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90438

registered interest
date	03/09/2014
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	Community Relations
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 support civic and voluntary organisations that promote integration and greater multi-ethnic understanding.
tabling member constituency	Newbury
tabling member printed	Richard Benyon
uin	208056
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the Written Ministerial Statement on integration made by my rt. hon. Friend, the Secretary of State (Eric Pickles) today.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bristol West answering member printed Stephen Williams question first answered 18/12/2014 15:27:55 answering member 1492 label Biography information for Stephen Williams
tabling member	1547 label Biography information for Lord Benyon

90439

registered interest
date	03/09/2014
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	Domestic Visits
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 15 July 2014, Official Report, column 618W, on official visits, what domestic visits he has made since January 2013; and what the purpose of each such visit was.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
tabling member printed	Sheila Gilmore
uin	208006
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2015 answer text <p>Ministers undertake regular visits to a wide variety of local authority areas in England, whilst balancing their Parliamentary work, internal Ministerial meetings in London and meetings of Cabinet Committees. Ministers also regularly host delegations from local authorities for meetings in Westminster.</p><p> </p><p>The list below provides a list of visits up to the end of January 2015. It would entail disproportionate cost to provide a detailed commentary on the purpose of each visit, but a brief summary is included. To assist the hon. Member, a selection of political visits is also included.</p><p> </p><p>Such visits also need to be viewed alongside the visits that other members of the Ministerial team have made, and the published list of meetings with external organisations.</p><p> </p><p>2013</p><p> </p><p>Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council area on 21 January 2013, growth policy</p><p> </p><p>London Borough of Enfield area on 22 January 2013, political</p><p> </p><p>Cheshire West and Chester Unitary authority area on 1-2 February 2013, political</p><p> </p><p>Borough of Eastleigh area on 11 February 2013, political</p><p> </p><p>Borough of Eastleigh area on 22 February 2013, political</p><p> </p><p>Oxfordshire County Council area on 1 – 2 March 2013, political</p><p> </p><p>Reading Borough Council area on 18 March 2013, growth policy</p><p> </p><p>Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council area on 15 April 2013, local government and growth policy</p><p> </p><p>Borough of Nuneaton and Bedworth area on 19 April 2013, political</p><p> </p><p>Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees Council area on 25 April 2013, political</p><p> </p><p>Ribble Valley Council area on 26 April 2013, political</p><p> </p><p>Mid Devon Council area on 29 April 2013, political</p><p> </p><p>Leicestershire County Council area on 13 May 2013, troubled families</p><p> </p><p>Royal Borough of Greenwich area on 18 June 2013, faith and integration</p><p> </p><p>Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council area on 4 July 2013, local government policy</p><p> </p><p>Salford City Council area on 4 July 2013, community rights</p><p> </p><p>London Borough of Hackney area on 30 July 2013, community rights</p><p> </p><p>Thurrock Council area on 9 August 2013, Thames Gateway policy</p><p> </p><p>Hastings Borough Council area on 15 August 2013, coastal communities’ policy</p><p> </p><p>Medway Council area on 18 August 2013, faith and integration</p><p> </p><p>London Borough of Southwark area on 23 September 2013, community rights</p><p> </p><p>Telford and Wrekin Council area on 7 November 2013, growth and housing policy</p><p> </p><p>Cheshire West and Chester Council area on 18 November 2013, local government policy</p><p> </p><p>Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council area on 28 November 2013, local Enterprise Zones</p><p> </p><p>Waveney District Council area on 7 December 2013, high streets policy</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>2014</p><p> </p><p>Portsmouth City Council area on 16 January 2014, political</p><p> </p><p>Norfolk County Council area on 31 January 2014, growth and housing policy</p><p> </p><p>London Borough of Croydon area on 10 February 2014, flood response and recovery</p><p> </p><p>Cherwell District Council area on 11 February 2014, flood response and recovery</p><p> </p><p>Oxford City Council area on 11 February 2014, flood response and recovery</p><p> </p><p>Arun District Council area on 20 February 2014, coastal defences and flooding</p><p> </p><p>Runnymede Borough Council on 20 February 2014, flood response and recovery</p><p> </p><p>Fife Council area on 24 February 2014, coastal communities’ policy</p><p> </p><p>Aberdeen Council area on 24 February 2014, Cabinet meeting</p><p> </p><p>London Borough Council of Hounslow area on 3 April 2014, community rights and housing policy</p><p> </p><p>Derbyshire County Council area on 22 April 2014, growth policy and local enterprise zones</p><p> </p><p>London Borough of Havering area on 23 April 2014, housing policy</p><p> </p><p>Cambridge City Council area on 23 April 2014, political</p><p> </p><p>Metropolitan Borough of Dudley Council area on 24 April 2014, political</p><p> </p><p>London Borough of Wandsworth area on 1 May 2014, troubled families</p><p> </p><p>Stoke-on-Trent City Council area on 2 May 2014, political</p><p> </p><p>Brent Council area on 5 May 2014, faith and integration</p><p> </p><p>Newark-on-Trent City Council area on 19 May 2014, political</p><p> </p><p>Newark-on-Trent City Council area on 1 June 2014, political</p><p> </p><p>Bedfordshire County Council area on 12 June 2014, political</p><p> </p><p>Manchester City Council area on 26 June 2014, housing policy</p><p> </p><p>West Riding of Yorkshire Council area on 26 June 2014, political</p><p> </p><p>Doncaster City Council area on 27 June 2014, housing policy</p><p> </p><p>East Riding of Yorkshire Council area on 27 June 2014, political</p><p> </p><p>Harrogate Borough Council area on 5 July 2014, Le Grand Départ</p><p> </p><p>Salisbury City Council area on 10 July 2014, political</p><p> </p><p>Staffordshire County Council area on 11 July 2014, commemorative event</p><p> </p><p>West Sussex County Council area on 21 July 2014, commemorative event</p><p> </p><p>Hampshire County Council area on 29 July 2014, political</p><p> </p><p>London Borough Council of Hounslow area on 1 August 2014, faith and integration</p><p> </p><p>North East Lincolnshire Council area on 1 August 2014, growth policy and local Enterprise Zones</p><p> </p><p>Glasgow City Council area on 4 August 2014, commemorative event</p><p> </p><p>Mid Sussex District Council area on 23 August 2014, commemorative event</p><p> </p><p>Bedford Borough Council on 2 September 2014, housing policy</p><p> </p><p>Essex County Council on 4 September 2014, coastal defences</p><p> </p><p>Tendring District Council area on 4 September 2014, political</p><p> </p><p>London Borough of Harrow area on 14 September 2014, political</p><p> </p><p>Birmingham City Council area on 17 September 2014, Waste management</p><p> </p><p>Birmingham City Council area on 30 September 2014, local enterprise zones</p><p> </p><p>London Borough of Wandsworth area on 21 October 2014, growth and housing policy</p><p> </p><p>Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council area on 23 October 2014, housing policy</p><p> </p><p>Pendle Borough Council area on 24 October 2014, regeneration and housing policy</p><p> </p><p>Stroud District Council area on 27 October 2014, political</p><p> </p><p>Royal Borough of Greenwich area on 29 October 2014, better care fund</p><p> </p><p>Manchester City Council area on 30 October 2014, better care fund</p><p> </p><p>Stroud District Council area, Cheltenham Borough Council area and Staffordshire County Council area on 6 November 2014, political</p><p> </p><p>Westminster Council area on 9 November 2014, commemorative event</p><p> </p><p>Stroud District Council area on 20 November 2014, political</p><p> </p><p>Westminster City Council area on 25 November 2014, commemorative event</p><p> </p><p>Flyde Borough Council area on 27 November 2014, political</p><p> </p><p>Central Bedfordshire Council area on 28 November 2014, housing policy</p><p> </p><p>Northampton Borough Council area on 28 November 2014, political</p><p> </p><p>Essex County Council area on 11 December 2014, housing policy</p><p> </p><p>2015</p><p> </p><p>Cardiff City Council and Newport City Council area on 8 January 2015, political</p><p> </p><p>Bath and North East Somerset Council area on 15 January 2015, political</p><p> </p><p>Leicester City Council and Charnwood Borough Council area on 29 January 2015, local Enterprise Zones</p><p> </p><p>The list reflects the fact that the Department’s responsibilities are broadly devolved outside England. All visits are conducted in line with the provisions of the Ministerial Code.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 24/02/2015 17:20:54 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins previous answer version 18923 answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	3965 label Biography information for Sheila Gilmore

78376

registered interest
date	16/07/2014
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	EU Grants and Loans
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 Answer of 3 December 2013, Official Report, column 630W, on EU grants and loans, how much and what proportion of 2007 to 2013 European Regional Development Fund monies allocated to the UK with match-funding in place have been (a) contractually committed and (b) drawn down in (i) each English region and (ii) in total to date.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
uin	206317
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2014 answer text <p>The information requested is provided in the attached table (1). The “contractually committed” figures are up to 30 September 2014. All contractually committed funding has had match funding identified, so no separate figures are shown for this.</p><p>Across the programme, an average of 100% of the programme is now contractually committed. All spending of taxpayers’ money must ensure value for money; and money should not be spent on poor quality projects just for the sake of it. Spending must also comply with complex and bureaucratic EU rules, or else risk “financial corrections” down the line.</p><p>Where the contractually committed figure is slightly less than the total allocation, this reflects the restrictive, bureaucratic rules associated with the whole programme, and the lack of flexibility in the rules.</p><p>To place this in context, I attach with this answer a table (2) showing the allocations in the 2000-06 programme under the last Labour Government: only 93% of the allocation was ever committed, leaving £392 million of uncommitted resources; of which £48 million was uncommitted in the West Midlands Objective 2 area, £64 million uncommitted in the North West Objective 2 area, and £38 million uncommitted in the Yorkshire and the Humber Objective 2 area.</p><p>In this context, despite the complexities, the 2007-13 programme has been far better administered under this Government than the 2000-06 programme under the last Administration.</p><p>The European Regional Development Fund is a circular programme. UK taxpayers’ money is given to the European Union budget. Under the Fund, a local project receives a contract, spends money and then claims from DCLG. DCLG then claims funds back from the European Commission. The whole process goes through a complex auditing process involving DCLG auditors and then European Union auditors. After a period of time, the majority of unspent funding is returned to the UK Government by the European Commission. We continue to have concerns over the bureaucratic and time consuming nature of the processes involved in the programme, as a consequence of rules imposed by the European Commission.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt attachment 1 file name 206317 Umunna - Table 1.docx title Table 1 2 file name 206317 Umunna - Table 2.pdf title Table 2 question first answered 26/11/2014 16:11:42 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

77355

registered interest
date	11/07/2014
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	Training
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 awaydays his Department has held for officials in (a) 2013 and (b) 2014 to date; and what the cost was of each such event.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Mr Andy Slaughter
uin	205289
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p>Under the last Labour Government, DCLG spent £196,585 on “away days” in 2008-09 and £137,678 in 2009-10. We have cut costs to just £272 in 2013 and to zero in 2014. This has resulted in notable savings to taxpayers. A table with details is attached.</p><p>These significant reductions in spending are a consequence of revised guidance to staff that team away days should take place at no or limited cost; this has included encouraging the use of rooms in the Department or a neighbouring Whitehall Department.</p><p>This is a significant departure from the expensive practices that took place under the last Administration, which included booking away days in luxury hotels, restaurants and a burlesque club.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 16/12/2014 17:17:40 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins attachment 1 file name 0378 Slaughter - Table.docx title Table of Awaydays
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

77042

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
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	Community Relations
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 community integration projects or organisations are funded by his Department.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
uin	205041
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the Written Ministerial Statement on integration made by my rt. hon. Friend, the Secretary of State (Eric Pickles) today.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bristol West answering member printed Stephen Williams grouped question UIN 205039 205262 205263 question first answered 18/12/2014 15:29:31 answering member 1492 label Biography information for Stephen Williams previous answer version 10378 answering member constituency Bristol West answering member printed Stephen Williams answering member 1492 label Biography information for Stephen Williams
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

77043

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
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	Community Relations
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 9 June 2014 by the Secretary of State for the Home Department to the Urgent Question, Official Report, columns 245-6, on extremism, what assessment he has made of the nature and extent of the wider counter-extremist and integration work co-ordinated by his Department; what this co-ordination will entail; and what budget is available for this work.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
uin	205039
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the Written Ministerial Statement on integration made by my rt. hon. Friend, the Secretary of State (Eric Pickles) today.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bristol West answering member printed Stephen Williams grouped question UIN 205041 205262 205263 question first answered 18/12/2014 15:29:31 answering member 1492 label Biography information for Stephen Williams previous answer version 10388 answering member constituency Bristol West answering member printed Stephen Williams answering member 1492 label Biography information for Stephen Williams
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

77051

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
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	Community Relations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what community (a) integration projects and (b) organisations are currently funded by his Department.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
uin	205262
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the Written Ministerial Statement on integration made by my rt. hon. Friend, the Secretary of State (Eric Pickles) today.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bristol West answering member printed Stephen Williams grouped question UIN 205039 205041 205263 question first answered 18/12/2014 15:29:31 answering member 1492 label Biography information for Stephen Williams previous answer version 10380 answering member constituency Bristol West answering member printed Stephen Williams answering member 1492 label Biography information for Stephen Williams
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

77054

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
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	Community Relations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what funds his Department has allocated to community integration or cohesion in each year since 2010-11.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
uin	205263
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the Written Ministerial Statement on integration made by my rt. hon. Friend, the Secretary of State (Eric Pickles) today.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bristol West answering member printed Stephen Williams grouped question UIN 205039 205041 205262 question first answered 18/12/2014 15:29:31 answering member 1492 label Biography information for Stephen Williams previous answer version 10391 answering member constituency Bristol West answering member printed Stephen Williams answering member 1492 label Biography information for Stephen Williams
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

77127

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
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	Floods
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what progress has been made on making the full amount of flood funds available to local communities.
tabling member constituency	Rossendale and Darwen
tabling member printed	Jake Berry
uin	204999
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2014 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the flood recovery progress report published on 27 November, a copy of which is in the Library of the House.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 01/12/2014 09:33:48 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry

63851

registered interest
date	25/06/2014
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	Councillors: Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will place in the Library correspondence he has received from Essex County Council and Brentwood Council on changes to councillors' eligibility for the Local Government Pension Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
uin	202283
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2015 answer text <p>Brentwood Borough Council did not send in a response to the consultation on “Taxpayer-funded pensions for councillors and other elected local office holders”. A copy of Essex County Council’s response is attached.</p><p> </p><p>This differential interest no doubt reflects the fact that Brentwood Borough Council did not have any councillors in the Local Government Pension Scheme (a consequence of the decision of my hon. Friend, the Member for Great Yarmouth, when he was leader of the Council not to join the scheme), whereas Essex did. Non-participating councils tended not to respond to the consultation.</p><p> </p><p>Prior to the consultation, only 16 per cent of councillors were actually members of the scheme and only 55 councils actually responded. The majority of Councils and Councillors submitted no objection to the Government’s proposal to end Councillor’s access to the Local Government Pension Scheme.</p><p> </p><p>Such taxpayer-funded local government pensions have now been abolished, subject to practical transition measures introduced as a result of the consultation. These reforms will save taxpayers’ money, strengthen the independence of councillors, and reflects that the fact that councillors are not salaried employees of the council. Nothing prevents councillors from contributing to their own private personal pension, receiving tax relief like any other member of the public.</p><p> </p><p>The suggestion by some that these changes would discourage people from running for election has not been borne out. In last year’s London borough elections, all candidates nominated in the knowledge that there would be no taxpayer-funded pensions if they were elected; yet more candidates ran for election in London in 2014 than in 2010 (source: <em>London datastore</em>).</p><p> </p><p>I suspect that the council tax-paying public would be less than impressed at the Labour Party’s calls to reintroduce such taxpayer-funded pensions.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 15/01/2015 17:45:38 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins attachment 1 file name 0223 Benn - Letter.pdf title Letter - Essex County Council Response
tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn