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923037

registered interest
date	13/06/2018
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	Local Government Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps his Department is taking to ensure fairness in the allocation of funding to local government.
tabling member constituency	Clacton
tabling member printed	Giles Watling
uin	905895
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2018 answer text <p>We are undertaking a Fair Funding Review of local authorities’ relative needs and resources to address concerns about the fairness of the current system.</p><p>We are making good progress, in collaboration with the sector, in order to introduce a simpler, fair and transparent funding formula.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 18/06/2018 14:40:11 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4677 label Biography information for Giles Watling

923373

registered interest
date	13/06/2018
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	Parish and Town Councils: Complaints
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 mechanism is in place for members of the public to raise complaints about the operation of town and parish councils; and to which body such complaints should be directed.
tabling member constituency	Shrewsbury and Atcham
tabling member printed	Daniel Kawczynski
uin	153235
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2018 answer text <p>There are various mechanisms in place for members of the public to make complaints about their town or parish council.</p><p>These include: using the parish council’s complaints procedure;raising the matter at the annual parish meeting; questioning, or making an objection to, the auditor during the public inspection period of accounts; or by joining with a group of local electors to call for a parish poll on the issue. In instances of councillor misconduct, complaints can be made to the principal council’s monitoring officer who can investigate.</p><p>Central Government does not have the power to intervene in parish council matters and believes that the current local system of redress is proportionate to the sector and consistent with this Government's principles on localism.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 20/06/2018 13:16:51 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	1566 label Biography information for Daniel Kawczynski

923430

registered interest
date	13/06/2018
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	Local Government Finance: Lancashire
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 validity of reports that Lancashire County Council will have a deficit of £118 million by 2021.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
uin	153200
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2018 answer text <p>Through the settlement, local government has been given access to £45.1 billion in 2018 - 19 and £45.6 billion in 2019 - 20. This is an overall increase since 2017 - 18 of £1.3 billion, in recognition of increasing pressures, including demand for adult's and children's services.</p><p>It is then for every local authority to make arrangements for proper management of their financial affairs, including developing plans to meet local spending commitments. As such, the Secretary of State has not made any assessment of the validity of figures disclosed in any reports.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 21/06/2018 16:05:58 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

922392

registered interest
date	12/06/2018
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	Social Services
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 recent assessment he has made of the ability of local authorities to meet their statutory duties for adult social care.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	152695
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2018 answer text <p>As part of our oversight of local government expenditure, we consider the financial stability and service delivery of individual authorities, liaising with other departments, including the Department of Health and Social Care in relation to adult social care. On this basis, we have no immediate concerns on the ability of local authorities to fulfil their statutory duties. We recognise the pressures on local government which is why we have provided an additional £2 billion to adult social care over the three years to 2019-20.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 21/06/2018 16:03:56 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak previous answer version 63773 answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

922520

registered interest
date	12/06/2018
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	Local Government Finance: Somerset
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 16 May to Question 143143 on local government finance, whether his Department considers Somerset County Council as being at risk.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	152763
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2018 answer text <p>The Department constantly reviews the challenges facing the sector and individual authorities, including financial risk. All local authorities have a responsibility to set a balanced budget; following the consultation on the 2018/19 Local Government Finance Settlement, all councils have set a balanced budget for the financial year 2018-19.</p><p>The Department considers a range of information about individual authorities in order to form judgements about the scale of challenge they may face. The judgements made are individual and nuanced; we do not comment on the financial health of individual councils.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 15/06/2018 13:38:52 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

919922

registered interest
date	08/06/2018
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	Unitary Councils: Somerset
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 meetings Ministers and officials of his Department have had with officials and members of Somerset County Council; and what correspondence his Department has had with Somerset County Council on unitary status in the last six months.
tabling member constituency	Bridgwater and West Somerset
tabling member printed	Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger
uin	151403
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2018 answer text <p>Ministers and officials regularly have correspondence and discussions with local authorities about a wide range of issues, which may include reorganisation from a two tier structure to unitary status. Such correspondence has recently included a letter from the Leader of Somerset County Council asking for a meeting to discuss his early thinking on restructuring.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 18/06/2018 14:39:48 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	1396 label Biography information for Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger

919957

registered interest
date	08/06/2018
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	Local Government Finance: Essex
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 estimate he has made of the maximum acceptable capital borrowing limits for (a) Colchester Borough and (b) Braintree District Council.
tabling member constituency	Witham
tabling member printed	Priti Patel
uin	151418
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2018 answer text <p>Local authorities can borrow, without prior Government consent subject only to assuring themselves that their borrowing is affordable. In assessing affordability of borrowing local authorities are required to have regard to the Prudential Code published by The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy. Every local authority’s affordable borrowing limit is published as part of the Government's official statistics.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 18/06/2018 14:39:21 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel

919105

registered interest
date	07/06/2018
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	Local Government Finance
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 make an assessment of the potential merits of providing additional funding to local authorities who have seen recent increases in the number of homes in multiple occupancy to help pay for local services.
tabling member constituency	Crewe and Nantwich
tabling member printed	Laura Smith
uin	151246
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2018 answer text <p>Over the five year period from 2015-16 to 2019-20 councils will have access to more than £200 billion of non-ring fenced revenue funding, and it is for local authorities to determine how to spend this and other sources of income on the services that they provide.</p><p>Local authorities already have powers through the planning system to control the proliferation of houses in multiple occupancy if they have concerns about the cumulative impact on their locality. From October we are extending mandatory licensing to protect more private tenants from poor housing conditions and overcrowding in houses of multiple occupation. Councils will be able to charge for the costs of administering this scheme.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 14/06/2018 15:04:51 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4648 label Biography information for Laura Smith

917370

registered interest
date	05/06/2018
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	Bus Stations: Vauxhall
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 assurances Lambeth Council gave to his Department on the timing of its decision on the future of Vauxhall Bus Station.
tabling member constituency	Vauxhall
tabling member printed	Kate Hoey
uin	149899
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2018 answer text <p>Lambeth Council gave no assurances on the timing of its decision on the future of Vauxhall Bus Station. The Department had an informal arrangement in place with the Council whereby they agreed not to issue their decision whilst the Secretary of State was considering the issue of call-in.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 11/06/2018 16:05:43 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	210 label Biography information for Baroness Hoey

917676

registered interest
date	05/06/2018
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	Local Government: Procurement
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 the Government is taking steps to ensure that all local authorities across the UK record third party spending with small businesses in a consistent manner to improve transparency and comparability; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	150108
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2018 answer text <p>Local authorities in England are subject to the Transparency Code 2015. This requires that councils publish a range of data, including that on procurement and contracts. Here councils are required to publish data on invitations to tender for contracts over £5000 and contracts awarded over £5000 are published on a quarterly basis. This information should be made available in an open, machine readable format.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 11/06/2018 16:12:42 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah