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969331

	registered interest
	date	06/09/2018
	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	Wirral Partnership Homes: Standards
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the governance arrangements at Wirral Partnership Homes, following the decision by the Regulator of Social Housing to downgrade its governance rating.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL10161
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2018 answer text <p>Responsibility for the assessment of the governance of housing associations lies with the Regulator of Social Housing. Wandle Housing and Wirral Partnership Homes have both been downgraded from G1 gradings to G2. G2 is a compliant grade, which means that the Regulator still considers them to comply with its regulatory standards for governance.</p><p>Details of the Regulator’s assessment can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/regulatory-judgements-and-regulatory-notices-a-to-z-list" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/regulatory-judgements-and-regulatory-notices-a-to-z-list</a></p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth grouped question UIN HL10160 question first answered 17/09/2018 13:14:09 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

969330

	registered interest
	date	06/09/2018
	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	Wandle: Standards
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the governance arrangements at Wandle Housing, following the decision by the Regulator of Social Housing to downgrade its governance rating.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL10160
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2018 answer text <p>Responsibility for the assessment of the governance of housing associations lies with the Regulator of Social Housing. Wandle Housing and Wirral Partnership Homes have both been downgraded from G1 gradings to G2. G2 is a compliant grade, which means that the Regulator still considers them to comply with its regulatory standards for governance.</p><p>Details of the Regulator’s assessment can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/regulatory-judgements-and-regulatory-notices-a-to-z-list" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/regulatory-judgements-and-regulatory-notices-a-to-z-list</a></p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth grouped question UIN HL10161 question first answered 17/09/2018 13:14:09 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

1056911

	registered interest
	date	07/02/2019
	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	Vagrancy Act 1824
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they plan to repeal the Vagrancy Act 1824; and if not, why not.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Royall of Blaisdon
	uin	HL13565
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2019 answer text <p>This Government is clear that no-one should be criminalised simply for having nowhere to live and sleeping rough. The cross-Government Rough Sleeping Strategy, which was published in August, committed to reviewing homelessness and rough sleeping legislation, including the Vagrancy Act 1824. The Government believes that review of the 1824 Act, rather than immediate wholesale repeal, is the right course of action to ensure the consequences of repeal are fully understood. My policy officials are currently developing the terms of reference for the review.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 18/02/2019 15:53:01 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
	tabling member	3703 label Biography information for Baroness Royall of Blaisdon

1078978

	registered interest
	date	27/02/2019
	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	Vagrancy Act 1824
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have given consideration to repealing the Vagrancy Act 1824; and whether they consider that prosecuting people for being homeless is appropriate.
	tabling member printed	Lord Jones of Cheltenham
	uin	HL14099
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2019 answer text <p>This Government is clear that no-one should be criminalised simply for having nowhere to live and sleeping rough. The cross-Government Rough Sleeping Strategy, which was published in August, committed to reviewing homelessness and rough sleeping legislation, including the Vagrancy Act 1824. The Government believes that review of the 1824 Act, rather than immediate wholesale repeal, is the right course of action to ensure the consequences of repeal are fully understood and other options are properly considered.</p><p>For example, the consequences of repeal on the police’s ability to deal with certain street behaviours and the potential impact of offences under alternative legislation, which might have a higher burden of proof and higher penalties than those under the 1824 Act, would be areas of consideration. Policy officials are currently developing the terms of reference for the review.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 11/03/2019 16:52:51 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
	tabling member	248 label Biography information for Lord Jones of Cheltenham

1105367

	registered interest
	date	26/03/2019
	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	Urban Areas: Community Development
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to strengthen urban communities.
	tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
	uin	HL14830
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2019 answer text <p>The Government recognises the value and contribution of all of our communities and supporting them runs through all of the Government’s work.</p><p>Government has recently announced the £1.6 billion Stronger Towns Fund to help places which have not shared in the proceeds of growth and communities left behind by rapid economic change.</p><p>As part of ‘Our Plan for the High Street’ we are funding the £675 million Future High Streets Fund to support investment in town centre infrastructure and five ‘Open Doors’ pilots to match local community groups with vacant high street properties. We are also celebrating the good work that communities have done in their high streets and town centres through the Great British High Street Awards, which will return in 2019 in partnership with Visa, and have provided £9.75 million for local authorities to work with community groups to clean up their high streets.</p><p>Government has also committed £9.1 billion of the Local Growth Fund to Local Enterprise Partnerships through three rounds of competitive Growth Deals between 2015 and 2021, strengthened local leadership through nine devolution deals and the establishment of eight combined authority mayors; and is negotiating city and growth deals in the devolved administrations, with deals already agreed in Wales for Cardiff and Swansea Bay and £120 million UK Government funding committed to the North Wales Growth Deal.</p><p>We are also looking to increase the availability of urban community spaces and on 26 March the Government announced the winners of the £3.75 million fund to create new Pocket Parks and to refurbish existing parks.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 04/04/2019 14:28:44 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
	tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

1056443

	registered interest
	date	06/02/2019
	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	United Kingdom Holocaust Memorial Foundation
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government when responsibility for the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation will be transferred to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport; and how.
	tabling member printed	Viscount Eccles
	uin	HL13501
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>There are no plans to transfer responsibility for the UK Holocaust Foundation to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. The Holocaust Memorial Foundation provides independent advice to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government who has overall responsibility for the delivery of the Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 19/02/2019 17:15:23 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
	tabling member	2447 label Biography information for Viscount Eccles

940076

	registered interest
	date	12/07/2018
	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	Unitary Councils: Leicestershire
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the proposals by Leicestershire County Council to create a single unitary authority in the county presently served by a two-tier structure; and whether it is their policy to only agree to the reorganisation of local government structures where agreement is reached with all the local authorities affected.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL9491
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>Whilst the Government has not received such a proposal, it would assess any proposal to replace two-tier local government with one or more unitary councils against our publicly announced criteria, namely that proposals should, if implemented, be likely to improve the area's local government, command a good deal of local support in the area, and whether the area itself is a credible geography for the proposed new structures.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 24/07/2018 15:52:18 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

846667

	registered interest
	date	21/02/2018
	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	Unitary Councils
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what criteria they use to consider the possible reorganisation of local government in England in two-tier areas to create unitary authorities covering the whole, or part, of an existing county area.
	tabling member printed	Lord Greaves
	uin	HL5722
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2018 answer text <p>Our policy as stated in my Department’s Single Departmental Plan is that we will consider proposals for unitarisation and mergers when requested, and reach a judgment in-the-round as to whether the proposal, if implemented, is likely to improve the area’s local government, commands a good deal of local support in the area and whether the area itself is a credible geography for the proposed new structures.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 28/02/2018 15:27:08 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
	tabling member	2569 label Biography information for Lord Greaves

999761

	registered interest
	date	01/11/2018
	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	Unitary Councils
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government with which local authorities they are currently holding discussions regarding possible transition to unitary status.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL11206
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2018 answer text <p>Ministers and officials have discussions with many councils about a wide range of issues, which may include the possible transition to unitary status as in the case of discussions with the eight Northamptonshire councils, which have now in response to a formal invitation submitted a proposal for unitarisation.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 13/11/2018 12:07:47 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

897114

	registered interest
	date	02/05/2018
	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	UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what submissions they have made to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination over the last 30 years.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Tonge
	uin	HL7538
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2018 answer text <p>The UK Government has submitted regular reports to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) since becoming a signatory to the Convention in 1969. Reports submitted to CERD are published on the United Nations website, along with the United Nations’ Concluding Observations. The reports produced since 1992 can be found in the Treaty Body Database, on the United Nations’ website.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 14/05/2018 16:32:08 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
	tabling member	200 label Biography information for Baroness Tonge