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101072

registered interest
date	27/10/2014
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	Radioactive Materials: Transport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how his Department has implemented the relevant recommendations from Exercise Senator in 2011 on nuclear accident emergencies.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	212073
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p>Exercise Senator 2011 tested the multi-agency response to an incident involving a UK nuclear weapon convoy travelling in Scotland and the simulated release of radioactive material. The Ministry of Defence is the lead Government Department responsible for emergencies involving defence nuclear assets (other than an emergency arising as a result of a terrorist event where the Home Office is appointed as lead).</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Defence works closely with devolved administrations (Scotland in this exercise) and local responders to ensure an effective coordinated response. The central government’s concept of operations sets out UK arrangements for responding to and recovering from emergencies.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/192425/CONOPs_incl_revised_chapter_24_Apr-13.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/192425/CONOPs_incl_revised_chapter_24_Apr-13.pdf</a></p><p>My Department is responsible for providing the Government liaison function below the national level in England only. The Ministry of Defence invited my Department to observe exercise play at their main building where it considered cross border issues.</p><p>The all agency exercise report (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/85882/exercise_senator_2011_all_agency_report.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/85882/exercise_senator_2011_all_agency_report.pdf</a>) identified recommendations in exercise planning and operational, strategic and media play. There were no recommendations identified for my Department to implement.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 03/11/2014 16:48:13 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

100859

registered interest
date	24/10/2014
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	Fires: Safety
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 the effectiveness of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 in providing (a) adequate fire safety and (b) appropriate fire drills, including evacuations, for (i) airport termini and (ii) hospitals.
tabling member constituency	Poplar and Limehouse
tabling member printed	Jim Fitzpatrick
uin	211861
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p>It is the responsibility of enforcing authorities to satisfy themselves that the responsible person has complied with their duties under the Fire Safety Order 2005.</p><p> </p><p>Under the Fire Safety Order, building owners are required to carry out a fire risk assessment of their premises and put in place and maintain adequate and appropriate fire safety measures to ensure that the risk to life in the event of fire is reduced to as low as reasonably practicable. The Order is not prescriptive about what particular safety measures are needed; these are for the building owner to determine based on the specific circumstances of their building and the needs of the occupants, including those who may be particularly vulnerable to the risk from fire.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 03/11/2014 16:51:21 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	197 label Biography information for Jim Fitzpatrick

91389

registered interest
date	10/09/2014
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	Department for Communities and Local Government: 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, when he expects to answer Question No. 208306, tabled by the right hon. Member for Leeds Central on 4 September 2014.
tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
uin	208947
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2014 answer text <p>Questions 208306 and 208307 were answered on 24 September.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 208948 question first answered 09/10/2014 15:25:29 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

91390

registered interest
date	10/09/2014
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	Department for Communities and Local Government: 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, when he expects to answer Question No. 208307, tabled by the right hon. Member for Leeds Central on 4 September 2014.
tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
uin	208948
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2014 answer text <p>Questions 208306 and 208307 were answered on 24 September.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 208947 question first answered 09/10/2014 15:25:29 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

90622

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	Enterprise Zones
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 the report by the National Audit Office, Funding and structures for local economic growth, HC 542, published on 6 December 2013, what steps he has taken to implement recommendation 22f on page 13 of the report.
tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
uin	208306
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/09/2014 answer text <p>As Enterprise Zones are a long term intervention (25 years in total) and the programme is still at an early stage, an evaluation of impact at this point would be premature. This reflects the practice of the previous evaluation which was commissioned in 1995 to assess the performance of Enterprise Zones that had been designated between 1981 and 1984. <br><br>However, the Department is looking at options now for a robust evaluation in the future, taking into account recent National Audit Office work on evaluation of spatial programmes, and lessons that can be learnt from the evaluations that are underway on other local growth programmes such as the Regional Growth Fund.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 24/09/2014 15:19:18 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt previous answer version 19171 answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

90623

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	Enterprise Zones
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 number of new jobs that will be created by enterprise zones by 2015.
tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
uin	208307
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/09/2014 answer text <p>Enterprise Zones are about delivering long term, locally-led, sustainable growth. Since they started in April 2012, they have laid down the foundations for their success and report that they have so far created over 10,000 jobs and attracted 377 businesses, bringing in £1.9 billion pounds of private sector investment.</p><p /> <p>We do not collect data on forecast job numbers by 2015, nor are we imposing Whitehall targets; the jobs to be created in each individual Enterprise Zone will reflect the type of commerce or industry supported on the sites (some sectors are more labour-intensive than others), the local priorities of the Enterprise Zone, the size and context of the zone’s sites and the broader local economy.</p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 24/09/2014 15:16:00 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt previous answer version 19172 answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

89995

registered interest
date	01/09/2014
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	Fire Services: Pensions
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 provide additional funds to Essex Fire and Rescue Service to cover the cost of payments to the Firefighters Injury Pension scheme incurred in each financial year since 2006.
tabling member constituency	Colchester
tabling member printed	Sir Bob Russell
uin	207773
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2014 answer text <p>The regulations governing the Firefighters’ Pension Schemes set out which payments are eligible for annual pension top-up grant claims by fire and rescue authorities and is paid by the Department. The statutory ‘<em>Guidance for fire and rescue authorities on new financial arrangements for firefighter pensions with effect from April 2006</em>’ issued by the Department in 2006 provides guidance for fire and rescue authorities to implement the finance arrangements, including setting out which specific payments are eligible for top-up grant expenditure and which are not eligible. The guidance sets out that injury awards are not eligible expenditure for the top up grant.</p><p> </p><p>We understand that, since the changes were implemented in 2006, Essex Fire and Rescue Authority has incorrectly claimed certain injury payments as eligible expenditure through the top-up grant. We are in discussions with the fire authority on this issue.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 09/09/2014 15:32:30 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	35 label Biography information for Sir Bob Russell

77047

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
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	Coalfields Regeneration Trust
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 funding has been awarded to the Coalfields Regeneration Trust in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	205109
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>In 2010, the previous Administration initiated a review of coalfields regeneration; this was completed in September 2010 and the Government’s response was published in March 2011 – as summarised in the Written Ministerial Statement by my rt. hon. Friend, the Member for Welwyn Hatfield (Grant Shapps), on 10 March 2011, <em>Official Report</em>, Column 74WS. This outlined a four year programme to make the Trust self-financing, and a tapered level of funding. As laid out in that approach, funding to the Trust was £17.7 million in 2010-11, £16 million in 2011-12, £14 million in 2012-13, £12 million in 2013-14 and will be £10 million in 2014-15.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In line with the strategy, the Coalfields Regeneration Trust will no longer receive financial support from DCLG after March 2015, but they have been allowed to invest grant in assets, whilst still adhering to their core objectives of supporting coalfields communities to enable them to generate an income from 2015 onwards. The Trust now has a strong portfolio of investment and an opportunity to concentrate on the areas where they add value.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Homes and Communities Agency’s Coalfields Programme has invested over £660 million in coalfields project. The land assets associated with Coalfields Projects are expected to form part of the Homes and Communities Agency’s upcoming programme to dispose of Public Sector Land.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>DCLG’s Coalfields Funds have also been investing in innovative small and medium firms in deprived former coalfields areas and will continue to do so until mid-2016, as per the June 2009 contractual agreement with the Coalfields Growth Fund partnership. As of 30 June 2014 the Funds have invested £16.9 million in total.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><br></p><p>More broadly, the Government’s approach is to provide local leaders, residents and businesses with the powers, flexibilities, options and incentives to put them in the driving seat to regenerate their area, strengthen their local economy, and improve their opportunities.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As part of its long-term economic plan to secure Britain’s future, the Government has agreed a series of Growth Deals with businesses and local authorities across England which will provide support for local businesses to train young people, create thousands of new jobs, build thousands of new homes and start hundreds of infrastructure projects; including transport improvements and superfast broadband networks. There is a real opportunity for the Local Enterprise Partnerships which cover former coalfield areas to take a major role in taking forward regeneration locally.</p><p> </p><p><em> </em></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 205254 question first answered 24/09/2014 15:29:40 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

77053

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
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	Coalfields Regeneration Trust
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if his Department will make an assessment of the implications for its policies of the conclusions and recommendations of the recent report from the Coalfields Regeneration Trust entitled The State of the Coalfields; and whether his Department provides or plans to provide funding for the Coalfields Regeneration Trust.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	205254
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>In 2010, the previous Administration initiated a review of coalfields regeneration; this was completed in September 2010 and the Government’s response was published in March 2011 – as summarised in the Written Ministerial Statement by my rt. hon. Friend, the Member for Welwyn Hatfield (Grant Shapps), on 10 March 2011, <em>Official Report</em>, Column 74WS. This outlined a four year programme to make the Trust self-financing, and a tapered level of funding. As laid out in that approach, funding to the Trust was £17.7 million in 2010-11, £16 million in 2011-12, £14 million in 2012-13, £12 million in 2013-14 and will be £10 million in 2014-15.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In line with the strategy, the Coalfields Regeneration Trust will no longer receive financial support from DCLG after March 2015, but they have been allowed to invest grant in assets, whilst still adhering to their core objectives of supporting coalfields communities to enable them to generate an income from 2015 onwards. The Trust now has a strong portfolio of investment and an opportunity to concentrate on the areas where they add value.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Homes and Communities Agency’s Coalfields Programme has invested over £660 million in coalfields project. The land assets associated with Coalfields Projects are expected to form part of the Homes and Communities Agency’s upcoming programme to dispose of Public Sector Land.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>DCLG’s Coalfields Funds have also been investing in innovative small and medium firms in deprived former coalfields areas and will continue to do so until mid-2016, as per the June 2009 contractual agreement with the Coalfields Growth Fund partnership. As of 30 June 2014 the Funds have invested £16.9 million in total.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><br></p><p>More broadly, the Government’s approach is to provide local leaders, residents and businesses with the powers, flexibilities, options and incentives to put them in the driving seat to regenerate their area, strengthen their local economy, and improve their opportunities.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As part of its long-term economic plan to secure Britain’s future, the Government has agreed a series of Growth Deals with businesses and local authorities across England which will provide support for local businesses to train young people, create thousands of new jobs, build thousands of new homes and start hundreds of infrastructure projects; including transport improvements and superfast broadband networks. There is a real opportunity for the Local Enterprise Partnerships which cover former coalfield areas to take a major role in taking forward regeneration locally.</p><p> </p><p><em> </em></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 205109 question first answered 24/09/2014 15:29:40 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

63199

registered interest
date	23/06/2014
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	Fire Services
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 the Government spend per head of population on fire and rescue services in (a) Nottinghamshire, (b) the East Midlands and (c) England in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Sherwood
tabling member printed	Mr Mark Spencer
uin	201779
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The table below shows local authority expenditure on fire and rescue services, as well as the number of fire incidents attended, over the last decade. It illustrates the significant fall in the number of incidents attended, whilst average spending has remained broadly the same over that long-term period.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td colspan="2"><p><em>Expenditure per head</em></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><em>Fire incidents attended</em></p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>Nottinghamshire</p></td><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>Nottinghamshire</p></td><td><p>England</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2003-04</p></td><td><p>£31.98</p></td><td><p>£34.82</p></td><td><p>13,800</p></td><td><p>473,600</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2004-05</p></td><td><p>£35.83</p></td><td><p>£38.36</p></td><td><p>9,000</p></td><td><p>342,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005-06</p></td><td><p>£35.40</p></td><td><p>£40.56</p></td><td><p>8,700</p></td><td><p>336,100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006-07</p></td><td><p>£36.85</p></td><td><p>£43.03</p></td><td><p>8,600</p></td><td><p>336,200</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007-08</p></td><td><p>£38.61</p></td><td><p>£43.46</p></td><td><p>7,700</p></td><td><p>293,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008-09</p></td><td><p>£38.61</p></td><td><p>£40.60</p></td><td><p>6,300</p></td><td><p>249,200</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>£39.54</p></td><td><p>£41.71</p></td><td><p>6,200</p></td><td><p>241,400</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>£38.48</p></td><td><p>£41.12</p></td><td><p>5,600</p></td><td><p>228,400</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>£37.64</p></td><td><p>£39.87</p></td><td><p>6,100</p></td><td><p>223,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>£36.98</p></td><td><p>£39.61</p></td><td><p>3,300</p></td><td><p>154,400</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><sup>Sources: Revenue Outturn forms and Office of National Statistic’s mid-year population estimates. </sup></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>My Department does not publish statistics by the former Government Office Regions.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Last year, Sir Ken Knight’s independent review of the fire and rescue services found huge variations in the way that local fire and rescue authorities operated. Services continue to spend according to the budget they are given, rather than to the risks they have to manage. Huge variations exist between how the 46 different fire authorities operate, with the cost per head of providing a service almost double in some areas to that of others. This did not seem to be related to whether they are large or small, rural or urban, deprived or affluent.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Sir Ken concluded that there were significant opportunities for sensible savings such as through: sharing of senior staff, reforms to flexible staffing and crewing arrangements, better procurement, shared services, collaboration with emergency services and other organisations on service delivery and estates, sickness management, locally-led mergers and operational collaborations, new fire-fighting technology, preventative approaches and working with local businesses.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 09/09/2014 14:58:57 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer