Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many and what proportion of Ukrainians housed under the Homes for Ukraine scheme have stayed in the same household beyond the initial 6-month period in Warwick and Leamington as of 9 January 2023.
Answered by Felicity Buchan
We do not hold centrally comprehensive data outlining post-six-month accommodation arrangements for all guests.
Data on arrivals under the Homes for Ukraine scheme can be accessed here.
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many and what proportion of Ukrainians housed under the Homes for Ukraine scheme since its introduction remained in the same household beyond the initial six-month placement.
Answered by Felicity Buchan
We do not hold centrally comprehensive data outlining post-six-month accommodation arrangements for all guests.
Data on arrivals under the Homes for Ukraine scheme can be accessed here.
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many Ukrainians have been housed under the Homes for Ukraine scheme since its introduction as of 6 January 2023.
Answered by Felicity Buchan
We do not hold centrally comprehensive data outlining post-six-month accommodation arrangements for all guests.
Data on arrivals under the Homes for Ukraine scheme can be accessed here.
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many and what proportion of new homes built in the last 12 months were classified as being under permitted development of pre-existing office blocks.
Answered by Lucy Frazer
Estimates of new homes delivered in England, in each year, classified as under permitted development of pre-existing office blocks and overall housing supply, from which proportions can be calculated, are shown in Live Table 120, here.
Figures for UK are not centrally collated.
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many council homes were built in (a) the last 12 months and (b) 2021.
Answered by Lucy Frazer
The number of new social rent homes delivered in England, broken down by new build and acquisitions, can be found in Live Table 1009 from this link. The number of new affordable housing delivered in England, including acquisitions, by local authorities can be found through the affordable housing supply open data, available through the same link.
Data are collected and published by financial year, with the latest available data covering 2021-22.
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many social rent homes were built (a) in the last 12 months and (b) in 2021.
Answered by Lucy Frazer
The number of new social rent homes delivered in England, broken down by new build and acquisitions, can be found in Live Table 1009 from this link. The number of new affordable housing delivered in England, including acquisitions, by local authorities can be found through the affordable housing supply open data, available through the same link.
Data are collected and published by financial year, with the latest available data covering 2021-22.
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
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 of the potential merits of measuring progress in reducing inequalities in relation to job quality metrics.
Answered by Dehenna Davison
Levelling Up means giving everyone the opportunity to flourish.
Job quality is a central element of this vision and is why we asked the ONS to develop new estimates of job quality, which will be published later this week.
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
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 his Department has made of the average demand for additional social rent homes per year; and what steps his Department is taking to support councils and housing associations meet that demand.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson
It is for local authorities to identify the size, type and tenure of housing needed for different groups in the community, including those who require affordable housing, and reflect this in planning and other policies.
Building more social and affordable homes is a priority for this Government, and we want to see local authorities playing a key role in the delivery of new housing. Our £11.5 billion Affordable Homes Programme, which councils can bid for, will deliver up to 180,000 affordable homes should economic conditions allow. This is on top of our £9 billion Shared Ownership and Affordable Homes Programme, running to 2023, which will deliver approximately 250,000 new affordable homes.
The Government wants to see local authorities delivering the next generation of council housing and we have given them a comprehensive range of tools to do so. In March 2021, we announced a package of reforms to give councils more freedom in how they can spend the money they receive from Right to Buy sales on replacement homes. In addition to this, the Government abolished the Housing Revenue Account (HRA) borrowing cap in 2018, allowing councils to borrow to build more council homes.
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of capping increases to social housing rents at 5 percent in the 2023-24 financial year on poverty rates among occupants of social housing.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson
On 31 August, the Government launched a consultation on whether to implement a lower ceiling cap on social housing rent increases. Alongside that, the Government published an impact assessment. The consultation closed on 12 October. The Government is carefully considering the responses and will publish a response later this year.