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Written Question
Public Buildings: Floods
Tuesday 23rd January 2024

Asked by: Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Croydon North)

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what estimate he has made of the number (a) police stations, (b) fire stations, (c) hospitals, (d) ambulance stations, (e) residential care homes, (f) children’s homes and (g) social services homes that have a flood risk vulnerability classification of "Highly Vulnerable".

Answered by Lee Rowley - Minister of State (Minister for Housing)

Uses that are classified as ‘highly vulnerable’ are set out in annex 3 of the National Planning Policy Framework and includes police, fire and ambulance stations. Hospitals and residential institutions are classified as ‘more vulnerable’ in the Framework.


Written Question
UK Community Renewal Fund
Thursday 2nd December 2021

Asked by: Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Croydon North)

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 26 November 2021 to Question 80317 on UK Community Renewal Fund, what assessment he has made of the impact on the roll out of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund of delays to and the deadline extension to 30 June 2022 for the delivery of projects under the Community Renewal Fund.

Answered by Neil O'Brien

To ensure that successful applicants still have the same delivery window as set out in the fund prospectus, we have extended the delivery timeline for the UKCRF by three months to 30 June 2022. Later this year we will publish an Investment Framework for the UK Shared Prosperity Fund which will commence in 2022.


Written Question
Towns Fund
Wednesday 1st December 2021

Asked by: Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Croydon North)

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many projects allocated funding under the Towns Fund have been completed.

Answered by Neil O'Brien

Towns are in the process of completing their business cases and supplying the department with Summary Documents which, once approved, will allow DLUHC to release funding for projects.

The Town Deal programme is scheduled to run until financial year 25/26 with projects set to be delivered by that deadline. Some projects will also be delivered before then according to the timelines established by the towns.

It is expected that all funding provided from the Levelling Up Fund will be spent by 31 March 2024, and, exceptionally, into 2024-25 for larger schemes.


Written Question
UK Community Renewal Fund
Wednesday 1st December 2021

Asked by: Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Croydon North)

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will publish the details of all successful and non-successful bids made to the Community Renewal Fund by lead authorities.

Answered by Neil O'Brien

The successful list of 477 bids made to the UK Community Renewal Fund were published on Gov.uk on the day of announcement: 3 November 2021


I wrote to all lead authorities who bid into the UK Community Renewal Fund immediately after the announcement, notifying them of the outcome of their bids.


Written Question
UK Community Renewal Fund
Wednesday 1st December 2021

Asked by: Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Croydon North)

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will publish all correspondence with Ministers of State for (a) Northern Ireland, (b) Scotland and (c) Wales in respect of the draft shortlist of bids to be considered for funding under the Community Renewal Fund.

Answered by Neil O'Brien

Shortlists were provided to Ministers of State for Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales to confirm the successful bids to the UK Community Renewal Fund, however it is not standard practice to publish correspondence between Ministers.


Written Question
Regional Planning and Development and Towns Fund
Wednesday 1st December 2021

Asked by: Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Croydon North)

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will publish an updated timetable for delivery of each project under the Towns Fund and Levelling Up Fund.

Answered by Neil O'Brien

Towns are in the process of completing their business cases and supplying the department with Summary Documents which, once approved, will allow DLUHC to release funding for projects.

The Town Deal programme is scheduled to run until financial year 25/26 with projects set to be delivered by that deadline. Some projects will also be delivered before then according to the timelines established by the towns.

It is expected that all funding provided from the Levelling Up Fund will be spent by 31 March 2024, and, exceptionally, into 2024-25 for larger schemes.


Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 29 Nov 2021
Oral Answers to Questions

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 29 Nov 2021
Oral Answers to Questions

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View all Steve Reed (LAB - Croydon North) contributions to the debate on: Oral Answers to Questions

Written Question
Property Development: Limited Liability
Friday 26th November 2021

Asked by: Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Croydon North)

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of trends in the number of property developers who form limited companies and avoid ongoing liability for development sites with which they have been involved in by voluntarily striking off or winding-up those companies.

Answered by Christopher Pincher

Companies House publishes regular statistical releases on, among other things, trends in the number of companies removed from the Register over time. The latest release can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/companies-register-activities-statistical-release-2020-to-2021.


Written Question
UK Community Renewal Fund
Friday 26th November 2021

Asked by: Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Croydon North)

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 14 July 2021 to Question 30362 on Community Renewal Fund, what recent assessment he has made of the likelihood of all projects allocated funding by the Community Renewal Fund to be completed by March 2022.

Answered by Neil O'Brien

We have extended the delivery timeline for the UK Community Renewal Fund by 3 months to ensure that successful applicants still have the same delivery window as set out in the fund prospectus.