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Dept of the Environment Transport and the Regions

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what assessment he has made of the advantages and disadvantages regarding energy efficiency in the rented commercial office sector where (a) tenants are given an incentive to save energy by a separate energy cost based on actual...

Asked by

Lord Taylor of Goss Moor (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

7 December 2000

For answer on

20 December 2000

Answered on

20 December 2000

Mr. Matthew Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what assessment he has made of the advantages and disadvantages regarding energy efficiency in the rented commercial office sector where (a) tenants are given an incentive to save energy by a separate energy cost based on actual energy consumption, alongside charges for floor space rental and (b) landlords are given an incentive to save energy through building refurbishment, by charging a fixed rental price from the owners of the building being occupied, regardless of energy use by the tenant. [142256] Mr. Meacher: My Department has made no detailed assessment of the relative advantages and disadvantages arising from the two scenarios identified. However, my Department's Property Advisory Group drew attention to various barriers to greater energy efficiency in commercial buildings in its 1998 report, "Sustainable Development and Buildings". The report identified that in some leasing arrangements, where the tenant reimburses the landlord's energy costs, neither party has an incentive to achieve greater energy efficiency. The Group commended all-inclusive occupation agreements as a means of giving the landlord and tenant a mutual incentive to reduce energy consumption. The Group explored this further and concluded that while there was considerable and growing interest in all-inclusive leases in the commercial property sector, wider adoption would primarily be a matter for market evolution. I intend to give further consideration to this. The forthcoming Climate Change Levy will provide a major incentive for greater energy efficiency in the non-domestic sector. The Government do and will continue to provide information to encourage business to become more energy efficient, through its Energy Efficiency Best Practice programme. The programme promotes strategies to motivate the different players in the rented commercial property sector through a suite of publications setting out best practice in design, construction, occupation and energy services. Good Practice Guide 258 "A Looking for a new Investment Angle?" targets developers, landlords and financiers, with Good Practice Guides 285 "What will energy efficiency do for your business?" and 288 "Is poor energy efficiency in your office hitting your bottom line?" targeting tenants and occupiers. Each document spells out to the relevant audience the environmental, financial and other business benefits to be gained from investing in major energy efficiency improvements and in practising good energy management. The guide for tenants encourages businesses not only to exercise proper management over areas where they have direct control, but also to explain to current and potential landlords that they expect to be provided with environmentally smart buildings.

Date

20 December 2000

Reference

360 c167-8W; 142256

House

House of Commons

Dept of the Environment Transport and the Regions

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will list those registered social landlords in the London Borough of Greenwich who have imposed rent increases over the rate of inflation in the last two years. - Includes list.

Asked by

Clive Efford (Labour)

Answering body

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

14 December 2000

Reference

359 c197W;359 c195W; 141650

House

House of Commons

Dept of the Environment Transport and the Regions

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will list the (a) rent increases for each registered social landlord in the London Borough of Greenwich that were applied for in the last two years; and (b) increases that were approved by the rent...

Asked by

Clive Efford (Labour)

Answering body

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

14 December 2000

Reference

359 c198W;359 c196W; 141654

House

House of Commons

Dept of the Environment Transport and the Regions

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what reasons have been given by rent officers in the London Borough of Greenwich for approving rent increases for tenants of registered social landlords above the level of inflation. - Includes figures.

Asked by

Clive Efford (Labour)

Answering body

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

14 December 2000

Reference

359 c198W;359 c196W; 141652

House

House of Commons

Dept of the Environment Transport and the Regions

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what has been the average rent increase for tenants of registered social landlords in the last two years (a) in the London Borough of Greenwich, (b) in London and (c) nationally. - Includes tables.

Asked by

Clive Efford (Labour)

Answering body

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

14 December 2000

Reference

359 c198W;359 c196W; 141653

House

House of Commons

Dept of the Environment Transport and the Regions

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how many appeals have been made against rent increases approved by the rent officers in each of the last four years; and how many have resulted in a higher rent being imposed for (a) private landlords and...

Asked by

Clive Efford (Labour)

Answering body

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

6 December 2000

For answer on

14 December 2000

Answered on

14 December 2000

Mr. Efford: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions how many appeals have been made against rent increases approved by the rent officers in each of the last four years; and how many have resulted in a higher rent being imposed for (a) private landlords and (b) registered social landlords. [141651] Mr. Mullin: Consistent information on the number of appeals (in England) against rent officer fair rent decisions is available from 1996-97, as follows: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Year Number 1996-97 7,653 1997-98 6,265 1998-99 7,754 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Data for 1999-2000 are not yet available. The results of these appeals (the percentage of appeals that lead to lower, unchanged and higher rents) are published in "Rent Officer Statistics" but without a separate split by private landlords and registered social landlords. Analysis of the 1998-99 appeals against fair rents shows the following figures: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Private landlords Registered social landlords Percentage of appeals resulting in: Lower rent 11 13 Unchanged rent 29 16 Higher rent 60 71 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Date

14 December 2000

Reference

359 c197-8W;359 c195-6W; 141651

House

House of Commons

Dept of the Environment Transport and the Regions

Statement on what plans he has to implement the proposals in the Housing Green Paper `Quality and Choice: A Decent Home for All?'. - Includes figures.

Asked by

Helen Jones (Labour)

Answering body

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

11 December 2000

For answer on

13 December 2000

Answered on

13 December 2000

Helen Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what plans he has to implement the proposals in the Housing Green Paper, "Quality and Choice: A Decent Home for All?". [142561] Mr. Prescott: Our Housing Green Paper was widely acknowledged as the most comprehensive Government review of housing for 23 years. We are tody publishing a policy statement, "Quality and Choice: A decent home for all--the way forward for housing". This sets out our plans for taking forward the proposals in the Green Paper, taking account of the views expressed during consultation. New legislation is a key part of those plans, and they are backed by the significant increase in resources for housing announced in July. There was widespread support for our proposals. Only seven out of more than 1,000 respondents disagreed fundamentally with our aims and principles. Broadly, we are taking forward the proposals in the way we set out in the Green Paper. In a number of cases we have modified proposals to reflect suggestions or concerns raised in the consultation process. Decent homes are an essential requirement for all. They improve health and educational achievement. They have a major impact on the quality of our lives and on the strength of our communities. In taking forward the proposals in the Green Paper, we are implementing a comprehensive policy that will help us to meet our aim to offer everyone the opportunity of a decent home. Housing policies are an integral part of our broader agenda to tackle poverty and social exclusion and to regenerate the most deprived areas. Our Housing Green Paper and today's policy statement complement the National Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal and our Urban and Rural White Papers, which together establish a framework for improving the quality of life and promoting sustainable communities. Our policies will deliver improvements in quality and choice for everyone, regardless of their circumstances. For the majority of people in this country who already own their own homes, or who aspire to home ownership, we are: introducing legislation to improve the home buying and selling process to make it easier and more reliable, and to help tackle gazumping and other problems; overhauling local authority powers to allow better targeted help to renovate and improve homes owned by poorer households and in deprived areas; launching a Starter Home Initiative to help nurses, teachers, police and other key workers to buy homes in areas where high housing costs might otherwise have priced them out of the communities they serve; reforming leasehold law and introducing a new tenure, commonhold, for the joint ownership of blocks of flats; and improving benefit help for unemployed home-owners moving back into work. For people who rent in the private sector, we are: spreading good practice among private landlords through voluntary accreditation schemes and through the further development of the National Approved Lettings Scheme and a pilot Tenancy Deposit Scheme; introducing, as soon as parliamentary time allows, legislation for a national licensing scheme to raise standards for Houses in Multiple Occupation; developing for further consultation proposals to take action to tackle problems associated with bad landlords in low demand areas, through selective licensing and benefit measures. The Green Paper set out our policies for the future of social housing, provided at affordable rents by local authorities and registered social landlords. We see a continuing role for social housing in providing decent homes for individuals and families who cannot afford the costs of buying their own home or renting in the private sector in the short or long term. Our strategy will modernise social housing, turning it into a tenure which offers quality and choice and promotes sustainable communities by: bringing all social housing up to a decent standard by 2010; promoting diversity and a wider range of landlords through stock transfer and new investment and ownership options for council housing; improving the supply of new social housing through an increase in investment, more effective use of planning powers for affordable housing, and better integration of social and private housing; increasing choice through lettings policies that treat tenants as customers and promote sustainable communities; examining new tenure options to improve social landlords' use of housing to meet the needs of local communities; ensuring high standards of service through the rigorous application of Best Value; and empowering tenants in the management of their homes through Tenant Participation Compacts. We are also implementing a 10-year plan to move to a fairer, more coherent system for setting rents in the social housing sector, complementing our drive to improve the quality and supply of affordable housing and to give tenants more choice. We have modified the proposals in the Green Paper in the light of respondents' views. The key elements are: keeping rents at affordable levels, well below those in the private sector, and based on size, relative property values and local earnings; achieving greater coherence between the rents charged by local authorities and registered social landlords, removing arbitrary differences; ensuring that reforms do not impose annual rent increases for any tenant of more than £2 per week above normal inflation-linked increases; phasing reforms over 10 years and allowing social landlords some flexibility over detailed implementation; and ensuring the continuation of a healthy and diverse social rented sector. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Social Security has also announced action to improve the delivery of Housing Benefit. We are: setting up an expert team to work with struggling local authorities to turn things round; developing a new national Performance Framework to raise standards of administration across the board; taking forward work to simplify Housing Benefit to make it easier for local authorities to administer and easier for pensioners and working people to claim; and reducing disincentives to work, helping young people in particular through changes to the Single Room Rent rules. Our strategy also incudes action to tackle social exclusion and protect vulnerable people, including: legislation to strengthen the protection available for people who are homeless through no fault of their own; tackling rough-sleeping, fuel poverty and anti-social behaviour; and ensuring the effective implementation of a new Supporting People programme to provide more effective support to elderly and other vulnerable people who need it. All of our measures are backed up where necessary by our spending plans for the next three years, which we announced in July. They build on the additional investment which has already been released through our Capital Receipts Initiative and the 1998 Comprehensive Spending Review. In 1997, we inherited capital spending plans for housing of just £1.5 billion. We increased investment in 1997-98 and have increased it year-on-year since then. This year (2000-01) capital investment is already double the level we inherited in 1997. It will continue to rise to over £4 billion by 2003-04 including, over the next three years: further increases in local authority capital investment to tackle the backlog of repairs and modernisation work in council housing, including additional resources for new arms-length management arrangements, on which we are issuing separate, detailed consultation today; a doubling of the Housing Corporation's Approved Development Programme for new affordable housing; £250 million for the Starter Home Initiative; £138 million over three years to ensure the effective implementation of support services for the vulnerable through our Supporting People programme; £137 million for a new Safer Communities Supported Housing Fund; £11 million to fund pilot lettings schemes that promote customer choice for tenants in social housing; £17 million for the improvement of Gypsy sites; and increases in funding for disabled facilities grants and home improvements. Our housing strategy sets a national framework. It promotes local implementation, recognising diversity and varying conditions. Local authorities have a key role to play as strategic housing bodies serving their communities and delivering the policies that ensure the social, economic and environmental well-being of their areas. We have set out in our statement a comprehensive approach to housing policy. We must now move forward to implement these policies. I look forward to working with our partners in the public, private and voluntary sectors to ensure that everyone has the opportunity of a decent home.

Date

13 December 2000

Reference

142561; 359 c155-8W;359 c153-6W

House

House of Commons

RECOVERY OF HOUSING BENEFIT FROM LANDLORDS

That this House welcomes the Government's intention to replace the current system of internal reviews of housing benefit decisions by individual local authorities with a new, more robust, independent appeal mechanism; notes that local authorities will retain the right to reclaim benefit overpayments from third parties, such as landlords, where...

Primary sponsor

Steve Webb (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Early day motions

Date

13 December 2000

Reference

111

House

House of Commons

Dept of the Environment Transport and the Regions

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how many owners of houses in multiple occupation have been prosecuted for permitting use of substandard accommodation in each of the last 20 years. - Information not collected centrally.

Asked by

Chris Ruane (Labour)

Answering body

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

11 December 2000

Reference

359 c25W;359 c23W; 141686

House

House of Commons

Home Office

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many units of accommodation supplied by National Asylum Support Service accommodation providers have been contracted from (a) local authority regional consortia and (b) private landlords; and what proportion of the units provided in 2000-01 will be contracted through regional...

Asked by

Neil Gerrard (Labour)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

7 December 2000

Reference

359 c8W;359 (Not in Bound Volume); 140238

House

House of Commons

Home Office

Asked by

Neil Gerrard (Labour)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

29 November 2000

Reference

140238; 357 (Not in Daily Part);357 c679W

House

House of Commons

Insolvency Bill (HL) 1999/2000

Insolvency Bill (HL). Commons amendments considered and agreed to.

Department

Treasury

Type

Parliamentary proceedings

Date

29 November 2000

Reference

619 c1343-57

House

House of Lords

Dept of the Environment Transport and the Regions

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, What recent representations he has received concerning the licensing of landlords; and if he will make a statement. (Failed OPQ). - Includes figures.

Asked by

Tony Lloyd (Labour)

Answering body

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

28 November 2000

Reference

138960; 357 c544-5W;357 c544W

House

House of Commons

Dept of the Environment Transport and the Regions

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what assessment he has made of the effects of the implementation of Home for a World City produced by the Mayor of London on the supply of low cost rental accommodation by (a) registered social landlords, (b)...

Asked by

Jeremy Corbyn (Labour)

Answering body

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

27 November 2000

Reference

357 c374W; 139986

House

House of Commons

Dept of Social Security

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what recent representations he has received from bodies representing (a) local government, (b) registered social landlords and (c) council tax payers about council tax benefit restrictions; and if he will make a statement.

Asked by

Iain Coleman (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Social Security

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

23 November 2000

Reference

357 c320W; 138630

House

House of Commons

Dept of Social Security

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many council tax benefit claims are restricted to Band E; and what percentage this represents of properties, for (a) England and (b) London by (i) all property types, (ii) registered social landlords and (iii) local authority properties. - Includes table.

Asked by

Iain Coleman (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Social Security

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

13 November 2000

For answer on

23 November 2000

Answered on

23 November 2000

Mr. Coleman: To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many council tax benefit claims are restricted to Band E; and what percentage this represents of properties, for (a) England and (b) London by (i) all property types, (ii) registered social landlords and (iii) local authority properties. [138628] Angela Eagle: The information is in the table. Council tax benefit recipients subject to council tax band restrictions as a proportion of properties _________________________________________________________________________________________________. England London All properties Total properties 20,842,000 3,040,000 Number of restrictions 18,000 7,000 Percentage Less than 0.5 Less than 0.5 Registered social landlord/housing association properties Total properties 1,039,000 218,000 Number of restrictions 1,000 1,000 Percentage Less than 0.5 Less than 0.5 Local authority properties Total properties 3,309,000 596,000 Number of restrictions 1,000 1,000 Percentage Less than 0.5 Less than 0.5 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Notes: 1. The data refer to households, which may be a single person, a couple or a family. 2. The numbers of cases have been rounded to the nearest thousand. Source: Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit Management Information System, Annual 1 per cent. sample, taken in May 1999. Housing and Construction Statistics published March 2000 by the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions. (Dwelling figures--December 1998).

Date

23 November 2000

Reference

357 c321W; 138628

House

House of Commons

Dept of the Environment Transport and the Regions

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what assessment he has made of the performance of NHS trusts and resigistered social landlords partnerships; if he will list the locations where such partnership schemes have been initiated; and what plans he has to further extend...

Asked by

Baroness Tonge (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

14 November 2000

Reference

356 c581-2W;356 c582W; 137230

House

House of Commons

Dept of the Environment Transport and the Regions

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will make it his policy to gather information centrally on the previous employers of the most senior staff of registered social landlords that have taken over former local authority housing stock and the names and...

Asked by

Lynne Jones (Labour)

Answering body

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

14 November 2000

Reference

356 c582W;356 c582-3W; 137707

House

House of Commons

RECOVERY OF HOUSING BENEFIT FROM LANDLORDS

Primary sponsor

Steve Webb (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Early day motions

Date

13 November 2000

Reference

1146

House

House of Commons

Home Office

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reasons registered social landlords do not have the power to apply direct to the courts for anti-social behaviour orders; and if he will assess the benefits of giving such a power to those registered social landlords who have...

Asked by

Michael Fallon (Conservative)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

13 November 2000

Reference

356 c531W; 137059

House

House of Commons

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