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- Upcoming Business – Commons: Select Committee (20 May 2013)
Communities and Local Government: Private rented sector.
Witnesses: Mark Prisk MP, Minister for Housing, Department for Communities and Local Government- Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Affordable Housing (15 May 2013)
Mark Prisk: The number of affordable homes built in England in 2011-12, the most recent year for which data is available, is published in the Department's live table 1009, available at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tab les-on-affordable-housing-supply The figures show that the average number of new affordable homes being delivered under this Government are a...
- Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Urban Areas (15 May 2013)
Mark Prisk: The Government has given the Portas Pilots a share of £2.4million to spend as and when they see fit to best improve their high streets and encourage residents to shop locally. The main aim of this scheme has been to harness the energy and enthusiasm of local people to breathe new life into the town centres and make them the hearts of their communities once again. It is only when local...
- Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Urban Areas (15 May 2013)
Mark Prisk: Government Ministers committed to visiting the Round 2 Pilots, and to date Ministers have visited four Round 1 and five Round 2 Pilots. Further ministerial visits to Round 2 pilots are scheduled for the coming months. The Government has not co-ordinated visits by Mary Portas; these have been arranged independently by Mary Portas' team. Her team advises us that of the first 12 Pilot towns...
- Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Urban Areas: Regeneration (15 May 2013)
Mark Prisk: A progress report on high streets was published in March 2013: http://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachme nt_data/file/168023/Future_of_High_Streets.pdf and a full report will be published in the summer. The Government have given the Round 1 Portas pilots a share of £1.2 million to spend as they see fit to improve their high streets and encourage residents to shop...
- Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Homelessness (14 May 2013)
Mark Prisk: holding answer 13 May 2013 As outlined in the written ministerial statement of 18 September 2012, Official Report, columns 32-33WS, my Department no longer publishes statistics by Government office region. The latest available local authority figures for the numbers of households accepted as homeless under homelessness legislation and numbers of households in temporary accommodation, from...
- Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Homelessness: Bassetlaw (14 May 2013)
Mark Prisk: The following table shows both the (i) number of homelessness acceptances of households and (ii) the number of households in temporary accommodation for the local authority Bassetlaw for the most recent period for which figures are available. Number of households accepted(1) as owed a main homelessness duty during the quarter October to December 2012 Number of households in...
- Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Housing (14 May 2013)
Mark Prisk: holding answer 13 May 2013 The latest data from the English Housing Survey indicates that in 2011-12 there were 3.8 million (3,843,000) households in private rented housing and also 3.8 million (3,808,000) households in social rented housing. According to the latest data collected from local authorities, there were 53,130 homeless households in temporary accommodation (statutory...
- Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Housing: Disability (14 May 2013)
Mark Prisk: The Department for Communities and Local Government funds the Disabled Facilities Grant which is administered by local authorities in England and provides adaptations to the homes of disabled people to help them to live as independently as possible in their own home. In 2011-12 the grant provided adaptations for around 40,000 households, but data on adaptations provided specifically to...
- Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Housing: Finance (14 May 2013)
Mark Prisk: holding answer 13 May 2013 Total capital expenditure on housing by local authorities in England in the years from 2008-09 to 2012-13 was as follows: £ million 2008-09 4,901 2009-10 4,514 2010-11 4,063 2011-12 3,274 2012-13 (forecast) 4,685 These data are as reported by all local authorities in England on the annual Capital Outturn Return and Capital...
- Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Social Rented Housing: Business (14 May 2013)
Mark Prisk: The Government is committed to removing the barriers that prevent social tenants running businesses from their homes. To this end, in November 2010 I wrote, together with my right hon. Friend the Member for Welwyn Hatfield (Grant Shapps), to social landlords urging them to ensure that tenants are provided with encouragement, help and advice on how to work from home. A copy of this has been...
- Written Ministerial Statements — Communities and Local Government: Empty Homes (10 May 2013)
Mark Prisk: The coalition agreement outlined this Government’s commitment to introduce a range of measures to get empty homes back into use, reflecting the general election manifesto pledges of both coalition parties. We want to increase housing supply, remove the blight that rundown vacant properties cause and help support local economic growth from refurbishment and improvements. I would like to...
- Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Worcester (25 April 2013)
Mark Prisk: The information requested has been placed in the Library of the House.
- Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Immigration (25 April 2013)
Mark Prisk: As far as I am aware, a previous comprehensive assessment has not been produced by my Department, and to commission new bespoke research to answer this question would incur disproportionate cost. Since May 2010, my Department has published a number of reports commissioned by the previous Administration into immigration. They were placed in the Library of the House further to the written...
- Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Mortgages: Government Assistance (25 April 2013)
Mark Prisk: holding answer 25 March 2013 For both social housing and home ownership schemes, we want greater priority to be given to local residents and members of the armed forces. We want to ensure that housing support is focused on supporting those who have worked hard and paid their taxes, and end the 'something for nothing' culture. In our approach to revising the rules on access to such schemes,...
- Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Mortgages: Government Assistance (25 April 2013)
Mark Prisk: holding answer 15 April 2013 I refer the right hon. Member to my answer of today, Official Report, PQ 149898.
- Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Social Rented Housing: Asbestos (25 April 2013)
Mark Prisk: This is an important issue and Government recognises the risk that improperly removed asbestos poses to tenants and others. There are regulatory standards applied to social landlords that require they ensure homes are free of category 1 hazards (as determined under the Housing Health and Safety Rating System) such as could arise from damaged asbestos, which should help reduce this risk. While...
- Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Social Rented Housing: Electrical Safety (25 April 2013)
Mark Prisk: The Decent Homes Standard already includes an assessment of risk against the Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS) as well as stating that the property should be in a reasonable state of repair and provide a reasonable degree of thermal comfort—all of these criteria should take account of electrical installations. We have no plans to review the Decent Homes Standard as the...
- Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Written Questions: Government Responses (25 April 2013)
Mark Prisk: PQ 149898 has been answered today.
- Written Answers — Treasury: Housing: Construction (25 April 2013)
Mark Prisk: I have been asked to reply on behalf of the Department for Communities and Local Government. The Government has a number of schemes which increase finance for smaller developers. These include the recently launched Help to Buy equity loan scheme, in which around two-thirds of developers registered to participate in the scheme are small to medium-sized enterprises and Get Britain Building,...