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995631

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date	26/10/2018
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	Landlords: Databases
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government when they plan to make the database of rogue landlords and property agents publicly available.
tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
uin	HL11056
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2018 answer text <p>We intend to bring forward legislation to make information held on the database of rogue landlords and property agents public as soon as parliamentary time allows.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 08/11/2018 13:24:32 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

995632

registered interest
date	26/10/2018
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	Private Rented Housing: Tenants
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment have they made of the adequacy of the legislation protecting private sector tenants.
tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
uin	HL11057
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to offering stronger protections for private sector tenants and ensuring that people are living in safe and good quality properties.</p><p>Tenants are protected from eviction through the Protection from Eviction Act 1977, the Housing Act 1988, the Housing Act 1985 and through the retaliatory eviction provisions in the Deregulation Act 2015.</p><p>Other legislation includes the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 requiring landlords to keep electrical installations in the property in repair and proper working order and the Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS), introduced by the Housing Act 2004 to assess health and safety in residential properties. The Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm (England) regulations protect tenants from death or injury in the home caused by smoke and carbon monoxide poisoning, and the Energy Efficiency (Private Rented Sector Property) (England and Wales) Regulations improve the energy efficiency of domestic privately rented properties.</p><p>Government is now going further and has announced a mandatory requirement on landlords in the private rented sector to ensure electrical installations in their property are inspected every five years and is supporting the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Bill.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 08/11/2018 13:23:39 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

995633

registered interest
date	26/10/2018
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	High Street Review
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the Portas Review on UK high streets.
tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
uin	HL11058
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2018 answer text <p>The Portas Review was published in December 2011, and the Government accepted all but one of the 28 recommendations. This included establishing 27 Portas Pilots. Following the Portas Pilots, the Government helped established over 330 Town Teams, each with £10,000 of funding.</p><p>We recognise that consumer behaviour has changed since 2011. We are taking action to help the high street evolve. That is why we have set out an ambitious Action Plan in the Autumn Budget, to support the sustainable transformation of high streets.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 06/11/2018 15:39:32 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

995637

registered interest
date	26/10/2018
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 Revenue Accounts
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that councils can make use of any additional flexibility made possible by the removal of the cap on councils' borrowing against their Housing Revenue Account assets to finance the construction of new homes without undue bureaucracy.
tabling member printed	Lord Porter of Spalding
uin	HL11062
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2018 answer text <p>The Autumn Budget announced the complete abolition of the Housing Revenue Account borrowing cap with immediate effect. Following consultation, we have issued a determination that revoked the previous determinations specifying local authority limits on indebtedness, and as a result local authorities can now borrow for housebuilding in accordance with the Prudential Code. We want to see local authorities seize this opportunity and build a new generation of council housing.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 08/11/2018 13:24:18 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	4555 label Biography information for Lord Porter of Spalding

995638

registered interest
date	26/10/2018
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: Construction
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to make any changes to the New Homes Bonus scheme in the next financial year.
tabling member printed	Lord Porter of Spalding
uin	HL11063
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2018 answer text <p>The Local Government Finance Settlement Technical consultation noted that the Government was not consulting on further changes to the New Homes Bonus for 2019/20 allocations but that the level of the baseline for growth, below which new allocations of the New Homes Bonus are not made, would be reviewed prior to the announcement of provisional allocations for 2019/20. As outlined in the Technical consultation, any changes to the baseline in 2019/20 will be announced at the time of the provisional Local Government Finance Settlement.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 08/11/2018 13:22:32 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	4555 label Biography information for Lord Porter of Spalding