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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 24 Apr 2019
Local Government and Social Care Funding

"I am grateful that my hon. Friend has mentioned children’s services. Clearly, the overspend on children’s services has hit a new high of £800 million—and of £12 million in Newham alone last year—and it is calculated that this funding gap will get to £2 billion by 2020. Is it not …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 20 Feb 2019
Antisemitism in Modern Society

"May I also pay tribute to the CST and thank it for the work that it did with us in working out our community cohesion policy? I found it to be an organisation that was very engaged with the wider concerns about racism in our society, and it helped me …..."
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Written Question
Right to Buy Scheme
Wednesday 13th February 2019

Asked by: Baroness Brown of Silvertown (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make an assessment of the (a) mean, (b) median, (c) 10th percentile and (d) 25th percentile period between the date of a purchase of a social housing unit under Right to Buy and the date that that property has been let within the private rental sector, using a representative sample of housing units meeting these conditions, for each of the last 10 years for each region in England.

Answered by Kit Malthouse

I refer the Hon Member to my answer of 13 February to question UIN 217033.

Written Question
Right to Buy Scheme
Wednesday 13th February 2019

Asked by: Baroness Brown of Silvertown (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of a statutory waiting time between the date when a social housing unit is purchased under Right to Buy and when that unit may be lawfully offered for private let.

Answered by Kit Malthouse

The Government does not impose restrictions on the letting of homes purchased under the Right to Buy. It believes that tenants who have bought their homes under the Right to Buy should have the same freedoms as any other homeowner. Imposing restrictions on the letting of their homes could limit their ability to move for work or family reasons and we do not think this would be reasonable or fair.

The Department regularly publishes information on the number of Right to Buy sales, which can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-social-housing-sales.

However, the Department does not monitor what individuals do with their homes after they have bought them. To provide figures for this would be burdensome on central government, local authorities and buyers. It would place a burden on buyers of Right to Buy homes (including second-hand buyers further down the line) to register their purchase of such a home – and whether it was to be their main home – with their local authority, and require enforcement by the local authority in order to be reliable. Such a burden would be contrary to the policy intention of Right to Buy, which is to provide a way for council tenants to access all the benefits of home ownership enjoyed by other homeowners.

Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 07 Feb 2019
Rough Sleeping

"I know that the figures are disputed and that the CHAIN—combined homelessness and information network—statistics show differences year to year, but with a decrease of 2% a year it will take until 2052 to deal with rough sleeping in Britain, and that is frankly not good enough...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 05 Feb 2019
Local Government Finance

"My hon. Friend is making a fabulous speech. I really appreciate what he says about culture and the role of libraries, leisure centres and parks. They are really important for physical and mental health, but people do not appreciate that...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 05 Feb 2019
Local Government Finance

"Like other Members, I want to remind Ministers what the places that they have cut so savagely actually look like. By next year, Newham will have lost 48% of its grant—£138 million a year. That is a £1,301 cut for every household, which is the second highest cut in the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 28 Jan 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"T1. If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 28 Jan 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"Councils in deprived areas such as mine are desperately scrambling to find the funds to meet their needs while facing almost double the spending cuts of the least-deprived area. The Minister says that this is about population, but London is home to 16% of the population and has suffered 30% …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 24 Jan 2019
Holocaust Memorial Day

"As my hon. Friend the Member for Dudley North (Ian Austin) said in his terribly moving speech, this year’s theme for Holocaust Memorial Day is Torn from Home. As we all know, homes are much more than physical dwellings; they are everything that sustains us. They are our comfort, our …..."
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