Asked by: Abena Oppong-Asare (Labour - Erith and Thamesmead)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of making membership of the Property Ombudsman scheme mandatory for registered estate agents.
Answered by Rachel Maclean
I refer the Hon Member to the answers given in response to Question UIN 174410 on 4 April 2023 and Question UIN 190807 on 29 June 2023.
Asked by: Abena Oppong-Asare (Labour - Erith and Thamesmead)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether his Department has made an assessment of the adequacy of the accountability of estate agents to (a) landlords and (b) tenants.
Answered by Rachel Maclean
I refer the Hon Member to the answers given in response to Question UIN 174410 on 4 April 2023 and Question UIN 190807 on 29 June 2023.
Asked by: Abena Oppong-Asare (Labour - Erith and Thamesmead)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if his Department will make an estimate on the proportion of evictions issued due to rent increases in (a) 2018, (b) 2020 and (c) 2022.
Answered by Rachel Maclean
The data requested is not held centrally.
Asked by: Abena Oppong-Asare (Labour - Erith and Thamesmead)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether his Department has a target for building new social housing.
Answered by Rachel Maclean
As set out previously, the Government recognises the value of investing in Social Rent homes which is why we made a commitment in our Levelling-up white paper to deliver more of them.
Our Affordable Homes Programme is responding to that commitment and will deliver tens of thousands of Social Rent homes, as will our Local Authority Housing Fund.
Since 2010 we have delivered over 162,800 homes for social rent.
Asked by: Abena Oppong-Asare (Labour - Erith and Thamesmead)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many households were on their local authority waiting list for social housing in (a) the last six months, (b) 2022, (c) 2020 and (d) 2018.
Answered by Dehenna Davison
This information is already publicly available as of 31 March here.
Asked by: Abena Oppong-Asare (Labour - Erith and Thamesmead)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact on the local housing market of extending the DLR from Gallions Reach to Thamesmead; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Rachel Maclean
Responsibility for the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) sits with the Mayor of London and Transport for London.
Government recognises the potential of the proposed extension of the DLR, and welcomes the partnership approach that is being taken. Government will continue to engage with partners, as they develop the evidence base.
Government understands that partners will assess the housing impacts of transport options as part of the initial business case that is currently being developed.
Asked by: Abena Oppong-Asare (Labour - Erith and Thamesmead)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make an estimate of the number of people who became homeless following a section 21 notice in (a) the last six months, (b) 2022, (c) 2020 and (d) 2018.
Answered by Felicity Buchan - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)
I refer the Hon. Member to the answer to Question UIN 183090 on 9 May 2023.
Asked by: Abena Oppong-Asare (Labour - Erith and Thamesmead)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many households were placed in temporary accommodation outside of their local borough in (a) 2022, (b) 2020, and (c) 2018.
Answered by Felicity Buchan - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)
The statutory homelessness live tables for England are available here. This includes quarterly snapshot data on those who were placed in temporary accommodation outside of their local authority.
Asked by: Abena Oppong-Asare (Labour - Erith and Thamesmead)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether his Department provides guidance to housing associations to help promote uniformity in the eligibility criteria for Key Worker Housing schemes administered by those associations.
Answered by Lucy Frazer - Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
The Government has brought forward a range of recent interventions to promote home ownership. As an example, the First Homes programme is designed to help local first-time buyers, and the £11.5 billion Affordable Homes Programme is intended to provide tens of thousands of new homes, a large number of which will be for Affordable and Social Rent.
Housing associations are required by the Tenancy Standard to co-operate with their local authority's strategic housing function and their duties to meet identified housing needs. As private organisations, beyond the obligations from these arrangements with their local authorities, housing associations are free to let their properties as they wish - including to key workers.
DLUHC does not collect data on NHS recruitment and retention.
Asked by: Abena Oppong-Asare (Labour - Erith and Thamesmead)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment his Department has made of the impact on [NHS recruitment and retention] of variations in criteria for Key Worker Housing schemes offered by housing associations.
Answered by Lucy Frazer - Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
The Government has brought forward a range of recent interventions to promote home ownership. As an example, the First Homes programme is designed to help local first-time buyers, and the £11.5 billion Affordable Homes Programme is intended to provide tens of thousands of new homes, a large number of which will be for Affordable and Social Rent.
Housing associations are required by the Tenancy Standard to co-operate with their local authority's strategic housing function and their duties to meet identified housing needs. As private organisations, beyond the obligations from these arrangements with their local authorities, housing associations are free to let their properties as they wish - including to key workers.
DLUHC does not collect data on NHS recruitment and retention.