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432652

registered interest
date	26/11/2015
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: 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 the Government plans to make available (a) to housing associations, (b) to local authorities and (c) in total in each of the next four years to build social rented housing.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	17890
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2015 answer text <p>Through the Spending Review the Government has committed to investing £8 billion to deliver over 400,000 affordable housing starts doubling our investment in affordable housing from 2018-19.</p><p>This funding includes £1.7 billion for around 100,000 homes for affordable or intermediate rent, which will be delivered by 2021.</p><p>Since April 2010 we have delivered over 260,000 affordable homes. Under Labour the stock of affordable homes fell by 420,000, with 1.8 million families on social housing waiting lists. More council housing has been built since 2010 than in the previous 13 years of a Labour Government.</p><p>The Government does not publish annual delivery targets for the affordable housing programme.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 01/12/2015 16:12:35 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

432653

registered interest
date	26/11/2015
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: Construction
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 number of social rented homes that will be completed in (a) 2015-16 and (b) each of the succeeding four years.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	17891
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2015 answer text <p>Through the Spending Review the Government has committed to investing £8 billion to deliver over 400,000 affordable housing starts, doubling our investment in affordable housing from 2018-19.</p><p>This includes £1.7 billion to deliver around 100,000 homes for affordable or intermediate rent. Already through the 2015-18 Affordable Homes programme we have allocated over £1 billion to deliver affordable housing, with the majority being for rented housing.</p><p>Since April 2010 we have delivered over 260,000 affordable homes. Under Labour the stock of affordable homes fell by 420,000, with 1.8 million families on social housing waiting lists. More council housing has been built since 2010 than in the previous 13 years of a Labour Government.</p><p>The funding allocated to housing associations and local authorities will depend on the bids submitted to the Affordable Homes programme.</p><br /> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 01/12/2015 16:11:10 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

432654

registered interest
date	26/11/2015
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
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 social rented homes he plans will be funded by the resources identified for housing in the Spending Review and Autumn Statement 2015.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	17892
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2015 answer text <p>Through the Spending Review the Government has committed to investing £8 billion to deliver over 400,000 affordable housing starts, doubling our investment from 2018-19.</p><p>This funding includes £1.7 billion for around 100,000 homes for affordable or intermediate rent, which will be delivered between 2015 and 2021.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 01/12/2015 16:14:12 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

432655

registered interest
date	26/11/2015
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: Construction
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 of each type of tenure he plans will be funded by measures announced in the Spending Review and Autumn Statement 2015.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	17893
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2015 answer text <p>The Spending Review and Autumn Statement made last week reaffirmed this Government’s commitment to keeping the country building, to delivering the homes communities want and supporting hard-working people who aspire to own their own home to be able to do so.</p><p>Over £20 billion was secured for housing from the Spending Review. This includes £8 billion to deliver over 400,000 affordable starts, and a further £12 billion of housing investment which will support our 1 million homes ambition by 2020/21.</p><p>The Spending Review package announced last week supports a variety of tenures, including affordable homes for rent, shared ownership schemes and starter homes. It also supports home ownership through supporting custom build, the extension of Help to Buy, and extending the Right to Buy to tenants of housing associations.</p><p>Precise splits between differing types of tenure will depend on the nature and quality of bids recieved for new funding programmes, and on the type of sites coming forward.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 01/12/2015 17:34:32 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

416336

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Midland Main Line: Rolling Stock
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what timetable he has set for procurement of the replacement of the HST trains on the Midland Mainline.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	8737
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2015 answer text <p>The Department considers that franchisees are normally best placed to procure the rolling stock that they require to deliver the necessary levels of service and capacity.　 We expect the competition for the next East Midlands long-term franchise to deliver any necessary changes in the rolling stock that is utilised.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 09/09/2015 14:44:09 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

416337

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
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	Supported Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how his Department will administer the new arrangements for social housing tenants on higher income to higher rents; and whether his Department will require all tenants to provide details of their incomes.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	8738
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2015 answer text <p>The Budget promised a consultation on aspects of the policy. That will be published shortly, and following responses we will set out the detail in due course.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 09/09/2015 16:26:56 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

390930

registered interest
date	17/07/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Care Workers: Living Wage
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the additional annual costs to councils of paying the National Living Wage to care workers employed by private firms to provide adult social care services for local authorities from April 2016.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	7771
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2015 answer text <p>The impact of the new National Living Wage on local authority finances will be considered during the Spending Review as part of an overall assessment of spending pressures on local authorities.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 22/07/2015 14:57:34 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

390658

registered interest
date	16/07/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Local Enterprise Partnerships
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the statutory requirements are for local enterprise partnerships on the transparency of their operations and responsibilities; and what guidance he has issued on those requirements.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	7718
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2015 answer text <p>Local Enterprise Partnerships are not public bodies – they are independent and voluntary partnerships between local authorities, businesses and other bodies. As such, there are no statutory requirements placed upon them.</p><p> </p><p>Government has, however, set out very clear standards on transparency in the “Local Enterprise Partnerships Assurance Framework”, published in December 2014. Each Local Enterprise Partnership has prepared their own local assurance framework verified by their accountable local authority, setting out how they will operate and take decisions in a way which is consistent with the standards set out in the national assurance framework.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 23/07/2015 10:57:55 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

390659

registered interest
date	16/07/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Local Enterprise Partnerships
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he is taking to increase the transparency of the operations of local enterprise partnerships.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	7719
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2015 answer text <p>The Government has set out very clear standards on transparency in the “Local Enterprise Partnerships Assurance Framework”, published in December 2014. Each Local Enterprise Partnership has prepared its own local assurance framework verified by its accountable local authority, setting out how it will operate and take decisions in a way which is consistent with the standards set out in the national assurance framework.</p><p> </p><p>We will continue to work with Local Enterprise Partnerships to ensure that basic standards around transparency and value for money are upheld. However it is important that accountability for this rests with the Local Enterprise Partnership and its accountable local authority.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 23/07/2015 10:56:29 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

390692

registered interest
date	16/07/2015
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: Living Wage
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 estimate what the cost to each local authority in England and Wales will be of paying staff the new National Living Wage in April (a) 2016 and (b) 2020.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	7737
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2015 answer text <p>The impact of the new National Living Wage on local authority finances will be considered during the Spending Review as part of an overall assessment of spending pressures on local authorities. The Department has regular discussions with the Local Government Association about a range of matters, and will continue to engage with them and other interested parties as part of the Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones grouped question UIN 7739 7740 question first answered 21/07/2015 14:27:55 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts