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1347883

registered interest
date	19/07/2021
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	What steps his Department is taking to increase the supply of affordable new homes.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South West
tabling member printed	Stuart Anderson
uin	902867
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2021 answer text <p>This Government cares deeply about building more homes. Since 2010, we have delivered over 1.8 million new homes, including 542,400 new affordable homes, so homes are there where people need them.</p><p>We are investing in supply, with over £12 billion in affordable housing over five years, the largest investment in a decade, and £7.1 billion in the National Home Building Fund, to unlock up to 860,000 homes over the lifetime of the projects, including much-needed new homes on brownfield land.</p><p>As set out in the Planning for the Future White Paper, the Government will speed up the planning system, enabling us to build homes more quickly.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher grouped question UIN 902870 question first answered 19/07/2021 16:26:10 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4742 label Biography information for Stuart Anderson

1225607

registered interest
date	16/07/2020
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, whether local authorities are required to comply with the Duty to Co-operate to fulfil unmet affordable housing needs.
tabling member constituency	Luton South
tabling member printed	Rachel Hopkins
uin	75487
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2020 answer text <p>The National Planning Policy Framework makes clear that local planning authorities are under a duty to cooperate with each other on strategic matters that cross administrative boundaries; and should collaborate to identify the relevant strategic matters which they need to address in their plans. Strategic policies should set out an overall strategy for the pattern, scale and quality of development, and make sufficient provision for housing (including affordable housing).</p><p>In July 2018 we introduced the statement of common ground to introduce much needed transparency over strategic planning issues, highlighting where effective cooperation is and is not happening ahead of plans being submitted for examination.</p><p>A local plan examination will first assess whether a local planning authority has complied with the duty to cooperate and other legal requirements. In considering whether the tests of soundness have been met, the examination Inspector will need to be satisfied that the Plan is consistent with national policy. We want authorities to work constructively together to ensure housing need is met and Inspectors are able to assess whether unmet need should be taken by other authorities through recommending modifications to a plan.</p><p>Some 16 Local Plans have been withdrawn from examination on Duty to Cooperate grounds since it was introduced by the Localism Act in 2011. These were often for a range of reasons, but on two occasions these included reference to affordable housing.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher grouped question UIN 75488 75489 75490 question first answered 21/07/2020 13:20:06 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4873 label Biography information for Rachel Hopkins

1225608

registered interest
date	16/07/2020
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, what steps the Government takes to reconcile differences between local authorities under the Duty to Co-operate to fulfil unmet affordable housing need.
tabling member constituency	Luton South
tabling member printed	Rachel Hopkins
uin	75488
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2020 answer text <p>The National Planning Policy Framework makes clear that local planning authorities are under a duty to cooperate with each other on strategic matters that cross administrative boundaries; and should collaborate to identify the relevant strategic matters which they need to address in their plans. Strategic policies should set out an overall strategy for the pattern, scale and quality of development, and make sufficient provision for housing (including affordable housing).</p><p>In July 2018 we introduced the statement of common ground to introduce much needed transparency over strategic planning issues, highlighting where effective cooperation is and is not happening ahead of plans being submitted for examination.</p><p>A local plan examination will first assess whether a local planning authority has complied with the duty to cooperate and other legal requirements. In considering whether the tests of soundness have been met, the examination Inspector will need to be satisfied that the Plan is consistent with national policy. We want authorities to work constructively together to ensure housing need is met and Inspectors are able to assess whether unmet need should be taken by other authorities through recommending modifications to a plan.</p><p>Some 16 Local Plans have been withdrawn from examination on Duty to Cooperate grounds since it was introduced by the Localism Act in 2011. These were often for a range of reasons, but on two occasions these included reference to affordable housing.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher grouped question UIN 75487 75489 75490 question first answered 21/07/2020 13:20:06 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4873 label Biography information for Rachel Hopkins

1225609

registered interest
date	16/07/2020
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, what assessment his Department has made of whether local authorities are co-operating effectively to fulfil unmet housing need.
tabling member constituency	Luton South
tabling member printed	Rachel Hopkins
uin	75489
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2020 answer text <p>The National Planning Policy Framework makes clear that local planning authorities are under a duty to cooperate with each other on strategic matters that cross administrative boundaries; and should collaborate to identify the relevant strategic matters which they need to address in their plans. Strategic policies should set out an overall strategy for the pattern, scale and quality of development, and make sufficient provision for housing (including affordable housing).</p><p>In July 2018 we introduced the statement of common ground to introduce much needed transparency over strategic planning issues, highlighting where effective cooperation is and is not happening ahead of plans being submitted for examination.</p><p>A local plan examination will first assess whether a local planning authority has complied with the duty to cooperate and other legal requirements. In considering whether the tests of soundness have been met, the examination Inspector will need to be satisfied that the Plan is consistent with national policy. We want authorities to work constructively together to ensure housing need is met and Inspectors are able to assess whether unmet need should be taken by other authorities through recommending modifications to a plan.</p><p>Some 16 Local Plans have been withdrawn from examination on Duty to Cooperate grounds since it was introduced by the Localism Act in 2011. These were often for a range of reasons, but on two occasions these included reference to affordable housing.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher grouped question UIN 75487 75488 75490 question first answered 21/07/2020 13:20:07 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4873 label Biography information for Rachel Hopkins

1225610

registered interest
date	16/07/2020
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, how many local plans have been rejected as a result of a failure of local authorities to co-operate to increase affordable housing, in England, since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Luton South
tabling member printed	Rachel Hopkins
uin	75490
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2020 answer text <p>The National Planning Policy Framework makes clear that local planning authorities are under a duty to cooperate with each other on strategic matters that cross administrative boundaries; and should collaborate to identify the relevant strategic matters which they need to address in their plans. Strategic policies should set out an overall strategy for the pattern, scale and quality of development, and make sufficient provision for housing (including affordable housing).</p><p>In July 2018 we introduced the statement of common ground to introduce much needed transparency over strategic planning issues, highlighting where effective cooperation is and is not happening ahead of plans being submitted for examination.</p><p>A local plan examination will first assess whether a local planning authority has complied with the duty to cooperate and other legal requirements. In considering whether the tests of soundness have been met, the examination Inspector will need to be satisfied that the Plan is consistent with national policy. We want authorities to work constructively together to ensure housing need is met and Inspectors are able to assess whether unmet need should be taken by other authorities through recommending modifications to a plan.</p><p>Some 16 Local Plans have been withdrawn from examination on Duty to Cooperate grounds since it was introduced by the Localism Act in 2011. These were often for a range of reasons, but on two occasions these included reference to affordable housing.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher grouped question UIN 75487 75488 75489 question first answered 21/07/2020 13:20:06 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4873 label Biography information for Rachel Hopkins

1182774

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 4 February 2020 to Question 22361 on Affordable Housing, if he will publish data for the annual amount of grant funding allocated to affordable housing in (a) 2008-09 and (b) 2009-10.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	25013
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2020 answer text <p>MHCLG and its predecessor DCLG publicly publish accounts and financial statements going back to 2010/11 which can be accessed here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/247455/0971.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/247455/0971.pdf.</a></p><p>The overall investment in the 2008-11 National Affordable Housing Programme (NAHP) was £8 billion at the start of the programme, with a further £2.28 billion allocated to the programme for residual delivery in the 2011-15 Affordable Homes Programme (AHP) for a total of just over £10 billion.</p><p>Details of these amounts may be found at:</p><ul><li>The NAHP prospectus: <a href="https://www.housinglin.org.uk/_assets/Resources/Housing/Policy_documents/nahp_08-11.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.housinglin.org.uk/_assets/Resources/Housing/Policy_documents/nahp_08-11.pdf.</a></li><li>The 2011-15 AHP Framework: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/247455/0971.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/247455/0971.pdf.</a></li></ul><p>To provide data regarding the annual amount of grant funding allocated to affordable housing by the department in 2008/9 and 2009/10 internally would be at a disproportionate cost to the department. However, this data may also be found in the public domain at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmt-oscar-publishing-from-the-database" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmt-oscar-publishing-from-the-database</a>.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 09/03/2020 12:06:35 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1181537

registered interest
date	28/02/2020
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, with reference to his oral contribution of 27 February 2020, Official report, column 509, if he will provide details of the annual amount of grant funding allocated to affordable housing in each of the last 10 financial years.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	22361
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2020 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.</p><p>The table below provides details on affordable homes programme funding since 2010. This data may also be found in the public domain at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmt-oscar-publishing-from-the-database" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmt-oscar-publishing-from-the-database</a></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Affordable Homes Programme Expenditure</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>£2,660,493,213</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>£1,431,994,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>£1,136,633,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>£1,219,494,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>£1,342,398,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>£1,256,863,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>£747,333,.000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>£1,308,730,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>£1,670,312,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The way in which our delivery partners Homes England and the Greater London Authority allocate this funding across the country is publicly available. To view the further allocations across England regions and local authorities please see the following:</p><ul><li>London funding allocations: <a href="https://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/hfl_allocations_-_location_and_provider.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/hfl_allocations_- _location_and_provider.pdf</a></li></ul><ul><li>Homes England AHP provider funding: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/865148/Funding_by_lead_provider_Final.csv/preview" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/865148/Funding_by_lead_provider_Final.csv/preview</a></li></ul> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 04/03/2020 15:28:22 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1180434

registered interest
date	25/02/2020
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, how much funding has been allocated under the Shared Ownership and Affordable Homes Programme 2016 to 2021 to date in each (a) region and (b) local authority area.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	20383
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2020 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.</p><p>The programme is delivered by our partners Homes England and the Greater London Authority (GLA), with £4.7 billion allocated to Homes England and £4.8 billion to the GLA.</p><p>The way in which Homes England and the GLA allocate this funding across the country is publicly available. To view the further allocations across England regions and local authorities please see the following:</p><ul><li>London funding allocations: <a href="https://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/hfl_allocations_-_location_and_provider.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/hfl_allocations_-_location_and_provider.pdf</a></li><li>Homes England AHP minimum geography funding allocations: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/865149/Funding_by_Homes_England_minimum_geography_area_Final.csv/preview" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/865149/Funding_by_Homes_England_minimum_geography_area_Final.csv/preview</a></li><li>Homes England summary report:<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/shared-ownership-and-affordable-homes-programme-2016-to-2021-summary-end-of-september-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/shared-ownership-and-affordable-homes-programme-2016-to-2021-summary-end-of-september-2019</a>.</li></ul> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 02/03/2020 15:58:41 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1178382

registered interest
date	13/02/2020
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, how much funding has been allocated under the (a) Shared Ownership and Affordable Homes Programme (SOAHP) 2016 to 2021 and (b) addendum to the SOAHP published in June 2018 to each region (a) in total and (b) per capita.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	2034
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2020 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.</p><p>The Mayor has overall responsibility for affordable housing policy and programme delivery in London. Government has agreed a £4.8 billion deal with the GLA.</p><p>Homes England is responsible for the delivery of the Affordable Homes Programme for the rest of England and have been allocated £4.9 billion.</p><p>The Department publishes spend information on spend in its yearly accounts which are available on gov.uk at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/mhclg-annual-report-and-accounts-2018-to-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/mhclg-annual-report-and-accounts-2018-to-2019</a></p><p>We do not publish annualised data on capital spend by local areas.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 24/02/2020 17:48:43 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1151877

registered interest
date	23/10/2019
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
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 introducing rent freezes to maintain affordable housing for low-income households.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	4287
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>The government does not favour the introduction of caps on private rents as this could restrict investment in the private rented sector. From 1915 to the late 1980s, successive governments implemented policies to control or restrict private rents, which coincided with the decline in the private rented sector from nine-tenths of the housing stock in 1915 to one tenth in 1991. <br> <br> Rent caps have lead to worse property conditions for tenants by discouraging investment in existing accommodation.</p> answering member constituency Tatton answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 04/11/2019 15:41:56 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey previous answer version 2256 answering member constituency Tatton answering member printed Esther McVey answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly