Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 01 Oct 2019
Oral Answers to Questions
"T6. Westfield and Hammerson are due to build a new shopping centre in my constituency. Westfield has been bought by Unibail-Rodamco, which is a large French developer, and it has concerns about the state of retail and Brexit, obviously. The previous Chancellor had just agreed to meet the chief exec …..."Sarah Jones - View Speech
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Written Question
Monday 9th September 2019
Asked by:
Sarah Jones (Labour - Croydon West)
Question
to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to his oral statement of 4 September 2019 on Spending Round 2019, how much funding he plans to allocate to Homes England to deliver more homes where people need them; how many homes are planned to be built and what the location will be of those homes.
Answered by Rishi Sunak
In the latest spending round we have increased the resource funding available to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government for 2020/21 by 2.7% to deliver their priorities, including delivering the homes this country needs in the right places. As part of this settlement, MHCLG’s admin budget will increase from £258m in 2019/20 to £341m in 2020/21, within which funding for Homes England will also increase. This will enable them to continue delivering significant investment in housing, with at least £44bn of financial support committed at the Autumn Budget 2017 over a five-year period, and to support the Government’s overall ambition of 300,000 additional homes on average by the mid-2020s.
Written Question
Monday 9th September 2019
Asked by:
Sarah Jones (Labour - Croydon West)
Question
to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to his oral statement of 4 September 2019 entitled, Spending Round 2019, to what programmes will the £24 million additional funding for the Building Safety Programme to support the new building safety regime be allocated.
Answered by Rishi Sunak
The Spending Round confirmed that the Government will provide £24m of additional funding for the Building Safety Programme in 2020/21 to help prevent a tragedy like Grenfell happening again. The Government has announced that £10m of this funding will be available to support the Protection Board who will provide expert, tailored building checks and inspections, if necessary, on all high-risk residential buildings in England by 2021. The remaining funding will be used to support the new building safety regime.
Written Question
Monday 9th September 2019
Asked by:
Sarah Jones (Labour - Croydon West)
Question
to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to his oral statement of 4 September 2019 entitled, Spending Round 2019, what proportion of the £24 million additional funding for the Building Safety Programme to support the new building safety regime will be provided to (a) local authorities and (b) housing associations to support the data collection exercise on external wall systems in high rise buildings.
Answered by Rishi Sunak
The Spending Round confirmed that the Government will provide £24m of additional funding for the Building Safety Programme in 2020/21 to help prevent a tragedy like Grenfell happening again. Further to this, the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government confirmed that an additional £4m of funding will be made available in 2019/20 to support LAs in the data collection exercise on external wall systems in high rise buildings.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 13 Mar 2019
Spring Statement
"Will the Chancellor confirm that the new £3 billion affordable homes scheme he announced is a re-announcement from 2017? Will he also confirm that £20 billion has been cut from the social housing grant since 2010, and that 30,000 fewer social homes are being built each year than were built …..."Sarah Jones - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 06 Dec 2018
European Union (Withdrawal) Act
"Following on from the hon. Member for Gloucester (Richard Graham), and at this late stage, having sat here for many hours waiting to be called, I cannot help but be reminded of Oliver Cromwell’s words on dissolving the Long Parliament:
“You have sat too long here for any good you …..."Sarah Jones - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 06 Dec 2018
European Union (Withdrawal) Act
"Will the Secretary of State give way?..."Sarah Jones - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 06 Dec 2018
European Union (Withdrawal) Act
"I am slightly confused about the notion that the economy has been managed well by the Government when we have nearly the slowest growing economy in the industrialised world. We have no investment, and our debt-to-GDP ratio is pretty stagnant. We are a failing economy with low wages, and we …..."Sarah Jones - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 04 Jul 2018
Five-year Land Supply
"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Christopher. It is also a pleasure to bring some gender balance to this debate. I counted 15 men and one woman when we started. I do not know what it is about planning that attracts men more than women, but …..."Sarah Jones - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 22 May 2018
Oral Answers to Questions
"Marks & Spencer is closing 14 stores, affecting hundreds of jobs, and Debenhams and House of Fraser would be doing the same were it not for their longer lease commitments. The nature of the high street is changing, and the risk is the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs. …..."Sarah Jones - View Speech
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