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175883

registered interest
date	27/01/2015
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: Greater London
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much funding has been allocated to each London borough under the Decent Homes Backlog Funding initiative for 2015–16.
tabling member printed	Baroness King of Bow
uin	HL4463
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2015 answer text <p>The Government has made available £145 million for London in 2015/16 for the Decent Homes Backlog Fund.</p><p>This funding has been devolved to the Greater London Authority, which has strategic responsibility for housing in London.</p><p>The Greater London Authority recently announced which boroughs have been awarded the funding. Their amounts are set out in the table below.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Barking and Dagenham</p></td><td><p>£1,124,508</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Camden</p></td><td><p>£26,299,627</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hackney</p></td><td><p>£3,159,962</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Haringey</p></td><td><p>£11,270,130</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kingston upon Thames</p></td><td><p>£6,347,627</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lambeth</p></td><td><p>£23,283,562</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Southwark</p></td><td><p>£53,035,851</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sutton</p></td><td><p>£7,202,328</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tower Hamlets</p></td><td><p>£13,270,443</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>TOTAL</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£144,944,038</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>All boroughs will need to have their grant claims independently verified. Service charges for leaseholders will be capped to £15,000 over five years for any work carried out using this funding.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 03/02/2015 15:23:10 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	143 label Biography information for Baroness King of Bow

175884

registered interest
date	27/01/2015
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: Standards
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to extend the Decent Homes Backlog Funding initiative beyond 2015–16.
tabling member printed	Baroness King of Bow
uin	HL4464
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2015 answer text <p>Spending decisions for 2016-17 onwards are a matter for the next Spending Review.</p><p> </p><p>£1.6 billion worth of funding was awarded to local authorities to tackle their Decent Homes backlog in 2011-15. A further £165 million was awarded for year 2015-16.</p><p> </p><p>Since the abolition of the Housing Revenue Account subsidy system in April 2012, councils have greater freedoms including the retention of their full rental income. This means that all 167 council landlords in England have a long term, stable source of funding, which they can use to plan better to meet the needs of their tenants and local area. These councils have, on average, 15% more to spend on managing and maintaining their homes, including meeting the Decent Homes Standard, than under the previous system.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 03/02/2015 15:21:27 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	143 label Biography information for Baroness King of Bow

175885

registered interest
date	27/01/2015
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	Temporary Accommodation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 6 January (HL3874), whether they intend to commission research into the causes of homeless households being placed in temporary accommodation outside their home authority.
tabling member printed	Baroness King of Bow
uin	HL4465
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2015 answer text <p>This Government has made it clear that no council should be sending tenants en masse to a different part of the country. We have strengthened the law so that when considering the suitability of location, housing authorities must now take account of the impact a change in location would have on individual households – including possible disruption to things like employment and schooling.</p><p>This Government has made more than £1 billion available over this spending round to prevent and tackle homelessness and support vulnerable households affected by welfare reform.</p><p>London Boroughs account for 93% of households provided with temporary accommodation in another district. London councils have previously said that the vast majority of out of borough placements are within London, or where that is not the case, are local to the placing Borough.</p><p>In that context, we have no current plans to commission research.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 03/02/2015 15:18:36 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	143 label Biography information for Baroness King of Bow

170966

registered interest
date	17/12/2014
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	Council Tax Reduction Schemes
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether there was a cut in funding for Council Tax Support in 2014–15; and whether they have plans to cut funding further in 2015–16.
tabling member printed	Baroness King of Bow
uin	HL3873
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2015 answer text <p>We provided £3.7 billion for localised council tax support in 2013-14 and 2014-15, and will be providing the same amount in 2015-16.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We have also provided further central government funding for councils to freeze council tax again in 2015-16. Not only does freezing council tax help all council taxpayers, but it also helps keep down the cost to councils of local council tax support.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Spending on council tax benefit doubled under the last Administration, costing taxpayers £4 billion a year – equivalent to almost £180 a year per household. Our reforms to localise council tax support have given councils direct financial incentives to support local firms, cut fraud and promote local enterprise.Councils now benefit, via the falling cost of local council tax support, from positive action taken to reduce welfare dependency, increase employment and make work pay.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 14/01/2015 17:54:56 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	143 label Biography information for Baroness King of Bow

170967

registered interest
date	17/12/2014
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	Temporary Accommodation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government why there has been an increase between September 2013 and September 2014 in the number of statutorily homeless households placed in temporary accommodation in another local authority area.
tabling member printed	Baroness King of Bow
uin	HL3874
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/01/2015 answer text <p>This Government has invested over £500 million since 2010 to tackle all forms of homelessness and rough sleeping. The homelessness legislation in England provides one of the strongest safety nets in the world for families with children and vulnerable people who become homeless through no fault of their own. Until settled accommodation is available households will be placed in suitable temporary accommodation. In considering suitability housing authorities must, by law, consider whether the accommodation is affordable for the applicant, its size, its condition, its accessibility and also its location. We have made it clear that no council should be sending tenants en masse to a different part of the country.</p><p> </p><p>The numbers of households in temporary accommodation is well below the peak under the previous administration, when they hit 101,000 in 2004. Councils have a responsibility to move homeless households into settled accommodation as quickly as possible. That is why we changed the law so that councils can place families in decent and affordable private rented homes more quickly. This will mean homeless households will not have to wait as long for settled accommodation, spending less time in temporary accommodation. Households now spend on average seven months less in temporary accommodation than at the start of 2010.</p><p> </p><p>London Boroughs account for 93% of households provided with temporary accommodation in another district. London Councils have previously said that the vast majority of out of borough placements are within London, or where that is not the case, are local to the placing Borough.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 06/01/2015 14:30:54 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	143 label Biography information for Baroness King of Bow

170968

registered interest
date	17/12/2014
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Temporary Accommodation: Greater London
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they plan to uprate the Housing Benefit Subsidy regime for temporary accommodation to address any difficulties experienced by London boroughs in procuring accommodation for statutorily homeless households at or below 90 per cent of the 2011 rate of Local Housing Allowance.
tabling member printed	Baroness King of Bow
uin	HL3875
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p /> <p>There are no current plans to uprate the Local Housing Allowance rate applicable to Temporary Accommodation in Housing Benefit.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 18/12/2014 16:10:53 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	143 label Biography information for Baroness King of Bow

170969

registered interest
date	17/12/2014
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Social Security Benefits
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many and what proportion of those affected by the benefit cap since its introduction are in receipt of (1) Employment Support Allowance, (2) Income Support, and (3) Carer’s Allowance.
tabling member printed	Baroness King of Bow
uin	HL3876
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2014 answer text <p>The latest official statistics on the benefit cap can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/benefit-cap-number-of-households-capped-to-august-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/benefit-cap-number-of-households-capped-to-august-2014</a></p><p> </p><p>These statistics do not contain benefit type information. A suite of evaluation was published on 15 December 2014. This evaluation made estimates of the proportion of capped households in scope for the cap who were in receipt of Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA), Income Support (IS), Employment Support Allowance (ESA) or other benefit types over time. The evaluation uses a different methodology to the Official Statistics and does not provide a cumulative count of numbers which is in line with Official Statistics. In July 2014 (the most recent data used in the evaluation), estimates found 23 per cent of capped claimants were in receipt of ESA; 45 per cent of capped claimants were in receipt of IS; and 9 per cent were in receipt of another benefit type, of which modelling suggests around 1,400 households had at least one Carer’s Allowance claimant.</p><p>Further information can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefit-cap-evaluation" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefit-cap-evaluation</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefit-cap-review-of-the-first-year" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefit-cap-review-of-the-first-year</a></p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 22/12/2014 14:50:46 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	143 label Biography information for Baroness King of Bow

170970

registered interest
date	17/12/2014
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	Welfare Assistance Schemes
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government which organisations responded to the consultation on Local Welfare Assistance funding published on 10 October.
tabling member printed	Baroness King of Bow
uin	HL3877
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/01/2015 answer text <p>The Government will publish a summary of responses that have been received, early in 2015.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 06/01/2015 14:33:17 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	143 label Biography information for Baroness King of Bow

170276

registered interest
date	15/12/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Academies: Special Educational Needs
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many tribunal appeals there have been in relation to (1) academy schools’ admission processes for Special Educational Needs (SEN), and (2) academy schools’ education of pupils with SEN; of these how many tribunal outcomes went against the academy; and, in those instances, on how many occasions there were issues with compliance.
tabling member printed	Baroness King of Bow
uin	HL3772
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/12/2014 answer text <p>HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service, First-tier Tribunal Special Educational Needs and Disability (FtT SEND) considers appeals from the parents of children with special educational needs or from young people with special educational needs, against the decisions of Local Authorities where the parent or the young person cannot reach agreement with the Local Authority about how those needs will be met. FtT SEND also considers parents' or young persons’ claims of disability discrimination in schools. The Ministry of Justice has recently published FtT SEND statistics for the 2013-14 academic year and these can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/385777/sen-tables-2014.xls.</p><p> </p><p>Although the tribunal deals with appeals against local authority placements it does not deal with appeals relating to the admission processes for children with SEN in any schools nor does it deal with appeals relating to the education within schools, of children with SEN. HMCTS is therefore unable to provide the specific information that has been requested and has no role in compliance.</p><p> </p><p>Appeals to the FtT SEND are against Local Authorities rather than the individual school or educational establishment. Appeals can be made for a number of reasons including, for example, where the Local Authority has refused to undertake an assessment of the child's or young person’s needs or where a parent disagrees with the school named in the Education, Health and Social Care Plan provided by the Local Authority. The tribunal may, in this latter group of cases, require the local authority to amend the name of the school or other institution to that preferred by the parent or young person. That preferred school may be an academy.</p> answering member printed Lord Faulks question first answered 23/12/2014 12:54:17 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
tabling member	143 label Biography information for Baroness King of Bow

170277

registered interest
date	15/12/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupil Exclusions: Disability
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, for each year since 2010, what percentage of exclusions from (1) maintained schools, and (2) academy schools, related to disabled pupils with or without statements.
tabling member printed	Baroness King of Bow
uin	HL3773
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education does not publish information on exclusions of pupils with special education needs (SEN) for academies.</p><p> </p><p>Information for state-funded schools is published in the “Permanent and fixed-period exclusions in England: 2012 to 2013” Statistical First Release. This information is published online at:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/permanent-and-fixed-period-exclusions-in-england-2012-to-2013" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/statistics/permanent-and-fixed-period-exclusions-in-england-2012-to-2013</a></p><p> </p><p>Table 9 gives a time series of the number of permanent exclusions of pupils with SEN. Tables 10a and 10b show the number of fixed-period exclusions of pupils with SEN and the number of pupils with SEN with one or more fixed- period exclusion, respectively. Data for earlier years can be found in the “Statistics: exclusions” series. This information is published online at:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-exclusions" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-exclusions</a></p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 18/12/2014 12:40:41 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	143 label Biography information for Baroness King of Bow