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423149

registered interest
date	22/10/2015
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	Peers: Ministerial Policy Advisers
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment has been made of whether denying a member of the House of Lords who is a Special Adviser the right to speak is in breach of the letters patent, which refer to "seat" and "voice".
tabling member printed	Lord Campbell-Savours
uin	HL2899
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2015 answer text <p>A member of the House of Lords who is eligible to take part in the work of the House, and who is also a serving special adviser, is not denied the right to speak. It has, however, been an accepted practice under successive administrations that members in that position vote but refrain from speaking.</p> answering member printed Baroness Stowell of Beeston question first answered 05/11/2015 15:38:41 answering member 4205 label Biography information for Baroness Stowell of Beeston
tabling member	499 label Biography information for Lord Campbell-Savours

424458

registered interest
date	28/10/2015
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: Trade Unions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many civil servants in the Law Officers' Departments are members of trades unions; how much working hours facility time is claimed by each such civil servant; and what the cost of that facility time is to the Law Officers' Departments.
tabling member constituency	Corby
tabling member printed	Tom Pursglove
uin	13895
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2015 answer text <p>The Law Officers Departments do not hold complete records of the number of staff who are enrolled in a trade union as there is no obligation placed on a trade union to disclose this information to employers.</p><br /><p>Records are however maintained on the amount of facility time claimed during the financial year 2014/15 and the cost involved, as detailed below.</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Law Officers’ Departments – Trade Union facility time and costs in 2014-15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><br></p></td><td><p>Facility time (hours) <sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>Cost</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Government Legal Department<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>2,206.2</p></td><td><p>£46,302</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Serious Fraud Office</p></td><td><p>129.6</p></td><td><p>£4,069</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Crown Prosecution Service</p></td><td><p>14,267</p></td><td><p>£351,929</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><sup>1</sup> <em>The GLD data also covers the Attorney General’s Office and HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate.</em></p><p><sup>2 </sup><em>Only nominated trade union representatives are granted facility time.</em></p><br /><p>The Cabinet Office publishes data relating to Civil Service facility time on a quarterly basis. The latest data is Quarter 4, 2014 at and is available at</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/trade-union-facility-time" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/trade-union-facility-time</a> .</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 05/11/2015 10:21:29 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove

423187

registered interest
date	22/10/2015
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	Council Housing: Greater London
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many council homes have been built each year since 2010 in each of the 32 London boroughs.
tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
uin	HL2937
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2015 answer text <p>The numbers of local authority dwellings built ineach London borough from 2010/11 are shown in the attached table. For context I have also provided figures going back to 2001/2. These figures show that under Labour, from 2001/02-2009/10, there were 170 council homes built across the 32 London boroughs, whereas from 2010/11 to 2014/15 we have built 1,510 council homes across London.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 05/11/2015 16:47:25 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford attachment 1 file name 151105 Number of council homes (London)(2).xlsx title PQ HL2937 - Number of council homes
tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

424507

registered interest
date	28/10/2015
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	Housing: Construction
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 (a) starter and (b) affordable homes the Government plans to build over the next five years.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	13738
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2015 answer text <p>The Government is committed to building 200,000 starter homes over the course of this Parliament to provide affordable homes for purchase with 20% discount are available to first time buyers under 40.</p><p>The Government remains committed to delivering 275,000 new affordable homes between 2015 and 2020. This means we will build more new affordable homes than during any equivalent period in the last twenty years.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 05/11/2015 16:38:08 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

424516

registered interest
date	28/10/2015
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	Department for Communities and Local Government: Trade Unions
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 civil servants in his Department are members of trades unions; how much working hours facility time is claimed by each such civil servant; and what the cost of that facility time is to his Department.
tabling member constituency	Corby
tabling member printed	Tom Pursglove
uin	13896
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2015 answer text <p>Trade union membership levels are a matter for the trade unions.</p><p>The Cabinet Office publishes data relating to Civil Service facility time on a quarterly basis. The latest data is Quarter 4, 2014 at and is available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/trade-union-facility-time" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/trade-union-facility-time</a></p><p>In the Department for Communities and Local Government, during 2014/2015 total spend on facility time was £73,667 and 2,571 hours of facility time was claimed by trade union representatives.</p><p>Facility time spend during 2015/16 (April to September) currently stands at £46,851 and 1,581 hours of facility time was claimed by trade union representatives.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 05/11/2015 16:36:33 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove

424512

registered interest
date	28/10/2015
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 change planning procedures for local authorities to speed up the construction of new affordable homes to buy.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	13874
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2015 answer text <p>The Government has committed, through the Productivity Plan, to introduce a dispute resolution mechanism to speed up section 106 negotiations to enable housing and other development to be built more quickly. We intend to do this through the Housing and Planning Bill.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 05/11/2015 16:37:09 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

425326

registered interest
date	02/11/2015
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Hostels: Planning Permission
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 it his policy to introduce a separate planning category for hostels.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	14415
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2015 answer text <p>Hostels are considered to be a class of their own. It is for the local planning authority to consider the use of a particular property based on the specific details of the individual case.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 05/11/2015 16:51:58 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

425327

registered interest
date	02/11/2015
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Hostels
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 it his policy to introduce statutory guidance on the definition of a hostel.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	14416
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2015 answer text <p>We currently have no plans to introduce statutory guidance on the definition of a hostel.</p><p>We have supported local areas to improve the quality of hostels through the Homelessness Change Programme, which provided £42.5 million of capital funding in 2012 – 2015 for new and refurbished bed spaces, as well as other facilities to support a return to independent living.</p><br /> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 05/11/2015 17:01:17 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

425328

registered interest
date	02/11/2015
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Housing Associations: Public Sector
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the likely effect on house building of the Office of National Statistics reclassifying housing associations as public sector bodies.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	14417
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2015 answer text <p>The Office of National Statistics has concluded that housing associations should have been classified as public rather than private since 2008, due to several of the regulatory requirements imposed by the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 introduced by the last Labour Government. This decision is purely a statistical change. Reclassification makes no material changes to the operation of housing associations. The Government is committed to developing deregulatory measures to help housing associations build more homes and help more people into home ownership.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 05/11/2015 16:50:32 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

423316

registered interest
date	22/10/2015
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Official Visits: China
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many visits her Departmental officials have made to China in support of the development of the Strategic Investment Agreement between EDF and China General Nuclear Corporation announced on 21 October 2015; how much each such visit cost; and if she will publish the minutes of each meeting held between UK and Chinese government officials on this agreement.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	13043
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2015 answer text <p>Officials visited China twice, in July and September, as part of my rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State’s visits at the same time. The cost of the first visit for the relevant officials was £8,900, the cost of the second visit was £6,750. I do not intend to publish minutes of the meetings, which discussed commercially sensitive information.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 05/11/2015 15:29:12 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn