Written Question
Tuesday 11th February 2025
Asked by:
Andy Slaughter (Labour - Hammersmith and Chiswick)
Question
to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when she plans to publish the Government’s response to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 2 Report; and if she will implement the recommendation in paragraph 113.40 of that report.
Answered by Alex Norris
- Minister of State (Home Office)
We are considering the recommendations set out in the Grenfell Inquiry report. The Prime Minister has committed to respond in full to the Inquiry’s recommendations within 6 months and to update Parliament annually on our progress against every commitment made.
Written Question
Tuesday 23rd May 2023
Asked by:
Andy Slaughter (Labour - Hammersmith and Chiswick)
Question
to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the article by Dr Nick Thoburn of the University of Manchester entitled Razing the neighbourhood: consequences and alternatives to council estate demolition, published in April 2023, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of that report's recommendations on repair, refurbishment and retrofit of existing social housing.
Answered by Baroness Maclean of Redditch
Further to the measures under debate in the Social Housing Regulation Bill, approaches to regeneration should have the support of a majority of residents. Residents and the wider community should have the opportunity to have a say on the choices and options, master-planning and design.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 16 Nov 2022
Social Housing Standards
"While we are waiting for the improvements that the Secretary of State has promised in the regulation and resourcing of social landlords, many tenants are relying on legal aid solicitors and law centres to pursue disrepair claims. Thanks to legal aid cuts, they are already a vanishing part of the …..."Andy Slaughter - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 07 Nov 2022
Social Housing (Regulation) Bill [Lords]
"I am sure that we all want social landlords, and indeed all landlords, to be held to account when they fall short. Does the Secretary of State accept that there may be a problem with some financial penalties? We may end up punishing tenants twice: once for having a bad …..."Andy Slaughter - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 07 Nov 2022
Social Housing (Regulation) Bill [Lords]
"My hon. Friend is making an excellent speech. As she has correctly said, the biggest problem with social housing is that there is not enough of it. The past 12 years have seen under-investment in the social housing grant and many properties being lost to the system—many associations are selling …..."Andy Slaughter - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 25 Oct 2022
Section 21 Evictions
"I know we are not here to talk primarily about rent controls, but they go back to at least 1915. On section 21, the hon. Gentleman may be flogging a dead horse. I do not know whether he has seen the briefing from the National Residential Landlords Association, but it …..."Andy Slaughter - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 25 Oct 2022
Section 21 Evictions
"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairpersonship, Ms Nokes, and to take part in a debate instigated by my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Walton (Dan Carden).
I will start by trying to agree with the hon. Member for Thirsk and Malton (Kevin Hollinrake) on this point …..."Andy Slaughter - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 25 Oct 2022
Section 21 Evictions
"I will develop my argument and hope to take in that point.
I was giving the background to saying that the one thing that dramatically changed—one of the most fundamental changes in housing law, in the Housing Act 1988—was the ability to opt out of an assured tenancy and create …..."Andy Slaughter - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 16 Jun 2022
Sharing Economy: Short-term Letting
"The hon. Lady is right to emphasise both the scale and the commercial nature of the problem; a lot of people think it is marginal when, in fact, in some areas it is endemic. Last week, I talked to a local headteacher who said that her school’s intake had been …..."Andy Slaughter - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 16 Jun 2022
Private Rented Sector
"It would be good to see some security restored to the private rented sector, 35 years after a Conservative Government introduced no-fault eviction, but housing in the UK also has a crisis of affordability and disrepair. The social housing sector, although far from perfect, is better placed to tackle all …..."Andy Slaughter - View Speech
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