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931316

registered interest
date	26/06/2018
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	Antisemitism
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 the April 2018 final update to the All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry into Antisemitism, when he plans to hold the Departmental roundtable on concerns relating to the media which was agreed by his predecessor.
tabling member constituency	Makerfield
tabling member printed	Yvonne Fovargue
uin	157721
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>Following the ministerial roundtable with social media companies on 19 December 2017, it was agreed to host a similar roundtable with the print media. The roundtable will focus on the impact stories in the print media have on social media. Plans are already underway and the roundtable will be held before the end of the year.</p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 02/07/2018 16:40:13 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
tabling member	4034 label Biography information for Yvonne Fovargue

931011

registered interest
date	25/06/2018
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	Business Improvement Districts
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 there is a timescale for the publication of the outcome of an appeal in a Business Improvement Districts bid.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	157229
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2018 answer text <p>Legislation does not specify a time limit within which an appeal against the establishment of a Business Improvement District must be decided. The Secretary of State will issue a decision as soon as possible, having taken account of all representations received from those with an interest in the appeal.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 28/06/2018 16:23:04 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

931041

registered interest
date	25/06/2018
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	Nature Conservation
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 has taken to protect local wildlife sites through the National Planning Policy Framework; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Ashford
tabling member printed	Damian Green
uin	157003
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2018 answer text <p>This Government is committed to the strengthened environmental protections proposed in the revised National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), and making these clear. The revised Framework we consulted on proposed a number of measures, including by requiring local authorities to improve biodiversity and air quality, and delivering our manifesto commitment to increase the protection for ancient woodland. We engaged relevant stakeholders during the consultation, which closed on 10 May 2018, and we are currently considering responses. The revised NPPF and the Government’s response will be published this summer.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 04/07/2018 16:02:48 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	76 label Biography information for Damian Green

931075

registered interest
date	25/06/2018
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	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when he plans to respond to the letter of 30 May 2018 from the hon. Member for Greenwich and Woolwich on New Capital Quay, Royal Borough of Greenwich.
tabling member constituency	Greenwich and Woolwich
tabling member printed	Matthew Pennycook
uin	157209
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2018 answer text <p>I responded to the letter from the Hon Member for Greenwich and Woolwich on 27 June 2018.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 28/06/2018 16:17:42 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook

931125

registered interest
date	25/06/2018
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, what steps his Department is taking to tackle homelessness in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Sunderland Central
tabling member printed	Julie Elliott
uin	157163
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>This Government remains clear that one person without a home is one too many, and we are committed to preventing and reducing homelessness and Rough Sleeping.</p><p>To achieve this, we have taken a number of important actions, including implementing the most ambitious legislative reform in decades The Homelessness Reduction Act came into force in April 2018.</p><p>We have established the Rough Sleeping and Homelessness Reduction Taskforce that will bring forward the implementation of a cross-Government strategy, to achieve our commitment of halving rough sleeping by 2022 and eliminating it altogether by 2027.</p><p>Supporting the Taskforce is the expert Rough Sleeping Advisory Panel. In addition, the Government has now committed over £1.2 billion to tackle homelessness and Rough Sleeping through to 2020.</p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 02/07/2018 16:27:06 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
tabling member	4127 label Biography information for Julie Elliott

931126

registered interest
date	25/06/2018
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	Social Rented Housing: Construction
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 the report entitled Everybody In: How to end homelessness in Great Britain, published by Crisis in 2018, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of that report; and if he will make an assessment of the validity of that report's findings on the merits of building 100,500 social homes each year.
tabling member constituency	Sunderland Central
tabling member printed	Julie Elliott
uin	157164
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>The Government is aware homelessness is an issue which goes beyond Westminster, which is why the Rough Sleeping Advisory Panel was set up. The panel, of which Crisis CEO Jon Sparkes is a member, provides evidence-based advice which the Government will consider ahead of the upcoming Rough Sleeping Strategy.</p><p>This Government is pleased at how aligned the report is with actions we have already taken. The campaign calls for the implementation of schemes such as Housing First. In last autumn’s budget with £28 million worth of funding was announced for pilots in Manchester, Liverpool and the West Midlands.</p><p>We are committed to increasing the supply of new social homes. We are investing over £9 billion in affordable housing, and on June 26, this Department announced we will deliver a further 23,000 affordable homes, including at least 12,500 at social rent in high-cost areas, in a move to support families struggling to pay their rent. We have also invited local authorities in high affordability pressure areas to bid for a share of £1 billion extra borrowing to build much-needed homes.</p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 02/07/2018 16:41:00 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
tabling member	4127 label Biography information for Julie Elliott

931127

registered interest
date	25/06/2018
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: Young 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 he is doing to tackle levels of youth homelessness.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	157167
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2018 answer text <p>This government remains clear that one person without a home is one too many and we are committed to preventing and reducing homelessness and rough sleeping.</p><p>As well as allocating over £1.2 billion to tackle all forms of homelessness over the spending review period, the government has also taken forward a number of important actions to specifically prevent and reduce the levels of youth homelessness.</p><p>The Homelessness Reduction Act, which came into force in April this year, bolsters the support offer for families, care leavers and 16-17 year olds by ensuring that there are more opportunities for local authorities to put in place bespoke interventions to either prevent homelessness from happening in the first place, or relieve them from a homelessness crisis where it does occur.</p><p>Alongside legislative changes, we have also published revised guidance to make clear the respective duties of children’s services and housing services to secure or provide accommodation for 16 and 17 year old children who are homeless or in need of accommodation.</p><p>In addition, the government’s rough sleeping strategy, which will set out how the government will meet its manifesto commitments of halving rough sleeping by 2022, and ending it by 2027, will include specific action around tackling youth homelessness. The strategy will be published by July this year.</p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 28/06/2018 16:17:18 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

931128

registered interest
date	25/06/2018
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	Planning Authorities: Accountability
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 has taken to ensure local authority planning boards are accountable to local residents.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	157168
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2018 answer text <p>Planning board or committee members are usually local elected councillors and therefore accountable to the local electorate. They have to abide by the code of conduct each planning authority is required to adopt under Section 27 of the Localism Act 2011. The code of conduct must be consistent with the “Nolan” principles.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 28/06/2018 16:09:44 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

931136

registered interest
date	25/06/2018
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 Associations: 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, how much grant funding has been awarded to for-profit housing associations in each financial year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	157043
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2018 answer text <p>Three for-profit social housing providers have received a total of £2,471,290 from the Affordable Homes Programme since 2010. Data showing funding allocations up to January 2017 but is not published for each financial year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 03/07/2018 16:44:46 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

931137

registered interest
date	25/06/2018
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when his Department commissioned work to construct a national database of build-out rates on large sites; what the project specification is for that work; and what the timetable is for that work to be completed.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	157044
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2018 answer text <p>The Department ran a competitive tender to procure data on planning applications and development pipeline, which closed on 23 March 2018.</p><p>The specification for this database is publicly available at the following link: <a href="https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/cc21a568-739a-4090-8b7d-d58eb8b4cb84" target="_blank">https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/cc21a568-739a-4090-8b7d-d58eb8b4cb84</a>.</p><p>The specification covers a considerable amount of information relating to planning and development data. Very large sites are often complex in nature and as such the Department is currently working with the supplier to establish a robust methodology to consistently provide build-out information. This is currently being scoped and due to the complexity involved it is not possible to provide a definitive date for completion.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 05/07/2018 15:59:01 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey