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Written Question
Social Housing: Northamptonshire
Friday 3rd May 2024

Asked by: Gen Kitchen (Labour - Wellingborough and Rushden)

Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment his Department has made of the potential implications for his policies of trends in the prevalence of damp and mould in social housing in (a) Wellingborough constituency and (b) Northamptonshire.

Answered by Jacob Young

As set out in the answer to Question UIN 11182 on 30 January, the English Housing Survey sets out levels of overcrowding and damp and mould in all residential accommodation, including social housing. Details are available online.


Written Question
Housing: Overcrowding
Friday 3rd May 2024

Asked by: Gen Kitchen (Labour - Wellingborough and Rushden)

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 his Department has made of trends in the number of people living in overcrowded housing in Wellingborough constituency.

Answered by Jacob Young

As set out in the answer to Question UIN 11182 on 30 January, the English Housing Survey sets out levels of overcrowding and damp and mould in all residential accommodation, including social housing. Details are available online.


Written Question
Help to Buy Scheme: Northampton
Thursday 2nd May 2024

Asked by: Gen Kitchen (Labour - Wellingborough and Rushden)

Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many help to buy homeowners are waiting for a decision on a loan redemption application in (a) Wellingborough constituency and (b) Northamptonshire.

Answered by Lee Rowley

This information is not held at county or local level. Homes England publish loan repayments statistics in their annual reports at the following link: Homes-England-Annual-Report-and-Financial-Statements-2022-to-2023.pdf (publishing.service.gov.uk).

Help to buy data on sales broken down by parliamentary constituency is published at the following link: Help to Buy (equity loan scheme): data to 31 May 2023 - GOV.UK.