Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Prime Minister, with reference to the then Prime Minister’s Written Statement of 4 November 2015 on the Wilson doctrine, what his policy is on the Wilson doctrine.
Answered by Boris Johnson
The Wilson Doctrine is unchanged from the position set out in my predecessor's Written Statement of 4 November 2015 (HCWS291).
Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that families and young people have access to the help they need when faced with a financial crisis.
Answered by Luke Hall
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent estimate his Department has made of the number of people living in accommodation that is unsuitable for their health needs or disabilities in (a) Greater London (b) the London Borough of Lambeth and (c) England.
Answered by Heather Wheeler
The Department does not hold estimates of the number of people living in accommodation that is unsuitable for their health needs or disabilities throughout the UK, in Greater London or in the London Borough of Lambeth
However, the Department publishes national statistics on social housing that is owned and managed by local authorities in England. Every local authority is required to have an allocation scheme for determining priorities and the procedure to be followed in allocating housing accommodation. The scheme must be framed so that reasonable preference can be given to key vulnerable groups
Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of people refused emergency housing each night in (a) Greater London, (b) the London Borough of Lambeth and (c) England in the most recent period for which figures are available.
Answered by Heather Wheeler
MHCLG does not collect this information. MHCLG publishes experimental statistics on statutory homelessness reflecting local authorities’ duties towards homeless people. This collection does not include information on individuals not helped by the local authority.
This year through the Rough Sleeping Initiative, MHCLG have provided a total of £46 million funding to 264 local authorities, including Lambeth, and a number of London boroughs, in order to support people off the streets in their areas. This will be used to provide 2,600 beds for rough sleepers and 750 outreach and specialist staff.
The Government is committed to reducing homelessness and rough sleeping. No one should ever have to sleep rough. That is why last summer we published the cross-government Rough Sleeping Strategy. This sets out an ambitious £100 million package to help people who sleep rough now, but also puts in place the structures that will end rough sleeping once and for all. The Government has now committed over £1.2 billion to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping over the spending review period.
Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of people that are living in council accommodation with combustible cladding in (a) Greater London, (b) the London Borough of Lambeth and (c) England.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
MHCLG does not hold data on the number of people living in council-owned accommodation with Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) cladding systems unlikely to meet Building Regulations.
Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what his Department’s most recent estimate is for the proportion of housing transfer requests that are motivated out of (a) crime and (b) fear of violence in (i) the UK, (ii) Greater London and (iii) the London Borough of Lambeth.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The Department publishes national statistics on new social housing lettings in England.
Of the new social housing lettings that were provided to tenants whose previous tenancy was also in the social sector, 4.6 per cent gave b) fear of violence (including domestic abuse, hate crime and racial harassment) as the reason for moving in England in 2017/18. Separate figures for crime are not available. Figures for Greater London and Lambeth are given below.
These statistics are taken from the Continuous Recording of Social Lettings system available here
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/rents-lettings-and-tenancies
Moving due to fear of violence(1) | ||
Moving from social housing tenancy | England | 4.6% |
London | 4.2% | |
Lambeth | 4.7% | |
(1) Includes Domestic Abuse, Hate Crime and Racial Harassment Source: CORE Social Housing Lettings 2017/18 | ||
Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many people are living in illegally overcrowded housing in (a) the UK and (b) the London Borough of Lambeth.
Answered by Heather Wheeler
The Housing Act 1985 provides a statutory overcrowding standard, breach of which is a criminal offence. Official statistics on the number of households that are statutorily overcrowded are not routinely collected. According to the Department's English Housing Survey, in 2017-18, there were approximately 746,000 households living in overcrowded accommodation in England. This equates to 3 per cent of households. The Department does not hold information on the prevalence of overcrowding in the London Borough of Lambeth
Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what comparative estimate he has made of the number of people sleeping rough in the (a) UK and (b) London Borough of Lambeth in (i) the most recent period for which figures are available and (ii) 2010; and what information his Department holds on which area of the UK has the highest number of people sleeping rough.
Answered by Heather Wheeler
MHCLG does not provide an estimate of the number of people sleeping rough across the whole of the UK.
MHCLG’s latest annual Rough Sleeping Statistics, published on 31 January 2019, show the total number of people counted or estimated to be sleeping rough in England only, on a single night in Autumn 2018 was 4,677. This was down by 74 people or 2 per cent from the 2017 total of 4,751 and was up 2,909 people or 165 per cent from the 2010 total of 1,768.
These annual single night snapshots of the number of people sleeping rough are provided by all local authority areas in England from 2010 onwards. In Lambeth, there were 50 people sleeping rough on a single night in autumn 2018. This was up 37 people or 285 per cent from the 2010 total of 13 people. The area with the highest number of people sleeping rough on a single night in Autumn 2018 was Westminster with 306 people sleeping rough.
These statistics are available at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/rough-sleeping-in-england-autumn-2018
This Government is committed to reducing homelessness and rough sleeping. No one should ever have to sleep rough. That is why last summer we published the cross-government Rough Sleeping Strategy which sets out an ambitious £100 million package to help people who sleep rough now, but also puts in place the structures that will end rough sleeping once and for all. The Government has now committed over £1.2 billion to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping over the spending review period. This year, Rough Sleeping Initiative investment totals £46 million and has been allocated to 246 areas – providing funding for an estimated 750 additional staff and over 2,600 bed spaces.
Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the level of funding allocated to Lambeth London Borough Council was in real terms in each year since 2010.
Answered by Rishi Sunak
Core Spending Power is a broad measure of local authority funding including income from Revenue Support Grant, Business Rates Retention, Council Tax and other central government grants. However, reflecting the changing finance and function of local government over the period since 2010, the definition of spending power has also changed. Therefore, spending power cannot be compared over this period. The Department does not publish real terms figures, but cash terms spending power figures by local authority are available at the below links:
https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20140505110052/http://www.local.communities.gov.uk/finance/1112/grant.htm