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1688809

registered interest
date	12/02/2024
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	Lighting: Pollution
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the efficacy of current planning legislation in limiting light pollution of the night skies in England.
tabling member printed	Lord Patten
uin	HL2402
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2024 answer text <p>The National Planning Policy Framework states that planning policies and decisions should “limit the impact of light pollution from artificial light on local amenity, intrinsically dark landscapes and nature conservation.”</p><p>The character of the area and the surrounding environment is already a material consideration about what will be considered an appropriate level of lighting for a development. This applies to both new housing and new commercial developments.</p> answering member printed Baroness Scott of Bybrook question first answered 26/02/2024 12:17:34 answering member 4553 label Biography information for Baroness Scott of Bybrook
tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten

1688821

registered interest
date	12/02/2024
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	Regional Planning and Development
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many responses they received to the consultation on street vote development orders, which ran from 22 December 2023 to 2 February 2024.
tabling member printed	Lord Young of Cookham
uin	HL2414
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2024 answer text <p>Over 250 responses were received, and they are currently being analysed.</p> answering member printed Baroness Scott of Bybrook question first answered 26/02/2024 15:58:54 answering member 4553 label Biography information for Baroness Scott of Bybrook
tabling member	57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham

1688761

registered interest
date	09/02/2024
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	Community Housing: Cooperatives
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what action they are taking to support the housing cooperative sector.
tabling member printed	Baroness Kennedy of Cradley
uin	HL2362
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2024 answer text <p>The Government is committed to supporting housing co-operatives and other providers of community-led housing. The National Planning Policy Framework sets out the Government's planning policies for England and how these are expected to be applied, and was most recently revised in December 2023. The National Planning Policy Framework now includes several measures that will support the diversification of the housing market, including the growth of the community-led housing sector. These new measures include:</p><ul><li>A new community-led housing exception sites policy to encourage local authorities to support the development of community-led sites that deliver affordable housing to meet local need;</li><li>encouragement to local planning authorities to seek opportunities to support small sites to come forward for community-led development for housing;</li><li>greater emphasis on the role that community-led development can have in supporting the provision of housing in rural areas; and</li><li>a definition of “community-led developments”, which will help planning authorities provide support for local proposals for community-led housing development;</li></ul><p>Community-based groups (or their partner organisations) who are registered as providers of social housing may apply for capital grant through the £11.5 billion Affordable Homes Programme (AHP).</p><p>In addition, in 2023, we provided £3 million to support a social finance fund to provide equity and loan finance for community-led housing schemes across England. This fund is expected to support the delivery of 1587 homes over ten years.</p> answering member printed Baroness Scott of Bybrook question first answered 23/02/2024 13:16:47 answering member 4553 label Biography information for Baroness Scott of Bybrook
tabling member	4303 label Biography information for Baroness Kennedy of Cradley

1688763

registered interest
date	09/02/2024
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	Housing: Construction
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many (1) low-rise purpose-built flats in blocks of below 6 storeys, (2) high-rise purpose-built flats in blocks of 6 or more storeys, (3) houses, and (4) bungalows, were built in England between 1992 and 2022.
tabling member printed	The Earl of Lytton
uin	HL2364
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2024 answer text <p>The English Housing Survey is the Department’s key source of information on households and housing in England. While it is a sample survey and does not have a record of all dwellings built, it does contain data on the dwelling type and build date of English Homes. The 2022 survey shows that, of those homes built between 1992 and 2022 1) approximately 1.3 million are low-rise purpose-built flats; 2) approximately 300,000 are high-rise purpose-built flats; 3) approximately 3.6 million are houses; and 4) approximately 200,000 are bungalows. This list of dwelling types is not exhaustive and will exclude a small number of converted flats built during this period.</p> answering member printed Baroness Scott of Bybrook question first answered 22/02/2024 16:13:09 answering member 4553 label Biography information for Baroness Scott of Bybrook
tabling member	1864 label Biography information for The Earl of Lytton

1688565

registered interest
date	08/02/2024
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	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities: Health and 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 all (a) buildings and (b) workplaces staff from their Department occupy have a suitable and sufficient risk assessment under Section 3 of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
uin	13749
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2024 answer text <p>The Department currently occupies 22 buildings which the Government Property Agency manages on a day to day basis on its behalf. GPA responsibilities include ensuring that statutory health and safety requirements in relation to the buildings are met. GPA confirms that it has a comprehensive set of risk assessments for DLUHC buildings and therefore meets the requirements of regulation 3 of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999.</p><p>DLUHC itself is responsible for workplace risk assessments such as display risk assessments, lone working risk assessments, and travel risk assessments. DLUHC policy is for workplace risk assessments to be completed on a case by case basis, and Department staff routinely complete the assessments where they are required.</p> answering member constituency North Dorset answering member printed Simon Hoare question first answered 20/02/2024 13:21:27 answering member 4494 label Biography information for Simon Hoare
tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

1688624

registered interest
date	08/02/2024
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	Private Rented Housing: Mould
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 plans to take steps to support tenants of private landlords to take action against landlords who (a) refuse to act and (b) delay acting on cases of (i) damp and (ii) mould.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham East
tabling member printed	Janet Daby
uin	13845
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2024 answer text <p>We have been very clear that where landlords of private rented sector properties fail to act on damp and mould, local authorities must support tenants by holding landlords to account, including taking enforcement action where necessary.</p> answering member constituency Redcar answering member printed Jacob Young question first answered 21/02/2024 14:45:30 answering member 4825 label Biography information for Jacob Young
tabling member	4698 label Biography information for Janet Daby

1688625

registered interest
date	08/02/2024
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	Freehold and Property Management Companies: Misconduct
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many cases of (a) freehold and (b) management company misconduct have been reported in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham East
tabling member printed	Janet Daby
uin	13846
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2024 answer text <p>There is no one set of information which captures the full extent of leaseholder concerns as these come in many forms.</p><p>Leaseholders have a number of routes to redress including challenging the reasonableness of costs or services provided at the Property Tribunal, making a complaint through a freeholder or managing agent’s own complaints procedures, or using a government approved redress scheme of which all managing agents must belong by law.</p><p>Through the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill the Government will expand routes of redress for leaseholders where their landlord carries out their own management of the building by requiring these landlords to join a redress scheme.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley grouped question UIN 13847 question first answered 21/02/2024 14:55:36 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4698 label Biography information for Janet Daby

1688626

registered interest
date	08/02/2024
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	Leasehold: Complaints
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 has made an assessment of the potential merits of a redress scheme to enable leaseholders to bring complaint cases against their freeholder.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham East
tabling member printed	Janet Daby
uin	13847
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2024 answer text <p>There is no one set of information which captures the full extent of leaseholder concerns as these come in many forms.</p><p>Leaseholders have a number of routes to redress including challenging the reasonableness of costs or services provided at the Property Tribunal, making a complaint through a freeholder or managing agent’s own complaints procedures, or using a government approved redress scheme of which all managing agents must belong by law.</p><p>Through the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill the Government will expand routes of redress for leaseholders where their landlord carries out their own management of the building by requiring these landlords to join a redress scheme.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley grouped question UIN 13846 question first answered 21/02/2024 14:55:36 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4698 label Biography information for Janet Daby

1688673

registered interest
date	08/02/2024
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	Affordable Housing
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 20 December 2023 to Question 6616 on Affordable Housing, whether any requirement exists for Investment Partners in the Affordable Homes Programme to report insolvency to his Department.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	13725
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2024 answer text <p>Investment Partners are required to notify Homes England of any change in their circumstances. This includes changes to their financial status, which includes insolvency.</p> answering member constituency Redcar answering member printed Jacob Young question first answered 22/02/2024 14:41:09 answering member 4825 label Biography information for Jacob Young
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1688718

registered interest
date	08/02/2024
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	Joint Ministerial Committee
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the operation and effectiveness of the Joint Ministerial Committee.
tabling member printed	Lord Empey
uin	HL2324
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2024 answer text <p>The system of Joint Ministerial Committees (JMCs) was replaced as part of the 2022 Review of Intergovernmental Relations. The structures which replace the JMCs provide a more flexible and fit-for-purpose approach with department-led Interministerial Groups overseen by an Interministerial Standing Committee, and, ultimately, a Prime Minister and Heads of Devolved Governments Council.</p><p>Since the 2022 Review, there have been almost 500 intergovernmental ministerial meetings. Ensuring the structures work effectively is the joint responsibility of UK Government and the devolved governments. The UK Government monitors the effectiveness of engagement including through quarterly and end of year transparency reports, published on <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/intergovernmental-relations" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a>.</p> answering member printed Baroness Scott of Bybrook question first answered 26/02/2024 12:16:27 answering member 4553 label Biography information for Baroness Scott of Bybrook attachment 1 file name Intergovernmental relations.pdf title Intergovernmental Relations
tabling member	4216 label Biography information for Lord Empey