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HANSARDHomelessness: Death RatesI take the issue of rough sleeping, ensuring that lives are saved and that steps can be taken to provide further accommodation and support, extremely seriously. It is one of my…28 Jan 2019HANSARDHousing Ladder: Young PeopleSince 2010, over 500,000 people have been helped into home ownership through Government-backed schemes, including Help to Buy and right to buy. Our recent evaluation of the Help…28 Jan 2019HANSARDHousing Ladder: Young PeopleI warmly welcome the plans for the homes in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds garden village. My hon. Friend asks about supporting local authorities, and I would say to him that we have…28 Jan 2019HANSARDUK Shared Prosperity FundUK Government Ministers meet the devolved Administrations regularly to discuss EU exit matters, and the UK shared prosperity fund has been discussed several times in those…28 Jan 2019HANSARDUK Shared Prosperity FundThe Government will of course respect the devolution settlements in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and we will engage with the devolved Administrations to ensure the fund…28 Jan 2019HANSARDUK Shared Prosperity FundWe are intending to move forward with the consultation on the UK shared prosperity fund, which will allow everyone to be able to participate—obviously with the devolved…28 Jan 2019HANSARDUK Shared Prosperity FundWe will look very carefully at the representations we receive. Obviously, the UK shared prosperity fund is designed to tackle inequalities between communities by raising…28 Jan 2019HANSARDUK Shared Prosperity FundObviously, we will consult widely on the UK shared prosperity fund. We still have the spending review to be conducted later this year, but we are determined that, as we leave the…28 Jan 2019HANSARDHousing Ladder: Young PeopleAs the hon. Lady will know, we have raised standards on fitness for human habitation in legislation that was supported across the board, and improved the support to ensure that we…28 Jan 2019HANSARDHousing Ladder: Young PeopleYes, firmly in Cornwall. The national planning policy framework is about empowering some of those local decisions and choices, in Cornwall and elsewhere. I am continuing to…28 Jan 2019HANSARDHousing Ladder: Young PeopleNo, through our schemes more than half a million households have been helped into home ownership through Help to Buy and right to buy. The number of first-time buyers rose 82%…28 Jan 2019HANSARDHousing Ladder: Young PeopleI congratulate my hon. Friend on the veritable skills he clearly has in so many different areas, and on championing this particular course of action. It is right to recognise that…28 Jan 2019HANSARDHousing Ladder: Young PeopleI will take no lectures from the Labour party, given that when it was in government it saw house building fall to levels not seen since the 1920s. We are taking various steps to…28 Jan 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsI note my hon. Friend’s experience of this, and we are working carefully across the board to implement the Hackitt review to ensure that building safety standards are raised.…28 Jan 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe hon. Lady should look at the settlement that we have provided, which involves an extra £1 billion for local government across the board. Indeed, it represents a real-terms…28 Jan 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsLocal councils will play an important role in supporting communities as we leave the EU, and I am committed to working with them to ensure that they are prepared to respond to any…28 Jan 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe provide regular updates that specify the work taking place through the remediation programme to deal with this very serious issue of combustible cladding. The hon. Gentleman…28 Jan 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsI recognise and appreciate my hon. Friend’s championing of good design and the sense of place and space, which is something the Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission…28 Jan 2019HANSARDHousing RedressOur White Paper “Fixing our broken housing market”, published February 2017, highlighted the need to make the housing market work for everyone, and set out a comprehensive plan to…24 Jan 2019