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767417

registered interest
date	09/10/2017
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	Parking: Private Sector
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether he plans to strengthen the powers given to local authorities to regulate private car parks.
tabling member constituency	Clacton
tabling member printed	Giles Watling
uin	106544
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2017 answer text <p>We have already taken steps to help local authorities tackle unfair practices by private parking operators, including the banning of wheel clamping and towing.</p><p>My Department is also considering reforms of the private parking sector and we are keen to ensure motorists get fair treatment from private parking companies.</p><p>We welcome Sir Greg Knight’s Private Members’ Bill that seeks to create an independent code of practice for private parking companies. We look forward to reading Sir Greg’s recommendations.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 13/10/2017 16:24:20 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	4677 label Biography information for Giles Watling

765495

registered interest
date	06/10/2017
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	Department for Communities and Local Government: Sub-letting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 18 September 2017 to Question 8732, from whom that money came; and for the renting of which parts of the estate those sums were charged.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	105946
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2017 answer text <p>The information requested may be found in the following table:</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table: Sub-let properties on the Department for Communities and Local Government estate, 2010-11 to 2016-17</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Organisation</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Building occupied</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Care Quality Commission</p></td><td><p>Citygate, Newcastle</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Care Quality Commission</p></td><td><p>Paradise Circus, Birmingham</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Care Quality Commission</p></td><td><p>Belgrave Centre, Nottingham</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Protect</p></td><td><p>Citygate, Newcastle</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>High Speed Two</p></td><td><p>5 St Phillips Place, Birmingham</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>High Speed Two</p></td><td><p>Eland House, London</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>ARM Holdings Ltd</p></td><td><p>Eastbrook, Cambridge</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>ACAS</p></td><td><p>Temple Quay House, Bristol</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Media Trust</p></td><td><p>Riverwalk House, London</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 13/10/2017 16:24:54 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

765550

registered interest
date	06/10/2017
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	Council Tax: Valuation
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 potential effect on council tax revenue of revaluing properties to their current levels.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	105929
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2017 answer text <p>The Government has made no such estimate.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 13/10/2017 16:23:33 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

765656

registered interest
date	06/10/2017
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	Homelessness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many people presented as homeless in each local authority area in England and Wales in each month from January 2017.
tabling member constituency	Eastbourne
tabling member printed	Stephen Lloyd
uin	106128
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2017 answer text <p>The Department for Communities and Local Government publishes regular statistics on rough sleeping, statutory homelessness and homelessness prevention and relief in England. These are published at a local authority level.</p><p>The latest statistics can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/homelessness-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/homelessness-statistics</a>.</p><p>The Government remains committed to reducing homelessness and rough sleeping. No one should ever have to sleep rough. That is why we are aiming to halve rough sleeping by 2022 and eliminate it altogether by 2027. To achieve this, we will set up a new homelessness reduction taskforce that will focus on prevention and affordable housing, and we will pilot a Housing First approach to tackle entrenched rough sleeping.</p><p>We are also implementing the most ambitious legislative reform in decades, the Homelessness Reduction Act, which will ensure that more people get the help they need earlier to prevent them from becoming homeless in the first place.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 13/10/2017 16:23:17 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	3968 label Biography information for Stephen Lloyd

760640

registered interest
date	14/09/2017
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	Social Rented Housing: Rents
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether social rents will revert to the previously agreed settlement of Consumer Price Index plus one per cent from 1 April 2020.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	105097
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2017 answer text <p>The Government has announced plans to set a long term rent deal for councils and housing associations. Under the proposal announced on 4 October, increases to social housing rents will be limited to the Consumer Price Index (CPI) plus 1 per cent for 5 years from 2020. This announcement recognises the need for a stable financial environment to support the delivery of new homes.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 13/10/2017 16:26:46 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

760830

registered interest
date	14/09/2017
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	Non-domestic Rates
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 made an assessment of the effect on the timescale for local authorities to grant business rate reliefs detailed in Budget 2017 of the readiness of software used by local authorities in advance of making that commitment; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	105413
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2017 answer text <p>Following the Chancellor’s announcement of the Business Rates Relief Schemes at the Budget, on 9 March the Department published a Business Rates Information Letter to local authorities. This provided information on each of the three schemes including draft allocations for the discretionary relief scheme and guidance on the Supporting Small Business Scheme. On 10 March the Department began discussions with a group of local authorities and the main software suppliers to discuss the implementation of the schemes and system requirements.</p><p>The Department has continued to engage local authorities and software suppliers, encouraging authorities to speed up implementation and publishing the technical guidance for the Supporting Small Business Scheme and Pubs Relief Scheme on 20 June. However, local authorities have overall responsibility for awarding and maintaining contracts with their software providers and for ensuring value for money. While authorities have been able to manually identify eligible businesses for the Supporting Small Business Scheme since March, some authorities chose to wait for a full software update that enabled them to automate this process.</p><p>I met software providers on 12 July and agreed that the software update would be provided to authorities by 21 August at the latest. The update was released by all of the main software providers by this date. On 14 September I made a Written Ministerial Statement, which set out the good progress made by some authorities and a commitment to publish a list of authorities that have rebilled across all three schemes. This has now been published and is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/business-rates-relief-schemes-2017-rebilling-progress" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/business-rates-relief-schemes-2017-rebilling-progress</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 13/10/2017 12:48:26 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

760056

registered interest
date	13/09/2017
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	Electric Cables: Gloucestershire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans he has to investigate the leader of Gloucestershire County Council on whether he acted ultra vires by agreeing to the cabling from the energy firm waste plant at Javelin Park at Junction 13 on the M5 through to the Ryeford Substation via Stonehouse High Street.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	10388
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2017 answer text <p>Decisions of this nature are properly the responsibility of the local authority. Ministers have no remit to intervene in the day to day affairs of local authorities, except where specific provision has been made in an Act of Parliament.</p><p>Complaints about how any such decision has been reached should be considered against the Council’s code of conduct, and directed in the first instance towards the Council’s statutory monitoring officer, who has a duty to investigate.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 13/10/2017 12:49:22 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

760057

registered interest
date	13/09/2017
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	Electric Cables: Gloucestershire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans he has to ensure that Gloucestershire County Council undertakes environmental impact assessment on the impact of installing a cable from Javelin Park to the Ryeford Substation via Stonehouse High Street
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	10389
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2017 answer text <p>The decision on whether an environmental impact assessment is required is a matter for the local planning authority.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 13/10/2017 16:25:16 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

758639

registered interest
date	07/09/2017
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	Grenfell Tower: Fires
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 24 July 2017 to Question 5176, what advice his Department issued to the local authority and voluntary sector organisations providing support to survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire on working with (a) vulnerable people and (b) children.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	9514
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2017 answer text <p>My Department has been working closely with the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Council, NHS, Public Health England and the Voluntary and Community Sector, wider government and those providing care to ensure the needs of vulnerable people and children affected by the Grenfell Tower fire and wider community are met.</p><p>Local authorities and voluntary sector organisations who are supporting the survivors are subject to existing safeguarding legislation and statutory guidance. This includes, for example, the 1989 and 2004 Children Acts; Department for Education interagency guidance on safeguarding children; and The Care Act 2014.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 13/10/2017 16:27:58 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne