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1136735

	registered interest
	date	03/07/2019
	answering body	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	answering dept id	90
	answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	hansard heading	Members: Allowances
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, how much the new system for reimbursing hon. Members' expenses cost to implement.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	272731
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2019 answer text <p>I have asked IPSA to reply.</p><p>The original April 2016 business case for IPSA’s new IT system, IPSA Online, estimated a cost of £4.641 million. IPSA expected the programme to be completed in 2017-18. The full costs incurred to ensure IPSA could go live with IPSA Online at the beginning of the current financial year were £8.253 million.</p><p>The increase in cost was due in part to the unexpected General Election of June 2017 which diverted IPSA work for up to nine months to supporting MPs who left or joined parliament, and increased supplier costs. Costs also increased following a change of suppliers in September 2018 to improve the quality of IT support. Testing the system took longer than anticipated in order to ensure it was fully secure and free of technical problems. The increases in cost have been partly mitigated by savings elsewhere in IPSA’s budget. A full internal audit of the programme is currently taking place. IPSA will report to the Speaker’s Committee for the IPSA later in the year on the overall costs and benefits of IPSA Online.</p><p>IPSA is committed to supporting MPs and their staff during this transition and will make appropriate adjustments to improve the system as it beds in, while ensuring strong financial control, improvements in value for money, and high data quality and data security.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Broxbourne answering member printed Mr Charles Walker question first answered 10/07/2019 14:21:40 answering member 1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1136873

	registered interest
	date	08/07/2019
	answering body	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	answering dept id	90
	answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	hansard heading	Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority: ICT
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, if the Commission will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of the new IPSA system.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	273316
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2019 answer text <p>I have asked IPSA to reply.</p><p>The original April 2016 business case for IPSA’s new IT system, IPSA Online, estimated a cost of £4.641 million. IPSA expected the programme to be completed in 2017-18. The full costs incurred to ensure IPSA could go live with IPSA Online at the beginning of the current financial year were £8.253 million.</p><p>The increase in cost was due in part to the unexpected General Election of June 2017 which diverted IPSA work for up to nine months to supporting MPs who left or joined parliament, and increased supplier costs. Costs also increased following a change of suppliers in September 2018 to improve the quality of IT support. Testing the system took longer than anticipated in order to ensure it was fully secure and free of technical problems. The increases in cost have been partly mitigated by savings elsewhere in IPSA’s budget. A full internal audit of the programme is currently taking place. IPSA will report to the Speaker’s Committee for the IPSA later in the year on the overall costs and benefits of IPSA Online.</p><p>IPSA is committed to supporting MPs and their staff during this transition and will make appropriate adjustments to improve the system as it beds in, while ensuring strong financial control, improvements in value for money, and high data quality and data security.</p> answering member constituency Broxbourne answering member printed Mr Charles Walker question first answered 10/07/2019 14:22:06 answering member 1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1006893

	registered interest
	date	14/11/2018
	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	Fuel Poverty
	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 Regulator of Social Housing has information on the spending plans of housing providers to tackle fuel poverty among people in their housing stock over the next (a) five and (b) 10 years; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	191264
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2018 answer text <p>The Regulator of Social Housing does not produce estimates of, or collect information on, future spending on energy efficiency by housing providers.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 191263 question first answered 21/11/2018 13:47:57 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1010291

	registered interest
	date	19/11/2018
	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	Independent Mental Health Advocates
	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 with which local authorities undertake their duty to provide independent advocacy services to people subject to the Mental Health Act 1983; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	192714
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2018 answer text <p>Under the Mental Health Act 1983, and as set out in the Code of Practice , local authorities have a duty to ensure timely access to appropriately trained independent mental health advocates and ensure that patients are informed of the support that an advocate can provide. I have not assessed the effectiveness with which local authorities provide independent advocacy services; policy responsibility for the Mental Health Act 1983 and for the provision of independent mental health advocates lies with the Department of Health and Social Care<em>.</em></p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 22/11/2018 14:08:44 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1010576

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2018
	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	Housing: Energy
	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 19 November 2018 to Question 190338 on Housing: energy, how much Homes England plans to spend on increasing the energy efficiency of the existing housing stock over the next (a) five and (b) 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	193364
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2018 answer text <p>Homes England are rightly focused at ensuring more homes are built where the country needs them most, and therefore have no specific commitments regarding energy efficiency of existing stock.</p><p>However, this Government is firmly committed to raising energy efficiency in existing homes and has launched a number of initiatives to tackle this issue. In particular the Clean Growth Strategy aims to ensure that as many homes as possible will be upgraded to an Energy <br> Performance Certificate Band C by 2035, where practical, cost effective and affordable.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 28/11/2018 16:16:55 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1011447

	registered interest
	date	21/11/2018
	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	Social Rented Housing: Energy
	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 Answers of 20 November 2018 to Questions 190336 and 190337, whether he has made an estimate of how much of the £4.8bn spent by social housing providers was spent on increasing the energy efficiency of (a) the housing stock and (b) houses occupied by persons in fuel poverty.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	194027
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2018 answer text <p>The Department has made no such estimates.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 28/11/2018 15:14:57 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1011450

	registered interest
	date	21/11/2018
	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	Social Rented Housing: Repairs and Maintenance
	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 Answers of 20 November 2018 to Questions 190336 and 190337, what estimate he has made of the expenditure by private registered providers of social housing on maintenance and repairs in (a) 2014, (b) 2015 and (c) 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	194028
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2018 answer text <p>Expenditure on maintenance and major repairs by private registered providers of social housing was £5.1 billion in 2014, £5.2 billion in 2015 and £5.1 billion in 2016.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 29/11/2018 16:24:39 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1024743

	registered interest
	date	13/12/2018
	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	Unitary Councils
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, which local authority areas have (a) achieved and (b) sought unitary status in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	202033
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2018 answer text <p>Whilst to date since 2010 no local authority areas have achieved unitary status, two new unitary councils will be established in Dorset on 1 April 2019, we have announced that subject to Parliamentary approval a new unitary council for Buckinghamshire will be established on 1 April 2020, and we are currently consulting on a proposal made by seven councils in Northamptonshire to establish two new unitary councils covering that county on 1 April 2020. In addition to these areas since 2010 certain councils in Oxfordshire have made a proposal for unitary status for that county which is not being pursued.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 18/12/2018 16:26:07 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1024744

	registered interest
	date	13/12/2018
	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	Unitary Councils
	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 recent assessment he has made of the benefits secured by local authority areas that have moved to unitary status.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	202034
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government has made no recent assessment of the benefits secured by local authority areas that have moved to unitary status, but is aware of certain independent reports which have made such assessments. These include a report commissioned by the County Councils Network and authored by Phil Swann in 2016 called “Learning the Lessons from Local Government Reorganisation - An Independent Study“, which found that larger unitary councils are most likely to be able to generate economies of scale, be resilient, and be able to take strategic decisions in an integrated way with the broader public sector.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 18/12/2018 16:25:00 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1107787

	registered interest
	date	29/03/2019
	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	Hedges and Ditches
	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 to strengthen regulations to prevent developers and landowners putting netting on hedgerows.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	238587
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2019 answer text <p>Wild birds are protected by law and therefore any development project must consider the impact on local wildlife and take precautionary action to protect their habitats. The revised National Planning Policy Framework is clear that planning policies and decisions should contribute to and enhance the natural and local environment by minimising the impacts on and providing net gains for biodiversity. The Government has announced plans to require developers to deliver biodiversity net gain through the forthcoming Environment Bill. This will mean habitats for wildlife must be left in a measurably better state than they were before any development.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 03/04/2019 14:35:04 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew