Asked by: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (Labour (Co-op) - Brighton, Kemptown)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether his Department has provided ring-fenced funding for Low Traffic Neighbourhoods to Brighton and Hove City Council.
Answered by Lee Rowley
The department is not responsible for the creation of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods.
Asked by: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (Labour (Co-op) - Brighton, Kemptown)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing a scheme to help private tenants buy their current home similar to the Help to Buy scheme.
Answered by Lee Rowley
The Government is committed to helping people into home ownership, and helping first time buyers, including those currently renting, to get on the housing ladder. We operate a range of government schemes including Help to Buy, First Homes, Shared Ownership, Lifetime ISA and mortgage guarantee scheme; and we continually keep options to support first-time buyers under consideration.
Asked by: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (Labour (Co-op) - Brighton, Kemptown)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will consider introducing a mandatory grace period for (a) drivers who leave a parking bay within 10 minutes without buying a ticket and (b) drivers who are unable to buy a parking ticket within 10 minutes as result of delays and failures in the relevant ticket delivery system.
Answered by Neil O'Brien - Shadow Minister (Policy Renewal and Development)
The 10-minute grace period at the end of paid for or free parking became mandatory for all Civil Enforcement Authorities in England on 6 April 2015. The grace period only applies at the end of permitted paid-for or free parking at local authority owned or operated car parks. It does not apply at the start of a period of parking, nor in circumstances where the driver was not permitted to park (i.e. outside the hours of permitted operation of on-street parking). There are no plans to mandate councils to give 10 minutes of free parking when parking begins.
Statutory guidance makes clear that if an on-street parking meter or pay-and-display machine is out of order (and parking has not been suspended and clearly indicated as such to motorists), motorists should not be issued with a parking charge notice unless alternative means of payment were available to the driver and clearly indicated
Some private parking operators currently offer 10-minute grace periods. However, the new Private Parking Code of Practice my department is currently reviewing will make it a requirement across the country to provide a fixed consideration period of at least 5 minutes to ensure that motorists have an opportunity to familiarise themselves with the parking terms and conditions and give a minimum 10-minute grace period after their tickets expire.
Asked by: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (Labour (Co-op) - Brighton, Kemptown)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the statement in Building Safety Fund Annex A - Technical: Measuring the height of your building that the measurement should be taken from the lowest ground level, how his Department defines that level in relation to (a) lower ground floors and (b) basement flats which are partly but not fully underground and the floor above is the first floor; and whether the measurement of height should start at (I) the lowest part of street level, (b) the lower ground floor, (c) floor level, (d) the first floor level or (e) another level.
Answered by Stuart Andrew - Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
The height of a building for the purpose of the Building Safety Fund, as set out in the Building Safety Fund: Annex A - Technical Information, should be measured in accordance with Diagram D6 of Approved Document B (Fire Safety) to the Building Regulations, which is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/fire-safety-approved-document-b.
This specifies that the height should be measured from the upper floor surface of the top floor to ground level on the lowest side of building. Diagram D6 clearly demonstrates that this measurement is taken externally. Therefore items such as lower ground floors and basement flats which are understood to be internal features of a building are generally not considered.
Asked by: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (Labour (Co-op) - Brighton, Kemptown)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, when the licenses expire for (a) Deposit Protection Service, (b) MyDeposits and (c) Tenancy Deposit Scheme.
Answered by Eddie Hughes
The concession agreements in place with the Deposit Protection Service, mydeposits and the Tenancy Deposit Scheme for the provision of Tenancy Deposit Protection schemes expire on 31 March 2026. Separate contracts are in place with each of the three providers for provision of Insurance-based and Custodial protection schemes, with the expiry of all six individual contracts currently aligned on 31 March 2026.