Asked by: Baroness Coffey (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many officials in his Department work on access to nature; and what the full-time equivalent of those officials is.
Answered by Simon Hoare
The Department for Levelling Up, Housing, Communities and Local Government’s role in policy on access to nature and open and green spaces spans planning policy, levelling up funding and communities policy. Staff in the department often work across a range of policy areas which may include work on access to nature and therefore it is not possible to specify exact numbers.
The Department publishes an organogram showing all staff roles at the following link.
Asked by: Baroness Coffey (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will take steps to restrict the sale of social housing for use as a second home.
Answered by Jacob Young
Councils can make decisions to put covenants on properties sold through Right to Buy to prevent them being used as holiday lets, and in Designated Rural Areas homes can only be resold to a local person.