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1713080

registered interest
date	23/04/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Housing: Construction
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of updating the National Planning Policy Framework to enable local planning authorities to use the most recent Office for National Statistics household projections in the standard method of calculating local housing need.
tabling member constituency	Canterbury
tabling member printed	Rosie Duffield
uin	23262
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2024 answer text <p>A review of the standard method formula was undertaken in 2020. As part of the consultation, we asked if we should incorporate more recent household projections data into the formula. Following careful consideration of the responses received, to provide stability and certainty for local authorities and other stakeholders we decided to retain the existing formula.</p><p>We have kept the standard method under review. Through a consultation on changes to national policy held in 2022/23 we committed to review our approach to assessing housing needs once new household projections data, based on the 2021 Census, is released in 2025.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley question first answered 26/04/2024 08:48:06 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4616 label Biography information for Rosie Duffield

1712686

registered interest
date	22/04/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Flats: Fire Prevention
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will take steps to help leaseholders with premium insurance rates for multi-occupancy residential buildings affected by (a) flammable cladding and (b) other material safety risks.
tabling member constituency	Barking
tabling member printed	Dame Margaret Hodge
uin	22834
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2024 answer text <p>The Government continues to put extreme pressure into ensuring more fair and proportionate premiums for leaseholders living in multi-occupancy buildings with fire safety issues.</p><p>The FCA recommended that the insurance industry develop a risk-sharing facility for buildings with fire-safety issues. The Association of British Insurers’ Fire Safety Reinsurance Facility launched on 1 April 2024 in response to this recommendation. We are closely monitoring the Facility to understand the extent to which it improves outcomes for leaseholders.</p><p>On 31 December 2023, FCA changes came into force to give leaseholders rights under Fair Value rules and require the disclosure of key policy information. We welcome these changes and expect that they will help reduce the unfair costs facing leaseholders.</p><p>On 27 November 2023, the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill was introduced into Parliament. The Bill bans insurance commissions being passed to freeholders and managing agents, replacing these with transparent handling fees. This will stop leaseholders being charged excessive and opaque commissions on top of their premiums.</p><p>The Government has also published a commitment by 14 insurance broker companies to cap their commissions to 15%, stop sharing commissions with managing agents, landlords and freeholders, and share policy information with leaseholders when requested. The pledge will benefit leaseholders in buildings over 11 metres (or four storeys) in height with identified fire safety defects, where these details have been made known to the insurance broker.</p><p>We will continue to monitor the impact these changes have had on leaseholder premiums, and will remain engaged with industry regarding whether any further steps may be required.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley question first answered 26/04/2024 08:45:38 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	140 label Biography information for Dame Margaret Hodge

1712698

registered interest
date	22/04/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Planning
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will publish a revised version of his Department's Planning Policy Guidance to reflect recent changes to the National Planning Policy Framework.
tabling member constituency	Chipping Barnet
tabling member printed	Theresa Villiers
uin	22918
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2024 answer text <p>Since 19 December 2023, we have updated Planning Practice Guidance multiple times to include new guidance on Biodiversity Net Gain, and updated existing guidance on the Community Infrastructure Levy, Housing Supply and Delivery, the Green Belt, Natural Environment and Viability. Further guidance updates will be published as necessary in due course.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley question first answered 25/04/2024 10:50:34 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers

1702243

registered interest
date	18/04/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Housing: Construction
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of making water companies statutory consultees in planning permission applications for new housing developments.
tabling member constituency	North East Bedfordshire
tabling member printed	Richard Fuller
uin	22537
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2024 answer text <p>The Government committed during the passage of the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023 to consult on whether water companies should become statutory consultees on certain planning applications, and if so, how best to do this. The Secretary of State has since commissioned Sam Richards to undertake an independent review of statutory consultees within the planning system and the recommendations from this will be published in due course.</p><p>In the meantime, it is important that water companies engage local planning authorities on their applications at the right time so they can input effectively and not slow down the application process.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley question first answered 25/04/2024 12:56:19 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	3912 label Biography information for Richard Fuller

1701463

registered interest
date	16/04/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Housing: Birmingham
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department took to increase levels of housebuilding in Birmingham in 2023.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Tahir Ali
uin	22160
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2024 answer text <p>The Department has consistently set the conditions for the building of homes – and building them in the right places, including the revision of the NPPF in December 2023 and the Written Ministerial Statement on a long-term plan for housing in February 2024. Beyond that, Birmingham City Council is responsible for setting the plan for building the houses the city needs.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley question first answered 23/04/2024 16:54:32 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4747 label Biography information for Tahir Ali

1701469

registered interest
date	16/04/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Leisure and Motor Sports: Land Use
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he plans to review legislation that allows landowners to use their farmland for (a) motocross and (b) other non-agricultural activities.
tabling member constituency	North Shropshire
tabling member printed	Helen Morgan
uin	22191
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2024 answer text <p>Under nationally set permitted development rights, land may be used for any purpose and moveable structures be set up on the land for up to 28 days per calendar year, of which up to 14 days can be used for motor car and motorcycle racing.</p><p>Where it is considered necessary to protect the local amenity or wellbeing of an area the local planning authority can consult the local community on removing a permitted development right by making an Article 4 direction.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley grouped question UIN 22192 question first answered 24/04/2024 15:07:36 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4934 label Biography information for Helen Morgan

1701470

registered interest
date	16/04/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Motor Sports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of legislation on the proximity of motocross events to residential areas.
tabling member constituency	North Shropshire
tabling member printed	Helen Morgan
uin	22192
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2024 answer text <p>Under nationally set permitted development rights, land may be used for any purpose and moveable structures be set up on the land for up to 28 days per calendar year, of which up to 14 days can be used for motor car and motorcycle racing.</p><p>Where it is considered necessary to protect the local amenity or wellbeing of an area the local planning authority can consult the local community on removing a permitted development right by making an Article 4 direction.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley grouped question UIN 22191 question first answered 24/04/2024 15:07:36 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4934 label Biography information for Helen Morgan

1701493

registered interest
date	16/04/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Caravan Sites
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department is taking to ensure holiday caravan owners have the same protections under the Mobile Homes Act 2013 as residential park home owners.
tabling member constituency	City of Durham
tabling member printed	Mary Kelly Foy
uin	22163
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2024 answer text <p>The protections under the Mobile Homes Act 1983 apply to park home owners living on caravan sites with planning permission for residential use.</p><p>The protections do not extend to owners of caravans on holiday caravan sites, because the planning permission granted permits the use of those sites for holiday and recreational purposes only.</p><p>Holiday caravan owners have protections under the Consumer Rights Act 2015.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley question first answered 24/04/2024 14:57:19 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4753 label Biography information for Mary Kelly Foy

1701519

registered interest
date	16/04/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Leasehold
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if his Department will make an estimate of the number of leaseholders who purchased leases between 14 February and 20 July 2022.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	22124
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2024 answer text <p>For information on land purchases I would encourage you to contact HM Land Registry.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley question first answered 25/04/2024 13:28:50 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1701520

registered interest
date	16/04/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Leasehold: Service Charges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, in relation to historic building safety defects, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of protecting (a) leaseholders and (b) non-qualifying leaseholders from a landlord's legal costs being recovered through the service change.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	22125
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2024 answer text <p>The Building Safety Act 2022 sets out a number of protections for leaseholders relating to the cost of remediation of relevant defects.</p><p>Under paragraph 9 of Schedule 8 to the Act qualifying leaseholders are protected from the costs of legal or other professional services relating to the liability (or potential liability) incurred as a result of a relevant defect.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley question first answered 24/04/2024 14:45:32 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury