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988621

registered interest
date	16/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Local Plans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the (a) duties and (b) responsibilities are for a Government Local Plan Inspector.
tabling member constituency	Welwyn Hatfield
tabling member printed	Grant Shapps
uin	180140
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2018 answer text <p>The Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 sets out that Inspectors are appointed by the Secretary of State to carry out an independent examination to assess whether a local plan is sound. The National Planning Policy Framework tests of soundness require the plan to be positively prepared, justified, effective and consistent with national policy. If the plan does not meet those tests, the Local Planning Authority can request that the Inspector recommends main modifications to make the plan sound. These could cover any matter within the scope of the tests of soundness, which could include the level of housing allocation within the locality. All proposed main modifications are subject to public consultation</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 180141 question first answered 22/10/2018 14:21:55 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps

988622

registered interest
date	16/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Local Plans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, under what circumstances a Government Local Plan Inspector is able to recommend the alteration of a Local Plan; and whether an inspector is able to recommend such an alteration when it will have an effect on the level of housing allocation in a locality.
tabling member constituency	Welwyn Hatfield
tabling member printed	Grant Shapps
uin	180141
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2018 answer text <p>The Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 sets out that Inspectors are appointed by the Secretary of State to carry out an independent examination to assess whether a local plan is sound. The National Planning Policy Framework tests of soundness require the plan to be positively prepared, justified, effective and consistent with national policy. If the plan does not meet those tests, the Local Planning Authority can request that the Inspector recommends main modifications to make the plan sound. These could cover any matter within the scope of the tests of soundness, which could include the level of housing allocation within the locality. All proposed main modifications are subject to public consultation</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 180140 question first answered 22/10/2018 14:21:55 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps

988623

registered interest
date	16/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Housing: Construction
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the Objectively Assessed Need criteria includes population growth as a result of immigration.
tabling member constituency	Welwyn Hatfield
tabling member printed	Grant Shapps
uin	180142
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2018 answer text <p>The National Planning Policy Framework expects councils to identify their objectively assessed need for housing and other uses. The new Framework, published in July, expects a standard method to be used for assessing housing need, which is based on national projections of population and household growth. The population projections take into account anticipated changes in net migration based on past trends.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 22/10/2018 14:23:55 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps

988632

registered interest
date	16/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Building Regulations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of aesthetics of the built environment on people's quality of life.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Mr John Hayes
uin	180313
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2018 answer text <p>Within the Housing White paper, we made a commitment to building the right homes in the right places. Following this the revised National Planning Policy Framework states that “good design is a key aspect of sustainable development, and creates better places in which to live and work” and that new development should be “visually attractive as a result of good architecture, layout and appropriate and effective landscaping”.</p><p>The Department has not carried out a systematic review of the impact of the aesthetics of the built environment on people’s quality of life. However, we are in the process of gathering evidence of good practice in relation to design quality, which we are sharing with the wider sector through events, such as the design quality conference that we hosted in April this year. I have also challenged the development community to consider whether they are building the conservation areas of the future.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 24/10/2018 16:18:55 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

988730

registered interest
date	16/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Smoking: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what information his Department holds on how much and what proportion of the Revenue Account Budget (a) in total and (b) per smoker was allocated to stop smoking services and interventions by each local authority in each financial year since 2010-11.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	180196
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2018 answer text <p>MHCLG collects and publishes local authority expenditure data, and this includes a category on “Stop smoking services and interventions”. The data for this since 2010-11 for each local authority can be found in table RO3 among the individual local authority data tables at: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-revenue-expenditure-and-financing" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-revenue-expenditure-and-financing</a>.</p><p>Each local authority’s Revenue Account budgets and outturn expenditure can also be found from this page.</p><p>The Office for National Statistics publishes estimates of the numbers of smokers for each local authority level. This is available at: <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/healthandlifeexpectancies/datasets/smokinghabitsintheukanditsconstituentcountries" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/healthandlifeexpectancies/datasets/smokinghabitsintheukanditsconstituentcountries</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 24/10/2018 11:42:30 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

988776

registered interest
date	16/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Early Intervention Grant: Nottinghamshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much funding his Department allocated from the early intervention grant to projects in Nottinghamshire in the last 12 months for which information is available.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	180301
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2018 answer text <p>In 2013-14 MHCLG introduced the business rates retention scheme, under which local authorities retained a proportion of the business rates that they collect. A number of specific grants from other Government Departments were transferred into the business rates retention scheme at this time, including the Department for Education’s Early Intervention Grant.</p><p>In order to maintain the visibility of a number of named, non ring-fenced, elements of funding within the local government finance settlement, the Government currently publishes a Core Spending Power visible lines table (link below). The Early Intervention Grant is one of the visible lines set out in this table. To reflect the fact that local government is transitioning away from a world where councils are dependent on central government grants and towards greater self-sufficiency, these visible lines are shown at a national and local level within local authority Core Spending Power.</p><p>Link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/core-spending-power-visible-lines-of-funding-2018-to-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/core-spending-power-visible-lines-of-funding-2018-to-2019</a></p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 19/10/2018 13:07:43 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

988811

registered interest
date	16/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Local Enterprise Partnerships
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, through what mechanism his Department monitors how Local Enterprise Partnership's spend money from the public purse; and how his Department evaluates the results of that spending.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	180235
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2018 answer text <p>The Government recognises that each local area must be empowered to reach their potential in order to boost national productivity and growth. Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEP) play an important role in furthering this agenda. LEP performance is rigorously monitored through regular engagement with departmental officials, quarterly financial and performance submissions and performance reports.</p><p>Every year the Department undertakes an Annual Performance Review with each LEP where it evaluates each Local Enterprise Partnership’s performance in key areas of strategy, delivery and governance. The Department has also conducted a series deep dives to review the governance, transparency and accountability processes and culture in LEPs in more detail.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 23/10/2018 16:58:11 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

988812

registered interest
date	16/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Local Enterprise Partnerships
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what mechanisms are in place to prevent conflicts of interest among Local Enterprise Partnership board members.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	180236
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2018 answer text <p>It is vital that Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) are transparent in the way they work and accountable to the local people they work with. We are committed to the improvement of LEP governance and transparency and want all LEPs to be well placed to deliver economic growth at the local level. Strengthened LEPs (July 2018) set out Government’s continued commitment to LEPs and brought forward reforms to their leadership, governance, accountability, financial reporting and geographical boundaries.</p><p>Every year the Department undertakes an Annual Performance Review with each LEP where it evaluates each LEP’s performance in key areas of strategy, delivery and governance. The Department has also conducted a series deep dives to review the governance, transparency and accountability processes and culture in LEPs in more detail. We continue to build up a holistic system which provides assurance across the full range of LEP activity and is effective in responding quickly and identifying risks which require further support. Details of last year’s assurance process can be found in the Permanent Secretary’s response to the Public Accounts Committee Report into governance and department oversight of the Greater Cambridge Greater Peterborough LEP.</p><p>Through our LEP National Assurance Framework (November 2016) and through the publication of the LEP governance and transparency best practice guidance (January 2018), the Department has set out the policies and processes that LEPs must have in place to prevent conflicts of interests among board members and staff. In line with these requirements, each LEP must publish and implement a conflict of interest policy. All board members must adopt and publish the Department’s bespoke proforma register of interests which they are required to update regularly. We continue to work with LEPs to develop their capabilities around governance and transparency, with the Department actively monitoring key risks and intervening quickly when improvements are required.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 24/10/2018 16:18:28 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

988814

registered interest
date	16/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	High Streets Expert Advisory Panel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how the members of the Government's panel on the future of the high street were selected.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	180237
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2018 answer text <p>High streets are a crucial part of our communities. The Government is determined to see our high streets thriving, both now and in the future. We want to see vibrant hubs where people live, shop, use services, and spend their leisure time.</p><p>That is why we assembled an expert panel to diagnose the issues currently affecting the high street. Chaired by Sir John Timpson, the panel is focusing on what local communities want from their high streets of the future.</p><p>The panel of experts were selected because of their direct experience of high streets and town centres. The panel contains a diverse range of knowledge and expertise from across the retail, local government, community business, property and design sectors. The panel complements the experience of the Future High Streets Forum.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 23/10/2018 16:57:42 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

988856

registered interest
date	16/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, 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 Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps the Government is taking with local authorities to (a) reduce the number of retrospective planning applications caused by breaches of planning control and (b) encourage people to submit applications in advance of works commencing.
tabling member constituency	Cheltenham
tabling member printed	Alex Chalk
uin	180256
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2018 answer text <p>We are clear that unauthorised development is unacceptable and unfair to those who abide by the rules. Where people have made a genuine mistake, they are able to rectify the situation through the retrospective planning application process.</p><p>Local authorities have strong enforcement powers at their disposal in the event that development takes place without the appropriate planning permission.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 23/10/2018 13:44:41 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk