Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Garston and Halewood)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of housing association tenants with disabilities or long term illness living in care home residencies while their house is adapted to meet their needs.
Answered by Heather Wheeler
This Government is committed to helping older and disabled people to live independently and safely at home.
In order to comply with the Social Housing Regulator's Home Standard, housing associations need to ensure they have a prudent, planned approach to repairs and maintenance of homes, including adaptations. Registered providers must co-operate with relevant organisations to provide an adaptations service that meets tenants’ needs.
Housing associations are independent bodies and it is up to their boards to oversee business and operational matters including funding of repairs and adaptations. The board needs to ensure that their organisation is open and accountable on how it meets its objectives and must meet the standards set by the social housing regulator.
The Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG) is a Government funded grant that is available to eligible tenants in housing association properties. The grant can contribute towards meeting the cost of adapting an older or disabled person’s property. The Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 states that local authorities should approve or decline an application for a DFG as soon as reasonably practicable (and not later than with six months of being made). It is expected that local authorities should complete the works in a timely manner.
Since 2012-13, the Government has invested over £1.6 billion into the DFG, providing around 250,000 adaptations by the end of the 2017-18 financial year. In the 2015 Spending Review, the DFG received year-on-year increases and will more than double from £220 million in 2015-16 to over £500 million by 2020.
Liverpool was given £6,437,470 from the original DFG budget of £431 million for 2017-18. It will also be allocated a share of funding from the additional £42 million for the grant announced in Budget 2017, which will take the total amount to over £7 million. This additional funding is going to be paid out in January 2018.
Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Garston and Halewood)
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 ensure housing associations in Garston and Halewood constituency have sufficient funding to adapt homes to meet the needs of tenants with disabilities or long-term illness.
Answered by Heather Wheeler
This Government is committed to helping older and disabled people to live independently and safely at home.
In order to comply with the Social Housing Regulator's Home Standard, housing associations need to ensure they have a prudent, planned approach to repairs and maintenance of homes, including adaptations. Registered providers must co-operate with relevant organisations to provide an adaptations service that meets tenants’ needs.
Housing associations are independent bodies and it is up to their boards to oversee business and operational matters including funding of repairs and adaptations. The board needs to ensure that their organisation is open and accountable on how it meets its objectives and must meet the standards set by the social housing regulator.
The Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG) is a Government funded grant that is available to eligible tenants in housing association properties. The grant can contribute towards meeting the cost of adapting an older or disabled person’s property. The Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 states that local authorities should approve or decline an application for a DFG as soon as reasonably practicable (and not later than with six months of being made). It is expected that local authorities should complete the works in a timely manner.
Since 2012-13, the Government has invested over £1.6 billion into the DFG, providing around 250,000 adaptations by the end of the 2017-18 financial year. In the 2015 Spending Review, the DFG received year-on-year increases and will more than double from £220 million in 2015-16 to over £500 million by 2020.
Liverpool was given £6,437,470 from the original DFG budget of £431 million for 2017-18. It will also be allocated a share of funding from the additional £42 million for the grant announced in Budget 2017, which will take the total amount to over £7 million. This additional funding is going to be paid out in January 2018.
Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Garston and Halewood)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment he has made of the level of funding available for housing associations to ensure homes are adapted to meet the needs of tenants with disabilities or long-term illness.
Answered by Heather Wheeler
This Government is committed to helping older and disabled people to live independently and safely at home.
In order to comply with the Social Housing Regulator's Home Standard, housing associations need to ensure they have a prudent, planned approach to repairs and maintenance of homes, including adaptations. Registered providers must co-operate with relevant organisations to provide an adaptations service that meets tenants’ needs.
Housing associations are independent bodies and it is up to their boards to oversee business and operational matters including funding of repairs and adaptations. The board needs to ensure that their organisation is open and accountable on how it meets its objectives and must meet the standards set by the social housing regulator.
The Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG) is a Government funded grant that is available to eligible tenants in housing association properties. The grant can contribute towards meeting the cost of adapting an older or disabled person’s property. The Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 states that local authorities should approve or decline an application for a DFG as soon as reasonably practicable (and not later than with six months of being made). It is expected that local authorities should complete the works in a timely manner.
Since 2012-13, the Government has invested over £1.6 billion into the DFG, providing around 250,000 adaptations by the end of the 2017-18 financial year. In the 2015 Spending Review, the DFG received year-on-year increases and will more than double from £220 million in 2015-16 to over £500 million by 2020.
Liverpool was given £6,437,470 from the original DFG budget of £431 million for 2017-18. It will also be allocated a share of funding from the additional £42 million for the grant announced in Budget 2017, which will take the total amount to over £7 million. This additional funding is going to be paid out in January 2018.
Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Garston and Halewood)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the cost of housing tenants with disabilities or long-term illness in care homes while their home is adapted to meet their needs.
Answered by Heather Wheeler
This Government is committed to helping older and disabled people to live independently and safely at home.
In order to comply with the Social Housing Regulator's Home Standard, housing associations need to ensure they have a prudent, planned approach to repairs and maintenance of homes, including adaptations. Registered providers must co-operate with relevant organisations to provide an adaptations service that meets tenants’ needs.
Housing associations are independent bodies and it is up to their boards to oversee business and operational matters including funding of repairs and adaptations. The board needs to ensure that their organisation is open and accountable on how it meets its objectives and must meet the standards set by the social housing regulator.
The Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG) is a Government funded grant that is available to eligible tenants in housing association properties. The grant can contribute towards meeting the cost of adapting an older or disabled person’s property. The Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 states that local authorities should approve or decline an application for a DFG as soon as reasonably practicable (and not later than with six months of being made). It is expected that local authorities should complete the works in a timely manner.
Since 2012-13, the Government has invested over £1.6 billion into the DFG, providing around 250,000 adaptations by the end of the 2017-18 financial year. In the 2015 Spending Review, the DFG received year-on-year increases and will more than double from £220 million in 2015-16 to over £500 million by 2020.
Liverpool was given £6,437,470 from the original DFG budget of £431 million for 2017-18. It will also be allocated a share of funding from the additional £42 million for the grant announced in Budget 2017, which will take the total amount to over £7 million. This additional funding is going to be paid out in January 2018.
Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Garston and Halewood)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what proportion of the £28m announced in the Autumn Budget for housing first pilot schemes to tackle homelessness will be allocated to Liverpool City Region.
Answered by Marcus Jones - Treasurer of HM Household (Deputy Chief Whip, House of Commons)
At Autumn budget £28 million of funding was announced to pilot the Housing First approach for the country’s most entrenched rough sleepers. The pilots will cover the West Midlands Combined Authority, Greater Manchester, and the Liverpool City Region.
The exact allocation to the areas will be subject to on-going work with the regions and refinement of the scope of the pilots. DCLG are in regular contact with officials in the Liverpool City Region and will continue to work closely with them going forward.
Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Garston and Halewood)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 7 March 2017 to Question 65636, on Department for Communities and Local Government: Brexit, what (a) EU agencies and other organisations are within his Department's remit, (b) staff time was spent on engagement with those bodies and (c) financial resources were spent on engagement with those bodies in 2015-16.
Answered by Andrew Percy
My department engages with a range of stakeholders, including EU agencies. No EU agencies are directly within the department’s remit. We do not disaggregate the time and resource spent on this engagement.
Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Garston and Halewood)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what (a) EU agencies and other organisations within his Department's remit the Government plans to withdraw from when the UK leaves the EU, (b) staff time was spent on engagement with those bodies and (c) financial resources were spent on engagement with those bodies in 2015-16.
Answered by Marcus Jones - Treasurer of HM Household (Deputy Chief Whip, House of Commons)
As set out in the recent White Paper (The United Kingdom’s exit from and new partnership with the European Union), the Government will discuss with the EU and Member States our future status and arrangements with regard to EU agencies. It would not be appropriate to prejudge the outcome of the negotiations.
Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Garston and Halewood)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when he plans to launch his programme of pocket parks in towns and cities; and what budget he plans to allocate to that programme.
Answered by Marcus Jones - Treasurer of HM Household (Deputy Chief Whip, House of Commons)
My officials are currently engaged with a number of interested parties, including colleagues in the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, in working up options as to the possible shape and scope of a pocket park programme. Budgets are yet to be determined.
Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Garston and Halewood)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much of the Business Rates Relief Fund for flooded businesses has been (a) allocated to local authorities and (b) received by businesses.
Answered by Kris Hopkins
I refer the hon. Member to the flood recovery progress report published on 27 November, a copy of which is in the Library of the House.
Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Garston and Halewood)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much of the Council Tax Relief Fund for people whose homes have been flooded has been (a) allocated to local authorities and (b) received by residents.
Answered by Kris Hopkins
On 27 November we published the Winter 2013-14 Severe Weather Recovery Progress Report. This provides an update on the full range of support which has been provided to help communities, householders and businesses recover from last winter’s severe weather. The Report is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/winter-2013-to-2014-severe-weather-recovery-progress-report