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805427

registered interest
date	12/12/2017
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	Department for Communities and Local Government: Families
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 30 November 2017 to Question HL3576, what steps his Department is taking to strengthen families.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	119098
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>This Government wants to fix the broken housing market to help more ordinary working families buy an affordable home and to give people the security they need to be able to plan for the future. Fundamentally, this means building many more houses in the places that people want to live and getting a fairer deal for renters.</p><p>At the heart of this Government's policy on housing is our commitment to help hard working families who are just about managing to get by, and to ensure that the housing market is fairer for those who don't own their own home.</p><p>My Department also oversees the Troubled Families Programme which supports early intervention to prevent family breakdown. We work closely with other Government departments to help families overcome their challenges and stabilise their lives, for example, our joint work with Department for Work and Pensions on the Improving Lives agenda.</p><p>The programme supports families with multiple problems, including for example those affected by domestic abuse, parental conflict, drug, alcohol or mental health problems, and where children are in need of help. Family keyworkers take a whole family integrated approach across multiple services and provide a co-ordinated package of support. Together this approach can lead to greater family stability and help prevent the need for children to enter care. We have committed £920 million to the programme from 2015 – 2020.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 21/12/2017 17:02:11 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

805459

registered interest
date	12/12/2017
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	Department for Communities and Local Government: Families
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, to which legislation his Department has applied the Family Test, published in August 2014.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	119130
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>The Government is committed to supporting families. To achieve this, in 2014 we introduced the Family Test, which aims to ensure that impacts on family relationships and functioning are recognised early on during the process of policy development and help inform the policy decisions made by Minsters. The Family Test was not designed to be a ‘tick-box’ exercise, and as such there is no requirement for departments to publish the results of assessments made under the Family Test.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 21/12/2017 15:44:52 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

638061

registered interest
date	16/11/2016
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	Housing: Construction
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 his Department plans to take to promote the construction of modern, high-quality prefabricated housing.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	53476
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2016 answer text <p>Government wants to see a significant increase in the number of new homes being built of all types and tenures.</p><p>To increase housing supply, we need a diversified housing market where all firms embrace innovation to build homes more quickly and deliver a better product to the consumer.</p><p>The use of modern methods of construction, including offsite techniques, has the potential to improve productivity and speed up the supply of high-quality, high-performance homes.</p><p>We are encouraging modern methods of construction through our housing and planning programmes including our Affordable Homes 2016-21, Build to Rent and Housing Zones programmes and through our National Planning Practice Guidance.</p><p>In October the Secretary of State launched the £3 billion Home Building Fund, which aims to deliver 225,000 homes. £1 billion of this fund will contribute to projects that will directly deliver housing in this Parliament, increasing supply by providing support to builders using modern methods of construction, in addition to custom builders, small and medium-sized builders and new entrants to the market.</p><p>We will also continue to promote the Build Offsite Property Assurance Scheme (www.bopas.org), which seeks to provide assurance to mortgage lenders about the quality and durability of offsite systems.</p><p>We will announce further measures in the Housing White Paper.</p> answering member constituency Croydon Central answering member printed Gavin Barwell question first answered 24/11/2016 16:40:17 answering member 3955 label Biography information for Lord Barwell
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

523423

registered interest
date	07/06/2016
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	Department for Communities and Local Government: Training
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 take steps to ensure that staff in his Department receive religious literacy training.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	39675
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2016 answer text <p>Civil Service Learning, the main training portal for civil servants, has a broad range of diversity and inclusion learning, which is available to all civil servants. There is also a two day course covering both Abrahamic and Dharmic religions for officials who need a more in depth understanding to carry out their role.</p><p>DCLG officials have had discussions with the Commission on Religion and Belief in Public Life (CORAB) about their call for greater religious literacy in every section of society. The Government is aware of the recent evidence sessions on religious literacy held by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Religious Education and will carefully consider the findings of the Group's report when it is published.</p><p /><p><em><p><p></em></p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 15/06/2016 16:54:35 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

389481

registered interest
date	13/07/2015
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	Local Plans
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 the Government is taking to improve the timely delivery of a local plan in areas where a local authority has not produced such a plan.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	6802
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2015 answer text <p>The Government strongly encourages all areas to get up-to-date Local Plans in place. Although we have supported all authorities in plan-making, and recently seen significant positive plan-making progress, there is more that we can do to ensure comprehensive Local Plan coverage.</p><p> </p><p>The Government’s Productivity Plan, published on 10 July, outlined the Government’s commitment to ensuring that Plans are put in place and to bringing forward measures to improve the plan-making process. We intend to set out shortly in a statement how we will take these measures forward, engaging closely with the sector in doing so to ensure that any reforms build upon recent positive progress on plan-making.</p><p> </p><p>I would openly encourage all areas to put renewed effort into plan-making as Local Plans are the best way of working with the community to provide certainty as to what development is appropriate and where.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 16/07/2015 14:03:07 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

348615

registered interest
date	04/06/2015
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	Troubled Families Programme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what criteria his Department uses to assess the effectiveness of the Troubled Families initiative in individual local authority areas.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	1166
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2015 answer text <p>The Troubled Families initiative aims to turn families around. This means children are back in school for three consecutive terms and there has been significant reductions in youth crime and anti-social behaviour; or an adult in the family is back in work for at least three months. The first Troubled Families Programme is on track to achieve its goal to turn around the lives of 120,000 troubled families across England by May 2015. As of February 2015, over 105,000 families had been turned around. Final results will be published shortly. <br><br>The first programme has been subject to an independent national evaluation carried out by a consortium of research organisations, led by Ecorys UK Ltd and comprising Ipsos MORI, The National Institute for Economic and Social Research, Bryson Purdon Research and Clarissa White Research. The evaluation is assessing the impact, process and cost benefit of the programme. In July 2014, an initial report on the characteristics and problems experienced by families in the programme was published titled <em>Understanding Troubled Families</em>. The full final evaluation report is due later this summer.</p><p>The new expanded Troubled Families Programme aims to help up to 400,000 additional families achieve significant and sustainable change. It was rolled out nationally in April 2015 and an evaluation of this programme has already begun, delivered by the Office of National Statistics, Ipsos MORI and The Stationary Office. This will build on the first programme's assessments of impact and cost benefit, alongside a programme of qualitative research with local authorities and families to understand if and how services have adapted to work more effectively with families and those families' experiences of services.</p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark grouped question UIN 1168 1169 question first answered 29/06/2015 13:11:56 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

348616

registered interest
date	04/06/2015
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	Troubled Families Programme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, on what basis additional funding for the Troubled Families initiative will be allocated to local authority areas.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	1167
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2015 answer text <p>Upper tier local authorities are offered funding as part of the Troubled Families Programme on the basis of the number of families eligible for the programme within their area.</p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 17/06/2015 15:08:32 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

348617

registered interest
date	04/06/2015
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	Troubled Families Programme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the Troubled Families initiative to date; and who conducted that assessment.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	1168
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2015 answer text <p>The Troubled Families initiative aims to turn families around. This means children are back in school for three consecutive terms and there has been significant reductions in youth crime and anti-social behaviour; or an adult in the family is back in work for at least three months. The first Troubled Families Programme is on track to achieve its goal to turn around the lives of 120,000 troubled families across England by May 2015. As of February 2015, over 105,000 families had been turned around. Final results will be published shortly. <br><br>The first programme has been subject to an independent national evaluation carried out by a consortium of research organisations, led by Ecorys UK Ltd and comprising Ipsos MORI, The National Institute for Economic and Social Research, Bryson Purdon Research and Clarissa White Research. The evaluation is assessing the impact, process and cost benefit of the programme. In July 2014, an initial report on the characteristics and problems experienced by families in the programme was published titled <em>Understanding Troubled Families</em>. The full final evaluation report is due later this summer.</p><p>The new expanded Troubled Families Programme aims to help up to 400,000 additional families achieve significant and sustainable change. It was rolled out nationally in April 2015 and an evaluation of this programme has already begun, delivered by the Office of National Statistics, Ipsos MORI and The Stationary Office. This will build on the first programme's assessments of impact and cost benefit, alongside a programme of qualitative research with local authorities and families to understand if and how services have adapted to work more effectively with families and those families' experiences of services.</p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark grouped question UIN 1166 1169 question first answered 29/06/2015 13:11:56 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

348618

registered interest
date	04/06/2015
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	Troubled Families Programme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans his Department has for future continuous assessment of the Troubled Families initiative.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	1169
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2015 answer text <p>The Troubled Families initiative aims to turn families around. This means children are back in school for three consecutive terms and there has been significant reductions in youth crime and anti-social behaviour; or an adult in the family is back in work for at least three months. The first Troubled Families Programme is on track to achieve its goal to turn around the lives of 120,000 troubled families across England by May 2015. As of February 2015, over 105,000 families had been turned around. Final results will be published shortly. <br><br>The first programme has been subject to an independent national evaluation carried out by a consortium of research organisations, led by Ecorys UK Ltd and comprising Ipsos MORI, The National Institute for Economic and Social Research, Bryson Purdon Research and Clarissa White Research. The evaluation is assessing the impact, process and cost benefit of the programme. In July 2014, an initial report on the characteristics and problems experienced by families in the programme was published titled <em>Understanding Troubled Families</em>. The full final evaluation report is due later this summer.</p><p>The new expanded Troubled Families Programme aims to help up to 400,000 additional families achieve significant and sustainable change. It was rolled out nationally in April 2015 and an evaluation of this programme has already begun, delivered by the Office of National Statistics, Ipsos MORI and The Stationary Office. This will build on the first programme's assessments of impact and cost benefit, alongside a programme of qualitative research with local authorities and families to understand if and how services have adapted to work more effectively with families and those families' experiences of services.</p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark grouped question UIN 1166 1168 question first answered 29/06/2015 13:11:56 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

171066

registered interest
date	17/12/2014
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	Housing: Construction
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 role is of housing needs assessments within local plans.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	219079
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2015 answer text <p>Our planning guidance is clear that a Strategic Housing Market Assessment is just the first stage in developing a Local Plan and councils can take account of constraints which indicate that development should be restricted. I wrote to the Chief Executive of the Planning Inspectorate on 19 December to ensure our policy is clearly understood. A copy of the letter can be found at: www.gov.uk/government/publications/strategic-housing-market-assessments and I attach a copy to this answer.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 05/01/2015 15:48:20 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis attachment 1 file name 219079 Bruce.pdf title Letter to CEO Planning Inspector
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce