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444486

	registered interest
	date	13/01/2016
	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	House of Lords: Parliamentary Procedure
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask the Leader of the House whether she will initiate discussions with the usual channels as to the desirability of establishing a general principle whereby items of business with a speakers list of more than 35 members should be tabled over two days, and not on one.
	tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
	uin	HL5037
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2016 answer text <p>Where the Speakers List for a debate is exceptionally long, it is open to the Usual Channels to consider special arrangements - including an early sitting of the House (as was arranged for the Second Reading of the European Union Referendum Bill) or adjourning the debate and resuming it on a subsequent day. However, in considering whether to make such arrangements, account must also be taken of members wishing to speak who may not be able to be present on a subsequent day, or for an earlier sitting, and would consequently not be able to participate if such an arrangement were made at short notice. For this reason, case-by-case consideration of the best way forward may serve the House better than a general principle, and so I do not propose to initiate discussions along the lines suggested at this time.</p><br /> answering member printed Baroness Stowell of Beeston question first answered 21/01/2016 12:23:18 answering member 4205 label Biography information for Baroness Stowell of Beeston
	tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon

444523

	registered interest
	date	13/01/2016
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, if he will review Norman James' case as raised in the letter from the hon. Member for Torfaen of 15 June 2015 to take account of recent developments in that case.
	tabling member constituency	Torfaen
	tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
	uin	22400
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2016 answer text <p>My office has no plans to conduct a review into this matter. The specific allegations raised by Mr James are ones that would be more appropriate to the police to investigate rather than the Crown Prosecution Service for which I am answerable to this House and which in any event does not have any investigatory powers.<strong><br> </strong></p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 18/01/2016 15:48:21 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

444524

	registered interest
	date	13/01/2016
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Fraud: Criminal Investigation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, pursuant to his contribution of 16 September 2015, Official Report, columns 384-5WH, on Alan Richards and Kashif Shabir: SFO, what the threshold is for an investigation by the Serious Fraud Office.
	tabling member constituency	Ogmore
	tabling member printed	Huw Irranca-Davies
	uin	22432
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2016 answer text <p>The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) takes on the most serious or complex fraud cases, including cases of bribery or corruption. In considering whether to take on an investigation, the Director of the SFO applies his Statement of Principle, which includes consideration of:</p><br /><ul><li>whether the apparent criminality undermines UK PLC commercial or financial interests in general and in the City of London in particular,</li><li>whether the actual or potential financial loss involved is high,</li><li>whether actual or potential economic harm is significant,</li><li>whether there is a significant public interest element, and</li><li>whether there is new species of fraud</li></ul><br /><p>The SFO also pursues criminals for the financial benefit they have made from their crimes, and assists overseas jurisdictions with their investigations into serious and complex fraud, bribery and corruption cases.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 20/01/2016 11:40:35 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	1476 label Biography information for Huw Irranca-Davies

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

444573

	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	Members: Correspondence
	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 intends to respond to the letter from the hon. Member for Preston dated 7 October 2015 on rents for supported housing schemes run by housing associations and local authorities.
	tabling member constituency	Preston
	tabling member printed	Mr Mark Hendrick
	uin	22257
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2016 answer text <p>This was answered and sent out on 14 January.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 18/01/2016 16:55:26 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

444574

	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	Members: Correspondence
	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 he has taken to improve the time to respond to correspondence from hon. Members and Peers since the tabling of the statement on 3 June 2015, Handling Members' Correspondence in 2014, HCWS11.
	tabling member constituency	Preston
	tabling member printed	Mr Mark Hendrick
	uin	22258
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2016 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to my answer of 15 December 2015, PQ 19650.</p><p>The reporting of performance of Government Departments in handling correspondence from hon. Members is co-ordinated by the Cabinet Office and published annually.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis grouped question UIN 22259 question first answered 18/01/2016 16:43:17 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

444575

	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	Members: Correspondence
	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 letters his Department received from hon. Members and Peers in each month in 2015; and how many such letters received a substantive response within 10 working days.
	tabling member constituency	Preston
	tabling member printed	Mr Mark Hendrick
	uin	22259
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2016 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to my answer of 15 December 2015, PQ 19650.</p><p>The reporting of performance of Government Departments in handling correspondence from hon. Members is co-ordinated by the Cabinet Office and published annually.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis grouped question UIN 22258 question first answered 18/01/2016 16:43:17 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

444436

	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	Flood Control
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what are the role and responsibilities of the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) in relation to flood prevention and defences; whether they have been changed in the light of recent flooding; whether they have asked the NIC for advice following that flooding; and whether they have received any such advice.
	tabling member printed	Lord Greaves
	uin	HL4987
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2016 answer text <p>The National Infrastructure Commission is an independent body that will advise on the country’s infrastructure challenges by adopting a long-term approach in assessing the UK’s infrastructure needs over a 10 to 30 year horizon.</p><p>The Commission will have a mandate to examine all sectors of economic infrastructure – including flood defences, energy, transport, water and sewage, waste and digital communications.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 25/01/2016 12:16:40 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	2569 label Biography information for Lord Greaves

444437

	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 Estates: Regeneration
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their definition of a sink estate and what criteria they are using to draw up a list of them; what discussions they have had, or will have, with local authorities before drawing up such a list and before any decisions are made about the future of estates on that list; and which estates they have so far identified that (1) qualify as sink estates, and (2) they propose to demolish in whole or in part.
	tabling member printed	Lord Greaves
	uin	HL4988
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2016 answer text <p>The Estates Regeneration Advisory Panel members, criteria and terms of reference will be published in due course.</p><p>The Panel will evaluate the potential for the regeneration of particular estates over the coming months, and will report by this year’s Autumn Statement.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 27/01/2016 17:23:30 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	2569 label Biography information for Lord Greaves