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683069

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2017
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Yemen: Ports
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps the Government is taking to support the rebuilding of cranes in Hodeidah port in Yemen in order to ensure that food supplies can be imported into that country.
	tabling member constituency	Makerfield
	tabling member printed	Yvonne Fovargue
	uin	62802
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2017 answer text <p>The UK Government is discussing short-term options to improve port infrastructure, including mobile cranes, with Gulf countries, the US and the UN. The conflict makes any long-term investment in infrastructure difficult so we are also calling on all parties to the conflict to protect civilian infrastructure, including Hodeidah port, from further damage; and to restart political talks in order to end the conflict.</p><p><strong><br> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stockton South answering member printed James Wharton question first answered 06/02/2017 17:11:05 answering member 4123 label Biography information for Lord Wharton of Yarm
	tabling member	4034 label Biography information for Yvonne Fovargue

444580

	registered interest
	date	13/01/2016
	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	Property: Flood Control
	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 support property level flood resilience measures.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	22409
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2016 answer text <p>The Department is supporting local authorities affected by Storm Desmond and Storm Eva with community recovery, business support and property resilience through the Communities and Business Recovery Scheme. Initial guidance on the support available was sent to local authorities in December. More detailed guidance on support for property resilience was issued on 15 January, on the same day that a Property Level Resilience Workshop was hosted at Manchester Metropolitan University.</p><p>To date the Department has paid out over £47 million under the Communities and Business Recovery Scheme. It is for local authorities to determine how to use this money to best meet local need and ensure value for money.</p><br /> answering member constituency Stockton South answering member printed James Wharton question first answered 18/01/2016 17:59:01 answering member 4123 label Biography information for Lord Wharton of Yarm
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

444581

	registered interest
	date	13/01/2016
	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: Floods
	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 £500 grants were provided to help households affected by flooding in each local authority in the Greater Manchester area between 1 December 2015 and 13 January 2016; and how much funding has been received by each of those councils to provide such grants up to 13 January 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	22410
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2016 answer text <p>The Department is supporting local authorities affected by Storm Desmond and Storm Eva with community recovery, business support and property resilience through the Communities and Business Recovery Scheme. It is for local authorities to determine how to use this money to best meet local need and ensure value for money.</p><p>To date the Department has paid out over £47 million under the Communities and Business Recovery Scheme, including the amounts below to local authorities in the Greater Manchester area.</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Local authority</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Funding received (£)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bolton</p></td><td><p>384,377</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bury</p></td><td><p>1,495,514</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>City of Manchester</p></td><td><p>129,290</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oldham</p></td><td><p>29,910</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rochdale</p></td><td><p>1,403,164</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Salford</p></td><td><p>1,981,754</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Trafford</p></td><td><p>3,694</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wigan</p></td><td><p>178,009</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> answering member constituency Stockton South answering member printed James Wharton question first answered 18/01/2016 16:51:42 answering member 4123 label Biography information for Lord Wharton of Yarm
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

641326

	registered interest
	date	21/11/2016
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Dominican Republic: Floods
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what support her Department is providing to the Dominican Republic to assist with the flooding in that country.
	tabling member constituency	Colchester
	tabling member printed	Will Quince
	uin	53910
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2016 answer text <p>The UK has monitored the situation since heavy persistent rain started falling in parts of the Dominican Republic on 7 November and stood ready to offer assistance if required.</p><p>The Government of the Dominican Republic have not requested international assistance.</p> answering member constituency Stockton South answering member printed James Wharton question first answered 24/11/2016 16:30:47 answering member 4123 label Biography information for Lord Wharton of Yarm
	tabling member	4423 label Biography information for Will Quince

484357

	registered interest
	date	22/03/2016
	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	Energy Performance Certificates
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what his policy is on (a) setting a fixed price for Energy Performance Certificates and (b) ensuring that Energy Performance Certificates are valid for more than 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Caerphilly
	tabling member printed	Wayne David
	uin	32184
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>The overall price charged by accredited energy assessors to house holders and businesses for the preparation of Energy Performance Certificates is not set by government.</p><p>The validity period is determined by the EU Directive on the Energy Performance of Buildings which does not allow the validity period to be extended past 10 years<em>.</em></p> answering member constituency Stockton South answering member printed James Wharton question first answered 11/04/2016 17:30:43 answering member 4123 label Biography information for Lord Wharton of Yarm
	tabling member	1398 label Biography information for Wayne David

484358

	registered interest
	date	22/03/2016
	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	Energy Performance Certificates
	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 ensure that every property has an Energy Performance Certificate by 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Caerphilly
	tabling member printed	Wayne David
	uin	32182
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>An Energy Performance Certificate must be made available whenever a building is sold, rented out or constructed. There are currently no plans to introduce a requirement for every property to have an Energy Performance Certificate, since this would introduce an unnecessary additional burden on building owners and landlords.</p> answering member constituency Stockton South answering member printed James Wharton question first answered 11/04/2016 16:11:00 answering member 4123 label Biography information for Lord Wharton of Yarm
	tabling member	1398 label Biography information for Wayne David

484359

	registered interest
	date	22/03/2016
	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	Energy Performance Certificates
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent discussions his Department has had with the utility companies on contributions to the cost of Energy Performance Certificates.
	tabling member constituency	Caerphilly
	tabling member printed	Wayne David
	uin	32183
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>This Department has not had any discussions with utility companies about contributing to the cost of Energy Performance Certificates.</p> answering member constituency Stockton South answering member printed James Wharton question first answered 11/04/2016 16:14:05 answering member 4123 label Biography information for Lord Wharton of Yarm
	tabling member	1398 label Biography information for Wayne David

426879

	registered interest
	date	03/11/2015
	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 Government: Edinburgh
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what progress has been made on the proposed Edinburgh City Deal.
	tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
	tabling member printed	Tommy Sheppard
	uin	902063
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2015 answer text <p>We are working with Edinburgh and South East Scotland on their proposals to drive local economic growth and will continue to do so in partnership with the Scottish Government. As a One Nation Government, serious about rebalancing our economy, we will consider strong, credible ideas from all areas of the UK.</p> answering member constituency Stockton South answering member printed James Wharton question first answered 09/11/2015 17:07:50 answering member 4123 label Biography information for Lord Wharton of Yarm
	tabling member	4453 label Biography information for Tommy Sheppard

652745

	registered interest
	date	06/12/2016
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what financial contribution her Department has made to UNAIDS in each of the last five years; and what financial contribution her Department plans to make in 2016-17.
	tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
	tabling member printed	Tommy Sheppard
	uin	56248
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2016 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p>The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Financial Year</p></td><td><p>Core contribution</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>£10million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>£10million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>£15million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>£15million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>£15million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>£15million</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Stockton South answering member printed James Wharton question first answered 12/12/2016 17:24:57 answering member 4123 label Biography information for Lord Wharton of Yarm
	tabling member	4453 label Biography information for Tommy Sheppard

459338

	registered interest
	date	10/03/2016
	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	Floods: Northern Ireland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether the Government plans to make available to the Northern Ireland Executive funds received from the Government's application to the EU Solidarity Fund to help flood affected areas.
	tabling member constituency	Fermanagh and South Tyrone
	tabling member printed	Tom Elliott
	uin	30747
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2016 answer text <p>The Government submitted an initial UK application to the EU Solidarity Fund on Friday 26 February and we continue to refine our cost estimations.</p><p>At the date the application was made, the Government had not been approached on this matter by the Northern Ireland Executive.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stockton South answering member printed James Wharton grouped question UIN 30729 30730 question first answered 26/04/2016 14:36:48 answering member 4123 label Biography information for Lord Wharton of Yarm
	tabling member	4367 label Biography information for Tom Elliott