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1723570

registered interest
date	25/07/2024
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	Ground Rent
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 she plans to end ground rent.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	1697
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2024 answer text <p>The Government will act quickly to provide homeowners with greater rights. This includes driving up the transparency of service charges and reducing barriers for leaseholders to challenge their landlord. Over the course of this Parliament the Government will go further by enacting remaining Law Commission recommendations and tackling unregulated and unaffordable ground rent charges.</p><p>The Government will take steps to bring the feudal leasehold system to an end and reinvigorate commonhold by modernising the legal framework. We will also ban the sale of new leasehold flats. The Government will consult on the best way to achieve this, so that generations to come will benefit from absolute homeownership.</p><p>Our planned reforms to empower leaseholders and provide new and existing homeowners with greater security will help ensure landlords and managing agents are better held to account for management failures. It will also make it easier for leaseholders to take on management of their buildings themselves so they can directly appoint or replace agents.</p><p>The Government intends to bring forward draft legislation so that it may be subject to broad consultation and additional scrutiny by Parliament. It is only right that the Government takes its time when dealing with such a complex subject to make sure that any future legislation gets it right.</p> answering member constituency Greenwich and Woolwich answering member printed Matthew Pennycook grouped question UIN 1698 1699 1700 1701 question first answered 02/08/2024 10:37:50 answering member 4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1723572

registered interest
date	25/07/2024
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	Leasehold
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 it is her policy to bring forward legislative proposals to convert existing leasehold properties to commonhold.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	1698
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2024 answer text <p>The Government will act quickly to provide homeowners with greater rights. This includes driving up the transparency of service charges and reducing barriers for leaseholders to challenge their landlord. Over the course of this Parliament the Government will go further by enacting remaining Law Commission recommendations and tackling unregulated and unaffordable ground rent charges.</p><p>The Government will take steps to bring the feudal leasehold system to an end and reinvigorate commonhold by modernising the legal framework. We will also ban the sale of new leasehold flats. The Government will consult on the best way to achieve this, so that generations to come will benefit from absolute homeownership.</p><p>Our planned reforms to empower leaseholders and provide new and existing homeowners with greater security will help ensure landlords and managing agents are better held to account for management failures. It will also make it easier for leaseholders to take on management of their buildings themselves so they can directly appoint or replace agents.</p><p>The Government intends to bring forward draft legislation so that it may be subject to broad consultation and additional scrutiny by Parliament. It is only right that the Government takes its time when dealing with such a complex subject to make sure that any future legislation gets it right.</p> answering member constituency Greenwich and Woolwich answering member printed Matthew Pennycook grouped question UIN 1697 1699 1700 1701 question first answered 02/08/2024 10:37:50 answering member 4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1723573

registered interest
date	25/07/2024
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	Leasehold
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 she will consult on issues facing leaseholders prior to bringing forward legislation.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	1699
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2024 answer text <p>The Government will act quickly to provide homeowners with greater rights. This includes driving up the transparency of service charges and reducing barriers for leaseholders to challenge their landlord. Over the course of this Parliament the Government will go further by enacting remaining Law Commission recommendations and tackling unregulated and unaffordable ground rent charges.</p><p>The Government will take steps to bring the feudal leasehold system to an end and reinvigorate commonhold by modernising the legal framework. We will also ban the sale of new leasehold flats. The Government will consult on the best way to achieve this, so that generations to come will benefit from absolute homeownership.</p><p>Our planned reforms to empower leaseholders and provide new and existing homeowners with greater security will help ensure landlords and managing agents are better held to account for management failures. It will also make it easier for leaseholders to take on management of their buildings themselves so they can directly appoint or replace agents.</p><p>The Government intends to bring forward draft legislation so that it may be subject to broad consultation and additional scrutiny by Parliament. It is only right that the Government takes its time when dealing with such a complex subject to make sure that any future legislation gets it right.</p> answering member constituency Greenwich and Woolwich answering member printed Matthew Pennycook grouped question UIN 1697 1698 1700 1701 question first answered 02/08/2024 10:37:50 answering member 4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1723574

registered interest
date	25/07/2024
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	Leasehold
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 she will take steps to cap (a) management and (b) service costs to leaseholders.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	1700
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2024 answer text <p>The Government will act quickly to provide homeowners with greater rights. This includes driving up the transparency of service charges and reducing barriers for leaseholders to challenge their landlord. Over the course of this Parliament the Government will go further by enacting remaining Law Commission recommendations and tackling unregulated and unaffordable ground rent charges.</p><p>The Government will take steps to bring the feudal leasehold system to an end and reinvigorate commonhold by modernising the legal framework. We will also ban the sale of new leasehold flats. The Government will consult on the best way to achieve this, so that generations to come will benefit from absolute homeownership.</p><p>Our planned reforms to empower leaseholders and provide new and existing homeowners with greater security will help ensure landlords and managing agents are better held to account for management failures. It will also make it easier for leaseholders to take on management of their buildings themselves so they can directly appoint or replace agents.</p><p>The Government intends to bring forward draft legislation so that it may be subject to broad consultation and additional scrutiny by Parliament. It is only right that the Government takes its time when dealing with such a complex subject to make sure that any future legislation gets it right.</p> answering member constituency Greenwich and Woolwich answering member printed Matthew Pennycook grouped question UIN 1697 1698 1699 1701 question first answered 02/08/2024 10:37:50 answering member 4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1723575

registered interest
date	25/07/2024
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	Leasehold: Property Management Companies
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 she will bring forward legislative proposals to create statutory standards for management agencies of leasehold properties.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	1701
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2024 answer text <p>The Government will act quickly to provide homeowners with greater rights. This includes driving up the transparency of service charges and reducing barriers for leaseholders to challenge their landlord. Over the course of this Parliament the Government will go further by enacting remaining Law Commission recommendations and tackling unregulated and unaffordable ground rent charges.</p><p>The Government will take steps to bring the feudal leasehold system to an end and reinvigorate commonhold by modernising the legal framework. We will also ban the sale of new leasehold flats. The Government will consult on the best way to achieve this, so that generations to come will benefit from absolute homeownership.</p><p>Our planned reforms to empower leaseholders and provide new and existing homeowners with greater security will help ensure landlords and managing agents are better held to account for management failures. It will also make it easier for leaseholders to take on management of their buildings themselves so they can directly appoint or replace agents.</p><p>The Government intends to bring forward draft legislation so that it may be subject to broad consultation and additional scrutiny by Parliament. It is only right that the Government takes its time when dealing with such a complex subject to make sure that any future legislation gets it right.</p> answering member constituency Greenwich and Woolwich answering member printed Matthew Pennycook grouped question UIN 1697 1698 1699 1700 question first answered 02/08/2024 10:37:50 answering member 4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1722541

registered interest
date	22/07/2024
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
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 she will take steps to help ensure that families are able to access emergency accommodation in areas where capacity for accommodation has been exceeded by demand during the summer of 2024.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	978
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2024 answer text <p>Homelessness levels are far too high and too many families are living in temporary accommodation. We will take the action needed to tackle this issue and develop a long-term, cross-government strategy, through working with mayors, councils and other key stakeholders, to end homelessness for good. Critical to tackling homelessness is building more affordable homes. We will deliver the biggest increase in social and affordable housebuilding in a generation and deliver 1.5 million new homes over the next Parliament.</p> answering member constituency Nottingham North and Kimberley answering member printed Alex Norris grouped question UIN 1028 question first answered 30/07/2024 13:47:49 answering member 4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1722542

registered interest
date	22/07/2024
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 First
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 her planned timetable is for assessing the effectiveness of the Housing First pilot schemes.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	979
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2024 answer text <p>The previous Government commissioned an evaluation of the Housing First pilots, which is currently ongoing. Reports are made available <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/housing-first-pilot-national-evaluation-reports" target="_blank">here</a>.</p> answering member constituency Nottingham North and Kimberley answering member printed Alex Norris question first answered 30/07/2024 13:44:40 answering member 4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1722543

registered interest
date	22/07/2024
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: Refugees
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 her Department is taking to support local authorities to find additional accommodation for refugees that have been granted leave to remain.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	980
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/07/2024 answer text <p>The department is committed to working in partnership with local authorities to understand the impact of recently granted refugees and their housing needs.</p><p>We also continue to work with the Home Office to see how we can improve working co-operation with local authorities to make sure that they receive enough notice and the right information to support people following an asylum decision.</p><p>All individuals who have received a positive decision on their asylum claim can remain in the accommodation provided by the Home Office for at least 28 days from when their decision is served to allow them to make onward arrangements.</p> answering member constituency Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton answering member printed Jim McMahon question first answered 31/07/2024 15:18:11 answering member 4569 label Biography information for Jim McMahon
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1722544

registered interest
date	22/07/2024
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	Poverty
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 she will make an assessment of the effectiveness of local government expenditure on tackling (a) child poverty and (b) poverty.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	981
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2024 answer text <p>On 17 July, a new Ministerial Taskforce was set up to drive cross-government action on child poverty, starting with overseeing the development of our ambitious new strategy in line with the Opportunity Mission.</p><p>This Government is under no illusions about the scale of the pressure that local authorities are facing and the impact of this pressure on the services councils provide. Future local authority funding decisions will be a matter for the next Spending Review and Local Government Finance Settlement<em>. </em>The department will work with local government leaders to ensure they are better able to fulfil their statutory duties.</p> answering member constituency Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton answering member printed Jim McMahon question first answered 30/07/2024 13:24:31 answering member 4569 label Biography information for Jim McMahon
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1722131

registered interest
date	18/07/2024
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: York
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 she expects the consultation on the York Local Plan to be concluded.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	791
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2024 answer text <p>The York Local Plan remains at examination, consultation on main modifications to a policy H5 (Gypsies and Travellers) will end on 30 August. The full timetable for the York Local Plan examination can be viewed publicly on the examination website.</p> answering member constituency Nottingham North and Kimberley answering member printed Alex Norris question first answered 26/07/2024 10:38:49 answering member 4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell