Written questions

5,135 written questions tabled, most recent first.

24 Oct 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

High Rise Flats: Repairs and Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to his oral contribution of 19 October 2017, Official Report, column 1001, on Grenfell Tower, what the total estimated cost to the public purse is of the work on those buildings

19 Oct 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Department for Communities and Local Government: Public Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether any policy of administrative aims and objectives set out in his Department's single departmental plan for 2015 to 2020 are no longer the aims or objectives of his Department.

19 Oct 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

High Rise Flats

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of residential buildings over 30 metres high which are owned or managed by a council or housing association.

18 Oct 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Letting Agents: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department's call for evidence of 18 October 2017 on protecting consumers in the letting and managing agent market, what the average reduction in service charges wil

18 Oct 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Letting Agents

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the publication Protecting consumers in the letting and managing agent market: call for evidence, how many letting and management agents operate in England.

18 Oct 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Letting Agents

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department's report, Protecting consumers in the letting and managing agent market: call for evidence, published in October 2017, if he will place a copy of any impa

18 Oct 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Private Rented Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department's call for evidence of 18 October 2017 on protecting consumers in the letting and managing agent market, when he plans for legislative proposals on such p

18 Oct 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Letting Agents: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department's call for evidence of 18 October 2017, on protecting consumers in the letting and managing agent market, when he plans for legislative proposals to be (a

18 Oct 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Letting Agents

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department's call for evidence of 18 October 2017, on protecting consumers in the letting and managing agent market, what meetings he and Ministers in his Department

17 Oct 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Right to Buy Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether he plans to proceed with the forced sale of council homes and other assets in order to fund the right to buy programme.

16 Oct 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Private Rented Housing: Newham

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when he plans to make a decision on the London Borough of Newham's application to continue its private rented sector licensing scheme.

16 Oct 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Supported Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when he plans to publish a supported housing green paper.

16 Oct 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

High Rise Flats

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) high-rise residential buildings over 30 metres in England and (b) flats in those buildings.

12 Sep 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Housing: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 11 September 2017 to Question 9228, how many residential units have been granted planning permission by (a) region and (b) local authority since Quarter 2 of 200

12 Sep 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Social Rented Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when his Department plans to publish Social Housing Lettings, England: 2016-17.

12 Sep 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Affordable Housing: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when his Department plans to publish the Affordable Housing Starts and Completions: England, April 2017 to September 2017 (Update of Live Table 1012).

12 Sep 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Social Rented Housing: Sales

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when his Department plans to publish Social housing sales in England 2016 to 2017.

11 Sep 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Housing: Overseas Students

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the effect of the potential underestimation of student emigration in the International Passenger Survey on the ability of local authorities to assess housin

11 Sep 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Affordable Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many Homes and Communities Agency-funded affordable homes, by tenure, were (a) started and (b) completed in each financial year since 2008-09 in (i) Bromsgrove, (ii) Reading and (iii)

11 Sep 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Right to Buy Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what right to buy receipts local authorities have paid to the Exchequer in (a) capital receipts, (b) interest accrued and (c) any other relevant amount in each financial year from 2012-13

11 Sep 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Housing: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many starter homes have been built in each of the last five years.

6 Sep 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

High Rise Flats: Fire Prevention

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much funding his Department has set aside for remedial work in response to the Grenfell Tower fire; and whether such funding is additional to existing departmental allocations.

6 Sep 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

High Rise Flats: Fire Prevention

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many social housing blocks have failed the recent fire safety tests co-ordinated by his Department in each local authority area.

6 Sep 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Grenfell Tower: Fires

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, by what date he plans that all the households eligible for rehousing as a result of the Grenfell Tower fire will receive an offer of permanent housing.

6 Sep 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

High Rise Flats: Fire Prevention

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans he has to ensure that high-rise residential accommodation with external cladding that is not composed of aluminium composite material is tested to ensure that it is fire safe.

6 Sep 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

High Rise Flats: Fire Prevention

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of private high-rise residential blocks that have one of the four types of cladding and insulation combinations assessed as non-compliant with buil

6 Sep 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Letting Agents: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when he plans to publish the Draft Tenants Fees Bill.

6 Sep 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Homelessness

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the announcement made by him and the Prime Minister on 21 December 2016, on tackling homelessness, when he expects the trials of the Housing First model to begin.

6 Sep 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Grenfell Tower Inquiry

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Prime Minister's letter relating to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry of 15 August 2017 to the right hon. Sir Martin Moore-Bick, how much time has been allocated for the Ho

6 Sep 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Social Rented Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans he has put in place to encourage local councils to build new fixed-term social houses with an automatic right-to-buy.

Source: official written-questions record.