Asked by: Jo Churchill (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to ensure that building safety regulations for new build housing is enforced.
Answered by Alok Sharma - COP26 President (Cabinet Office)
The person undertaking building work is responsible for compliance with the building regulations. All new build housing is subject to supervision by a building control body, who have a legal duty to take all reasonable steps to ascertain if the building work complies with the relevant requirements of the building regulations.
Local authorities have enforcement powers to order alteration or removal of building work which contravenes the building regulations and bring a prosecution in the Magistrates’ Court for a breach of the building regulations. In 2015 the previous limit on fines for breaches of building regulations was lifted so fines on conviction for breach of the building regulations are now unlimited.
Asked by: Jo Churchill (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of approved extant planning permissions in (a) Bury St Edmunds constituency and (b) East Anglia; and what the expiry date for each such planning permission is.
Answered by Alok Sharma - COP26 President (Cabinet Office)
This information is not held centrally. Planning permissions are the responsibility of local planning authorities and as such this information can be requested from the relevant local planning authorities for the geography required.
Asked by: Jo Churchill (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much funding he allocated for housing regeneration in (a) Bury St Edmunds constituency, (b) Suffolk and (c) the East of England in the last five years.
Answered by Lord Barwell
Government expenditure on housing regeneration over the last five years is listed by programme and by the requested geographical areas below.
Help to Buy*
| Expenditure |
St Edmundsbury LA | £8,078,832 |
Suffolk | £12,627,929 |
East of England | £131,886,007 |
Affordable Housing Programme*
| Expenditure | Number of homes |
St Edmundsbury LA | £6,611,142 | 331 |
Suffolk | £42,209,973 | 1,924 |
East of England | £136,907,510 | 7,652 |
Get Britain Building, Local Infrastructure Fund, Builders Finance Fund, Build to Rent
| Expenditure |
Bury St Edmunds Parliamentary Constituency | nil |
Suffolk | £4,258,400 |
East of England | £81,464,427 |
*This data is not aggregated by constituency, and is provided instead for the St Edmundsbury Borough Council local authority area.
Asked by: Jo Churchill (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent progress has been made on increasing the provision of affordable and sustainable social housing in the East of England.
Answered by Brandon Lewis
To date, £1 billion has already been allocated towards our commitment to deliver a further 275,000 affordable homes by 2020.
Of this, £155 million will deliver affordable homes in the East and South East of England.