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date	07/07/2017
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	Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, for what reasons he appointed a recovery taskforce for the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Council and not Commissioners; and how the powers, responsibilities and accountability of that taskforce differ from those of Commissioners.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	3702
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2017 answer text <p>The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government made a statement on 5 July setting out that the Grenfell Tower Recovery Taskforce will consider all aspects of the recovery operation, but will have a special focus on housing, regeneration and community engagement. The Recovery Taskforce will advise, support and challenge the Council, and will report to the Secretary of State directly.</p><p>The Taskforce is set up as a non-Statutory Intervention to work with the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea - following their request for support from central government - on the longer term recovery following the Grenfell Tower disaster. Commissioners, on the other hand, are appointed by the Secretary of State to exercise specific functions of an authority where he is satisfied that the authority is failing to comply with its Best Value Duty (Local Government Act 1999).</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 3701 question first answered 25/07/2017 14:01:09 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma previous answer version 3959 answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

749626

registered interest
date	07/07/2017
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	Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
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 set out the powers, scope, responsibilities and accountability of the recovery taskforce appointed to run the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	3701
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2017 answer text <p>The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government made a statement on 5 July setting out that the Grenfell Tower Recovery Taskforce will consider all aspects of the recovery operation, but will have a special focus on housing, regeneration and community engagement. The Recovery Taskforce will advise, support and challenge the Council, and will report to the Secretary of State directly.</p><p>The Taskforce is set up as a non-Statutory Intervention to work with the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea - following their request for support from central government - on the longer term recovery following the Grenfell Tower disaster. Commissioners, on the other hand, are appointed by the Secretary of State to exercise specific functions of an authority where he is satisfied that the authority is failing to comply with its Best Value Duty (Local Government Act 1999).</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 3702 question first answered 25/07/2017 14:01:09 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma previous answer version 3958 answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts