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228971

registered interest
date	23/03/2015
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Travellers: Caravan Sites
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government when they began the administrative review of the recovery decisions involving Traveller sites in the Green Belt; what criteria are being applied for the review; and when the review is likely to be published.
tabling member printed	Lord Avebury
uin	HL5936
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2015 answer text <p>This Government continues to attach great importance to safeguarding the Green Belt. It will address concerns about the harm caused when there is unauthorised development of land in advance of obtaining planning permission and there is no opportunity to appropriately limit or mitigate the harm that has already taken place. For these reasons, the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government will introduce a new planning and recovery policy for the Green Belt early in the new Parliament to strength protection against unauthorised development. This new policy will apply to all development within the Green Belt. In the meantime he has also decided to de-recover those cases of appeals for Traveller development in the Green Belt on which a substantive decision has not been reached. These will be remitted back to the Planning Inspectorate and, where appropriate, we will re-assess them in light of the new recovery policy.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 26/03/2015 14:48:00 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	1665 label Biography information for Lord Avebury

228689

registered interest
date	19/03/2015
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Council Housing: City of Westminster
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will place in the Library of the House a copy of the written submission from the Department for Communities and Local Government to the Supreme Court in support of Titian Nzolameso’s appeal against Westminster City Council’s decision to offer her accommodation near Milton Keynes.
tabling member printed	Baroness King of Bow
uin	HL5871
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2015 answer text <p>I am placing a copy of the Department for Communities and Local Government’s written submission in the case of Nzolameso v City of Westminster in the Library of the House. The Department's submission reflects our long-standing policy practice and guidance. We await the full judgment on this specific case.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 26/03/2015 13:12:51 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	143 label Biography information for Baroness King of Bow

228692

registered interest
date	19/03/2015
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Homelessness: Tower Hamlets
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 9 March (HL5059), whether they will place in the Library of the House copies of their correspondence with the London Borough of Tower Hamlets about the number of homeless families with children in bed and breakfast accommodation beyond the six week limit.
tabling member printed	Baroness King of Bow
uin	HL5874
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2015 answer text <p>I refer the noble Lady to the answer given by my rt Hon Friend the former Minister of State for Housing (Grant Shapps) on 25 June 2012, <em>Official Report</em>, column 680W.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 25/03/2015 14:14:14 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	143 label Biography information for Baroness King of Bow

228693

registered interest
date	19/03/2015
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	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 whether they will resume the publication of homelessness statistical "live table" 783 giving details of the number of homeless households in each type of temporary accommodation by region.
tabling member printed	Baroness King of Bow
uin	HL5875
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2015 answer text <p>As set out in the Written Ministerial Statement on 18 September 2012, <em>Official Report</em>, column 32WS, the Department no longer publishes statistics at a regional level. This follows the abolition of regional government by the Coalition, which does not believe that regions provide a coherent or meaningful framework for assessing public policy. Instead, our published statistics present, where relevant, other sub-national geographies which are more aligned with public policy.</p><p> </p><p>This Government is committed to preventing and tackling homelessness. We have increased homelessness prevention spending, making over £500 million available since 2010 to local authorities and the voluntary sector to help the most vulnerable in society. Homelessness remains lower than in 26 of the last 30 years. It is around half the average level it was under the previous Administration.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 26/03/2015 13:08:28 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	143 label Biography information for Baroness King of Bow

227456

registered interest
date	16/03/2015
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Incinerators: Gloucestershire
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether any representations have been made either by or to Stroud District Council on the subject of the contract for the procurement and building of the Javelin Park Incinerator at Haresfield, Gloucestershire.
tabling member printed	Baroness Royall of Blaisdon
uin	HL5777
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Communities and Local Government has no record of any such representations being received by the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government during his consideration of the planning appeal.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 23/03/2015 12:59:57 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	3703 label Biography information for Baroness Royall of Blaisdon

227328

registered interest
date	13/03/2015
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Private Rented Housing: Greater London
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answers by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 7 and 20 January (HL3615 and HL4297) and his remarks on 4 March (HL Deb, col 272), which local authorities (1) opposed reform, (2) were not opposed, and (3) expressed no opinion, in response to their consultation on deregulation of short-lets in London; and why they did not provide that information in response to the previous questions from Baroness Gardner of Parkes.
tabling member printed	Baroness Gardner of Parkes
uin	HL5715
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2015 answer text <p>Fifteen London local authorities responded to question 22 of the discussion document on Property Conditions in the Private Rented Sector. Eight authorities responded to the effect that they opposed reform of the legislation: Haringey, Enfield, Camden, Westminster, Newham, Redbridge, Lambeth and the City of London. Seven were not opposed to a review: Lewisham, Sutton, Southwark, Hammersmith &amp; Fulham, Harrow, Islington and Greenwich. The remaining eighteen of the thirty-three London local authorities did not respond to this question.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>This detailed information was not provided in response to the questions on 7 and 20 January, as the Government had not yet concluded its consideration of the responses to the discussion document. The answers provided on 7 and 20 January explained that the Government had yet to publish its formal response to the consultation on the Review of Property Conditions in the Private Rented Sector, and that we intended to do so alongside details of our policy on short-term letting in London, prior to Lords Report Stage of the Deregulation Bill. The Government’s response to the discussion document, and proposed policy, was published in a policy paper on 9 February entitled ‘Promoting the sharing economy in London: Policy on short-term use of residential property in London’.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We took into account these representations from London boroughs and others, and as a result, introduced a series of checks and balances as outlined in my Written Ministerial Statement of 9 February 2015, <em>Official Report</em>, HLWS242. These were not in the original consultation paper, but were a consequence of the consultation.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 18/03/2015 16:47:09 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	3596 label Biography information for Baroness Gardner of Parkes

227329

registered interest
date	13/03/2015
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	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 plans they have to amend the qualifying threshold for leaseholders to activate a change of management under the Right to Manage scheme to enable those who fail to reply to be deemed to have agreed to a change of management in order to meet the threshold.
tabling member printed	Baroness Gardner of Parkes
uin	HL5716
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2015 answer text <p>The Government currently has no plans to consider amending the criteria for exercising the right to manage, to enable non-responders to have been deemed to have agreed to a change of management.</p><p> </p><p><br> Exercising the right to manage should not be taken lightly. There are significant responsibilities; it commits members to costs and creates liabilities.</p><p><br> <br> In the circumstances we believe that it is essential that everyone understands the responsibilities and commitments they are making and it is therefore important they are actively engaged in the process.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 18/03/2015 16:10:02 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	3596 label Biography information for Baroness Gardner of Parkes

227333

registered interest
date	13/03/2015
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	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 Written Answer by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 9 March (HL5086), when the United Kingdom Statistics Authority expects to complete its assessment of "statistics on homelessness covering homelessness prevention and relief, and rough sleeping"; and where it will be possible to access a copy of its assessment.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of St Albans
uin	HL5720
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2015 answer text <p>The UK Statistics Authority has re-prioritised its assessment to start in summer 2015. The publication of an assessment report would normally be around nine months after the start of the work. Once the work has completed an assessment report will be published at;</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/assessment/assessment/assessment-reports/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/assessment/assessment/assessment-reports/index.html <br> <br> </a></p><p> </p><p>This Government is committed to preventing and tackling homelessness. We have increased homelessness prevention spending, making over £500 million available since 2010 to local authorities and the voluntary sector to help the most vulnerable in society. Homelessness remains lower than in 27 of the last 30 years. It is around half the average level it was under the last Labour Government.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 18/03/2015 16:07:52 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	4308 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of St Albans

226812

registered interest
date	11/03/2015
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Households
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what proportion of the projected increase in households in the 2012-based household projections for England are as a result of (1) population growth, and (2) future net migration.
tabling member printed	Lord Green of Deddington
uin	HL5608
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2015 answer text <p>Variant projections will be considered as part of the further analysis of household formation mentioned in the Household Projections Statistical Release.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon grouped question UIN HL5609 question first answered 18/03/2015 13:52:22 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	4346 label Biography information for Lord Green of Deddington

226813

registered interest
date	11/03/2015
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Households
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government when they will publish variant projections to accompany the 2012-based household projections for England published on 27 February.
tabling member printed	Lord Green of Deddington
uin	HL5609
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2015 answer text <p>Variant projections will be considered as part of the further analysis of household formation mentioned in the Household Projections Statistical Release.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon grouped question UIN HL5608 question first answered 18/03/2015 13:52:22 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	4346 label Biography information for Lord Green of Deddington