The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s (formerly the Department for Communities and Local Government) job is to create great places to live and work, and to give more power to local people to shape what happens in their area.
Robert Jenrick
Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
NAO Department Guides: A Short Guide to the Department for Communities and Local Government (Oct 2017)
Oral Answers to Questions is a regularly scheduled appearance where the Secretary of State and junior minister will answer at the Dispatch Box questions from backbench MPs
Other Commons Chamber appearances can be:Westminster Hall debates are performed in response to backbench MPs or e-petitions asking for a Minister to address a detailed issue
Written Statements are made when a current event is not sufficiently significant to require an Oral Statement, but the House is required to be informed.
| Date | Type | Title |
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| Jan. 11 | Oral Questions | Oral Answers to Questions |
| Nov. 18 | Urgent Questions | Towns Fund |
| Jan. 14 | Written Statements | Contingencies Fund Advance |
| Dec. 16 | Westminster Hall | Winter Homelessness Support |
| Dec. 14 | Adjournment Debate | Dark Skies |
A Bill to confer relief from non-domestic rates for hereditaments in England and Wales
A Bill to make provision to change the dates on which non-domestic rating lists must be compiled; and to change the dates by which proposed lists must be sent to billing authorities, the Secretary of State or the Welsh Ministers.
A bill to make provision to change the dates on which non-domestic rating lists must be compiled; to change the dates by which proposed lists must be sent to billing authorities, the Secretary of State or the Welsh Ministers; and for connected purposes
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Laid 13 Jan 2021 In Force 11 Feb 2021 |
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government |
Council Tax Reduction Schemes (Prescribed Requirements) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 Parliamentary Status - Text of Legislation |
Made negative procedure |
| Section 13A of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 (“the 1992 Act”) requires each billing authority in England to make a scheme specifying the reductions which are to apply to amounts of council tax payable by persons, or classes of person, whom the billing authority considers are in financial need. The Council Tax Reduction Schemes (Prescribed Requirements) (England) Regulations 2012 (“the 2012 Regulations”) prescribe matters which must be included in such a scheme in addition to those matters which must be included in such a scheme by virtue of paragraph 2 of Schedule 1A to the 1992 Act. | |||
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Laid 12 Jan 2021 In Force Not stated |
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government |
Non-domestic Rating (Designated Area) Regulations 2021 Parliamentary Status - Text of Legislation |
Draft affirmative procedure |
| These Regulations designate an area in England (“designated area”) for the purpose of paragraph 39(1) of Schedule 7B to the Local Government Finance Act 1988 (“the 1988 Act”) (local retention of non-domestic rates). They provide rules for calculating in respect of the billing authority in England all or part of whose area falls within the designated area— | |||
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365,508 Petition Closed |
Make 'netting' hedgerows to prevent birds from nesting a criminal offence. Gov Responded - 4 Nov 2019 Debated on - 13 May 2019 |
18 Sep 2019 closed 1 year, 3 months ago |
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Developers, and other interested parties are circumventing laws protecting birds by 'netting' hedgerows to prevent birds from nesting. This facilitates the uprooting of hedgerows which aid biodiversity and provide the only remaining nesting sites for birds, whose numbers are in sharp decline. |
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Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Select Committee Home Page
Select Committees are a formally established cross-party group of backbench MPs tasked with holding a Government department to account.
At any time there will be number of ongoing investigations into the work of the Department, or issues which fall within the oversight of the Department. Witnesses can be summoned from within the Government and outside to assist in these inquiries, and the Select Committee will occasionally publish formal reports of their findings.
| Date | Title | Type |
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| Jan. 14 | Towns Fund Selection: Summary of Accounting Officer advice | Guidance and Regulation |
| Jan. 14 | Social Sector ACM Cladding Remediation Fund: application guidance | Guidance and Regulation |
| Jan. 14 | Home building stats show sector is bouncing back | News and Communications |
Written Questions are submitted by Members of Parliament and the House of Lords to receive information or updates from a Department.
Departments are required to respond in a timely fashion and provide a response or requested information. Written Questions can compel detailed and specific information to be produced, and are frequently used as the source of news stories about the work of a Department.
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| 15 Jan 2021, 1:41 p.m. | Lord Kennedy of Southwark (Labour - Life peer) | Lord Kennedy of Southwark (Labour - Life peer) |
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Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: To ask Her Majesty's Government whether all those who were displaced due to the fire at Grenfell Tower are in permanent residential accommodation. Answered by Lord Greenhalgh - Minister of State (Home Office) All 201 households from Grenfell Tower and Grenfell Walk have accepted an offer of accommodation, and over 95% (194 households) have moved into a new permanent home.
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