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5107

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	13/05/2013
	date	08/05/2013
	date tabled	08/05/2013
	ddp created	19/11/2013 12:55:42
	ddp modified	06/02/2015 21:00:39
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	house id	1
	identifier	153939
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	25/02/2014 12:00:00
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the rate of underemployment in each UK parliamentary constituency in Scotland in each of the last five years.
	session	2013/14
	session number	3
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
	tabling member printed	Margaret Curran
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2013/14 153939
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	153939
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.</p> question first answered 25/02/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1561
	creator	3982 label Biography information for Margaret Curran
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	3982 label Biography information for Margaret Curran

5108

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	13/05/2013
	date	08/05/2013
	date tabled	08/05/2013
	ddp created	19/11/2013 12:55:42
	ddp modified	06/02/2015 21:00:40
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	house id	1
	identifier	153940
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	25/02/2014 12:00:00
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the total loss to the economy as a result of underemployment in Scotland.
	session	2013/14
	session number	3
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
	tabling member printed	Margaret Curran
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2013/14 153940
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	153940
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>This is not a matter for Cabinet Office Ministers.</p> question first answered 25/02/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1609
	creator	3982 label Biography information for Margaret Curran
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	3982 label Biography information for Margaret Curran

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	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	10/05/2013
	date	08/05/2013
	date tabled	08/05/2013
	ddp created	19/11/2013 12:39:46
	ddp modified	06/02/2015 20:14:40
	answering body	Deputy Prime Minister
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	58
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	house id	1
	identifier	154454
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	25/02/2014 12:00:00
	question text	To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what assessment he has made of the outcome of his Department's matching of the electoral register with Department for Work and Pensions data in communities with (a) seaside towns and (b) towns with high student populations; and what effect this work will have on the size of electorates in these constituencies.
	session	2013/14
	session number	3
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2013/14 154454
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	154454
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>As part of the transition to Individual Electoral Registration (IER), entries on the electoral register will be matched against data held by Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) for the purposes of confirming existing electors, a process which will simplify the transition for the majority of existing electors. Last year the Cabinet Office undertook pilots to test this process and we published our evaluation of these pilots earlier this year which is available to download from:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/simplifying-the-transition-to-individual-electoral-registration</p><p> </p><p>The evaluation report includes an analysis of match rates by population groups and while no specific analysis was undertaken of seaside towns, the results did suggest that match rates were lower in areas with high student populations. However, anyone who cannot be confirmed will still be invited to register individually and will retain their ability to vote in the 2015 general election. By using confirmation to simplify the process for the majority of electors it means resources can be focused on maximising registration among those people who cannot be confirmed, including individuals who are not currently registered. We are also currently running a separate set of pilots exploring whether data matching against DWP and other trusted national data sets can be used to find potential electors who are not currently registered but may be eligible to do so, in order to invite them to register. The results of the pilots, which are specifically targeted at boosting registrations among students, attainers and home-movers, will be published in the summer.</p> question first answered 25/02/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1609
	creator	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

447

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	01/07/2013
	date	25/06/2013
	date tabled	25/06/2013
	ddp created	19/11/2013 12:48:44
	ddp modified	06/02/2015 20:18:34
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	house id	1
	identifier	162343
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	13/05/2014 12:00:00
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what powers and freedoms relating to (a) skills and employment, (b) housing and (c) economic development have been devolved since May 2010 to (i) local government and (ii) local enterprise partnerships.
	session	2013/14
	session number	3
	tabling member constituency	Congleton
	tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2013/14 162343
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	162343
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p> </p><p><em>[Holding Reply: Monday 1 July 2013]</em></p><p>The Government is taking considerable steps to devolve power and freedom to local government and Local Enterprise Partnerships.</p><p>Through the Localism Act, councils now have the general power of competence that enables them to do anything that an individual might do, apart from that which is specifically prohibited. In addition we have radically reformed the local government finance system putting levers and incentives in the hands of local authorities, for instance:</p><p>· The removal of ring-fencing from local government grants has given councils the freedom and flexibility over the money they receive and allows them to work with their residents to decide how best to make their spending decisions to fit their local priority needs.</p><p>· rewarded places that deliver growth, through the New Homes Bonus and Business Rate Retention.</p><p>· Local authorities now directly retain 50% of business rates locally which amounts to nearly £11 billion, instead of returning it to Whitehall.</p><p>· We established five pilot Rural Growth Networks aimed at tackling the barriers to economic growth in rural areas, such as a shortage of work premises, slow internet connectivity and fragmented business networks. These pilots expect to create up to 3,000 new jobs and support up to 700 new businesses, offering a local approach to local problems. We will share the lessons they learn with other Local Enterprise Partnerships and Local Authorities to help them promote growth in other rural areas.</p><p>We have also given councils the ability to borrow against their Housing Revenue Account.</p><p>Through the city deals programme we have devolved powers and responsibilities to 26 cities. For example we have:</p><p>•provided levers to deliver the skills and jobs that local businesses and people need;</p><p>•created joint investment programmes; and</p><p>• devolved greater financial powers and incentives to invest in growth to all cities.</p><p>As we made clear in our response to Lord Heseltine's review of Growth, we intend to go further. We have committed to negotiating Growth Deals with every Local Enterprise Partnership through which we will allocate the Local Growth Fund and negotiate broader powers, freedoms and flexibilities where a strong case for decentralisation can be made. The Local Growth Fund brings together funding from skills, housing and transport and we have committed £2 billion in 2015/16 and it will continue to be at least £2 billion a year up to 2021. The Local Growth Fund includes:</p><p> </p><ul><li>over £6 billion of transport funding;</li><li>£300 million of additional Housing Revenue Account borrowing;</li><li>£50 million of Local Infrastructure Funding for housing developers; and</li><li>£300 million skills capital funding.</li></ul><p>We are also for the first time putting £5 billion of European Structural Investment Funds for the 2014-20 period under the strategic direction of Local Enterprise Partnerships, bringing the total resource (including the Local Growth Fund) under the control of Local Enterprise Partnerships to over £17 billion up until 2020.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> question first answered 13/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4043
	creator	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce