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1146803

registered interest
date	27/09/2019
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 assessment his Department has made of trends in level of people living in temporary accommodation in the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	291589
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/10/2019 answer text <p>This government has now committed over £1.2 billion to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping over the spending review period to April 2020. In 2020/2021 we are providing a further £422 million to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping. This marks a £54 million increase in funding from the previous year. This highlights the government’s continued focus on Homelessness and Rough Sleeping, and we will announce how this additional funding has been allocated in due course.</p><p>On 31 March 2019, the total number of households in temporary accommodation arranged by local authorities under homelessness legislation was 84,740. This has increased for the same quarter each year from 80,720 on 31 March 2018 and 77,220 on 31 March 2017.</p><p>The evidence suggests that more single people are receiving help than ever before. Single households now make up the largest proportion of homeless applicants. 66 per cent of households owed a duty were single households, compared to 30 per cent in Q4 2017 (prior to the introduction of the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017). Previously this group has been underrepresented in the reported statistics and it has been hard to determine what assistance has been provided to them.</p><p>Most households at risk of homelessness are having it successfully prevented. 57 per cent of the households whose prevention duty ended in this period secured their existing accommodation or were helped to find alternative accommodation.</p><p>40 per cent of the households whose relief duty ended in this period were helped to find accommodation. Altogether, 31,180 households secured accommodation through these new duties between January and March 2018.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 02/10/2019 15:27:44 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1146804

registered interest
date	27/09/2019
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 his Department is taking to support individuals and families in temporary accommodation to move into long-term housing.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	291590
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/10/2019 answer text <p>This government has now committed over £1.2 billion to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping over the spending review period to April 2020. In 2020/2021 we are providing a further £422 million to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping. This marks a £54 million increase in funding from the previous year. This highlights the government’s continued focus on Homelessness and Rough Sleeping, and we will announce how this additional funding has been allocated in due course.</p><p>Time spent in temporary accommodation (TA) means people are getting help and it ensures no family is without a roof over their head.</p><p>In the Rough Sleeping Strategy, the government committed to tackling wider homelessness issues, including the numbers of families in TA and poor-quality accommodation.</p><p>In 2011, the law was changed to allow councils to place families in decent and affordable private rented homes. This now means homeless households should not have to wait as long for settled accommodation.</p><p>The government has targeted funding streams focused on reducing the number of households in TA. For example the £20 million Private Rented Sector Access Fund is funding schemes aimed at supporting over 8,000 people who are or at risk of homelessness into sustainable private rented sector accommodation.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 02/10/2019 15:22:38 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1146805

registered interest
date	27/09/2019
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, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of funding allocated to local authorities to implement the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	291591
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/10/2019 answer text <p>The government has provided £72.7 million in new burdens funding for local authorities to implement the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017.  This government has now committed over £1.2 billion to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping over the spending review period to April 2020. In 2020/2021 we are providing a further £422 million to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping. This marks a £54 million increase in funding from the previous year. This highlights the government’s continued focus on Homelessness and Rough Sleeping, and we will announce how this additional funding has been allocated in due course.</p><p>We are also currently undertaking a review of the Act which includes a review of the new burdens funding.</p><p>Alongside this financial support the Department established the Homelessness Advice and Support Team (HAST). HAST is made up of experts from the homelessness sector and local authorities. The team has been working with, and supporting, local authorities to help them bring in the Act. They continue to provide support and assistance to improve their homelessness services.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 02/10/2019 15:32:10 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1146806

registered interest
date	27/09/2019
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, pursuant to the Answer of 4 April 2019 to Question 239278 on Sleeping Rough, when he plans to publish the impact and process evaluation of the rough sleeping initiative.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	291592
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/10/2019 answer text <p>Our Rough Sleeping Initiative (RSI) Impact Report was published on 12 September 2019 and assesses the impact of the initiative from its launch in March 2018 until Autumn that year. The analysis reports a welcome 32 per cent reduction in numbers of rough sleepers in areas funded by the RSI, compared to what the level would have been had the initiative not been in place.</p><p>We are expecting to be able to publish the process evaluation for the RSI later this year. This will evaluate mobilisation of the first year of RSI funded interventions in individual local authority areas, identifying barriers and enablers and highlighting good practice.</p><p>The government is committed to reducing homelessness and rough sleeping. It is simply unacceptable that anyone should be sleeping on the streets in modern Britain. In 2019-20, the RSI is providing £46 million to local authorities, funding an additional 750 staff and 2,600 bed spaces across the country.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 02/10/2019 15:29:04 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1146807

registered interest
date	27/09/2019
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 and Social Rented 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, what plans his Department has to increase the provision of (a) affordable housing and (b) social housing in (i) London and (ii) England.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	291593
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/10/2019 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 of a wide range of tenures, including social rent. £4.8 billion of this will be for London, to deliver 116,000 new affordable homes.</p><p>Since 2010 we have delivered 430,000 affordable homes, including 134,000 homes for social rent. A quarter of this delivery was in London, where we have build 88,500 affordable homes.</p><p>The government has brought social housing waiting lists down by over half a million since 2010. We have also given councils the tools to deliver a new generation of council housing by removing the Housing Revenue Account borrowing cap, so they can deliver the homes their communities need, and we expect to see net increases in social housing stock in the years to come.</p><p>On 18 September 2018 we announced an additional £2 billion of long term funding certainty for housing associations. This extra funding will deliver more affordable homes and stimulate the sector’s wider building ambitions, through strategic partnerships.</p><p>On 27 June 2019, we opened bidding on £1 billion of this funding through Homes England. We are working closely with the Greater London Authority (GLA) to open bidding on £1 billion for London as soon as possible. Our ten year funding commitment through strategic partnerships marks the first time any government has invested such long-term funding in new homes through housing associations.</p> answering member constituency Tatton answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 07/10/2019 16:53:28 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey previous answer version 136847 answering member constituency Tatton answering member printed Esther McVey answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1146609

registered interest
date	26/09/2019
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: LGBT+ People
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 publish the findings from the Government’s research into homelessness in the LGBT community, as announced in the Rough Sleepers Strategy and the LGBT Action Plan.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	291461
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/10/2019 answer text <p>The research has been completed and the report will be published in due course.</p><p>The government is committed to reducing homelessness and rough sleeping. No one should ever have to sleep rough. That is why last summer we published the cross-government Rough Sleeping Strategy. This sets out an ambitious £100 million package to help people who sleep rough now, but also puts in place the structures that will end rough sleeping once and for all. It includes measures to improve the health outcomes of those who sleep rough.</p><p>This government has now committed over £1.2 billion to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping over the spending review period to April 2020. In 2020/2021 we are providing a further £422 million to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping. This marks a £54 million increase in funding from the previous year. This highlights the government’s continued focus on Homelessness and Rough Sleeping, and we will announce how this additional funding has been allocated in due course.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 01/10/2019 15:51:38 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1139727

registered interest
date	17/07/2019
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	Local Plans
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 recent estimate he has made of the number of Local Plans that include a requirement on new homes to be accessible and adaptable.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	278563
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>At present, the Government does not collect this data. A recent report by Habinteg suggests that less than a third of all English local plans currently set specific requirements for a percentage of new homes to be built to accessible or adaptable standards.</p><p>We have strengthened policy in the revised National Planning Policy Framework, published in July 2018, so that local planning authorities are expected to put in place specific policies to address the housing needs of older and disabled people. We have also strengthened the policy approach to accessible housing by setting out an expectation that planning policies for housing should make use of Government standards for accessible and adaptable housing.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 22/07/2019 13:52:56 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1139728

registered interest
date	17/07/2019
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: Disability and Older People
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 improve access to housing for (a) older and (b) disabled people.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	278564
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>In the revised National Planning Policy Framework, we strengthened policy to create a clear expectation that all councils have policies in place for addressing the housing needs of older and disabled people. In the Framework, we have also strengthened the policy approach to accessible housing by setting out an expectation that planning policies for housing should make use of the Government’s optional technical standards for accessible and adaptable housing. Additionally, on 25 June the Prime Minister announced that Government will consult on mandating higher accessibility standards for new housing.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 22/07/2019 13:52:14 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1137033

registered interest
date	04/07/2019
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: Older People
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 his Department is taking to ensure that all elderly people live in decent and accessible homes.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	273459
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2019 answer text <p>Everyone deserves a decent and safe place to live, and Government is committed to helping older and disabled people to live independently and safely. Over 516,000 local authority homes have been brought up to the Decent Homes Standard since 2010. The Social Housing Green Paper asked whether there are any changes to what constitutes a Decent Home and we are currently considering responses to the consultation. In the National Planning Policy Framework, we have strengthened the policy approach to accessible housing by setting out an expectation that planning policies for housing should make use of the Government’s optional technical standards for accessible and adaptable housing. Additionally, on 25 June the Prime Minister announced that Government will consult on mandating higher accessibility standards for new housing. Through the Disabled Facilities Grant Government also funds the provision of home adaptations to help enable eligible people of all ages to live independently and safely at home. Government has invested more than £2.7 billion into the grant (2012-13 to 2019-20), providing around 280,000 adaptations by the end of 2018-19.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 09/07/2019 16:07:15 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1137034

registered interest
date	04/07/2019
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: Older People
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 his Department has to ensure that higher accessibility standards for elderly people are incorporated into the current review of the decent homes standard; and how that standard will be applied to estate refurbishment programmes in order to meet the needs of an ageing population.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	273460
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2019 answer text <p>Everyone deserves a decent and safe place to live and Government is committed to helping older and disabled people to live independently and safely.</p><p>The Social Housing Green Paper asks if there are any changes to what constitutes a decent home that we should consider and whether we need additional measures to make sure homes are safe and decent. We are currently considering the responses to the consultation and expect our action plan and timetable for implementing wide-ranging reforms of social housing will be published in September.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 11/07/2019 15:34:54 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes