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1064342

registered interest
date	20/02/2019
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	Community Development: 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, with reference to the Prime Minister's letter to the Leader of the Opposition of 10 February 2019, what steps he plans to take to provide further financial support to communities that feel left behind.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	223816
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to building an economy that works for everyone. We are exploring opportunities to support communities that feel left behind.</p><p>The Government will set out further detail in due course.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 25/02/2019 16:06:40 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1064348

registered interest
date	20/02/2019
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 Government Finance: Rural Areas
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, Research into drivers of service costs in rural areas: national analysis of unit costs, published by LG Futures in December 2014, whether the conclusions of that report will be used as an evidence base in his Department's review of local government funding.
tabling member constituency	Oldham West and Royton
tabling member printed	Jim McMahon
uin	223822
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government is undertaking a review of the relative needs and resources of local authorities in England, with a view to setting fresh baseline funding levels in 2020-21. We are working closely with local government representatives and others to examine all of the available evidence for the costs faced by authorities; including how factors such as rurality, sparsity and other geographical features affect the cost of delivering services across the country, and how to account for these in a robust manner.</p><p>Our December 2018 consultation paper (link below) set out a proposed Area Cost Adjustment approach, which uses the best available evidence, based on journey times, to reflect the impact of congestion in urban areas, as well as longer travel distances in rural areas on the relative cost of providing services. The consultation closed on 21 February and we will consider the many representations made in response, which will feed into the next phase of this work.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/review-of-local-authorities-relative-needs-and-resources" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/review-of-local-authorities-relative-needs-and-resources</a>.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 25/02/2019 16:22:12 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4569 label Biography information for Jim McMahon

1064364

registered interest
date	20/02/2019
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	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, what steps his Department taking to (a) monitor and (b) tackle levels of antisemitism in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	223838
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <p>We work closely with the Community Security Trust and other representative community partners through the Cross-Government Working Group to Tackle Antisemitism. The Working Group is held up as an example of best practice internationally for cooperation between government and minority communities. Through the Working Group we have funded projects to highlight and counter antisemitism directed at women, and to combat the dissemination of antisemitic tropes in society.</p><p>We have also worked with the police to improve the recording of hate crime. This includes a requirement to record the targeted faith or belief in incidents of religiously motivated hate crime. The first set of statistics reflecting this new requirement with disaggregated figures for religiously motivated hate crime were published in October 2018. These statistics can be found at <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/748598/hate-crime-1718-hosb2018.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/748598/hate-crime-1718-hosb2018.pdf</a>.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 25/02/2019 16:06:17 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

1064378

registered interest
date	20/02/2019
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	Citizens' Assemblies
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 place in the Library the list of local authority areas which have bid successfully to begin local Innovation in Democracy pilots.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	223903
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2019 answer text <p>The Innovation in Democracy Pilot Programme (IIDP) is a great opportunity for local people to get involved in influencing policy decisions through facilitated partnerships with their local authorities. Successful areas will be announced shortly and will be published on <a href="http://www.gov.uk" target="_blank">www.gov.uk</a>.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 26/02/2019 13:51:06 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1064402

registered interest
date	20/02/2019
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: 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 funding from the Homelessness Relief Fund was granted to (a) Barnsley, (b) South Yorkshire and (c) nationally in each year since that fund was established.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	223927
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2019 answer text <p>Local authorities across the country receive funding to prevent and relieve homelessness from my Department. This includes preventing homelessness core funding and flexible homelessness support grant funding. However, we do not operate a fund called the Homelessness Relief Fund and are therefore unable to provide the specific information you request.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 26/02/2019 16:12:11 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1064581

registered interest
date	20/02/2019
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	Social Rented Housing: Refugees
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 quality of social housing used for refugees.
tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
uin	HL13900
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2019 answer text <p>Successful asylum seekers who are granted refugee status are eligible to be allocated social housing. Where they apply for social housing, they will have their housing needs considered on the same basis as other eligible applicants in accordance with the local authority’s housing allocation scheme.</p><p>The Regulator of Social Housing’s standards (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/regulatory-standards" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/regulatory-standards</a>) include a requirement for tenants’ homes to meet the government’s Decent Homes Standard. In the Social Housing Green Paper, we asked whether the Decent Homes Standard should be reviewed. We also invited views on whether new safety measures introduced in to the private rented sector should apply in the social rented sector. We expect to set out the government’s response to the Green Paper in Spring 2019.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 04/03/2019 15:42:10 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham

1064582

registered interest
date	20/02/2019
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: Asylum
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 adequacy of the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017 and its operation in regard to (1) asylum accommodation, and (2) refugees who are homeless.
tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
uin	HL13901
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2019 answer text <p>The Homelessness Reduction Act is the most ambitious reform to homelessness legislation in decades and placed new duties on local housing authorities to take reasonable steps to try to prevent and relieve a person’s homelessness. Acting earlier and for a broader range of people means more people will get the help they need before they face a homelessness crisis. We have committed to reviewing the implementation of the Act, including the resourcing of it and how it is working in practice for a wide group of people, by March 2020.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 04/03/2019 15:47:52 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham

1064591

registered interest
date	20/02/2019
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	Retail Trade: Urban Areas
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of any disparity in high street rent rates between large chains and small businesses; what is the reason for any such difference in those rates; and whether they intend to introduce lower rent rates for small independent health food outlets on the high street.
tabling member printed	Baroness Boycott
uin	HL13910
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2019 answer text <p>The Department does not hold the information requested, as the level of rent paid by the tenant of a commercial property is agreed by the landlord and tenant on an individual basis. This information is not reported centrally. We do not currently have any plans to regulate the rents for small independent health food outlets on the high street.</p><p>At the Autumn Budget, we set out Our Plan to support the sustainable transformation of high streets, which included a £675 million Future High Streets Fund, to support local areas in England to invest in town centre infrastructure, to increase access to high streets and support redevelopment and densification around high streets.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 04/03/2019 15:51:13 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	4704 label Biography information for Baroness Boycott

1064613

registered interest
date	20/02/2019
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	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Billing
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government which sub-central public bodies associated with the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government are within scope of Regulation 113 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 requiring contracting authorities to pay undisputed invoices within 30 days and to publish their payment performance online.
tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
uin	HL13932
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2019 answer text <p>The Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) publish prompt payment information for MHCLG, the Planning Inspectorate (PINS) and Homes England (HE); the data is published on a quarterly basis (attached) on gov.uk (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dclg-prompt-payment-data). This is in line with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Statutory guidance for contracting authorities and Suppliers on paying undisputed invoices in 30 days down the supply chain), and is issued under Regulation 113.</p><p>The Planning Inspectorate is an Executive Agency of MHCLG, and Homes England is a non-departmental public body.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 06/03/2019 11:48:33 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth attachment 1 file name 190306 prompt payment data HL13932.xlsx title Prompt payment data
tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

1063945

registered interest
date	19/02/2019
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: 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, what recent assessment he has made of the quality of new build homes produced by (a) large house builders, (b) medium house builders and (c) small house builders and (d) micro house builders.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	223117
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2019 answer text <p>The design quality of homes and places are determined by the revised National Planning Policy Framework and Building Regulations, to which all house builders have to adhere. It is for local planning authorities to assess the design quality of schemes submitted to them, on the basis of national and local policy, and regulation. <br> <br> It is also vital that, as housing supply increases, the build quality of new build homes continues to improve. We know more needs to be done to strengthen consumer redress for purchasers of new build homes delivered by all sizes of developers, which is why on 1 October, we announced our intention for there to be a New Homes Ombudsman to protect the rights of homebuyers and hold developers to account. When Parliamentary time allows, we intend to introduce legislation to require developers of new build homes to belong to a New Homes Ombudsman, which will be underpinned in statute. <br> <em> <em> <em> <br></em></em></em></p><p> </p><p><em> <br> <br> <br></em></p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 27/02/2019 12:48:19 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes