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Written Question
Homes for Ukraine Scheme
Monday 27th June 2022

Asked by: Anne Marie Morris (Conservative - Newton Abbot)

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how long a Ukrainian national in resident in the UK under the Homes for Ukraine Scheme can return to Ukraine for before the payment to the UK sponsor of that person ceases.

Answered by Eddie Hughes

Lead sponsors are eligible to claim the £350 “thank you” payment for a full month if their guests were residing at their accommodation for at least half of the month before they left. Payments are paid monthly in arrears and paused payments can resume within the remaining 12 month period of sponsorship when guests return to live with their sponsor.


Written Question
Refugees: Ukraine
Monday 23rd May 2022

Asked by: Anne Marie Morris (Conservative - Newton Abbot)

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 16 May 2022 to Question 766, what additional funding will be made available in addition to the initial allocation of £10,500 per person, if required by local authorities to help them with additional emergency accommodation costs.

Answered by Eddie Hughes

I refer the Hon Member to UIN 766 published on 16 May 2022.


Written Question
Refugees: Ukraine
Monday 16th May 2022

Asked by: Anne Marie Morris (Conservative - Newton Abbot)

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will provide further funding to help local authorities with additional emergency accommodation costs in addition to the funding announced under the Homes for Ukraine Scheme.

Answered by Eddie Hughes

Funding of £10,500 per person is provided to local authorities under the Homes for Ukraine scheme which includes funding for homelessness. Further details are set out in the published guidance for local authorities.


Written Question
Homes for Ukraine Scheme
Tuesday 29th March 2022

Asked by: Anne Marie Morris (Conservative - Newton Abbot)

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he plans to extend the Homes for Ukraine scheme that would facilitate matching of volunteers with Ukrainian refugees who are not named individual contacts.

Answered by Eddie Hughes

I refer the Hon Member to the answer given to PQ UIN 145857 on 28 March 2022. The Government is working closely with the voluntary sector, local communities and faith groups, as well as local government and the devolved administrations. Resources for learning Ukrainian and Russian are widely available online.


Written Question
Buildings: Construction
Monday 28th March 2022

Asked by: Anne Marie Morris (Conservative - Newton Abbot)

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether proposals set out in the Government's amendments to the Building Safety Bill to introduce a warranty on new builds will be retroactive.

Answered by Stuart Andrew - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)

The proposed amendments for new build warranties will apply prospectively to strengthen the future regime. The Bill provides a range of other tools to enable existing homeowners to seek redress from those who created building safety risks, such as the extended limitation period for action under the Defective Premises Act 1972 and our new remediation orders and building liability orders.


Written Question
Welcome Back Fund
Friday 21st January 2022

Asked by: Anne Marie Morris (Conservative - Newton Abbot)

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how much and what proportion of the Welcome Back Fund has been distributed to local authorities.

Answered by Neil O'Brien

Our £106 million Welcome Back Fund (WBF) is playing a vital role in supporting local authorities and their communities to bounce back from the Covid-19 pandemic.


This funding, which is available until 31 March 2022, has been allocated to 314 local authorities in England on a per capita basis. Councils can incur expenditure on eligible activities and claim up to the full amount of their allocation from Government in quarterly arrears. It is up to places to decide what to spend this funding on, having regard to the Fund's eligibility criteria.

More information, including a list of all local authority funding allocations, can be found in the WBF Guidance and FAQs on GOV.UK: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/welcome-back-fund.


Written Question
Levelling Up Fund: Rural Areas
Monday 17th January 2022

Asked by: Anne Marie Morris (Conservative - Newton Abbot)

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether his Department applied the Government's rural proofing process when determining recipients of Levelling Up Fund grants.

Answered by Neil O'Brien

The £4.8 billion Levelling Up Fund will invest in infrastructure that improves everyday life across the UK. As set out in the Prospectus and Technical Note published on GOV.UK, all applications to the Levelling Up Fund were fairly and robustly assessed against the published criteria. Through the strategic fit criteria, applicants were invited to set out how their plans aligned to local challenges, strategic plans and wider local and national policy priorities.

Round one of the Levelling Up Fund invested £1.7 billion in 105 projects that will benefit a broad range of rural and urban communities, such as Carmarthenshire County Council’s ‘Tywi Valley Path’ project, which will create economic opportunity and improve accessible transport links in rural Carmarthenshire.

The second round of the Levelling Up Fund will open in spring 2022, and further details will be shared in due course


Written Question
Local Government: Remote Meetings
Thursday 2nd December 2021

Asked by: Anne Marie Morris (Conservative - Newton Abbot)

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, when he plans to publish the response to his Department's consultation on local authority remote meetings.

Answered by Kemi Badenoch - President of the Board of Trade

The Department is reviewing the responses to the consultation and the Government will respond shortly.


Written Question
Affordable Housing: South East
Tuesday 30th November 2021

Asked by: Anne Marie Morris (Conservative - Newton Abbot)

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent estimate he has made of the number of affordable homes (a) supplied and (b) required to meet demand in the South West.

Answered by Christopher Pincher

The Government is committed to investing over £12 billion into the supply of affordable housing, the largest investment in a decade. This includes the new £11.5 billion Affordable Homes Programme, which will provide up to 180,000 new homes across the country, should economic conditions allow. In the recent competitive process where affordable housing providers bid to the programme, £1 billion to deliver 17,447 new affordable homes was allocated to the South West.


Written Question
Regional Planning and Development
Thursday 23rd September 2021

Asked by: Anne Marie Morris (Conservative - Newton Abbot)

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what his Department's working definition of levelling up is.

Answered by Neil O'Brien

Levelling up is about improving living standards and unleashing enterprise and growth across all parts of the UK. It is about increasing and spreading access to opportunity, because while potential is evenly distributed, opportunity isn't. It is about making peoples' lives better by improving public services, strengthening community, restoring pride in place, and improving quality of life in ways that are not just about the economy. And it is about empowering local leaders and communities. As the Prime Minister set out in his speech on the 15 July 2021, the forthcoming Levelling Up White Paper this autumn will set out further details.