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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will take steps to amend planning guidance so that construction should address the natural surveillance concept in urban environments.

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment his Department has made of the financial sustainability of the Local Government Association under its current funding model.

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment has made of the implications for his Department's policies of the Community Security Trust's Antisemitic Incidents Report 2020.

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the Government plans to recoup the costs of the Building Safety Fund from residential property developers.

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the residential property levy announced on 10 February 2020 will be hypothecated to the Building Safety Fund.

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the repayment of loans under the Building Safety Fund will be means tested.

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what methodology his Department used to establish 18 metres as the qualifying height for applications under the Building Safety Fund.

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether recharging liabilities under the Building Safety Fund will be levied against the leaseholder or the title deeds of properties under 18 metres.

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of people who live in properties whose overall construction is 18m or taller.

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the formula is for the imposition of levies on the construction of residential properties over 18m under the Building Safety Fund.

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what level of interest will be charged on loans made under the Building Safety Fund to leaseholders in properties under 18 metres.

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the potential effect on the value of a residential property under 18 metres of a liability to remove combustible external cladding.

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the average amount is that a leaseholder would have to pay in the event that the removal of combustible external cladding on the exterior of their property is required.

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what right of appeal a leaseholder of a residential property will have to challenge the Department’s assessment of the height of their property.

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the formula is for determining whether a residential property is above or below 18m.

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the Building Safety Fund will cover the cost of (a) cavity walls, (b) external balconies, (c) waking watches and (d) other remedial work.

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the Building Safety Fund will cover non-cladding fire defects.

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the oral contribution of the Minister for Housing of 1 February 2021, Official report column 691, when the Department plans to make the further announcement on ...

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many Departmental staff will be attending COP26 in an official capacity with their expenses covered.

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many residential properties in London over 18 metres his Department has identified as being constructed with ACM cladding; and how many of those properties remain to be clear...