Asked by: Nadia Whittome (Labour - Nottingham East)
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 increase the number of homes for social rent in Nottingham East constituency.
Answered by Jacob Young - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)
Data on social housing supply is not held at constituency level.
Asked by: Nadia Whittome (Labour - Nottingham East)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he is taking steps to reduce private sector rents in Nottingham East constituency.
Answered by Jacob Young - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)
The Government recognises the cost of living pressures that tenants are facing, and that paying rent is likely to be a tenant’s biggest monthly expense. The level of private sector rents is not directly a matter for Government, however, we are taking steps to increase housebuilding to help create a more sustainable and affordable housing market over the long term. The Government is on track to meet its manifesto commitment to deliver a million homes over this Parliament.
The Government also welcomes new institutional investment in the private rented sector. The Build to Rent sector has built over 100,000 new homes over the past 13 years and they continue to play a part in increasing the supply of homes in the private rented sector.
Asked by: Nadia Whittome (Labour - Nottingham East)
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 tackle racism against Romani (Gypsy), Roma and Irish Traveller communities.
Answered by Lee Rowley - Minister of State (Minister for Housing)
All forms of discrimination are unacceptable, and they have no place in our communities.
No one should ever be a victim of discrimination because of their race, or their religion or belief, and the Government continues to work with police and community partners to monitor and combat it.
True Vision is an online reporting portal, maintained by the police and funded by the Government. We will continue to support the police to maintain this and reinforce their relationships with communities so that they feel confident to report any instances of illegal discrimination.
Asked by: Nadia Whittome (Labour - Nottingham East)
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 support services that support people with multiple disadvantages and implement trauma-informed approaches.
Answered by Felicity Buchan - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)
The Department is committed to improving services for people and families experiencing multiple disadvantage. The Changing Futures programme is a £77 million programme, funded by Government and The National Lottery Community Fund, that tests innovative approaches to service provision to improve outcomes for people experiencing multiple disadvantage. The programme is led by DLUHC and directly supports people in fifteen local areas in England who experience multiple disadvantage, including combinations of three or more of homelessness; substance misuse; mental health issues; domestic abuse and contact with the criminal justice system.
Asked by: Nadia Whittome (Labour - Nottingham East)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of funding for levelling up.
Answered by Dehenna Davison
Levelling up underpins this Government’s ambitions. My department alone has allocated over £9.9 billion from levelling up funds since 2019 and over £11 billion in long-term flexible investment funds for Mayoral Combined Authorities and areas with recently-agreed devolution deals. Across government, we are investing in urban transport, spending millions on local bus services; refocusing cultural and R&D spend outside London; successfully recruiting 20,000 police; establishing over 100 Community Diagnostic Centres; and much more.
Asked by: Nadia Whittome (Labour - Nottingham East)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if his Department has plans to extend the Changing Futures programme beyond March 2024.
Answered by Felicity Buchan - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)
The Changing Futures programme is a £64 million initiative between Government and The National Lottery Community Fund, running until 2024/25. Fifteen local areas are now supporting over 1,500 of the most vulnerable adults in our communities – people experiencing combinations of mental ill health, substance misuse, homelessness, domestic abuse and contact with the criminal justice system - to change their lives for the better.
Any announcements about future plans for the programme will be made in due course.
Asked by: Nadia Whittome (Labour - Nottingham East)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many households were entitled to the (a) Prevention and (b) Relief Duty where the lead applicant was lesbian or gay and aged 16-25 in (i) 2020-2021 (ii) 2021-2022.
Answered by Felicity Buchan - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)
Homelessness Statistics for 2020-21 are available here and 2021-22 are available here. These include data on the sexual identity and ethnicity of the main applicant owed statutory homelessness prevention and relief duties.
The department does not publish data on domestic abuse based on sexual or gender identification.
Asked by: Nadia Whittome (Labour - Nottingham East)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many households were entitled to the (a) Prevention and (b) Relief Duty where the lead applicant was (i) transgender and (ii) non-binary in 2021-2022.
Answered by Felicity Buchan - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)
Homelessness Statistics for 2020-21 are available here and 2021-22 are available here. These include data on the sexual identity and ethnicity of the main applicant owed statutory homelessness prevention and relief duties.
The department does not publish data on domestic abuse based on sexual or gender identification.
Asked by: Nadia Whittome (Labour - Nottingham East)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many households were entitled to the (a) Prevention and (b) Relief Duty where the lead applicant was 16-25 and from a minority ethnic background in (i) 2020-2021 (ii) 2021-2022.
Answered by Felicity Buchan - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)
Homelessness Statistics for 2020-21 are available here and 2021-22 are available here. These include data on the sexual identity and ethnicity of the main applicant owed statutory homelessness prevention and relief duties.
The department does not publish data on domestic abuse based on sexual or gender identification.
Asked by: Nadia Whittome (Labour - Nottingham East)
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 help tackle homelessness among LGBTQ+ young people aged 16-25.
Answered by Felicity Buchan - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)
Homelessness Statistics for 2020-21 are available here and 2021-22 are available here. These include data on the sexual identity and ethnicity of the main applicant owed statutory homelessness prevention and relief duties.
The department does not publish data on domestic abuse based on sexual or gender identification.