May. 23 2024
Source Page: Sustainable Farming Incentive scheme: expanded offer for 2024Found: action must be: • a vertical structure that’s built of natural stone • of traditional dry stone wall construction
Written Evidence May. 23 2024
Inquiry: Food, Diet and ObesityFound: food insecure, you are not just food insecure but fuel insecure, you are probably living in poor housing
May. 23 2024
Source Page: Defra: workforce management information April 2024Found: , Training and Education, IT/IS, Organisation and Change Management, PPM, Procurement, Property and Construction
May. 23 2024
Source Page: Plan for Jobs Cross-cutting Evaluation Wave 1 and 2 synthesis reportFound: for Jobs: Year s 1 and 2 synthesis report 15 CAQDAS: Computer Assisted Qualitative Data CSCS: Construction
Mentions:
1: Steve Brine (Con - Winchester) bang on remorselessly about the big drivers of ill health—smoking, alcohol addiction, obesity, poor housing - Speech Link
2: Victoria Atkins (Con - Louth and Horncastle) We have six new hospitals open to the public already, and another 18 entering construction. - Speech Link
3: Kelly Tolhurst (Con - Rochester and Strood) Friend have some conversations with her colleagues in the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities - Speech Link
4: Holly Mumby-Croft (Con - Scunthorpe) wards that have now been completed.The Secretary of State will know that we are also midway through the construction - Speech Link
Asked by: Matthew Offord (Conservative - Hendon)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether his Department has taken steps to ensure that before selling homes under the Right to Buy scheme between 1980 and 2022, local authorities (a) assessed those buildings for (i) cladding and (ii) building safety defects and (b) informed prospective buyers of (A) non-standard construction in and (B) the life expectancy of such homes; and if he will provide guidance to local authorities on ensuring that (1) such assessments are made for before homes are sold under the Right to Buy scheme and (2) prospective buyers are informed of (x) non-standard construction in and (y) the life expectancy of such homes.
Answered by Lee Rowley - Minister of State (Minister for Housing)
Local authorities are responsible for conservation areas. The Manual to the Building Regulations notes that where the functional requirement of Part B Fire Safety applies to buildings of special architectural or historic interest, local authority building control and conservation officers may be able to advise on how to comply appropriately, if guidance intended for common building situations might prove too restrictive.
We are aware of the action being taken by Barnet Council and continue to engage closely with them on the steps they are taking, following the Moss Hall Grove fire in June 2023.
I would be delighted to meet my Hon Friend and I know we are trying to do so, alongside our Rt Hon Friend the Member for Chipping Barnet, as soon as diaries permit.
Asked by: Matthew Offord (Conservative - Hendon)
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 impact of restrictions in conservation areas on the safety of (a) residential cladding materials and (b) fire safety remediation and mitigation measures.
Answered by Lee Rowley - Minister of State (Minister for Housing)
Local authorities are responsible for conservation areas. The Manual to the Building Regulations notes that where the functional requirement of Part B Fire Safety applies to buildings of special architectural or historic interest, local authority building control and conservation officers may be able to advise on how to comply appropriately, if guidance intended for common building situations might prove too restrictive.
We are aware of the action being taken by Barnet Council and continue to engage closely with them on the steps they are taking, following the Moss Hall Grove fire in June 2023.
I would be delighted to meet my Hon Friend and I know we are trying to do so, alongside our Rt Hon Friend the Member for Chipping Barnet, as soon as diaries permit.
Asked by: Matthew Offord (Conservative - Hendon)
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 merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to extend the limitation period for making claims under section 1 of the Defective Premises Act 1972 to 52 years.
Answered by Lee Rowley - Minister of State (Minister for Housing)
I am grateful for my Hon Friend’s suggestion. Whilst we are not proposing to extend the Defective Premises Act limitation period any further, I will bear in mind his suggestions should it ever be considered in the future.
Written Evidence May. 22 2024
Inquiry: Access to High Street Banking in WalesFound: However, a disproportionate number of people who live in social housing have been cited as being
May. 22 2024
Source Page: Immigration Rules archive: 11 April 2024 to 15 May 2024Found: “Overcrowded” means overcrowded within the meaning of the Housing Act 1985, the Housing (Scotland)