Written Question
Thursday 20th April 2023
Asked by:
Helen Hayes (Labour - Dulwich and West Norwood)
Question
to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made with Cabinet colleagues of the potential impact of the introduction of voter ID on adults living with disabilities.
Answered by Dehenna Davison
I refer the Hon. Member to the response given to the Urgent Question on 21 February 2023 (Official Report, HC, Volume 728, Column 138), to Question UIN 165271 on 20 March 2023 and Question UIN 171447 on 31 March 2023.
The Government published an Equality Impact Assessment of the Elections Act. This included consideration of the impact on people with protected characteristics.
The Electoral Commission is responsible for the communications campaign to help voters understand the new requirement to present identification to vote. This has included work with civil society groups and other stakeholders, including organisations that represent disabled people.
As is already publicly available, an easy read version of the application form for the Voter Authority Certificate is on gov.uk and from the Electoral Commission and easy read instructions are available to support people to apply online. The Government has also legislated to require that accessible information be sent with the Voter Authority Certificate to electors that request it, including in easy read.
Written Question
Friday 2nd December 2022
Asked by:
Helen Hayes (Labour - Dulwich and West Norwood)
Question
to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent estimate he has made of how much Official Development Assistance has been spent on payments to Homes for Ukraine hosts.
Answered by Felicity Buchan
Relevant published guidance on international development aid spending are being followed. Details of spending will be set out in due course.
Written Question
Friday 2nd December 2022
Asked by:
Helen Hayes (Labour - Dulwich and West Norwood)
Question
to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what his planned timetable is for the publication of data on spending on the Homes for Ukraine scheme.
Answered by Felicity Buchan
Relevant published guidance on international development aid spending are being followed. Details of spending will be set out in due course.
Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 29 Nov 2022
Social Housing and Regulation Bill [ LORDS ] (Second sitting)
"I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Edward. The new clause proposes a small but significant amendment to housing law to give additional security to social housing tenants who suffer the consequences of a threat …..."Helen Hayes - View Speech
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 29 Nov 2022
Social Housing and Regulation Bill [ LORDS ] (Second sitting)
"I thank the hon. Member for that intervention. The new clause would impose a duty of co-operation on registered social landlords, which is designed to deal exactly with such a circumstance, where accommodation cannot be found that is safe for the tenant within the area in which the current landlord …..."Helen Hayes - View Speech
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 29 Nov 2022
Social Housing and Regulation Bill [ LORDS ] (Second sitting)
"I thank my hon. Friend the shadow Minister for his support for the new clause. I am grateful to the Minister for her engagement and discussions prior to Committee stage, and for her comments just now. I would be more than happy to work with the Minister to resolve any …..."Helen Hayes - View Speech
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Written Question
Thursday 17th November 2022
Asked by:
Helen Hayes (Labour - Dulwich and West Norwood)
Question
to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether the cost of the £350 a month Homes for Ukraine payments to hosts is being charged to the Official Development Assistance budget; and what the estimated cost of Homes for Ukraine payments will be in the 2022-23 financial year.
Answered by Felicity Buchan
Relevant published guidance on international development aid spending are being followed. Details of spending will be set out in due course.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 15 Nov 2022
Management of the Economy and Ministerial Severance Payments
"In my seven and a half years in this place, I have never known a time like this. Our country was already straining and buckling under the weight of 12 long years of austerity, the impact of the covid-19 pandemic, the economic consequences of Brexit and the war in Ukraine. …..."Helen Hayes - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 15 Nov 2022
Management of the Economy and Ministerial Severance Payments
"It was already so hard for young people in our country to afford to get on to the housing ladder, and it is devastating for so many of them that that challenge has been made even worse.
This Government seek to pretend that the extraordinary and unprecedented situation we face—a …..."Helen Hayes - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 07 Nov 2022
Social Housing (Regulation) Bill [Lords]
"The need for secure, genuinely affordable social housing is one of the biggest issues facing my constituents. It forces too many of them into the instability of temporary accommodation, it blights the health of constituents forced to live in damp, overcrowded accommodation and it holds back children and young people …..."Helen Hayes - View Speech
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