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	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	24/11/2014
	date	10/11/2014
	date tabled	10/11/2014
	ddp created	10/11/2014 23:07:06
	ddp modified	06/02/2015 19:29:23
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Council Housing
	house id	2
	identifier	HL2800
	legislature	25277
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	20/11/2014 15:55:45
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action are they taking to support council tenants who want to form housing cooperatives.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	title	House of Lords Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 HL2800
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL2800
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>We encourage local authorities to work closely with their communities to look at the range of options open to them. This may include forming community led groups, such as co-operatives, Community Land Trusts or Tenant Management Organisations. My officials continue to discuss issues affecting co-operative housing more generally with the co-operative sector.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Council tenants have the Right to Manage, which enables them to set up a Tenant Management Organisation (a management co-operative) to manage the homes in their area, with a management allowance from the Council. The Tenant Empowerment Programme, £2 million in 2014/15 and £1 million in 2015/16, supports social housing tenants to engage in, manage and/or take control of their housing services. This includes training, support and funding to enable tenant groups to take up their Right to Manage. There are currently over 200 Tenant Management Organisations across England, managing around 80,000 homes.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In October 2012, we funded the Co-operatives UK to establish and run the Community Shares Unit to grow a sustainable market and promote the long term success of the community shares model, as a means to raising equity finance and increasing participation in community enterprises and projects. Community-led housing is one of the areas identified as requiring development.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We are also encouraging community led organisations, including co-operatives, to apply for funding through the 2015-18 Affordable Homes Programme. The Homes and Communities Agency has held back over 25% of their £1.7 billion budget, for which it is now inviting bids. This should be of particular help to smaller community-led organisations.</p><p> </p>
	creator	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	publisher	25277
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

147376

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	24/11/2014
	date	10/11/2014
	date tabled	10/11/2014
	ddp created	10/11/2014 23:06:57
	ddp modified	06/02/2015 19:28:53
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Refuges
	house id	2
	identifier	HL2780
	legislature	25277
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	18/11/2014 14:11:28
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 31 October (HL2419), why they do not centrally record the number or location of refuges in England; and what consideration they have given to collecting such records as a means to developing nationwide policy.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member printed	Lord Harrison
	title	House of Lords Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 HL2780
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL2780
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>My Department funds UKRefugesOnline a UK-wide database of domestic violence services which supports the national 24 hour free phone domestic violence helpline. This service enables those working with victims of domestic violence to identify appropriate services and potential refuge vacancies around the country so that victims can get the help they need as quickly as possible.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In terms of government records, such information has never been centrally held. Refuges are not commissioned at a national level, and are generally either provided by local authorities or by independent voluntary sector organisations. To start recording the number and location would involve creating a new monitoring and data reporting regime on local government. It is the broader policy of the Coalition Government to try to reduce the burden of data reporting on local government, as it costs taxpayers’ money and diverts resources away from frontline services.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>More broadly, this Government has secured £6.5 billion investment to help vulnerable people through housing related support. This forms a key element of refuge funding through local authority commissioned services.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We have also allocated £40 million of funding for specialist local domestic and sexual violence support services until 2015. This funding is used to part-fund 54 multi-agency risk assessment conference co-ordinators and 144 independent domestic violence advisers. We have piloted and rolled out Clare’s Law and domestic violence protection orders; extended the definition of domestic abuse to cover controlling behaviour and teenage relationships; run two successful campaigns to challenge perceptions of abuse; and placed Domestic Homicide Reviews on a statutory footing to make sure lessons are learned from individual tragedies.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We are keeping this matter under review, and are keen to support best practice and greater joint working.</p><p> </p>
	creator	2488 label Biography information for Lord Harrison
	publisher	25277
	tabling member	2488 label Biography information for Lord Harrison

147377

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	24/11/2014
	date	10/11/2014
	date tabled	10/11/2014
	ddp created	10/11/2014 23:06:57
	ddp modified	06/02/2015 19:28:54
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Local Government: Cheshire
	house id	2
	identifier	HL2781
	legislature	25277
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	17/11/2014 12:03:32
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have any plans to reconstitute the former Cheshire County Council by bringing together the unitary authorities of Cheshire West and Chester and Cheshire East.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member printed	Lord Harrison
	title	House of Lords Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 HL2781
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL2781
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>There are no plans to bring together the unitary authorities of Cheshire West and Chester and Cheshire East. Such resource intensive and disruptive restructuring of local government would be an unnecessary distraction. The two Cheshire councils already have the legal powers to share services and work together if they wish, and they do not need the Government’s permission to do so.</p><p> </p><p>The Tri-Borough initiative in London is a good locally-led example of how councils can work together to improve services and delivery savings without the need for local government restructuring.</p><p> </p>
	creator	2488 label Biography information for Lord Harrison
	publisher	25277
	tabling member	2488 label Biography information for Lord Harrison