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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

418785

	registered interest
	date	15/09/2015
	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	Local Plans
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what proposals they have to streamline the local plans process; and when they expect to bring those proposals into operation.
	tabling member printed	Lord Greaves
	uin	HL2220
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/09/2015 answer text <p>Local Plans play a critical role in determining what development is appropriate and where, and it is therefore essential that plan-making is as simple, quick and accessible a process as possible. On 15 September, my hon. Friend, the Minister for Housing and Planning (Brandon Lewis), announced that we have brought together a panel of experts drawn from across the built-environment sector to help look at ways in which we could radically improve plan-making in practice (see attached). The group will consider all elements of plan-making from policy and procedural requirements of plans to how plan-making is practically undertaken. Their work will conclude in early 2016, after which I will set out to Parliament how we intend to proceed to reform plan-making.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 24/09/2015 13:54:34 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford attachment 1 file name Planning Minister Brandon Lewis - HL2220.docx title Press Release - 15 September
	tabling member	2569 label Biography information for Lord Greaves

434139

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2015
	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	Roads: Lighting
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the effects of turning off street lights in the early hours of the morning by some local authorities.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL4258
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <p>Decisions about street lighting are primarily for elected local councillors, reflecting local circumstances and views. The Government has not made an assessment of the effects of turning off street lights in the early hours of the morning by some local authorities.</p><p>However, a research study - <em>The effect of reduced street lighting on road casualties and crime in England and Wales : controlled interrupted time series analysis</em> - by R Steinbach et al, in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health published in July 2015 on the effects of street lighting on road safety and crime in England and Wales (attached) found little evidence of harmful effects of switch off, part-night lighting, dimming, or changes to white light/LEDs on road collisions or crime.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 16/12/2015 16:27:31 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford attachment 1 file name HL4258 - The effect of reduced street lighting.pdf title The effect of reduced street lighting
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

654738

	registered interest
	date	08/12/2016
	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	Opportunity and Integration Review
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government when they intend to give a formal response to the Casey Review.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL3984
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2016 answer text <p>I refer the noble Lord to the Statement (attached) I gave on 5 December, repeating the answer given earlier that day by my rt Hon Friend, the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, to an Urgent Question on Dame Louise Casey’s review into opportunity and integration.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 19/12/2016 15:28:21 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth attachment 1 file name HL3984 Casey Review.pdf title Casey Review
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

717231

	registered interest
	date	03/04/2017
	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	Homelessness: Greater London
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment have they made of the affect on homeless families from London of being housed significant distances outside the capital away from their friends and families.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL6532
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2017 answer text <p>Local authorities must secure accommodation within their own district so far as is reasonably practicable. Where it is not possible to secure accommodation within their district and an authority has secured accommodation outside their district, the authority is required to take into account the distance of that accommodation from the district of the authority. Authorities should try to secure accommodation that is as close as possible to where an applicant was previously living. Councils must also take into account the impact a change in location would have on a household, including the possible disruption to peoples’ jobs and children’s schooling.</p><p>The Department collects data on the number of out of district placements, by local authority, under the interim duty to accommodate whilst making enquiries etc. and under the duty to secure temporary accommodation whilst awaiting settled accommodation. This is available in (attached)Table 775 at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness</a></p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 25/04/2017 11:34:35 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth attachment 1 file name 170406 Copy of Statutory_Homelessness_and_Prevention_and_Relief_Live_Tables_201612- HL6532.xls title Table 775
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

637788

	registered interest
	date	16/11/2016
	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	Social Rented Housing
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government when they expect the Pay to Stay working group to next meet; and whether they expect that the implementation date for Pay to Stay will be April 2017.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL3301
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2016 answer text <p>I refer the Noble Lord to the Written Ministerial Statement (attached) made by the Minister of Housing on 21 November in the other place (<a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2016-11-21/HCWS274/" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2016-11-21/HCWS274/</a>) and repeated in this House.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 29/11/2016 15:51:45 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth attachment 1 file name 161129 WMS - Social Housing - HL3301.pdf title Social Housing WMS - HCWS274
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

453561

	registered interest
	date	22/02/2016
	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	Local Government Finance
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the allocation of the transitional grant to those local authority areas that are in greatest need, and on what basis those needs were assessed.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL6263
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2016 answer text <p>The local government finance settlement distributed revenue support grant by looking at the main resources that are available to local councils. The Local Government Finance Report (England) 2016/2017 sets out the basis of this distribution and the results can be found (attached) on the government website at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/final-local-government-finance-settlement-england-2016-to-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/final-local-government-finance-settlement-england-2016-to-2017</a>.</p><p>Transition Grant is for places that did not benefit from these changes in the formula. I refer the noble Lord to the debate on the Local Government Finance (England) on 10 February 2016, <em>Official Report, Columns 1643 and 1645</em> (attached). The fund will be applied in direct proportion to the difference in the revenue support grant that would have been experienced and so it will ease the change from a system based on central Government grant to one in which local sources determine a council’s revenue.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford attachment 1 file name 160224 HL6263 Hansard column 1643 and 1645.docx title Hansard document 2 file name 160225 Local government finance report HL6263.pdf title Local Government Finance Settlement - 2016 -2017 question first answered 07/03/2016 15:34:59 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

453560

	registered interest
	date	22/02/2016
	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	Local Government Finance
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what representations from (1) county councils, (2) London boroughs, and (3) metropolitan boroughs, unitary authorities and district councils, were received between 17 December 2015 and 8 February 2016 regarding the Local Government Finance Settlement, and what assessment they have made of the extent to which the final settlement meets the concerns raised in each case.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL6262
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2016 answer text <p>The consultation on the provisional local government finance settlement ran from 17 December 2015 to 15 January 2016. During this period, the Government received 278 responses, including 89 from shire districts, 36 from unitary authorities, 28 from metropolitan districts, 26 from shire counties, and 25 from London boroughs. A detailed summary of all responses (attached) are available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/499283/Summary_of_responses_to_provisional_LGFS_consultation.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/499283/Summary_of_responses_to_provisional_LGFS_consultation.pdf</a></p><p>The Government listened closely to concerns raised and considered all representations carefully when determining the final settlement. For the financial year ahead, the final settlement provides councils with at least the resources allocated to them by the provisional settlement. In addition, transitional funding will be provided for the first two years of the Spending Review period.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 07/03/2016 15:33:18 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford attachment 1 file name 160224 HL6262.pdf title Summary of responses
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

449184

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2016
	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	Neighbourhood Plans
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many Neighbourhood Development Orders have been approved by referendum in each year since and including 2012; where those referendums were held; and what development each referendum authorised.
	tabling member printed	Lord Greaves
	uin	HL5694
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>The Department does not undertake formal monitoring of Neighbourhood Development Orders, however we are aware of four Neighbourhood Development Orders that have passed referendum since 2012, including three Community Right to Build Orders. Details are set out in the attached table.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 11/02/2016 12:45:03 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford attachment 1 file name 160211 PQ HL5694 Neigbourhood Development Orders.docx title Neighboorhood Development Orders
	tabling member	2569 label Biography information for Lord Greaves

427459

	registered interest
	date	10/11/2015
	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	Sleeping Rough: Greater London
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the number of rough sleepers in London.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL3502
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2015 answer text <p>This Government is committed to protecting the most vulnerable in society. One person without a home is one too many. That is why since 2010 we’ve invested more than £500 million to prevent and tackle homelessness in England. In London, we have given the Mayor £34 million to deliver pan-London rough sleeping services, with an extra £8.5 million for this work in 2015/16.</p><p>DCLG publishes regular statistics on rough sleeping. These are available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/homelessness-statistics. The latest figures, for 2014, are attached.</p><p>More rough sleepers are being found and helped thanks to our investment. Our measures include supporting the roll-out of No Second Night Out across England through the Homelessness Transition Fund. In London, two-thirds of rough sleepers come off the streets after a single night. We have also commissioned the pioneering StreetLink service, which since its launch has helped over 14,500 rough sleepers by connecting them to local support services and avoid becoming entrenched in a life on the streets.</p><p>We are committed to do more to improve services for homeless people with complex needs. Our investment includes £5 million for the world’s first homelessness Social Impact Bond, which is reaching 830 entrenched rough sleepers in London.</p><br /> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 19/11/2015 16:26:24 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford attachment 1 file name 150226 Rough Sleeping Statistics England - 2014.pdf title 2014 Rough Sleeping Statistics
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark