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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 27 Mar 2018
Secure Tenancies (Victims of Domestic Abuse) Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)

"As Opposition Members have mentioned many times, the barriers to leaving are crucial. We are talking mostly about women who have spent months, years, sometimes decades making mental lists over and again about their route out. Their route out will be to sort out the children’s school, to talk to …..."
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Written Question
Sleeping Rough
Thursday 22nd February 2018

Asked by: Rosie Duffield (Independent - Canterbury)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the merits of combining data on rough sleepers from official night counts with estimates and information from local agencies to improve data accuracy.

Answered by Heather Wheeler

The official rough sleeping statistics published by my Department are collected with the assistance of Homeless Link who provide guidance to local authorities and independently validate the data that is provided.

In 2017 83 per cent of local authorities based their figures on estimates and in order to provide the number of rough sleepers, they consulted at least one local agency such as outreach workers, the police, the voluntary sector and faith groups who have regular contact with rough sleepers on the street and help with gathering intelligence on the level of rough sleeping in the local authority

Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 19 Jan 2018
Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation and Liability for Housing Standards) Bill

"This is such an important issue, and I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Westminster North (Ms Buck) on securing the debate and on all her tireless work on this issue over the past two years. I wish I could say that all homes in my constituency were fit …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 19 Jan 2018
Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation and Liability for Housing Standards) Bill

"I absolutely acknowledge that. That is disgraceful.

Some of the providers in Kent are failing the public, but this is bigger than Kent; this is a national shame. As we have heard from the hon. Member for Taunton Deane (Rebecca Pow), local authorities cannot enforce the housing health and safety …..."
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Written Question
Housing
Thursday 23rd November 2017

Asked by: Rosie Duffield (Independent - Canterbury)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans he has to publish his Department's response to the consultation on Houses in multiple occupation and residential property licensing reforms, which closed on 12 December 2016.

Answered by Lord Sharma

I refer the Hon Member for Canterbury to my answer to Question UIN 113129 on 20 November 2017.

Written Question
Multiple Occupation: Licensing
Monday 20th November 2017

Asked by: Rosie Duffield (Independent - Canterbury)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when he plans to publish the results of October to December 2016 consultation on homes in multiple occupation and residential licensing reform.

Answered by Lord Sharma

We plan to publish the Government response to the consultation on Houses in Multiple Occupation and residential reforms shortly.