Written questions

5,135 written questions tabled, most recent first.

20 Jan 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Buildings: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to his oral statement of 20 January 2020 in relation to the commissioning of a matrix of risk that will (a) replace the existing system and (b) underpin future reg

20 Jan 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Buildings: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to his oral statement of 20 January 2020, how many additional buildings will be affected by the statement that ACM cladding with an unmodified polyethylene core s

20 Jan 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Buildings: Fire Prevention

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of buildings that are operating (a) waking watch and (b) other interim fire safety measures; and what the average cost is of the operation

20 Jan 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Buildings: Fire Extinguishers

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate has made of the (a) number of new buildings each year that will be required to fit sprinklers in the event that the height threshold for sprinklers is reduced to 11

20 Jan 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Building Regulations

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much additional funding his Department plans to allocate to the Health and Safety Executive for the establishment of the new Building Safety Regulator.

15 Jan 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Buildings: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to his oral contribution of 5 September 2019, Official Report, col 373, how many owners of buildings with dangerous ACM cladding have been named and shamed.

14 Jan 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Local Housing Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Written Statement of 13 January 2020, Welfare Update, what estimate he has made of the proportion of properties in each broad rental market area that will be affordable to local housing

14 Jan 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Local Housing Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will maintain targeted affordability funding for local housing allowance from April 2020.

14 Jan 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Leasehold: Reform

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, by what date the Government will publish a draft bill on leasehold reform.

13 Jan 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Energy

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when he plans to publish proposals on energy efficiency standards for work carried out in existing dwellings.

25 Oct 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of homes that will be built in each of the next five years.

23 Oct 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Affordable Housing: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the proposed new national model for shared ownership on the level of affordable housebuilding.

23 Oct 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Buildings: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when he plans to bring forward his legislative proposals on building safety standards.

23 Oct 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Buildings: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he plans to present his legislative proposals on safety standards to Parliament in the form of a draft Bill.

22 Oct 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Supported Housing: Capital Investment

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much capital funding has been allocated to (a) new supported housing and (b) improvements to existing supported housing for homeless people in each year since 2009-10.

22 Oct 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

High Rise Flats: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the number of flat-owners in residential blocks who have been unable to sell or remortgage their home because of the presence of flammable cladding

22 Oct 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

High Rise Flats: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of local authorities who have stepped in to remove flammable cladding from privately owned residential tower blocks.

22 Oct 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Affordable Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 22 October 2019 to Question 886 on Affordable Housing, what his timescale is for decisions on additional investment beyond the current Affordable Homes

16 Oct 2019 · Treasury

Affordable Housing

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he will announce the funding for the next phase of the Affordable Homes Programme.

16 Oct 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Affordable Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what discussions (a) he and (b) his officials have had with (i) Ministers and (ii) officials in HM Treasury on the future of the Affordable Homes Programme, ahead of the Budget o

16 Oct 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department's document entitled, Main Estimate 2019-20: Estimates Memorandum, if he will publish the (a) component parts and (b) allocations for the £5,664 m

16 Oct 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Affordable Housing: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer of 9 September 2019 to Question 282187, if he will publish the resource DEL budgets of each work area under the Strategic Objective SO1, Programme Ar

14 Oct 2019 · Treasury

Housing: Capital Gains Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the extent to which gains made on residential property that would otherwise be subject to capital gains tax are currently subject to (a) final period exemption and (b) lettings relie

14 Oct 2019 · Treasury

Housing: Capital Gains Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the revenue from capital gains tax on residential property gains in each year from 2016-17.

4 Oct 2019 · Treasury

Landlords: Taxation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent estimate he has made of the gap between tax owed and tax paid by private landlords.

4 Oct 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Planning Permission: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the effect of TerraQuest Ltd's partnership with his Department to run the planning portal on fees charged on that portal.

5 Sep 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Empty Dwelling Management Orders

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many interim empty dwelling management orders were approved (a) before and (b) since June 2010; and which local authorities made those orders.

2 Sep 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Sleeping Rough

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether local authorities are able to apply for funding from the (a) Rough Sleeping Initiative Funds, (b) Rapid rehousing Pathway Early Adopters Funding, (c) Rapid Rehousing Path

2 Sep 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Homelessness

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many funding streams available to local authorities to tackle homelessness have been created by his Department since 2010.

2 Sep 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Sleeping Rough

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many local authority applicants there have been to the Cold Weather Fund since November 2018; how much money has been awarded from that fund; and what the average amount was that was awarded to appl

Source: official written-questions record.