Written questions

5,135 written questions tabled, most recent first.

18 May 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Right to Buy Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much local authorities have been required to pay back to HM Treasury in right to buy receipts in each financial year since 2012-13; and if he will make a statement.

18 May 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Grenfell Tower: Fires

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, by what date he expects households in (a) Barandon Walk, (b) Testerton Walk, (c) Hurstway Walk, (d) Treadgold House and (e) Bramley House which require rehousing as a result of t

18 May 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Grenfell Tower: Fires

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many households in (a) Barandon Walk, (b) Testerton Walk, (c) Hurstway Walk, (d) Treadgold House and (e) Bramley House have required rehousing as a result of the Grenfell Tow

18 May 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Grenfell Tower: Fires

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the timescale is for all the people who survived the Grenfell Tower fire to have moved into permanent new housing.

18 May 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Buildings: Fire Prevention

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans he has to support the large-scale testing of unsafe cladding that is made of materials other than aluminium composite material.

18 May 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

High Rise Flats: Fire Prevention

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what options he is considering to ensure that all privately-owned tower blocks remove and replace unsafe cladding.

18 May 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

High Rise Flats: Fire Prevention

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of councils' legal (a) powers and (b) duties to compel the testing of privately-owned high rise blocks with suspected unsafe cladding.

18 May 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Buildings: Fire Prevention

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many privately-owned buildings identified with unsafe aluminium composite material cladding have (a) started and (b) finished replacing such cladding.

18 May 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

High Rise Flats: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether all high-rise buildings with unsafe cladding have now been identified.

18 May 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Social Rented Housing: Fire Prevention

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department's press release, Government announces it will fully fund unsafe cladding removal in social housing, published on 18 May 2018, whether he will req

18 May 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Social Rented Housing: Fire Prevention

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department's press release, Government announces it will fully fund unsafe cladding removal in social housing, published on 16 May 2018, what definition of

18 May 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Social Rented Housing: Fire Prevention

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference, with reference to his Department's press release, Government announces it will fully fund unsafe cladding removal in social housing, published on 16 May 2018, whe

18 May 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Social Rented Housing: Fire Prevention

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department's press release, Government announces it will fully fund unsafe cladding removal in social housing, published on 16 May 2018, what the timescale

18 May 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Social Rented Housing: Fire Prevention

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department's policy release, Government announces it will fully fund unsafe cladding removal in social housing, published on 16 May 2018, what plans he has

18 May 2018 · 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 his Department's press release, Government announces it will fully fund unsafe cladding removal in social housing, published on 16 May 2018, what assessment he

18 May 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Social Rented Housing: Fire Prevention

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department's press release, Government announces it will fully fund unsafe cladding removal in social housing, and whether there is a limit on the total amo

18 May 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Social Rented Housing: Fire Prevention

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department's press release, Government announces it will fully fund unsafe cladding removal in social housing, published on 16 May 2018, whether that fundin

18 May 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Social Rented Housing: Fire Prevention

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department's policy release, Government announces it will fully fund unsafe cladding removal in social housing, published on 16 May 2018, whether that fundi

9 May 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Land Use

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the (a) nature and (b) cause of the technical issue relating to the extraction of the underlying data was which caused the delay of the publication of Land Use Change statis

3 May 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Letter Boxes

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the physical effect on postal workers of properties with low level letterboxes.

3 May 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Letter Boxes: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to ensure that letter boxes confirm with European Standard EN 13724.

3 May 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Rented Housing: Deposits

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment the Government has made of the potential cost to landlords of the introduction of a cap of four week's rent on deposits.

1 May 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Construction

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

1 May 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what target he has set for the number of starter homes to be built in the 2017 Parliament.

1 May 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 27 April to Question 137017 on Housing, if it remains his policy that the Homes and Communities Agency publish quarterly updates for the 2015 to 2018 Af

1 May 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Building Regulations and Fire Safety Independent Review

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the timetable is for the final publication of the report of the Hackitt Review.

1 May 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing Revenue Accounts

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what restrictions he places on the type of housing that is included in local authorities' housing revenue accounts.

25 Apr 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

System Building: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department has taken to support housing associations address safety concerns in relation to large panel system buildings since his Department’s letter of 5 Septemb

25 Apr 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

System Building: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department has taken to support local authorities address safety concerns in relation to large panel system buildings since his Department’s letter of 5 September

25 Apr 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Help to Buy Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the loss in value of Help to Buy equity loans owed to the Exchequer as a result of the discovery of unsafe cladding.

Source: official written-questions record.