Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how much has been spent from the public purse on advertisements in The Telegraph newspaper related to levelling up.
Answered by Neil O'Brien
There has been no spend in these publications in relation to levelling up. The full campaign expenditure will be published in due course, as part of the departments routine transparency commitments.
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how much has been spent from the public purse on advertisements in The Times newspaper related to levelling up.
Answered by Neil O'Brien
There has been no spend in these publications in relation to levelling up. The full campaign expenditure will be published in due course, as part of the departments routine transparency commitments.
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how much has been spent from the public purse on advertisements in the Evening Standard newspaper related to levelling up.
Answered by Neil O'Brien
There has been no spend in these publications in relation to levelling up. The full campaign expenditure will be published in due course, as part of the departments routine transparency commitments.
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how much has been spent from the public purse on advertisements on commercial radio related to levelling up.
Answered by Neil O'Brien
The Levelling Up campaign has just ended. We will be publishing its expenditure as part of routine transparency commitments in due course.
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how much has been spent from the public purse on advertisements in local newspapers related to levelling up.
Answered by Neil O'Brien
The Levelling Up campaign has just ended. We will be publishing its expenditure as part of routine transparency commitments in due course.
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many people in (a) Warwickshire and (b) Warwick and Leamington constituency have recorded their interest in becoming a sponsor as part of the Homes for Ukraine scheme.
Answered by Eddie Hughes
A breakdown of visas issued for Homes for Ukraine, by local authority has been published here:
Data on sponsors by local authority is not yet available.
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many households in (a) Warwickshire and (b) Warwick and Leamington constituency have been paired with a Ukrainian national as part of the Homes for Ukraine scheme.
Answered by Neil O'Brien
I refer the Hon Member to the data published at: www.gov.uk/government/publications/ukraine-family-scheme-application-data. Further data will be published in due course.
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what guidance he is giving to local authorities on the distribution to student households of funding from the £144 million made available as discretionary funding to help households with rising energy bills.
Answered by Kemi Badenoch - President of the Board of Trade
My Department will provide guidance shortly to billing authorities on administering the council tax rebate scheme and the associated discretionary fund. Allocations from the discretionary fund will allow councils to support people that may need help with their energy bills but who are not eligible for the main scheme.
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what plans his Department has to (a) initiate a consultation on the UK Shared Prosperity Fund and (b) publish a timetable for the commencement of that Fund.
Answered by Neil O'Brien
The UK Shared Prosperity Fund pre-launch guidance document published on 2nd February 2022 provides further information on the overall focus of the fund, geographies over which the fund will operate and a summary of its investment priorities. This information will enable places to start planning and preparing for the full launch later in spring 2022, where the UK government will publish a full prospectus for places to be fully equipped to write an investment plan.
The Fund is a central pillar of the UK government’s ambitious Levelling Up agenda and a significant component of its support for places across the UK. It provides £2.6 billion of new funding for local investment by March 2025, with all areas of the UK receiving an allocation from the Fund via a funding formula rather than a competition. This recognises that even the most affluent parts of the UK contain pockets of deprivation and need support.
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent estimate he has made of the number of student accommodation settings containing flammable cladding.
Answered by Christopher Pincher
Data on the remediation progress of high-rise student accommodation buildings in England identified with ACM cladding systems unlikely to meet Building Regulations is published in the Building Safety Programme data release. The latest data is available here.
The Department’s External Wall Systems data collection concerns residential buildings 18 metres and over, including student accommodation. The collection is ongoing, and we are working to improve the quality of data before publishing further summary information in due course.
We have begun a pilot data collection project for 11-18m residential buildings to identify those with unsafe cladding. We will publish further details in due course.