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date	04/11/2014
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Park Homes: Water Charges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what representations she has received on park home owners being able to be individually metered for water use.
tabling member constituency	Mid Dorset and North Poole
tabling member printed	Annette Brooke
uin	213265
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2014 answer text <p>We have not received any recent representation from park home owners on this topic.</p><p> </p><p>The majority of premises either receive their water and sewerage services from a water company or a reseller. A customer of a water company can request (under the Water Industry Act 1991) a water meter and if it is not feasible to fit one (due to it being impractical or unduly costly) they will be moved across to an assessed charge. The assessed charge should ‘bear as much relation as possible to the volumes of water such customers would be likely to use’ and are normally based on the average metered bill for the area or the number of bedrooms.</p><p> </p><p>Those customers of resellers (and this can include sheltered accommodation, housing association properties, flats above commercial premises, caravan parks and park homes) can ask for a meter to be fitted but there is no legal requirement on the reseller to do this.</p><p> </p><p>The industry regulator, Ofwat, regulates the resale market through The Water Resale Order 2006 (section 150 of the Water Industry Act 1991) and provides examples on how the charges should be apportioned.</p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 07/11/2014 14:15:11 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
tabling member	1431 label Biography information for Annette Brooke

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date	04/11/2014
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he plans to take to ensure that consumers are protected from rogue pension schemes.
tabling member constituency	Mid Dorset and North Poole
tabling member printed	Annette Brooke
uin	213266
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>Under Project Bloom DWP and other agencies are already working together with the pensions industry to crackdown on pensions scams. Actions include:</p><p> </p><p>· A tightening of HMRC’s pension scheme registration, as called for by industry, including the introduction of a fit and proper person test.</p><p>· A further wave of the Pensions Regulator’s well-received Scorpion information campaign highlighting the threat posed by pension scams, with further waves happening early next year.</p><p>· The launch of the Financial Conduct Authority’s Scamsmart campaign.</p><p>· Police raids.</p><p>· Closing down websites used to facilitate pension scams.</p><p> </p><p>More generally, the Pensions Regulator and the Financial Conduct Authority work together with trustees and providers to ensure that occupational pension scheme members’ and consumers’ contract based pensions are safe.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 07/11/2014 12:20:16 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	1431 label Biography information for Annette Brooke