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1190867

registered interest
date	28/04/2020
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	District Councils
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What assessment he has made of the effectiveness of joint working between councils in two-tier local authority areas.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	901983
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2020 answer text <p>In a two-tier area, effective joint working between county and district councils is essential, especially at this time of national emergency.</p><p>However, the Government recognises that unitary councils can facilitate more integrated decision-making, better service delivery, greater local accountability and empowered local communities.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 28/04/2020 16:13:54 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1190868

registered interest
date	28/04/2020
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	Rented Housing: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps his Department is taking to help renters affected by the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Ipswich
tabling member printed	Tom Hunt
uin	901984
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2020 answer text <p>This Government has put in place an unprecedented package to support renters during this time. Legislation to increase eviction notice periods, coupled with the Court Service’s suspension of proceedings, mean no renter currently faces the threat of eviction.</p><p>We have strengthened the welfare safety-net to help households experiencing financial hardship.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 28/04/2020 16:07:32 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4771 label Biography information for Tom Hunt

1190869

registered interest
date	28/04/2020
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	Elections: Buckinghamshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the effect of the delay to local elections in Buckinghamshire on regional democratic representation.
tabling member constituency	Chesham and Amersham
tabling member printed	Dame Cheryl Gillan
uin	901986
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2020 answer text <p>The Government has announced the postponement of the 2020 local elections across the country, including in Buckinghamshire. The elections will be held next year and in the meantime the council will continue to serve the interests of its electors.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 28/04/2020 16:14:46 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	18 label Biography information for Dame Cheryl Gillan

1190870

registered interest
date	28/04/2020
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: Migrants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What plans he has to provide (a) support and (b) accommodation for overseas nationals experiencing homelessness with no recourse to public funds during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Paisley and Renfrewshire North
tabling member printed	Gavin Newlands
uin	901989
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2020 answer text <p>We have provided over £3.2 billion of new funding to help local authorities to reduce risks to public health and to support individuals on the basis of need. This includes those sleeping rough.</p><p>The Government recognises that these are unprecedented times and expects local authorities to support people who are sleeping rough, and also to minimise unnecessary risks to public health, acting within the law.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall grouped question UIN 901995 question first answered 28/04/2020 13:56:35 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	4420 label Biography information for Gavin Newlands

1190871

registered interest
date	28/04/2020
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: Migrants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What plans he has to provide (a) support and (b) accommodation for overseas nationals experiencing homelessness with no recourse to public funds during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Livingston
tabling member printed	Hannah Bardell
uin	901995
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2020 answer text <p>We have provided over £3.2 billion of new funding to help local authorities to reduce risks to public health and to support individuals on the basis of need. This includes those sleeping rough.</p><p>The Government recognises that these are unprecedented times and expects local authorities to support people who are sleeping rough, and also to minimise unnecessary risks to public health, acting within the law.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall grouped question UIN 901989 question first answered 28/04/2020 13:56:35 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	4486 label Biography information for Hannah Bardell

1190872

registered interest
date	28/04/2020
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	Landlords: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	If he will take steps to encourage landlords to (a) defer rental payments and (b) not approach guarantors for late rental payments during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
uin	901999
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2020 answer text <p>The Government, along with the courts service, has delivered unprecedented support to reduce the risk of rent arrears and has taken legislative and procedural steps to protect tenants.</p><p>We have been clear that there is a need for landlords to offer support and understanding to tenants – and any guarantor – who may see their income fluctuate.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 28/04/2020 13:59:25 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1190480

registered interest
date	27/04/2020
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: Coronavirus
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 support his Department plans to provide to local authorities to ensure that rough sleepers currently in emergency accommodation during the covid-19 outbreak do not return to rough sleeping when that provision ends.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	40663
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/05/2020 answer text <p>Over 90 per cent of those on the streets and in communal night shelters known to local authorities at the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis have now been made offers of safe accommodation – ensuring some of the most vulnerable in society are protected from the pandemic.</p><p>We announced that councils across England will receive another £1.6 billion in additional funding to enable them to respond to other COVID-19 pressures across all the services they deliver, stepping up support for services helping the most vulnerable, including homeless people. This takes the total funding to support councils to respond to the pandemic to over £3.2 billion. This is in addition to £3.2 million in targeted funding for councils to support vulnerable rough sleepers.</p><p>On 2 May 2020 the Secretary of State announced that Dame Louise Casey will lead the Government Taskforce on the response to rough sleeping during the Covid-19 pandemic. The Taskforce will focus on next on next steps of emergency response to support vulnerable rough sleepers during the pandemic.</p><p>The taskforce will work hand-in-hand with councils across the country on plans to ensure rough sleepers can move into long-term, safe accommodation once the immediate crisis is over – ensuring as few people as possible return to life on the streets.</p><p>Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic the Government announced a further £112 million fund for the RSI across England in 2020/21 to help 276 areas tackle rough sleeping. The funding is a 30 per cent increase on the previous year and will be used to introduce and expand a range of measures, including street-based services, first stage accommodation, housing support and housing-led solutions, as well as specialist support workers.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 05/05/2020 16:37:39 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

1190481

registered interest
date	27/04/2020
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: Coronavirus
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 evidential basis is for his Department’s 18 April 2020 statement that 90 per cent of rough sleepers known to local authorities at the beginning of the covid-19 outbreak have been made offers of accommodation.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	40664
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/05/2020 answer text <p>My Department asked all local authorities to provide information on their rough sleeping cohort in order to support local authorities to make offers of accommodation to as many people who required it to reduce the risk faced by some of the most vulnerable in society.</p><p>At the beginning of this crisis, local authorities across England provided an estimate of the total number of people sleeping rough and in accommodation with communal sleeping spaces, such as night shelters, and have then updated us on the total number of people who have had offers of accommodation made available to them.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 05/05/2020 16:25:11 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

1190482

registered interest
date	27/04/2020
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: Coronavirus
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 rough sleepers (a) not known to local authorities at and (b) who have become homeless since the beginning of the crisis can access (i) emergency accommodation and (ii) adequate support.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	40665
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/05/2020 answer text <p>We recognise the challenges that local authorities will face in providing assistance to vulnerable people as they fulfil their homelessness duties during this pandemic. This is why we have announced that councils across England will receive another £1.6 billion in additional funding to enable them to respond to COVID-19 pressures across the services they deliver, stepping up support for services helping the most vulnerable, including homeless people. This takes the total funding to support councils to respond to the pandemic to £3.2 billion. This is in addition to £3.2 million targeted funding to ensure that we minimise the risk to those rough sleepers currently unable to self-isolate.</p><p>The Government has introduced a package of measures to protect renters affected by coronavirus aimed in part at preventing any increase in homelessness. With these in force, no renter in either social or private accommodation will be forced out of their home. Landlords must give all renters 3 months’ notice if they intend to seek possession.</p><p>Additionally, we have increased the Local Housing Allowance rates for Universal Credit and Housing Benefit claimants so that they are set at the 30th percentile of market rents. This means that from April 2020 many people renting in the Private Rented Sector will have seen an increase in their housing support.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 05/05/2020 16:32:21 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

1190483

registered interest
date	27/04/2020
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	Temporary Accommodation: Coronavirus
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 the suitability of hostels and other temporary accommodation with shared facilities in the event that a resident of that accommodation needs to (a) self-isolate because of covid-19 symptoms or (b) be shielded.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	40666
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/05/2020 answer text <p>Temporary accommodation is an important way of ensuring no family is without a roof over their head while dealing with the impacts of Covid-19. Local authorities have a statutory duty to provide temporary accommodation for the household in the first instance until suitable long-term accommodation can be offered to them. They must ensure this temporary accommodation is suitable and there is a right of appeal.</p><p>People who are living in accommodation which they share with other people, or in which they share facilities with other people should follow current PHE guidance on self-isolation and social distancing within the home.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 05/05/2020 16:33:13 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire