Housing, Communities and Local Government Questions House of Commons

Questions to the Secretary of State

for housing committees and local

government.

Question number one.

Thank you Mr Speaker. The Government

will consider financial facilities

for local authorities to undertake

safety work to make the pink say.

We've got turned down any requests

for such flexibility. We've provided

funding to local authorities for

data collection on private

buildings.

The former Housing

Minister revealed for Christmas that

36 local 30s have contacted the

apartment ensuring fire safety in

tower blocks when none have so far

received any financial help. Why

not?

So far it is my records show 36

authorities. Ten of those we have

requested further information from

four of those that information has

been provided. Unless I have just

said a moment ago we are willing to

provide whatever financial thoughts

about ways to any local authority to

make sure all essential fire safety

work is done.

How are local

authorities to know what steps to

take to ensure adequate fire

protection when the relevant

building regulations are 11 years

old and no review of them has yet

commenced?

Perhaps the honourable

gentleman was not in Parliament last

year when I am the Home Secretary

asked for an independent review of

all building regulations by Dame

Judith Hackett. Just a few weeks ago

I presented the findings of her

interim report recognitions excepted

in full.

Grenfell Tower so seared in

all our memories. We must do all we

can. Am I not right in thinking that

if a local authority runs out of

funds for fire protection measures

there is a mechanism by which they

could be allowed to spend more

beyond the normal restraints?

Added

to my friend that I'm not sure...

With regards to this question there

are mechanisms in place what we've

done is that she gone further and

said to those local authorities

there are certain facilities that

they need and they should contact us

and the flexibility so be per five.

Mr Speaker and my

honourable friends he was the leader

of Kansai counsel. The Council of

the year in 2016 and our thoughts

and condolences are with his family.

And his friends today. Can I welcome

the ministerial faces to the

Department with the new name. But

say to them in his new policies to

fix the growing crisis that the

country really means. The question

to the Secretary of State is this.

More than seven months on from the

Grenfell Tower tragedy how many

tower blocks, with the same dangers

cladding, have had that cladding

taken down and replaced?

I also like

to extend my condolences to Karen

Quinn whose family and friends and

was actually a ethical day for all

of them. What I can tell the right

honourable gentleman is that so far

with the figures that I have which I

think are accurate up to one tenth

-- the 10th of January am a syndrome

called the lanes into why been

tested. Of those 299 have not passed

the tests have been put in place. A

number of buildings the cladding has

started to come down and is being

replaced slowly as well. We also

interested to make sure there's

enough capacity in the industry to

meet the extra demand that is now

upon it and that is why we are now

working with both industry and my

right honourable friend the Business

Secretary.

I wonder whether the

Secretary of State has read the

update as to the issue this morning

because the answer to that number of

tower blocks with the same dangerous

flammable cladding has been taken

down and replaced, more than seven

months on from Grenfell Tower, is

free. How would -- three. How is it

the pheromones on from Grenfell

Tower one in four families who were

survivors only have a new permanent

home. The Government still cannot

confirm how many other tower blocks

across the country are unsafe,

Ministers still refuse to help fund

essential fire safety work where

they know they blocks are dangerous

and the Secretary of State is

sitting back and letting individual

flat owners pick up the full costs

of private tower blocks and not the

landlord or the developer. In the

Secretary of State must know that

this is not good enough so what new

action is he going to take to sort

out these serious problems was that?

The right honourable gentleman knows

that the number one priority

following the tragedy in terms of

building safety is to make sure that

anyone living in any tower that

might have similar cladding feels

completely saved. To make sure those

buildings are properly tested and

facing a sound before that cladding

can be taken down and replaced,

which of course will take time, that

adequate measures are put in place

such as 20 47 fire wardens, all on

the device of the local Fire and

Rescue Service and that is exactly

what has been done in every single

case. He also asked me about the

private sector tower blocks on the

costs of any remedial work in the

city down and I have been very clear

in this House. I think clear since

last order of questions that...

Whatever the legal case might be in

the case of a private relationship

the moral case is clear that the tab

should be picked up by the

freeholders of those properties.

These are strongly important matters

but we do need to speed up a bit.

In

the recent budget we announced £20

million at the dock we continue to

work with the pilot regions to

refine our scope and design very for

Washington this year.

I'm careful to

the Secretary of State for that

answer and ahead of the commencement

of the Homelessness Reduction Act of

the secretary of join me in praising

the work of routes to roots a local

charity that helps the homeless and

also honorably housed adults?

But me

think my friend for the role he

played in getting that act onto the

statute books. I do agree with him

that two and the homelessness cycle

there are a lot of people can get

involved including voluntary groups

like Routes to roots in his

constituency that can make a real

difference for Pharma will.

On

Boxing Day and group called

activists for love created a squat

to shelter homeless people. I went

to meet the residence on Saturday.

The landlord has been very

accommodating as actually going to

find everyone living there a home.

Online concerned that the funding

cuts to city councils mean they

don't have the money for the really

needed aftercare support to prevent

BC book from becoming homeless

again. So would the Government

please commit to providing more

money for an aftercare homeless

service for...

I can see the

honourable lady shares our desire

passing all members of this House

would like to fight homelessness and

mass I'm sure she would welcome the

£1 billion that the Government is

outdated in Twenty20 to fight

homelessness including £315 million

for core funding for local

authorities to help.

I commend the

Government furnish eating the

housing first pilots. What

assessment has he made of the

situation in London which is clearly

under the greatest pressure for

rough sleeping to enable people to

have a firm home of their own to

make sure that the Mayor of London

actually delivers affordable housing

for the capital.

I know my

honourable friend cares about this

issue deeply and has done much at

work including the Homelessness

Reduction Act and he is right to

raise this issue. Able to solve

homelessness and country unless Lund

inducted that and I'm afraid that

Mayor of London is leading the

people of London down just in his

first year in office. Not a single

home for social that cannot was

started in London it is a tragic

record.

The centre for housing

policy at the University of York is

looking at the the the the the

Council is providing over a 15 fold

increase in 15 foot how investors

researcher that residents of York

will benefit from housing first not

just in theory but in action.

First

of all help they are the lady agrees

with me that it would make sense to

pilot housing first properly to make

sure that at some future stage when

it can be brought across the country

it works properly. As I reset the

pilot areas. Another parts the

country there are other types of

help on a lot of that comes from the

£1 billion of funding is allocated

to Twenty20 including the funding to

local authorities such as York.

The

local government and social care

ombudsman report still hopelessly

calm found that seven out of ten

housing cases it investigated

families were being placed in the

and B's for him lawfully in the

praise him for over two years. The

report highlights the appalling is

one mental impact including on

children of living in inadequate,

one mental impact including on

children of living in inadequate,,

crowded and sometimes Dan

conditions. Does the Secretary of

State recognise just how damaging

this is? Will we see any improvement

for these families in the next 12

months?

I share the concerns of many

honourable members of his house and

outside the Government has made

fighting homelessness I would do

seem rough sleeping on absolute

priority. What the honourable ladies

question recognises and requires

action on many fronts not just

economic issues but there are mental

health, dictionary other issues and

that is the programme the Government

has put together and as a going to

pursue.

I'm grateful for the

recommendations. Our bid thing

safety programme is making good

progress in identifying potentially

unsafe cladding and English tower

blocks and with these actions and

future actions, we will make

buildings much safer.

Since the

tragic events of Grenfell Tower,

Vigurs a gringos in high-risk box

has been widely discussed. The back

of the use of sprinklers in high

rise blocks has been widely

discussed. Would my right honourable

friend sure the House that the fire

resistant properties of individual

flats will form part of the ongoing

reviews?

It is an important point

raised by my honourable friend. Buy

your safety, fire rescue services

have visited 1250 high rise to think

so since the tragedy of Grenfell

Tower. This included checking

compartmentalization and... There is

the responsible person who must

determine what is the best for each

building.

I wanted to reverted to

part to be of the regulations and

the guidance that goes with it. A

paragraph... Will the state

confirmed the guidance is less clear

about cladding and it appears to

allow for the continued use of

combustible material in the cladding

on high rise buildings Cusack is

that the case, and if so, is a

second carrier so comfortable with

that situation?

I can take to the

right honourable member that I do

believe that is the case. I do not

think that is still the case. What

he has raises an important point of

the needed to review the guidance

and the regulations themselves, a

point that was made and very clear

by Dame Judith Hackett in their

report that she published last month

and recognitions accepted in full.

This of residential block in Croydon

with the same for mobile cladding is

Grenfell Tower. Its residents fear

they are living in a death trap. The

Secretary of State told them that a

responsible person should take

action, but the freeholder, the

developer and the manager, all

denied liability, so will tell you

while the legal wrinkles go on, the

cladding stays in place. There's

only one responsible person. When

will the Secretary of State take

action to remove this dangerous

cladding and keep up above and their

families save?

I'm very happy to

reiterate on this point again that

where the situations are arising,

the responsible person clearly is

the freeholder and whatever the

legal case might be, the freeholder

should take responsibility. I can

tell the honourable gentleman that

my honourable friend, the Housing

Minister spoke to the CEO of the

Company concerning this case and is

in dialogue to try and see which we

can do to make sure that they do the

right thing.

As the Secretary of

State Tessa said, one of the key

recommendations of the building when

collisions city was the need for the

whole suite of approved documents to

be restructured to provide greater

clarity on high fire safety measures

to knock on how fire safety measures

will be applied. The Secretary of

State given a damn census department

are taking to implement this

recommendation, particularly with

regard to planning guidance? -- gave

a clear answer to the steps his

Department are taking.

There were

recommendations around desktop

studies and restricting how and when

they can be used. That is being

implemented right now. She might be

to implement tetonic interested in

knowing passes become down the road

from Parliaments, there a meeting of

industry experts and stakeholders

going on and it is looking to what

more can be done in the interim.

With your permission, I will answer

this question with questions 11, 13,

17 and 20 two. I think the

honourable gentleman for his

question. There are too many people

sleeping rough and I am determined

to do more. That is widely rough

sleeping and homelessness production

task will deliver a strategy to

tackle this issue with the help of

in advisory Council.

I welcome the

Minister to her new role. Rough

sleeping has doubled nationally

since 2010. Actually, in my

constituency, it has doubled in the

last two years according to local

charities. Of course, the biggest

cause of homelessness is a lack of

affordable housing. In my

constituency, development...

I

apologise but we owe a lot to get

there. We need is a question, not a

series of statements. A question in

a question mark a?. One sentence

please.

Currently running a 27%

against the 40%... What is the

Minister planning to do to ensure

that is enforced locally?

That was a

very interesting question because

the statistics are not aligned with

the November sleeping rough

statistics that we have. However, we

do recognise the concerns around

viability assessments of affordable

housing. Last autumn, we consulted

on proposals to simplify viability

assessments and increase

transparency. We will announce

further details for our approach

when we got was the new national

planning open seat later this year.

The number of rough sleepers in

Darlington since 2010 is doubled. Is

this caused by a comma reduction in

Council borders, over 5 million

benefits? Of the bedroom tax? Not

affordable housing? There

aristocratic? I could go to Zee.

I would like to say, I think

honourable lady for the question,

but Franco, this is not a laughing

matter. The Government is clear that

one person without a home is too

many. We are party taken steps

towards combating rough sleeping and

homelessness. For instance, we have

implemented the most ambitious

legislative reform in decades. The

homelessness reduction asked and I

congratulate my right honourable

friend for all the hard work you do

on that. He comes into force this

April. And we will ensure that more

people get the help they need

earlier to prevent them from

becoming homeless in the first

place. Thank you very much.

The

massive increase in homelessness and

rough sleeping in my city of glass

Coke is in stark contrast to the...

Homelessness fell by over three

Courtice. Given the shocking

situation, what plans does the Mr

have -- it does the Minister have?

The question seemed to be rather

about a devolved matter, but moving

on, as the nation gets to grips with

this issue, rough sleeping advisory

panel, which I will chair, will

include key figures from local

governments, central government and

homelessness charities. The role

will be to support and a half rough

sleeping by 2022 and eliminated by

2027. The first meeting of the

advisory panel will take place on

the 1st of February.

The Wales audit

office produced a report which

stated that it believed the

Government welfare policies were

having a detrimental impact on

homelessness in Wales. We'll see

except for what is chewing Wells is

also true in England? Two true in

Wales is also true in England.

He

lectures across all of the UK. -- I

like truths across all the UK. The

interesting issue will be an amount

of money and packages we can put

into spread funding for affordable

housing across the nation. That is

something that we are determined to

do.

In Wolverhampton, where I

represent, one of its

constituencies, the number of

estimated rough sleepers has doubled

since 2010. What plans did the

Government have in place to decrease

the numbers of rough sleepers as

their current plan is certainly not

working?

Of course, the interesting

thing with Wolverhampton area is it

is part of the West Midlands, so we

are working very hard with mayor

Andy Street who will be joining me

on that the rough sleepers strategic

panel and look forward to our first

meeting on the 1st of February.

I'm

launching an appeal for mobile

phones for a local charity to enable

those who are homeless or suffering

to get back on their feet, literally

and have an emergency lifeline. Will

the Minister offer their support for

what is a controversial initiative

locally with some people and agree

that it is much more controversial

but in the UK today, we still have

some people homeless, which is why

this government is prioritising the

area?

Does a very interesting,

innovative ways of dealing with this

in the future. I will be very

interesting to see that either in

her area and I congratulate her look

very on so proactive.

In rugby,

cancel officers got into the

community to speak to rough sleepers

and have recently put... Offer of

support has been declined recently.

Last week, police of charge to rough

sleepers for aggressive begging. I

wonder if the Minister will agree

that it is important this provides

support for those were forced to

sleep rough. It is important to also

to ensure that he goes to those who

are in genuine need.

By honourable

friend is quite correct. It is a

very complex matter. There is some

inherent difficulty details with

mental health issues, breakdown in

family crisis and chaos but equally,

the state has to be fair handed and

if you people are aggressive begging

and top properties of their own,

than the state will do when you has

to do, but our focus is on rough

sleepers who needed the help most.

It's a pleasure to welcome the

Minister to replace. Following could

grant which provided funding for and

homelessness campaign, we extend the

number of sleepers fall. Could you

confirm that sort of work will

become lamented bitty house

Homelessness Reduction Act come into

force later this year?

I thank my

honourable and very long known

friend for years. I think you got

that question. It is the pilots

around of the country that are

working so well that we wanted to

pick up on. Home certainly the

Homelessness Reduction Act means

that councils will have a duty try

and help people before the accident,

homeless and that is why, as part of

this suite of effort, we are looking

at dealing with this and we aren't

confident that by 2022, we will have

to rough sleeping in the country.

There's been a noticeable increase

in the number of rough sleepers in

the Shipley over the past year or

so. Can the Minister said that with

the Government is doing with

Bradford Council to try and deal

with the issue? Will she agree with

me with in order to help homeless

people, it's important that Bradford

Council developed new housing in

cheaper affordable areas and Brad

Ford rather than building expensive

housing?

He never fails to

disappoint. Interestingly, one of

the areas where councils will be

able to flex their muscles mark is

to take on empty homes and look into

quality rented properties that are

affordable preppy buddy and it means

that community stick together. I

think I would be something that

Council are to do.

Over 119,000 affordable homes were

delivered in rural communities has

2010. Holmes England had invested

under 142 million in the affordable

homes programme scheme. That is run

9% of total spending.

I welcome

those figures. They are redundant

farm building sites which could be

classed as Bradfield says. If they

were, then they could actually

believes a lot more land for

affordable homes. Could the Minister

consider that, please?

He is

absolutely right. There is a

requirement for each authority to

register. Over 90% of local

authorities have done so in the

information to date suggest nearly

16,500 sites covering many actors

have been identified in England.

As

well as helping rural areas, where

is he going to do for places like

Birmingham and how is he going to

responded to the councils request

for additional assistance with the

provision of new homes, essential

maintenance on existing properties

and the discharge of obligations

such as health and safety and annual

gases precious? Tie-dye gas

inspections.

Of course, we are ambitious to do

more. Working with housing

associations, working with lower --

local mayor such as street. We have

raised the hot housing revenue

account.

In welcoming my honourable

friend to his new position, I will

also ask them to look with his

intellectual figure that I know he

is gods into the case of national

parks and what they do -- he has

got, into the case of national

parks.

Original roof and has

considerable experience. We will

look into all of those areas because

we are absolutely committed to look

into that and increase housing for

generations.

There has been... To

the provision of more cooperative

housing in urban places. What might

the Minister in his department be

looking to achieve?

The honourable

gentleman is right in a lot of

social housing is a book or

operative nature. I think, in

particular, it depends on the

specific needs of any given

community and that is often local

authorities to help identify. Local

authorities in rural areas need to

focus on the particular needs of the

committee and that can include, for

example, in other areas, the raw

exceptions at were stable long-term

protection for affordable homes in

rural areas.

Only with permission of office

question along with question 20.

Since 2012 in a vested... And 295

coastal committee projects. These

projects are forecast to deliver

18,000 jobs of a announced that the

£40 million fund it will open

shortly. I'm grateful for that

reply. Will my honourable friend

visit to see for himself this work

that will transform Britain's most

easterly town into the East Coast

destination of choice?

I see that my

horrible friends constituency has

already had over one half million

pounds from the fund is showing that

his campaign he is delivering for

his own constituency and I would be

delighted but in the area to visit.

I think the Minister. The social

mobility commissions report the

State of the nation revealed that

the prospects, the social economic

prospects for those living in rural

coastal areas are poor. Given our

world-class skills and industries

across many sectors what steps is he

taking to make sure that we do

realise our full potential?

I have

the pleasure and privilege of

visiting my honourable friends

constituency by stressing those

world-class skills particularly in

the nuclear supply chain and action

unless I'm delighted to say that

through our industrial strategy and

through the northern powerhouse

we're supporting people throughout

our country so they can grow their

wherever they may reside. The

Minister will know because he is

leading on this issue, that the

northern powerhouse growth deal

which will affect North Wales and

the coastal committees there is a...

Could he give some indication as to

when he's going to create some

conclusions on the budget for that

growth deal? Ultimately my

honourable friend Marla friend is in

the lead when it comes that apply

with them have an absolute

determination to ensure that this

deal delivers for the people of

North Wales. Only this week as is in

the local 30s in North Wales to ask

them what progress they have made to

update me upon what objects they

would like to see come forward?

For

selected extend that that that that

the business or wherever they part

of decoration which was signed in

November by the Scottish Government

has also represented as than 20 in

use but that that present will have

a disproportionate impact on coastal

regions?

I do not agree with this

statement. Because taking back

control of our fishing industry will

page huge dividends for those who up

and down her cause. It is usually

setting that only last Thursday I

got to finish -- attitude visit as a

detailed physical is coast-to-coast.

It covers the English and Scottish

Borders and it is a partnership of

two governments, the Scottish

Government and the UK Government,

coming together as equals to deliver

for the people of the borderlands.

That doesn't really answer the

questions. Because coastal

committees face isolation. And

heartbreak that would exacerbate

this. Is this government does do the

unthinkable and walks away for a

deal that Scotland, Wales and

Northern Ireland just to be up to

fund -- taxes EU funding programmes?

Of course I'll be happy to discuss

hat having a meeting. I would gently

point out that Discover, the UK

Government, it has already invested

£174 million in our coastal

communities, getting behind this

coastal communities, one has a

Scottish Government done? I think

nothing. The Government is promoting

a change in self billed to the home

building fund and the 2016 self

billed regulations. When discussions

as you have...

To deliver more local

houses.

I thank my honourable friend

and he's right to raise the issue

the community housing fund was worth

60 million its first year and in the

context of the budget in November we

announced it would be continued for

a further three years. And that

includes capital and revenue funding

as part of the Government strive to

support committee is bringing

forward home built projects. Thank

you Mr Speaker. This government has

high ambitions to look after

children in caregivers. The

forthcoming corporate parenting that

does one sure high-quality care and

support for these vulnerable young

people.

I look Minister to his new

post but when will the Government

have to provide adequate funds to

properly support these special young

people?

The arm of judgement will be

pleased another short-lived

government will be announcing the

winners of applicants for the social

impact bond to provide funding for

those local 30s to improve outcomes

in education training and employment

for care levers.

I too welcome the

Minister to his position that I know

he will be excellent in his role.

Does the Minister gave me that no

child should be taken into care if

family support would allow them to

stay safely at home was back and

away due to provide or support to

struggling countries to prevent

children from me taking into care?

I

think my horrible friend. I agree

that when possible children are best

look after by their own families.

And as either troubled families

programme which we are investing £1

billion and is working with the

families to reduce the need of

children to go to care. The result

in December show a decrease in the

number of children in need in that

programme.

Can I remind the Minister

that whether we're talking about the

children in care or we're talking

about the elderly care, the real

question that he has to answer, what

has happened to the fabric of social

support and care as that has been

driven down by cuts to local

authorities over the last two years?

This government is ensuring that

local authorities have the resources

they need to provide important local

services. £200 million over these

five years of real terms funding

increase to date has announced in

the last budget specifically for

social care. With your permission I

would answer this question along

with question 19. Are fair and

sustainable financial settlement

gives local authorities the ability

to protect important local services

in March the 3rd of a four-year deal

providing funding certainty to local

government and the Cesaro real terms

increase in available resources to

the sector.

How does the Minister

and tend to ensure that individual

local authorities under the fair

funding review receive an adequate

level of funding which is not only

fair that sustainable given that the

governments intention to reset the

business rate space flight from 20

to one they resulted all the

individual growth as a build-up

since the start of the business

retention scheme taken away? Kevin

Mr provide any assurances that this

growth will be protected?

I

encourage but there something

drafted can usually be shortened.

Thank you Mr Speaker. That

government is scenic Sterne

applications for those and we're

learning from those pilots to design

the purposes and to take over and 19

that the together for full review

affair Fundy City to get the

allocations read.

His government has

to literally targeted the most

deprived communities and Nottingham

city has lost a staggering 80% of

its funding since 2010. Now the

governments only answer to the

social care crisis is to add another

3% to council tax bills. And

Nottingham that raises just £3

million just short way short of

the... When is he going to stop

doping the financial burden onto

taxpayers and fun social care

properly and fairly?

I would point

out to the honourable lady that

spending per blowing in the most

deprived authorities as Archie 22%

higher than those that are the least

-- the most part but that core

spending is 11% higher than the

national average.

Will the Minister ensure that the

transfer of the Fire Service out of

the County Council to the Police

Commissioner is not delayed by this

inspection?

Affect my horrible

friend for this question has he

knows the Secretary of State has

asked the do that to go and look at

the authority and we're awaiting his

findings with eagerness and is

difficult for me to comment further

after he will appreciate at this

time.

Can local my honourable friend

to his place. Some of what was said

is very so pointing not to that of

the end is underfunded relative to

other authorities. Will he meet with

me to discuss the upcoming local

government finance round?

Affect my

horrible friend for that question as

he knows we had overwhelming

applications for the pilot and I am

disappointed for him that Somerset

was not a member what I would say is

he should encourage local 32 apply

again this year when we are

rerunning the pilot scheme at in the

meantime I would be delighted to be

with him and discuss the fair

funding for the Somerset local

authority.

Thank you Mr Speaker.

Descended into complete and utter

shambles listed. The figures sent to

local 30s were wrong. Back in March

of 2017, the National Audit Office

were concerned that there wasn't a

capacity within the Ministry of

Housing in communities and local

government and within the feel way

to handle a Secretary of State plan

and this new era will certainly not

engender confidence in the Secretary

of State Department. Was that are

being taken to ensure that this era

is not repeated?

The valuation

office agency has made a mistake

with the initial calculations those

are corrected and this department

has moved swiftly to provide

accurate information to local

authorities. I would generally pull

at this point out that local

authorities received an increasing

but about the last time we were able

to ask questions and suggesting we

have to he planned to address the

unsustainable and insufficient

funding for its services.

He asked

the buddies would do about the £2

billion funding gap? And he told us

to wait and see what happened in the

local government finance settlement.

Mobley waited having looked at his

proposal and there is no new money

for these vital services. Was this

another era? Is is going to be

corrected in the future? -- error.

They will receive a increase in

funding the sure neck. The

Government is also invested £200

million and then innovation

programme to the ways of improving

the delivery of children's social

services. The commission is engaging

with all interested parties

including last Friday's visit to

soften your part which I understand

my honourable friend also attended.

They are developing but that that

animal publish its final report in

the spring of this year.

I thank you

for that reply. Not Monday and South

End Airports selector for two is

going to make a major impact to the

commission. What role could he see

in London seven airport plane to

boost Garth and boost productivity

across the whole of South at six?

I

would also like to refer to this one

didn't South Bend airport I think

that this is correct title and it is

a real success story. It has great

potential for growth. It has an

ambitious £200 million -- 200

million passenger are good this year

and already is reminiscent of £162

million in a new terminal. That puts

London South Bend airport at the

heart of the Thames estuary

emissions plans. Thank you Mr

Speaker. We've been working closely

with local government Association

who... About the financial

difficulties Carillion was facing.

This is to ensure that they had it

property contingency plans in place.

He continued to work with them to

make sure that there is no or at

least to public services.

Thank you

Mr Speaker.

Following revelations, can the

Minister of the secretary stated

buys if he or anyone in his

department has taken advice from or

held meetings with Keith Cochran?

On

not aware of any meetings were

advice taken place. Have a right to

the honourable gentleman if there

were such meetings.

Number 14. 15.

With permission, I've will take

questions 15 and 16 together. We

have delivered 357,000 affordable

homes since 2010.

With the Secretary

of State adopt labour's plans to...

Lift caps?

We are not going to take

on labour's plans in this error or

any other. They're not sustainable.

What we are going -- in this era or

any other. We will raise affordable

homes. There are 11 new housing

starts. We're talking about the

housing deal.

Whichever way

Ministers try to present the

figures, the number of genuinely

affordable social homes built with

public sector grants on their watch

is pitiful. If the Minister will not

accept the policy of the Labour

Party, will he accepted the

recommendation of the Treasury

select committee and lift of the

borrowing cap councils housing

revenue accounts completely to

enable councils to build desperately

needed council homes or will he

confirmed only a Labour government

will take action we need?

I think

the record speaks for itself. We

deliver 357,000 more affordable

homes as 2010. I was more than in

the preceding seven years and the

last Labour government. We are

raising the cap. We have done that

in the last budget we are creating a

stable financial envelope for

affordable housing associations with

a long-term... That is the

sustainable way to start the

country. Between 2011 and 2015, was

of a capacity deliver up to 9000

homes.

Some labour councils,

particularly in London, on hundreds

of acres of surplus land. Can I urge

the new Minister to challenge those

labour authorities so we can turn

that landed 2-family homes?

Is

absolutely right. They want to

release government land by 2020

460,000 extra homes to be built. The

Government is providing action

authorities to facilitate that and I

met with the CEO of Palm England

last week to ensure we get cracking

on this top priority. Tenneco homes

England. -- homes England.

Temporary

accommodation shows that no families

left without a roof over their

heads, prevention is at the centre

of our push to protect the most

vulnerable and we are spending over

£1 billion until 2020 to prevent

homelessness as well as implementing

the most ambitious legislative

reform in decades.

Why does the

Minister think that the number of

children in temporary accommodation

has risen by 73% 220,000 since 2010,

according to the Public Accounts

Committee, one number had been

falling under labour?

I very much

regretted to have to point out to

the honourable lady that the number

of children living in temporary

accommodation is love with and at

its peak in 2006. 2011, we changed

the laws of the gases can place

families in decent and affordable

private rented homes. Behave

yourself, love. Please. This means

homelessness Astles should not have

to wait as long for settled

accommodation.

Anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial

are completely in unacceptable a

civilized society. This government

has taken a strong vision tackling

both. We have adopted the

international Holocaust... We

position.

Where do my honourable

friend agree that the work of the

trust is as important as ever given

the levels of organised hate you and

intimidation both at home and

abroad? -- hate and intimidation.

I

was pleased last week at the

speakers House, Mr Speaker, to

announce that we are giving 144,000

of support jointly to the Holocaust

education trust and the union of

Jewish students to tackle in

tolerance and anti-Semitism on our

campuses. The new year has meant a

new name for my department. A

fantastic new ministerial team that

will build on the great strides up

achieved by my honourable friends

from the to and Reading West. Other

name the importance to fix the

broken housing market, we will

continue to help both the strong

communities and support local

government. Something that resonates

strong this week is Holocaust

Memorial Day, an opportunity to

reaffirm our commitment to rooting

out hatred and anti-Semitism

wherever they exist.

Thank you for

that upbeat statement. Scotland and

Wales are totally served by local

authorities. How many people in

England are served by the same

authorities and how does he expect a

figure to be in five years' time?

May I say that it is a privilege to

receive a question for my right

honourable friend, the first time I

have received one in Parliament.

It's an opportunity for me to think

and for all the work that he is done

in government and the work that he

can being credibly ploughed of. It

is 60%, the number of famous people

that are served by unitary

authorities. I expect the number to

be higher given the views of people

on unitary authorities and also our

commitment to consider

miniaturization whenever requested.

We're very pleased for him.

Recent

statistics published by the

department show that 54,000

households in London are living in

temporary accommodation and as my

honourable friend said, 120,000

children are living in some of the

most of honourable houses. What

social the department now take to

take the temporary accommodation

crisis in London and in the rest of

the country?

Is a very serious

matter, which is why we put more

money into local government so that

they can look at the quality of the

private rented accommodation, the

temporary accommodation cannot take

place and secondly, on the point of

children, we have made it quite

clear that bed and that the breast

-- bed and breakfast. Look authority

knows that.

Will the Minister assure

me that he will setup cross

departmental with transport and GC

MS to ensure delivery of the Milton

Keynes corridor as mandated by

the... ?

I want to congratulate my

friend for the position he now has.

I'm sure he will make a great

difference. The cross departmental

cooperation is essential and I'm

sure he will help me.

A borderlands

Guptill was promoted. -- the deal.

Consummate -- Grothe deal.

Is the honourable gentleman will be

aware, the Grothe deals architecture

and the public at it. I left why

have agreed to meet with the backers

of the actual Guptill to see how the

Government can take the deal

forward.

Does my right honourable

friend that the ability to buy a

hold at an affordable price is vital

to developing and enhancing

social... And realising the

Government is my goal? We must

massively increase house-building to

speed up the process ran across the

country.

My right honourable friend

is absolutely right. 50% higher than

the last year the last labour

government, that number of houses we

have provided. We targeted funding

to release private sector lead.

Lincoln City Council is aiming to

build 500 homes in the next five

years to tackle its waiting list of

over a thousand households. If the

Government will not consider raising

the borrowing cap on local housing

revenue accounts, and how does it

play to tackle the shortage of truly

affordable rented housing?

We have

of course raised the capital by

billion pounds. It needs to be done

in a responsible way because you

have to consider the amount of debt

that has been taken on, but we will

keep it under review. That is one

aspect of the huge draw towards

building extra homes we need. I

talked about some of those issues.

Targeted funding, releasing the

sector land. We want to make sure

that we get up to the 300,000 annual

target as soon as possible.

Regeneration will be greatly

assisted... Town Grothe deal and the

stuff brought forward. When will

there be a conclusion on this?

I met

with the members of the town growth

board. Those are my right honourable

friend will be as pleased as I am

that the growth deal he refers to

was specifically referenced in the

industrial strategy that would

encourage him to contact the

Secretary of State for Business to

talk about how it can be taken

forward.

Can I has the new

Parliamentary secretary whether she

thinks the Government policy since

2010 has played any part in the

sharp rise in rough sleeping?

This

is a very complex matter. The

interesting thing that I find now

that I'm getting to grips with this

as a Minister is that the different

layers of the sort of problems

people have in their chaotic lives,

and I think what is very important

is that different councils have

moved with the building new council

housing. My own conservative

councils declared interest.

Different levels are really

attacking it and it is going to be a

pleasure to get my teeth into it.

The Secretary of State attended the

launch of the new party dementia did

group chaired by my honourable

friend for Telford. He will know

that the new towns and Milton Keynes

were created because they were able

to acquire land at any reasonable

valuation close to its current use.

That is no longer possible because

of the land compensation act. Will

he, among his many admirable

ambitions for house in this country,

will he agreed to look at the land

compensation act and the possibility

of reforming the valuation of land

that is acquired?

My honourable

friend speaks with a great

experience. He made a number of

important planning reforms himself

when he was the Minister. I will

commit to looking at that and I

point him already to the work that

we have done. An amendment that was

made to the neighbourhood planning

act which enables the Secretary of

State to designate planning stones.

The leader Birmingham City Council

both of the Secretary of State on

financial support from government to

make sake of Birmingham's 213 tower

blocks in the aftermath of the

Grenfell Tower fire. Can't these

accursed provide an update on the

proposals submitted and whether it

will make the finances available?

Mr

Speaker, we are working with

Birmingham City Council under the

request and as I said earlier, no

request for financial flexibility

will be turned on. He received

further information and are working

back to networking one that with

Birmingham or not.

In the budget,

money was provided for a national

rental deposit scheme. What plans to

serve my right honourable friend how

to produce Netscape and how many

families does he believe it will

assist? -- produce at that scheme.

I'm very happy, particularly on the

impact of...

The level of rough

sleeping in Chesterfield and across

the country is something that I find

both deeply humiliating as an MP and

some that infuriates and discuss my

constituents. When Ministers walk

past people who are living in

sleeping bags, DD believe -- do they

believe that all the cards are

responsible for the national scar on

a society?

We have made it

absolutely a priority to help a

fight of rough sleeping and

homelessness. We have committed to

have it by the end of this

Parliament to eliminating it

completely by 2027. I share the

concerns, but I hope you agree with

me that this is not a party

political football. We should all

work together across this has to do

with this issue.

I'm delighted to

new Housing Minister has agreed to

work with me to improve tenant

safety in respect to carbon monoxide

poisoning. To with the national

landlords Association and a brain

injury charity that more needs to be

done to protect the public at large

for death or injury to carbon

monoxide poisoning?

I congratulate

the honourable gentleman on the

tenacious way he is this campaign

up. We certainly listen to all

voices and I'm grateful that I've

had the opportunity to sit down and

talk about the private members bill

and we certainly shares are

concerned to make progress on carbon

monoxide in both of the key areas of

his private members Bill I look

wherefore to working with him in the

future.

Since 2010. 50% of its budget spent

on normal children at. With over 90%

of all properties in council tax but

other the social care does not get

near addressing the shortfall. Will

the Secretary of State urgently

address the shortfall in funding?

Order. Couple questions are supposed

to be shorter than substantive and

that was just as long. Minister.

Thank you minute Minister. Thanks to

the steps taken in the spring budget

by my arm a friend of the Chancellor

additional £40 million.

To see how

Northamptonshire is Public lab risk

Dobey kept open?

That exchange to be

circular to all codecs.

Later Waco

Council is now supporting a wider

Yorkshire deal The Miz 18 of the 20

local 30s are supporting the deal.

Does the Minister or Secretary said

that in addition to finalise the

details and he deal their support

conversation not to be had with the

team leaders about a wider Yorkshire

deal?

The crucial decision about any

wider Yorkshire deal if there ever

is one is in the hands of the local

authorities concerned. We will be

going ahead with the South Yorkshire

deal but earlier this week and I'm

sure the honourable gentleman as

well as we did part forward a

proposal that would allow others to

take a different route in the future

if they picked to do so.

For the

coming gear sex race day has enables

counsellors to increase tax by 2%

compared to just 2% Leicester but

that limit has been retained to £5

to parity would be £7 50. This

affects 88 small district councils

with the Secretary of State Bosley

consider a change?

A number people

have made this representation. I

listened carefully and we will keep

it under review as he knows the

draft settlement is just that at the

moment. I we're looking at it

carefully.

May I also welcome and

congratulate the new members of the

team. Now the leading cause of

homelessness what will the Secretary

of State extent the mandatory

licensing scheme from landlords to

the private sector?

Thank you very

much. We are looking for it closely

to see where certain councils have

introduced this. At the moment is in

the week keeping under review.

Some

of the poorest wards in London has

had the pleasure more than £100

million in cuts. So what extent is

this situation sustainable?

The

Government recognises the pressure

on local councils and is the term to

get them the resources they need the

method that be a real-time funding

increase to local authorities this

year together the flexibly to

deliver more money for social care.

We'll government please Mr. Jutting

situation whereby street homeless

people are crossing local authority

boundaries from one weather still

support to others such as Bristol

weather is a great deal.

The

honourable Lady does ask a very

interesting question. One of the

issues of the task force will be

looking into his cross county

issues. Perhaps he can be discuss

this further?

Social and fiscal

benefits of removing completely the

Kansai house-building borrowing cap

why can't the Government front

bench?

The cap has been raised by £1

billion but has to be done in a

sustainable way and we remain

open-minded in keeping it under

review.

With Holocaust Memorial Day

this week despite right arm of

friend agree that on all sides of

his house he really need to face up

to anti-Semitism wherever we see it

and in whatever form it takes?

Is a

reminder for all of us of the

horrors of what can happen when

mankind what we can do to each other

is no one speaks up and it is

incumbent on all parties in this

House I noted just a few days ago

that Jewish labour movement is

appealing to the Labour Party

leadership to actually throw out

people who allegedly practised

anti-Semitism. The Labour Party

talks about combating hate crime but

it has to show people that it really

means it.

To be people who move into

brand-new homes struggle with poor

or no Wi-Fi. The Ministers work with

toppers to make sure that the

necessary infrastructure is in place

on these houses are being built?

She's actually right to raise this

issue. If something we work with

local authorities and developers.