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227483

registered interest
date	16/03/2015
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Planning Permission: Urban Areas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of including urban planning in the Public Health Responsibility Deal.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	227724
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2015 answer text <p>The National Planning Policy Framework is clear that the purpose of the planning system is to contribute to achieving sustainable development, which includes the health, social and cultural well-being of local communities. The Framework:</p><ul><li>sets out that good design is indivisible from good planning and should contribute to making places better for people;</li><li>asks planners to work to create safe and secure layouts which minimise conflicts between traffic and cyclists or pedestrians, and give priority to pedestrian and cycle movements;</li><li>enables local communities, through the preparation of local and neighbourhood plans, to identify for special protection green or open areas of particular importance to them as Local Green Space; and</li><li>seeks to conserve and enhance the natural environment and reduce pollution.</li></ul><p>The Public Health Responsibility Deal embodies the Government's ambition for a more collaborative approach to tackling the challenges caused by lifestyle choices and so it is within this context that councils and communities can help to shape their places. <br><br></p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 19/03/2015 12:46:49 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

179539

registered interest
date	12/02/2015
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the average number of days training of full-time equivalent staff employed in his Department was in each of the last three financial years.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	224470
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2015 answer text <p>DCLG does not centrally collate details of the number of days training undertaken. To collate this information would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 26/02/2015 15:23:23 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

179540

registered interest
date	12/02/2015
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance his Department provides to its managers on how many days training should be made available to staff.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	224421
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2015 answer text <p>All civil servants are encouraged to undertake a minimum of five learning and development days a year. This includes formal training, e-learning, job shadowing, mentoring, coaching and various other development activities.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 24/02/2015 13:41:29 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

179541

registered interest
date	12/02/2015
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what his Department's training budget was in each of the last three financial years.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	224489
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2015 answer text <p>This Government has taken a series of steps to save taxpayers' money and improve overall quality of the training provision.</p><p> </p><p>Civil Service Learning was established in April 2011 in response to a wide ranging review of the delivery of training across the Civil Service. The new model is delivering better value out of its investment in training, reducing duplication in procurement and making greater use of the external market to provide the training which the Civil Service requires.</p><p> </p><p>Budgets were £670,000 in 2011-12, £991,000 in 2012-13 and £930,000 in 2013-14. Outturn spending came in under budget, thanks to the efficiencies we have delivered.</p><p> </p><p>This budget compares to outturn spending of £2.1 million in 2008-09 and £2.3 million in 2009-10.</p><p> </p><p>I would also observe that my Department has reduced total staffing costs from £218 million a year in 2009-10 to £95 million in 2013-14.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 04/03/2015 17:06:35 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

179542

registered interest
date	12/02/2015
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much his Department spent on training in each of the last three financial years.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	224508
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2015 answer text <p>This Government has taken a series of steps to save taxpayers' money and improve overall quality of the training provision. <br><br>Civil Service Learning was established in April 2011 in response to a wide ranging review of the delivery of training across the Civil Service. The new model is delivering better value out of its investment in training, reducing duplication in procurement and making greater use of the external market to provide the training which the Civil Service requires. <br><br>The figures below illustrate the spending on the category 'training' over the past six years, to illustrate the efficiencies we have achieved. The dip in spending in 2011-12 was a consequence of the transition from the old regime to Civil Service Learning. <br><br>2008-09: £2,080,738<br>2009-10: £2,309,137<br>2010-11: £1,312,688<br>2011-12: £377,521<br>2012-13: £767,549<br>2013-14: £667,618<br><br>I would also observe that my Department has reduced total staffing costs from £218 million a year in 2009-10 to £95 million in 2013-14.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 24/02/2015 17:05:40 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

176734

registered interest
date	29/01/2015
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Local Government: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of refunding VAT for contracted out services on the (a) ability and (b) incentives for local authorities to (i) share software services and (ii) use off the shelf software and Cloud services.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	222662
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p>The management of local authority IT systems are a matter for individual councils. As a consequence, no assessment has been made of the effect of refunding VAT for contracted out services on the (a) ability and (b) incentives for local authorities to (i) share software services and (ii) use off the shelf software and Cloud services.</p><p> </p><p>The independent Service Transformation Challenge Panel published their report on 26 November 2014, and noted that local public services have yet to take widespread advantage of digital technology to improve the costs and quality of their services or enable more connected communities. We will be responding to the report in due course.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 09/02/2015 17:05:25 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins previous answer version 42657 answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

170328

registered interest
date	15/12/2014
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Written Questions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the savings to his Department from the Q&A system in the (a) 12 months and (b) five years since 4 June 2014; what additional ICT systems or improvements to existing systems his Department has introduced or plans to introduce that would not have been feasible without the Q&A system; and what assessment he has made of the extent to which the system has made it easier to answer questions from hon. Members on time.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	218774
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/01/2015 answer text <p>The establishment of the House’s new Q&amp;A system for processing Parliamentary Questions overlapped with the introduction of a new IT system within DCLG, which covers correspondence and Freedom of Information requests as well as Parliamentary Questions. This uses an ‘off-the-shelf’ package; this involved considerably less cost than would have been the case with development of a bespoke system.</p><p> </p><p>Our system has been developed to enable electronic transfer of questions and answers between the two systems. Both systems offer some opportunities for speeding up processing and improved monitoring facilities. The most immediate impact of the introduction of the Q&amp;A system has been the ending of the need to subscribe to the daily House of Commons question feed service provided by The Stationary Office. This saves around £5,000 a year.</p><p> </p><p>The Department’s system has been in use since the beginning of September and work is continuing to develop its configuration to improve the way parliamentary questions are handled. When the new system has bedded in we will review processing arrangements to assess their effectiveness and explore whether further improvements can be made.</p><p> </p><p>It will be for the Procedure Committee to evaluate the effectiveness of the new system in improving performance when it assesses the evidence following the end of the session.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 06/01/2015 16:37:18 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah