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1329593

registered interest
date	04/06/2021
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	Public Lavatories: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the announcement by his Department on 4 March 2021 of funding for accessible toilets under the Changing Places scheme, when his Department plans to provide further information on the application process for that funding.
tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
uin	10385
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2021 answer text <p>District and Unitary Authorities in England will receive full details of how they can access this funding soon. Local authorities will be invited to 'opt in' to receive a proportion of this £30 million funding to install facilities in their communities and boost the number of Changing Place toilets in existing buildings.</p><p>This programme will be delivered in partnership with the charity Muscular Dystrophy UK who will be supporting local authorities in their delivery and are undertaking the largest consultation to date with users of Changing Places toilets in England to help develop our understanding of user needs and priorities.</p><p>In the meantime, local authorities are encouraged to consider where Changing Places toilets are most needed in their communities and are encouraged to begin identifying and working in partnership with other organisations who may help to deliver these facilities.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 14/06/2021 16:03:18 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali

1290302

registered interest
date	26/02/2021
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	Children: Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the report by children's charities, entitled Children and young people’s services: Funding and spending 2010-11 to 2018-19, published in May 2020, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the £2.2 billion reduction in funding available for local authority children’s services since 2010-11 identified in that report.
tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
uin	159306
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2021 answer text <p>The last three local government finance settlement announcements have all included real terms increases to local authorities. For 2021-22, Government is making £2.3 billion extra available to local government in 2021-22. This means that next year, Core Spending Power in England will rise by up to 4.6% in cash terms.</p><p>Supporting councils to maintain critical mainstream services, such as Children’s Services continues to be our key priority. This year’s local government finance settlement rolled forward £1.4 billion of Social Care Grant funding from 2020-21, and added a further £300 million funding, taking the total Social Care Grant to £1.7 billion for 2021/22.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 08/03/2021 16:38:30 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali

1290303

registered interest
date	26/02/2021
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	Children: Social Services
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 he is taking to ensure that funding allocations for local authority children’s services account for (a) geographical differences in deprivation and (b) levels of need.
tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
uin	159307
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2021 answer text <p>The 2021-22 Local Government Finance Settlement provided £1.7 billion in Social Care Grant, which will support local authorities to provide care to vulnerable children, children in care, looked after children, and children with disabilities. Councils are also free to use any un-ringfenced funding, including their annual core settlement allocation, to support local priorities, such as Children's Social Care</p><p><br> This Government is committed to putting funding where there is relative need. Both Social Care Grant and the core settlement are distributed through relative needs formulas, and these formulas take into account local levels of need and deprivation</p><p><br> We are also in the process of updating both the Adult and Children's needs formulas, and will work with councils on how best to use these new formulas in the future.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 08/03/2021 16:39:17 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali

1290304

registered interest
date	26/02/2021
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	Buildings: Insulation
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 he plans to bring forward legislative proposals to mandate developers to take full responsibility for covering the costs of unsafe cladding.
tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
uin	159308
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2021 answer text <p>The Government has been clear that it is the building owner or responsible person that is responsible for removing unsafe cladding from their buildings and it is the building owner or responsible person that faces enforcement action if they do not do so.</p><p>Depending on the terms of individual leases, building owners may be entitled to pass on costs to leaseholders. However, the Government expects building owners to meet remediation costs without passing them on to leaseholders wherever possible, through their own resources or by recovering costs from applicable warranty schemes or from the developers or contractors who were responsible for the installation of unsafe cladding, as is happening with more than half of the private sector buildings with unsafe ACM cladding.</p><p>Where this may not be possible the Government is providing over £5 billion of funding to protect leaseholders living in residential buildings over 18m with unsafe cladding from the costs of remediation.</p><p>However, it is fundamental that the industry that caused this legacy of unsafe buildings is made to contribute for compromising public safety. We will be setting out details of a forthcoming industry/developer levy.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 08/03/2021 17:56:54 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali

1290305

registered interest
date	26/02/2021
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: Insulation
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 plans his Department has to ensure that people living in homes with unsafe cladding are not excluded from access to insurance cover.
tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
uin	159309
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2021 answer text <p>The Department is aware that obtaining affordable building insurance for some multi storey, multi occupied buildings can be challenging. The Department is working with industry to understand this better and to scope out potential resolutions.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 03/03/2021 16:04:22 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali

1243400

registered interest
date	14/10/2020
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	Planning Obligations
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 financial implications for local authorities of removing section 106 payments.
tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
uin	103530
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2020 answer text <p>We intend to reform the current approach to developer contributions by creating a new, single system, the Infrastructure Levy. This new levy would be a flat rate, value based charge, set nationally, at either a single rate, or at area specific rates, and charged on the final value of a development.</p><p><br> We will aim for the new Levy to raise more revenue than under the current system of developer contributions. Our proposals are set out in our White Paper ‘Planning for the Future’ which was published on 6 August and is out to consultation until 29 October. The consultation responses will support the assessment of the proposals, and detailed design.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher grouped question UIN 103531 103532 question first answered 22/10/2020 11:50:11 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali

1243401

registered interest
date	14/10/2020
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	Property Development: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how his Department plans to ensure that the proposed new levy on developers raises at least as much value as is currently captured through the Community Infrastructure Levy and section 106 payments.
tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
uin	103531
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2020 answer text <p>We intend to reform the current approach to developer contributions by creating a new, single system, the Infrastructure Levy. This new levy would be a flat rate, value based charge, set nationally, at either a single rate, or at area specific rates, and charged on the final value of a development.</p><p><br> We will aim for the new Levy to raise more revenue than under the current system of developer contributions. Our proposals are set out in our White Paper ‘Planning for the Future’ which was published on 6 August and is out to consultation until 29 October. The consultation responses will support the assessment of the proposals, and detailed design.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher grouped question UIN 103530 103532 question first answered 22/10/2020 11:50:11 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali

1243402

registered interest
date	14/10/2020
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	Property Development: Taxation
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 his policy that local authorities will be able to determine the new infrastructure levy on developers; and at what level he plans to set the value-based minimum threshold for that levy.
tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
uin	103532
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2020 answer text <p>We intend to reform the current approach to developer contributions by creating a new, single system, the Infrastructure Levy. This new levy would be a flat rate, value based charge, set nationally, at either a single rate, or at area specific rates, and charged on the final value of a development.</p><p><br> We will aim for the new Levy to raise more revenue than under the current system of developer contributions. Our proposals are set out in our White Paper ‘Planning for the Future’ which was published on 6 August and is out to consultation until 29 October. The consultation responses will support the assessment of the proposals, and detailed design.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher grouped question UIN 103530 103531 question first answered 22/10/2020 11:50:11 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali

1195585

registered interest
date	13/05/2020
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	Repossession Orders: 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 estimate he has made of the number of homes that could be repossessed due to the economic effects of the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
uin	46659
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2020 answer text <p>The Department does not forecast future repossession rates. Currently, both arrears and repossession rates are close to historically low levels.</p><p>The Government is determined that lenders should treat borrowers fairly. The independent Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is responsible for the regulations that are in place to protect customers in their dealings with financial services firms, and these include at their heart a requirement that firms must deal fairly with customers in payment difficulties. Their rules require lenders to consider a variety of options to help the borrower cope with these difficulties and any agreed solution should meet the needs of both borrower and lender.</p><p>The Government has been working to keep repossessions at a minimum at this time. The Government has announced unprecedented support for business and workers to protect them against the current economic emergency including an initial £330 billion of guarantees – equivalent to 15 per cent of UK GDP. This includes the extension to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, which will help keep people in employment, protecting livelihoods and helping people to remain in their homes. On 17 March the Chancellor announced, on behalf of the sector, that banks and building societies will offer a ‘mortgage holiday’ for borrowers struggling financially as a result of COVID-19. This forbearance measure enables affected borrowers to defer their mortgage payments while they get back on their feet. Lenders have also agreed to a moratorium on residential and Buy-to-Let possession action to provide customers with reassurance that they will not have their homes repossessed at this difficult time. The Master of the Rolls, with the agreement of the Lord Chancellor, has also suspended all ongoing and new housing possession cases for 90 days from 27 March 2020. These measures have been strengthened by the Financial Conduct Authority’s new draft guidance for lenders which sets out the expectations for firms and the options available to their customers. This includes extending the application period for a mortgage holiday until 31 October so customers that have not yet had a payment holiday and are experiencing financial difficulty will be able to request one. In combination, these measures will serve to protect homeowners from repossession at this time.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 22/05/2020 11:35:08 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali

1193711

registered interest
date	06/05/2020
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	High Rise Flats: Insulation
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 his department will publish data on the number of blocks between 11 metres and 18 metres in height that have (a) ACM cladding and (b) other kinds of potentially dangerous cladding.
tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
uin	43920
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2020 answer text <p>Information on the external wall systems for residential buildings below 18 metres in height is not currently being collected by the Department while the data collection on external wall systems for residential buildings 18 metres or over in height is being undertaken. It is important to gain accurate information on these higher risk buildings first. We will consider further collections in due course.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 14/05/2020 13:28:10 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali