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1240775

	registered interest
	date	06/10/2020
	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	Local Government: Disability
	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 has issued guidance to local authorities on engagement with disability organisations on matters relevant to their interests.
	tabling member constituency	Stockport
	tabling member printed	Navendu Mishra
	uin	99761
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2020 answer text <p>Whilst no specific guidance has been issued to local authorities on engagement with disability organisations, all local authorities are required to uphold the Public Sector Equality Duty.</p><p>This requires that public bodies, including local authorities, pay due regard to the need to eliminate discrimination, advance equality of opportunity and foster good relations between persons who share a relevant protected characteristic and those who do not.</p><p>Protected characteristics include disability. Local authorities therefore have a legal obligation to consider the potential impact of their policies, services and decisions on people with protected characteristics.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 14/10/2020 09:44:03 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
	tabling member	4811 label Biography information for Navendu Mishra

1240736

	registered interest
	date	06/10/2020
	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	Floods: Expenditure
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 5 October 2020 to Question 96981, to which local authorities his Department has provided additional financial support under the Community Recovery Grant.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
	tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
	uin	99707
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2020 answer text <p>Community Recovery Grant support was made available to the following local authorities:</p><ol><li>Amber Valley Borough Council</li><li>Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council</li><li>Bassetlaw District Council</li><li>Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council</li><li>Bradford Metropolitan District Council, City of</li><li>Burnley Borough Council</li><li>Bury, Metropolitan Borough of</li><li>Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council</li><li>Craven District Council</li><li>Derbyshire Dales District Council</li><li>Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council</li><li>East Riding of Yorkshire Council</li><li>East Staffordshire Borough Council</li><li>Erewash Borough Council</li><li>Forest of Dean District Council</li><li>Gedling Borough Council</li><li>Herefordshire Council</li><li>Kirklees Council</li><li>Lichfield District Council</li><li>Malvern Hills District Council</li><li>Newark &amp; Sherwood District Council</li><li>North Lincolnshire Council</li><li>North West Leicestershire District Council</li><li>Pendle Borough Council</li><li>Ribble Valley Borough Council</li><li>Rossendale Borough Council</li><li>Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council</li><li>Rushcliffe Borough Council</li><li>Sheffield City Council</li><li>South Derbyshire District Council</li><li>South Staffordshire District Council</li><li>Stratford-on-Avon District Council</li><li>Telford &amp; Wrekin Council</li><li>Tewkesbury Borough Council</li><li>Tunbridge Wells Borough Council</li><li>Wakefield Metropolitan District Council</li><li>West Lindsey District Council</li><li>Worcester City Council</li><li>Wychavon District Council</li><li>Wyre Forest Borough Council</li></ol> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 13/10/2020 15:45:07 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall previous answer version 53684 answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
	tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1240735

	registered interest
	date	06/10/2020
	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	Floods: Expenditure
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 5 October 2020 to Question 96982, with how many local authorities his Department is working to finalise their application under the Bellwin scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
	tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
	uin	99706
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2020 answer text <p>No Bellwin claims submitted in the last 12 months have been rejected in full. Before payment is made claims are assessed against the scheme terms.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall grouped question UIN 99705 question first answered 12/10/2020 16:53:26 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
	tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1240734

	registered interest
	date	06/10/2020
	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	Floods: Expenditure
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 5 October 2020 to Question 96982, whether his Department has rejected any claims to the Bellwin scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
	tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
	uin	99705
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2020 answer text <p>No Bellwin claims submitted in the last 12 months have been rejected in full. Before payment is made claims are assessed against the scheme terms.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall grouped question UIN 99706 question first answered 12/10/2020 16:53:26 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
	tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1240910

	registered interest
	date	06/10/2020
	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	Buildings: Insulation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will take steps to help ensure that leaseholders are supported with the costs of (a) remediating non-compliant cladding on buildings and (b) other fire safety measures; and if he will increase the Building Safety Fund to ensure that all buildings are remediated at no cost to leaseholders.
	tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
	tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
	uin	99643
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2020 answer text <p>The Government is making £1.6 billion available to support the remediation of unsafe cladding. This will deal with some of the highest risk and highest cost safety defects in our existing high rise stock, protecting leaseholders from the vast majority of these costs. However, government funding is not the only means of funding remediation. <br> <br> The Government expects building owners to meet costs without passing them on to leaseholders wherever possible, through their own resources or by recovering costs from applicable warranty schemes or from the developers or contractors who were responsible for the installation of installed unsafe cladding, as has happened with more than half of the private sector buildings with Aluminium Composite Material cladding. <br> <br> In parallel, Government adviser Michael Wade, is developing a financing solution that will help protect leaseholders from unaffordable remediation costs while making sure these do not fall to the taxpayer.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 14/10/2020 12:57:06 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
	tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey

1240722

	registered interest
	date	06/10/2020
	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	Next Steps Accommodation Programme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when his Department plans to release the £13.5 million in Next Steps Accommodation funding that has been allocated to enable local authorities to tackle new or emerging challenges.
	tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
	tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
	uin	99625
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2020 answer text <p>We are in the process of considering the next steps for this funding as part of our preparation for the winter period. We will announce more information in due course.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 12/10/2020 14:10:17 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
	tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

1240855

	registered interest
	date	06/10/2020
	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	Local Government Finance: 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, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the covid-19 outbreak on local authorities' finances.
	tabling member constituency	Harrow East
	tabling member printed	Bob Blackman
	uin	99597
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2020 answer text <p>Councils across the country are supporting communities, protecting the most vulnerable and helping the NHS in our efforts to combat Covid-19. In order to meet these additional cost pressures, the Government has continued to support local authorities by delivering an unprecedented package of measures. So far, we have provided over £4.8 billion in funding for spending pressures, including £3.7 billion of un-ringfenced grants and £1.1 billion to help stop the spread of the virus in care homes. This underlines Government’s commitment to ensuring adult social care has the resources it needs to keep residents and staff safe. In addition, the Prime Minister has announced a further £1 billion of funding for local authorities, details of which will be announced shortly. <br> <br> In total, over £28 billion has already been committed to local areas to support councils, businesses and communities across government. This comprehensive package of support includes direct financial support and cashflow measures for councils, bus and tram services, support for the homeless and both grants and rates reliefs for businesses. <br> <br> We will continue to monitor the impact of Covid-19 on local government.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 14/10/2020 13:20:19 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
	tabling member	4005 label Biography information for Bob Blackman

1240853

	registered interest
	date	06/10/2020
	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	Local Government: Property
	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 he has made a recent assessment of the effectiveness of the borrowing undertaken by local authorities to fund investments in commercial property.
	tabling member constituency	Harrow East
	tabling member printed	Bob Blackman
	uin	99596
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2020 answer text <p>Local authorities borrow and invest under the Prudential Framework (the Framework) which is designed to ensure that the capital plans of local authorities are affordable, prudent and sustainable, while giving councils the freedom to set their own capital strategies. Government is responsible for ensuring the Framework remains effective in driving sound decision making, and collects appropriate data to monitor trends and identify risks, including from commercial investment activity. Government does not routinely undertake any assessment of the effectiveness of local decisions to borrow and invest; local authorities remain accountable to their electorate for managing their own investment strategies and meeting their best value duty. However, councils have to appropriately comply with the Framework’s statutory guidance, including the requirement to report performance against a set of metrics designed to demonstrate the objectives of the Framework are being met, and to publish an investment strategy.</p><p>Government is aware of recent trends where some local authorities are taking on high levels of debt to invest for commercial income, rather than for providing the functions of a council. We are clear that borrowing to invest for yield is not in keeping with the intent of the Framework and exposes councils and taxpayers to undue financial risk. We have already tightened our statutory guidance on investments to improve decision making, and we are now carefully considering the recommendations of the Public Accounts Committee’s report on local authority investment in commercial property (July 2020) and what further interventions are needed.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall grouped question UIN 99595 question first answered 14/10/2020 13:21:12 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
	tabling member	4005 label Biography information for Bob Blackman

1240852

	registered interest
	date	06/10/2020
	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	Local Government: Property
	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 he has made a recent assessment of the effectiveness of commercial property investments made by local authorities in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Harrow East
	tabling member printed	Bob Blackman
	uin	99595
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2020 answer text <p>Local authorities borrow and invest under the Prudential Framework (the Framework) which is designed to ensure that the capital plans of local authorities are affordable, prudent and sustainable, while giving councils the freedom to set their own capital strategies. Government is responsible for ensuring the Framework remains effective in driving sound decision making, and collects appropriate data to monitor trends and identify risks, including from commercial investment activity. Government does not routinely undertake any assessment of the effectiveness of local decisions to borrow and invest; local authorities remain accountable to their electorate for managing their own investment strategies and meeting their best value duty. However, councils have to appropriately comply with the Framework’s statutory guidance, including the requirement to report performance against a set of metrics designed to demonstrate the objectives of the Framework are being met, and to publish an investment strategy.</p><p>Government is aware of recent trends where some local authorities are taking on high levels of debt to invest for commercial income, rather than for providing the functions of a council. We are clear that borrowing to invest for yield is not in keeping with the intent of the Framework and exposes councils and taxpayers to undue financial risk. We have already tightened our statutory guidance on investments to improve decision making, and we are now carefully considering the recommendations of the Public Accounts Committee’s report on local authority investment in commercial property (July 2020) and what further interventions are needed.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall grouped question UIN 99596 question first answered 14/10/2020 13:21:12 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
	tabling member	4005 label Biography information for Bob Blackman

1240873

	registered interest
	date	06/10/2020
	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	High Rise Flats: Insulation
	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 plans his Department has to provide additional fire safety advice, in addition to the guidance issued by the National Fire Chiefs Council, to leaseholders and tenants living in high-rise properties that have not yet had remediation works undertaken to remove flammable cladding.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
	tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
	uin	99576
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2020 answer text <p>My Department has no plans to issue additional advice to that provided by the National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC). The latest version of &quot;Guidance to support a temporary change to a simultaneous evacuation strategy in purpose-built blocks of flats&quot; was published by the NFCC on 1 October and can be found on-line at: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationalfirechiefs.org.uk%2FSimultaneous-evacuation-guidance&amp;data=02%7C01%7CParliamentary%40communities.gov.uk%7C1359560208e04342e3ac08d86ec5a446%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637381142420832804&amp;sdata=sQrbIGpNDD8Fd2trBZ26HNxit7zHxhzFwCj6P6lz%2Bec%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">http://www.nationalfirechiefs.org.uk/Simultaneous-evacuation-guidance</a>. <br> <br>General advice to leaseholders is available online at <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fguidance%2Fbuilding-safety-programme-other-fire-safety-concerns&amp;data=02%7C01%7CParliamentary%40communities.gov.uk%7C1359560208e04342e3ac08d86ec5a446%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637381142420832804&amp;sdata=DbrBABXpmU27W2wR7RV7hbdlwoNey51AzUVA5Xyzv7s%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/building-safety-programme-other-fire-safety-concerns</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 12/10/2020 16:14:50 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
	tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood