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224420

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date	02/03/2015
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	Enterprise Zones
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 promote the use of enterprise zones by businesses.
tabling member constituency	Fylde
tabling member printed	Mark Menzies
uin	225862
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p>My Department works actively with UK Trade and Investment, BIS sector leads as well as local partners to promote opportunities in Enterprise Zones to businesses across the UK and overseas. UK Trade and Investment encourages and supports overseas companies to consider Enterprise Zones as a good place to set up or expand their businesses. They do this by working to support the marketing efforts on Zones and publicising opportunities for businesses within their international networks.</p><p> </p><p>This collective approach is working. By the end of 2014, more than 450 businesses had come to Enterprise Zones. Alongside this, there has been significant investment in infrastructure, including around £200 million of commitments from the Local Growth Fund. This will help to attract more businesses to Enterprise Zones in future.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 09/03/2015 16:58:09 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	3998 label Biography information for Mark Menzies

224421

registered interest
date	02/03/2015
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	Homelessness: Wales
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 (a) statutory and (b) non-statutory homeless people there were in each constituency in Wales in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Wrexham
tabling member printed	Ian Lucas
uin	225881
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2015 answer text <p>My Department does not hold this information which is a matter for the Welsh Government.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 05/03/2015 15:41:17 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas

224528

registered interest
date	02/03/2015
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	Social Rented Housing
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 people have been fined for non-payment of rent and services in social housing in each year since 2011.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	225835
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2015 answer text <p>We do not hold this information.<br><br> Office of Fair Trading guidance on unfair terms in tenancy agreements explains that they regard the imposition of a fixed daily or monthly charge for overdue rent as being penal rather than compensatory in nature and unfair (paragraph 3.46). Annex A of the guidance explains that the regulations apply to social housing tenancies (https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/284440/oft356.pdf).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 05/03/2015 15:43:38 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman