homelessness. Delivery of the Key Groups Training programme launched in Summer 2019.  The training programme is expected to cater for 3,450 members of the frontline homelessness workforce by the end of June 2020.</p><p>Local authorities and outreach teams work tirelessly to ensure that appropriate support is given to all rough sleepers regardless of where they are found, be that in tents, doorways, bins or on the street.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall grouped question UIN 25088 25214 question first answered 09/03/2020 17:36:34 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

1182648

registered interest
date	04/03/2020
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	Housing: Carbon Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 3 March 2020 to Question 20016 on Housing: Carbon Emissions, whether his Department holds information on carbon emissions target data relating to Scotland.
tabling member constituency	East Lothian
tabling member printed	Kenny MacAskill
uin	25193
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2020 answer text <p>Building Regulations are a devolved matter in the United Kingdom. Details of Scotland’s Building Regulations, including target carbon dioxide emissions levels, are available online at: <a href="https://www.gov.scot/policies/building-standards/" target="_blank">https://www.gov.scot/policies/building-standards/</a>.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 12/03/2020 13:42:50 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4772 label Biography information for Kenny MacAskill

1182655

registered interest
date	04/03/2020
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	High Rise Flats: Insulation
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 he is taking to assess the health and safety risks of buildings cladded with non-ACM material.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	25052
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2020 answer text <p>Acting on advice from the Expert Panel, the Government has commissioned research from the Building Research Establishment (BRE) to support further understanding of the fire performance of Non-Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) external wall systems. The results of this research will be published shortly.</p><p>It is the view of the Expert Panel that ACM (and other metal composites) with unmodified polyethylene core remains the most significant fire hazard. The Expert Panel advice can be found here at: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fbuilding-safety-advice-for-building-owners-including-fire-doors&amp;data=02%7C01%7CBalraj.Phull%40communities.gov.uk%7C163696a35ed747a4567f08d7c1afb0ad%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637190832634210811&amp;sdata=i%2BtDOh1UW3tXb%2BNYb8YviOaBLqpc%2BHKC3dJIe0tG%2FVY%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/building-safety-advice-for-building-owners-including-fire-doors.</a></p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 09/03/2020 12:04:39 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

1182656

registered interest
date	04/03/2020
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	High Rise Flats: Insulation
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 support leaseholders whose properties are cladded with flammable material not covered by the ACM cladding remediation fund.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	25053
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2020 answer text <p>Residents’ safety remains this Government's utmost priority and there is no excuse for building owners not ensuring that residents are safe in their homes. The Government will continue to support leaseholders and is reviewing options on how best to do so.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher grouped question UIN 25054 25055 question first answered 09/03/2020 12:15:39 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

1182657

registered interest
date	04/03/2020
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	High Rise Flats: Insulation
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 provide financial support to leaseholders whose properties do not exceed 18m in height and are cladded in (a) ACM and (b) non-ACM flammable materials.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	25054
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2020 answer text <p>Residents’ safety remains this Government's utmost priority and there is no excuse for building owners not ensuring that residents are safe in their homes. The Government will continue to support leaseholders and is reviewing options on how best to do so.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher grouped question UIN 25053 25055 question first answered 09/03/2020 12:15:39 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood