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114648

registered interest
date	05/11/2014
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Private Rented Housing: Codes of Practice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 13 October 2014, to Question 208968, which tenant groups his Department asked the industry to seek the views of in creating a code of practice for the management of residential property; and what steps he took to ensure that the views sought were representative of all tenant groups.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	213488
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>The Government asked industry to develop the code of practice for the management of residential property to promote consistent and high standards of property management. Ensuring that landlords and letting agents are aware of their responsibilities can only be of benefit to all tenants. Industry held a public consultation on the code of practice from 2 to 30 April and a number of groups including Shelter, all three Property Ombudsmen and the Electrical Safety First formally responded. <br><br>The code of practice has been welcomed by the sector and I am confident that the code, the how to rent guide and the model tenancy agreement will all improve standards and increase the satisfaction of tenants living in the private rented sector.<br><br></p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 10/11/2014 16:19:44 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

114845

registered interest
date	05/11/2014
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Refuges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the type of housing tenure held by women after leaving refuge accommodation in England and Wales was in each of the last four financial years.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	213664
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to the hon. Member for Huddersfield (Barry Sheerman) on 28 October, PQs 211433, 211434 and 211435.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 10/11/2014 16:28:19 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

114948

registered interest
date	05/11/2014
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Welfare Assistance Schemes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will add a question to the consultation on the local welfare provision in 2015 to 2016 to ask whether local welfare assistance funding should continue to be provided by his Department and distributed by it to local authorities.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	213529
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>The consultation on how local welfare provision should be funded in 2015/16 is already underway and closes on 21 November. Option four gives respondents the opportunity to present their own proposals on other options for delivering and funding local welfare provision.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 10/11/2014 16:26:09 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

106228

registered interest
date	04/11/2014
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Homelessness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment he has made of the support available to single homeless people.
tabling member constituency	Pudsey
tabling member printed	Stuart Andrew
uin	213238
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>The Government has increased spending to prevent and tackle homelessness, making over £500 milion available to councils and the voluntary sector. Local authorities are required to provide advice and information to single homeless people who approach them.<br><br>We have launched an £8 million Help for Single Homeless Fund for local auhtorities which will improve council services for single people facing the prospect of homelessness by encouraging better partnership working between councils and other local partners.</p><p> </p><p>We are also helping single homeless people to find and sustain accomodation in the private rented sector through our £13 million funding to Crisis. By 2016 we expect the Crisis scheme to have helped 10,000 single homeless people.</p><p> </p><p>In addition No Second Night Out schemes and Streetlink have helped thousands of vulnerable people who have slept rough or were at risk of doing so to get the help they need.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 10/11/2014 16:24:32 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew

114628

registered interest
date	04/11/2014
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Planning Permission
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to increase local control over planning policy.
tabling member constituency	Esher and Walton
tabling member printed	Mr Dominic Raab
uin	905968
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>This Government has abolished the Labour Government’s top-down Regional Strategies, such as the South East Plan, and closed down the unelected Regional Assemblies. We also stopped proposals, being implemented by the then Labour Government, to hand more planning power to the unelected Regional Development Agencies and Regional Assemblies.</p><p> </p><p>The Localism Act has strengthened the role of Local Plans, allowing local councils – in consultation with local residents – to draw up plans and determine where new development should and should not go. 80 per cent of councils now have a published Local Plan, and we are working with the remaining local councils to help them deliver up to date plans.</p><p> </p><p>In National policy, we have safeguarded environmental designations such as the Green Belt which were under threat of deletion from the Regional Strategies; given councils new powers to tackle unwanted garden grabbing; and allowed councils and neighbourhoods to introduce a new planning protection for valuable green local spaces.</p><p> </p><p>Localism should involve decentralising power to the lowest appropriate level. So neighbourhood planning now allows local neighbourhoods and parishes to shape planning in their local area: over 1,200 communities are so far developing neighbourhood plans. We are funding a £63 million package of support to help local people take up community rights, and we have been consulting on practical ways we can strengthen the neighbourhood planning process based on the experience we have learnt to date.</p><p> </p><p>Decentralisation also involves empowering individuals – so we have extended permitted development rights to allow households and local firms to make small changes (such as small extensions and change of use) without the need for full planning permission. We have been consulting on further common sense reforms in our consultation published in July.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 10/11/2014 16:13:10 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab

114629

registered interest
date	04/11/2014
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Homelessness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance his Department has issued to local authorities and community groups on tackling rough sleeping.
tabling member constituency	Hereford and South Herefordshire
tabling member printed	Jesse Norman
uin	905972
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>The Government has increased spending to prevent and tackle rough sleeping and homelessness making over £500 million available, giving councils the funding and tools needed to take action against rough sleeping locally.<br><br></p><p>There are a range of initiatives and projects in place to help rough sleepers, prevent single homelessness and to help those who have been homeless find and sustain accommodation.</p><p> </p><p>Thousands of vulnerable people who have slept rough or were at risk of doing so have received the help they need through No Second Night Out schemes and Streetlink – the digital and national telephone service to enable the public to connect rough sleepers quickly to the local services available so they get the help they need to get them off the streets.</p><p> </p><p>We have supported the roll-out of No Second Night Out nationally through the £20 million Homelessness Transition Fund for the voluntary sector ensuring rough sleepers do not spend more than one night on the street. In 20 key rough sleeping areas outside London homelessness charities reported that 67% of rough sleepers were helped off the streets after a single night.</p><p> </p><p>We have launched an £8 million Help for Single Homeless Fund for local authorities which will improve council services for single people facing the prospect of homelessness by encouraging better partnership working between councils and other local partners.</p><p> </p><p>We are also helping single homeless people to find and sustain accommodation in the private rented sector through our £13 million funding to Crisis. By 2016 we expect the Crisis scheme to have helped 10,000 single homeless people.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 10/11/2014 16:17:44 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman

105853

registered interest
date	03/11/2014
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Mobile Phones
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much his Department spent on iPhones in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Barrow and Furness
tabling member printed	John Woodcock
uin	213151
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>Nothing.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 10/11/2014 16:54:52 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	3917 label Biography information for Lord Walney

105854

registered interest
date	03/11/2014
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Help to Buy Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what has been the current take-up of the Help to Buy scheme in (a) England and (b) Bradford.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Mr David Ward
uin	213099
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2014 answer text <p>This Government is committed to supporting people’s aspirations to own their own home.</p><p> </p><p>By 30 September, 54,520 families have bought a home with the assistance of the three Help to Buy schemes in England and 525 in the Bradford Metropolitan District Council area.</p><p> </p><p>The Department’s official statistics on sales for the Help to Buy: Equity Loan scheme in England, broken down by constituency, local authority and postcode, is available at: <strong><a href="http://opendatacommunities.org/def/concept/folders/themes/housing-market" target="_blank">http://opendatacommunities.org/def/concept/folders/themes/housing-market</a>.</strong></p><p> </p><p>The Department’s official statistics on sales for the Help to Buy: New Buy scheme is available at: <strong><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/collections/help-to-buy-equity-loan-and-newbuy-statistics" target="_blank">http://www.gov.uk/government/collections/help-to-buy-equity-loan-and-newbuy-statistics</a>. </strong>Figures are not available by constituency</p><p> </p><p>The Help to Buy: Mortgage Guarantee scheme is managed by HM Treasury. The latest official statistics is available at: <strong><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/help-to-buy-mortgage-guarantee-scheme-quarterly-statistics-october-2013-to-june-2014" target="_blank">http://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/help-to-buy-mortgage-guarantee-scheme-quarterly-statistics-october-2013-to-june-2014</a>.</strong>This includes total numbers of sales at individual local authority level (Table 7).</p><p>The 525 Help to Buy Sales in Bradford comprises 387 equity loan sales, 22 Newbuy sales and 116 Mortgage Guarantee sales.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 06/11/2014 16:51:15 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	3923 label Biography information for Mr David Ward

105856

registered interest
date	03/11/2014
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Freedom of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many Freedom of Information requests his Department has declined to answer in full since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Barrow and Furness
tabling member printed	John Woodcock
uin	213081
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice publishes annual statistical reports on the handling of requests for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 for central government. These reports include statistics on the numbers of requests granted in full and those where information was partially or fully withheld. These reports can be accessed on the following webpage: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics</a>.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 10/11/2014 16:53:40 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	3917 label Biography information for Lord Walney

105858

registered interest
date	03/11/2014
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Freedom of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much his Department has spent on legal fees over prevention of release of information requested by Freedom of Information requests since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Barrow and Furness
tabling member printed	John Woodcock
uin	213102
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to to my answer to him of 22 July 2014, PQ 204271.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 10/11/2014 16:57:20 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	3917 label Biography information for Lord Walney