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Commons Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
Report stage - Tue 27 Feb 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Clive Betts (Lab - Sheffield South East) The Government have legislated to say that the managers of social housing will need professional qualifications - Speech Link
2: Barry Gardiner (Lab - Brent North) Those were the days before social media, and it was a photo op. - Speech Link
3: David Simmonds (Con - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner) The ability of freeholders of larger developments to regenerate sites where properties that have been rented - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2024 - Tue 27 Feb 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) They will increase from £379 to £404 a month for those also receiving support for housing costs, and - Speech Link
2: Baroness Janke (LD - Life peer) Poverty rates remained highest in the social and private rented sectors“and much higher for households - Speech Link
3: None The Social Security Administration Act 1992 provides for an annual review of benefit and pension rates - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 27 Feb 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) annual cost to the national health service of treating illnesses associated with living in cold or damp housing - Speech Link
2: Amanda Solloway (Con - Derby North) billion in this Parliament and a further £6 billion up to 2028 to make buildings, including private rented - Speech Link
3: Amanda Solloway (Con - Derby North) housing decarbonisation scheme and the homes upgrade grant. - Speech Link
4: Helen Morgan (LD - North Shropshire) What conversations has the Minister had with her colleagues in the Department for Levelling Up, Housing - Speech Link
5: Amanda Solloway (Con - Derby North) We have introduced the social housing decarbonisation boiler upgrade scheme, the home upgrade grant and - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Poverty Reduction - Thu 22 Feb 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Durham (Bshp - Bishops) On social security benefit levels, we need the essentials guarantee proposed by the Trussell Trust and - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Hereford (Bshp - Bishops) ”and noted the impact this has on social housing waiting lists and the ability of people to stay in their - Speech Link
3: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) While those lucky enough to be in social housing fare a bit better, poor, inadequate, expensive and insecure - Speech Link
4: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) That will ensure that 1.6 million private renters in receipt of housing benefit or universal credit gain - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Local Government Finance - Wed 07 Feb 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Helen Morgan (LD - North Shropshire) It is important that the Government grasp this issue of social housinghousing for social rent—because - Speech Link
2: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) We do not have the supply of social housing that we need right now. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Homes for Ukraine Scheme: Potential Extension - Tue 06 Feb 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Pauline Latham (Con - Mid Derbyshire) If they are allowed to stay on, I am sure our country will benefit greatly from the education experience - Speech Link
2: Alex Sobel (LAB - Leeds North West) Even then, there are areas in which private rented housing is in shorter supply than it might be in my - Speech Link
3: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) stock in Scotland and be of long-term benefit to everybody.Of the Ukrainians surveyed in spring 2023 - Speech Link
4: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) colleagues in the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities lead on the housing side of it - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Living Standards - Thu 01 Feb 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Stewart Malcolm McDonald (SNP - Glasgow South) The social insecurities include the inability of many public services to properly recover from the covid - Speech Link
2: Natalie Elphicke (Con - Dover) The majority of rented housing is now owned by private sector landlords—about 20% of all housing stock - Speech Link
3: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) those parties are committed to ensuring no cap on bankers bonuses, but that there will be one on child benefit - Speech Link
4: Bim Afolami (Con - Hitchin and Harpenden) £1,800 to the annual earnings of a full-time worker on the national living wage, and is expected to benefit - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Household Support Fund - Wed 31 Jan 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Barbara Keeley (Lab - Worsley and Eccles South) She was offered social housing but it was unfurnished. - Speech Link
2: Munira Wilson (LD - Twickenham) allowance, but they do not credibly replace the HSF and will benefit only specific groups. - Speech Link
3: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) With the housing disparities in York, with low wages and with the highest housing costs across the north - Speech Link
4: Jo Churchill (Con - Bury St Edmunds) On top of that, we are increasing local housing allowance from April, which will benefit a further 1.6 - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Hospitality Sector: Fiscal Support - Wed 31 Jan 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Alyn Smith (SNP - Stirling) Hospitality businesses promote social mobility. - Speech Link
2: Alyn Smith (SNP - Stirling) Pubs, restaurants and cafés provide a social environment for the consumption of alcohol; they are socially - Speech Link
3: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) reasons for that.First, the Government have failed to act to counter the collapse of the long-term rented - Speech Link
4: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) challenges at a local level, particularly when it comes to employment and the unaffordable cost of housing - Speech Link
5: Steve Double (Con - St Austell and Newquay) On the housing issue, one thing that the Treasury could do is level the tax playing field on the tax - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Social Security - Wed 31 Jan 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Debbie Abrahams (Lab - Oldham East and Saddleworth) universal credit, jobseeker’s allowance, employment and support allowance, income support, housing benefit - Speech Link
2: Debbie Abrahams (Lab - Oldham East and Saddleworth) benefit and the support provided through the housing element of universal credit. - Speech Link
3: Jeremy Corbyn (Ind - Islington North) sector, housing benefit never quite catches up with the increase in rents imposed by private sector - Speech Link