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1457860

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date	14/04/2022
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Local Government: Meetings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will require all local authorities to publish a transcript of full council meetings.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	153834
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2022 answer text <p>The Government has no plans to require local authorities to publish a transcript of full council meetings. Government does not regulate the content of councils’ minutes or decision notices; this is a matter for individual local authorities.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 26/04/2022 15:28:09 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1454902

registered interest
date	28/03/2022
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Coal: Cumbria
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, when his Department expects the planning inspector to announce his decision following the public inquiry into West Cumbria coal mine planning application; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	148122
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2022 answer text <p>The date for the Secretary of State’s decision on this case will be set when the independent planning inspector’s report and recommendation is submitted to the Department, and will be 13 weeks after the date of that submission. The Inspector’s report has not yet been received.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 05/04/2022 16:06:15 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1454999

registered interest
date	28/03/2022
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities: Public Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will detail the losses and special payments valued at under £300,000 for his departmental group as defined by section A4.10.7 in HM Treasury's Managing Public Money for (a) 2018-19, (b) 2019-20 and (c) 2020-21.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	148129
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2022 answer text <p>The losses and special payments valued at under £300,000 for the main department for the years 2018-19, 2019-20 and 2020-21 as already held on the record of losses for the public sector organisations within the departmental group, in accordance with Managing Public Money (Annex A4.10.7), or as otherwise held for the purposes of special payment disclosures, are set out below. These disclosures are consistent with the organisations’ obligations under the Data Protection Act 2018.</p><p>(a) 2018-19 Total individual losses recorded for core department under £300,000 were 33 with a combined value of £1,191,342.49. These relates to write offs on the ERDF and Regional Growth Fund Programmes and losses of IT equipment. Total individual special payments recorded for core department under £300,000 were 66 with a combined value of £1,987,285.56. These relates to annual payments for historic personal injury claims.</p><p>(b) 2019-20 Total individual losses recorded for core department under £300,000 were 43 with a combined value of £555,063.05. These relates to write offs on the ERDF, Great Britain High Streets and Regional Growth Fund Programmes and losses of IT equipment. Total individual special payments recorded for core department under £300,000 were 60 with a combined value of £1,934,852.67. These relate to annual payments for historic personal injury claims and payments to local authorities related to NNDR guidance on the business rates retention scheme.</p><p>(c) 2020-21 Total individual losses recorded for core department under £300,000 were 10 with a combined value of £294,350.00. These relates to write offs on the ERDF Programmes and losses of IT equipment. Total individual special payments recorded for core department under £300,000 were 44 with a combined value of £981,366.53. These relates to annual payments for historic personal injury claims.</p><p>Due to the number of payments made, the full breakdown is in the attached excel file. Losses and Special Payments registers for Arm’s Length Bodies are not held centrally, and are excluded from the numbers above. The data for the wider department will be provided in follow up to this initial response.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 05/04/2022 17:04:41 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch attachment 1 file name -Losses and Special Payments CORE Dept.xlsx title Full breakdown
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1435580

registered interest
date	25/02/2022
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will take steps to ensure that his Department and its agencies remove all internal covid-19 related policies, restrictions and mask mandates.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	129768
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2022 answer text <p>Throughout the pandemic, the Department and all Civil Service employers have followed government guidance in setting out their internal COVID-19 related policies. This includes complying with the <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fguidance%2Fworking-safely-during-covid-19&amp;data=04%7C01%7CParliamentary%40levellingup.gov.uk%7Cec54a1d44eff44c68d9d08da00595976%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637822680988942337%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=qx9IikcJ2zcveAmkpNNTS3awfZ3JX3sAOzwEQKR609E%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Working Safely during Coronavirus (COVID-19): Guidance</a> which sets out the key actions organisations should take to protect employees and customers in order to reduce the risk of COVID-19 spreading in workplaces, along with carrying out <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hse.gov.uk%2Fcoronavirus%2Fworking-safely%2Frisk-assessment.htm&amp;data=04%7C01%7CParliamentary%40levellingup.gov.uk%7Cec54a1d44eff44c68d9d08da00595976%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637822680988942337%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=rTwiY9vPS2kRks8M9QXjqoqLJ01kEA3oVKwD7GdFvO4%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">health and safety risk assessments</a> that include the ongoing risk from COVID-19.</p><p>On 21 February 2022, the Government published their <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fcovid-19-response-living-with-covid-19&amp;data=04%7C01%7CParliamentary%40levellingup.gov.uk%7Cec54a1d44eff44c68d9d08da00595976%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637822680988942337%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=ZPO%2FE6JAMjdKSkE9LTmdVRb0%2FbeggUeoUw%2FR3%2FGj1WQ%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank"><em>COVID-19 Response: Living with COVID-19</em></a><em>.</em> This document sets out how and when the remaining restrictions will be lifted in England. Government guidance was subsequently amended, including the <em>Working Safely </em>guidance.</p><p>The Government's <em>Working Safely</em> guidance, which was last updated on 24 February, continues to require organisations to carry out a risk assessment which includes the risk from COVID-19. It also sets out additional actions organisations can take to protect employees and customers in the workplace, such as ensuring adequate ventilation, frequent cleaning, asking people to wash their hands frequently and asking people with COVID-19 to stay away. The guidance advises that people continue to wear face coverings in crowded and enclosed settings where they come into contact with people they do not normally meet, when rates of transmission are high. The Department will continue to follow this guidance and align its policies accordingly.</p> answering member constituency Walsall North answering member printed Eddie Hughes question first answered 07/03/2022 17:32:53 answering member 4635 label Biography information for Eddie Hughes
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies