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1006782

	registered interest
	date	14/11/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Civil Servants
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What recent assessment he has made of the capacity of the civil service to manage additional responsibilities arising from the UK leaving the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Battersea
	tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
	uin	907584
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2018 answer text <p><strong>The Government is equipping itself with the right people and the right skills for the UK to make an orderly and successful exit from the European Union. There are almost 9,000 people now working on EU exit related policy and programmes across government. </strong></p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 14/11/2018 17:46:19 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1087718

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Candidates: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What plans the Government has to use the centenary of Nancy Astor’s election to Parliament to encourage more women to stand for public office.
	tabling member constituency	Banbury
	tabling member printed	Victoria Prentis
	uin	909772
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2019 answer text <p>Everyone in this house owes a great debt to Nancy Astor. As the first woman to take her seat in the Commons in December 1919, she forged the way for women to take their rightful place in our representative democracy - and I’m proud that she was a Conservative. Since 2018 the government’s suffrage centenary fund has been supporting projects to increase women’s political participation in the years to come</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 13/03/2019 15:29:55 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis

100113

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2014
	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	Department for Communities and Local Government: Written Questions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when he expects to answer Question 207599, tabled on 1 September 2014 by the right hon. Member for Leeds Central.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
	tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
	uin	211290
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p>Questions 207630 and 207599 were answered on 30 October.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis grouped question UIN 211289 question first answered 11/11/2014 16:22:39 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis previous answer version 24185 answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

100320

	registered interest
	date	22/10/2014
	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	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, what was spent on the Decent Homes Programme in each year since 2005.
	tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
	tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
	uin	211623
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2015 answer text <p>The last Administration failed to meet its Decent Homes target. It pledged in 2000 that: “We... are committed to ensuring that all social housing is of a decent standard within 10 years” (DETR, <em>Quality and Choice: A Decent Home for All: The Housing Green Paper</em>, April 2000, p.11). But 16 per cent of local authority homes were not decent by 2010.</p><p>That last Government also cut the Decent Homes programme by £150 million in July 2009, cannibalising the housing programme to pay for other policies. I also observe the last Prime Minister planned to cut back housing investment, remarking before the general election: “Housing is essentially a private sector activity. Let's be honest about this... I don't see a need for us to continue with such a big renovation programme” (<em>BBC Newsnight</em>, 30 April 2010).</p><p>However, the Coalition Government is investing £2.3 billion from 2011 to 2016 to improve the quality of existing social housing through the Decent Homes programme and large-scale voluntary transfer gap funding The funding is for clearing the backlog, and therefore is less than under the last Administration – as by intention, there should be an increasingly smaller number of homes to pay to refurbish.</p><p>The table below shows spending since 2005.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p>£ million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2004-05</p></td><td><p>£578</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005-06</p></td><td><p>£864</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006-07</p></td><td><p>£814</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007-08</p></td><td><p>£1,005</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008-09</p></td><td><p>£1,017</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>£1,079</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>£756</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>£494</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>£563</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>£631</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>est. £532</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>NB. The figure for 14-15 contains £15 million funding for South Tyneside which was brought forward from the 2015-16 allocation.</p><p>The number of non-decent local authority dwellings across England has fallen from 292,000 in 1 April 2010 to 146,000 in April 2014, with a forecast of a further fall to 113,000 by April 2015. This shows clear progress in refurbishing these homes.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 23/02/2015 16:51:14 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis previous answer version 24440 answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali

101331

	registered interest
	date	28/10/2014
	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: Evictions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what records his Department keeps of the number of retaliatory evictions; what criteria he uses to define retaliatory eviction; and how many retaliatory evictions took place in the last (a) 12 months and (b) five years.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
	uin	212213
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p>This information is not centrally recorded.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 11/11/2014 16:37:48 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile

105857

	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	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 guidance his Department issues on the definition of severe in relation to the effect on traffic levels for the use of (a) local planning authorities and (b) the National Planning Inspectorate.
	tabling member constituency	North Devon
	tabling member printed	Sir Nick Harvey
	uin	213125
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p>Guidance on undertaking Transport Assessments and Statements has been set out in the Planning Practice Guidance for everyone using the planning system, including local planning authorities and the Planning Inspectorate. <br><br>It is for the local planning authority in considering planning applications or the Planning Inspector in considering planning appeals to consider whether improvements can be undertaken within the transport network that cost effectively limit the significant impact of the development on traffic levels, and determine whether the residual cumulative impacts of development are severe. <br><br></p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 17/11/2014 11:32:29 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	231 label Biography information for Sir Nick Harvey

106407

	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	Shepherds Bush Market
	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 publish any correspondence between his Department and the Planning Inspector Ava Wood on the Shepherd's Bush Market development scheme and the compulsory purchase order granted by Hammersmith and Fulham local authority.
	tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
	tabling member printed	Mr Andy Slaughter
	uin	213394
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2014 answer text <p>There is no correspondence to publish between the Department (National Planning Casework Unit) and the Planning Inspector Ava Wood on the Shepherds Bush Market compulsory purchase order, as we do not have direct contact with individual inspectors.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 20/11/2014 15:50:56 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

106409

	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	Shepherds Bush Market
	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 publish any correspondence between his Department and London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham before June 2014, on the Shepherd's Bush Market development scheme and the compulsory purchase order granted by Hammersmith and Fulham local authority.
	tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
	tabling member printed	Mr Andy Slaughter
	uin	213395
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2014 answer text <p>There is no substantive correspondence, other than some routine correspondence between the Council and the National Planning Casework Unit on procedural matters. I have enclosed relevant procedural correspondence before June 2014 as an attachment to this answer.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 25/11/2014 17:15:22 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis attachment 1 file name 471899 Slaughter - No 2.pdf title Correspondence
	tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

106410

	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	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, what the affordable housing budget was in each of the last 15 years.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	213381
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2015 answer text <p>Affordable housing expenditure for the last 15 years is set out below. Expenditure is a more accurate reflection of resources used to deliver affordable housing as budgets can and do fluctuate during the year.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p>£m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>965</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>1,083</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>1,578</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>2,660</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>3,737</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008-09</p></td><td><p>2,612</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007-08</p></td><td><p>2,029</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006-07</p></td><td><p>1,921</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005-06</p></td><td><p>1,577</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2004-05</p></td><td><p>1,647</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2003-04</p></td><td><p>1,831</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2002-03</p></td><td><p>1,390</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2001-02</p></td><td><p>1,175</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2000-01</p></td><td><p>1,116</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1999-00</p></td><td><p>965</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The budget for the supply of new affordable housing in 2014-15 is £1,239 million. Our Affordable Homes Programme is on track to deliver 170,000 new affordable homes between 2011 and 2015, with £19.5 billion of public and private funding. Over 144,000 homes were delivered by the end of September 2014. <em>(DCLG Affordable Housing Supply, 2013-14 (16 October 2014), table 2012, Affordable Housing starts and completions funded by the HCA and GLA (20 November 2014). </em>We are confident that we will meet the target.<br><br>217,000 affordable housing have been delivered from April 2010 to September 2014.<br><br>£38 billion of public and private investment will help ensure 275,000 new affordable homes are provided between 2015 and 2020. This means over the next parliament we will build more new affordable homes than during any equivalent period in the last twenty years.<br><br></p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 25/03/2015 16:23:29 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

114634

	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	Mining
	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 he has to ensure that residents can veto proposals to extract minerals in their localities.
	tabling member constituency	Eastleigh
	tabling member printed	Mr Michael Thornton
	uin	213555
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p>Without minerals, the country cannot provide the raw materials for construction, to help build and maintain homes, roads and railway lines. Traditional materials are also needed to maintain historic buildings. Hence, some extraction will always need to take place.</p><p> </p><p>However, as with housing, this Government has abolished top-down regional targets in the Regional Strategies, and given councils more power and discretion through Local Plans to determine where development should and should not go.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 17/11/2014 16:29:45 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	4273 label Biography information for Mr Mike Thornton