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760652

registered interest
date	14/09/2017
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	Non-domestic Rates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when he or officials of his Department first consulted (a) local authorities and (b) software suppliers on the implementation timetable changes to business rates and business rates relief in 2017.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	105160
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>Following the Chancellor’s announcement of the Business Rates Relief Schemes at Spring Budget 2017, on 9 March the Department published a Business Rates Information Letter to local authorities. This provided information on each of the three schemes, including draft allocations for the discretionary relief scheme and guidance on the Supporting Small Business Scheme. On 10 March the Department began discussions with a group of local authorities and the main software suppliers to discuss the implementation of the schemes and system requirements.</p><p>The Department has continued to engage local authorities and software suppliers, encouraging authorities to speed up implementation and the technical guidance for the Supporting Small Business Scheme and Pubs Relief Scheme was published on the 20 June. On 14 September 2017, I made a Written Ministerial Statement, which set out the good progress made by some authorities and a commitment to publish a list of authorities that have rebilled across all three schemes.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 09/10/2017 10:26:54 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

521538

registered interest
date	25/05/2016
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: Newspaper Press
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 he has made of his Department's progress on improving municipal statutory notices since his Department's press release, Councils and media invited to bring statutory notices into 21st century, published on 23rd December 2014.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	38486
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2016 answer text <p>The Statutory Notices Pilots project is now complete. We are currently in the process of giving careful consideration to the findings of the final reports of the 24 pilots, before drawing any conclusions and deciding what action, if any, to take.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 06/06/2016 13:53:40 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

515242

registered interest
date	25/04/2016
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: Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what further steps he plans to take to ensure that local government pension scheme members are consulted on proposed guidance on the ability of local government to account for non-financial factors in pension scheme investment decisions; and what steps he plans to take to ensure that that proposed guidance will be subject to parliamentary scrutiny.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	35272
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2016 answer text <p>The Government’s response to the consultation, which will set out our next steps in relation to these issues, will be published shortly.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones grouped question UIN 35271 question first answered 28/04/2016 09:41:25 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

515243

registered interest
date	25/04/2016
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: Pensions
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 responses to the non-financial factors section of the recent consultation on revoking and replacing the Local Government Pension Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	35271
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2016 answer text <p>The Government’s response to the consultation, which will set out our next steps in relation to these issues, will be published shortly.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones grouped question UIN 35272 question first answered 28/04/2016 09:41:25 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

485565

registered interest
date	23/03/2016
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 Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to page 2 of Budget 2016, whether the £3.5 billion savings to public spending to be achieved by 2012-20 will affect the four year funding settlement to local councils announced by his Department in December 2015.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	32326
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2016 answer text <p>While the Government has not yet completed its departmental efficiency review to help identify further savings in 2019-20, we expect the four year allocations confirmed in the final settlement on 10 February 2016 to be the amounts presented to Parliament each year, should councils choose to accept the offer.</p><p>We look forward to councils publishing efficiency plans by 14 October 2016 that demonstrate how the greater certainty on offer can bring about opportunities for further savings. However, if councils prefer not to have a four year settlement we cannot guarantee their future levels of funding.</p><p>We have been clear that funding allocations in 2019-20 may be subject to the implementation of 100% business rate retention, something councils have asked for over decades and which we are working with the sector to deliver.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 19/04/2016 16:51:42 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

485566

registered interest
date	23/03/2016
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	Small Businesses: Non-domestic Rates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how he plans that the section 31 grant to compensate councils for the extension of small business rate relief will be funded.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	32229
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2016 answer text <p>By raising £8 billion through a package of measures to counter tax avoidance and aggressive tax planning by multinational enterprises, Government has been able to announce in the Budget a £6.7 billion reduction in business rates. This is the biggest ever cut in business rates in England. The funding for these section 31 grants was provided for in Budget 2016 through the Budget scorecard (lines 15-17). This additional funding is included in the DCLG Local Government DEL budget figures on page 91 of the Budget Report.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 19/04/2016 16:52:52 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

484333

registered interest
date	22/03/2016
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	Non-domestic Rates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, under what criteria local authorities will be compensated for the change in the updating of business rates from RPI to CPI.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	32161
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>Our business rates tax cuts provide significant support to local businesses.</p><p>The Small Business Rate Relief measure announced at the Budget which starts in 2017-18 will mean 600,000 of the smallest businesses will not have to pay business rates. We will compensate local authorities, in full, for the loss of income as a result of this measure, in the same way as we have done for every other reduction to business rates we have made since the introduction of the business rates retention scheme.</p><p>In addition, from April 2020, the annual indexation of business rates will be changed from RPI to be consistent with the main measure of inflation, currently CPI. The impact on local authority revenues, post-2020, of this and the other changes announced at the Budget will be considered as part of the Government’s work with the sector on implementing 100 per cent business rate retention.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 11/04/2016 17:13:58 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

390692

registered interest
date	16/07/2015
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: Living Wage
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 estimate what the cost to each local authority in England and Wales will be of paying staff the new National Living Wage in April (a) 2016 and (b) 2020.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	7737
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2015 answer text <p>The impact of the new National Living Wage on local authority finances will be considered during the Spending Review as part of an overall assessment of spending pressures on local authorities. The Department has regular discussions with the Local Government Association about a range of matters, and will continue to engage with them and other interested parties as part of the Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones grouped question UIN 7739 7740 question first answered 21/07/2015 14:27:55 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

390700

registered interest
date	16/07/2015
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: Living Wage
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what research his Department has carried out on the effect of the National Living Wage on local authority staffing costs; and if he will place a copy of such research in the Library.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	7739
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2015 answer text <p>The impact of the new National Living Wage on local authority finances will be considered during the Spending Review as part of an overall assessment of spending pressures on local authorities. The Department has regular discussions with the Local Government Association about a range of matters, and will continue to engage with them and other interested parties as part of the Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones grouped question UIN 7737 7740 question first answered 21/07/2015 14:27:55 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

390702

registered interest
date	16/07/2015
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: Living Wage
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 the Local Government Association on providing financial support for local authorities to assist meeting any costs of paying staff the National Living Wage.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	7740
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2015 answer text <p>The impact of the new National Living Wage on local authority finances will be considered during the Spending Review as part of an overall assessment of spending pressures on local authorities. The Department has regular discussions with the Local Government Association about a range of matters, and will continue to engage with them and other interested parties as part of the Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones grouped question UIN 7737 7739 question first answered 21/07/2015 14:27:55 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts