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752507

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2017
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Hate Crime: Prosecutions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, what recent progress has been made in increasing the prosecution rate for hate crimes.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	5417
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has taken a number of steps to improve its prosecution of all strands of hate crime.</p><p>The CPS is prosecuting and convicting more defendants of hate crime than ever before. In 2015/16, the CPS completed 15,442 hate crime prosecutions, an increase of 704 on the previous year. The conviction rate also improved to 83.2% in 2015/16 an increase from 82.9% the previous year.</p><p>The CPS Annual Report and Accounts 2016/17 shows that the proportion of cases where the CPS was successful in achieving uplifted sentences for hate crime perpetrators has increased dramatically. The proportion rose from 33.8% in 2015/16, to 52.2% in 2016/17 – reaching 58.2% in the final quarter.</p><p>The CPS has delivered mandatory face to face disability hate crime training and racially and religiously aggravated hate crime training and is in the process of developing homophobic, biphobic and transphobic hate crime training to support prosecutors to more effectively deal with hate crime cases.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 20/07/2017 14:45:51 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

837470

	registered interest
	date	05/02/2018
	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	Rented Housing: Licensing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Oral contribution of Lord Ahmed of Wimbledon on 23 March 2015, Official Report, column GC331, what progress has been made on undertaking a review of the effect of changes to the selective licensing of houses; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	126589
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2018 answer text <p>The Department has sought to ensure that the selective licensing review can be informed by a number of applications for large scale schemes that were submitted during the second half of 2017. The Department is now in a position to begin the review and will do so shortly.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 08/02/2018 15:13:51 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

849969

	registered interest
	date	26/02/2018
	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	Supported Housing
	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 the effect on the financial resilience of people living in supported housing was considered in drawing up proposals to introduce rent-free supported housing; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	129537
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2018 answer text <p>The proposed funding model for short-term supported housing changes the source of funding from welfare benefits to a local grant fund. In housing benefit, the payment is, in practice, normally made direct to the landlord for those living in supported housing, and this is exactly the same in the proposed funding model for short-term supported housing. In either case the individual is responsible for paying any ineligible service charges and incidental costs.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 01/03/2018 10:51:25 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1092728

	registered interest
	date	21/03/2019
	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	Council Tax Reduction Schemes
	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 mixed-age couples will continue to be able to claim council tax support under the default scheme when changes to their entitlement to pension credit take effect from 15 May 2019; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	235231
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2019 answer text <p>Whether mixed-aged couples can claim council tax support depends on a range of factors including the age of a claimant, the benefits they and/or their partner receive, and the design of local schemes. The changes to pension credit due to take effect from 15 May 2019 may mean some households are no longer eligible for the pensioner element of council tax support schemes, but may be eligible for local working-age schemes.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 26/03/2019 15:02:34 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1037984

	registered interest
	date	08/01/2019
	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	Permitted Development Rights
	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 consultation on extending permitted development rights will take account of his recent commitment to improve design standards; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	206212
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2019 answer text <p>New development should demonstrate high quality design, reflecting the character of the local area. Our consultation, “Planning Reform: supporting the high street and increasing the delivery of new homes,” invites views on how the use of local design codes could help to improve the design quality of upward extensions to existing premises to create new homes.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 11/01/2019 13:03:30 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

830394

	registered interest
	date	25/01/2018
	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	Supported Housing: Finance
	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 he expects to respond to his Department's recent consultation on the funding of supported housing.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	124960
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2018 answer text <p>The consultations on the short-term accommodation grant and sheltered housing model closed on Tuesday 23 January 2018.</p><p>We will now consider all responses and the Government will provide a full response in the early summer of 2018. In the meantime we will continue to work with providers and local government on the details of the proposed funding models.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 30/01/2018 15:43:52 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

823616

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2018
	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	Supported Housing: Finance
	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 the evidential basis was for the Government's proposals for a different funding mechanism for short-term supported housing compared with long-term supported housing.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	123076
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2018 answer text <p>The Department does not hold figures for the number in short-term versus long-term supported housing.</p><p>The short-term model was designed to ensure that funding for short-term supported accommodation is compatible with the modernised welfare system. We have not changed the funding model for long-term supported housing, which remains in the welfare system.</p><p>It reduces administrative burdens for providers in managing claims for housing costs and collecting rent. It also frees residents from concerns about meeting housing costs at a difficult point in their lives.</p><p>This model was designed with input from a range of stakeholders and providers through task and finish groups, the 2016 consultation on supported housing and taking account of the joint Communities and Local Government and Work and Pensions Select Committee report.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 19/01/2018 11:35:34 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

834415

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2018
	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	Supported Housing: Finance
	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 steps he is taking to ensure that his proposed ring-fence on local authority funding for short-term supported housing will be in place for the longer term.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	126034
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2018 answer text <p>We have already committed to a long-term ring-fence. Our recent consultations on supported housing closed on 23 January, we will now consider all responses and provide a full response in the early summer</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 05/02/2018 14:42:42 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

931977

	registered interest
	date	27/06/2018
	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	Optical Fibres: Non-domestic Rates
	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 he has for the rating of fibre communications infrastructure when the five year moratorium on rating of new fibre infrastructure expires.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	158145
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>The business rates relief for new fibre communications infrastructure supports telecom companies who invest in their fibre network by installing new fibre lines.</p><p>The relief will ensure that no rates are paid on those new fibre lines for 5 years up to 31 March 2022. This will provide important support in the early stages of roll out of new investment. As with all tax reliefs, the Government will keep under review the operation of the new fibre relief scheme.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 02/07/2018 15:10:01 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

890561

	registered interest
	date	24/04/2018
	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	EU Grants and Loans
	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 he has for his Department to allocate resources from the Shared Prosperity Fund.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	137387
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2018 answer text <p>My Department continues to develop the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. We have committed to launch a consultation on its design and priorities later this year.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 27/04/2018 12:38:02 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms