Written questions

5,135 written questions tabled, most recent first.

20 Feb 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Right to Acquire Scheme: Housing Associations

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the effect of the lack of a cost floor on housing associations whose tenants purchase their home through the right to acquire.

20 Feb 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Right to Buy Scheme: Council Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the effect on the number of houses sold of the proposal to extend the right to buy to homes built by council housing companies in the Housing White Paper.

20 Feb 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Planning: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 9 February 2017 to Question 63539, what the time period will be over which he plans the additional fee income to be generated.

20 Feb 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Housing Revenue Accounts

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

17 Feb 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Right to Buy Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of whether the extension of the right to buy to tenants living in properties owned or managed by council housing companies will require new legislation.

17 Feb 2017 · HM Treasury

Income Tax: Landlords

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of how many landlords will be (a) affected by, (b) exempted because they are a corporate landlord and (c) exempted because they fall into another exempted group from the restriction on the

9 Feb 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Right to Acquire Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans he has to introduce a cost floor for homes sold through the right to acquire scheme.

9 Feb 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Housing: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, by what process the £25 million of new funding to help ambitious authorities in areas of high housing need to plan for new homes and infrastructure announced in the Housing White Paper, p

8 Feb 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what comparative assessment he has made of the effect of universal credit on people in temporary accommodation in the universal credit pilot areas compared to people in temporary accommodation in other

8 Feb 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effect of universal credit on (a) levels of rent arrears, (b) numbers of evictions and (c) in other areas for people in temporary accommodation in universal credit pil

8 Feb 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Housing: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer of 20 January 2016 to Question 21620, what assessment he has made of the implications for (a) the number of Starter Homes to be delivered over the course of t

7 Feb 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Energy: Conservation

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will place in the Library the terms of reference for the review of the cost-effectiveness of current energy performance standards mentioned in Fixing our broken housing market, Cm 9

7 Feb 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Planning: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the potential revenue that will be raised by local authorities after July 2017 as a result of the proposed changes in the level of planning fees local authori

6 Feb 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the level of rent arrears of universal credit recipients who are tenants in temporary accommodation in universal credit pilot areas.

6 Feb 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Rents: Arrears

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment he has made of the (a) level and (b) extent of arrears of tenants in the (i) social and (ii) private rented sector.

2 Feb 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his policy is on removing the automatic entitlement to the housing element of universal credit only for 18 to 21 year olds who are out of work.

2 Feb 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 24 January 2017 to Question 60655, on universal credit and housing benefit, if he will place in the Library the assumptions by which those estimates were calculated.

2 Feb 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 2 February 2017 to Question 61611, on housing construction, how many organisations that have received funding from the Home Building Fund are registered for tax

2 Feb 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 2 February 2017 to Question 61611, on housing construction, how many Home and Committees Agency customers who have received funding from the Home Building Fund h

2 Feb 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Housing: Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 30 January 2017 to Question 60963, if he will place in the Library unpublished research on the effect of immigration on housing commissioned or produced by his D

2 Feb 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Affordable Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 25 January 2017 to Question 60366, if he will publish his Department's unpublished impact assessment on the changes to the affordable housing programme announced

1 Feb 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Housing: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate his Department has made of the net value of the Government's spending on starter homes in the next (a) 10, (b) 20 and (c) 30 years.

31 Jan 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Jobcentres: Rotherham

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the expected costs are of the proposal to relocate staff and resources from Goldthorpe Jobcentre.

31 Jan 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Jobcentres: Rotherham

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants are served by Goldthorpe jobcentre; and how many of those claimants are (a) disabled and (b) women.

31 Jan 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Jobcentres: Rotherham

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the criteria used were for the selection of Goldthorpe jobcentre for proposed closure.

31 Jan 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Jobcentres: Rotherham

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether compulsory redundancies will result from the closure of Goldthorpe jobcentre.

31 Jan 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Jobcentres: Rotherham

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment has been made of the effect on the local economy of proposed relocation of jobs from Goldthorpe jobcentre.

31 Jan 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Jobcentres: Rotherham

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when an Equality Impact Assessment will be published on the proposal to close Goldthorpe jobcentre.

25 Jan 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Housing: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if his Department will take steps to check whether recipients of loans from the Home Building Fund pay business taxes in the UK.

24 Jan 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 24 January 2017 to Question 60655, on universal credit and housing benefit, if he will place in the Library the assumptions and modelling on which those estimates are based.

Source: official written-questions record.