Asked by: Matthew Pennycook (Labour - Greenwich and Woolwich)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 26 April 2023 to Question 182177 on Civil Service: Recruitment, if he will bring forward proposals to amend the Civil Service Nationality Rules to allow British Nationals (Overseas) visa holders with at least one British Nationals (Overseas) parent but who are not themselves British Nationals (Overseas) to be employed within the Civil Service.
Answered by Jeremy Quin
There are currently no plans to amend the Civil Service Nationality Rules. They reflect a long standing legislative framework present under successive governments.
Asked by: Matthew Pennycook (Labour - Greenwich and Woolwich)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether it remains his Department's policy to extend the voluntary Right to Buy scheme to housing association tenants.
Answered by Baroness Maclean of Redditch
Details of Government spending are published on gov.uk.
We are tackling the barriers to increasing the use of modern methods of construction in the industry, giving us the potential to deliver homes cheaper and quicker, but it means we have to be joined up so that we have a sustained pipeline for these companies to be able to deliver these important new houses. Through our £11.5 billion affordable homes programme we are challenging the sector to increase the number of homes delivered through modern method of construction. Around 40% of current allocations made through the programme use modern methods of construction.
I refer the Hon Member to my answer to Question UIN 139221 on 13 February 2023.
Asked by: Matthew Pennycook (Labour - Greenwich and Woolwich)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of the Modern Methods of Construction Taskforce on the delivery of new homes made using modern methods of construction.
Answered by Baroness Maclean of Redditch
Details of Government spending are published on gov.uk.
We are tackling the barriers to increasing the use of modern methods of construction in the industry, giving us the potential to deliver homes cheaper and quicker, but it means we have to be joined up so that we have a sustained pipeline for these companies to be able to deliver these important new houses. Through our £11.5 billion affordable homes programme we are challenging the sector to increase the number of homes delivered through modern method of construction. Around 40% of current allocations made through the programme use modern methods of construction.
I refer the Hon Member to my answer to Question UIN 139221 on 13 February 2023.
Asked by: Matthew Pennycook (Labour - Greenwich and Woolwich)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how much of the £10 million of seed funding allocated to the Modern Methods of Construction Taskforce in the Budget 2021 has been spent.
Answered by Baroness Maclean of Redditch
Details of Government spending are published on gov.uk.
We are tackling the barriers to increasing the use of modern methods of construction in the industry, giving us the potential to deliver homes cheaper and quicker, but it means we have to be joined up so that we have a sustained pipeline for these companies to be able to deliver these important new houses. Through our £11.5 billion affordable homes programme we are challenging the sector to increase the number of homes delivered through modern method of construction. Around 40% of current allocations made through the programme use modern methods of construction.
I refer the Hon Member to my answer to Question UIN 139221 on 13 February 2023.
Asked by: Matthew Pennycook (Labour - Greenwich and Woolwich)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the potential merits of exempting modular housing manufacturers from the Construction Industry Training Board levy.
Answered by Robert Halfon
The Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) levy applies to all employers engaged wholly or mainly in construction industry activities, unless exempted. A full list of construction industry activities in scope for the purposes of the CITB levy can be found here: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/3048/schedule/1/made.
The department has not been asked to consider a request to amend this list.
The department does not intend to exempt any in scope employers from the CITB levy on the basis they also pay the apprenticeship levy. The CITB levy and apprenticeship levy fund different activities. The apprenticeship levy is ‘ring-fenced’ to support apprenticeships in England across all sectors and occupations. The CITB levy is specific to the construction industry and invested by CITB in training and other projects for the benefit of the sector. This includes grants to employers to train new staff or develop the skills of their existing workforce, initiatives to help the industry recruit new talent and support the transfer of skilled workers.
Asked by: Matthew Pennycook (Labour - Greenwich and Woolwich)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether persons with at least one British Nationals (Overseas) parent but who are not themselves British Nationals (Overseas) are eligible to be employed in the Civil Service.
Answered by Jeremy Quin
The Civil Service Nationality Rules reflect a long-standing legislative framework that has existed under successive governments and govern eligibility for employment in the Civil Service on the grounds of nationality.
Whether or not an individual is eligible to work in the Civil Service under the nationality rules is dependent on their nationality only.
An individual who had at least one British National (Overseas) parent, but who themselves was not a British National (Overseas), may still be eligible to work in the Civil Service if they meet the nationality rules in their own right.
Asked by: Matthew Pennycook (Labour - Greenwich and Woolwich)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when she plans to respond to the letter of 20 January 2023 from the hon. Member for Greenwich and Woolwich on the Art for All by All campaign.
Answered by Julia Lopez - Shadow Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology
A reply was issued on 20 April 2023.
Asked by: Matthew Pennycook (Labour - Greenwich and Woolwich)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, when he plans to publish his Department's response to the Leaseholder-owned buildings (11m+ or 5 storeys+): call for evidence consultation.
Answered by Lee Rowley
We will publish a response in due course.
Asked by: Matthew Pennycook (Labour - Greenwich and Woolwich)
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 publish a list of the housebuilders and mixed-use developers that his Department asked to sign the developer remediation contract on 30 January 2023.
Answered by Lee Rowley
On 14 March, the Government published lists of developers who had signed the contract and of developers who were invited to sign, but had yet to do so. The lists are being kept up to date.
Asked by: Matthew Pennycook (Labour - Greenwich and Woolwich)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, when he plans to launch the full medium-rise scheme to provide funding to remediate or mitigate unsafe external wall systems on buildings between 11 to 18m in height where the developer of a building cannot be traced or identified.
Answered by Lee Rowley
I refer the Hon. Member to the answer I gave to Question UIN 170716 on 29 March 2023.