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1205607

registered interest
date	19/06/2020
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Domestic Abuse: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department will allocate funding to the provision of empty hotel rooms to house people fleeing domestic abuse during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Zarah Sultana
uin	61811
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2020 answer text <p>On 5 June my Department announced the allocation of £8.15 million funding to 147 refuge charities through 103 successful bids as part of the £10 million MHCLG Domestic Abuse Emergency Support Fund. This funding will re-open bedspaces which are currently closed due to COVID-19, as well as creating 1210 more bedspaces to support more victims of domestic abuse. The remaining £1.85 million of the Fund has been reopened for applications. This will enable refuge charities to continue to respond during the crisis.</p><p>My Department have also put in place a system to enable local authorities who need additional accommodation to meet demand during the pandemic to book rooms for domestic abuse victims through Crown Commercial Services.</p><p>An additional £3.2 billion has been provided to support councils in responding to the coronavirus pandemic, including supporting vulnerable people.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 24/06/2020 09:22:20 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	4786 label Biography information for Zarah Sultana

1287925

registered interest
date	22/02/2021
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Population: Coventry
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of Office of National Statistics population growth estimates for Coventry.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Zarah Sultana
uin	156593
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2021 answer text <p>The Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) is currently independently reviewing the Office for National Statistics’ population projections and population estimates following a request from the Warwickshire Campaign for the Protection of Rural England, and we will reflect on any review findings. It is therefore not appropriate to comment further on this issue, but population statistics, which inform the standard method for assessing local housing need, remain the most up-to-date and robust national statistics for this purpose.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 01/03/2021 15:26:33 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	4786 label Biography information for Zarah Sultana

1336714

registered interest
date	15/06/2021
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Parking: Key Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the extension of covid-19 restrictions beyond 21 June 2021, what assessment has he made of the potential merits of extending the emergency parking passes for (a) NHS staff members, (b) health or social care workers and (c) NHS volunteer responders.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Zarah Sultana
uin	16235
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2021 answer text <p>At the end of March 2020, the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government reached an agreement with the Local Government Association that local councils in England would voluntarily offer free car parking to all NHS workers, social care staff and NHS volunteer responders during the emergency response period.</p><p>With the national lockdown drawing to a close, challenges in managing pass fraud and an increasing number of councils moving toward local concessions for health workers and other groups, it was agreed that the national pass guidance should be withdrawn.</p><p>This is reflected in new joint parking enforcement advice provided in April to local authorities by the Local Government Association, British Parking Association and London Councils. In May, further updates were shared with NHS Trusts, the Royal Voluntary Service and local authorities, and the guidance page was updated on gov.uk.</p><p>Councils are responsible for setting their own local policy and are already acting on this advice, with some deciding to offer their own concessions. Those interested in local parking concessions can check their local councils' website for further details of any local schemes.</p><p>NHS staff continue to be eligible for free parking in hospital car parks and funding for this has been provided to NHS Trusts by government.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 21/06/2021 15:46:26 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	4786 label Biography information for Zarah Sultana

1248416

registered interest
date	03/11/2020
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Covid-19 Hardship Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much of the £500 million allocated from the Hardship Fund was spent in England and Wales between March and October 2020.
tabling member constituency	Makerfield
tabling member printed	Yvonne Fovargue
uin	110792
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2020 answer text <p>The £500 million Hardship Fund has been made available to councils in England to provide support to economically vulnerable people and households, including through reductions in council tax to recipients of working age local council tax support. The management of those allocations is a matter for local councils.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 09/11/2020 13:45:26 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	4034 label Biography information for Yvonne Fovargue

1250849

registered interest
date	11/11/2020
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Covid-19 Hardship Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much of the Hardship Fund allocated to local authorities was spent between March and October 2020; and what proportion of that fund was spent over that time period.
tabling member constituency	Makerfield
tabling member printed	Yvonne Fovargue
uin	114152
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2020 answer text <p>The £500 million Hardship Fund has been made available to councils in England to provide support to economically vulnerable people and households, including through reductions in council tax to recipients of working age local council tax support. The management of those allocations is a matter for local councils.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 16/11/2020 17:08:06 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	4034 label Biography information for Yvonne Fovargue

1251770

registered interest
date	16/11/2020
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Council Tax: Arrears
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What estimate he has made of the amount owed to local authorities in council tax arrears.
tabling member constituency	Makerfield
tabling member printed	Yvonne Fovargue
uin	908802
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2020 answer text <p>The cumulative total of council tax owed as at 31 March 2020 was £3.6 billion. This was an increase of £345 million on the previous year. In 2019-20, councils collected 96.8 per cent of the council tax due that year.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 16/11/2020 17:24:23 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	4034 label Biography information for Yvonne Fovargue

1147988

registered interest
date	02/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Media: Muslims
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Integrated Communities Action Plan published in February 2019, whether his Department has facilitated meetings between the Anti-Muslim Hatred Working Group and Independent Press Standards Organisation to help them to develop guidance for editors and journalists to tackle unnecessary negative portrayals of Muslims in the media.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	293516
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 08/10/2019 15:46:42 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall previous answer version 137916 answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1289639

registered interest
date	24/02/2021
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Local Government Finance: Redbridge
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much funding his Department has allocated to the London Borough of Redbridge in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Ilford North
tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
uin	158134
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2021 answer text <p>We have spent over £80 million to support integration and faith since 2010.</p><p>Some of our funded programmes, such as Near Neighbours, have delivered projects and events in the London Borough of Redbridge to support local inter faith work.</p><p>In addition, the London Borough of Redbridge received £249,527 from the ESOL for Integration Fund in 20/21 to provide community-based English language sessions, clubs and activities to residents with little or no English who will be from diverse faith groups.</p><p>However, to supply the information for all our funding streams for the previous ten years would involve a disproportionate cost to my Department.</p><p>Most of the funding in the Local Government Finance Settlement (LGFS) is unringfenced, and councils are free to choose to which local priorities to spend it on, including work with faith communities, and other projects to support integration and communities.</p><p><br>This year’s LGFS, including a breakdown of Core Spending Power (CSP) for each local authority, including the London Borough of Redbridge, going back to 2015/16 can be found in the supporting information document here: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fcore-spending-power-final-local-government-finance-settlement-2021-to-2022&amp;data=04%7C01%7CThomas.Grimes%40communities.gov.uk%7Cfdbcc10f083b43e8f7d508d8d8d67533%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637497762879120857%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=Xbkwqcg2YtPoOyBxd15ty0XYOhv58eRETnb%2Fy%2BD69ns%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/core-spending-power-final-local-government-finance-settlement-2021-to-2022</a></p><p>Core Spending Power was introduced in 2015. Comparisons before that date do not apply, because the system of local government finance changed, councils’ responsibilities changed and because grants have been incorporated into the annual Settlement over time.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall grouped question UIN 158138 question first answered 05/03/2021 15:28:16 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

1289645

registered interest
date	24/02/2021
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Community Development: Redbridge
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what funding his Department has allocated to the London Borough of Redbridge to support (a) faith communities and (b) inter-faith work, in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Ilford North
tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
uin	158138
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2021 answer text <p>We have spent over £80 million to support integration and faith since 2010.</p><p>Some of our funded programmes, such as Near Neighbours, have delivered projects and events in the London Borough of Redbridge to support local inter faith work.</p><p>In addition, the London Borough of Redbridge received £249,527 from the ESOL for Integration Fund in 20/21 to provide community-based English language sessions, clubs and activities to residents with little or no English who will be from diverse faith groups.</p><p>However, to supply the information for all our funding streams for the previous ten years would involve a disproportionate cost to my Department.</p><p>Most of the funding in the Local Government Finance Settlement (LGFS) is unringfenced, and councils are free to choose to which local priorities to spend it on, including work with faith communities, and other projects to support integration and communities.</p><p><br>This year’s LGFS, including a breakdown of Core Spending Power (CSP) for each local authority, including the London Borough of Redbridge, going back to 2015/16 can be found in the supporting information document here: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fcore-spending-power-final-local-government-finance-settlement-2021-to-2022&amp;data=04%7C01%7CThomas.Grimes%40communities.gov.uk%7Cfdbcc10f083b43e8f7d508d8d8d67533%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637497762879120857%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=Xbkwqcg2YtPoOyBxd15ty0XYOhv58eRETnb%2Fy%2BD69ns%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/core-spending-power-final-local-government-finance-settlement-2021-to-2022</a></p><p>Core Spending Power was introduced in 2015. Comparisons before that date do not apply, because the system of local government finance changed, councils’ responsibilities changed and because grants have been incorporated into the annual Settlement over time.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall grouped question UIN 158134 question first answered 05/03/2021 15:28:16 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

1337904

registered interest
date	17/06/2021
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Levelling Up Fund and UK Community Renewal Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he plans to take to ensure that the devolved nations receive the full amount of funds allocated to them under the (a) Community Renewal Fund and (b) Levelling up Fund in the event that insufficient applications are submitted to reach that amount.
tabling member constituency	North East Fife
tabling member printed	Wendy Chamberlain
uin	17852
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2021 answer text <p>We are committed to ensuring that local partners across the UK are able to benefit through both the Community Renewal Fund and the Levelling Up Fund.</p><p>The Levelling Up Fund is a competitive fund, with funding distributed to places across the UK on the basis of successful bid selection. The Fund will set aside at least £800 million across Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland over four years from 2021-2022 to 2024-2025. For the first round of funding, at least 9% of total UK allocations will be set aside for Scotland, 5% for Wales, and 3% for Northern Ireland.</p><p>For the Community Renewal Fund, we have assigned a lead authority for each local area across Great Britain. Lead authorities have invited bids from a range of project applicants, appraised and prioritised a shortlist of projects up to a maximum of £3 million per place, which were submitted on 18 June to UK Government for assessment and approval. In Northern Ireland, project applications were invited to bid directly to the UK Government.</p><p>Bidding authorities across the UK have been well supported for both funds to submit quality applications through webinars and guidance.  Capacity funding will also be made available to all eligible bidding authorities.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 22/06/2021 11:31:08 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	4765 label Biography information for Wendy Chamberlain