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712374

registered interest
date	20/03/2017
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	Licensed Premises: Non-domestic Rates
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 16 March 2017 to Question 67412, on licensed premises: non-domestic rates, when he plans to publish the consultation on the eligibility criteria for the discount for eligible pubs.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	68550
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2017 answer text <p>My Department will consult on guidance on the Pubs Relief Scheme shortly. The consultation will include proposals on the eligibility criteria and other aspects of the scheme.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 23/03/2017 14:29:47 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

712376

registered interest
date	20/03/2017
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: Letting Agents
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if his Department will publish a definition of the term social lettings agencies as used in the white paper, Fixing our broken housing market, published in February 2017.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
uin	68432
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2017 answer text <p>Social letting agencies can support vulnerable people and people on low incomes to access and sustain tenancies in the private rented sector. We want to prevent people reaching crisis point, and for those who are already homeless to be able to move out of temporary accommodation or hostels to a settled home as quickly as possible. There are a number of different models of social letting agencies and in the Housing White Paper we set out our interest in exploring the relative effectiveness of these different models with the aim of securing more housing for households who would otherwise struggle – providing security for landlords and support for tenants.</p> answering member constituency Croydon Central answering member printed Gavin Barwell question first answered 23/03/2017 11:03:51 answering member 3955 label Biography information for Lord Barwell
tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile

712377

registered interest
date	20/03/2017
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	Garden Communities: Construction
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 make an assessment of the potential merits of permitting the construction of 15 new garden city-style developments of 100,000 homes.
tabling member constituency	Welwyn Hatfield
tabling member printed	Grant Shapps
uin	68582
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2017 answer text <p>We are currently supporting twenty-four locally-led garden towns, cities and villages in places where communities want them. These have the potential to deliver over 200,000 homes.</p><p>We remain committed to supporting other places with ambitious proposals for new locally-led garden communities at scale.</p> answering member constituency Croydon Central answering member printed Gavin Barwell question first answered 23/03/2017 11:09:14 answering member 3955 label Biography information for Lord Barwell
tabling member	1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps

712378

registered interest
date	20/03/2017
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 Services: Finance
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 devolve additional fiscal powers to local councils to fund social care.
tabling member constituency	Welwyn Hatfield
tabling member printed	Grant Shapps
uin	68580
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2017 answer text <p>We currently have no plans to devolve additional fiscal powers to local councils.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 23/03/2017 14:29:17 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps

712387

registered interest
date	20/03/2017
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Public Libraries: Complaints
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 20 March 2017 to Question 68114, on public libraries: complaints, which 15 local authorities have been investigated since 2010; and what the outcomes were of those investigations.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	68553
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2017 answer text <p>The local authorities that are being or have been investigated are Lancashire, Lambeth, Southampton, Harrow, Sheffield, Newcastle, Lincolnshire, Bolton, Brent, Isle of Wight, Lewisham, Somerset, Gloucestershire, Doncaster and Surrey. In respect of Lancashire, Lambeth and Southampton these investigations are on-going and no final decision has been made. With regard to Harrow, Sheffield, Newcastle, Lincolnshire, Bolton, London Borough of Brent, Isle of Wight, Lewisham the Secretary of State decided with each of these cases not to direct a local inquiry. In the case of Somerset and Gloucestershire no action was required as both local authorities reverted to their original library service provision following successful judicial review challenges and with respect to Doncaster and Surrey no action was taken.</p> answering member constituency Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson question first answered 23/03/2017 14:36:20 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

712413

registered interest
date	20/03/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Transport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when the allocation for extended rights to free home-to-school travel will be published for each fiscal year from 2017-18 to 2019-20.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	68442
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2017 answer text <p>We aim to publish extended rights allocations in good time to enable local authorities to make suitable arrangements for the transport of eligible pupils before the start of the academic year. We expect to publish allocations for 2017-18 shortly. As the timing of the publication of the allocations can change from year to year, we cannot confirm the publication dates for 2018-19 and 2019-20.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 23/03/2017 13:03:09 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

712428

registered interest
date	20/03/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Apprentices: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many apprenticeships in each NUTS 1 region her Department envisages will be created as a result of the apprenticeship levy in 2017-18.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	68620
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2017 answer text <p>The Apprenticeships Levy comes into effect from April 2017, as part of a wider suite of reforms to improve the quality and sustainability of the apprenticeship system in England.</p><p> </p><p>Future availability and location of apprenticeships is dependent on employers recruiting apprentices and offering opportunities. We want to encourage more employers to offer more apprenticeships and our reforms provide them with the opportunity to do so. The apprenticeship service helps employers to select the appropriate apprenticeship for their needs; choose the training they want to purchase; choose an assessment organisation and advertise and recruit to their vacancies.</p><p> </p><p>As part of the reforms, employers across the country are designing new apprenticeships that meet their business and skills needs; the quality of apprenticeships is increasing through more rigorous end-point assessment and grading; and new funding policy will make it easier for employers so they can invest in apprentices and offer more opportunities.</p> answering member constituency Harlow answering member printed Robert Halfon question first answered 23/03/2017 12:54:18 answering member 3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

712430

registered interest
date	20/03/2017
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Fly-tipping
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans her Department has to reduce fly tipping; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	68587
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2017 answer text <p>We are committed to tackling fly-tipping and, as set out in the Government’s manifesto have given local councils the power to issue fixed penalty notices for small-scale fly-tipping. These new enforcement tools have been available to councils since May 2016, providing them with an alternative to prosecutions and assisting them in taking a proportionate enforcement response.</p><p> </p><p>This builds on other Government action to tackle fly-tipping, which has included:</p><p> </p><ul><li><p>Introducing stronger powers for local authorities and the Environment Agency to seize vehicles of those suspected of waste crime.</p></li></ul><p> </p><ul><li><p>Cracking down on offenders by working with the Sentencing Council to ensure sentences act as a real deterrent to offending. New guidance came into force on 1 July 2014.</p></li></ul><p> </p><ul><li><p>Strengthening the waste duty of care by publishing a revised Waste Duty of Care Code of Practice, that provides guidance to local authorities, regulators, waste industry and all those that produce, keep, import, treat, have control or dispose of controlled waste on how to comply with their waste duty of care obligations.</p></li></ul><p> </p><ul><li><p>Supporting the industry-led Right Waste Right Place campaign to promote Duty of Care to small businesses. The campaign will be targeting construction, retail and agricultural businesses.</p><p> </p></li><li><p>Chairing the National Fly-Tipping Prevention Group (NFTPG) to prevent and tackle illegal dumping. The NFTPG includes representatives from central and local Government, enforcement authorities, the waste industry, and private landowners. The NFTPG has published a Fly-tipping Partnership Framework outlining best practice for the prevention, reporting, investigation and clearance of fly-tipping to be adapted to suit local circumstances as well as a series of fly-tipping prevention guides for householders, businesses, landowners and local authorities.</p></li></ul> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 23/03/2017 11:09:39 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

712434

registered interest
date	20/03/2017
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Bovine Tuberculosis: Dogs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking in response to the TB outbreak within Kimblewick Hunt's foxhounds to ensure that other hunts are free of TB.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	68539
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2017 answer text <p>Government veterinary experts have provided advice to the hunt kennels and hounds from the affected kennel have not been in contact with other hounds since the initial case was suspected. At this stage no further Government action is considered necessary in relation to other hunts.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 23/03/2017 11:02:39 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

712437

registered interest
date	20/03/2017
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Bovine Tuberculosis: Dogs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make it her policy to cancel all hunting activities until foxhound packs across the UK are certified to be free of TB.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	68538
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2017 answer text <p>We have no plans to do this.</p><p> </p><p>TB in dogs, caused by <em>Mycobacterium bovis</em> (the bovine TB bacterium), is extremely rare and dogs pose a very low risk of transmitting the disease.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 23/03/2017 11:00:15 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn