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800653

registered interest
date	07/12/2017
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	Local Growth Deals
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 cost of funding-per-capita of each city deal in England and Wales.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	117274
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2017 answer text <p>Across Government we are making huge strides towards rebalancing the economy and empowering local government. We have agreed devolution deals with nine areas across England, with a directly elected mayor in place in six of those already. We have also agreed City Region deals with Cardiff and Swansea regions in Wales. These deals are about much more than just funding. They are about strengthening local leadership and giving local communities greater control over the decisions that affect them. However we have invested to support these deals. In English devolution deals we have given areas control over new long term investment funds. In Welsh City Deals we have invested in proposals to support key sectors and drive growth in the local economy.</p><p>As I’m sure the Hon Member knows, the Chancellor of the Exchequer also announced at Autumn Budget 2017 that Government will begin formal negotiations towards a North Wales growth deal.</p><p>Devolution deal announcements can be found in the following links:</p><p>West Midlands: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/west-midlands-devolution-deal" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/west-midlands-devolution-deal</a></p><p>Greater Manchester: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/devolution-to-the-greater-manchester-combined-authority-and-transition-to-a-directly-elected-mayor" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/devolution-to-the-greater-manchester-combined-authority-and-transition-to-a-directly-elected-mayor</a></p><p>Liverpool: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/liverpool-devolution-deal" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/liverpool-devolution-deal</a></p><p>Sheffield City Region: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/466616/Sheffield_devolution_deal_October_2015_with_signatures.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/466616/Sheffield_devolution_deal_October_2015_with_signatures.pdf</a></p><p>Tees Valley: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tees-valley-devolution-deal" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tees-valley-devolution-deal</a></p><p>West of England: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/west-of-england-devolution-deal" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/west-of-england-devolution-deal</a></p><p>Peterborough and Cambridgeshire: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cambridgeshire-and-peterborough-devolution-deal" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cambridgeshire-and-peterborough-devolution-deal</a></p><p>Cardiff Capital Region: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/city-deal-cardiff-capital-region" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/city-deal-cardiff-capital-region</a></p><p>Swansea Bay Region: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/611685/Swansea_City_Deal_-_English.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/611685/Swansea_City_Deal_-_English.pdf</a></p><p>I refer the Hon Member to the ONS link below for further information on population figures:</p><p><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/datasets/populationestimatesforukenglandandwalesscotlandandnorthernireland" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/datasets/populationestimatesforukenglandandwalesscotlandandnorthernireland</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 18/12/2017 17:30:52 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

802516

registered interest
date	07/12/2017
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 Vehicles: Parking
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what guidance they have given local authorities regarding the percentage of parking spaces in new developments which should be required to have charging points for electric vehicles.
tabling member printed	Baroness Redfern
uin	HL3978
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2017 answer text <p>The National Planning Policy Framework states that developments should, where practical, incorporate facilities for charging plug-in and other ultra-low emission vehicles. The level of parking provision in new developments is a decision for local planning authorities to make. Local Planning authorities should use the Framework, supporting planning guidance and local uptake of vehicles when making these decisions. As use of this technology grows, there are permitted development rights available for the installation of wall mounted and free-standing electric vehicle charging points in off-street parking areas.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 18/12/2017 14:36:32 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	4551 label Biography information for Baroness Redfern

802523

registered interest
date	07/12/2017
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	Terrorism: Greater Manchester
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 of the £1.4 million in funding requested by Manchester City Council following the Manchester Arena terror attack has been allocated to that Council.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	118073
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2017 answer text <p>The Prime Minister’s taskforce continues to work across Government and with officials in Manchester City Council to review requests for funding and expedite where appropriate.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 12/12/2017 16:53:10 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

802525

registered interest
date	07/12/2017
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	Housing: West Midlands
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 is taking to increase house building in the West Midlands Combined Authority area.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
uin	118075
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2017 answer text <p>Over 1,111,000 additional homes have been delivered in England since April 2010, with 217,350 net additional dwellings in 2016-17, up 15 per cent on 2015-16 and 50 per cent on 2009-10.</p><p>But the Prime Minister has been clear – this should be a country that works for everyone. This means building more of the right homes, in the right places, and ensuring the housing market works for all parts of our community.</p><p>So at Autumn Budget 2017, we announced further reforms to tackle our broken housing market, including Planning reforms to ensure more land is available for housing and maximise the potential of our cities and towns to build new homes whilst protecting the Green Belt; more than £15 billion of new financial support over the next five years, taking total financial support to at least £44 billion to 2022/2023, and expanding the Homes and Communities Agency to become Homes England, bringing together money, expertise, planning and compulsory purchase powers.</p><p>We also agreed a second Devolution Deal with the West Midlands, which included support for a new Mayoral Housing Delivery Team, and are continuing work on a Housing Deal to increase the supply of land and housing delivery across the West Midlands.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 14/12/2017 12:24:59 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Lord Sharma previous answer version 29217 answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma answering member 4014 label Biography information for Lord Sharma
tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds

802526

registered interest
date	07/12/2017
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	Housing: Wolverhampton
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 homes were (a) started and (b) completed in Wolverhampton in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
uin	118076
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2017 answer text <p>Estimates of house building, new build dwellings starts and completions for England and in each local authority district, to June quarter 2017, are shown in Live Table 253a at the following link.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-house-building" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-house-building</a></p><p>Data for the September quarter 2017 is scheduled for publication on the 19 December 2017.</p><p>These only cover new build dwellings and should be regarded as a leading indicator of overall housing supply. The Department also publishes an annual release entitled ‘Housing supply: net additional dwellings, England’, which is the primary and most comprehensive measure of housing supply.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 12/12/2017 16:50:37 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Lord Sharma
tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds

802528

registered interest
date	07/12/2017
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	Mersey Tunnels: Tolls
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 the implications for his policies of the letter to the Minister for the Northern Powerhouse and Local Growth from the Metro Mayor Liverpool, dated 4 December 2017, on tolls on the Mersey Tunnel.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	118078
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2017 answer text <p>The letter from the Metro Mayor of Liverpool City Region made no reference to the tolling of the Mersey Tunnels which is the responsibility of the Liverpool Metro Mayor.</p><p>The Hon Member for Denton and Reddish may be mistaking the Mersey Tunnels for the Mersey Gateway Bridge, about 18 miles miles away and running over (rather than under) the Mersey. I’m sure his colleague, the Mayor, would be happy to show the differences, which he will notice almost immediately.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 12/12/2017 17:49:49 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

802573

registered interest
date	07/12/2017
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: Termination of Employment
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 members of staff have left his Department since 1 January 2015; and how many of those members of staff were nationals of non-UK EU countries.
tabling member constituency	Bridgend
tabling member printed	Mrs Madeleine Moon
uin	118123
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2017 answer text <p>The number of direct employees that have left the Department, for any reason, since January 2015 is 930.</p><p>The Department collects national identity data from its employees on a voluntary basis. Where staff self-describe their national identity as ‘other’ there is no requirement to provide further detail or evidence of their nationality. As such we are unable to determine the number of non-UK EU nationals that have left the Department during the time in question.</p><p>This is lower than the number that left in the last three years of Labour. Perhaps the Department has just become a more fulfilling place to work now we have a Government which faces up to problems, rather than making them worse.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 19/12/2017 13:52:09 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	1490 label Biography information for Mrs Madeleine Moon

802640

registered interest
date	07/12/2017
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: 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, whether there will be a central formula to assist London boroughs in deciding where to invest the revenue growth from the 100 per cent business retention pilot.
tabling member constituency	The Cotswolds
tabling member printed	Geoffrey Clifton-Brown
uin	118190
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2017 answer text <p>The 100 per cent business rates pilot in London will test how London boroughs are managing their business rates income under pooled arrangements. London boroughs will have the freedom to decide where to invest the potential revenue growth arising from the pilot, therefore allowing the boroughs more control over the money they raise locally in accordance with our manifesto commitment.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 14/12/2017 17:06:27 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	249 label Biography information for Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown

802641

registered interest
date	07/12/2017
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, what the overall percentage of business rate retention is and whether local authorities will be able to retain all of the new growth element announced in Autumn budget 2017.
tabling member constituency	The Cotswolds
tabling member printed	Geoffrey Clifton-Brown
uin	118191
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2017 answer text <p>All authorities in England retain at least 50 per cent of their business rates income.</p><p>The Government remains committed to further business rates retention and is working collaboratively with the local government sector to deliver further retention and reform the system.</p><p>In the Autumn Budget 2017 a London pilot 100 per cent Business Rate Retention Scheme was announced and will commence in April 2018, as well as a continuation in the 2018/19 cycle for the five current 100 per cent business rates pilots.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 14/12/2017 17:09:01 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	249 label Biography information for Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown

802661

registered interest
date	07/12/2017
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	Garden Communities
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which sites he has identified to become locally-led garden cities.
tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
tabling member printed	Sir Nicholas Soames
uin	118211
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2017 answer text <p>We are currently supporting the development of twenty-four locally-led garden cities, towns and villages with the potential for 220,000 new homes across England.</p><p>There are 10 locally-led garden cities, towns and communities at <strong>Ebbsfleet</strong><strong>, </strong><strong>Bicester</strong><strong>, </strong><strong>Didcot</strong><strong>, </strong><strong>Basingstoke</strong><strong>, </strong><strong>Otterpool Park in Kent</strong><strong>, </strong><strong>Aylesbury</strong><strong>, </strong><strong>Taunton, Harlow-Gilston, North Essex</strong> and <strong>North Northamptonshire</strong>.</p><p>We also announced our support for 14 Garden Villages in January 2017:</p><ul><li><p><strong>Long Marston</strong> in Stratford-on-Avon</p></li><li><p><strong>Oxfordshire Cotswold</strong> in West Oxfordshire;</p></li><li><p><strong>Tresham </strong>in East Northants;</p></li><li><p><strong>Culm</strong> in Mid Devon;</p></li><li><p><strong>Welborne</strong> near Fareham in Hampshire</p></li><li><p><strong>West Carclaze</strong> in Cornwall;</p></li><li><p><strong>Dunton Hills</strong> near Brentwood, Essex;</p></li><li><p><strong>Spitalgate Heath</strong> in South Kesteven District, Lincolnshire</p></li><li><p><strong>Halsnead</strong> in Knowsley, Merseyside;</p></li></ul><p>We intend to publish in the Spring, a prospectus inviting expressions of interest in ambitious, locally supported, proposals for high quality new garden communities at scale.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 12/12/2017 16:49:43 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Lord Sharma
tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching