Baroness Thornhill

HL9922 • Social Rented Housing: Finance

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the potential for using the Social and Affordable Homes Programme budget to fund buybacks of unmortgageable flats from shared owners and convert those flats to social rent or other affordable rent.

HL9923 • Shared Ownership Schemes

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to prevent a two-tier market for shared ownership properties, where new properties have a peppercorn ground rent, lower rent increases, longer leases and protection from repair costs for 10 years unlike legacy shared ownership properties.

HL9924 • Department of Health and Social Care: Written Questions

To ask the Leader of the House when she expects a Written Answer to be given to the question asked by Baroness Thornhill on 3 July (HL9096).

HL9096 • Social Services: Gender

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Merron on 19 March (HL5631), whether the Collection of Client Level Adult Social Care Data (No 3) Directions 2023 will be revised to mandate collection of data on sex and not gender following the publication of the Sullivan Review and the decision in For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers [2025] UKSC 16.

HL7290 • Shared Ownership Schemes

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the number of registered providers who currently have a ‘buyback’ policy for shared owners; and whether such policies are accessible from registered providers’ websites.

HL7291 • Shared Ownership Schemes: Sub-letting

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the effectiveness of the guidance in the Homes England Capital Funding Guide to protect shared owners from financial hardship when they sublet their property.

HL7292 • Shared Ownership Schemes: Greater London

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of potential barriers to registered providers using the Recycled Capital Funding Grant to fund buybacks of non-mortgageable shared ownership properties in London.

HL7203 • Shared Ownership Schemes: Sub-letting

To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the number of shared owners who rent out their property because they are unable to sell their share in their property as a result of building safety problems arising following the Grenfell Tower fire; of those, how many they estimate sublet at a loss; and how many face rent and service charge arrears.

HL7204 • Shared Ownership Schemes: Sub-letting

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they have made an assessment of the impact of the Renters’ Rights Bill on shared owners who have become landlords because they are unable to sell their share in their property and sublet at a loss.

HL7205 • Shared Ownership Schemes: Sub-letting

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that registered providers communicate any new guidance affecting shared owners subletting as a result of the building safety problems arising following the Grenfell Tower fire proactively and in a timely manner.

HL7206 • Shared Ownership Schemes

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the number of shared owners who had to sell their flats in a distressed sale as a result of the building safety problems arising following the Grenfell Tower fire.

HL7207 • Shared Ownership Schemes

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to get information from registered providers on the number of shared owners who had to sell their flats in a distress sale as a result of the building safety problems arising following the Grenfell Tower fire.

HL7208 • Shared Ownership Schemes

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the number of registered providers currently offering a ‘downwards staircasing’ policy to their shared owners and whether such policies are accessible and downloadable from registered providers’ websites so that any shared owner can access them.

HL5631 • Social Services: Gender

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Merron on 3 February (HL3955), for what purposes they require local authorities, under the Collection of Client Level Adult Social Care Data (No 3) Directions 2023, to collect data on gender.

HL4847 • Social Services: Gender

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Merron on 3 February (HL3955), on what basis local authorities are required to collect information about gender and who requires that information.

HL4848 • Social Services: Gender

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the recommendation of the UK Statistics Authority's Inclusive Data Taskforce that “Sex, age and ethnic group should be routinely collected and reported in all administrative data and in-service process data, including statistics collected within health and care settings and by police, courts and prisons”, why the collection of data on sex is not mandated in the Collection of Client Level Adult Social Care Data (No 3) Directions 2023.

HL4518 • Unitary Councils

To ask His Majesty's Government whether it will be possible to alter existing council boundaries when establishing a unitary council.

HL4519 • Unitary Councils

To ask His Majesty's Government whether it will be possible to take account of geographical coherence when establishing a unitary council.

HL3954 • Social Services: Gender

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to issue guidance regarding single-sex provision in social care settings, including nursing homes and people's own homes, for adults with learning difficulties or cognitive impairment who are vulnerable and at increased risk of sexual abuse.

HL3955 • Social Services: Gender

To ask His Majesty's Government why the Collection of Client Level Adult Social Care Data (No 3) Directions 2023 state that adult care providers must collect data based on gender, which is defined as "the gender the individual considers themselves to be", and not based on sex, given that sex, not gender, is a protected characteristic under the Equality Act; and what assessment they have made of providers' ability to supply single-sex services if data on sex is not collected.