Show Search Form

Search Results

registered interest	true false
date	exactly: or between: and
answering body
answering dept id
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name
hansard heading
house id
legislature	pref label
question text
tabling member constituency
tabling member printed
uin
answer	is ministerial correction true false date of answer exactly: or between: and answer text answering member constituency answering member printed grouped question UIN question first answered answering member label
tabling member	label

Search

348298

registered interest
date	03/06/2015
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	Adoption
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what analysis his Department has undertaken of the financial consequences for local authorities of the measures announced in the Education and Adoption Bill relating to (a) local authority adoption functions and (b) joint arrangements.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	1001
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2015 answer text <p>The Department will support the Department for Education in carrying out an assessment of the costs and savings to local government resulting from the adoption and joint arrangements measures in the Education and Adoption Bill.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 08/06/2015 15:13:18 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

229346

registered interest
date	24/03/2015
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	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, what assessment he has made of the performance of his Department against targets for the processing of new planning applications.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	228910
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2015 answer text <p>Planning law sets out the statutory time period for determining a planning application as 13 weeks for a major application and 8 weeks for a minor application (unless an Environmental Impact Assessment is required, in which case the statutory period is 16 weeks) – unless a longer period has been agreed in writing with the applicant.</p><p> </p><p>The Government's live tables p151 and p152 set out local planning authorities' speed and quality of decision-taking against these statutory timeframes, for major applications. The Government has also recently published data on local planning authorities' timeliness in determining minor applications in live tables p153 and p154. The live tables are available at <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-planning-application-statistics" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-planning-application-statistics</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Our reforms to simplify and speed-up the application process, and to deal with the few cases where planning authorities are under-performing, are having a positive effect on decision times. For example 77% of major applications were determined on time in October to December 2014, compared with 57% in July to September 2012.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 26/03/2015 15:56:31 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

229347

registered interest
date	24/03/2015
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	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, what the average length of time was for a decision to be made on a planning application in each quarter since 2013.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	228939
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2015 answer text <p>The Government collects quarterly data on planning application decision times by local planning authorities, broken down by six time bands. This information is accessible at live table P120.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has radically reformed the planning system to ensure that it operates efficiently in delivering badly needed sustainable development. Decision taking times have substantially improved: in the final quarter of 2012, 56% of major applications were determined on time, and following our changes to speed up and simplify processes by the final quarter of 2014 this had risen to 77%.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 26/03/2015 14:18:30 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

225444

registered interest
date	05/03/2015
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	Right to Buy Scheme: 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, how many units of housing were sold under Right to Buy and Right to Acquire provisions in each year since 2010 in the West Midlands.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	226491
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2015 answer text <p>Under the reinvigorated Right to Buy, local authorities are able to keep receipts from additional sales to pay off debt and fund replacement affordable housing.</p><p> </p><p>Statistics on annual Right to Buy sales for each local authority district in England and annual Right to Acquire sales for England are published in the Department’s live tables 685 and 677 here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-social-housing-sales" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-social-housing-sales</a></p><p> </p><p>Statistics on Right to Acquire sales are not available at a local authority district level.</p><p> </p><p>Since the Right to Buy was reinvigorated in England, £730 million in sales receipts are being re-invested in affordable house building; levering a further £1.7 billion of investment over the next 2 years. This means that in total, over £2.4 billion will be raised to invest in affordable house building as a result of Right to Buy.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 11/03/2015 15:17:00 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

176043

registered interest
date	27/01/2015
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	Offences against Children
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 5 January 2015 to Question 219231, how the spending on child abuse and neglect within the Formula Grant is decided upon.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	222183
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p>Local authorities draw their funding in the main from government grant, locally-retained business rates and council tax. Spending decisions are determined by individual local authorities, with a substantive council budget being voted on each year by Full Council.</p><p> </p><p>Councils are under statutory duties to safeguard, protect and improve the well-being of children and young people. The Department for Education has set out in statutory guidance the Government’s expectations around how these duties will be delivered.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 16/03/2015 09:59:07 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

174678

registered interest
date	20/01/2015
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	Special Educational Needs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what information his Department holds on the performance of local authorities in issuing within 26 weeks a special educational needs final statement; and whether his Department (a) supplies information to and (b) receives information from the Department for Education on that matter.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	221297
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Education has the lead responsibility for policy to help children and young people who have special educational needs and disabilities. That responsibility extends to the collection and publication of relevant data. This collection of data is published regularly here: (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-special-educational-needs-sen" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-special-educational-needs-sen</a>). The data includes the percentage of statements issued within 26 weeks.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 23/01/2015 14:07:26 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

173369

registered interest
date	13/01/2015
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: Emergency Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance his Department gives to local authorities and housing associations on emergency access to tower blocks and flats for emergency services.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	220575
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2015 answer text <p>Requirement B5 of the Building Regulations provides for adequate access for the fire and rescue service. My Department publishes Approved Document B which gives detailed guidance on compliance with this requirement and is available on the Planning Portal website. <br><br>www.planningportal.gov.uk/uploads/br/BR_PDF_AD_B2_2013.pdf<br><br>Guidance on Fire Safety in Purpose Built Blocks of Flats produced by the Local Government Association, in conjunction with the housing and fire sectors, is available on the Government’s fire safety webpage. Advice on ensuring the provision and maintenance of fire fighting facilities, including, vehicle access for fire appliances, is included within this document.<br><br>www.gov.uk/workplace-fire-safety-your-responsibilities/fire-safety-advice-documents</p> answering member constituency Bristol West answering member printed Stephen Williams question first answered 16/01/2015 14:34:02 answering member 1492 label Biography information for Stephen Williams
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

171256

registered interest
date	17/12/2014
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 Improvement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what representations his Department has received on the effect of changes to rules regulating domestic extensions introduced in 2012.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	219233
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/01/2015 answer text <p>The recent Technical Consultation on Planning set out proposals to retain the permitted development rights in respect of domestic extensions which were introduced in May 2013. We are considering the responses received. The Department has collected data on the applications in respect of the right since April 2014 which are set out in table E2 of the live tables on planning application statistics on the Department's website. This can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-planning-application-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-planning-application-statistics</a></p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis grouped question UIN 219234 question first answered 06/01/2015 17:24:12 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

171257

registered interest
date	17/12/2014
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 Improvement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether his Department monitors the effect on local communities of domestic extensions under permitted development.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	219234
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/01/2015 answer text <p>The recent Technical Consultation on Planning set out proposals to retain the permitted development rights in respect of domestic extensions which were introduced in May 2013. We are considering the responses received. The Department has collected data on the applications in respect of the right since April 2014 which are set out in table E2 of the live tables on planning application statistics on the Department's website. This can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-planning-application-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-planning-application-statistics</a></p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis grouped question UIN 219233 question first answered 06/01/2015 17:24:12 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

171259

registered interest
date	17/12/2014
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	Human Trafficking: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what cross-departmental work his Department undertakes with the Home Office to tackle the sexual trafficking of children.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	219232
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2015 answer text <p>The Government’s Modern Slavery Strategy was published on 29 November. This sets out a comprehensive cross-Government approach to tackling modern slavery, including the trafficking of children for sexual exploitation. The strategy can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/modern-slavery-strategy" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/modern-slavery-strategy</a>.</p><p> </p><p>My Department works closely with the Home Office and other departments to ensure an effective national strategy is maintained to tackle the sexual trafficking of children.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 05/01/2015 14:13:33 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe