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174084

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2015
	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	Domestic Waste: Waste Disposal
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government which local authorities in England have taken part in the Weekly Collection Support Scheme; how many authorities took part in the expression of interest process; which have subsequently received financial support, and how much; and of those, which have reinstated weekly collections of general (“grey” or “residual”) waste, which have used the support to collect food waste separately, and which have used it in other ways.
	tabling member printed	Lord Greaves
	uin	HL4187
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2015 answer text <p>In March 2012, my Department received initial expressions of interest from 151 lead local authorities, which resulted in bids from 113 local authorities. Some local authorities submitted multiple expressions of interest which were consolidated before final bid stage. The final bids were then assessed in line with the published criteria, and recipients then awarded funding.</p><p>A detailed table listing the schemes that are being supported is attached and on my Department’s website.</p><p> </p><p>It may be helpful to the noble Lord to outline what this Government has delivered since 2010:</p><p> </p><ul><li>Safeguarded weekly collections for 6 million households through the Weekly Collection Support Scheme as well as championing innovation and best practice; the answer of 14 May 2014, <em>Official Report</em>, House of Commons 646W, outlined how 14 million households in England have some form of weekly collection of smelly rubbish.</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><ul><li>Issued the first ever Whitehall guidance on weekly bin collections, demolishing the myths that fortnightly bin collections are needed to save money or increase recycling. This best practice was directly informed by the Weekly Collections Support Scheme;</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><ul><li>Supported over 40 innovative reward schemes to back recycling through the Weekly Collection Support Scheme (as pledged in the Coalition Agreement); the winning bids for a further Recycling Rewards Scheme for 2015-16 will be announced shortly;</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><ul><li>Stopped the Audit Commission inspections which marked down councils who do not adopt fortnightly rubbish collections, and rejected the Audit Commission guidance which advocated fortnightly collections (“Waste Management: The Strategic Challenge and Waste Management Quick Guide”);</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><ul><li>Abolished the Local Area Agreements and National Indicator 191 imposed by Whitehall which created perverse incentives to downgrade waste collection services;</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><ul><li>Scrapped the Whitehall requirement for municipal Annual Efficiency Statements, which allowed a reduction in the frequency of a household rubbish collection service to qualify as a “valid efficiency” and allowed revenue from bin fines to classed as a “cashable efficiency gain”;</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><ul><li>Scrapped the imposition of eco-towns which would have had fortnightly bin collections and/or bin taxes as part of the “eco-standards”;</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><ul><li>Through the Localism Act, revoked the 2008 legislation that allowed for the imposition of new bin taxes;</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><ul><li>Issued guidance to stop the imposition of illegal ‘backdoor bin charging’ on households bins;</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><ul><li>Stopped funding the ‘Waste Improvement Network’ which told councils to adopt fortnightly collections as best practice;</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><ul><li>Challenged the incorrect interpretation by some bodies that European Union directives require fortnightly collections, and resisted the imposition of bin taxes by the European Union;</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><ul><li>Removing powers of entry and snooping powers from bin inspectors and scrapped guidance telling councils to rifle through families’ bins;</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><ul><li>Changed building regulations and planning guidance to tackle ‘bin blight’, and worked with the NHBC Foundation to produce new best practice guidance for house builders;</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><ul><li>Changing the law through the Deregulation Bill to scrap unfair bin fines.</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Without our active support, Ministers are clear that weekly collections would have disappeared across England. This Government’s approach can be contrasted with the devolved Labour-led Administration in Wales, where fortnightly bin collections are official policy, and pilots of monthly bin collections are being actively encouraged.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmed question first answered 12/02/2015 14:39:13 question first ministerially corrected 16/02/2015 17:33:13 answering member 3470 label Biography information for Lord Ahmed attachment 1 file name PQ HL4187 List of successful bidders to the Weekly Collection Support Scheme.xls title List of Supported Schemes previous answer version 45064 answering member printed Lord Ahmed answering member 3470 label Biography information for Lord Ahmed attachment 1 file name 150203 PQ677818 Lord Greaves - Attachment.pdf title List of Supported Schemes
	tabling member	2569 label Biography information for Lord Greaves

176657

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2015
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Electoral Register
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the number of electors registered in each constituency on the new electoral registers; what is the change compared with the registers as first published in the previous year in (1) numbers, and (2) as a percentage change; and whether they are taking further action to increase the number of people registered before the General Election.
	tabling member printed	Lord Greaves
	uin	HL4566
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2015 answer text <p>We are only mid-way through the transition to Individual Electoral Registration (IER) and so the current electoral registers offer only an initial and partial snapshot of the registration landscape. Electoral statistics based on the last electoral registers published under the previous household system are available on the Office for National Statistics website:</p><p><a href="http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/pop-estimate/electoral-statistics-for-uk/2013/stb---2013-electoral-statistics.html" target="_blank">http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/pop-estimate/electoral-statistics-for-uk/2013/stb---2013-electoral-statistics.html</a></p><p> </p><p>ONS plans to publish statistics for England and Wales on 26 February based on the registers as at 1 December 2014 and on 16 April for the Scottish registers as at 2 March 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government has provided funding of over £14 million between financial years 2013/14 and 2014/15 to support the costs of activities aimed at increasing the completeness and accuracy of the electoral register. We have also provided all Local Authorities and Valuation Joint Boards in Great Britain with a share of £30m resource funding, across this financial year and the previous financial year, to support them in making the transition to IER.</p> answering member printed Lord Wallace of Saltaire question first answered 12/02/2015 16:56:29 answering member 1816 label Biography information for Lord Wallace of Saltaire
	tabling member	2569 label Biography information for Lord Greaves

178119

	registered interest
	date	05/02/2015
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Free Schools: North West
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many free schools there currently are in (a) Preston, (b) Lancashire and (c) the North West; and how much funding her Department has allocated to the funding of free schools in each such area.
	tabling member constituency	Preston
	tabling member printed	Mark Hendrick
	uin	223512
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2015 answer text <p>In answer to the above question;</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><ol><li><p>There are currently no free schools in Preston.</p><p> </p></li><li><p>There are currently three free schools in the local authority area of Lancashire with the total revenue funding allocation of £2,789,724 for the academic year 2014 to 2015.</p><p> </p></li><li><p>There are currently <ins class="ministerial">ten</ins><del class="ministerial">seven</del> free schools in the county of Lancashire, which includes the local authorities of <ins class="ministerial">Lancashire,</ins> Blackpool and Blackburn with Darwen, with the total revenue funding allocation of <ins class="ministerial">£14,802,909.77</ins><del class="ministerial">£12,013,185</del> for the academic year 2014 to 2015.</p><p> </p></li><li><p>The North West has <ins class="ministerial">40</ins><del class="ministerial">41</del> free schools with a total revenue funding allocation of £54,002,376 for the academic year 2014 to 2015.</p></li></ol><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 12/02/2015 17:31:03 question first ministerially corrected 27/02/2015 12:43:41 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson previous answer version 45242 answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

178160

	registered interest
	date	05/02/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Heart Diseases
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many admissions to hospital with a (a) primary and (b) secondary diagnosis of coronary heart disease per head of population there were in (i) each clinical commissioning group and its predecessor organisation and (ii) England in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Sutton and Cheam
	tabling member printed	Paul Burstow
	uin	223598
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2015 answer text <p>The following tables show the number of admissions to hospital with a primary and secondary diagnosis of coronary heart disease by primary care trust of treatment for the years 2004/05 to 2012/13; by clinical commissioning group of treatment for 2013/14 and for England as a whole.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 12/02/2015 15:52:16 question first ministerially corrected 12/02/2015 16:09:16 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison attachment 1 file name Hospital Admissions data.xlsx title No. of adnissions - CHD previous answer version 45133 answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	204 label Biography information for Paul Burstow

169873

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Travel
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department has spent on (a) taxis, (b) first class train tickets and (c) business class air travel in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
	tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
	uin	218478
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2015 answer text <p>The Home Office is performing well in reducing spending while protecting and improving our services. Against an 09/10 baseline, Government has saved £1.4billion through centralising arrangements for common goods and services. <br><br>Since 2009/10 we hve reduced the use of taxis by over 30% and we have cut spending on first class rail travel by 92% since 2010/11. Between 2006-2010 and 2010-2014, we have cut spending on taxis by £1.4m, on first-class rail by £3m, and all air travel by £4m.<br><br>The spend for taxis, first class train tickets and business class air travel in the last five years are as follows. <br><br>Taxis*<br>2009-2010 £768,623.66<br>2010-2011 £531,192.09<br>2011-2012 £318,944.83<br>2012-2013 £534,167.57<br>2013-2014 £529,919.39<br><br><br>First Class Train Tickets**<br>2010-2011 £203,884.12<br>2011-2012 £26,051.22<br>2012-2013 £23,232.63<br>2013-2014 £22,934.14<br><br><br>Business Class Air Travel***<br>2010-2011 £678,187.04<br>2011-2012 £861,537.43<br>2012-2013 £667,298.69<br>2013-2014 £1,010,037.59<br><br>It is not possible to separately identify the cost of first class train tickets and business class air travel in 2009/2010.</p><p /> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 12/02/2015 18:38:48 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

171996

	registered interest
	date	05/01/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration: Scotland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many unresolved (a) asylum and (b) immigration cases there were in each (i) parliamentary constituency and (ii) local authority area in Scotland since May 2010, up to the latest period for which figures are available in 2013.
	tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
	tabling member printed	Pamela Nash
	uin	219752
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2015 answer text <p>The number of outstanding asylum and immigration cases recorded as associated with each Scottish parliamentary constituency can be found at Table 1 below. The number of outstanding cases recorded as associated with each Scottish local authority area can be found in Table 2. The figures that have been provided below relate to main applicants who have made an immigration application or an asylum claim between 1 May 2010 - 31 December 2013, and whose claim was recorded as unresolved on 31 December 2013. For data protection purposes, cohorts of fewer than 10 people have been indicated with a *.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The data has been compiled by identifying the latest valid postcode on the Case Information Database (CID). For Scottish postcodes, this was then matched to the ONS Postcode database to associate it with a parliamentary constituency and local authority as far as possible. This postcode is the most recently recorded postcode for correspondence purposes and may not be represent the applicant’s of place of residence or be the same postcode provided at the time of applying.</p><p>Table 1</p><p><strong>Number of outstanding asylum and immigration cases by constituency</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Constituency</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Immigration</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Asylum</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aberdeen North</p></td><td><p>369</p></td><td><p>15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aberdeen South</p></td><td><p>211</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Airdrie and Shotts</p></td><td><p>24</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Angus</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Argyll and Bute</p></td><td><p>31</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Banff and Buchan</p></td><td><p>42</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk</p></td><td><p>28</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Central Ayrshire</p></td><td><p>33</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill</p></td><td><p>31</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dumfries and Galloway</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dundee East</p></td><td><p>55</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dundee West</p></td><td><p>143</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dunfermline and West Fife</p></td><td><p>35</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Dunbartonshire</p></td><td><p>34</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow</p></td><td><p>58</p></td><td><p>16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Lothian</p></td><td><p>36</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Renfrewshire</p></td><td><p>43</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Edinburgh East</p></td><td><p>255</p></td><td><p>23</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Edinburgh North and Leith</p></td><td><p>289</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Edinburgh South</p></td><td><p>121</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Edinburgh South West</p></td><td><p>415</p></td><td><p>18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Edinburgh West</p></td><td><p>96</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Falkirk</p></td><td><p>43</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Glasgow Central</p></td><td><p>769</p></td><td><p>277</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Glasgow East</p></td><td><p>87</p></td><td><p>246</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Glasgow North</p></td><td><p>238</p></td><td><p>184</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Glasgow North East</p></td><td><p>256</p></td><td><p>416</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Glasgow North West</p></td><td><p>158</p></td><td><p>61</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Glasgow South</p></td><td><p>140</p></td><td><p>106</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Glasgow South West</p></td><td><p>169</p></td><td><p>221</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Glenrothes</p></td><td><p>32</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gordon</p></td><td><p>58</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Inverclyde</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey</p></td><td><p>43</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kilmarnock and Loudoun</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath</p></td><td><p>44</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lanark and Hamilton East</p></td><td><p>25</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Linlithgow and East Falkirk</p></td><td><p>54</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Livingston</p></td><td><p>61</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Midlothian</p></td><td><p>32</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Moray</p></td><td><p>25</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Motherwell and Wishaw</p></td><td><p>75</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Na h-Eileanan an Iar</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Ayrshire and Arran</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East Fife</p></td><td><p>55</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ochil and South Perthshire</p></td><td><p>24</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Orkney and Shetland</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Paisley and Renfrewshire North</p></td><td><p>50</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Paisley and Renfrewshire South</p></td><td><p>119</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Perth and North Perthshire</p></td><td><p>49</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ross, Skye and Lochaber</p></td><td><p>*</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rutherglen and Hamilton West</p></td><td><p>51</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stirling</p></td><td><p>53</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine</p></td><td><p>43</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Dunbartonshire</p></td><td><p>35</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Not able to determine</p></td><td><p>139</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Table 2</p><p> </p><p><strong>Number of outstanding asylum and immigration cases by local authority</strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Local Authority</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Immigration</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Asylum</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aberdeen City</p></td><td><p><strong>619</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>25</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aberdeenshire</p></td><td><p><strong>112</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>*</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Angus</p></td><td><p><strong>21</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>*</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Argyll and Bute</p></td><td><p><strong>31</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>*</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>City of Edinburgh</p></td><td><p><strong>1182</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>76</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Clackmannanshire</p></td><td><p><strong>10</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dumfries and Galloway</p></td><td><p><strong>30</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>*</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dundee City</p></td><td><p><strong>197</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>12</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Ayrshire</p></td><td><p><strong>19</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>*</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Dunbartonshire</p></td><td><p><strong>36</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>*</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Lothian</p></td><td><p><strong>36</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>*</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Renfrewshire</p></td><td><p><strong>46</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Eilean Siar</p></td><td><p><strong>10</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Falkirk</p></td><td><p><strong>52</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>*</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Fife</p></td><td><p><strong>166</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>11</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Glasgow City</p></td><td><p><strong>1819</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1512</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Highland</p></td><td><p><strong>62</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>10</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Inverclyde</p></td><td><p><strong>18</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Midlothian</p></td><td><p><strong>32</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Moray</p></td><td><p><strong>25</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>*</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Ayrshire</p></td><td><p><strong>32</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>*</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Lanarkshire</p></td><td><p><strong>144</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>17</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Orkney Islands</p></td><td><p><strong>5</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Perth and Kinross</p></td><td><p><strong>63</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>*</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Renfrewshire</p></td><td><p><strong>169</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>10</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scottish Borders</p></td><td><p><strong>33</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>*</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Shetland Islands</p></td><td><p><strong>6</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>*</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Ayrshire</p></td><td><p><strong>39</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>*</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Lanarkshire</p></td><td><p><strong>134</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>31</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stirling</p></td><td><p><strong>53</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>*</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Dunbartonshire</p></td><td><p><strong>35</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>*</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Lothian</p></td><td><p><strong>107</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>*</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Not able to determine</p></td><td><p><strong>116</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 12/02/2015 17:53:52 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	3909 label Biography information for Pamela Nash

172719

	registered interest
	date	08/01/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Staff
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answers by Lord Bates on 18 December 2014 (HL3693) and by Lord Henley on 13 March 2013 (WA 73) and 10 January 2012 (WA37–8), which Home Office Minister authorised the decision to withhold from Parliament the names of the Home Office officials convicted of offences relating to misconduct in public office for which they have received custodial sentences; and when the previous practice of revealing such names in parliamentary answers was changed.
	tabling member printed	Lord Marlesford
	uin	HL4039
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2015 answer text <p>Lord Bates approved the response to HL3693 but in view of the Noble Lords further question we are reviewing our position and will write accordingly.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 12/02/2015 17:42:01 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	1854 label Biography information for Lord Marlesford

174370

	registered interest
	date	19/01/2015
	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	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, if he will make an assessment of the effect on the delivery of affordable housing of his Department's policy on section 106 affordable housing exemptions for small sites.
	tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
	tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
	uin	221278
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Communities and Local Government carried out a public consultation in March 2014 to invite views and local evidence on proposed changes to national policy on section 106 affordable housing and tariff contributions. All evidence submitted was carefully considered.</p><p> </p><p>As a consequence of the consultation, we amended our proposals to introduce a lower threshold of 5 units for rural areas, as outlined in my Written Ministerial Statement of 28 November 2014, <em>Official Report</em>, Column 55WS. Rural exception sites are also exempted.</p><p> </p><p>I can confirm that we have also undertaken an Equality Impact Assessment, which I will arrange to be placed in the Library of the House. We do not consider our reforms will have a negative impact on discrimination, fostering good relations or advancing equality of opportunity.</p><p> </p><p>We estimate that the policy will save, on average, £15,000 in Section 106 housing contributions per new dwelling in England—some councils are charging up to £145,000 on single dwellings. Further savings will be made from scaling back Section 106 tariffs, which may add additional charges of more than £15,000 per dwelling, over and above any housing contributions. Taken together, these reforms will deliver six-figure savings for small-scale developers in some parts of the country.</p><p> </p><p>We do not believe that our reforms will have any significant adverse effect on our affordable housing programme. We have so far delivered 217,000 new affordable homes since 2010, and are bringing in £19.5 billion of public and private in affordable housing over the current Spending Review period. In the next Parliament, we are on track to deliver a further 275,000 new affordable homes, backed up by £38 billion of public and private investment.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Builders Federation has confirmed that these changes will provide a boost to small and medium builders, stating: “This exemption would offer small and medium-sized developers a shot in the arm. The time and expense of negotiating Section 106 affordable housing contributions on small sites, and the subsequent payments, can threaten the viability of small developments and act as another barrier to the entry and growth of smaller firms”</p><p> </p><p>Similarly, the Federation of Master Builders has said: “The new ten unit threshold for affordable housing contributions is a sensible and proportionate approach to help alleviate the pressure on SME house builders who have been squeezed out of the housing market in recent years. This is important because without a viable SME house building sector we won’t be able to build the number of new homes that are needed to address the housing crisis”.</p><p> </p><p>We also listened to representations from the hon. (Labour) Member for Bassetlaw (John Mann) who has campaigned vigorously against such levies. Indeed, I would observe that under the majority of the last Labour Government, the national threshold (as stated in PPG3) was actually 15 units.</p><p> </p><p>Loading stealth taxes on new housing just makes housing less affordable and cuts house building. Unrealistic Section 106 charges result in no development, no regeneration and no community benefits: reducing them can result in more housing and more affordable housing. Our reforms will help unblock small stalled sites and provide a boost to self-builders and small house builders.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 12/02/2015 17:08:26 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis previous answer version 39802 answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins answering member 4043
	tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds

175590

	registered interest
	date	26/01/2015
	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	Northumberland County Council
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have made, or intend to make, representations to Northumberland County Council about that authority’s plans to relocate its headquarters from Morpeth to Ashington, and in particular the impact of the move on residents of remoter urban and rural areas of that county; and, if so, in what terms.
	tabling member printed	Lord Vinson
	uin	HL4433
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2015 answer text <p>We have made no such representations as such decisions are for Councils themselves. If Northumberland County Council have decided to relocate their Headquarters, they will have to answer through the ballot box for the decision and the impacts it will have on the people of Northumberland.<br><br>Councils should consider the potential savings to taxpayers from better property management, whilst also carefully considering the public's access to frontline services.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 12/02/2015 14:48:49 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
	tabling member	1807 label Biography information for Lord Vinson

175960

	registered interest
	date	27/01/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Crimes of Violence: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which organisations tackling violence against women and girls receive central government funding for a telephone helpline; and when the funding for each organisation is due to end.
	tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
	tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
	uin	222166
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2015 answer text <p>Tackling violence against women and girls (VAWG) is a key priority for this government, and ring-fenced funding of £40million is a critical part of our VAWG strategy and action plans. Of this ring-fenced funding, over £900,000 per <br>year has been provided to support the following free phone national helplines: the National Stalking Helpline run by Suzy Lamplugh Trust; the National Domestic Violence Helpline run jointly by Women's Aid and Refuge; Broken <br>Rainbow, who offer help to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender victims; the Male Advice(and Enquiry)Line and the RESPECT helpline.<br><br>We are currently giving careful consideration to future funding options and a decision will be announced in coming weeks.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornsey and Wood Green answering member printed Lynne Featherstone grouped question UIN 222164 222165 question first answered 12/02/2015 16:00:53 answering member 1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone previous answer version 42096 answering member constituency Hornsey and Wood Green answering member printed Lynne Featherstone answering member 1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone
	tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra