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832847

registered interest
date	29/01/2018
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 Rise Flats: Fire Prevention
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether, once the Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety is complete, they intend to offer advice to local authorities regarding legal action being taken against those building firms and their sub-contractors that did not ensure compliance with building regulations and fire safety provisions in relation to the cladding of high-rise buildings.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb
uin	HL5159
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2018 answer text <p>Under provisions in the Building Act (1984) it is for local authorities to decide when a prosecution for non-compliance with the requirements in the Building Regulations would be appropriate.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 08/02/2018 15:13:17 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	4297 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb

832874

registered interest
date	29/01/2018
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	Small Businesses: Non-domestic Rates
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 distribute the hardship relief funds made available to support small businesses facing business rate rises; and what sums remain unallocated.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL5177
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2018 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for the design and implementation of their local schemes and for distributing the relief from the £300 million discretionary fund. The vast majority of billing authorities have begun implementing the relief and providing this support to eligible businesses.</p><p>However, the Government has been clear that it is unacceptable that some authorities have failed to act quickly enough. In order to expedite delivery, we have written to local authority leaders and MPs and engaged directly with billing software suppliers. Since October, we have published and regularly update the list of local authorities which have started to rebill.</p><p>Following, the end of the financial year any unallocated funds will be returned to Government and businesses stand to miss out, so it is imperative that authorities take all necessary action to avoid this.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth grouped question UIN HL5178 question first answered 07/02/2018 17:30:43 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

832876

registered interest
date	29/01/2018
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	Small Businesses: Non-domestic Rates
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether councils will still have access to their year one allocation of hardship relief funds for small businesses facing business rate rises, in the event that they fail to distribute unallocated funds before April.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL5178
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2018 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for the design and implementation of their local schemes and for distributing the relief from the £300 million discretionary fund. The vast majority of billing authorities have begun implementing the relief and providing this support to eligible businesses.</p><p>However, the Government has been clear that it is unacceptable that some authorities have failed to act quickly enough. In order to expedite delivery, we have written to local authority leaders and MPs and engaged directly with billing software suppliers. Since October, we have published and regularly update the list of local authorities which have started to rebill.</p><p>Following, the end of the financial year any unallocated funds will be returned to Government and businesses stand to miss out, so it is imperative that authorities take all necessary action to avoid this.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth grouped question UIN HL5177 question first answered 07/02/2018 17:30:43 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

832937

registered interest
date	29/01/2018
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: Forests
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 ancient woodlands and trees are protected during the construction of new housing developments.
tabling member constituency	York Outer
tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
uin	125253
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2018 answer text <p>The National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) affords strong protection to ancient woodland, and aged or veteran trees. We acknowledged in the Housing White Paper, that this protection could be further clarified and intend to publish a draft NPPF for consultation early this year.</p><p>In the event planning permission is granted for development, the local planning authority can impose planning conditions to ensure the protection of trees and ancient woodland to be retained, in line with the policies set out in the NPPF.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 06/02/2018 16:15:37 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

832975

registered interest
date	29/01/2018
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	Grenfell Tower: Fires
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 information his Department holds on how many residents of the Grenfell Walkways have been rehoused as at 26 January 2018.
tabling member constituency	Tottenham
tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
uin	125291
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2018 answer text <p>As of 29 January, figures from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea show that 40 households from Barandon, Hurstway and Testerton Walks (collectively known as ‘the Walkways’) who moved into emergency accommodation as a result of the fire, have now been housed in interim accommodation.</p><p>The Council set out a draft permanent rehousing policy that applies to residents of the Walkways who do not wish to return to their homes; the public consultation on this policy ended on 5 January and the Council will take residents’ views into account when they confirm a final policy.</p><p>We are working closely with the Council to ensure residents are able to return to their homes where possible. The Government has allocated £15 million of funds in the recent budget, which will be matched by the Council, to invest into the Lancaster West Estate to make it a model for social housing and a wonderful, vibrant place to live.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 06/02/2018 13:02:45 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

832999

registered interest
date	29/01/2018
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	Land Use: West Midlands
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 estimate he has made of the number of hectares of land in the West Midlands changing to residential use that was (a) previously developed and (b) not previously developed, since 1988.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	125315
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2018 answer text <p>Regional estimates of land use change are not published.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 05/02/2018 14:42:21 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab previous answer version 38855 answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

833030

registered interest
date	29/01/2018
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	Non-domestic Rates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, which criteria were used to determine the allocation of the latest round of business rates retention pilots.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	125346
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2018 answer text <p>All applications to become a 100 per cent business rates retention pilot in 2018/19 were assessed under the criteria laid out in the ‘Invitation to Local Authorities in England to pilot 100% Business Rates Retention in 2018/19 and to pioneer new pooling and tier-split models’, published on 1 September 2017:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/654936/Pilots_1819_Prospectus.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/654936/Pilots_1819_Prospectus.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 01/02/2018 15:22:18 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

831120

registered interest
date	26/01/2018
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 Finance Initiative
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 paragraph 1.25 of PFI and PF2, published by the NAO on 18 January 2018, HC 718, what plans his Department has to start recording data on the cost effectiveness of PFI deals.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	125128
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2018 answer text <p>My Department supports Public Finance Initiatives (PFI) Housing and Joint Service Centre projects contracted directly by local authorities. The majority of PFI projects date back to 1999-2010 and no PFIs have been set up since 2014. They were subject to extensive value for money assessments before authorities entered into them and, in 2011, the Department ran a savings exercise on projects still within their procurement stage which identified over £531 million of savings over the lifetime of remaining projects.</p><p>All PFI projects are now operational and authorities are expected to continue to seek to improve the value for money of their projects wherever possible. The Department offers advice and support directly to individual local authorities and holds network events to share best practice between local authorities on making savings on its supported Housing and Joint Service Centre PFI projects.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 05/02/2018 14:14:58 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

831133

registered interest
date	26/01/2018
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, pursuant to the Answer of 25 January 2018 to Question 123693, if he will publish updated figures on the (a) number, (b) type and (c) tenure of homes under construction on public land since the publication of The Public Land for Housing programme 2015-20 annual report, published in February 2017.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	125141
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2018 answer text <p>The next Public Land for Housing programme annual report will be published shortly. This will give an update on homes constructed on public land.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 05/02/2018 14:32:30 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

831135

registered interest
date	26/01/2018
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	Carillion
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 25 January 2018 to Question 123694, if he will publish a summary of the risk assessments that have been completed with commercially sensitive information redacted.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	125143
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2018 answer text <p>Due to the ongoing nature of the situation, there are no plans to publish risk assessments.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 31/01/2018 14:20:36 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey