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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 27 October to Question 66899 on Armed Forces: Housing, how many and what proportion of those living in Single Living Accommodation categorised as Grade 4 incurred no rental charge.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 27 October to Question 66899 on Armed Forces: Housing, how many and what proportion of those living in Single Living Accommodation categorised as Grade 4 incurred no rental charge.
The Table below details the count of Service personnel occupying Single Living Accommodation (SLA) accommodation categorised at Grade 4 and below Grade 4 for the last five calendar years as at 3 November 2022.
Calendar Year | |||||
Permanent SLA Occupied | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 to date |
Count of Service Personnel at Grade 4 | 37,920 | 40,850 | 42,760 | 43,660 | 38,890 |
Count of Service Personnel Below Grade 4 | 4,560 | 4,530 | 4,690 | 4,670 | 4,360 |
A charge which includes rent and utilities is incurred for all accommodation categorised at Grades 1 to 4. For accommodation categorised below Grade 4, the charge excludes the rental element and only includes the cost of utilities.
For the purpose of clarity, the table below revises the one I provided in my answer to question 66899, in order to separate out the proportion of Permanent Single SLA at Category 4, and below Category 4 occupied by Service Personnel across the last five calendar years.
Calendar Year | |||||
Permanent SLA Grading | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 to date |
Grade 1 | 35% | 33% | 27% | 22% | 21% |
Grade 2 | 30% | 34% | 36% | 36% | 37% |
Grade 3 | 20% | 22% | 20% | 19% | 17% |
Grade 4 | 40% | 42% | 43% | 44% | 40% |
Below Grade 4 | 5% | 5% | 5% | 5% | 5% |
Other | 6% | 7% | 6% | 6% | 7% |
Grand Total | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
Please note - a Service Person may have occupied more than one type of SLA across the calendar year.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of tenants that will experience a financial shortfall as a result of 2019-20 being a 53-week rent year and universal Credit being a 52 week rent year.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of tenants that will experience a financial shortfall as a result of 2019-20 being a 53-week rent year and universal Credit being a 52 week rent year.
Neither tenants or landlords lose a week’s rent in a 53 weekly rent payment year as has been alleged; no year contains 53 weeks. The problem is alignment between weekly and monthly cycles. Each month the UC housing element is a constant figure but claimants with weekly tenancy agreements will be required to make either four or five rent payments within this period. If the claimant always pays their rent on time, in five payment months they are effectively making payment for part of the following month. That month will always be a four rent payment month, so the combination of the advance payment and the ‘overpayment’ of housing support during that month will get the claimant back on track
Where a landlord charges rent weekly on a Monday, because of the way the calendar falls every 5 or 6 years, they will seek 53 rent payments in a year, with the 53rd payment in part covering the tenancy for the first few days of the following year. The effect of this is that, over the course of the next housing association rental year, a tenant’s UC payments will accurately reflect their liability, irrespective of the 53 payment weeks.
There is a separate issue with respect to the way the calculation in the Universal Credit regulations converts a weekly liability into a monthly allowance. The conversion is achieved by multiplying the weekly rent by 52 and then dividing by 12. This effectively means one day’s rent a year (two days in a leap years) are not covered by UC. We are currently considering whether this formulation around weekly rents, and potentially other weekly amounts in the UC calculation, should be amended.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what discussions he has has with the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea about meeting the cost of survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire not having to pay rent until June 2019.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what discussions he has has with the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea about meeting the cost of survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire not having to pay rent until June 2019.
My Department is supporting the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) to rehouse the survivors of the fire at Grenfell Tower. We will continue to support RBKC, including its initiative to provide a rent-free period for Grenfell Tower and Grenfell Walk survivors.
My officials continue to meet regularly with the RBKC about rehousing, including the rent-free period for Grenfell Tower and Grenfell Walk survivors.
Third opposition day debate (part two). Agreed to on question.
Third opposition day debate (part two). Agreed to on question.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effect of universal credit on (a) levels of rent arrears, (b) numbers of evictions and (c) in other areas for people in temporary accommodation in universal credit pilot areas.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effect of universal credit on (a) levels of rent arrears, (b) numbers of evictions and (c) in other areas for people in temporary accommodation in universal credit pilot areas.
No such assessment has been undertaken to date. DWP are undertaking work to investigate any issue of rent arrears in Universal Credit and we continue to work closely with landlords, Local Authorities and other organisations to ensure claimants are supported.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment he has made of the (a) level and (b) extent of arrears of tenants in the (i) social and (ii) private rented sector.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment he has made of the (a) level and (b) extent of arrears of tenants in the (i) social and (ii) private rented sector.
The statistics published at this link contain the information that you have requested:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/local-authority-housing-statistics-data-returns-for-2015-to-2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the level of rent arrears of universal credit recipients who are tenants in temporary accommodation in universal credit pilot areas.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the level of rent arrears of universal credit recipients who are tenants in temporary accommodation in universal credit pilot areas.
The information requested is not currently available. DWP are undertaking work to investigate the issue of rent arrears in Universal Credit, it aims to understand the true level of rent arrears and what is causing them.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what methodology he plans to use to determine the market rents of social housing properties for the purposes of the pay to stay policy.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what methodology he plans to use to determine the market rents of social housing properties for the purposes of the pay to stay policy.
The Government believes that it is only fair that tenants who benefit from low social rents, but who are on higher incomes and can afford it, should contribute more. For those council housing tenants who are subject to the policy, the majority will not face a full market rent, but will instead pay a higher rent on a graduated basis using an income taper (set at 15% of income above the threshold). In those cases where a full market rent is payable, it is for the local authority to decide on a methodology for determining market rent appropriate to their particular area. My Department will be supporting them through this process with advice and guidance.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the rollout of universal credit on the level of rent arrears to registered social landlords.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the rollout of universal credit on the level of rent arrears to registered social landlords.
This information is not collected centrally.
Statistics are published annually on the total value of local authority social housing rent arrears, broken down by Local Authority area. They were most recently published on the Government’s website for 2014-15:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-housing-data#2014-to-2015
Seventeenth opposition day debate (part one). Negatived on division (239 to 286)
Seventeenth opposition day debate (part one). Negatived on division (239 to 286)
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the average weekly rent and service charge for supported accommodation including (a) foyers, (b) direct access hostels, (c) supported housing for older people and (d) other supported housing has been in each (i) region and (ii) local authority...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the average weekly rent and service charge for supported accommodation including (a) foyers, (b) direct access hostels, (c) supported housing for older people and (d) other supported housing has been in each (i) region and (ii) local authority...
Average rents for supported housing are provided by private registered providers to the Homes and Communities Agency’s Statistical Data Return. This is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistical-data-return-statistical-releases
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the average rent was for new homes built under the Affordable Homes programme in each local authority from the launch of that programme to date.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the average rent was for new homes built under the Affordable Homes programme in each local authority from the launch of that programme to date.
The information is not held centrally.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what is the average (a) social rent and (b) Affordable Rent is for units funded under the Affordable Homes Programme in each region of the UK.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what is the average (a) social rent and (b) Affordable Rent is for units funded under the Affordable Homes Programme in each region of the UK.
The information is not centrally held in the form requested.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if he will place in the Library the model and detailed methodology used for the forecast of the effects of affordable rent on housing benefit expenditure published by his Department in the document, Impact Assessment for Affordable Rent, in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if he will place in the Library the model and detailed methodology used for the forecast of the effects of affordable rent on housing benefit expenditure published by his Department in the document, Impact Assessment for Affordable Rent, in...
The Affordable Rent Impact Assessment, published in June 2011, sets out the methodology and assumptions used at the time to model the expected impact of affordable rent on housing benefit expenditure. The impact assessment is published here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/6021/1918816.pdf
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether he plans to ease restrictions on rent rises for (a) local authorities and (b) housing associations.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether he plans to ease restrictions on rent rises for (a) local authorities and (b) housing associations.
Rating (Empty Properties) Bill. Second reading debate. Agreed to on question and committed to a Committee of the Whole House. Programme motion on proceedings in Committee, on Report and Third reading. Agreed to on question. Money resolution agreed to on question.
Rating (Empty Properties) Bill. Second reading debate. Agreed to on question and committed to a Committee of the Whole House. Programme motion on proceedings in Committee, on Report and Third reading. Agreed to on question. Money resolution agreed to on question.