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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

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

820681

registered interest
date	11/01/2018
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
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress they are making to establish equivalent rights and responsibilities for local government to be consulted on legislative changes as are currently exercised through the EU Committee of the Regions; and whether they expect that the necessary consultation mechanisms will be put in place before the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member printed	Lord Porter of Spalding
uin	HL4651
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>The Government is currently having constructive discussions with local government about how the consultative rights and responsibilities they currently have at European level through the mechanism of the Committee of the Regions might be replicated domestically, in a non-statutory way, for when the UK has left the EU. These discussions involve the Local Government Association, the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA), the Northern Ireland Local Government Association (NILGA) and the Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA). Any new consultative arrangements arising from these discussions will need to complement the wide range of domestic processes and procedures the Government already has for consulting local government.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 22/01/2018 17:29:41 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	4555 label Biography information for Lord Porter of Spalding

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

820505

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: Young People
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 Fair Chance Fund have been successful in reducing family and relationship breakdown.
tabling member printed	Lord Farmer
uin	HL4586
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>The £15 million Fair Chance Fund (FCF) was an innovative three year programme designed to improve accommodation, education and employment outcomes for homeless young people aged 18 - 24, who did not have priority need under the homelessness legislation but had a range of support needs which presented barriers to securing and sustaining, accommodation and getting on in life.</p><p>Many of the participants had multiple needs, often resulting in on-going problems and issues. This included a history of family and relationship breakdown, alongside other vulnerabilities. The causes of homelessness can be multiple and complex. Where family and/or relationship breakdown is present, it is often just one part of the wider picture. That is why the FCF key workers in all 7 areas worked intensely with the young people by offering tailored support to meet their needs.</p><p>Two interim evaluations of the FCF were published last year [<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/fair-chance-fund-evaluation-interim-reports" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/fair-chance-fund-evaluation-interim-reports</a>], and the final evaluation will be published later this year. Findings are being used to inform future policy work on supporting young people experiencing homelessness and on the use of social investment.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth attachment 1 file name 180122 Fair Chance Fund interim report Year One - HL4586.pdf title Fair Chance Fund 2 file name 180123 Fair Chance Fund interim eport Year TwoHL4586.pdf title Fair Chance Fund Year two report question first answered 23/01/2018 13:02:11 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	4321 label Biography information for Lord Farmer

824022

registered interest
date	16/01/2018
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	Councillors: Council Tax
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their guidance to council tax payers in cases where a monitoring officer has not intervened when councillors who have not paid their own council tax take part in the council's annual budget meeting.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL4766
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>If a local resident has a concern with the actions of their local monitoring officer, they should use the council’s formal complaints process, so that the council becomes aware of the problem and can take appropriate action. Councils are independent and responsible for their own staff management and disciplinary procedures.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 23/01/2018 17:47:15 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

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

825269

registered interest
date	17/01/2018
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 Rented Housing: Standards
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they plan to introduce a national minimum space standard for housing, especially in the private rented sector.
tabling member printed	Baroness Eaton
uin	HL4802
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2018 answer text <p>All dwellings in England, including those in the Private Rented Sector, are subject to the overcrowding standards in Part X of the Housing Act 1985. In particular, section 326 provides minimum space standards for bedrooms.</p><p>As part of the reforms to houses in multiple occupation (HMO) licensing, the Government also proposes to make minimum sleeping room standards a mandatory condition of HMO licences. This will make it easier for local authorities to deal with overcrowding in HMOs. We intend to introduce this shortly, subject to parliamentary approval.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 30/01/2018 16:23:17 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	4184 label Biography information for Baroness Eaton