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51 records in UK in 2015
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 December 2015
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many homes have been built on flood plains in each of the last five years; and how many homes have been granted planning permission for building on flood plains.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether (a) all and (b) vulnerable tenants who receive housing benefit are subject to additional protection from eviction by landlords.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 December 2015
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 8 December (HL4002), whether the Social Housing Regulator identified the absence of any residents on the Management Board of Circle Housing Group as being a
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 December 2015
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the Spending Review announcements on funding for affordable housing and the forecast £1 billion remaining in the 2015–18 Affordable Homes Programme will mean the continuation of availability of grant to complete pip
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 December 2015
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have conducted a full assessment of the impact of the proposed one per cent cut in rent for social housing tenants on the eight Community Land Trusts (CLTs) that are Registered Providers and whether they will t
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 December 2015
That this House congratulates the Helmsdale Affordable Housing Project on winning a highly respected SURF Award for Community Led Regeneration; commends the excellent work it has done in successfully creating four new family homes in Helmsdale, a rural village in Sutherland, which will help to address depopulation and decline; acknowledges that the purpose of the SURF Award is to reward best practice and innovation in community regeneration, as a means of sharing experience to enhance future policy and practice; and supports the Helmsdale and District Development Trust in all of its future projects.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 December 2015
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is being done to increase the number of specially adapted homes in (1) North Lincolnshire, and (2) nationally, so that those with complex care needs can live independently for longer.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will exempt adults with disabilities whose partner is unable to share the same bedroom due to that disability from the under-occupancy penalty.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of housing benefit claims in respect of which a request for backdating was approved resulted in the payment of arrears for a period of (a) less than one month, (b) one month
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the amount his Department will save as a result of limiting the backdating of housing benefit to a maximum of one month in each of the next four years; and how that estimate
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 14 December 2015 to Question 18835, what alternative options will be available to single people claiming housing benefit who are under the age of 35 and are not able to afford
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effect removing the family premium from new claims for housing benefit the ability of claimants affected to move outside their local authority area in order to take up
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the effect of limiting the backdating of housing benefit to a maximum of one month on (a) the ability of tenants to pay any rent arrears accrued after a delay in applyin
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his estimate is of the notional average weekly change in benefit which working families currently claiming housing benefit would face as a result of removing the family premium from the calculation
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will make it his policy that affordable rent to buy housing is included as an option for developers in the Housing and Planning Bill's general duty on all planning authorities in or
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will ensure that affordable rent to buy housing is exempt from the Government's pay to stay proposals for higher income social tenants.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if his Department will make representations to the Israeli government about the proposed demolition of the Israeli Arab village of Umm-al-hiran.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 10 December 2015 to Question 18555, whether he is consulting on what exemptions should apply to the cap on housing benefit for single under-35 claimants in social housing; and
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 10 December 2015 to Question 18554, on housing benefit: social rented housing, what proportion of the estimated 80,000 claimants referred to in that answer are in receipt of (a
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what advice his Department gives to local authorities, housing associations and other housing providers on permitting or restricting (a) senior citizens and (b) others from keeping animal
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will estimate the proportion of people in London who will be able to afford to (a) rent and (b) buy a home in 2016.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what forecast his Department has made of how much it will spend on the starter homes fund in the next financial year; and if he will make a statement.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that landlords receive rent from tenants who are in receipt of housing benefit.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what transitional arrangements are being made for local authority employees who administer housing benefit when responsibility for that benefit moves to universal credit.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department takes to ensure that people divorced from serving officers are not evicted from serviced housing before they have found alternative accommodation.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many staff were employed at the Single Persons Accommodation Centre for the Ex-Services in each year since 2010.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his Department's expenditure was on the Single Persons Accommodation Centre for the Ex-Services in each year since 2010.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many staff were employed at the Joint Service Housing Advice Office in each year since 2010.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his Department's expenditure was on the Joint Service Housing Advice Office in each year since 2010.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department spent on the veterans' accommodation fund in each year since 2010.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the effect of Scottish Government policies on the level of new affordable social housing in Scotland.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the accessibility requirements will be for the 8,000 new accessible homes announced in the Spending Review and Autumn Statement 2015; and where those homes will be located.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 December 2015
To ask Her Majesty’s Government which are the 27 sites where successful bids for funding have been made in the first wave of Starter Home projects on brownfield sites; in which local authorities those sites are situated; and in each case, what measures th
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 December 2015
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the number of new properties being built, and of the effect that that number is having on house prices.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the Right to Rent Scheme for landlords to perform immigration checks on tenants will come into force in Scotland.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much will be made available in additional discretionary housing payments for people in supported accommodation in each financial year from 2018-19 to 2020-21.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the application of local housing allowance rates for housing benefit paid in the social sector will take into account core rent and housing service charge elements.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the (a) housing benefit claimant count and (b) average weekly housing benefit award is for tenants in supported accommodation in each (i) county, (ii) region, (iii) local authority and (iv) valuati
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the average weekly rent and service charge for supported accommodation including (a) foyers, (b) direct access hostels, (c) supported housing for older people and (d) other supported
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the level of change of housing benefit for tenants in supported accommodation as a result of changes to housing benefit announced in the Autumn Statement 2015.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to make decisions about changes to housing benefit entitlements for tenants of supported accommodation before the completion of research in this area which has been commissioned by the
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to tackle landlords who knowingly rent out unsafe and substandard accommodation.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the extent of financial and operational links between the social housing sector in Scotland and England.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 December 2015
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their estimate of the net change in the number of homes in the UK between May 2015 and May 2020.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 December 2015
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their estimate of the net change in the number of homes in the UK for social rent between May 2015 and May 2020.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 December 2015
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their estimate of the total number of new homes that will be completed in the UK between May 2015 and May 2020.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 December 2015
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their current estimate of the total number of new homes that will be completed in the UK after May 2020.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that landlords in the private rented sector comply with the requirement for properties to be a minimum of energy efficiency rating E by April 2017.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of trends in the number of homes built for social rent since 2010.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps he plans to take to require social landlords to improve the energy efficiency of their housing stock.