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985616

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date	11/10/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Cumbria Constabulary: Appleby Horse Fair
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will meet with the chief constable of Cumbria Constabulary to discuss the adequacy of funding for Cumbria Constabulary to effectively police the area surrounding the Appleby Horse Fair each year.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	178265
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2018 answer text <p>Ministers meet on a regular basis with police leaders to discuss a range of topics. Last year, I spoke to all 43 polices force in England &amp; Wales about the demands they face.</p><p>The Government is supporting the police to respond to changing demand with an over £460m increase in total investment in the police system this financial year, including an increase of around £280m in funding for Police &amp; Crime Commissioners through council tax precept.The Cumbria PCC’s direct resource funding is £102.9 million in 2018/19, an increase of £2.5 million from precept compared to 2017/18.</p><p>Decisions about the allocation of police resources and deployment of officers are for Chief Constables and democratically accountable PCCs. They are responsible for ensuring the needs of the local community are met.If any force faces an exceptional event that could threaten the financial stability of the force, the Police and Crime Commissioners can apply to the Home Office for special grant funding.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 18/10/2018 17:09:46 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

985618

registered interest
date	11/10/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Mental Illness: Cumbria
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many GP and Child and adolescent mental health services appointments were requested for children under the age of eighteen years in Cumbria for (a) depression, (b) anxiety and (c) eating disorders in each of the last ten years.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	178266
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2018 answer text <p>The information is not held in the format requested.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock grouped question UIN 178267 question first answered 18/10/2018 16:22:36 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

985619

registered interest
date	11/10/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Mental Illness: Cumbria
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) GP and (b) Child and adolescent mental health services appointments were delivered for children in Cumbria under the age of eighteen for a) depression b) anxiety c) eating disorders each year for the last ten years.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	178267
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2018 answer text <p>The information is not held in the format requested.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock grouped question UIN 178266 question first answered 18/10/2018 16:22:37 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

985627

registered interest
date	11/10/2018
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Scotland Office: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many and which (a) Ministers and (b) officials in his Department have visited the Irish border in the last 12 months; when those visits took place; and how long they spent at the border in each of those visits.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	178370
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2018 answer text <p>Neither I, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Scotland in that capacity or officials in my department have visited the Irish border in the last 12 months.</p><p> </p><p>Details of Ministerial visits and overseas travel are published quarterly and are available on GOV.UK.</p><p> </p><p>Information on business expenses incurred by senior officials, which includes domestic and international travel, is also published quarterly and available on GOV.UK.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 19/10/2018 07:46:34 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

985630

registered interest
date	11/10/2018
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Department for Work and Pensions: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and which (a) Ministers and (b) officials in her Department have visited the Irish border in the last 12 months; when those visits took place; and how long they spent at the border in each of those visits.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	178373
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to providing complete transparency on Ministerial visits overseas to Parliament and the public. Where Government ministers have travelled between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, details will be published quarterly on Gov.uk.</p><p> </p><p>The information requested for officials in my Department is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost. However, details of business expenses incurred by senior officials including domestic and international travel is also published quarterly and is available on Gov.uk.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 18/10/2018 16:21:28 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

985632

registered interest
date	11/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Second Homes: Council Tax
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the effect on the level of Council Tax receipts of the practice of second homeowners avoiding the payment of council tax by registering a second home as a business.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	178364
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2018 answer text <p>Owners of second homes are generally liable for council tax. Only where a property is available for short-term lets for 140 days or more per financial year, is it considered a holiday-let, and therefore assessed for business rates instead. However, the Government is aware of concerns about holiday homes and is looking into this issue to see if the criteria under which holiday lets are valued for business rates are appropriate.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 19/10/2018 09:17:43 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

985653

registered interest
date	11/10/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Universities: Ethnic Groups
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has made an assessment of the potential implications for the Government's ambition to increase the number of BAME students going to university by 20 per cent by 2020 of implementing the recommendations in the University and College Union report entitled Investigating higher education institutions and their views on the Race Equality Charter; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	178283
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2018 answer text <p>I welcome the report from the University and College Union. Widening access to Higher Education is a priority for this government. We want everyone with the capability to succeed in Higher Education to have the opportunity to benefit from a university education, regardless of background, ethnicity, or where they grew up.</p><p>In 2017, 18 year olds from ethnic minority backgrounds were more likely to enter full-time undergraduate higher education than ever before.</p><p>However, we still have more to do. That is why we asked the Office for Students to continue to ensure ethnic minority groups are supported to access, succeed in, and progress from higher education.</p><p>A new transparency condition will also require HE providers to publish application, offer, acceptance, non-continuation and attainment rates by socio-economic background, gender and ethnicity, which will provide greater transparency and help to shine a light on those providers who need to do more.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 19/10/2018 11:01:53 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

985662

registered interest
date	11/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Clarion Housing Group
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will ask the Social Housing Regulator to publish details of the enquiries it made into the accuracy of the information provided by Clarion Housing Group during the in-depth assessment process prior to its decision to upgrade that organisation to a G1-rating on 28 March 2018.
tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
uin	178310
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2018 answer text <p>On 28 March 2018 the Regulator published its latest regulatory judgement for Clarion Housing Group following an in-depth assessment, which gave the Regulator assurance that Clarion’s leadership and governance arrangements are sufficient to support the delivery of its objectives and adequately control the organisation.</p><p>While Parliament sets the framework within which the Regulator operates, the Government cannot interfere in individual regulatory decisions and therefore I cannot direct the Regulator to publish specific details of its investigation. However, the Regulator has published the reasons for its judgement here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/694487/Clarion_Housing_Group_Limited_RJ_20180318_2.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/694487/Clarion_Housing_Group_Limited_RJ_20180318_2.pdf</a>.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 19/10/2018 09:52:54 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali

985663

registered interest
date	11/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Housing Associations: Complaints
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the oral contribution of the Minister for Housing and Planning on 12 January 2017, column 576, and the Answer of 8 March 2017 to Question 66020 on Circle Housing, what the outcome of the meeting was between Departmental officials and the Social Housing Regulator and Housing Ombudsman on the interaction between those two organisations when there is a spike in individual complaints from tenants of housing associations.
tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
uin	178311
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2018 answer text <p>A memorandum of understanding, which describes the working relationship between the Regulator of Social Housing and the Housing Ombudsman, was published on 21 April 2017. The memorandum of understanding sets out the arrangements for cooperation and communication between the two bodies in relation to their respective functions. It is available at: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/610108/HOS_HCA_memorandum_of_understanding.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/610108/HOS_HCA_memorandum_of_understanding.pdf</a></p><p>We recently launched a review of the regulatory regime for social housing. This review will look at how the system as a whole is working for tenants, including the arrangements between the Regulator and the Ombudsman.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 19/10/2018 09:52:07 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali

985664

registered interest
date	11/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Regulator of Social Housing: Public Appointments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, for what reason the Interim Chair of the Social Housing Regulator decided against appointing any tenants of social landlords when the regulator expanded its board in April 2018; and if he will ensure that the regulator now undertakes a process to make such appointments.
tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
uin	178312
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2018 answer text <p>The Assessment Panel considered applications against the essential criteria set out in the published candidate pack. Recommendations were made for appointments, which the then Housing Minister, on behalf of the then Secretary of State and the Prime Minister, agreed to.</p><p>Work has begun to launch a further recruitment campaign to strengthen the board of the Regulator of Social Housing. In the recent Social Housing Green Paper, we committed to recruit someone with extensive experience of consumer regulation.</p><p>Section 80B of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (as amended) sets out how new members of the board are recruited and the criteria they must meet: <a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/1040/schedule/made" target="_blank">https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/1040/schedule/made</a>.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 19/10/2018 09:17:10 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali