Asked by: Charlotte Nichols (Labour - Warrington North)
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 required social housing in (a) the last year and (b) in 2017 due to being issued a section 21 notice whilst living in private sector accommodation.
Answered by Felicity Buchan - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)
The Department does not have data on the number of people requiring social housing due to being issued a section 21 notice.
Ensuring a fair deal for renters remains a priority for this government, and we will legislate in this Parliament to abolish section 21 'no fault' evictions.
Asked by: Charlotte Nichols (Labour - Warrington North)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what estimate his Department has made of the proportion of the electorate for whom a passport is the only valid form of identification for the purposes of the Elections Act 2022.
Answered by Lee Rowley - Minister of State (Minister for Housing)
I refer the Hon member to the Cabinet Office survey, which can be found can be found here.
Asked by: Charlotte Nichols (Labour - Warrington North)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what estimate he has made of the number of households in the UK which contain mould.
Answered by Dehenna Davison
The Secretary of State has written to social housing providers, setting out his expectation that they act swiftly to rectify damp and mould and be prepared to respond to the Regulator of Social Housing on the extent of these issues in their areas.
For the private rented sector, the Secretary of State has written to all local authorities setting out his expectation that they will take action to resolve poor housing conditions in their area and requiring them to respond to the department on current conditions.
The annual English Housing Survey publishes data on damp and mould.
Asked by: Charlotte Nichols (Labour - Warrington North)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will take steps to introduce a right to buy scheme for the private rented sector.
Answered by Felicity Buchan - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)
At this time Government does not have any plans to expand the Right to Buy scheme into the private rented sector.
Asked by: Charlotte Nichols (Labour - Warrington North)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what percentage of first-time buyers purchase a property for more than £300,000.
Answered by Lucy Frazer - Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
This data is owned by UK Finance and is not able to be shared.
Asked by: Charlotte Nichols (Labour - Warrington North)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what estimate he has made of the number of postal votes which were received by (a) domestic and (b) overseas electors too late to return them by election day in each local authority area at the last (i) general and (ii) local elections.
Answered by Lee Rowley - Minister of State (Minister for Housing)
The data requested is not held centrally. Individual Returning Officers keep records of postal votes they receive after the close of poll.
Asked by: Charlotte Nichols (Labour - Warrington North)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what estimate he has made of the costs for the average leaseholder in a block of flats who has both cladding issues and other fire safety issues to rectify.
Answered by Lee Rowley - Minister of State (Minister for Housing)
The leaseholder protections in the Building Safety Act 2022 will ensure that the majority of leaseholders will have to pay no more than £10,000 (£15,000 in Greater London) over ten years for non-cladding remediation and interim measures, and zero for cladding remediation.
Asked by: Charlotte Nichols (Labour - Warrington North)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will increase the bonuses available to first time buyers under the Help to Buy scheme.
Answered by Lucy Frazer - Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
Since April 2021, eligibility for the Help to buy Equity Loan scheme is for first time buyers only. Any changes to the scheme will be announced in the usual way.
Asked by: Charlotte Nichols (Labour - Warrington North)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what his plans are for refugees currently being hosted under the Homes for Ukraine Scheme who have been living with their hosts for more than six months, whose hosts wish to withdraw from the scheme.
Answered by Felicity Buchan - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)
We would like as many sponsors as possible to extend their sponsorship beyond six-months, but we understand not all sponsors will want to or will be able to, so we are providing guidance for those who cannot continue sponsoring.
The guidance sets out a range of options available to Ukrainians and their hosts which are:
For further information, please see Homes for Ukraine guidance, which can be accessed here.
Asked by: Charlotte Nichols (Labour - Warrington North)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the guidance entitled Private Parking Code of Practice, published on 7 February 2022 and withdrawn on 7 June 2022, what recent progress his Department has made on implementing the Parking (Code of Practice) Act 2019; and whether his Department plans to publish an updated Private Parking Code of Practice.
Answered by Dehenna Davison
I refer the Hon Member to the answer I gave to PQ 54476 on 12 October 2022.