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1179829

registered interest
date	24/02/2020
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	Local Plans: South Oxfordshire
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they expect South Oxfordshire District Council to take to improve its local plan.
tabling member printed	Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
uin	HL1708
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2020 answer text <p>On 3 October 2019 South Oxfordshire District Council Cabinet recommended the withdrawal of the emerging South Oxfordshire local plan. On 9 October 2019 the Secretary of State directed South Oxfordshire District Council not to take any steps in connection with the adoption of the local plan, while he considers this matter. This direction remains in force.</p> answering member printed Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist question first answered 09/03/2020 16:56:19 answering member 4582 label Biography information for Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist
tabling member	4719 label Biography information for Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle

1179877

registered interest
date	24/02/2020
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	Housing Improvement: Grants
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the total amount of assistance, excluding any assistance for disability access improvements, provided to the owners of homes in the form of (1) standard grants, (2) improvement grants, (3) intermediate grants, (4) renovation grants, and (5) similar grants, to renovate and improve older private sector housing; and what was the cost to the national exchequer for each year of the operation of those grants.
tabling member printed	Lord Greaves
uin	HL1740
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2020 answer text <p>The Department does not provide funding to the owners of older, private housing stock for renovation and improvement work. However this Government has been clear that the Housing Market should be fair for everyone, which is why in January last year, the Government announced plans for a new Housing Complaints Resolution Service to help consumers more easily access help when things go wrong with their home.</p> answering member printed Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist question first answered 09/03/2020 16:57:23 answering member 4582 label Biography information for Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist
tabling member	2569 label Biography information for Lord Greaves

1180200

registered interest
date	24/02/2020
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	Religious Hatred
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Viscount Younger of Leckie on 3 February (HL727), what consideration they have given to requiring allegations of an offence of stirring up religious hatred to be supported by two witnesses, in order to restrict frivolous complaints.
tabling member printed	Lord Vinson
uin	HL1822
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2020 answer text <p>It is an operational matter for the police to determine whether and how to investigate all incidents reported to them. The Crown Prosecution Service will also apply the Code for Crown Prosecutors to ensure a prosecution will not proceed where a complaint is deemed to be frivolous. Decisions to prosecute are furthermore subject to consideration under the Freedom of Expression defence contained in Section 29J of the Public Order Act 1986.</p> answering member printed Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist question first answered 09/03/2020 16:56:51 answering member 4582 label Biography information for Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist
tabling member	1807 label Biography information for Lord Vinson

1178340

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	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 recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of Government policies on tackling on homelessness since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Poplar and Limehouse
tabling member printed	Apsana Begum
uin	2025
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2020 answer text <p>This Government is clear that no one should be without a roof over their head. That is why we have committed to ending rough sleeping within this Parliament and to enforcing the Homelessness Reduction Act. The Government is providing £437 million over 2020/21 to tackle homelessness, which marks a £69 million increase on last year’s funding.</p><p>On 27 February we released national figures from the Official 2019 Rough Sleeping Snapshot which shows that the number of people sleeping on our streets on a single night has fallen for the second time in eight years, down 9% from the previous year. In areas funded by the Rough Sleeping Initiative, the decrease is 12 per cent from the previous year. Additionally, the number of people estimated to be sleeping rough in London has decreased by 11 per cent from the previous year - the first time in six years.</p><p>The Homelessness Reduction Act was introduced in 2018. Whilst in early stages, experimental data is indicating positive change. During this period, local authorities accepted a new prevention or relief duty to over 333,000 households. For the households where the prevention duty ended, 58 per cent had been helped to stay in their home or to secure alternative accommodation. For households actually homeless and owed the relief duty, 42 per cent had been helped to secure suitable accommodation. We are undertaking a review of the Act which will report back in March 2020.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 02/03/2020 15:50:18 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	4790 label Biography information for Apsana Begum

1178341

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	High Rise Flats: Insulation
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 the Government’s timescale is for ensuring that all high-rise residential buildings identified with ACM cladding have had that cladding removed and replaced.
tabling member constituency	Poplar and Limehouse
tabling member printed	Apsana Begum
uin	2026
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2020 answer text <p>It is the Government’s priority to ensure that unsafe ACM cladding is removed and replaced swiftly from high rise residential buildings, and at no cost to leaseholders. The £600 million which the Government has committed to remediate high-rise residential buildings with unsafe ACM cladding removes the biggest blocker to pace of remediation.</p><p>The Department has regular engagement with a named contact from each building to ensure progress with remediation is being made. Building owners who have not already taken action, must do so now. Further delay is not acceptable. Where building owners are failing to make acceptable progress, those responsible should expect further action to be taken – including naming and shaming and enforcement.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 24/02/2020 18:06:50 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4790 label Biography information for Apsana Begum

1178342

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	High Rise Flats: Fire Extinguishers
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 effectiveness of sprinkler systems in improving fire safety in tower blocks.
tabling member constituency	Poplar and Limehouse
tabling member printed	Apsana Begum
uin	2027
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2020 answer text <p>Research by the Building Research Establishment into the effectiveness of residential sprinklers estimates a reduction in deaths and injuries at 76 per cent and 58 per cent respectively. The Secretary of State's statement on building safety on 20 January 2020 set out that we are considering lowering the height threshold for sprinkler requirements in new buildings to 11 metres.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 24/02/2020 18:08:58 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4790 label Biography information for Apsana Begum

1178343

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	Retail Trade: Business 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, if he will publish the criteria upon which high street shops were determined to be eligible for rate relief.
tabling member constituency	North Thanet
tabling member printed	Sir Roger Gale
uin	1847
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2020 answer text <p>The Government published updated guidance to local authorities on the application of the retail discount for 2020-21, on 27 January 2020 which can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fuploads%2Fsystem%2Fuploads%2Fattachment_data%2Ffile%2F861633%2F200129_Retail_Discount_Guidance.pdf&amp;data=02%7C01%7CParliamentary%40communities.gov.uk%7Cb39bc6ce5cdd40c1695a08d7b6c3a540%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637178823706885898&amp;sdata=R7GDnqv0pAN%2BsYewq9Nd03joTcJmtsO5i6slT1xEyHQ%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/861633/200129_Retail_Discount_Guidance.pdf</a></p><p><br>The guidance sets out the relevant criteria to enable local authorities to determine which high street properties are eligible for the discount.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 24/02/2020 16:28:41 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	87 label Biography information for Sir Roger Gale

1178352

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	Gambling: Business 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, for what reasons adult gaming centres are excluded from high street rate relief.
tabling member constituency	North Thanet
tabling member printed	Sir Roger Gale
uin	1848
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2020 answer text <p>The guidance for local authorities on application of the business rates retail discount sets out the types of property use that the Government considers to be retail use for the purposes of the discount. While the guidance does not specifically refer to adult gaming centres, it lists a range of service provision uses that the Government does not consider to be retail use, including betting shops. As set out in the guidance it is for local authorities to determine whether particular properties are broadly similar in nature to those specifically excluded by the guidance and, if so, to consider them not eligible for the relief under their local scheme.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 24/02/2020 16:30:03 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	87 label Biography information for Sir Roger Gale

1178363

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	Sleeping Rough
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 discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on additional funding to tackle rough sleeping in the next spending round.
tabling member constituency	Northampton South
tabling member printed	Andrew Lewer
uin	2028
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2020 answer text <p>Ministers and officials in my department have regular discussions with counterparts in HM Treasury on a range of issues, including rough sleeping.</p><p>The Government has made clear that no one should be without a roof over their head, which is why we have committed to end rough sleeping within this Parliament and to fully enforce the Homelessness Reduction Act.</p><p>In 2020/2021 we are providing £437 million to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping. This marks a £69 million increase in funding from the previous year.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 02/03/2020 15:55:33 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	4659 label Biography information for Andrew Lewer

1178369

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	Building Regulations
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 make an assessment of the (a) potential merits of making local authorities economically liable for negligence in the exercise of their building control functions and (b) effectiveness of the exercise by those authorities of those functions.
tabling member constituency	St Ives
tabling member printed	Derek Thomas
uin	1947
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2020 answer text <p>As part of our reforms to building safety, we are establishing a new Building Safety Regulator which will provide enhanced oversight of the building safety regulatory system.</p><p>Building work is subject to building control either by the local authority or a private approved inspector. It is the responsibility of the building control body to take all reasonable steps to assess compliance. However, building control is a spot checking process at certain points during the building work.</p><p>A compliance certificate issued by a local authorities building control team is not an absolute guarantee of compliance and in no way removes the responsibility of compliance from the builder or installer.</p><p>If it is considered that the local authority building control team did not carry out its function properly or was negligent in the exercise of its building control functions, a complaint could be made to the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman (LGSCO), the website for which is <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lgo.org.uk%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7CNouria.Igbinobaro%40communities.gov.uk%7C0768b055f37e48e0125f08d7b46fbc90%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637176264310796522&amp;sdata=XWtmJow5F1qsE667oMPxX070VBofefDeAzEcGjIAB0Y%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.lgo.org.uk/</a>.</p><p>The LGSCO is a free and impartial service to the general public, which is independent of the Government. Considering that it investigates complaints about local governments along with other authorities and organisations, it is paramount that its decisions cannot be influenced by the Government. As always, it is also possible to apply to the High Court for a judicial review to challenge an Ombudsman’s decision should it be considered to be legally flawed.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 24/02/2020 18:07:57 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4532 label Biography information for Derek Thomas