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1064342

registered interest
date	20/02/2019
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	Community Development: Finance
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 Prime Minister's letter to the Leader of the Opposition of 10 February 2019, what steps he plans to take to provide further financial support to communities that feel left behind.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	223816
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to building an economy that works for everyone. We are exploring opportunities to support communities that feel left behind.</p><p>The Government will set out further detail in due course.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 25/02/2019 16:06:40 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1064348

registered interest
date	20/02/2019
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	Local Government Finance: Rural Areas
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 report entitled, Research into drivers of service costs in rural areas: national analysis of unit costs, published by LG Futures in December 2014, whether the conclusions of that report will be used as an evidence base in his Department's review of local government funding.
tabling member constituency	Oldham West and Royton
tabling member printed	Jim McMahon
uin	223822
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government is undertaking a review of the relative needs and resources of local authorities in England, with a view to setting fresh baseline funding levels in 2020-21. We are working closely with local government representatives and others to examine all of the available evidence for the costs faced by authorities; including how factors such as rurality, sparsity and other geographical features affect the cost of delivering services across the country, and how to account for these in a robust manner.</p><p>Our December 2018 consultation paper (link below) set out a proposed Area Cost Adjustment approach, which uses the best available evidence, based on journey times, to reflect the impact of congestion in urban areas, as well as longer travel distances in rural areas on the relative cost of providing services. The consultation closed on 21 February and we will consider the many representations made in response, which will feed into the next phase of this work.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/review-of-local-authorities-relative-needs-and-resources" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/review-of-local-authorities-relative-needs-and-resources</a>.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 25/02/2019 16:22:12 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4569 label Biography information for Jim McMahon

1064364

registered interest
date	20/02/2019
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	Antisemitism
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 steps his Department taking to (a) monitor and (b) tackle levels of antisemitism in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	223838
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <p>We work closely with the Community Security Trust and other representative community partners through the Cross-Government Working Group to Tackle Antisemitism. The Working Group is held up as an example of best practice internationally for cooperation between government and minority communities. Through the Working Group we have funded projects to highlight and counter antisemitism directed at women, and to combat the dissemination of antisemitic tropes in society.</p><p>We have also worked with the police to improve the recording of hate crime. This includes a requirement to record the targeted faith or belief in incidents of religiously motivated hate crime. The first set of statistics reflecting this new requirement with disaggregated figures for religiously motivated hate crime were published in October 2018. These statistics can be found at <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/748598/hate-crime-1718-hosb2018.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/748598/hate-crime-1718-hosb2018.pdf</a>.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 25/02/2019 16:06:17 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

1063979

registered interest
date	19/02/2019
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	Homelessness: Veterans
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 estimate he has made of the number of people who were homeless in 2018 who had previously served in the armed forces.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
uin	223170
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government collects quarterly and annual statistics on the number of people who present as homeless to English local authorities. Until April 2018, veterans formed part of a wider vulnerable group category that included care leavers, ex-offenders and those who have fled their home because of violence or the threat of violence (other than domestic violence). As a result we are not able to identify the number of veterans presenting as homeless from this period.</p><p>In April 2018 the Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government introduced a new case-level data collection called H-CLIC (Homelessness Case Level Information Collection). This gives local authorities and Government more information regarding homelessness and those presenting as homeless, including people who self-declared as having served in the armed forces as a separate category</p><p>In England from April to June 2018, of the 58,660 households to who, at the point of initial decision, were owed a homelessness duty by the local authority, 0.7 per cent (430) of main applicants stated they had served in the armed forces.</p><p>The latest local authority level statistics, and quarterly statistics since 2009, can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness</a>.</p><p>This Government is committed to reducing homelessness and rough sleeping. No one should ever have to sleep rough. That is why last summer we published the cross-government Rough Sleeping Strategy which sets out an ambitious £100 million package to help people who sleep rough now, but also puts in place the structures that will end rough sleeping once and for all. The Government has now committed over £1.2 billion to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping over the spending review period.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 22/02/2019 17:30:00 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

1063995

registered interest
date	19/02/2019
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: Construction
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, further to the agreement signed with West Midlands councils to create the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA), if he will publish the amount of funding allocated to house-building; the time period for which that funding applies; what proportion of that funding has been transferred to the WMCA; and what proportion of that funding will be transferred in the next fiscal year.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hodge Hill
tabling member printed	Liam Byrne
uin	223192
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <p>To date we have provided £2 million of resource funding to the West Midlands Combined Authority to support housing delivery capacity. We have also made up to £211 million available to the West Midlands Combined Authority before the end of 19/20, as part of a package worth up to £271 million by 21/22 to support housing delivery. Payments and payment timings are subject to the meeting of commitments and the delivery of key milestones.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 25/02/2019 16:46:27 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
tabling member	1171 label Biography information for Liam Byrne

1064000

registered interest
date	19/02/2019
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	Regeneration: Coal
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 his Department’s definition is of a coalfield community; and which local authority areas contain an identified coalfield community.
tabling member constituency	St Helens North
tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
uin	223198
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <p>This Department does not hold a formal definition of a coalfield community.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 25/02/2019 16:11:44 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn

1064001

registered interest
date	19/02/2019
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	Regeneration: Coal
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, which funding programmes his Department makes available for specific use by coalfield communities; and how much funding has been allocated through those programmes in each financial year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	St Helens North
tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
uin	223199
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government has made a clear commitment to put places at the heart of our modern Industrial Strategy. The Government has delivered on this commitment by investing across England through the Local Growth Fund. We have also agreed nine devolution deals with core cities across England and introduced seven metro mayors, with an eighth to be elected in the North of Tyne this year.</p><p>Furthermore, we have worked with devolved administrations and local partners throughout Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to negotiate ambitious City and Growth deals, creating strong partnerships to deliver investment throughout the UK. Wider responsibility for regeneration in coalfield communities in Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland is a responsibility largely devolved to the governments of those nations.</p><p>Since 2010, we have invested almost £70 million in coalfields communities through the Coalfields Regeneration Trust (CRT). This investment was designed to assist the CRT in becoming a self-sustaining organisation. This funding is broken down by year:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>£13,741,038</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>£16,009,940</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>£11,673,971</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>£17,975,050</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>£9,653,750</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>£596,250</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The Government also announced in the autumn budget that we would invest £8 million to support repairs to village halls, miners’ welfare facilities and Armed Forces organisations’ facilities.</p><p>In England, we believe that it is the role of local communities to make decisions on investment into the regeneration of their local economies. This is why we have empowered them to take decisions over investment by devolving over £9 billion of funding to Local Enterprise Partnerships between 2015 and 2021.</p><p>Looking to the future, the government is committed to the creation of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund which aims to reduce inequalities between places by investing in those economies that are the furthest behind. We intend to consult widely on its design, and we encourage all those with an interest in the fund to respond.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry grouped question UIN 223200 223201 question first answered 25/02/2019 16:15:23 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn

1064002

registered interest
date	19/02/2019
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	Regeneration: Coal
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, which funding programmes his Department makes available for specific use by coalfield communities; and how much funding has been allocated through those programmes in each financial year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	St Helens North
tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
uin	223200
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government has made a clear commitment to put places at the heart of our modern Industrial Strategy. The Government has delivered on this commitment by investing across England through the Local Growth Fund. We have also agreed nine devolution deals with core cities across England and introduced seven metro mayors, with an eighth to be elected in the North of Tyne this year.</p><p>Furthermore, we have worked with devolved administrations and local partners throughout Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to negotiate ambitious City and Growth deals, creating strong partnerships to deliver investment throughout the UK. Wider responsibility for regeneration in coalfield communities in Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland is a responsibility largely devolved to the governments of those nations.</p><p>Since 2010, we have invested almost £70 million in coalfields communities through the Coalfields Regeneration Trust (CRT). This investment was designed to assist the CRT in becoming a self-sustaining organisation. This funding is broken down by year:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>£13,741,038</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>£16,009,940</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>£11,673,971</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>£17,975,050</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>£9,653,750</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>£596,250</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The Government also announced in the autumn budget that we would invest £8 million to support repairs to village halls, miners’ welfare facilities and Armed Forces organisations’ facilities.</p><p>In England, we believe that it is the role of local communities to make decisions on investment into the regeneration of their local economies. This is why we have empowered them to take decisions over investment by devolving over £9 billion of funding to Local Enterprise Partnerships between 2015 and 2021.</p><p>Looking to the future, the government is committed to the creation of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund which aims to reduce inequalities between places by investing in those economies that are the furthest behind. We intend to consult widely on its design, and we encourage all those with an interest in the fund to respond.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry grouped question UIN 223199 223201 question first answered 25/02/2019 16:15:23 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn

1064003

registered interest
date	19/02/2019
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	Regeneration: Coal
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 his Department’s strategy is for the regeneration of coalfield communities; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	St Helens North
tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
uin	223201
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government has made a clear commitment to put places at the heart of our modern Industrial Strategy. The Government has delivered on this commitment by investing across England through the Local Growth Fund. We have also agreed nine devolution deals with core cities across England and introduced seven metro mayors, with an eighth to be elected in the North of Tyne this year.</p><p>Furthermore, we have worked with devolved administrations and local partners throughout Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to negotiate ambitious City and Growth deals, creating strong partnerships to deliver investment throughout the UK. Wider responsibility for regeneration in coalfield communities in Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland is a responsibility largely devolved to the governments of those nations.</p><p>Since 2010, we have invested almost £70 million in coalfields communities through the Coalfields Regeneration Trust (CRT). This investment was designed to assist the CRT in becoming a self-sustaining organisation. This funding is broken down by year:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>£13,741,038</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>£16,009,940</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>£11,673,971</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>£17,975,050</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>£9,653,750</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>£596,250</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The Government also announced in the autumn budget that we would invest £8 million to support repairs to village halls, miners’ welfare facilities and Armed Forces organisations’ facilities.</p><p>In England, we believe that it is the role of local communities to make decisions on investment into the regeneration of their local economies. This is why we have empowered them to take decisions over investment by devolving over £9 billion of funding to Local Enterprise Partnerships between 2015 and 2021.</p><p>Looking to the future, the government is committed to the creation of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund which aims to reduce inequalities between places by investing in those economies that are the furthest behind. We intend to consult widely on its design, and we encourage all those with an interest in the fund to respond.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry grouped question UIN 223199 223200 question first answered 25/02/2019 16:15:23 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn

1064061

registered interest
date	19/02/2019
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	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Apprentices
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 proportion of staff employed by his Department are apprentices.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	223259
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <p>The Department currently has 68 diverse and talented apprentices working right across the organisation in a variety of different roles. Our apprentices are all studying towards higher level apprenticeships, including, Cyber Security, Public Relations, Policy, Business and Professional administration as well as Human resources and Project Management.</p><p>We have a dedicated team who are working to improve the way we recruit apprentices.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 25/02/2019 16:13:22 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner