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749870

registered interest
date	10/07/2017
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	Gaza: Israel
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the cumulative effects of the one per cent reductions in social housing rents instituted under the Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016.
tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
uin	HL591
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2017 answer text <p>I refer the noble Lord to my previous answers to him on 27 March (PQ HL6120) and 28 March (PQ HL6379).</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 18/07/2017 11:31:40 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham

749872

registered interest
date	10/07/2017
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	Israel: Palestinians
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the financial impact on local authorities of the imposition of a one per cent pay cap.
tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
uin	HL592
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2017 answer text <p>While local government is not covered by public sector pay policy which is set by HM Treasury, it will, of course, have regard for it.</p><p>Local government pay matters are devolved and it is for local authorities as independent employers and locally elected bodies to make these decisions within the limits of what is affordable.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 17/07/2017 15:56:53 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham

723714

registered interest
date	24/04/2017
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	Non-domestic Rates
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the letter from Lord Young of Cookham to Lord Beecham on 5 April regarding the Non-Domestic Rating (Rates Retention) and (Levy and Safety Net) (Amendment) Regulations 2017, a copy of which has been placed in the Library of the House, (1) how many challenges to the 2010 rating lists are outstanding for each year since 2010, (2) how long they estimate it will take to determine those challenges, and (3) what is their estimate of the financial impact of successful challenges on local authorities.
tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
uin	HL6756
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2017 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Prorogation. Ministers will correspond directly with the Member.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 26/04/2017 11:17:29 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham

714922

registered interest
date	29/03/2017
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	Housing: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many local authorities they estimate will reduce their Housing Related Support programme budgets in 2017–18 by (1) 30 to 40 per cent, and (2) 50 to 100 per cent.
tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
uin	HL6410
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/04/2017 answer text <p>The Government has not made an estimate but expects local authorities to take on the challenge of making public expenditure savings in order to tackle the deficit while continuing to provide excellent public services to local communities. This includes housing-related support services to the most vulnerable in society. We have already taken several steps during this Parliament to help secure a strong and sustainable adult social care system. The recent Budget contained £2 billion of new funding to support adult social care in the short term. Taken all together, councils have access to £9.25 billion more dedicated funding for adult social care over the next three years, as a result of the measures introduced by the Government since 2015.</p><p>Supported housing supports hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people across the country and the Government is committed to protecting this vital provision, and to ensuring it provides value for money as well as individual quality outcomes for residents. As announced by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on 15 September 2016 (attached), we will be introducing a new reformed funding model from April 2019 to cover rent and service charges for supported housing, see:</p><p><a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2016-09-15/HCWS154/" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2016-09-15/HCWS154/</a>.</p><p>Following recent consultation, we will bring forward more detail in a Green paper to be published later in this year.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 12/04/2017 12:54:54 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth attachment 1 file name 170411 HCWS154.pdf title Housing Benefit (HCWS154)
tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham

714759

registered interest
date	28/03/2017
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	Council Housing
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 impact of the reduction in council housing rents on (1) the maintenance and improvement of the existing council housing stock, and (2) the building of new council houses between now and 2022.
tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
uin	HL6379
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2017 answer text <p>I refer the noble Lord to my previous answer to him on 27 March - PQ HL6120.</p><p>As stated in the Housing White Paper, the Government will in due course set out a rent policy for social landlords for the period beyond 2020 to help them to borrow against future income. Our aim is to ensure that they have the confidence they need about their future income in order to plan ahead.</p><p /><p /> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 11/04/2017 15:45:21 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham

714761

registered interest
date	28/03/2017
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether, in the light of their intention to devolve discretionary funding on supported housing costs to English local authorities, funding will be provided for such councils under the new burdens doctrine.
tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
uin	HL6381
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2017 answer text <p>I would refer the Noble Lord to the Written Statement by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions made in the other place on 15 September 2016 (attached) about supported accommodation, which made clear we will consider what level of new burdens funding would be appropriate to enable local authorities to fulfil their new role.</p><p><a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2016-09-15/HCWS154/" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2016-09-15/HCWS154/</a></p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 04/04/2017 15:26:31 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth attachment 1 file name 170404 HL6381.pdf title Written Statement HCWS154
tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham

714762

registered interest
date	28/03/2017
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	Homelessness: Statistics
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what progress has been made in implementing the recommendations made by the UK Statistics Authority following the 2015 review of the statistics in relation to homelessness and rough sleeping.
tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
uin	HL6382
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2017 answer text <p>Since the UK Statistics Authority report on homelessness statistics was published DCLG have engaged in detailed discussions with UK Statistics Authority officials. We have met the requirements set out below, and will continue to work with the UK Statistics Authority to make our homelessness statistics as robust and accessible as possible.</p><p>We have implemented the key requirement to combine the publication of statistics on statutory homelessness and prevention and relief. We have also enhanced our user engagement structures, and based on user discussions have embarked on a project to redesign the form which collects homelessness data. We have also added harmonised region codes to local authority datasets to allow users to easily re-use the data for regional analysis and have published demographic and time series data on rough sleepers for the first time.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 11/04/2017 15:44:52 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham

711982

registered interest
date	16/03/2017
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	Social Rented Housing
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 impact of the reduction in social housing rents on the maintenance and improvement of the existing housing stock, and on the building of new houses between now and 2022.
tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
uin	HL6120
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2017 answer text <p>The fiscal impact of the social rent reduction policy on public finances was included as part of the Office for Budget Responsibility’s policy costings for Budget 2015 which can be (attached) found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/443195/Policy_costings_summer_budget_2015.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/443195/Policy_costings_summer_budget_2015.pdf</a> on page 53</p><p><em><br></em>In September 2015 the Department for Communities and Local Government carried out an impact assessment of the effect of the social rent reduction policy on housing associations which can be (attached) found at <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/documents/impact-assessments/IA15-006F.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/documents/impact-assessments/IA15-006F.pdf</a> on page 4.</p><p>Social housing providers are well placed to manage these reductions and have proved themselves to be more than capable of adapting and responding to change. The Government is investing £7.1 billion in the expanded Affordable Homes Programme from 2016-21, which will support housing associations and local authorities to build another 225,000 affordable homes by March 2021.<em><br></em></p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth attachment 1 file name 170320 Policy costings summer budget 2015 - HL6120.pdf title Summer Budget 2015 2 file name 170320 Impact Assessment - HL6120.pdf title Impact assessments question first answered 27/03/2017 15:01:46 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham

711184

registered interest
date	14/03/2017
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	Non-domestic Rates
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what estimate they have made of the cost to (1) the NHS, and (2) schools, of increases in business rates following revaluation.
tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
uin	HL6072
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2017 answer text <p>The effect of the revaluation of business rates on schools and NHS bodies will depend on the specific circumstances and location of the relevant property. A £3.6 billion transitional relief scheme will provide support for the minority of properties which face an increase in rates as a result of the 2017 revaluation, and applies equally to public bodies such as the NHS and to schools.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 27/03/2017 14:58:31 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham

688245

registered interest
date	09/02/2017
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	Social Rented Housing: Rents
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what they estimate the amount of lost income will be to (1) local authorities, and (2) housing associations, by 2020, as a result of the cumulative effect of the annual one per cent reduction in social housing rents.
tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
uin	HL5382
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2017 answer text <p>The fiscal impact of the social rent reduction policy on public finances was included as part of the Office for Budget Responsibility’s policy costings for Budget 2015 which can be found on page 53 of the attached annex, Summer Budget 2015: Policy Costings.</p><p>In September 2015 the Department for Communities and Local Government carried out an impact assessment of the effect of the social rent reduction policy on housing associations which can be found on page 4 of the attached annex, Welfare Reform and Work Bill: Impact Assessment of Social Rent Reductions.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth attachment 1 file name 17223 Welfare Reform and Work Bill_ Impact Assessment of Social Rent Reductions - HL5382.pdf title HL5382 - Impact Assessment 2 file name 170223 Summer Budget 2015_ Policy Costings HL5382.pdf title Summer budget question first answered 23/02/2017 18:00:49 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham