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Written Question
Members: Correspondence
Thursday 19th November 2020

Asked by: David Lammy (Labour - Tottenham)

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the letter from the hon. Member for Tottenham dated 14 October 2020, whether he plans to provide a date and time for a meeting on the Tottenham Hale Village.

Answered by Christopher Pincher

The Department has now received the letter from the Hon. member for Tottenham and a response will be sent shortly.


Written Question
Social Rented Housing: Construction
Friday 31st January 2020

Asked by: David Lammy (Labour - Tottenham)

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many social houses are projected to be built in England over the next five years.

Answered by Esther McVey - Minister without Portfolio (Cabinet Office)

The Government is committed to increasing the supply of social housing and has made £9 billion available through the Affordable Homes Programme to March 2022 to deliver approximately 250,000 new affordable homes in a wide range of tenures, including at least 12,500 for Social Rent.

We will renew the Affordable Homes Programme, building hundreds of thousands of new homes for a range of people in different places.


Written Question
First Time Buyers: Affordable Housing
Friday 31st January 2020

Asked by: David Lammy (Labour - Tottenham)

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many affordable starter homes were built in (a) Tottenham, (b) Islington, (c) Barnet, (d) Haringey, (e) Enfield, (f) London and (g) England in each of the last four years.

Answered by Esther McVey - Minister without Portfolio (Cabinet Office)

Starter Homes were a policy of the previous administration which they decided not to take forward.

Data on the delivery of different types affordable housing by area is published at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-affordable-housing-supply


Written Question
Social Rented Housing
Friday 31st January 2020

Asked by: David Lammy (Labour - Tottenham)

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to increase the provision of social housing in England.

Answered by Esther McVey - Minister without Portfolio (Cabinet Office)

The Government is committed to increasing the supply of genuinely affordable homes. We have made £9 billion available through the Affordable Homes Programme, delivering approximately 250,000 new affordable homes to March 2022. Councils can bid into this programme to secure funding for new council homes. We also abolished the Housing Revenue Account borrowing cap and have given councils a longer-term rent deal for 5 years from 2020. The total number of households on local authority waiting lists is down by 37 per cent compared to 2012. 464,000 affordable homes have been delivered in England since April 2010, including 141,000 new social rent homes.

We will also fulfil our manifesto commitment to renew the Affordable Homes Programme, building hundreds of thousands of new homes for a range of people across the country and providing further stability for councils to build new social homes.


Written Question
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Brexit
Thursday 30th May 2019

Asked by: David Lammy (Labour - Tottenham)

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many officials in his Department have been seconded away from their normal duties to work on the UK's withdrawal from the EU; and what effect that secondment of staff has had on the effectiveness of his Department.

Answered by Rishi Sunak - Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service, and Minister for the Union

Departments continually review workforce plans, reprioritise and assess changing needs, which includes identification and cessation of non-priority work where appropriate. We have accelerated our plans, and at the same time, the Civil Service as a whole is working to ensure that EU Exit Implementation is carried out to high quality without impacting public service delivery across the whole of government.

A total of 122 MHCLG staff were redeployed from other work on to EU Exit work between December 2018 and April 2019, the majority of whom were redeployed for a short period between 8 and 11 April in anticipation of a possible exit on 12 April.



Written Question
Supported Housing: Learning Disability
Monday 22nd October 2018

Asked by: David Lammy (Labour - Tottenham)

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of people with complex and severe learning difficulties who are living in supported living accommodation.

Answered by Heather Wheeler

Independent research commissioned by my department and the Department for Work and Pensions estimated that at the end of 2015 there were around 47,000 supported housing units across Great Britain for people with learning disabilities. The research was published in 2016 and can be found at: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/572454/rr927-supported-accommodation-review.pdf


Written Question
Supported Housing: Learning Disability
Monday 22nd October 2018

Asked by: David Lammy (Labour - Tottenham)

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment his Department has made of the suitability of supported living accommodation for people with complex and severe learning difficulties.

Answered by Heather Wheeler

We have made no recent assessment but we are committed to the vital role that supported housing plays in the lives of many vulnerable people. As announced on 9 August, my department and the Department for Work and Pensions are working closely with supported housing stakeholders to develop additional oversight of the quality and value for money of housing across the whole supported housing sector. This will include accommodation for people with complex and severe learning difficulties.

More widely, the Department for Health and Social Care invested £25 million over 2016-18 in 52 separate projects, in housing and technology to support people with a learning disability to live as independently as possible with the right care and support.


Written Question
High Rise Flats: Fire Prevention
Thursday 15th March 2018

Asked by: David Lammy (Labour - Tottenham)

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether Euroclass B-F materials passed fire safety tests conducted for the Government in 2017; and whether the results of those tests have formed the basis of his Department's guidance to landlords.

Answered by Dominic Raab

Details of all tests commissioned by the Department as part of the Building Safety Programme are available at: www.gov.uk/guidance/building-safety-programme

Test 4 and Test 5 included materials in the cladding system which were not materials of limited combustibility and which therefore would have been classified under the European classification system under Classes B-F. In both tests, the cladding systems met the necessary performance criteria.

However, Tests 1, 2, 3 and 7 also included materials which were not materials of limited combustibility. In these tests the necessary performance criteria were not met.

The results of those tests informed advice to building owners from the Independent Expert Panel, which is available at: www.gov.uk/guidance/building-safety-programme


Written Question
High Rise Flats: Fire Prevention
Friday 9th March 2018

Asked by: David Lammy (Labour - Tottenham)

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans he has to publish the results of desktop studies that have been used to test for combustible materials for use on high-rise buildings.

Answered by Dominic Raab

The Government has not commissioned any desktop studies. Details of all tests commissioned by the Department as part of the Building Safety Programme are available at www.gov.uk/guidance/building-safety-programme


Written Question
High Rise Flats: Fire Prevention
Friday 9th March 2018

Asked by: David Lammy (Labour - Tottenham)

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what representations he has received on (a) the safety of Euroclass B-F cladding and insulation and (b) concerns regarding the British Standard 8414 large-scale fire test.

Answered by Dominic Raab

My Department has received numerous comments on the safety of cladding and insulation materials and on the British Standard 8414 test. The guidance published by the Department and by the Independent Expert Panel reflects a considered assessment of those comments.