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registered interest
date	04/03/2015
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	Department for Communities and Local Government: Written Questions
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 23 February 2015 to Question 218656, what the reason was for the time taken to answer that question.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	226408
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2015 answer text <p>We could have replied more quickly to the hon. Member's question with a curt answer of stating that this information was not centrally held, but instead, we took time to try to craft a more constructive response, pointing to the national estimates that we do have and to the best practice guidance that we have published.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 10/03/2015 13:42:38 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins previous answer version 48667 answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

225126

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
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	Mental Illness
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 his Department has taken to reduce mental health stigma and discrimination as a result of signing up to the Time to Change Pledge.
tabling member constituency	Sutton and Cheam
tabling member printed	Paul Burstow
uin	226329
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p>The Department is strongly committed to positively addressing these issues and since signing the Pledge in 2013, has trained staff in mental health first aid and run several courses to better equip staff and managers in dealing positively with mental health issues. The Department has also trained and supported staff to act as Mental Health Ambassadors refreshing that group and role in March this year and enabling them to raise awareness of mental health issues and reduce the fear and stigma that often does attach to those illnesses. We have also run a number of Mental Health Awareness Workshops to support that work and have offered places on those sessions to staff from other Government Departments so that we can support the wider positive approach to addressing mental health across the Civil Service. The Department is now developing a Wellbeing Plan that will focus on continuing and resourcing this drive into 2015-16 and beyond.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 09/03/2015 16:40:03 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	204 label Biography information for Paul Burstow

225128

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
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	Young People: Greater London
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 people in (a) London and (b) each London borough who are under the age of 35 and live with their parents.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	226280
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2015 answer text <p>The information requested is not centrally held.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 10/03/2015 14:17:59 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis previous answer version 48508 answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

225276

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
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	Troubled Families Programme
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 families have participated in the Troubled Families Programme to date; and in how many cases a family member has secured a sustained job outcome following participation in the programme.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	226403
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2015 answer text <p>At the end of December 2014, local authorities had identified 117,910 troubled families; all of whom were, or had been, engaged in the programme.</p><p> </p><p>As of the end of February 2015, local authorities had reported that 105,671 families had been ‘turned around’ and 10,508 of these families included a family member who had moved off out of work benefits and into work for a period of at least 13 weeks.</p><p> </p><p>My Department regularly publishes this information online. The latest breakdown, by individual local authority, is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/troubled-families-programme-progress-information-at-december-2014-and-families-turned-around-at-february-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/troubled-families-programme-progress-information-at-december-2014-and-families-turned-around-at-february-2015</a></p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 11/03/2015 15:39:03 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins previous answer version 48665 answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

225311

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
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	Veterans: Homelessness
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the answer by Lord Wallace of Saltaire on 2 March (HL Deb, col 6), what is their assessment of the number of (1) veterans casually sleeping rough, and (2) homeless veterans, in (a) London, and (b) elsewhere in the United Kingdom.
tabling member printed	Lord Touhig
uin	HL5436
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2015 answer text <p>DCLG’s Rough Sleeping Statistics England – Autumn 2014 statistical release provides a single night snapshot and does not provide information on the demographics of rough sleepers. However, the Greater London Authority’s CHAIN (Combined Homeless and Information Network) database in London shows that, in 2013/14, 3% (145) of people seen rough sleeping who are from the UK had served in the armed forces.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has increased spending to prevent and tackle rough sleeping and homelessness making over £500 million available, giving councils the funding and tools needed to take action against rough sleeping locally. There is a range of initiatives and projects in place to help rough sleepers, prevent single homelessness and to help those who have been homeless find and sustain accommodation. The initiatives help a wide range of single homeless people including military veterans.</p><p> </p><p>StreetLink has helped thousands of vulnerable people who have slept rough or faced the prospect of doing so. By using Streetlink the public can help connect rough sleepers to the local services available so they can get the help they need to get them off the streets. Since 2012, StreetLink has made nearly 24,500 rough sleeping referrals to councils to investigate, leading to 10,500 rough sleepers being found and connected with local services of which nearly 2,000 resulted in them finding accommodation.</p><p> </p><p>We have also supported the roll-out of No Second Night Out nationally through the £20 million Homelessness Transition Fund for the voluntary sector, ensuring rough sleepers are found quickly and that they do not spend more than one night on the street.</p><p> </p><p>We have launched an £8 million Help for Single Homeless Fund for local authorities which will improve council services for single people facing the prospect of homelessness. Thirty-four projects, working across 168 local authorities, will provide support for up 22,000 single homeless people.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is helping single homeless people find and sustain accommodation in the private rented sector through our £14 million funding to Crisis. By 2016 we expect the Crisis scheme to have helped 10,000 single homeless people since it started in 2010.</p><p> </p><p>We have also introduced protection to ensure that former and current Service personnel are not disadvantaged in accessing social housing because of the disadvantages of military life. We have changed the law by regulation so that seriously injured personnel and former members of the Armed Forces with urgent housing needs must always be given high priority for social housing by local authorities. We have also made sure that serving personnel and those who have recently been discharged do not lose their qualification rights because of the requirement to move from base to base. Additionally, we have issued statutory guidance strongly encouraging local authorities to give sympathetic consideration to prioritising the needs of all former Service personnel, for example through the use of local preference criteria and local lettings policies.</p><p> </p><p>The devolved administrations publish their own statistics on homelessness and rough sleeping.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon grouped question UIN HL5437 HL5478 question first answered 12/03/2015 15:08:25 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	542 label Biography information for Lord Touhig

225312

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
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	Veterans: Homelessness
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the answer by Lord Wallace of Saltaire on 2 March (HL Deb, col 6), what programmes they have to help veterans sleeping rough in (1) London, and (2) the rest of the United Kingdom; what programmes are in place to move homeless veterans to permanent housing; and what programmes are in place to prevent veterans from becoming homeless.
tabling member printed	Lord Touhig
uin	HL5437
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2015 answer text <p>DCLG’s Rough Sleeping Statistics England – Autumn 2014 statistical release provides a single night snapshot and does not provide information on the demographics of rough sleepers. However, the Greater London Authority’s CHAIN (Combined Homeless and Information Network) database in London shows that, in 2013/14, 3% (145) of people seen rough sleeping who are from the UK had served in the armed forces.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has increased spending to prevent and tackle rough sleeping and homelessness making over £500 million available, giving councils the funding and tools needed to take action against rough sleeping locally. There is a range of initiatives and projects in place to help rough sleepers, prevent single homelessness and to help those who have been homeless find and sustain accommodation. The initiatives help a wide range of single homeless people including military veterans.</p><p> </p><p>StreetLink has helped thousands of vulnerable people who have slept rough or faced the prospect of doing so. By using Streetlink the public can help connect rough sleepers to the local services available so they can get the help they need to get them off the streets. Since 2012, StreetLink has made nearly 24,500 rough sleeping referrals to councils to investigate, leading to 10,500 rough sleepers being found and connected with local services of which nearly 2,000 resulted in them finding accommodation.</p><p> </p><p>We have also supported the roll-out of No Second Night Out nationally through the £20 million Homelessness Transition Fund for the voluntary sector, ensuring rough sleepers are found quickly and that they do not spend more than one night on the street.</p><p> </p><p>We have launched an £8 million Help for Single Homeless Fund for local authorities which will improve council services for single people facing the prospect of homelessness. Thirty-four projects, working across 168 local authorities, will provide support for up 22,000 single homeless people.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is helping single homeless people find and sustain accommodation in the private rented sector through our £14 million funding to Crisis. By 2016 we expect the Crisis scheme to have helped 10,000 single homeless people since it started in 2010.</p><p> </p><p>We have also introduced protection to ensure that former and current Service personnel are not disadvantaged in accessing social housing because of the disadvantages of military life. We have changed the law by regulation so that seriously injured personnel and former members of the Armed Forces with urgent housing needs must always be given high priority for social housing by local authorities. We have also made sure that serving personnel and those who have recently been discharged do not lose their qualification rights because of the requirement to move from base to base. Additionally, we have issued statutory guidance strongly encouraging local authorities to give sympathetic consideration to prioritising the needs of all former Service personnel, for example through the use of local preference criteria and local lettings policies.</p><p> </p><p>The devolved administrations publish their own statistics on homelessness and rough sleeping.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon grouped question UIN HL5436 HL5478 question first answered 12/03/2015 15:08:26 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	542 label Biography information for Lord Touhig

225323

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
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	Devolution: England
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their assessment of the recommendations of the Non-Metropolitan Commission’s recent report, "Devolution to Non-Metropolitan England"; and what is their assessment of the possible gains for counties from devolution compared to those for city regions.
tabling member printed	Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville
uin	HL5448
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2015 answer text <p>We have not undertaken any formal assessment of that third-party report. However, I would draw attention to the recent Command Paper, <em>Implications of devolution for England</em> (Cm 8969) which sets out the Government’s approach to further decentralisation in England, including the views of both Coalition parties, both of which make reference to the role of England’s counties.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 13/03/2015 12:26:26 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	4285 label Biography information for Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville