Lee Rowley: ...to new applications for 18m+ buildings outside of London;developers have now assumed direct responsibility for remediating all life-critical fire safety defects in more than 1,000 buildings, and;social housing providers are working to remediate buildings in their portfolios that require remediation. Residents must be at the heart of building safety. This includes the significant and...
Lee Rowley: Social housing is a finite resource and in any compassionate society it is incumbent upon the Government of the day to ensure it is utilised in the most effective way to support those who truly need it and those who play by the rules. This is not least because those fortunate enough to get a social home benefit from paying below market rents and almost all will have the security of that...
Alex Rowley: ...from it. In fact, I would go further and say that people who come to this country will face the same problems that people who already live in this country face—a massive shortage of affordable and social housing, ever-increasing waiting lists in healthcare, a social care system that is buckling under the pressure of an ageing population, and a clueless Government with no idea how to fix...
Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what information his Department holds on how many cases of social housing tenancy fraud there were in the London Borough of Havering in (a) 2022, (b) 2021, (c) 2020 and (d) 2019.
Mark Hendrick: To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department is taking to address the shortage of social housing in (a) Preston, (b) Lancashire, and (c) the North West.
Jacob Young: Illegal migrants are not eligible for an allocation of social housing and cannot be granted a social housing tenancy, therefore the department does not collect such data.
Gavin Robinson: ...the aims of the Bill through shared experience, commitment and partnership. At the other end of the constituency, in Ballybeen, round the corner from where I live, there is the second largest social housing estate in all of Northern Ireland—one that was blighted by the troubles. Ballybeen Square itself was full of dereliction until the predecessor of my hon. Friend the Member for...
Jacob Young: Our charter for social housing residents is clear that every resident can expect to have their voice heard by their landlord. Empowering residents at the local level to hold their landlords to account is at the heart of our new regulatory framework. The Regulator of Social Housing has recently consulted on its revised draft consumer standards, one of which is the proposed Transparency,...
Lee Rowley: ...—that is accepted and understood—but it is also the case that there are good reasons for that. As the hon. Member indicated, the main sectors where fixed charges exist are the retirement and social housing sectors, where households are often on limited and fixed incomes, as I do not need to explain to the Committee. Leaseholders, especially those on low incomes, who pay a fixed service...
Christine Jardine: ...will be aware that it is probably a forlorn hope—that the Scottish Government will use the consequentials to cover funding gaps in our local councils and speed up repairs to mould and damp in social housing, which is becoming a critical problem. In Edinburgh we have a housing crisis, and even as we speak my council and others across Scotland are trying to figure out how to fill the gaps...
Jacob Young: ...homes are fit for human habitation and to ensure that homes are free of serious ‘category 1’ hazards, as defined through the Housing Health and Safety Rating System. As a registered provider of social housing, the London Borough of Havering is also required to ensure its homes meet the Decent Homes Standard. Following the death of Awaab Ishak, the Secretary of State wrote to all...
Jacob Young: Asylum seekers are not eligible for social housing unless granted asylum by the Home Office and made eligible by the Secretary of State through s.160ZA(2) of the Housing Act 1996.
Rachael Maskell: To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he is taking to help improve the efficiency of social housing construction.
Stephen Timms: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make it his policy that social housing tenants receiving universal credit have eligible housing costs paid for 53 rent weeks in 2024.
Stephen Timms: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of social housing tenants in rent arrears due to 53 rent payment weeks in 2024.
Carolyn Thomas: ..., and it could cost hundreds of thousands of pounds just for the one child. There could be heavy flooding, there could be snow. We need grants towards school buildings, care homes and much-needed social housing. The bigger an authority, the larger the reserves, but also the larger the building programme and housing need, depending on the size of that council. We heard how Conwy council are...
Chris Philp: ...civil injunctions might apply. Clause 68 and schedule 6 give police, in addition to local authorities, the power to issue public safety protection orders. Clause 69 and schedule 7 enable registered social housing providers to use both the closure notice and the closure order to quickly close premises that are being used, or are likely to be used, to commit nuisance or disorder. Clause 70...
Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee: The finances and sustainability of the social housing sector.
Felicity Buchan: ...former armed forces personnel. To improve access to affordable housing, we changed the law so that veterans with urgent housing needs are always given ‘additional preference’ (high priority) for social housing and that those who left the forces within the preceding 5 years cannot be disqualified from social housing because of a local connection or residency requirement. We also...
the Bishop of Chelmsford: To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the case for 10-year rent settlements for social homes to create certainty for social housing providers.