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518730

	registered interest
	date	18/05/2016
	answering body	Leader of the House of Lords
	answering dept id	92
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name	Leader of the House of Lords
	hansard heading	Written Questions
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask the Leader of the House how many Questions for Written Answer were put to each Government department and answered within the target 10 working days in each month in the 2015–16 Session, together with the relevant percentages in each case.
	tabling member printed	Lord Jopling
	uin	HL24
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/05/2016 answer text <p>In line with the practice established in the last session, following the commitment made by my predecessor (HL Deb 8 May 2014, col 1575), I will continue to publish annually the performance of departments on their promptness in dealing with Questions for Written Answer. My office will also continue to work with all departments to ensure prompt and comprehensive responses to all Questions for Written Answer.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The statistics for the 2014-15 session are available as a Written Statement (HLWS39). I will shortly publish data on departmental performance for the 2015-16 session.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Stowell of Beeston question first answered 31/05/2016 13:19:28 answering member 4205 label Biography information for Baroness Stowell of Beeston
	tabling member	883 label Biography information for Lord Jopling

518759

	registered interest
	date	18/05/2016
	answering body	Leader of the House of Lords
	answering dept id	92
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name	Leader of the House of Lords
	hansard heading	Business: Billing
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask the Leader of the House what was the average time in (1) the 2015–16 Session, and (2) each of the last five Sessions before that, between the publication of a select committee report and its being debated; and how many select committee reports published in the 2015–16 Session and the previous five Sessions were undebated (1) 12 months, and (2) six months, after publication.
	tabling member printed	Lord Sharkey
	uin	HL53
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/05/2016 answer text <p>My office does not hold the information requested.</p><p> </p><p>My Noble Friend the Government Chief Whip makes regular offers of time for debates on Select Committee reports to the Committee Office. The Committee Office then coordinate among Chairmen to determine which reports are debated on such occasions and in what order.</p><p><br>Sixteen select committee reports were debated in the last session and debates on nine reports have been arranged thus far this session.</p> answering member printed Baroness Stowell of Beeston question first answered 31/05/2016 12:54:03 answering member 4205 label Biography information for Baroness Stowell of Beeston
	tabling member	4196 label Biography information for Lord Sharkey

518719

	registered interest
	date	18/05/2016
	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	NHS: Cybercrime
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have made any assessment of the Housing First policy implemented in Utah as a means to tackle homelessness.
	tabling member printed	Lord Chadlington
	uin	HL13
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/05/2016 answer text <p>One person without a home is one too many which is why we have increased central investment to tackle homelessness over the next four years to £139 million.</p><p>Homelessness is rarely the result of a personal housing crisis alone and we know that many rough sleepers and homeless people have complex needs, such as mental health difficulties or substance misuse, which result in poor life chances.</p><p>That is why we announced at Budget 2016 that we are developing a new £10 million national Social Impact Bond programme, to help homeless people with complex needs off the streets. We want to drive innovative ways to support those with the most complex needs, including ‘Housing First’. In doing so, we will look to learn from how other countries have delivered, including the United States and elsewhere.</p><p>This work forms part of our wider approach to preventing and reducing homelessness, which also includes a new £10 million rough sleeping programme and an additional £100 million of funding for move-on accommodation for those leaving hostels and refuges.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 26/05/2016 16:43:27 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	3318 label Biography information for Lord Chadlington

518767

	registered interest
	date	18/05/2016
	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	Shipping: Sales
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have plans to reconsider their decision to withdraw financial support for the Cornish language, and if not, under what circumstances they next intend to do so.
	tabling member printed	Lord Teverson
	uin	HL61
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/05/2016 answer text <p>Cornwall Council has a core spending power of £1.7 billion over the next four years, from which they can allocate the necessary resources to sustain and grow the use of the Cornish Language, if that is what local people want to see.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 26/05/2016 16:42:42 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	3789 label Biography information for Lord Teverson

518718

	registered interest
	date	18/05/2016
	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	Migrant Workers
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the relationship between the inability to pay high rents and the risk of homelessness, what they are doing to ensure access to social housing.
	tabling member printed	Lord Chadlington
	uin	HL12
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2016 answer text <p>The statutory requirement to consider ‘reasonable preference’ prioritises social housing for those who need it the most. The provisions in the Housing and Planning Act that ensure new tenancies are regularly reviewed will enable councils to get the best use out of their social housing.</p><p>To enable local authorities to help claimants affected by changes to Housing Benefit who need extra support, we have also increased the level of funding for Discretionary Housing Payment to £870 million in total across this Parliament – a notional 55 per cent increase compared to the previous Parliament.</p><p>Whilst households who face homelessness need suitable, settled accommodation it does not always need to be social housing. That is why we changed the law to allow authorities to make offers of good quality private rented sector accommodation. Since 2010 our homelessness prevention funding has helped local authorities and homelessness charities prevent almost a million households from becoming homeless. We want this work to continue and that is why we have maintained and protected homelessness prevention funding though the local government finance settlement totalling £315 million by 2019/20.</p><p>The government is also committed to delivering affordable housing. Twice as much council housing has been built since 2010 than in the previous 13 years. The Spending Review in 2016 allocated £8 billion to deliver 400,000 affordable homes this parliament.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 07/06/2016 16:03:15 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	3318 label Biography information for Lord Chadlington

518973

	registered interest
	date	18/05/2016
	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	Economic Growth: Lancashire
	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 he has made of the effectiveness of Lancashire Enterprise Partnership in progressing Growth Deal projects.
	tabling member constituency	Fylde
	tabling member printed	Mark Menzies
	uin	37185
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/05/2016 answer text <p>The Lancashire Enterprise Partnership Growth Deal with Government will invest over £250 million across Lancashire.</p><p>Good progress has been made to date, with 15 out of the 39 projects in the programme underway, and a further 13 due to commence shortly.</p><p>Projects under construction will, amongst other outcomes, support the construction of 850 housing units, create over 2,000 jobs and add over £28 million GVA per annum to the local economy.</p> answering member constituency Stockton South answering member printed James Wharton question first answered 25/05/2016 16:17:07 answering member 4123 label Biography information for Lord Wharton of Yarm
	tabling member	3998 label Biography information for Mark Menzies

518976

	registered interest
	date	18/05/2016
	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	Mayors
	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 metro-mayors since May 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Northampton South
	tabling member printed	David Mackintosh
	uin	37080
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2016 answer text <p>The Government considers that, where areas choose to introduce a directly-elected, region-wide Mayor as part of a devolution deal, this will provide a mechanism to strengthen local accountability and strategic leadership and drive local economic growth. No region-wide elected Mayors are yet in place under the provisions of the Cities and Local Government Devolution Act; the first elections for the new Mayors are being planned for May 2017, subject to Parliamentary approval.</p> answering member constituency Stockton South answering member printed James Wharton question first answered 24/05/2016 13:56:25 answering member 4123 label Biography information for Lord Wharton of Yarm
	tabling member	4431 label Biography information for David Mackintosh

518956

	registered interest
	date	18/05/2016
	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	Enterprise Zones: Yorkshire and the Humber
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what discussions he has had with local enterprise partnerships in Yorkshire about the creation of new enterprise zones.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds West
	tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
	uin	37385
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2016 answer text <p>In 2015 we ran a competitive bidding round that provided an opportunity for Local Enterprise Partnerships to submit bids for a new round of Enterprise Zones.</p><p>All Local Enterprise Partnerships within Yorkshire successfully submitted bids for new Zones or extensions to existing ones. We announced two new Enterprise Zones in November, in Leeds and York, and at Budget we announced an extension to the existing Sheffield Enterprise Zone that is subject to local approval.</p> answering member constituency Stockton South answering member printed James Wharton question first answered 23/05/2016 14:34:41 answering member 4123 label Biography information for Lord Wharton of Yarm
	tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves

518970

	registered interest
	date	18/05/2016
	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 Benefit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate his Department has made of the likely effect of the extension of right-to-buy and the sale of council properties on the total cost of housing benefit in each year to 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Tottenham
	tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
	uin	37243
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2016 answer text <p>The voluntary Right to Buy will give 1.3 million housing association tenants the opportunity to purchase a home.</p><p>For every home sold through the voluntary Right to Buy or the sale of higher value vacant housing, at least one additional home will be built and for every higher value property sold in London, two will be built, increasing overall supply.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 24/05/2016 13:55:13 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

518971

	registered interest
	date	18/05/2016
	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	Planning: Lancashire
	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 provided to Lancashire County Council on the formulation of its service planning areas.
	tabling member constituency	Fylde
	tabling member printed	Mark Menzies
	uin	37266
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2016 answer text <p>DCLG does not have a record of advice given to Lancashire County Council on the formulation of its service planning areas, or requests for such advice.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 24/05/2016 13:38:16 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
	tabling member	3998 label Biography information for Mark Menzies