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348505

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2015
	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	Derelict Land
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they will take to provide the necessary funding to ensure that brownfield land released by government departments for housing purposes can be developed in locations where its development would not otherwise be viable.
	tabling member printed	Lord Greaves
	uin	HL277
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2015 answer text <p>Government intends to create a £1 billion fund to unlock homes on brownfield land for additional housing, and ensure that brownfield land is used as much as possible for new development.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We are clear that brownfield land that is suitable for housing has a vital role to play in meeting the need for new homes, and ensuring that the Green Belt is protected. The Government is committed to releasing surplus public sector land with capacity for up to 150,000 homes by 2020.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 10/06/2015 11:33:09 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	2569 label Biography information for Lord Greaves

348506

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2015
	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	Derelict Land
	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 case for increasing the percentage of social housing grant for new developments by housing associations on brownfield sites on which the development would not otherwise be financially viable.
	tabling member printed	Lord Greaves
	uin	HL278
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2015 answer text <p>There is no set amount of grant allocated for new affordable housing developments.</p><p>The Homes and Communities Agency assess all applications on a case by case basis, taking into account local circumstances against the criteria set out in the 2015-18 Affordable Homes Programme prospectus. Around 80% of the Affordable Homes Programme in 2011-15 delivered by the Agency outside London was on brownfield land. <br><br>Applications to deliver affordable homes in London are assessed by the Greater London Authority against their published prospectus (The Mayor’s Housing Covenant 2015-18 Programme).</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 16/06/2015 13:49:29 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	2569 label Biography information for Lord Greaves

348507

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2015
	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	Derelict Land
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what flexibility the National Planning Policy Framework gives to local authorities to prioritise the development of brownfield sites over greenfield land in local plans; and whether they propose to amend the National Planning Policy Framework in order to allow local authorities to strengthen such local policies.
	tabling member printed	Lord Greaves
	uin	HL279
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2015 answer text <p>The Government wishes to ensure that brownfield land is prioritised and used as much as possible for new development. We will require local authorities to have a register of suitable brownfield sites and ensure 90 per cent of suitable sites have planning permission for housing by 2020. Our planning guidance stresses the importance of bringing brownfield land back into use and encourages councils to use other local plan policies to promote the viability of brownfield across the local area.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 18/06/2015 11:42:08 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	2569 label Biography information for Lord Greaves

348545

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2015
	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	Agriculture: Land
	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 bring forward plans to strengthen the protection of best and most versatile agricultural land in national planning policy.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol East
	tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
	uin	1135
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2015 answer text <p>The use of best and most versatile farmland is for local planning authorities to lead through their Local Plans. This enables local communities to be consulted and to decide where development should go, and what local food-growing opportunities should be taken forward.</p><p> </p><p>The National Planning Policy Framework sets out the importance for local planning authorities of taking account of the benefits of the best and most versatile farmland in preparing their Local Plans, including consideration of access to affordable, sustainable and healthy food.</p><p> </p><p>Local planning authorities must consult Natural England before permitting non-agricultural development on significant areas of such land if this is outside the Local Plan.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis grouped question UIN 1136 1137 question first answered 09/06/2015 15:31:21 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

348546

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2015
	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	Agriculture: Land
	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 take steps to strengthen policies relating to food-growing in the National Planning Policy Framework to identify the importance of local food-growing opportunities and the affordability of, and access to, suitable land and associated housing for food-growing.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol East
	tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
	uin	1136
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2015 answer text <p>The use of best and most versatile farmland is for local planning authorities to lead through their Local Plans. This enables local communities to be consulted and to decide where development should go, and what local food-growing opportunities should be taken forward.</p><p> </p><p>The National Planning Policy Framework sets out the importance for local planning authorities of taking account of the benefits of the best and most versatile farmland in preparing their Local Plans, including consideration of access to affordable, sustainable and healthy food.</p><p> </p><p>Local planning authorities must consult Natural England before permitting non-agricultural development on significant areas of such land if this is outside the Local Plan.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis grouped question UIN 1135 1137 question first answered 09/06/2015 15:31:21 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

348547

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2015
	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	Soil
	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 instruct officials in his Department to discuss with their counterparts in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs the feasibility of monitoring the loss to development of best and most versatile soil.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol East
	tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
	uin	1137
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2015 answer text <p>The use of best and most versatile farmland is for local planning authorities to lead through their Local Plans. This enables local communities to be consulted and to decide where development should go, and what local food-growing opportunities should be taken forward.</p><p> </p><p>The National Planning Policy Framework sets out the importance for local planning authorities of taking account of the benefits of the best and most versatile farmland in preparing their Local Plans, including consideration of access to affordable, sustainable and healthy food.</p><p> </p><p>Local planning authorities must consult Natural England before permitting non-agricultural development on significant areas of such land if this is outside the Local Plan.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis grouped question UIN 1135 1136 question first answered 09/06/2015 15:31:21 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

348615

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2015
	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	Troubled Families Programme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what criteria his Department uses to assess the effectiveness of the Troubled Families initiative in individual local authority areas.
	tabling member constituency	Congleton
	tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
	uin	1166
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2015 answer text <p>The Troubled Families initiative aims to turn families around. This means children are back in school for three consecutive terms and there has been significant reductions in youth crime and anti-social behaviour; or an adult in the family is back in work for at least three months. The first Troubled Families Programme is on track to achieve its goal to turn around the lives of 120,000 troubled families across England by May 2015. As of February 2015, over 105,000 families had been turned around. Final results will be published shortly. <br><br>The first programme has been subject to an independent national evaluation carried out by a consortium of research organisations, led by Ecorys UK Ltd and comprising Ipsos MORI, The National Institute for Economic and Social Research, Bryson Purdon Research and Clarissa White Research. The evaluation is assessing the impact, process and cost benefit of the programme. In July 2014, an initial report on the characteristics and problems experienced by families in the programme was published titled <em>Understanding Troubled Families</em>. The full final evaluation report is due later this summer.</p><p>The new expanded Troubled Families Programme aims to help up to 400,000 additional families achieve significant and sustainable change. It was rolled out nationally in April 2015 and an evaluation of this programme has already begun, delivered by the Office of National Statistics, Ipsos MORI and The Stationary Office. This will build on the first programme's assessments of impact and cost benefit, alongside a programme of qualitative research with local authorities and families to understand if and how services have adapted to work more effectively with families and those families' experiences of services.</p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark grouped question UIN 1168 1169 question first answered 29/06/2015 13:11:56 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
	tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

348616

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2015
	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	Troubled Families Programme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, on what basis additional funding for the Troubled Families initiative will be allocated to local authority areas.
	tabling member constituency	Congleton
	tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
	uin	1167
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2015 answer text <p>Upper tier local authorities are offered funding as part of the Troubled Families Programme on the basis of the number of families eligible for the programme within their area.</p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 17/06/2015 15:08:32 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
	tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

348617

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2015
	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	Troubled Families Programme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the Troubled Families initiative to date; and who conducted that assessment.
	tabling member constituency	Congleton
	tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
	uin	1168
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2015 answer text <p>The Troubled Families initiative aims to turn families around. This means children are back in school for three consecutive terms and there has been significant reductions in youth crime and anti-social behaviour; or an adult in the family is back in work for at least three months. The first Troubled Families Programme is on track to achieve its goal to turn around the lives of 120,000 troubled families across England by May 2015. As of February 2015, over 105,000 families had been turned around. Final results will be published shortly. <br><br>The first programme has been subject to an independent national evaluation carried out by a consortium of research organisations, led by Ecorys UK Ltd and comprising Ipsos MORI, The National Institute for Economic and Social Research, Bryson Purdon Research and Clarissa White Research. The evaluation is assessing the impact, process and cost benefit of the programme. In July 2014, an initial report on the characteristics and problems experienced by families in the programme was published titled <em>Understanding Troubled Families</em>. The full final evaluation report is due later this summer.</p><p>The new expanded Troubled Families Programme aims to help up to 400,000 additional families achieve significant and sustainable change. It was rolled out nationally in April 2015 and an evaluation of this programme has already begun, delivered by the Office of National Statistics, Ipsos MORI and The Stationary Office. This will build on the first programme's assessments of impact and cost benefit, alongside a programme of qualitative research with local authorities and families to understand if and how services have adapted to work more effectively with families and those families' experiences of services.</p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark grouped question UIN 1166 1169 question first answered 29/06/2015 13:11:56 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
	tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

348618

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2015
	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	Troubled Families Programme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans his Department has for future continuous assessment of the Troubled Families initiative.
	tabling member constituency	Congleton
	tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
	uin	1169
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2015 answer text <p>The Troubled Families initiative aims to turn families around. This means children are back in school for three consecutive terms and there has been significant reductions in youth crime and anti-social behaviour; or an adult in the family is back in work for at least three months. The first Troubled Families Programme is on track to achieve its goal to turn around the lives of 120,000 troubled families across England by May 2015. As of February 2015, over 105,000 families had been turned around. Final results will be published shortly. <br><br>The first programme has been subject to an independent national evaluation carried out by a consortium of research organisations, led by Ecorys UK Ltd and comprising Ipsos MORI, The National Institute for Economic and Social Research, Bryson Purdon Research and Clarissa White Research. The evaluation is assessing the impact, process and cost benefit of the programme. In July 2014, an initial report on the characteristics and problems experienced by families in the programme was published titled <em>Understanding Troubled Families</em>. The full final evaluation report is due later this summer.</p><p>The new expanded Troubled Families Programme aims to help up to 400,000 additional families achieve significant and sustainable change. It was rolled out nationally in April 2015 and an evaluation of this programme has already begun, delivered by the Office of National Statistics, Ipsos MORI and The Stationary Office. This will build on the first programme's assessments of impact and cost benefit, alongside a programme of qualitative research with local authorities and families to understand if and how services have adapted to work more effectively with families and those families' experiences of services.</p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark grouped question UIN 1166 1168 question first answered 29/06/2015 13:11:56 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
	tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce