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United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 December 2008
A Bill to confer power on the Greater London Authority and certain local authorities to impose a levy on non-domestic ratepayers to raise money for expenditure on projects expected to promote economic development; and for connected purposes.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 28 May 2015
A Bill to make provision for the election of mayors for the areas of, and for conferring additional functions on, combined authorities established under Part 6 of the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009; to make other provision in relation to bodies established under that Part; to make provision about local authority governance and functions; to confer power to establish, and to make provision about, sub-national transport bodies; and for connected purposes.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 28 November 2006
Make further provision with respect to the Greater London Authority; to amend the Greater London Authority Act 1999; to make further provision with respect to the functional bodies, within the meaning of that Act, and the Museum of London; and for connected purposes.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 October 2012
To make provision in connection with facilitating or controlling the following, namely, the provision or use of infrastructure, the carrying-out of development, and the compulsory acquisition of land; to make provision about when rating lists are to be compiled; to make provision about the rights of employees of companies who agree to be employee owners; and for connected purposes.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 October 2015
A Bill to make provision about housing, estate agents, rentcharges, planning and compulsory purchase.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 November 2007
To establish the Homes and Communities Agency and make provision about it; to abolish the Urban Regeneration Agency and Commission for the New Towns and make provision in connection with their abolition; to regulate social housing; to enable the abolition of the Housing Corporation; to make provision about sustainability certificates, landlord and tenant matters, building regulations and mobile homes; to make further provision about housing; and for connected purposes.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 May 2013
A Bill to make provision for, and in connection with, the abolition of the Audit Commission for local authorities and the National Health Service in England; to make provision about the accounts of local and certain other public authorities and the auditing of those accounts; to make provision about the appointment, functions and regulation of local auditors; to make provision about data matching; to make provision about examinations by the Comptroller and Auditor-General relating to English local and other public authorities; to make provision about the publication of information by smaller authorities; to make provision for directions to comply with codes of practice on local authority publicity; to make provision about council tax referendums; and for connected purposes.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 December 2008
To make provision for the purposes of promoting public involvement in relation to local authorities and other public authorities; to make provision about bodies representing the interests of tenants; to make provision about the procedures of local authorities and the audit of entities connected with them; to establish the Boundary Committee for England and to make provision relating to local government boundary and electoral change; to make provision about local and regional development; to amend the law relating to construction contracts; and for connected purposes.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 May 2010
A Bill to prevent the implementation of existing proposals made for the purposes of Part 1 of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007; to revoke the Exeter and Devon (Structural Changes) Order 2010 and the Norwich and Norfolk (Structural Changes) Order 2010; and to make provision consequential on that revocation.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 December 2006
Make provision with respect to local government and the functions and procedures of local authorities and certain other authorities; to make provision with respect to persons with functions of inspection and audit in relation to local government; to establish the Valuation Tribunal for England; to make provision in connection with local involvement networks; to abolish Patients' Forums and the Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health; to make provision with respect to local consultation in connection with health services; and for connected purposes.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 19 December 2011
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 January 2017
A Bill To Make provision about non-domestic rating in England; to amend Chapter 4ZA of Part 1 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992; to confer power on the Greater London Authority and certain local authorities in England to impose levies on non-domestic ratepayers to raise money for expenditure on projects expected to promote economic development; to confer power on certain local authorities in England to impose a levy on persons with certain property interests in a business improvement district to finance projects to be carried out in the district; and for connected purposes.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 December 2010
To make provision about the functions and procedures of local and certain other authorities; to make provision about the functions of the Local Commission for Administration in England; to enable the recovery of financial sanctions imposed by the Court of Justice of the European Union on the United Kingdom from local and public authorities; to make provision about local government finance; to make provision about town and country planning, the Community Infrastructure Levy and the authorisation of nationally significant infrastructure projects; to make provision about social and other housing; to make provision about regeneration in London; and for connected purposes.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 September 2016
A Bill to make provision about planning and compulsory purchase; and for connected purposes.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 27 November 2007
A Bill to establish the Infrastructure Planning Commission and make provision about its functions; to make provision about, and about matters ancillary to, the authorisation of projects for the development of nationally significant infrastructure; to make provision about town and country planning; to make provision about the imposition of a Community Infrastructure Levy; and for connected purposes.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 May 2007
Make provision for and in connection with the liability of owners of unoccupied hereditaments to a non-domestic rate.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 19 December 2017
A Bill to make provision about the granting of old-style secure tenancies in cases of domestic abuse.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 July 2017
A Bill to make provision enabling relief from non-domestic rates in England and Wales to be conferred in respect of hereditaments used for the purposes of facilitating the transmission of communications by any means involving the use of electrical or electromagnetic energy; and for connected purposes.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 January 2018
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their estimate of the total number of empty dwellings in England; how many of those dwellings are owned by (1) housing associations, (2) local authorities, and (3) private owners; and what steps are being taken to b
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 January 2018
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their estimate of the number of dwellings that have been vacant for over (1) six months, and (2) two years; and what measures they are taking, including in conjunction with local authorities, to return empty dwellin
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 January 2018
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have made a recent estimate of the number of homeless people sleeping outside without tents or other cover; and what plans they have to eliminate such homelessness.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps have been taken to work with faith leaders to increase the number of signatories to the declaration condemning female genital mutilation and to use that declaration to help dri
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 January 2018
To ask Her Majesty's Government what recent estimate they have made of the number of Empty Dwelling Management Orders (EDMOs); what assessment they have made of the effectiveness of EDMOs; and whether they have any proposals to change (1) the regulations
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 January 2018
To ask Her Majesty's Government when the review of fire safety regulations and precautions, which arose from the fire at Lakanal House in south London in 2009, will be published.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 January 2018
To ask Her Majesty's Government why local authorities can borrow from the Public Works Loan Board to buy commercial property but not to fund the construction of social housing.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether he plans plans to bring forward legislative proposals to ensure that access to fast broadband is a planning condition for new housing estate and business park developments.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will take steps to amend the relevant building regulations to require all large buildings to have Changing Places toilet facilities for people with profound disabilities.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the proportion of new homes built since 2015 which are in accordance with the voluntary policy requirement for adaptable and accessible homes.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much brownfield land has been identified by each local authority in part (a) 1 and (b) 2 of their registers; and what the national figures are for such land in each category.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to collate and assess the information which was published in brownfield registers by local authorities on or before 31 December 2017.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much funding has been allocated from the Housing Infrastructure Fund to each NUTS 1 region in each year since that fund's creation.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many and what proportion of local authorities have adopted the voluntary policy requirement for adaptable and accessible homes.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the estimated cost of the re-branding of his Department is.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to Answer of 21 December 2017 to Question 116748, how much of the £1.2 billion of funding for the Starter Home Land Fund has been spent to date.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much expenditure will be allocated by his Department for Local Welfare Assistance schemes in each of the next five years.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending the roll-out of the ban on ground rent for new build homes to leaseholders of non-new build properties.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to tackle the issue of exploitative ground rent charges being levied on leaseholders of non-new build properties.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what progress has been made by his Department on implementing the outcome of the research it carried out in 2016 on evaluating the adequacy of the guidance in the relevant building regula
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what changes are planned for the (a) structure and (b) personnel of his Department as a result of its re-branding as the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what spending controls apply to projects funded through the Shared Prosperity Fund.