Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Question: What information her Department holds on the number and proportion of residential properties that were bought by non-UK nationals in each of the last 20 years.
Matthew Pennycook:
HM Land Registry (HMLR) registers legal ownership, interests and mortgages against land and property in England and Wales. The Register of Title held by HMLR does not record the nationality of individuals who own land or property.
HMLR publishes a dataset about non-UK companies or corporate bodies that own land in England and Wales. This is publicly available via GOV.UK here.
Question: What proportion of voters are registered to vote by post in each parliamentary constituency.
Rushanara Ali:
The data is not held centrally. Electoral registers are maintained by local Electoral Registration Officers (EROs). EROs are the custodians of electoral registers, and this data is not held by central government.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the average length of time was for planning permission to be granted for (a) businesses and (b) residential properties in (i) Great Yarmouth constituency and (ii) England in each of the last 10 years.
Matthew Pennycook:
We do not hold this information. However data on the number of permissions granted for residential and non-residential development and local planning authority performance in deciding planning applications can be found at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-planning-application-statistics.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many irregular migrants are in (a) social and (b) council housing.
Matthew Pennycook:
I refer the Hon Member to the answer I gave to Question UIN 5689 on 11 October 2024.
Question: What guidance is available to Local Planning Authorities on lowering house building targets.
Matthew Pennycook:
In our recent consultation on reforms to the National Planning Policy Framework, we proposed making the standard method for assessing housing needs mandatory, requiring local authorities to plan for the resulting housing need figure, planning for a lower figure only when they can demonstrate hard constraints and that they have exhausted all other options
Question: How many positions in her Department included (a) diversity, (b) inclusion, (c) equity and (d) equality in their job title in each of the last five years; and what the total cost of the salaries of each such job was in each of those years.
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government does not routinely collate information on specific words and collating this information would come at a disproportionate cost.
Information on spending and staffing can be found in the department’s annual report and accounts.