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1123862

	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>As part of its role to approve IPSA’s Estimate, in March 2016, the Speaker’s Committee approved funds for a wide-ranging improvement programme, including plans for a new IT system, IPSA Online. This took into account longstanding feedback from MPs and their staff about the need to modernise and improve IPSA’s systems and processes. In subsequent years, the Speaker’s Committee has scrutinised progress on this programme via the annual Estimate approval process, as well as other formal and informal updates.</p><p>The Speaker’s Committee had no direct input into the design of IPSA Online, but has received regular updates on the key features of the system and IPSA’s plans for engagement and training activities.</p><p>More generally, IPSA engaged with MPs and staff members throughout the development of IPSA Online through activities including surveys, meetings, usability testing and training sessions, in order to take account of their needs and preferences. IPSA is committed to ongoing liaison with MPs and their staff to gain further feedback on the new system now that it has been launched.</p> question first answered 07/05/2019 13:23:15
	tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1122802

	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>Bringing brownfield land back into use is a priority, which is why every local authority is now required to publish and maintain a register of brownfield land, containing up-to-date information on brownfield suitable for housing in the area. <br> <br> While it is for local authorities to plan and bring forward suitable land, our funding programmes, delivered through Homes England, are also supporting brownfield land being brought forward. As at the end of March 2019, £909 million of the Home Building Fund Long Term Fund (74 per cent of total spend) had been spent on contracted schemes which will lead to 70,062 housing units (61 per cent of unlocked units) being developed on brownfield land. Other funds will also help to bring forward new housing on brownfield sites, such as our £450 million Accelerated Construction programme and our £5.5 billion Housing Infrastructure Fund. <br> <br> Whilst this funding is available to all areas of the country, all applications undergo an assessment of their value for money for the taxpayer.</p> question first answered 07/05/2019 15:37:26
	tabling member	4643 label Biography information for Jack Brereton

1123876

	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>Decisions on whether to grant discretionary business rates reliefs are taken by individual local authorities, and the Government does not hold data on whether local authorities award that relief to childcare providers.</p><p>Since Budget 2016 the Government has introduced business rates measures in England worth £13 billion over the next five years. This includes switching the indexation of business rates from the retail price index to the consumer price index, representing a cut in rates to all ratepayers, including childcare providers, worth over £6 billion over the next five years. The Government has also doubled the threshold for 100 per cent small business rate relief meaning that 655,000 businesses including many childcare providers now pay no business rates at all.</p><p>The Government monitors the childcare provider market closely through a range of research projects and plans to spend around £3.5 billion on our early education entitlements this year alone.</p> question first answered 07/05/2019 16:16:14
	tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

1123877

	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>Decisions on whether to grant discretionary business rates reliefs are taken by individual local authorities, and the Government does not hold data on whether local authorities award that relief to childcare providers.</p><p>Since Budget 2016 the Government has introduced business rates measures in England worth £13 billion over the next five years. This includes switching the indexation of business rates from the retail price index to the consumer price index, representing a cut in rates to all ratepayers, including childcare providers, worth over £6 billion over the next five years. The Government has also doubled the threshold for 100 per cent small business rate relief meaning that 655,000 businesses including many childcare providers now pay no business rates at all.</p><p>The Government monitors the childcare provider market closely through a range of research projects and plans to spend around £3.5 billion on our early education entitlements this year alone.</p> question first answered 07/05/2019 16:16:14
	tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

1123892

	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>The Government Chief Scientific Adviser has established an independent Science Advisory Group to quality-check the scientific methodology, testing process and analysis of results at each stage of the Government-led programme of additional Grenfell environmental checks. Professor Stec is a member of this group and MHCLG officials have attended meetings. The Science Advisory Group has reviewed Professor Stec’s research and reiterated their previous view that it does not change the approach or timetable of the Government-led environmental checks programme, on the basis that the research is preliminary which recommends the need for further investigations.</p><p>In February 2018, MHCLG officials participated in a multi-agency teleconference chaired by the West London Clinical Commissioning Group and including officials from Public Health England to discuss Professor Stec’s research. Professor Stec outlined her emerging research which had not been shared at this stage with Government, its agencies, the NHS or local authority.</p> question first answered 07/05/2019 15:42:36
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1123896

	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>Independent air quality monitoring has been carried out around Grenfell Tower since June 2017, and has shown the risk to public health to be consistently low. Analysis of the long-term impact of the fire on public health was already ongoing and will continue by Public Health England, including consideration of a longer term environmental monitoring strategy. We recognise the community has concerns about the possibility of soil contamination following the Grenfell Tower fire, and therefore announced additional environmental checks to reassure the bereaved, survivors and wider community that any environmental risks to public health will be fully assessed and appropriate action taken.</p> question first answered 07/05/2019 15:41:53
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1123931

	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>An independent specialist contractor, AECOM, has been appointed to undertake Stage 1 of the checks which involves background research to identify historical sources of pollution, analysis and exploratory sampling to inform the development of a more detailed specification for the main stage of the site investigation.</p><p>Exploratory sampling in priority locations has started and community workshops took place on 25 and 27 April to inform the scope and priorities for Stage 1 of the investigation. We expect this stage to take about three months from start to finish.</p> question first answered 07/05/2019 15:41:11
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1123986

	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>Following an open competition the contract for a BS 8414 test of a High Pressure Laminate cladding system has been awarded to the Fire Protection Association.</p> question first answered 07/05/2019 15:37:49
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1124159

	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>We are committed to a plan-led system that delivers the homes this country needs, while protecting our precious environment. Up-to-date plans provide a sound basis for assessing land supply, and it is only where plans have become out-of-date that our standard method for assessing housing need is used instead. What this means in practice will depend on the amount of land with permission in each area, the protections that apply and the stage an emerging plan has reached, and so there is no national estimate of the impact. The National Planning Policy Framework protects emerging plans in certain circumstances, even in the absence of a five-year land supply, where a development would significantly undermine the plan.</p><p> </p> question first answered 13/05/2019 13:25:11
	tabling member	1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt

1124160

	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>We are committed to a plan-led system that delivers the homes this country needs, while protecting our precious environment. Up-to-date plans provide a sound basis for assessing land supply, and it is only where plans have become out-of-date that our standard method for assessing housing need is used instead. What this means in practice will depend on the amount of land with permission in each area, the protections that apply and the stage an emerging plan has reached, and so there is no national estimate of the impact. The National Planning Policy Framework protects emerging plans in certain circumstances, even in the absence of a five-year land supply, where a development would significantly undermine the plan.</p><p> </p> question first answered 13/05/2019 13:25:11
	tabling member	1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt