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784723

registered interest
date	06/11/2017
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	Welfare Assistance Schemes
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Buscombe on 23 October (HL1902), what kinds of flexible help local authorities are able to target on those in need of urgent help where they have closed local welfare assistance schemes.
tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
uin	HL2941
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>Under Section 2 of the Local Government Act 2000, local authorities may do anything which they consider is likely to promote or improve the economic, social or environmental well-being of their area. To achieve these objectives they may give financial assistance to any person. Such local spending decisions are best made by people who understand their communities and who are best placed to make the right call. The issue of local authority spending priorities is ultimately a matter for local discretion.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 20/11/2017 15:17:03 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett

784783

registered interest
date	06/11/2017
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: Staff
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 staff appointed after 24 June 2016 in his Department hold a post that includes work on the UK leaving the EU.
tabling member constituency	Wrexham
tabling member printed	Ian C. Lucas
uin	111792
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2017 answer text <p>EU exit is an all-of-Government operation. The Department for Exiting the European Union is doing detailed work with departments to prepare for the upcoming negotiations by understanding the risks and opportunities of leaving the EU and coordinating planning. Within the Department for Communities and Local Government, staff within the EU Exit Team lead on providing advice to Ministers on EU exit and exit-related issues. Members of staff across the Department also provide advice and analysis on EU Exit issues as required. Given the interactions between EU exit work and the Department's other priorities, it would not be possible to give an accurate figure.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 15/11/2017 17:32:58 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas

784784

registered interest
date	06/11/2017
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	National Holocaust Memorial Centre and Learning Service
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 16 October 2017 to Question 106036, on the United Kingdom Holocaust Memorial Foundation, how many and which of the organisations consulted in 2015 proposed or supported locating the memorial in Victoria Tower Gardens.
tabling member constituency	Gainsborough
tabling member printed	Sir Edward Leigh
uin	111729
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2017 answer text <p>During the course of 2015, the organisations referred to in the answer to Question UIN 106180 assisted the United Kingdom Holocaust Memorial Fund (UKHMF) in identifying possible locations. This helped UKHMF to consider almost 50 sites, including Victoria Tower Gardens and the Imperial War Museum.</p><p>On the advice of UKHMF the Government decided that Victoria Tower Gardens was the most fitting of all the sites considered. This decision received wide-ranging support, including from The Royal Parks, which, as noted in the answer to Question UIN 106181, was first consulted in December 2015.</p><p>By placing the story of the Holocaust next to our Parliament, our country will make a powerful statement about our own democracy and its values, reminding us what can happen when hatred is left unchecked.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones grouped question UIN 111709 question first answered 22/11/2017 18:49:34 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	345 label Biography information for Sir Edward Leigh

784785

registered interest
date	06/11/2017
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	Supported Housing: 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 assessment he has made of the implications for his policies on funding structures for short-term and long-term supported housing of the report by Rethink Mental Illness, Mental Health Supported Housing: Securing financial stability, supply and quality relating to the variety of length of stay of people within mental health supported housing.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Withington
tabling member printed	Jeff Smith
uin	111768
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2017 answer text <p>I have recently met with representatives of Rethink Mental Illness and have considered their report. In bringing forward our new model announced on 31 October, we listened carefully to the concerns raised from across the supported housing sector.</p><p>We will continue to fund long-term supported accommodation, for example for people with long-term mental ill health, through the welfare system, with 100 per cent of housing costs, including rent and eligible service charges, being met (unless other benefit restrictions may apply to the individual involved). This funding will no longer be capped by Local Housing Allowance rates giving providers the certainty they need in order to invest in future supply.</p><p>For short-term accommodation, all funding for rent and eligible service charges previously met by Housing Benefit, will instead be allocated to local authorities through a grant to funding the commissioning of provision at a local level. To protect short-term supported housing provision, we are ring-fencing this funding.</p><p>We are also bringing in a new oversight regime, with a National Statement of Expectations, to set out clear standards and outline Government’s expectations over local planning, commissioning and services.</p><p>We will continue to engage with the sector and stakeholders to seek their views on key elements of the reformed funding model. It is important that the model is responsive and will work for providers, tenants and clients.</p><p>These new models ensure that everyone who would be eligible under the current system to have their housing costs met, will continue to be so, whether they are staying in short-term accommodation, long term accommodation or in transition between the two.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones grouped question UIN 111767 question first answered 13/11/2017 17:20:35 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	4456 label Biography information for Jeff Smith

784786

registered interest
date	06/11/2017
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	Supported 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, with reference to the Government's funding supported housing consultation, published on 31 October 2017, and the Government's proposal for a ring-fenced local grant fund for supported housing, what steps the Government plans to take to ensure that such ring-fenced funding will be maintained in the future.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Withington
tabling member printed	Jeff Smith
uin	111769
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2017 answer text <p>Government recognises that supported housing is of vital importance to vulnerable people. The ring-fence for short term supported housing will be retained in the long term in order to protect this important provision and the vulnerable people it supports. Future funding for short-term accommodation will continue to take account of the costs of provision and demand for services in this part of the sector.</p><p>Funding for the housing costs of sheltered, extra care housing and other long-term supported accommodation such as housing for people with learning or physical disabilities or mental ill health, will remain in the welfare system. This funding will be uncapped by Local Housing Allowance rates as these will no longer apply.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 13/11/2017 17:09:25 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	4456 label Biography information for Jeff Smith

784787

registered interest
date	06/11/2017
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	National Holocaust Memorial Centre and Learning Service
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 16 October 2017 to Question 106036, on the United Kingdom Holocaust Memorial Foundation, whether the £50 million allocated from public funds is the full contribution from the public purse towards the capital and running costs of the Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre.
tabling member constituency	Gainsborough
tabling member printed	Sir Edward Leigh
uin	111731
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2017 answer text <p>With cross-party support, the Government has committed £50 million as its contribution to kick-start a society-wide fundraising effort to deliver the National Memorial and Learning Centre and its wider educational objectives.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones grouped question UIN 111708 question first answered 22/11/2017 18:35:11 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	345 label Biography information for Sir Edward Leigh

784788

registered interest
date	06/11/2017
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	National Holocaust Memorial Centre and Learning Service
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 16 October 2017 to Question 106036, on the United Kingdom Holocaust Memorial Foundation, for what reasons that Answer did not provide the date of the Government's decision on the learning centre's location in Victoria Tower Gardens.
tabling member constituency	Gainsborough
tabling member printed	Sir Edward Leigh
uin	111730
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2017 answer text <p>The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government took the decision to co-locate the learning centre with the memorial in Victoria Tower Gardens, subject to technical, financial, planning or other constraints, in September 2016, prior to announcing the start of the architectural design competition.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 22/11/2017 18:51:48 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	345 label Biography information for Sir Edward Leigh

784789

registered interest
date	06/11/2017
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	Supported Housing: 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, with reference to the Government's funding supported housing consultation, published on 31 October 2017, whether in the event that a tenant on a mental health supported housing scheme has an initial anticipated length of stay of less than two years, but this subsequently extends to more than two years within the same scheme, the Government proposes that such a tenant would move from one funding system to another.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Withington
tabling member printed	Jeff Smith
uin	111767
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2017 answer text <p>I have recently met with representatives of Rethink Mental Illness and have considered their report. In bringing forward our new model announced on 31 October, we listened carefully to the concerns raised from across the supported housing sector.</p><p>We will continue to fund long-term supported accommodation, for example for people with long-term mental ill health, through the welfare system, with 100 per cent of housing costs, including rent and eligible service charges, being met (unless other benefit restrictions may apply to the individual involved). This funding will no longer be capped by Local Housing Allowance rates giving providers the certainty they need in order to invest in future supply.</p><p>For short-term accommodation, all funding for rent and eligible service charges previously met by Housing Benefit, will instead be allocated to local authorities through a grant to funding the commissioning of provision at a local level. To protect short-term supported housing provision, we are ring-fencing this funding.</p><p>We are also bringing in a new oversight regime, with a National Statement of Expectations, to set out clear standards and outline Government’s expectations over local planning, commissioning and services.</p><p>We will continue to engage with the sector and stakeholders to seek their views on key elements of the reformed funding model. It is important that the model is responsive and will work for providers, tenants and clients.</p><p>These new models ensure that everyone who would be eligible under the current system to have their housing costs met, will continue to be so, whether they are staying in short-term accommodation, long term accommodation or in transition between the two.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones grouped question UIN 111768 question first answered 13/11/2017 17:20:35 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	4456 label Biography information for Jeff Smith

784790

registered interest
date	06/11/2017
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	National Holocaust Memorial Centre and Learning Service
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 the Government has made of the proportion of visitors to the Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre who will arrive (a) on foot or by public transport and (b) by coach or car.
tabling member constituency	Gainsborough
tabling member printed	Sir Edward Leigh
uin	111707
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2017 answer text <p>The UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation envisage that the Memorial and Learning Centre will primarily attract a subset of the millions of people already visiting the area. A significant proportion will therefore arrive on foot. Detailed pedestrian and traffic surveys are currently underway as part of the development of the design.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 22/11/2017 18:54:37 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	345 label Biography information for Sir Edward Leigh

784791

registered interest
date	06/11/2017
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	National Holocaust Memorial Centre and Learning Service
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 the Government has made of the total cost to the public purse of the proposed Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre.
tabling member constituency	Gainsborough
tabling member printed	Sir Edward Leigh
uin	111708
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2017 answer text <p>With cross-party support, the Government has committed £50 million as its contribution to kick-start a society-wide fundraising effort to deliver the National Memorial and Learning Centre and its wider educational objectives.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones grouped question UIN 111731 question first answered 22/11/2017 18:35:11 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	345 label Biography information for Sir Edward Leigh