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577433

registered interest
date	07/09/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Department for Exiting the European Union: Public Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the resources for the Department for Exiting the European Union have been drawn from the administration budget allocated in the 2015 Spending Review and Autumn Statement.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	45412
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>Detailed work is underway to establish the budget required to fulfil the department’s set-up and responsibilities. The budget of the Department will be set out to the House and approved as part of the supplementary estimates in the new year, as is standard practice.</p><p>The new Department for Exiting the European Union is appropriately resourced for its work.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore grouped question UIN 45413 question first answered 12/09/2016 12:33:28 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

577434

registered interest
date	07/09/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Service: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to draw additional resources needed for the Civil Service to prepare and negotiate for Britain's exit from the EU from the administration budget allocated in the 2015 Spending Review and Autumn Statement.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	45413
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>Detailed work is underway to establish the budget required to fulfil the department’s set-up and responsibilities. The budget of the Department will be set out to the House and approved as part of the supplementary estimates in the new year, as is standard practice.</p><p>The new Department for Exiting the European Union is appropriately resourced for its work.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore grouped question UIN 45412 question first answered 12/09/2016 12:33:28 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

577437

registered interest
date	07/09/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Equitable Life Assurance Society: Compensation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will take steps to compensate Equitable Life policy holders who, to date, have not been eligible for compensation.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	45345
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>The Equitable Life Payment Scheme was set up in 2011 to make payments to all those affected by the government maladministration of Equitable Life identified by the Parliamentary and Health Services Ombudsman in her 2008 report.</p><p> </p><p>After making payments of over £1.1 billion to more than 900,000 policyholders, the Scheme has now closed.</p><p> </p><p>A final report on the Scheme’s achievements will be published shortly.</p> answering member constituency Brighton, Kemptown answering member printed Simon Kirby question first answered 12/09/2016 10:31:41 answering member 3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

577454

registered interest
date	07/09/2016
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	Homelessness: North West
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to reduce homelessness in (a) Liverpool, Wavertree constituency and (b) the North West.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	45479
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>One person without a home is one too many. That is why the Government is clear that prevention must be at the heart of everything we do to tackle homelessness. We have protected homelessness prevention funding for local authorities, which will amount to £315 million by 2020, to help them provide quality advice and assistance to everyone who approaches them for help.</p><p>We have also increased central investment to tackle homelessness over the next four years to £139 million, including a new £10 million fund to support innovative ways to prevent and reduce rough sleeping, and a new £10 million Social Impact Bond to support rough sleepers with the most complex needs.</p><p>As well as this, we will be launching an additional £100 million programme for low-cost move on accommodation, including for rough sleepers leaving hostels.</p><p>Specifically, Local Solutions delivers DCLG’s Fair Chance Fund in Liverpool and Knowsley, a £1.3 million payment by results scheme supporting around 140 homeless 18-25 year olds into accommodation, learning, volunteering and work, and there are similar projects elsewhere in the North West.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 12/09/2016 15:46:38 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

577458

registered interest
date	07/09/2016
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	Planning Permission
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether his Department plans to streamline planning procedures for smaller developments.
tabling member constituency	Welwyn Hatfield
tabling member printed	Grant Shapps
uin	45493
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>Small builders will soon be able to apply to their local planning authority for ‘permission in principle’ which will enable them to gain more upfront certainty on the suitability of small sites for housing-led development, before they need to develop detailed and often costly development proposals. This will reduce the risk for small local builders to enter the market.</p><p>Through the Neighbourhood Planning Bill introduced on 7 September, the Government proposes to reform and speed up the planning process by minimising delays caused by unnecessary or overly burdensome planning conditions. The Bill measures will ensure that pre-commencement planning conditions are only used by local planning authorities where they are absolutely necessary, and that applicants are in agreement before they are imposed.</p><p>The Government took powers in the Housing and Planning Act 2016 to enable us to extend to non-major planning applications the successful performance regime for major applications, which has seen the proportion of major applications determined on time rising from 57% in July to September 2012, the quarter in which the performance regime was first announced, to 82% in the most recent quarter, the highest figure on record.</p> answering member constituency Croydon Central answering member printed Gavin Barwell question first answered 12/09/2016 16:01:14 answering member 3955 label Biography information for Lord Barwell
tabling member	1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps

577460

registered interest
date	07/09/2016
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	Housing: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent estimate he has made of the number of properties available on the Home Ownership for People with Long-term Disabilities scheme; what monitoring his Department has undertaken of the adequacy of supply of those properties; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	45346
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>The HOLD scheme is designed to help people with long term disabilities, who cannot otherwise do so, access the Government’s affordable home ownership programme. It is a voluntary scheme for providers and is funded by the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) according to demand. Data from the HCA indicates that 20 homes were sold under HOLD in 2015/16. However, due to the way sales are reported by providers this number may not include all such sales.</p> answering member constituency Croydon Central answering member printed Gavin Barwell question first answered 12/09/2016 15:57:44 answering member 3955 label Biography information for Lord Barwell
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

577462

registered interest
date	07/09/2016
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	Homelessness: Mental Illness
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 Secretary of State for Health on tackling the level of mental health issues among homeless people.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	45394
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>Sleeping rough is rarely the result of a personal housing crisis alone and we know that many rough sleepers and homeless people have complex needs, such as mental health difficulties, which result in poor life chances.</p><p>In 2010 we formed the Ministerial Working Group on Homelessness in order to bring departments, including the Department of Health, together to identify action needed to prevent and reduce homelessness and rough sleeping. This group continues to meet to discuss issues such as mental health.</p><p>Alongside this my officials are working closely with officials within the Department of Health to ensure collaboration on tackling mental health issues for homeless people. At Budget 2016 that we announced that we are developing a new £10 million national Social Impact Bond programme, to help homeless people with complex needs, including mental health difficulties, off the streets and out of homelessness.</p><p>I am working with the Secretary of State for Health, Jeremy Hunt MP, and his department on this very important issue.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 12/09/2016 15:47:14 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

577466

registered interest
date	07/09/2016
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Tourism: South West
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps the Government is taking to increase battlefield tourism in South West England.
tabling member constituency	Torridge and West Devon
tabling member printed	Mr Geoffrey Cox
uin	45438
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>22% of all Registered Battlefields are located in the South West. Through the recently published Tourism Action Plan ​ and Discover England Fund​, this Government is encouraging visitors, both domestic and international, to venture beyond London, so that the benefits of growth can be felt across the whole of the UK.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 12/09/2016 16:19:11 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	1508 label Biography information for Sir Geoffrey Cox

577467

registered interest
date	07/09/2016
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Sports: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much her Department spent on disability sport in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	North Swindon
tabling member printed	Justin Tomlinson
uin	45411
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>Government is committed to increasing opportunities for disabled people to get involved in sport and physical activity, both at the grassroots and elite level.</p><p> </p><p>For the period 2011 - 17, Sport England is investing over £170 million as part of its Whole Sport Plan Investment to encourage and support disabled people to play sport.</p><p> </p><p>In the current 2013-17 Rio Olympic and Paralympic cycle, UK Sport are investing around £350 million in the Summer Olympic and Paralympic sports, and a further £31m in the Winter Olympic and Paralympic sports, targeting success in PyeongChang 2018 and Tokyo 2020. The Government, through UK Sport, is investing almost £73m into 18 summer Paralympic sports during the Rio 2016 cycle, an increase of 48% from London 2012, and £2.7m into winter Paralympic sport during the current cycle.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 12/09/2016 16:05:46 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson

577468

registered interest
date	07/09/2016
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Gaming Machines
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether it is planned that the next Triennial Review of Stakes and Prizes will consider introducing £2 maximum stakes on fixed odds betting terminals.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	45538
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>The Triennial Review of Stakes and Prizes is due to be published shortly, and will consider stakes and prizes of all gaming machines.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch grouped question UIN 45536 45539 question first answered 12/09/2016 16:04:02 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms