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Information between 4th March 2024 - 14th March 2024

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Division Votes
13 Mar 2024 - Business without Debate - View Vote Context
Mike Amesbury voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 141 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 291 Noes - 147
13 Mar 2024 - National Insurance Contributions (Reduction in Rates) (No. 2) Bill - View Vote Context
Mike Amesbury voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 147 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Tally: Ayes - 170 Noes - 292
13 Mar 2024 - National Insurance Contributions (Reduction in Rates) (No. 2) Bill - View Vote Context
Mike Amesbury voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 147 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Tally: Ayes - 169 Noes - 293


Speeches
Mike Amesbury speeches from: Oral Answers to Questions
Mike Amesbury contributed 1 speech (70 words)
Tuesday 12th March 2024 - Commons Chamber
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office


Written Answers
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities: Official Gifts and Official Hospitality
Asked by: Mike Amesbury (Labour - Weaver Vale)
Wednesday 6th March 2024

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what (a) hospitality and (b) gifts in kind Ministers in his Department received in the last 12 months.

Answered by Simon Hoare - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)

In line with the practice of successive administrations, such details are published online.

Housing Infrastructure Fund
Asked by: Mike Amesbury (Labour - Weaver Vale)
Tuesday 5th March 2024

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how his Department plans to allocate the remainder of the Housing Infrastructure Fund.

Answered by Lee Rowley - Minister of State (Minister for Housing)

The £4.2 billion Housing Infrastructure Fund is fully allocated. The full £4.2 billion budget is expected to be spent by the programme end date of 31 March 2028.

Buildings: Construction
Asked by: Mike Amesbury (Labour - Weaver Vale)
Tuesday 5th March 2024

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that developers do not use unsuitable materials when constructing buildings.

Answered by Lee Rowley - Minister of State (Minister for Housing)

Regulation 7(1) of the Building Regulations 2010 places a duty on the person carrying building work to ensure that it is carried out with adequate and proper materials which are appropriate for the circumstances in which they are used, adequately mixed or prepared, and are applied, used or fixed so as to adequately perform the functions for which they are designed.

The Building Regulations etc. (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2023 amended the Building Regulations to require that individuals and organisations carrying out building work or design work must have the necessary competence to ensure that the work they do meets the requirements of the Building Regulations.

Buildings: Inspections
Asked by: Mike Amesbury (Labour - Weaver Vale)
Tuesday 5th March 2024

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make an estimate of the number of building inspectors that are expected to have registered with the Building Safety Regulator by 6 April 2024.

Answered by Lee Rowley - Minister of State (Minister for Housing)

The deadline to register is 6 April 2024, and we continue to review the progress of registrations in advance of that.

High Rise Flats: Insulation
Asked by: Mike Amesbury (Labour - Weaver Vale)
Tuesday 5th March 2024

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what information he holds on the number and proportion of buildings over 18 meters with aluminium composite material cladding that have started remediation works.

Answered by Lee Rowley - Minister of State (Minister for Housing)

The latest data on remediation progress of high-rise buildings (over 18 metres) with aluminium composite material (ACM) cladding systems unlikely to meet Building Regulations is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/building-safety-remediation-monthly-data-release-january-2024.

High Rise Flats: Insulation
Asked by: Mike Amesbury (Labour - Weaver Vale)
Tuesday 5th March 2024

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many buildings over 18 meters with aluminium composite material cladding have not been remediated as of 28 February 2024.

Answered by Lee Rowley - Minister of State (Minister for Housing)

The latest data on remediation progress of high-rise buildings (over 18 metres) with aluminium composite material (ACM) cladding systems unlikely to meet Building Regulations is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/building-safety-remediation-monthly-data-release-january-2024.

Housing Benefit: Supported Housing
Asked by: Mike Amesbury (Labour - Weaver Vale)
Wednesday 6th March 2024

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department spent on exempt accommodation in each of the last three years.

Answered by Mims Davies - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)

Providing the requested information would incur disproportionate costs to the Department due to the resource required to resolve data quality issues on exempt accommodation, which is a particular type of supported housing.

Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is working to resolve a historical data quality issue in relation to how supported housing status is captured on Housing Benefit claims. The resulting fix will be for new claims and will not address historic claims.

In 2022, DWP made investments to deliver improvements to local authority (LA) IT systems, to accurately record all new Housing Benefit claims. This has substantially improved data quality for new claims. DWP have also taken action to improve data on existing claims. LAs have received funding to review their Housing Benefit caseload and set the supported housing status accurately by 31st March 2024.

The Departments’ analysts will then make a final assessment of these case reviews in Summer 2024, once they have received the full relevant data set, and will determine whether it is sufficiently robust to support quantification of the scale and cost of specified accommodation.

Temporary Accommodation
Asked by: Mike Amesbury (Labour - Weaver Vale)
Thursday 7th March 2024

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he make an assessment of the adequacy of his Department's data collection on the number of households in emergency temporary accommodation.

Answered by Felicity Buchan - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)

The department’s temporary accommodation statistics are classified as accredited official statistics by the Office for National Statistics.

Temporary Accommodation
Asked by: Mike Amesbury (Labour - Weaver Vale)
Thursday 7th March 2024

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of regulation for emergency temporary accommodation.

Answered by Felicity Buchan - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)

Local authorities procure temporary accommodation from a range of sources, including council-owned stock, from housing associations, and from private landlords, and must ensure it is suitable.

Government has an ambition to increase quality of all accommodation, including temporary accommodation.

Private Rented Housing: Temporary Accommodation
Asked by: Mike Amesbury (Labour - Weaver Vale)
Thursday 7th March 2024

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of trends in levels of profits made by private landlords by letting emergency temporary accommodation.

Answered by Felicity Buchan - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)

Local authorities procure temporary accommodation from a range of sources, including council-owned stock, from housing associations, and from private landlords, and must ensure it is suitable.

Government has an ambition to increase quality of all accommodation, including temporary accommodation.

Housing: Standards
Asked by: Mike Amesbury (Labour - Weaver Vale)
Wednesday 13th March 2024

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a statutory regulator to improve the quality of new-build housing developments.

Answered by Lee Rowley - Minister of State (Minister for Housing)

The Government legislated in the Building Safety Act 2022 to establish a statutory New Homes Ombudsman. They will provide dispute resolution for, and determine complaints by, buyers of new build homes against developments.