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939947

registered interest
date	12/07/2018
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: Overcrowding
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 households were registered as statutorily overcrowded in (a) Camberwell and Peckham, (b) Southwark and (c) London in each of the last 5 years.
tabling member constituency	Camberwell and Peckham
tabling member printed	Ms Harriet Harman
uin	163485
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2018 answer text <p>The Department does not collect information on the number of households registered as statutorily overcrowded. However, we do collect information on overcrowding more generally. The Department's English Housing Survey collects information on overcrowding (measured using the Bedroom Standard). Statistics for England are published annually.</p><p>See Annex Table 1.20 here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/676433/2016-17_Section_1_Households_Annex_Tables.xlsx" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/676433/2016-17_Section_1_Households_Annex_Tables.xlsx</a></p><p>The Department's Local Authority Housing Statistics collects information on the number of households on a local authority housing waiting list because they are currently residing in insanitary or overcrowded housing, see here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/local-authority-housing-statistics-data-returns-for-2016-to-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/local-authority-housing-statistics-data-returns-for-2016-to-2017</a></p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 19/07/2018 15:06:03 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler previous answer version 70155 answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	150 label Biography information for Ms Harriet Harman

890437

registered interest
date	24/04/2018
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	Homelessness: 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, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of the Government recording homeless death statistics at a national level.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	137480
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2018 answer text <p>No one should ever have to sleep rough and the death of any rough sleeper is a tragedy. As part of our Rough Sleeping Strategy, we will be considering a wide range of options to support rough sleepers to meet our commitment, which will include the data we gather on them.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 27/04/2018 14:30:06 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler previous answer version 54653 answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

890494

registered interest
date	24/04/2018
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	Temporary Accommodation
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 have been taken as part of the £100 million programme for low-cost move on accommodation to enable people leaving hostels and refuges to make a sustainable recovery from a homelessness crisis into independent living; and how much of that money has been spent to date.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
uin	137467
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2018 answer text <p>£50 million has been allocated to the Greater London Authority who are working closely with those in the homelessness sector to deploy the fund in the capital.</p><p>It is our priority to ensure that the Move On Fund meets the needs of those who are homeless and victims of domestic abuse, as such the Department is carefully considering the design of the programme for the rest of England, in particular to ensure a strategic alignment with the Rough Sleeping Strategy to be published in July.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 27/04/2018 14:47:50 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler previous answer version 54651 answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

861033

registered interest
date	13/03/2018
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: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, for what reasons his Department returned £817m of housing funding to HM Treasury; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	132182
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2018 answer text <p>In line with standard practice where funding cannot be spent, within a financial year, it is returned to the Treasury. This is part of good budget management within the Department, and in line with established processes. Underspends are not unusual. For comparison, in 2009-10, the Department underspent by £504 million in total.</p><p>Overall, funding for housing has been substantially increased, with an additional £15.3 billion of investment in housing over the next 5 years. This includes an extra £2 billion for Affordable Housing, taking the programme to £9 billion. In 2017/18, we have also invested an additional £1.5 billion in our Help to Buy scheme, supporting thousands of first time buyers to move into their first home. We will be investing over £10 billion in that programme in the next 3 years.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 22/03/2018 11:39:26 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab previous answer version 47921 answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

857028

registered interest
date	07/03/2018
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 rough sleepers have died as a result of their homeless status between November 2017 and March 2018.
tabling member constituency	Great Grimsby
tabling member printed	Melanie Onn
uin	131540
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2018 answer text <p>The death of any rough sleeper is a tragedy. That is why this Government has committed to halve rough sleeping by 2022 and eliminate it altogether by 2027. Establishing the causes of death for any person in the UK is a matter for medical professionals or coroners.</p><p>Local areas and homelessness services often hold detailed information about the people who sleep rough in their area, including about rough sleepers who have died where this information is available them.</p><p>We are overhauling the statutory homelessness data collection alongside the introduction of the Homelessness Reduction Act. This will give us better insights into the causes of homelessness and the support people need. The new statutory homelessness data collection will be called H-CLIC.</p><p>The first meeting of the Rough Sleeping and Homelessness Reduction Taskforce took place on the 7 March. The Taskforce will drive forward the implementation of a cross-Government strategy to reduce rough sleeping.</p><p>We have allocated over £1 billion through to 2020 to prevent and reduce all forms of homelessness including piloting a Housing First approach for some of the most entrenched rough sleepers.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 14/03/2018 17:17:03 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler previous answer version 46677 answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	4464 label Biography information for Melanie Onn

850736

registered interest
date	27/02/2018
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: Standards
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 much funding has been allocated to the Decent Homes programme in each financial year since 2009-10; and what commitment he has made for future funding of that programme.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	129975
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2018 answer text <p>The Decent Homes backlog programme provided £1.76 million of funding to local authorities between 2011/16 to tackle their backlog of non-decent homes.</p><p>The funding by year as follows:-</p><p>2011/12 - £300 million</p><p>2012/13 - £394 million</p><p>2013/14 - £431 million</p><p>2014/15 - £474 million</p><p>2015/16 - £160 million</p><p>There was no government funding in years 2009/10 or 2010/11. The number of social homes failing to meet the Decent Homes standard is down by 55 per cent since 2007 (between 2007 and 2016), with over 626,000 local authority homes brought up to standard since 2009.</p><p>Since the Local Government Self Financing Settlement in 2012 we expect local authorities to use their rental income to maintain the standard.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 06/03/2018 12:45:43 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler previous answer version 44889 answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

846189

registered interest
date	21/02/2018
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	Bed and Breakfast Accommodation
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 the ban on local authorities accommodating homeless families and pregnant women in B&B accommodation for longer than 6 weeks is being enforced.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	128875
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2018 answer text <p>Time spent in temporary accommodation means people are getting help and it ensures no family is without a roof over their head. The law is clear that households with dependent children should only be accommodated in B&amp;B in an emergency and then for no longer than 6 weeks</p><p>Our new Homelessness Advice and Support Team, drawn from local authorities and the homelessness sector, is providing support to local authorities to help them address their homelessness challenges, including the use of B&amp;B accommodation for families.</p><p>We are taking unprecedented action to change how we tackle homelessness and rough sleeping. We have committed £1 billion through to 2020 to support local services and changing how local authorities operate by implementing the Homelessness Reduction Act from 3 April 2018 to help more people get tailored support sooner when they are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 26/02/2018 17:58:46 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler previous answer version 43157 answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

822912

registered interest
date	17/01/2018
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	Religious Freedom
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 have been taken by the Government in response to the recommendation in paragraph 6.5. of the Council of Europe Resolution 2036 (2015) on publicly condemning the use of and incitement to violence, as well as all forms of discrimination and intolerance on religious grounds; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Lagan Valley
tabling member printed	Sir Jeffrey M. Donaldson
uin	122595
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>The Government condemns all forms of discrimination, intolerance and hate crime including that perpetrated against Christians. 'Action against Hate' the UK Government's plan for tackling hate crime specifically mentions hate crime perpetrated against Christians. We are also supporting work through the police online portal True Vision to conduct a survey on the nature and number of hate crimes perpetrated against Christians. An important part of this programme is to encourage victims of anti-Christian hate crime to report incidents to the police.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 22/01/2018 18:01:41 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler previous answer version 36010 answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	650 label Biography information for Sir Jeffrey M Donaldson

823411

registered interest
date	16/01/2018
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	Homelessness
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 5 January 2018 to Question 118353, for what reasons the homelessness funding announced in Budget 2016 is not being made available until 2018-19 in parts of England outside London.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	122891
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>It is our priority to ensure that the Move On Fund meets the needs of those who are homeless and victims of domestic abuse. As such the Department is taking time to tailor the design of the programme to work for the rest of England.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 23/01/2018 13:01:21 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler previous answer version 35486 answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

823000

registered interest
date	15/01/2018
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 Benefit: Refuges
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 officials regarding future payments of housing benefit to women's refuges.
tabling member constituency	Waveney
tabling member printed	Peter Aldous
uin	122683
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2018 answer text <p>My predecessor, Marcus Jones MP, held discussions with officials in his own department (Communities and Local Government) and with officials at the Department for Work and Pensions. He also held meetings with providers of refuge accommodation.</p><p>Under the short-term supported accommodation model, an individual’s entitlement to Housing Benefit remains unchanged, rather we are removing their liability to pay rent at a vulnerable point in their lives.</p><p>We are undertaking a review of how domestic abuse services, are provided across England. The review will cover funding for refuges, including critical care and support costs, and will be completed by summer 2018.</p><p>I look forward to continuing this engagement and to working with the sector.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 18/01/2018 17:54:09 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler previous answer version 35210 answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	4069 label Biography information for Peter Aldous