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93024

registered interest
date	13/10/2014
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	Welfare Assistance Schemes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans he has to change the Local Welfare Assistance scheme; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	210187
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2014 answer text <p>I refer my hon. Friend to the consultation paper on local welfare provision published by HM Government on 10 October 2014. I attach a copy of the paper.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 16/10/2014 14:58:03 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins attachment 1 file name 210187 Robertson.pdf title Consultation Paper on Local Welfare Provision
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

91600

registered interest
date	11/09/2014
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	Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what representations he has received about the ethical care charter initiated by UNISON.
tabling member constituency	North West Durham
tabling member printed	Pat Glass
uin	209128
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>The Department of Health is responsible for policy on care and support, including the commissioning of social care services by local authorities. The commissioning of social care is a matter for individual local authorities.</p><p> </p><p>The Care Quality Commission, as regulator of health and adult social care services, regulates social care providers to ensure services comply with essential standards of safety and quality.</p><p> </p><p>My Department has not issued any guidance to local authorities about compliance with the National Minimum Wage by social care providers.HM Revenue and Customs has recently carried out an evaluation of compliance with the National Minimum Wage in the social care sector. This was published on 29 November 2013 and a copy has been placed in the Library of the House.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins grouped question UIN 209125 209127 209129 209136 209137 209138 question first answered 13/10/2014 15:21:21 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	4103 label Biography information for Pat Glass

91601

registered interest
date	11/09/2014
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	Social Services: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent discussions he has had with local authorities about commissioning social care providers who are compliant with the national minimum wage.
tabling member constituency	North West Durham
tabling member printed	Pat Glass
uin	209129
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>The Department of Health is responsible for policy on care and support, including the commissioning of social care services by local authorities. The commissioning of social care is a matter for individual local authorities.</p><p> </p><p>The Care Quality Commission, as regulator of health and adult social care services, regulates social care providers to ensure services comply with essential standards of safety and quality.</p><p> </p><p>My Department has not issued any guidance to local authorities about compliance with the National Minimum Wage by social care providers.HM Revenue and Customs has recently carried out an evaluation of compliance with the National Minimum Wage in the social care sector. This was published on 29 November 2013 and a copy has been placed in the Library of the House.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins grouped question UIN 209125 209127 209128 209136 209137 209138 question first answered 13/10/2014 15:21:21 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	4103 label Biography information for Pat Glass

91604

registered interest
date	11/09/2014
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	Home Care Services: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which local authorities have commissioned home care providers which are non-compliant with the national minimum wage legislation.
tabling member constituency	North West Durham
tabling member printed	Pat Glass
uin	209136
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>The Department of Health is responsible for policy on care and support, including the commissioning of social care services by local authorities. The commissioning of social care is a matter for individual local authorities.</p><p> </p><p>The Care Quality Commission, as regulator of health and adult social care services, regulates social care providers to ensure services comply with essential standards of safety and quality.</p><p> </p><p>My Department has not issued any guidance to local authorities about compliance with the National Minimum Wage by social care providers.HM Revenue and Customs has recently carried out an evaluation of compliance with the National Minimum Wage in the social care sector. This was published on 29 November 2013 and a copy has been placed in the Library of the House.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins grouped question UIN 209125 209127 209128 209129 209137 209138 question first answered 13/10/2014 15:21:21 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	4103 label Biography information for Pat Glass

91605

registered interest
date	11/09/2014
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	Social Services: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what representations his Department has received on the effect of non-payment of the national minimum wage in the social care sector on care standards.
tabling member constituency	North West Durham
tabling member printed	Pat Glass
uin	209137
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>The Department of Health is responsible for policy on care and support, including the commissioning of social care services by local authorities. The commissioning of social care is a matter for individual local authorities.</p><p> </p><p>The Care Quality Commission, as regulator of health and adult social care services, regulates social care providers to ensure services comply with essential standards of safety and quality.</p><p> </p><p>My Department has not issued any guidance to local authorities about compliance with the National Minimum Wage by social care providers.HM Revenue and Customs has recently carried out an evaluation of compliance with the National Minimum Wage in the social care sector. This was published on 29 November 2013 and a copy has been placed in the Library of the House.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins grouped question UIN 209125 209127 209128 209129 209136 209138 question first answered 13/10/2014 15:21:21 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	4103 label Biography information for Pat Glass

91606

registered interest
date	11/09/2014
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	Home Care Services: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what discussions he has had with HM Revenue and Customs about launching proactive investigations into the non-payment of the national minimum wage in the home care sector.
tabling member constituency	North West Durham
tabling member printed	Pat Glass
uin	209138
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>The Department of Health is responsible for policy on care and support, including the commissioning of social care services by local authorities. The commissioning of social care is a matter for individual local authorities.</p><p> </p><p>The Care Quality Commission, as regulator of health and adult social care services, regulates social care providers to ensure services comply with essential standards of safety and quality.</p><p> </p><p>My Department has not issued any guidance to local authorities about compliance with the National Minimum Wage by social care providers.HM Revenue and Customs has recently carried out an evaluation of compliance with the National Minimum Wage in the social care sector. This was published on 29 November 2013 and a copy has been placed in the Library of the House.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins grouped question UIN 209125 209127 209128 209129 209136 209137 question first answered 13/10/2014 15:21:21 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	4103 label Biography information for Pat Glass

92475

registered interest
date	11/09/2014
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	Local Government: Devolution
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 participate in a conference with the Local Government Association and others on the issues raised in the Third Report of the Political and Constitutional Reform Committee, Session 2012-13 Prospects for codifying the relationship between central and local government, HC 656.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Mr Graham Allen
uin	905403
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2014 answer text <p>In the first instance, I refer the hon. Member to the Government Response to the Committee Report (CM 8623). The Government supported further localism and decentralisation, but disagreed with the suggestions of a statutory code, imposing new taxes or making changes to the Parliament Act.</p><p> </p><p>Ministers consider invitations as they are received, subject to Ministerial and other diary commitments.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 14/10/2014 15:45:51 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	364 label Biography information for Mr Graham Allen

90968

registered interest
date	08/09/2014
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	Electronic Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what progress the Permanent Secretary of his Department has made on his objective for delivery of information and transactional services to his Department's users by taking the Digital by Default approach.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	208589
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/09/2014 answer text <p>The Department is digital by default; publishing all documents online, except where there is a statutory duty to publish printed copies and when material is targeted at audiences known to have limited access to the internet, such as park home tenants.<br><br>Our transactional services are on target to reach 80% digital takeup by 2017.<br><br></p><p>85 percent of planning appeals in the calendar year to June 2014 were completed on line.</p><p> </p><p>100 percent of national infrastructure planning projects in the calendar year to June 2014 were completed on line.</p><p> </p><p>68 percent of planning applications through the planning portal were completed online in the calendar year to March 2014.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 24/09/2014 15:23:50 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins previous answer version 19656 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

90819

registered interest
date	05/09/2014
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 proportion of named day written questions were answered by his Department within the prescribed period in the (a) 2012-13 session, (b) 2013-14 session and (c) 2014-15 session to date.
tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
uin	208443
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2014 answer text <p>Departmental performance information, for ordinary and named day Parliamentary Questions, is collated by the Office of the Leader of the House of Commons and submitted to the Procedure Committee. This is published on a sessional basis by the committee, and includes evidence regarding departmental performance. The monitoring report relating to the 2012-13 session was published on 13 February 2014 as HC1046. The report covering statistics relating to performance during the 2013-14 session will be published very shortly by the Procedure Committee.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 11/09/2014 17:02:15 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins previous answer version 19366 answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

90619

registered interest
date	04/09/2014
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	Pay
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 (a) highest and (b) lowest full-time equivalent salary paid by (i) his Department and (ii) its public bodies was in (A) 2010-11, (B) 2011-12, (C) 2012-13, (D) 2013-14 and (E) 2014-15; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Harrow West
tabling member printed	Mr Gareth Thomas
uin	208303
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2014 answer text <p>The attached table lists the information since 2009-10.</p><p> </p><p>All staff are paid at least the Living Wage, and the London Living Wage where appropriate.</p><p> </p><p>Staff costs for core DCLG have fallen from £216 million in 2009-10 to £95 million in 2013-14, a reduction of 56 per cent in cash terms and an annual saving of £121 million a year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 09/10/2014 15:33:56 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins attachment 1 file name PQ-208303 Table.docx title Departmental Salary previous answer version 19174 answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas