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348298

	registered interest
	date	03/06/2015
	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	Adoption
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what analysis his Department has undertaken of the financial consequences for local authorities of the measures announced in the Education and Adoption Bill relating to (a) local authority adoption functions and (b) joint arrangements.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	1001
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2015 answer text <p>The Department will support the Department for Education in carrying out an assessment of the costs and savings to local government resulting from the adoption and joint arrangements measures in the Education and Adoption Bill.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 08/06/2015 15:13:18 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

759864

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2017
	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	Energy: Housing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what comparative assessment has been made of the energy efficiency of traditionally-built new homes with maximum wall and cavity insulation and that of timber-framed homes.
	tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
	tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
	uin	10055
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>The department has not made a comparative assessment of the energy efficiency of traditionally built new homes with maximum wall and cavity insulation and that of timber framed homes.</p><p>Our requirements are performance based so do not specify any particular form of construction. For new homes the energy requirements include minimum fabric and insulation performance standards irrespective of whether these homes are traditionally built or are timber framed.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 09/10/2017 10:19:20 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

418404

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2015
	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	Social Security Benefits
	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 provide additional support to local authorities in areas with most people who will be affected by the benefit cap.
	tabling member constituency	Brent Central
	tabling member printed	Dawn Butler
	uin	10064
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2015 answer text <p>The Government will increase funding for Discretionary Housing Payments to a total of £800 million across the Parliament to enable local authorities to help people who need extra support with housing costs. As in previous years, funding will be allocated to local authorities based on local pressures, including housing benefit caseload and the effects of reforms in Housing Benefit. We consider these local impacts each year during our allocation of Discretionary Housing Payment funds, and this will continue.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 21/09/2015 13:52:10 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
	tabling member	1489 label Biography information for Dawn Butler

759635

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2017
	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	Housing: Fire Prevention
	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 place in the Library copies of all correspondence between his Department and (a) local authorities, (b) the Local Government Association and (c) London councils in the last three years relating to residential fire safety.
	tabling member constituency	Westminster North
	tabling member printed	Ms Karen Buck
	uin	10066
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>We are unable to provide this information as to do so would be at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 09/10/2017 10:20:28 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	199 label Biography information for Ms Karen Buck

759637

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2017
	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	Social Rented Housing: Sales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when his Department plans to publish Social housing sales in England 2016 to 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
	tabling member printed	John Healey
	uin	10070
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2017 answer text <p>Publication dates for the Department's statistics are shown in the Statistics Release calendar, which is to be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/announcements?utf8=%E2%9C%93&amp;organisations%5B%5D=department-for-communities-and-local-government" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/announcements?utf8=%E2%9C%93&amp;organisations%5B%5D=department-for-communities-and-local-government</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 20/09/2017 16:09:42 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

759639

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2017
	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	Temporary Accommodation
	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 long-term sustainability of temporary accommodation as a housing solution.
	tabling member constituency	Tottenham
	tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
	uin	10073
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2017 answer text <p>Time spent in temporary accommodation means people are getting help and it ensures no family is without a roof over their head. The numbers of households in temporary accommodation remains well below the September 2004 peak.</p><p>Local authorities have a duty to ensure that any accommodation provided for a homeless household under the homelessness legislation must be suitable. In considering ‘suitability’ authorities must, by law, consider whether the accommodation is affordable for the applicant, its size, its condition, its accessibility and also its location.</p><p>In 2012, we changed the law so that councils can place families in decent and affordable private rented homes. This now means homeless households do not have to wait as long for settled accommodation, spending less time in temporary accommodation.</p><p>In addition, we have allocated £550 million until 2020 to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping, as well as supporting the Homelessness Reduction Act, including: protecting £315 million of funding to local authorities and £149 million of central government funding for homelessness programmes.</p><p>We have also replaced the Department for Work and Pension’s Temporary Accommodation Management Fee with a Flexible Homelessness Support Grant which local authorities can use more strategically to prevent and tackle homelessness. This amounts to £402 million over the two years from 2017/18.</p><p>DCLG publishes regular statistics on rough sleeping, statutory homelessness, temporary accommodation and homelessness prevention and relief. These are published at national, London and local authority level . The latest statistics can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/homelessness-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/homelessness-statistics</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones grouped question UIN 10074 9722 9723 9811 question first answered 18/09/2017 14:28:55 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
	tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

759640

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2017
	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	Temporary Accommodation
	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 is taking to improve the monitoring of standards and compliance with regulations by (a) private hostels, (b) bed and breakfasts and (c) other unsupported temporary accommodation.
	tabling member constituency	Tottenham
	tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
	uin	10074
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2017 answer text <p>Time spent in temporary accommodation means people are getting help and it ensures no family is without a roof over their head. The numbers of households in temporary accommodation remains well below the September 2004 peak.</p><p>Local authorities have a duty to ensure that any accommodation provided for a homeless household under the homelessness legislation must be suitable. In considering ‘suitability’ authorities must, by law, consider whether the accommodation is affordable for the applicant, its size, its condition, its accessibility and also its location.</p><p>In 2012, we changed the law so that councils can place families in decent and affordable private rented homes. This now means homeless households do not have to wait as long for settled accommodation, spending less time in temporary accommodation.</p><p>In addition, we have allocated £550 million until 2020 to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping, as well as supporting the Homelessness Reduction Act, including: protecting £315 million of funding to local authorities and £149 million of central government funding for homelessness programmes.</p><p>We have also replaced the Department for Work and Pension’s Temporary Accommodation Management Fee with a Flexible Homelessness Support Grant which local authorities can use more strategically to prevent and tackle homelessness. This amounts to £402 million over the two years from 2017/18.</p><p>DCLG publishes regular statistics on rough sleeping, statutory homelessness, temporary accommodation and homelessness prevention and relief. These are published at national, London and local authority level . The latest statistics can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/homelessness-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/homelessness-statistics</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones grouped question UIN 10073 9722 9723 9811 question first answered 18/09/2017 14:28:55 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
	tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

759641

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2017
	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	Affordable Housing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when his Department plans to publish the Affordable Housing Starts and Completions: England, April 2017 to September 2017 (Update of Live Table 1012).
	tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
	tabling member printed	John Healey
	uin	10088
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2017 answer text <p>Publication dates for the Department's statistics are shown in the Statistics Release calendar, which is to be found at :</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/announcements?utf8=%E2%9C%93&amp;organisations%5B%5D=department-for-communities-and-local-government" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/announcements?utf8=%E2%9C%93&amp;organisations%5B%5D=department-for-communities-and-local-government</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 20/09/2017 16:02:37 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

759642

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2017
	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	Social Rented Housing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when his Department plans to publish Social Housing Lettings, England: 2016-17.
	tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
	tabling member printed	John Healey
	uin	10091
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2017 answer text <p>The Department for Communities and Local Government is currently planning to publish <em>Social Housing Lettings, England: 2016-17</em> as soon as the data is collected.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 21/09/2017 11:06:21 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

759636

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2017
	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: Pay
	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 of his Department's staff had a pay increase (a) above, (b) at and (c) less than one per cent in each of the last three years for which information is available.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	10111
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>Data for DCLG covers annual pay remit years for all staff eligible for a pay award. This does not include pay adjustments on promotion or new appointees not eligible for a pay award.</p><p>Pay remits, which are drawn up in accordance with HMT guidelines to reflect an average 1 per cent spend, are signed off by the Secretary of State for delegated grades AO – G6. Pay awards for SCS staff are made in accordance with SSRB guidelines, overseen by the Cabinet Office</p><p>Data for 2014/15 includes contractual buy-out payments made in excess of 1 per cent as part of the Department’s pay reform exercise to move people off guaranteed pay progression.</p><p>It was agreed as part of the second phase of Pay Reform in 2015/16 that additional contractual obligations could be funded outside of the 1 per cent. Salary increases below 1 per cent include part consolidated pay awards where the person was less than 1 per cent from the maximum of the pay range. In 2015/16 very few employees on legacy terms were due contractual milestones, so funds could be targeted at those on the new reformed terms, giving them slightly above the 1 per cent.</p><p>Data for 2016/17 shows a limited number of staff receiving more than 1 per cent which includes uplifts to the new minima of pay ranges where these were increased by more than 1 per cent; and it includes transitional arrangements for Administrative Officers with adjustments greater than 1 per cent It also includes the SCS pay awards ranging from 0.7 per cent up to 2.3 per cent, in accordance with the SSRB guidelines, with an overall spend of 1 per cent of SCS paybill.</p><p>Salary increases shown do not include contractual milestones to those few employees who remain on legacy terms.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p>2014/15</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>2015/16</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>2016/17</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Number of Salary Increases</p></td><td><p>Median Salary Increase</p></td><td><p>Number of Salary Increases</p></td><td><p>Median Salary Increase</p></td><td><p>Number of Salary Increases</p></td><td><p>Median Salary Increase</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Less Than 1 %</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>0.83%</p></td><td><p>276</p></td><td><p>0.53%</p></td><td><p>1158</p></td><td><p>0.94%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Equal To 1%</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>1.00%</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>1.00%</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>1.00%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greater Than 1%</p></td><td><p>1122</p></td><td><p>1.50%</p></td><td><p>869</p></td><td><p>1.16%</p></td><td><p>52</p></td><td><p>1.94%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Grand Total</p></td><td><p>1152</p></td><td><p>1.50%</p></td><td><p>1151</p></td><td><p>1.16%</p></td><td><p>1218</p></td><td><p>0.94%</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 09/10/2017 15:46:46 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies