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Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 102open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 December 2000
That this House welcomes the TUC response to the public consultation 'Quality and Choice: A Decent Home for All'; and urges the Government to take account of its recommendations, especially those on affordable social housing and a strengthened role for local authority housing, in the context of the Urban White Paper and targets set for reclaiming current brownfield land.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 111open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 December 2000
That this House welcomes the Government's intention to replace the current system of internal reviews of housing benefit decisions by individual local authorities with a new, more robust, independent appeal mechanism; notes that local authorities will retain the right to reclaim benefit overpayments from third parties, such as landlords, where payments are made directly; is concerned, however, that the practice of allowing these third parties to appeal such decisions will be excluded from the new procedure; calls on the Government to recognise that it is unjust to demand repayment of fraudulently claimed or incorrectly paid benefits direct from landlords, who are unable to know this is taking place, without a right of appeal and asks that such a right be included in regulations when they are laid before the House.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 1146open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 November 2000
That this House welcomes the Government's intention to replace the current system of internal reviews of housing benefit decisions by individual local authorities with a new, more robust, independent appeal mechanism; notes that local authorities will retain the right to reclaim benefit overpayments from third parties, such as landlords, where payments are made directly; is concerned, however, that the practice of allowing these third parties to appeal such decisions will be excluded from the new procedure; calls on the Government to recognise that it is unjust to demand repayment of fraudulently claimed or incorrectly paid benefits direct from landlords, who are unable to know this is taking place, without a right of appeal and asks that such a right be included in regulations when they are laid before the House.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 838open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 October 2000
after "House" insert "recognises that the Government has inherited a ú19 billion backlog of repair and modernisation work in council housing and has increased public investment in council housing by releasing capital receipts, but".
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 1032open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 July 2000
That this House notes with extreme concern that, after eight years of denying its obligations to the house-owners on its Cefn Celyn development in Swansea, it took the imminence of a court case which raised the possibility of being in contempt of court, to extract from Wales and West Housing Association (WWHA) documentation showing that they had had on record since November 1988 information 'that the Association had been aware of problems with retaining walls'; is concerned that they failed to reveal this years earlier despite the involvement of solicitors for the house owners, representations from and a meeting with the Right honourable Member for Swansea West in 1991, and inquiries from the Secretary of State for Wales in 1992; observes that with less persistence by the affected residents the truth might never have been revealed, the owners would have suffered legal and improper restoration costs for the wall, and WWHA would have escaped a significant part of the cost of meeting its obligations; regards with cynicism and little surprise that WWHA's internal investigation 'found that the misrepresentation had been the result of poor communication between officers of the Association and found no evidence to suggest that staff had knowingly suppressed relevant documentation at arbitration'; and calls upon the Secretary for Housing and Local Government at the National Assembly for Wales to institute a comprehensive investigation into this case.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 1004open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 July 2000
That this House congratulates all those who attended the Defend Council Housing lobby on 19th July; and notes the strength of feeling against transfers.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 876open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 June 2000
That this House believes that houses in multiple occupation provide an important source of housing for many vulnerable groups of people; notes that many of these properties are in poor condition, with up to 20 per cent. falling below the legal standard of fitness for human habitation; supports proposals to introduce a licensing scheme to improve conditions and increase value for money which would benefit tenants and responsible landlords alike; and hopes the Government will include legislation to implement these proposals in the next Queen's Speech.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 838open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 June 2000
That this House views with alarm the Government's refusal to either fund or allow local authorities to borrow directly to invest in repairing council housing, the Housing Green Paper's aim to transfer 200,000 homes per year over 10 years, the support for PFI, even though it is an expensive way of financing public services, the terms attached to the 'arms-length housing companies' that make them unavailable to all but a handful of authorities and suggest that they will be so 'arms length' as to be effectively privatised, support for 'market forces' that will cause real financial hardship as council rents rise and the amount of money being spent by local authorities to win transfer ballots without equal resources to opponents preventing a fair debate; notes that the Government has recognised the injustice of this but had not yet stopped this tax or returned the money to fund housing repairs; believes that the experience of 'market forces' in housing has caused immense misery and poverty and necessitated that the provision of decent, affordable, secure and accountable housing be an essential component of the comprehensive welfare state and that this policy should be defended today; and resolves to join with council tenants, local authority trade unionists and others to ensure that further privatisation of council housing is halted to allow a proper debate including allowing local authorities to borrow directly and the long-term cost and other consequences of council housing privatisation.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 763open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 19 May 2000
That this House welcomes the efforts of the Emerging role of Sheltered Housing Consortium and their contribution to the debate about housing options for older people; notes that the 'Going on to Sheltered Housing' National Awareness Week is from 22nd to 28th May; and congratulates them on their efforts to raise public awareness about the positive and cost-effective benefits that sheltered and very sheltered housing offers to older people.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 753open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 May 2000
That this House considers it essential that the Government meets its reponsibilities to house people in the South East of England while at the same time protecting the countryside and advancing principles of sustainable development; deplores the confused, misguided and totally inadequate response of Conservative and Liberal Democrat honourable Members to the Government's draft regional planning guidance for the South East and believes their approach would be a recipe for homelessness and rapidly rising house prices; and welcomes the end of the outdated predict and provide approach, the confirmation of the 60 per cent. target for development on brownfield sites, the adoption of the sequential approach to ensure 'brownfield first' the promotion of a less profligate use of land, the positive approach to development in areas of economic and social need such as the Thames Gateway, the strong emphasis on raising the quality of housing development, and the commitment to the provision of affordable housing and the development of mixed communities.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 701open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 May 2000
That this House recognises the fundamental importance of access to good quality, affordable housing; understands that decent housing is essential to good health and improved opportunity in education and employment; believes that housing providers, drawing on both public and private resources, have a key role to play in economic and social regeneration; and believes that to achieve the aspiration of a decent home for all, as set out in the Housing Green Paper, including the commitment to tackle the ú19 billion backlog of council housing repairs, investment in housing and in particular affordable housing, must be increased in the Government's forthcoming spending review.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 653open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 April 2000
That this House welcomes the emphasis in the recently published draft regional planning guidance for the South East on providing sufficient affordable housing to meet need and on encouraging mixed and sustainable communities, and in particular the inclusion of a provisional indicator against which the regional provision of affordable housing can be monitored.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 418open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 February 2000
That this House believes that social housing activities by registered social landlords should not be charged corporation tax at the same rate as commercial companies; also believes that this is not in the interests of improved investment in Britain's housing stock; understands that, while charitable RSLs are exempt from such tax, many offer too broad a range of services to qualify for charitable status; notes that the National Housing Federation estimates the cost of exemption at approximately ú30 million a year and contrasts this figure with the ú300 million cost of reducing the corporation tax rate for commercial companies in 1998-99; further notes that this ú30 million represents a 6 per cent. increase in internally generated funds available for social housing activities; and calls on the Chancellor to boost investment in social housing by considering exempting social housing activities from corporation tax liability.