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77875

	registered interest
	date	15/07/2014
	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	Fire Services: Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, for what reasons the actuarial reduction for a firefighter who retires earlier than normal pension age under the proposed new pension scheme for firefighters is calculated from the state pension age and not the scheme's normal pension age.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	205715
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Under the terms of the Proposed Final Agreement for the firefighters’ pension scheme 2015 in England the actuarial reduction for a firefighter who retired earlier than the scheme’s Normal Pension Age but at the age of 57 or above would have been calculated from the Normal Pension Age. The actuarial reduction for a firefighter who retired between the ages of 55 and 57 would have been calculated from their state pension age. However, in the light of responses received to the second consultation on the firefighters’ pension scheme 2015, the Government decided to reinstate its offer, first made in June 2013, under which all actuarial reductions in the case of early retirement are calculated from the Normal Pension Age. This decision was communicated in a letter to Chief Fire Officers and Chairs of fire authorities on 9 July 2014. The letter can be found at</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/firefighters-pension-scheme-reforms" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/firefighters-pension-scheme-reforms</a> and I have placed a copy in the Library of the House.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 21/07/2014 15:17:59 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

63191

	registered interest
	date	23/06/2014
	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	Regeneration: Thames Gateway
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much each local authority in the Thames Gateway spent on economic development activities in each of the last 15 years for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
	tabling member printed	Nicholas Soames
	uin	201953
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/08/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The information is not centrally held in the form requested and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>I would note that many of the local authorities in the Thames Gateway cover an area larger than just the Thames Gateway, and do not split their published expenditure between inside and outside the Thames Gateway.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 201950 question first answered 21/08/2014 11:52:25 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

63194

	registered interest
	date	23/06/2014
	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	Regeneration: Thames Gateway
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much each local authority in the Thames Gateway spent on regeneration activities in the last 15 years for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
	tabling member printed	Nicholas Soames
	uin	201950
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/08/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The information is not centrally held in the form requested and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>I would note that many of the local authorities in the Thames Gateway cover an area larger than just the Thames Gateway, and do not split their published expenditure between inside and outside the Thames Gateway.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 201953 question first answered 21/08/2014 11:52:25 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

77047

	registered interest
	date	10/07/2014
	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	Coalfields Regeneration Trust
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much funding has been awarded to the Coalfields Regeneration Trust in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	205109
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>In 2010, the previous Administration initiated a review of coalfields regeneration; this was completed in September 2010 and the Government’s response was published in March 2011 – as summarised in the Written Ministerial Statement by my rt. hon. Friend, the Member for Welwyn Hatfield (Grant Shapps), on 10 March 2011, <em>Official Report</em>, Column 74WS. This outlined a four year programme to make the Trust self-financing, and a tapered level of funding. As laid out in that approach, funding to the Trust was £17.7 million in 2010-11, £16 million in 2011-12, £14 million in 2012-13, £12 million in 2013-14 and will be £10 million in 2014-15.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In line with the strategy, the Coalfields Regeneration Trust will no longer receive financial support from DCLG after March 2015, but they have been allowed to invest grant in assets, whilst still adhering to their core objectives of supporting coalfields communities to enable them to generate an income from 2015 onwards. The Trust now has a strong portfolio of investment and an opportunity to concentrate on the areas where they add value.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Homes and Communities Agency’s Coalfields Programme has invested over £660 million in coalfields project. The land assets associated with Coalfields Projects are expected to form part of the Homes and Communities Agency’s upcoming programme to dispose of Public Sector Land.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>DCLG’s Coalfields Funds have also been investing in innovative small and medium firms in deprived former coalfields areas and will continue to do so until mid-2016, as per the June 2009 contractual agreement with the Coalfields Growth Fund partnership. As of 30 June 2014 the Funds have invested £16.9 million in total.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><br></p><p>More broadly, the Government’s approach is to provide local leaders, residents and businesses with the powers, flexibilities, options and incentives to put them in the driving seat to regenerate their area, strengthen their local economy, and improve their opportunities.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As part of its long-term economic plan to secure Britain’s future, the Government has agreed a series of Growth Deals with businesses and local authorities across England which will provide support for local businesses to train young people, create thousands of new jobs, build thousands of new homes and start hundreds of infrastructure projects; including transport improvements and superfast broadband networks. There is a real opportunity for the Local Enterprise Partnerships which cover former coalfield areas to take a major role in taking forward regeneration locally.</p><p> </p><p><em> </em></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 205254 question first answered 24/09/2014 15:29:40 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

63199

	registered interest
	date	23/06/2014
	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	Fire Services
	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 estimate the Government spend per head of population on fire and rescue services in (a) Nottinghamshire, (b) the East Midlands and (c) England in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Sherwood
	tabling member printed	Mr Mark Spencer
	uin	201779
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The table below shows local authority expenditure on fire and rescue services, as well as the number of fire incidents attended, over the last decade. It illustrates the significant fall in the number of incidents attended, whilst average spending has remained broadly the same over that long-term period.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td colspan="2"><p><em>Expenditure per head</em></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><em>Fire incidents attended</em></p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>Nottinghamshire</p></td><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>Nottinghamshire</p></td><td><p>England</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2003-04</p></td><td><p>£31.98</p></td><td><p>£34.82</p></td><td><p>13,800</p></td><td><p>473,600</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2004-05</p></td><td><p>£35.83</p></td><td><p>£38.36</p></td><td><p>9,000</p></td><td><p>342,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005-06</p></td><td><p>£35.40</p></td><td><p>£40.56</p></td><td><p>8,700</p></td><td><p>336,100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006-07</p></td><td><p>£36.85</p></td><td><p>£43.03</p></td><td><p>8,600</p></td><td><p>336,200</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007-08</p></td><td><p>£38.61</p></td><td><p>£43.46</p></td><td><p>7,700</p></td><td><p>293,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008-09</p></td><td><p>£38.61</p></td><td><p>£40.60</p></td><td><p>6,300</p></td><td><p>249,200</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>£39.54</p></td><td><p>£41.71</p></td><td><p>6,200</p></td><td><p>241,400</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>£38.48</p></td><td><p>£41.12</p></td><td><p>5,600</p></td><td><p>228,400</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>£37.64</p></td><td><p>£39.87</p></td><td><p>6,100</p></td><td><p>223,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>£36.98</p></td><td><p>£39.61</p></td><td><p>3,300</p></td><td><p>154,400</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><sup>Sources: Revenue Outturn forms and Office of National Statistic’s mid-year population estimates. </sup></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>My Department does not publish statistics by the former Government Office Regions.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Last year, Sir Ken Knight’s independent review of the fire and rescue services found huge variations in the way that local fire and rescue authorities operated. Services continue to spend according to the budget they are given, rather than to the risks they have to manage. Huge variations exist between how the 46 different fire authorities operate, with the cost per head of providing a service almost double in some areas to that of others. This did not seem to be related to whether they are large or small, rural or urban, deprived or affluent.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Sir Ken concluded that there were significant opportunities for sensible savings such as through: sharing of senior staff, reforms to flexible staffing and crewing arrangements, better procurement, shared services, collaboration with emergency services and other organisations on service delivery and estates, sickness management, locally-led mergers and operational collaborations, new fire-fighting technology, preventative approaches and working with local businesses.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 09/09/2014 14:58:57 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer

63853

	registered interest
	date	25/06/2014
	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	Parking
	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 all responses to his Department's consultation on local authority parking.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
	tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
	uin	202289
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>We have placed in the Library of the House, a copy of the detailed summary of the 800 responses to the consultation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 24/07/2014 14:48:00 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

77053

	registered interest
	date	10/07/2014
	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	Coalfields Regeneration Trust
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if his Department will make an assessment of the implications for its policies of the conclusions and recommendations of the recent report from the Coalfields Regeneration Trust entitled The State of the Coalfields; and whether his Department provides or plans to provide funding for the Coalfields Regeneration Trust.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	205254
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>In 2010, the previous Administration initiated a review of coalfields regeneration; this was completed in September 2010 and the Government’s response was published in March 2011 – as summarised in the Written Ministerial Statement by my rt. hon. Friend, the Member for Welwyn Hatfield (Grant Shapps), on 10 March 2011, <em>Official Report</em>, Column 74WS. This outlined a four year programme to make the Trust self-financing, and a tapered level of funding. As laid out in that approach, funding to the Trust was £17.7 million in 2010-11, £16 million in 2011-12, £14 million in 2012-13, £12 million in 2013-14 and will be £10 million in 2014-15.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In line with the strategy, the Coalfields Regeneration Trust will no longer receive financial support from DCLG after March 2015, but they have been allowed to invest grant in assets, whilst still adhering to their core objectives of supporting coalfields communities to enable them to generate an income from 2015 onwards. The Trust now has a strong portfolio of investment and an opportunity to concentrate on the areas where they add value.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Homes and Communities Agency’s Coalfields Programme has invested over £660 million in coalfields project. The land assets associated with Coalfields Projects are expected to form part of the Homes and Communities Agency’s upcoming programme to dispose of Public Sector Land.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>DCLG’s Coalfields Funds have also been investing in innovative small and medium firms in deprived former coalfields areas and will continue to do so until mid-2016, as per the June 2009 contractual agreement with the Coalfields Growth Fund partnership. As of 30 June 2014 the Funds have invested £16.9 million in total.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><br></p><p>More broadly, the Government’s approach is to provide local leaders, residents and businesses with the powers, flexibilities, options and incentives to put them in the driving seat to regenerate their area, strengthen their local economy, and improve their opportunities.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As part of its long-term economic plan to secure Britain’s future, the Government has agreed a series of Growth Deals with businesses and local authorities across England which will provide support for local businesses to train young people, create thousands of new jobs, build thousands of new homes and start hundreds of infrastructure projects; including transport improvements and superfast broadband networks. There is a real opportunity for the Local Enterprise Partnerships which cover former coalfield areas to take a major role in taking forward regeneration locally.</p><p> </p><p><em> </em></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 205109 question first answered 24/09/2014 15:29:40 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

77893

	registered interest
	date	15/07/2014
	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	Future High Streets Forum
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, on how many occasions the Future High Streets Forum has met this year; and who has attended each such meeting.
	tabling member constituency	Streatham
	tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
	uin	206018
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Future High Streets Forum has met three times this year, on 21 January, 29 April and 8 July. Attendee details can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/future-high-streets-forum" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/future-high-streets-forum</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 22/07/2014 13:34:57 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

77549

	registered interest
	date	14/07/2014
	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	Parking Offences: CCTV
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 10 July 2014, Official Report, column 408W, on parking offences: CCTV, what proportion of (a) organisations and (b) individuals responding to his consultation on local authority parking (i) agreed with, (ii) did not agree with and (iii) expressed no view on the Government's intention to abolish the use of closed circuit television cameras for parking enforcment.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
	tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
	uin	205553
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>I have placed in the Library of the House, a copy of the Government response to the consultation which outlines the feedback to the questions asked. For the Government's public policy rationale for our reforms, I refer the rt. hon. Member to the previous answer he received on 10 July.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 17/07/2014 14:57:42 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

77542

	registered interest
	date	14/07/2014
	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	Fire Services: Industrial Disputes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 25 June 2014, Official Report, column 311, on the firefighters' dispute, what his proposals are to resolve the firefighters' dispute; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Knowsley
	tabling member printed	Mr George Howarth
	uin	205671
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The consultation on the draft regulations has now concluded and whilst final decisions are still to be taken on the detail of the scheme design, representative bodies and the employers were informed on 9 July that the Department had decided to reinstate the offer made in June last year, regarding more generous actuarial reductions to the pensions of firefighters who retire between the ages of 55 and 57. The actuarial reduction rate applied to benefits accrued in the 2015 scheme would be 21.8 per cent at age 55, and 17.9 per cent at age 56, using today’s assumptions. This compares favourably with the Firefighters’ Pension Scheme 2006, where the reduction at age 55 is around 40 per cent, and at age 56 is around 38 per cent. All pension benefits built up by a member in their current scheme will be fully protected, calculated on their final salary, and can be taken on retirement from the member’s current pension age without actuarial reduction. On top of this, as set out in the recent consultation, our proposals include a significant reduction in employee contribution rates for firefighters transferring from the 1992 Scheme to the 2015 Scheme. Contributions for such a firefighter earning £29,000 a year will go down from 14.2 per cent to 12.2 per cent in April 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Despite these arrangements, the Fire Brigades Union has continued with its campaign of strike action. Progress towards resolving this dispute remains entirely in their hands.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 21/07/2014 15:01:24 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	481 label Biography information for Sir George Howarth