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201 records in UK in 2014
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 28 October 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, when the last time was that he met the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government to discuss the implementation of zero carbon homes.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 28 October 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many single servicemen and servicewomen based at or near Catterick, North Yorkshire, are currently accommodated in (a) single living accommodation provided for his Department by a contractor and (b) other pri
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 28 October 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate he has made of the number of people subject to the under-occupancy penalty who have moved into a smaller home since the introduction of that penalty.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 28 October 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make it his policy that people entitled to carer's allowance are included in the groups that qualify for the childcare costs earnings disregard for the purposes of calculating housing benefit
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 28 October 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many social housing homes in (a) Hackney North and Stoke Newington constituency, (b) the London Borough of Hackney, (c) London and (d) England have failed to meet the Decent Homes sta
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 28 October 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many section 21 notices were served in each of the last (a) 12 months and (b) five years.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 28 October 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when Boulogne Barracks, Catterick, was last used as accommodation for single servicemen and women; what the maximum number of personnel who could be accommodated in that barracks was at that time; and if he will
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 28 October 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what records his Department keeps of the number of retaliatory evictions; what criteria he uses to define retaliatory eviction; and how many retaliatory evictions took place in the last (
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 27 October 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) pensioner households and (b) disabled people are in receipt of local housing allowance in (i) the UK, (ii) each region and (iii) each local authority.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 24 October 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much each local authority in (a) Wales and (b) the UK returned to his Department in unused discretionary housing payment funding in 2013-14.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 24 October 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many local authorities in (a) Wales and (b) the UK returned unused discretionary housing payment to his Department in 2013-14.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 24 October 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will initiate a review of the operation of the shared accommodation rate.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 October 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households in East Ayrshire had had housing benefit capped since the introduction of the benefit cap at the latest date for which figures are available.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 October 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households in East Ayrshire are currently subject to housing benefit being capped as a result of the benefit cap introduced in April 2013.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 October 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what methodology his Department recommends for the calculation of five year land supplies; whether planning authorities are required to use regional spatial strategy figures in such calcu
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 October 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether, in delivery of the Zero Carbon Homes policy, house builders can contract with a third party to deliver the carbon abatement measures outside of the built environment in (a) renew
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 October 2014
To ask Her Majesty’s Government why housing benefit overpayments increased to £1.4 billion in 2013–14 and how they are addressing the issue.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 October 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many personnel have been placed on his Department's referral scheme co-ordinated by the Joint Service Housing Advice Office in each year since 2010; and how many personnel so referred successfully found accom
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 October 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many homes in (a) Bethnal Green and Bow constituency, (b) the borough of Tower Hamlets, (c) London and (d) England failed to meet the decent homes standard in each year since 2010.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 October 2014
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 14 October (HL1902), whether they will place in the Library of the House copies of the correspondence encouraging the London Borough of Tower Hamlets to revise it
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 October 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what was spent on the Decent Homes Programme in each year since 2005.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 October 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much discretionary housing payment award he plans to give to each local authority in Scotland in 2014-15.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 October 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much discretionary housing payment award was made to each local authority in Scotland in 2013-14.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 October 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking with water companies to produce cost guidelines for those involved in the process of extending their properties.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 October 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to work with water companies to produce a set of procedures for those involved in the process of extending their properties.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 October 2014
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people aged over (a) 65, (b) 70, (c) 75 and (e) 80 are living alone in (i) England, (ii) the East of England and (iii) Peterborough constituency.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 October 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many appeals have been made against the application of the shared accommodation rate; and how many of those appeals have been successful.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 October 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the time limit is for local authority decisions on determining reported changes of circumstances.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 October 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, under what circumstances local authorities are permitted to suspend housing benefit payments.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 October 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance his Department gives to local authorities on steps to take when a claimant of housing benefit who retains an award of employment and support allowance reports a change of circumstance in t
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 October 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether it is his Department's policy that an award of housing benefit should be suspended when Permitted Work is reported as a change of circumstance.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 October 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the effect of a claimant becoming self-employed is on awards of housing benefit.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 October 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many houses were given planning permission to be built in (a) Ribble Valley, (b) Lancashire and (c) the UK in the last 12 months.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 October 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, who is responsible for repaying an overpayment of housing benefit in cases where the local authority makes that payment direct to a landlord.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 October 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether housing benefit claimants who have become self employed must use a self employment declaration form, as the means of reporting that information.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 October 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether a housing benefit claimant who undertakes permitted work on a self-employment basis is required to complete a self employment declaration form.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 October 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to increase home ownership among members of the armed forces in North Yorkshire.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 October 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 13 October 2014 to Question 209233 for what reason the information is not available.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 October 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to increase home ownership among members of the armed forces.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 October 2014
A Bill to provide that people in receipt of Universal Credit and Housing Benefit and accommodated in the social housing sector be entitled to an additional bedroom related to caring responsibilities or overnight care; and for connected purposes.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 October 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the average time taken to grant access for housing associations to properties to undertake statutory gas safety checks.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 October 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the costs to housing associations of implementing the legal power to enter a property to undertake a statutory gas safety check.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 October 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what proportion of new houses completed in the last 12 months in England have been built on sites of (a) less than one ha, (b) one to two ha, (c) two to four ha, (d) four to six ha, (e) s
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 October 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households in the London Borough of Brent who have had their benefits capped under the household benefit cap have subsequently moved out of that borough.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 October 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what housing target has been set under the regional spatial strategy for each local authority in (a) the East Midlands and (b) Yorkshire and the Humber.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 October 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much land his Department has released for the purpose of building new homes in (a) Barnsley East constituency and (b) South Yorkshire since May 2010.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 September 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will commission a review and recalculation of the shared accommodation rate to ensure that it reflects the real cost of rooms in shared houses.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 September 2014
To ask Her Majesty’s Government why they rejected two of the bids made by the London Borough of Tower Hamlets for additional borrowing headroom under the Local Growth Fund Housing Revenue Account Borrowing Programme 2015–17.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 September 2014
To ask Her Majesty’s Government which local authorities bid for additional borrowing headroom under the Local Growth Fund Housing Revenue Account Borrowing Programme 2015–17; what were the values of those bids; and how many new homes were involved.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 September 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what proportion of completed new houses were built on brownfield land in the latest period for which figures are available.