Found: Centre for Ageing Better vii Northern Housing Consortium, (2019) The Hidden Costs of poor-quality housing

Found: Analysis of housing conditions in the north for the NHC showed 9% of households in social housing in

Found: Civil Engineers (ICE) Officer of several APPGs including Net Zero APPG, HEALTHY HOMES APPG and Housing

Found: homes where they are needed across the UKThe shortage of affordable housing in South and the surplus of housing

Found: We are the ‚Voice of Housing in the North™ working with both local authorities and housing associations

Found: We are the ‚Voice of Housing in the North™ working with local authorities, housing associations and ALMOs

Found: been installed as a replacement for traditional electric storage and panel heaters in social rented housing

Found: colleagues at the University of Huddersfield explored the lived experience of those living in poor quality housing

Found: research during the pandemic on the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on people living in poor-quality housing

Found: In our view the proposed approach will have an unacceptable impact on the delivery of housing in the

Found: We are the ‚Voice of Housing in the North™ working with local authorities, housing associations and ALMOs

Found: Choices is a Community Interest Company which runs care homes, adult day care centre and extra care housing

Found: We are the ‚Voice of Housing in the North™ working with local authorities, housing associations and ALMOs

Found: We are the ‚Voice of Housing in the North™ working with local authorities, housing associations and ALMOs

Found: We are the ‚Voice of Housing in the North™ working with local authorities housing associations and ALMOs

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the Autumn Statement 2022 on levels of household wealth in the North East.

Answered by Andrew Griffith - Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)

The Distributional Analysis published at Autumn Statement 2022 shows that government decisions made at this fiscal event are progressive: low-income households will receive the largest benefit in cash terms and as a percentage of income, and will on average be net beneficiaries from decisions on tax, welfare and amendments to the Energy Price Guarantee in 2023-24.

The government announced at Autumn Statement an additional £900 Cost of Living Payment in 2023-24, benefitting around 400,000 households in the North East. A further 266,000 households in social rented housing in the North East will benefit from the Social Rent Cap.

In addition, the government will shortly be agreeing an expanded mayoral devolution deal with local authorities in the North East.

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what (a) short- and (b) long-term plans his Department has to tackle the demand for housing in the north of England, particularly in urban centres.

Answered by Stuart Andrew - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)

The Levelling Up White Paper marked an important moment: making clear the scale of our ambition to address inequalities for communities right across the country. Through our planning reforms local leaders will have greater powers to improve town centres, bring land and property into productive use and use the planning system to deliver the beautiful and sustainable homes their communities want.

We have announced £10 billion investment in housing supply since the start of this Parliament, with our housing supply interventions due to ultimately unlock over 1 million new homes over the Spending Review 2021 period and beyond. This includes an additional £1.8 billion investment announced at Spending Review 2021.  We have also launched the £1.5 billion Levelling Up Home Building Fund, which will provide loans to small and medium sized builders and developers to deliver 42,000 homes.

We have also introduced a range of national permitted development rights which support housing delivery. These include rights which allow change of use of commercial buildings such as shops and offices to residential use, and rights which allow existing commercial and residential buildings to extend upwards by two additional storeys to create new homes and extra living space. We have also introduced a new permitted development right to allow vacant commercial, industrial and residential blocks to be demolished and replaced with new residential units.

In December 2020 we changed the formula to increase housing need by 35% in our 20 most populated urban areas, to maximise use of existing infrastructure and to support development that reduces the need for high-carbon travel. A number of these are in the North of England - including Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds and Bradford.

On Monday, the APPG for Housing in the North will meet to consider the vitally important issue of housing quality across all tenures, as well as lessons to be taken from the Decent Homes Programme of the early 2000s.

Found: DLUHC, DWP, and NEMCA are committed to tackling poor quality housing in the North East.

Found: funding (curr ently £40,000 per annum) t o secur e accommoda tion f or people on pr obation who need housing