Asked by: Stella Creasy (Labour (Co-op) - Walthamstow)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what contingency funding his Department has allocated in relation to the Government's negotiations on the UK leaving the EU for the (a) current, (b) 2018-19 and (c) 2019-20 financial year.
Answered by Marcus Jones
The Government is committing new spending to the preparations for Brexit, and the Treasury has committed over £250 million of new money to departments in this financial year. My Department is doing all the work necessary to prepare for our exit from the EU.
Asked by: Stella Creasy (Labour (Co-op) - Walthamstow)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many deposits of tenants in London were (a) submitted and (b) returned under the Government-accredited tenancy deposit protection scheme in each year since 2011.
Answered by Lord Barwell
The three Government approved Tenancy Deposit Schemes in England help ensure that tenants are treated fairly at the end of their tenancy through protecting deposits.
A deposit can be protected in a custodial scheme where the deposit is paid (submitted) and held by the scheme until the end of the tenancy. The scheme will pay the deposit back (return) to the tenant if they have fulfilled all their obligations at the end of the tenancy. A deposit can also be protected in an insured scheme, where the landlord or agent holds the deposit and pays it back to the tenant at the end of the tenancy. The deposit is not submitted to or returned by the scheme.
The figures available for the number of deposits protected for tenants in Greater London since 2011, are set out in Table 1, and for deposits submitted and returned in Table 2.
Table 1 – tenant’s deposits protected in Greater London
Year | Total number of deposits protected |
2011-12 | 434,031 |
2012-13 | 398,635 |
2013-14 | 453,200 |
2014-15 | 499,098 |
2015-16 | 545,937 |
Table 2 – tenant’s deposits submitted and returned in Greater London
Year | Number of deposits submitted | Number of deposits returned |
2011-12 | 74,202 | 55,550 |
2012-13 | 77,709 | 62,341 |
2013-14 | 82,613 | 67,583 |
2014-15 | 88,465 | 70,105 |
2015-16 | 90,849 |
Asked by: Stella Creasy (Labour (Co-op) - Walthamstow)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many deposits of tenants in London were protected by the Government-accredited tenancy deposit protection scheme in each year since 2011.
Answered by Lord Barwell
The three Government approved Tenancy Deposit Schemes in England help ensure that tenants are treated fairly at the end of their tenancy through protecting deposits.
A deposit can be protected in a custodial scheme where the deposit is paid (submitted) and held by the scheme until the end of the tenancy. The scheme will pay the deposit back (return) to the tenant if they have fulfilled all their obligations at the end of the tenancy. A deposit can also be protected in an insured scheme, where the landlord or agent holds the deposit and pays it back to the tenant at the end of the tenancy. The deposit is not submitted to or returned by the scheme.
The figures available for the number of deposits protected for tenants in Greater London since 2011, are set out in Table 1, and for deposits submitted and returned in Table 2.
Table 1 – tenant’s deposits protected in Greater London
Year | Total number of deposits protected |
2011-12 | 434,031 |
2012-13 | 398,635 |
2013-14 | 453,200 |
2014-15 | 499,098 |
2015-16 | 545,937 |
Table 2 – tenant’s deposits submitted and returned in Greater London
Year | Number of deposits submitted | Number of deposits returned |
2011-12 | 74,202 | 55,550 |
2012-13 | 77,709 | 62,341 |
2013-14 | 82,613 | 67,583 |
2014-15 | 88,465 | 70,105 |
2015-16 | 90,849 | 76,305 |
Asked by: Stella Creasy (Labour (Co-op) - Walthamstow)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate his Department has made of the number of (a) people renting rooms and (b) rooms available to rent in each region in each of the last five years.
Answered by Lord Barwell
This information is not held by the Department.