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641182

registered interest
date	21/11/2016
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	Social Rented Housing: Newham
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 new homes for social rent were started in each year since 2010 in (a) East Ham constituency and (b) the London Borough of Newham.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	53968
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2016 answer text <p>The information is not available at constituency level. Data on social rent starts in 2015/16 by local authority are published at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/570012/Live_Table_1006_-_1009.xlsx" target="_blank">Tables 1006 to 1009: additional social rent and affordable rent dwellings</a>; sheet “Live Table 1006S”</p><p>Data on social rent completions are available for period requested at following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/570012/Live_Table_1006_-_1009.xlsx" target="_blank">Tables 1006 to 1009: additional social rent and affordable rent dwellings</a>; sheet “Live Table 1006C”</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon Central answering member printed Gavin Barwell question first answered 24/11/2016 17:25:22 answering member 3955 label Biography information for Lord Barwell
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

641183

registered interest
date	21/11/2016
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	Affordable Housing: Newham
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of trends in the number of affordable homes to rent in (a) East Ham constituency and (b) the London Borough of Newham since 2010.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	53966
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2016 answer text <p>The information is not available at constituency level. Statistics on the numbers of private registered provider and local authority dwellings by local authority district are published in the department’s Live Table 100 at the link below’, The totals include social, intermediate and affordable rent.</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-dwelling-stock-including-vacants" target="_blank"><strong>www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-dwelling-stock-including-vacants</strong></a></p> answering member constituency Croydon Central answering member printed Gavin Barwell question first answered 24/11/2016 17:26:30 answering member 3955 label Biography information for Lord Barwell
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

641184

registered interest
date	21/11/2016
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: Newham
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of trends in the number of statutory homeless households since 2010 in (a) East Ham constituency and (b) the London Borough of Newham.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	53967
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2016 answer text <p>Homelessness acceptances remain less than half the 2003-4 peak, but one person without a home is still one too many. That is why we have protected £315 million for local authority homelessness prevention funding, and secured £139 million central government funding in this Parliament. From 2010/11 to 2016/17, the London Borough of Newham received £5,104,774 in Homelessness Prevention funding.</p><p>We have a strong homelessness safety net, but we want to go further by putting prevention at the heart of our approach to tackling homelessness. That is why we are supporting Bob Blackman MP’s Private Members’ Bill. The Homelessness Reduction Bill will significantly reform England’s homelessness legislation, ensuring that more people get the help they need earlier to prevent them from becoming homelessness in the first place.</p><p>Homelessness statistics are not recorded at constituency level. Statistics on homelessness acceptances for each local authority in England can be found in live table 784:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness#homelessness-summary-local-authority-level-tables" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness#homelessness-summary-local-authority-level-tables</a></p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 24/11/2016 16:58:54 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

641190

registered interest
date	21/11/2016
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	Local Government: Procurement
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 has taken to ensure that local authorities in London promote diversity and equality in their procurement strategies.
tabling member constituency	Camberwell and Peckham
tabling member printed	Ms Harriet Harman
uin	53906
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2016 answer text <p>In January 2013, government published guidance setting out how the public sector should meet the legal requirements of the Public Sector Equality Duty, under section 149 of the Equality Act 2010 when conducting public procurement activities: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/procurement-policy-note-01-13-public-sector-equality-duty" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/procurement-policy-note-01-13-public-sector-equality-duty</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 24/11/2016 16:57:31 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	150 label Biography information for Ms Harriet Harman

641198

registered interest
date	21/11/2016
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	Fracking: Lancashire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to his decision to reopen the planning inquiry into the highways safety aspects of Cuadrilla Resources' appeal against Lancashire County Council's decision to refuse planning permission to build shale gas wells at its Roseacre Wood site, whether the analysis supporting his decision differs from that of the inspector concerned on any matter of fact mentioned in or otherwise material to a conclusion reached by that inspector in that case; and what new evidence or new matter of fact he has taken into consideration on the highways safety aspects of that case that has informed his decision to reopen the planning inquiry.
tabling member constituency	Fylde
tabling member printed	Mark Menzies
uin	54032
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2016 answer text <p>Full reasons for the Secretary of State’s decision are set out in the decision letter that was published on 6 October 2016.</p><p>In reaching his decision, the Secretary of State took into account the wide range of relevant issues that were raised and evidence that was put forward in this appeal, as well as the detailed findings, conclusions and recommendations of the Planning Inspector who held a public inquiry.</p><p>The decision letter and the Inspector’s Report are available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/recovered-appeals-cuadrilla-bowland-ltd-and-cuadrilla-elswick-ltd-refs-3134386-3130923-3134385-and-3130924-6-october-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/recovered-appeals-cuadrilla-bowland-ltd-and-cuadrilla-elswick-ltd-refs-3134386-3130923-3134385-and-3130924-6-october-2016</a></p> answering member constituency Croydon Central answering member printed Gavin Barwell question first answered 24/11/2016 16:47:22 answering member 3955 label Biography information for Lord Barwell
tabling member	3998 label Biography information for Mark Menzies

641203

registered interest
date	21/11/2016
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, how many times the power he has under section 17(7) of the Town and Country Planning (Inquiries Procedure) (England) Rules 2000/1624 to reopen a planning inquiry has been exercised by him and his predecessors to allow an appellant to adduce further evidence in their favour since the introduction of those rules.
tabling member constituency	Fylde
tabling member printed	Mark Menzies
uin	54078
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2016 answer text <p>The Secretary of State has the power to re-open a public inquiry as he thinks fit, for example if he considers that would be the best way to allow parties to put forward any further evidence and for parties to respond to any such evidence. No records are kept of how frequently that has occurred.</p> answering member constituency Croydon Central answering member printed Gavin Barwell question first answered 24/11/2016 16:56:38 answering member 3955 label Biography information for Lord Barwell
tabling member	3998 label Biography information for Mark Menzies

638619

registered interest
date	18/11/2016
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	Floods: EU Grants and Loans
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 representations he has made to the European Commission on the progress of the Government's application to the EU solidarity fund for flood damage.
tabling member constituency	Copeland
tabling member printed	Mr Jamie Reed
uin	53823
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2016 answer text <p>The Government finalised the UK’s application to the EU Solidarity Fund on 22 September 2016. The Government has been in regular contact with the European Commission at working level, and we await their decision on the application.</p> answering member constituency Brigg and Goole answering member printed Andrew Percy question first answered 23/11/2016 15:11:00 answering member 3939 label Biography information for Andrew Percy
tabling member	1503 label Biography information for Mr Jamie Reed

638620

registered interest
date	18/11/2016
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	Floods: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much funding to date his Department has made available to each local authority area affected by flood damage from Storms Desmond, Eva and Frank; and how much of that funding was allocated from (a) the Communities and Business Recovery scheme, (b) the Bellwin scheme and (c) other funding sources.
tabling member constituency	Copeland
tabling member printed	Mr Jamie Reed
uin	53824
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2016 answer text <p>My Department has paid out £57,237,780 to help local communities recover from Storms Desmond and Eva.</p><p>A breakdown of this sum will be provided to the Library of the House shortly.</p><p>We have also paid out £8.6 million predominantly match-funding to flood relief charities and community foundations.</p><p>Government has paid out over £240 million to help repair infrastructure damaged as a result of Storms Desmond and Eva.</p> answering member constituency Brigg and Goole answering member printed Andrew Percy question first answered 23/11/2016 16:29:27 answering member 3939 label Biography information for Andrew Percy
tabling member	1503 label Biography information for Mr Jamie Reed

638621

registered interest
date	18/11/2016
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	Private Rented Housing
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 his Department has made of the number of (a) people renting rooms and (b) rooms available to rent in each region in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	53779
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2016 answer text <p>This information is not held by the Department.</p> answering member constituency Croydon Central answering member printed Gavin Barwell question first answered 23/11/2016 15:09:55 answering member 3955 label Biography information for Lord Barwell
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

638630

registered interest
date	18/11/2016
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	Music Venues and Nightclubs: Noise
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 the Government plans to take (a) through guidance to property developers and local authorities and (b) otherwise to protect the capacity for nightclubs and live music venues to continue to trade when planning permission is being considered for converting existing offices nearby to residential properties.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	53755
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2016 answer text <p>Where permitted development rights apply, in considering the prior approval on noise for a change of use from office to residential (under Class O of Schedule 2 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015, local planning authorities will have regard to those relevant parts of the National Planning Policy Framework and supporting planning guidance on noise, as would be the case under a planning application. Prior approval may be refused where any impacts of noise from commercial premises identified are not sufficiently mitigated by the proposed measures, as consistent with national policy. Links to the National Planning Policy Framework and Guidance can be found here - <a href="http://planningguidance.communities.gov.uk/" target="_blank">http://planningguidance.communities.gov.uk/</a>. A local planning authority cannot consider matters other than those for which their prior approval may be given, as listed in Class O.</p><p>When determining a planning application for a change of use from office to residential where permitted development rights do not apply, local planning authorities must take into account the policies and guidance listed above, and must determine the application in accordance with the development plan, unless material considerations indicate otherwise.</p><p>Separate regimes apply to licencing and statutory nuisance, which are the responsibility of the Home Office and the Department for Environment, Food &amp; Rural Affairs respectively.</p> answering member constituency Croydon Central answering member printed Gavin Barwell grouped question UIN 53756 question first answered 23/11/2016 15:29:06 answering member 3955 label Biography information for Lord Barwell
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire