Clive Lewis MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
Civil Society: FinanceMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 17 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 60525More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of setting a percentage target spend to be allocated to the VCSE sector in future guidance to (a) mayors and
Answer: The Local Government Finance Settlement for 2025-26 makes available over £69 billion for local government, which is a 6.8% cash terms increase in councils’ Core Spending Power on 2024-25. The majority of funding within scope of the Local Government Financ...
Answered 24 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordTemporary Accommodation: StandardsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45043More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights' publication Concluding observations on the seventh periodic report of the United Kingdom of Great Brit
Answer: The Government notes the UN Committee's recommendations on ensuring safe and adequate living conditions in temporary accommodation. Our Homelessness Code of Guidance provides a summary of the homelessness legislation duties, powers and obligations on loca...
Answered 22 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordDisabled Facilities GrantsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 3 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 34884More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department plans to review the limit for adaptions under the Disabled Facilities Grant.
Answer: Government recognises how important home adaptations are in enabling disabled people to live as independently as possible in a safe and suitable environment. Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG) funding helps adapt around 55,000 homes annually, helping disable...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordLeasehold: ReformMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 6 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29459More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what progress her Department has made on each reform set out in her Department's Written Ministerial Statement on Leasehold and Commonhold Reform, of 21 November 2024, HCWS244.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the Written Ministerial Statement made on 21 November 2024 (HCWS244).On 31 January 2025, provisions in the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 to remove the two-year qualifying period in relation to enfranchisement and lease ...
Answered 21 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordFreehold and Landlords: FraudMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 31 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27868More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department is taking any steps to (a) identify and (b) tackle fraudulent activity by (i) landlords and (ii) freeholders.
Answer: The reforms introduced in the Renters’ Rights Bill will be underpinned by an effective, consistent and proportionate enforcement framework.We are extending councils’ powers to collect and retain revenue for future enforcement work from financial penalties...
Answered 13 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordData Centres: ConstructionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 14 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23808More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of amending planning permission regulations to make the local water supplier a statutory consultees in applications to build
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer to Question UIN 15758 on 3 December 2024. The hon. Member may also wish to know that we will be introducing secondary legislation later this year to prescribe data centres, gigafactories and laboratories as types of b...
Answered 27 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordHousing: SewersMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19717More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of new housing targets on sewerage infrastructure.
Answer: I refer my Hon Friend to my answer to Question UIN 9948 on 23 October 2024.
Answered 18 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordSleeping RoughMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 15 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9188More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether funding for the Rough Sleeping Initiative will continue after April 2025.
Answer: The Government is committed to addressing current high levels of rough sleeping and deliver long term solutions. We will look at these issues carefully and will develop a new cross-government strategy, working with mayors and councils across the country t...
Answered 21 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordCouncil Tax: Single PeopleMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 6317More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many households qualifying for the Council Tax Discount for single people are (a) living in poverty, (b) have a dependent under the age of 18 and (c) are pensioners.
Answer: The Government does not collect data on the individual characteristics of residents of households receiving the single person discount.
Answered 10 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordCouncil Tax: Single PeopleMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 6316More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has undertaken an impact assessment on the effect of removing the Council Tax discount for single people.
Answer: The Government currently has no plans to change the single person discount. Decisions on future local authority funding will be a matter for the next Spending Review and Local Government Finance Settlement in which we are fully engaged.
Answered 10 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordGround Rent and Service Charges: RegulationMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 23 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 1311More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to regulate (a) ground rent and (b) service charges on residential buildings.
Answer: The Government will act quickly to provide homeowners with greater rights, powers, and protections over their homes by implementing the provisions of the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024, including those designed to increase service charge transpare...
Answered 30 Jul 2024
Original Parliament recordLeaseholdMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 23 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 1310More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will publish a timeline for enacting the Law Commission’s recommendations on enfranchisement, commonhold and the right to manage.
Answer: The Government will act quickly to provide homeowners with greater rights, powers, and protections over their homes by implementing the provisions of the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024, including those designed to increase service charge transpare...
Answered 30 Jul 2024
Original Parliament recordFlats: LeaseholdMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 23 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 1309More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what her planned timescales are for banning new leasehold flats and ensuring that commonhold is the default tenure.
Answer: The Government is committed to bringing the feudal leasehold system to an end.As part of that commitment, we intend to reinvigorate commonhold through a comprehensive new legal framework and ban the sale of new leasehold flats so commonhold becomes the de...
Answered 26 Jul 2024
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