Asked by: Lord Beamish (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he plans to take steps to (a) abolish Section 21 no-fault evictions and (b) implement other reforms to the private rental system in England.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson
Everyone deserves to live in a safe and secure home, and the government has repeated its commitment to the ban on section 21 no-fault evictions to protect tenants. Ensuring a fair deal for renters remains a priority for the Government. We intend to legislate in this parliament.
Asked by: Lord Beamish (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, when he plans to respond to the email of 29 April 2022 from the office of the hon. Member for North Durham, regarding Right to Buy.
Answered by Lee Rowley
A response to the Rt. Hon Member has been issued.
Asked by: Lord Beamish (Labour - Life peer)
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 bringing forward legislative proposals on the expansion of the Right to Buy scheme.
Answered by Marcus Jones
This Government is committed to the Right to Buy, which has helped nearly two million social housing tenants to realise their dream of home ownership.
The Prime Minister announced on 9 June 2022 the intention to extend the Right to Buy to housing association tenants, and that homes sold under an extended Right to Buy scheme will be replaced on a one-for-one basis.
We will be working closely with the housing association sector as we develop the scheme and will announce more details in due course.
Asked by: Lord Beamish (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the Homes for Ukraine scheme, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of adding (a) birth certificates and (b) other forms of identification to the list of acceptable documents for the purposes of proof of identity for sponsors.
Answered by Eddie Hughes
Sponsors are subject to identification checks and we have published the list of acceptable documents at: www.gov.uk/guidance/homes-for-ukraine-sponsor-guidance. These documents require a photo identification for the purposes of identity and security checks.
Asked by: Lord Beamish (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he plans to introduce building regulations banning the positioning of letter boxes at a low level.
Answered by Stuart Andrew - Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
Statutory guidance refers to independent guidance on letter plates which states they should be positioned in a range of 700 millimetres up to 1700 millimetres. To improve matters, our review of access to and use of buildings, with Part M of the building regulations, includes ergonomic research looking at level options for posting and picking up letters. Government will also soon be consulting on options to increase security in existing homes, looking at the statutory guidance on doors.