Asked by: Karl McCartney (Conservative - Lincoln)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
What steps his Department is taking to promote housebuilding.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
One of the key priorities for my Department has been ensuring that house building continues and the housing market stays open.
This Government cares deeply about building more homes and we have gone to great lengths to ensure the industry is kept open, in turn sustaining hundreds of thousands of people in numerous roles.
That is why I have written to the housing industry, alongside the Home Builders Federation and Federation of Master Builders, to make it clear that housebuilding, and the supply chains that support it, should continue during the current lockdown.
That means estate and lettings agents, show homes and sales suites can remain open; and property viewings, home repairs and maintenance, mortgage valuations and surveys can all continue to take place.
At the same time this Government is unlocking hundreds of thousands of homes through our £12 billion investment in affordable homes – the biggest investment for a decade; delivering much-needed new homes on brownfield land through our £400 million Brownfield Fund; and stimulating the market through our Stamp Duty cut.
Asked by: Karl McCartney (Conservative - Lincoln)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to support the Midlands Engine.
Answered by Andrew Percy
As announced by my Rt. Hon. Friend the Chancellor at Autumn Statement, we will shortly publish a Midlands Engine Strategy.
This will include £392 million from our Local Growth Fund for the Midlands Engine Local Enterprise Partnerships.
Asked by: Karl McCartney (Conservative - Lincoln)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department has taken to prepare for the UK to leave the EU since 23 June 2016; and what further such steps his Department plans to take in the remainder of 2016.
Answered by Sajid Javid
The Department for Exiting the European Union has responsibility for overseeing preparations for the withdrawal of the UK from the EU and conducting these withdrawal negotiations in support of the Prime Minister. In doing this it is working very closely with other government departments, including DCLG, and a wide range of other interested parties.
Asked by: Karl McCartney (Conservative - Lincoln)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, for what reasons the English Housing Survey Headline Report 2014 to 2015, published in February 2016, did not contain a breakdown of the nationality of the Households Representative Person by tenure; and if he will publish the data held on the nationality of the Households Representative Person by tenure for each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Brandon Lewis
The department collects details on the nationality of all household reference persons in the English Housing Survey. However, the sample size of the English Housing Survey does not permit us to report detailed nationality statistics.
Asked by: Karl McCartney (Conservative - Lincoln)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will estimate the level of structural funding that the EU Commission will allocate to Cornwall in the post-2020 Multiannual Financial Framework.
Answered by Lord Wharton of Yarm
The post-2020 Multiannual Financial Framework has not been proposed.
Asked by: Karl McCartney (Conservative - Lincoln)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will estimate the level of structural funding that the EU Commission will allocate to each region in England in the post-2020 Multiannual Financial Framework.
Answered by Lord Wharton of Yarm
The post-2020 Multiannual Financial Framework has not been proposed.
Asked by: Karl McCartney (Conservative - Lincoln)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what change there was in the amount the EU Commission proposed to make available in structural funds to Cornwall for the period 2014-2020 and the period 2007-2013; and what steps his Department took to limit such changes.
Answered by Lord Wharton of Yarm
On 17 April 2014, the former Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, the Rt Hon Vince Cable MP, set out the methodology for how the UK's Structural Funds were to be allocated in his letter ‘European Regional Development Fund and European Social Fund: UK allocations 2014 to 2020’.
Asked by: Karl McCartney (Conservative - Lincoln)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will estimate the increase in demand on housing caused by inward migration in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available.
Answered by Brandon Lewis
The Department has not made an estimate of the historic demand on housing caused by inward migration in each of the last 10 years.
Asked by: Karl McCartney (Conservative - Lincoln)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will place in the Library the raw data from each English Housing Survey detailing the nationalities of the Household Representative Person.
Answered by Brandon Lewis
Raw data from the English Housing Survey are publicly available via the UK Data Service (archive for survey and economic data). These publicly available datasets undergo rigorous disclosure control to ensure the anonymity of our respondents is protected and, as such, do not include individual level nationality data.
Asked by: Karl McCartney (Conservative - Lincoln)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will estimate the total number and proportion of dwellings in the UK occupied with the Households Representative Person being a foreign national from (a) another EU member state and (b) a non-EU country in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Brandon Lewis
The department collects details on the nationality of all household reference persons in the English Housing Survey. However, the sample size of the English Housing Survey does not permit us to report detailed nationality statistics.