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1175915

registered interest
date	04/02/2020
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	Community Assets
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 assessment he has made of the effectiveness of regulations used by local authorities in relation to changing the classification of assets of community value.
tabling member constituency	Hitchin and Harpenden
tabling member printed	Bim Afolami
uin	12315
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2020 answer text <p>The Government has committed to improving the assets of community value scheme which was introduced through the Localism Act 2011. As part of this, we will assess the overall the effectiveness of the regulations for local authorities, asset owners and voluntary and community groups to ensure that any legislation the Government introduces will meet our objective of supporting communities to protect those assets that are under threat.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 12/02/2020 17:34:43 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
tabling member	4639 label Biography information for Bim Afolami

1175057

registered interest
date	31/01/2020
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	Future High Streets Fund: Putney
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 Putney town centre is on his shortlist to receive funding under the Future High Streets Fund.
tabling member constituency	Putney
tabling member printed	Fleur Anderson
uin	10774
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2020 answer text <p>Putney Town Centre is one of the high streets that have been shortlisted for the first round of the Future High Streets Fund. Shortlisted high streets will now produce detailed business cases for investment proposals to renew and reshape town centres and high streets in a way that improves experience, drives growth and ensures future sustainability. Wandsworth Borough Council has received £150,000 in revenue funding to support them to develop their plans in more detail. A final decision on which places will receive capital funding will be determined following a thorough assessment of value for money of each places’ business case, in accordance with HM Treasury’s Green Book appraisal guidance.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 05/02/2020 11:48:11 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
tabling member	4788 label Biography information for Fleur Anderson

1174983

registered interest
date	30/01/2020
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	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Reviews
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will publish the titles of the reviews that his Department is undertaking.
tabling member constituency	Wallasey
tabling member printed	Ms Angela Eagle
uin	10303
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2020 answer text <p>The Department is currently undertaking reviews in the following areas:</p><ul><li>The quality and effectiveness of the audit and financial reporting of local authorities in England, led by Sir Tony Redmond;</li><li>How Government can best engage with faith communities, led by Colin Bloom;</li><li>Antisemitism, led by Lord Mann; and</li><li>Fair funding Review for how funding is allocated and redistributed between local authorities.</li></ul><p>The Department has also recently undertaken a number of significant reviews. This includes Dame Judith Hackitt’s Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety, which the Government has committed to taking forward its recommendations. The Building Better Building Beautiful Commission also recently published its final report, which can be found at <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fliving-with-beauty-report-of-the-building-better-building-beautiful-commission&amp;data=02%7C01%7CTom.Goose%40communities.gov.uk%7C86bda9cd141a43b0e1a008d7a8c5c392%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637163439646567560&amp;sdata=sCqTaLs8v7ElvExHcNOebQk0YrYWp8Udy3GDdaVwJzA%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/living-with-beauty-report-of-the-building-better-building-beautiful-commission</a>.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 04/02/2020 16:24:49 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
tabling member	491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle

1174319

registered interest
date	29/01/2020
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	City Deals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many city deal areas that fall (a) wholly and (b) partly within combined authority areas are (i) controlled by a combined authority, (ii) controlled by a local enterprise partnership and (iii) not controlled by a combined authority or a local enterprise partnership; and how those city deals not controlled by a combined authority or a local enterprise partnership are governed.
tabling member constituency	South Cambridgeshire
tabling member printed	Anthony Browne
uin	9798
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2020 answer text <p>City Deals were bespoke negotiations between Government and Local Enterprise Partnerships conducted in England between 2011 and 2014. The only area at this time to have a Combined Authority in place was Greater Manchester, although Liverpool City Region, Sheffield City Region, North East, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire Combined Authorities were all established in 2014. City Deals aimed to help drive the growth of cities across the country: identifying barriers to growth and also investing to drive future economic growth on the basis of the specific economic strengths, assets and opportunities of places.</p><p>A list of all English City Deals and their relevant Local Enterprise Partnership and Combined Authority is available below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>City Deal</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Local Enterprise Partnership</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Combined Authority</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong>Wave 1</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greater Birmingham</p></td><td><p>Greater Birmingham and Solihull</p></td><td><p>West Midlands (established 2016)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bristol</p></td><td><p>West of England</p></td><td><p>West of England (established 2017)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Leeds</p></td><td><p>Leeds City Region</p></td><td><p>West Yorkshire (established 2014)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Liverpool</p></td><td><p>Liverpool City Region</p></td><td><p>Liverpool City Region (established 2014)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greater Manchester</p></td><td><p>Greater Manchester</p></td><td><p>Greater Manchester (established 2011)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Newcastle</p></td><td><p>North East</p></td><td><p>North East (established 2014)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nottingham</p></td><td><p>Derby, Derbyshire, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire (D2N2)</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sheffield</p></td><td><p>Sheffield City Region</p></td><td><p>Sheffield City Region (established 2014)</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong>Wave 2</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Black Country</p></td><td><p>Black Country</p></td><td><p>West Midlands (established 2016)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greater Brighton</p></td><td><p>Coast to Capital (C2C)</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greater Cambridge</p></td><td><p>Greater Cambridge and Greater Peterborough</p></td><td><p>Cambridgeshire and Peterborough (established 2017)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Coventry and Warwickshire</p></td><td><p>Coventry and Warwickshire</p></td><td><p>West Midlands (established 2016)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hull and Humber</p></td><td><p>Humber</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greater Ipswich</p></td><td><p>New Anglia</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Leicester and Leicestershire</p></td><td><p>Leicester and Leicestershire</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greater Norwich</p></td><td><p>New Anglia</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oxford and Oxfordshire</p></td><td><p>Oxfordshire</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Plymouth and the South West Peninsula</p></td><td><p>Heart of the South West LEP and Cornwall and Isles of Scilly LEP</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Preston, South Ribble and Lancashire</p></td><td><p>Lancashire</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Southampton and Portsmouth</p></td><td><p>Solent</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Southend-on-Sea</p></td><td><p>South East</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire</p></td><td><p>Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sunderland and South Tyneside</p></td><td><p>North East</p></td><td><p>North East (established 2014)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Swindon and Wiltshire</p></td><td><p>Swindon and Wiltshire</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tees Valley</p></td><td><p>Tees Valley</p></td><td><p>Tees Valley (established 2016)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Thames Valley Berkshire</p></td><td><p>Thames Valley Berkshire</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 04/02/2020 16:26:36 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
tabling member	4801 label Biography information for Anthony Browne

1174021

registered interest
date	28/01/2020
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	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Apprentices
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 proportion of staff employed by his Department are apprentices.
tabling member constituency	Wythenshawe and Sale East
tabling member printed	Mike Kane
uin	9045
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2020 answer text <p>As of 31 December 2019, there were 53 apprentices in The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. This is 2.3 per cent of the total staff employed within the Department.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 03/02/2020 16:24:08 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
tabling member	4316 label Biography information for Mike Kane

1172969

registered interest
date	23/01/2020
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: Construction
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much funding has been allocated from the public purse to the West Midlands Combined Authority for home building since 2017.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hodge Hill
tabling member printed	Liam Byrne
uin	7118
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2020 answer text <p>In March 2018, the Government agreed a housing package with the West Midlands Combined Authority, to deliver 215,000 homes in the West Midlands by 2030/31, and committed to back that ambition through a Land Fund of up to £100 million. Funding is transferred to the West Midlands Combined Authority when key milestones are met. In addition, West Midlands Combined Authority has been allocated £6 million through the 2017 Devolution Deal to support immediate and long term housing delivery in the region.</p><p>The Government has also committed to supporting a successful legacy of the Commonwealth Games in 2022 by providing £165 million of grant funding for infrastructure to unlock up to 5,100 homes in Birmingham.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 04/02/2020 10:08:49 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry previous answer version 3457 answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
tabling member	1171 label Biography information for Liam Byrne

1173019

registered interest
date	23/01/2020
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	UK Shared Prosperity Fund: North West
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 proportion of the shared prosperity fund will be allocated to (a) the North West and (b) Wirral.
tabling member constituency	Wallasey
tabling member printed	Ms Angela Eagle
uin	7116
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2020 answer text <p>Following our departure from the European Union, the 2019 Conservative Manifesto has committed to creating a UK Shared Prosperity Fund, which binds together the whole of the United Kingdom, tackling inequality and deprivation in each of our four nations, and at a minimum match the size of European Structural Funds in each nation.</p><p>The Fund will invest in UK priorities and tackle inequalities between communities by raising productivity, especially in those parts of the UK whose economies are furthest behind.</p><p>However, the Government has been clear final decisions about the design of the Fund must take place after a cross-government Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 28/01/2020 11:54:25 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
tabling member	491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle

1173020

registered interest
date	23/01/2020
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	UK Shared Prosperity Fund: Consultation Papers
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 plans to publish the consultation paper on the Shared Prosperity Fund.
tabling member constituency	Wallasey
tabling member printed	Ms Angela Eagle
uin	7117
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2020 answer text <p>The Government recognises the importance of reassuring local areas on the future of local growth funding as we leave the European Union and of providing clarity on the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.</p><p>The Government has been working closely with interested parties across the UK whilst developing the fund. Government officials have held 25 engagement events across the UK, attended by over five hundred representatives from a breadth of sectors, which has helped inform progress on policy design</p><p>We will come forward with further details in due course.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 28/01/2020 11:54:41 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
tabling member	491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle

1172636

registered interest
date	22/01/2020
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	Towns Fund
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 Answer of 2 October 2019 to Question 291442 on the Towns Fund, if he will publish the data used for the indicator economic shocks for the 100 towns referred to in that Answer.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	6714
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2020 answer text <p>At this point in time, the Government is not able to publish the full selection methodology used to choose the 100 Towns that will work towards Town Deals, including the EU exit response criteria. This is because it includes information that relates to the formulation and development of government policy which is still live and ongoing.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry grouped question UIN 6713 question first answered 27/01/2020 16:58:10 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1172201

registered interest
date	21/01/2020
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	Playgrounds: Disability
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 his Department is taking to support local authorities to provide accessible play parks for people with disabilities.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	Carla Lockhart
uin	6146
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2020 answer text <p>In October 2019 my Department announced a £1.35 million grant scheme for local communities, working with local authorities to apply for funding to create new pocket parks or renovate existing parks. <br> <br> Identifying a local need such as accessibility or supporting those with disability issues is one of the key criteria against which applications will be assessed. The application window closed on 31 December and a total of 375 applications were received with 3 per cent specifically addressing issues of disability. Results will be announced in early February.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 03/02/2020 13:18:15 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
tabling member	4857 label Biography information for Carla Lockhart