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  Housing and Planning Bill - Money 
  
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  @ MP voted aye to require those on high incomes living in social housing to pay market rents; to enable right to buy style discounts for housing association tenants to be funded; to enable the Secretary of State to require local councils to sell expensive properties, perhaps using the revenue to fund new housing, and for other proposed changes to the law on housing and planning. 
  
  @ MP voted no against requiring those on high incomes living in social housing to pay market rents; against funding right to buy style discounts for housing association tenants; against enabling the Secretary of State to require local councils to sell expensive properties, perhaps using the revenue to fund new housing, and against other proposed changes to the law on housing and planning. 
  
  
  The majority of MPs voted to require those on high incomes living in social housing to pay market rents; to enable right to buy style discounts for housing association tenants to be funded; to enable the Secretary of State to require local councils to sell expensive properties, perhaps using the revenue to fund new housing, and for other proposed changes to the law on housing and planning. 
  
  MPs were considering the Housing and Planning Bill[1][2]
  
  The Bill contains provisions:
  
  * to require tenants in social housing on higher incomes (over Â£40,000 in London and over Â£30,000 outside London) to pay market rate, or near market rate, rents.
  * enabling central Government to make grants to housing associations to compensate them for selling properties to tenants at a discount (extending the Right to Buy scheme to Housing Associations on a voluntary basis).
  * enabling the Secretary of State to require local councils sell their high value properties when they become vacant and enabling the Secretary of State to allow councils to use some of the revenue to provide replacement housing.
  * introducing a statutory framework for the delivery of starter homes - properties sold to qualifying first time buyers at a 20% discount on market values.
  * requiring local authorities to meet demand for custom-built and self-built homes.
  * providing greater powers for local authorities to identify and tackle rogue landlords.
  * to increase regulation over who can hold a licence for a property in multiple occupation. 
  * to change planning laws with an aim of speeding up house building.
  * aimed at making compulsory purchase clearer, fairer and faster.
  
  
  The motion supported by the majority of MPs in this vote was :
  :That, for the purposes of any Act resulting from the Housing and Planning Bill, it is expedient to authorise the payment out of money provided by Parliament of:
  
  :(1) any expenditure incurred under or by virtue of the Act by the Secretary of State; and
  
  :(2) any increase attributable to the Act in the sums payable under any other Act out of money so provided.
  
  
  The approval of this motion will enable those elements of the Bill which require funding to enact to take effect. 
  
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  * [1] [http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2015-16/housingandplanning.html Parliament's webpage on the Housing and Planning Bill]
  * [2] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2015-2016/0075/en/16075en01.htm Explanatory notes to the Housing and Planning Bill]
  
  
  
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