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1002235

registered interest
date	05/11/2018
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	Social Rented Housing: Energy
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what targets the Regulator of Social Housing has introduced to ensure Registered Social Landlords deliver improved energy efficiency in their homes to meet low carbon commitments.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
uin	HL11256
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2018 answer text <p>In 2018, the Government released the <em>The Clean Growth Strategy</em> which set a target to upgrade all fuel poor homes to Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) grade C by 2030 where practical, cost effective and affordable.</p><p>The Social Housing Green Paper consultation published this Summer asks what changes to the Decent Homes Standard we should consider, including changes arising from <em>The Clean Growth Strategy</em>.</p><p>The Regulator of Social Housing’s Home Standard sets out the required outcomes registered providers are expected to meet in terms of decent homes through the Decent Homes Standard.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 14/11/2018 15:41:01 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	3792 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

1002237

registered interest
date	05/11/2018
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	Energy Performance Certificates
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to modernise energy performance certificates so that home owners and landlords can make informed choices about how best to deliver low carbon homes.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
uin	HL11258
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2018 answer text <p>Energy performance certificates (EPCs) include recommendations for improving the energy efficiency of dwellings and other relevant buildings and are regularly updated to include new energy saving technologies. EPCs are subject to regular auditing and a recently revised set of operating requirements designed to ensure appropriate standards. We have also recently published a joint call for evidence with BEIS, which invited views on several suggestions to improve and modernise the EPC system.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 14/11/2018 15:40:02 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	3792 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

1002279

registered interest
date	05/11/2018
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	Leasehold
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what action they are taking to help those purchasers of houses with leasehold agreements with excessive uprating provisions to replace such provisions with fairer ones.
tabling member printed	Lord Turnbull
uin	HL11300
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2018 answer text <p>The Government is clear that unfair leasehold practices have no place in the housing sector. We are committed to improving the leasehold system by making it fairer and more transparent. We will be introducing legislation to ban new leasehold houses.</p><p>It is right that developers who sold leaseholds with onerous terms should support their customers to amend such lease terms. Some developers have introduced assistance schemes which is welcome. The Government is engaging with industry to ensure they are taking action to provide assistance to existing leaseholders with onerous terms.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 19/11/2018 15:30:13 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	3758 label Biography information for Lord Turnbull

1005612

registered interest
date	12/11/2018
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
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to implement (1) a Land Value Tax, (2) enhanced Compulsory Purchase Orders, (3) land assembly powers, and (4) the recommendations in the report by the APPG on Land Value Capture, Capturing Land Value for the Public Benefit, published in November.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb
uin	HL11383
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to using existing mechanisms of land value capture as effectively as possible. We have recently introduced major reforms to the planning rulebook to help local authorities capture land value for affordable housing, and make sure developers know the contributions expected of them. At Autumn Budget we also announced further reforms to improve the existing system of developer contributions. The key objectives of these reforms are to make the system of developer contributions more transparent and accountable. However, we recognise more needs to be done, and will continue to explore options to go further. Through the Housing and Planning Act 2016 and Neighbourhood Planning Act 2017, the Government has taken forward wide-ranging reforms to make the compulsory purchase process clearer, fairer and faster for all. We are keen to let these recent reforms bed in but will continue to monitor their practical application. We announced at Budget a £10 million fund to support local authorities that want to establish delivery vehicles that have strong land assembly powers, and in the Summer legislated to enable the creation of locally-accountable New Town Development Corporations. We note the report by the APPG on land value capture, the HCLG Select committee has also recently held an inquiry on Land Value Capture and the Government is due to respond to the Committee’s recommendations shortly.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 22/11/2018 16:06:34 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	4297 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb

819348

registered interest
date	09/01/2018
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	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Reorganisation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, following the change of name of the Department for Communities and Local Government to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, what is their estimate of the cost of the resulting changes to signs, badges, stationery, and other matters.
tabling member printed	Lord Greaves
uin	HL4551
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2018 answer text <p>Building the homes our country needs is an absolute priority for this government. The name change for the department reflects this government’s renewed focus to deliver more homes and build stronger communities across England.</p><p>Any necessary changes will be done in a cost-efficient way with expenditure being kept to a minimum. This would of course be a fraction of the cost of splitting up the Ministry as proposed by the opposition.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 16/01/2018 17:52:33 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	2569 label Biography information for Lord Greaves

819349

registered interest
date	09/01/2018
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	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Reorganisation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, following the change of name of the Department for Communities and Local Government to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether there have been any changes to the responsibilities of the Department.
tabling member printed	Lord Greaves
uin	HL4552
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>Building the homes our country needs is an absolute priority for this government. The name change for the department reflects this government’s renewed focus to deliver more homes and build stronger communities across England.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 22/01/2018 17:31:20 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	2569 label Biography information for Lord Greaves

819362

registered interest
date	09/01/2018
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	Local Government Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how they intend to redress resource deficits faced by local authorities in deprived areas resulting from relatively weaker tax bases and having to respond to greater demands for social care provision, as evidenced by the most recent data from the official Health Survey for England.
tabling member printed	Lord Ouseley
uin	HL4564
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>Funding baselines for local authorities in England are based on an assessment of their relative needs and resources, including deprivation levels and council tax income. Our fair funding review is looking again at how we do this and is working towards implementation in 2020/21.</p><p>A 12 week technical consultation on relative needs was published on 19 December 2017 which sets out the Government’s approach to the fair funding review and seeks views on what factors should be reflected by a new local government funding formula.</p><p>Furthermore, the improved Better Care Fund is allocated in such a way that the overall distribution of adult social care funding, including the council tax precept, will reflect adult social care pressures across the country and relative tax bases.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 22/01/2018 17:21:36 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	2170 label Biography information for Lord Ouseley

819365

registered interest
date	09/01/2018
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 Extinguishers
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their assessment of the commitment by Westminster City Council to retrofit sprinklers in all of their blocks of flats over 30 metres in height.
tabling member printed	Lord Patten
uin	HL4567
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>Sprinklers can be an effective fire safety measure but they are one of many such measures that can be adopted. It is for building owners to decide whether to fit sprinklers, on the basis of their assessment of the risk. Government advice is clear; for new blocks of flats over 30 metres in height the statutory guidance states that sprinklers should be fitted. For existing buildings it is a decision for the building owner whether to retro-fit sprinklers as part of a whole fire-safety strategy for the building, based on expert advice and taking into account of other fire safety measures present.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 23/01/2018 17:51:17 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten

820499

registered interest
date	10/01/2018
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	Temporary Accommodation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to address the proportion, availability and affordability of transitional housing, including on areas of disused public land.
tabling member printed	Lord Bird
uin	HL4580
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>We announced £100 million to deliver low cost ‘move on’ accommodation for people leaving homelessness hostels and domestic abuse refuges and helping them move towards independent living.</p><p>We are also engaging with the sector to help us shape the detail of the local grant for short-term supported housing. This funding will be ring-fenced so it can only be spent on short-term supported housing and we have committed to it being in place for the long term.</p><p>The short-term accommodation grant will remove rental costs for the tenants at a particularly vulnerable point in their lives, allowing them to seek work safe in the knowledge that their housing costs will be met. It will also help people who can, to move-on with greater choice about where they go without carrying a legacy of rent arrears and debt.</p><p>This Government have made a commitment to release more of its surplus land for housing during the current Parliament.</p><p>The Public Land for Housing annual report published in February 2017 shows that by September 2016 public sector land with capacity for 13,817 homes had been sold.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 22/01/2018 17:28:09 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	4564 label Biography information for Lord Bird

820504

registered interest
date	10/01/2018
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	Homelessness
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth on 9 January (HL Deb, col 113), which projects funded by the Homelessness Prevention Programme have been successful in reducing family and relationship breakdown.
tabling member printed	Lord Farmer
uin	HL4585
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2018 answer text <p>The 84 projects funded through the Homelessness Prevention Programme are multi-faceted and do not concentrate on one particular reason for a household’s homelessness.</p><p>They aim to help to ensure that more people have tailored support to avoid becoming homeless in the first place, and receive the rapid support they need to make a sustainable recovery from homelessness.</p><p>We are supporting 84 projects working across 205 district and unitary local authorities in England through our £50 million Homelessness Prevention Programme.</p><p>Spending includes:</p><ul><li><p>£20 million for local authorities to trial new initiatives, working with a wider group of at risk people to help families and individuals before they reach crisis point;</p></li><li><p>a £20 million rough sleeping fund to help new rough sleepers, or people at imminent risk of sleeping rough, get the rapid support they need to recover and move on from a rough sleeping crisis; and</p></li><li><p>£10 million of funding for Social Impact Bonds to provide targeted support for entrenched single homeless people.</p></li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 25/01/2018 17:33:39 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	4321 label Biography information for Lord Farmer