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100112

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2014
	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	Department for Communities and Local Government: Written Questions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when he expects to answer Question 207630, tabled on 1 September 2014 by the right hon. Member for Leeds Central.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
	tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
	uin	211289
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p>Questions 207630 and 207599 were answered on 30 October.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis grouped question UIN 211290 question first answered 11/11/2014 16:22:39 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis previous answer version 24183 answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

100113

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2014
	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	Department for Communities and Local Government: Written Questions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when he expects to answer Question 207599, tabled on 1 September 2014 by the right hon. Member for Leeds Central.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
	tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
	uin	211290
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p>Questions 207630 and 207599 were answered on 30 October.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis grouped question UIN 211289 question first answered 11/11/2014 16:22:39 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis previous answer version 24185 answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

100115

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2014
	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	Department for Communities and Local Government: Written Questions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when he expects to answer Question 210272, tabled on 13 October 2014 by the right hon. Member for Leeds Central.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
	tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
	uin	211287
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2015 answer text <p>Question 210272 was answered on 18 December 2014.</p> answering member constituency Bristol West answering member printed Stephen Williams question first answered 05/01/2015 16:13:44 answering member 1492 label Biography information for Stephen Williams previous answer version 24179 answering member constituency Bristol West answering member printed Stephen Williams answering member 1492 label Biography information for Stephen Williams
	tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

100117

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2014
	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	Department for Communities and Local Government: Written Questions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when he expects to answer Question 208912, tabled on 10 September 2014 by the right hon. Member for Leeds Central.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
	tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
	uin	211288
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2015 answer text <p>Question 208912 was answered on 18 December 2014.</p> answering member constituency Bristol West answering member printed Stephen Williams question first answered 05/01/2015 16:14:28 answering member 1492 label Biography information for Stephen Williams previous answer version 24180 answering member constituency Bristol West answering member printed Stephen Williams answering member 1492 label Biography information for Stephen Williams
	tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

101053

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2014
	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	Department for Communities and Local Government: Written Questions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when he expects to answer Question 210273, tabled by the right hon. Member for Leeds Central on 13 October 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
	tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
	uin	212000
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2015 answer text <p>Question 210273 was answered on 18 December 2014.</p> answering member constituency Bristol West answering member printed Stephen Williams question first answered 07/01/2015 17:21:11 answering member 1492 label Biography information for Stephen Williams previous answer version 25354 answering member constituency Bristol West answering member printed Stephen Williams answering member 1492 label Biography information for Stephen Williams
	tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

101070

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2014
	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, with reference to his Department's Bringing people together in strong, united communities policy webpage, if he will list all the projects aimed at tackling extremism and intolerance.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
	tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
	uin	212001
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p>I refer the rt. hon. Member to the Written Ministerial Statement on integration made by my rt. hon. Friend, the Secretary of State (Eric Pickles) today.</p> answering member constituency Bristol West answering member printed Stephen Williams question first answered 18/12/2014 15:11:28 answering member 1492 label Biography information for Stephen Williams previous answer version 25367 answering member constituency Bristol West answering member printed Stephen Williams answering member 1492 label Biography information for Stephen Williams
	tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

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

91382

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2014
	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	Departmental Responsibilities
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which (a) projects and (b) groups are funded through his Department's Community Rights, Integration and Big Society programme.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
	tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
	uin	208970
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p>I refer the rt. 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 15:25:03 answering member 1492 label Biography information for Stephen Williams previous answer version 21552 answering member constituency Bristol West answering member printed Stephen Williams answering member 1492 label Biography information for Stephen Williams
	tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

91391

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2014
	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	Public Expenditure
	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 Annex A of his Department's Explanatory Memorandum to the Main Estimate 2013-14, how much of the money allocated for Community Rights, Integration and Big Society was allocated to (a) community rights, (b) integration and (c) the Big Society in (i) 2012-13, (ii) 2013-14 and (iii) 2014-15.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
	tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
	uin	208912
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p>As is the norm for departmental spending under this and previous Administrations, actual outturn estimates will vary from initial allocations, reflecting the activity of the individual programmes within the budget headings and the profile of how money is spent. The Explanatory Memorandum was prepared in February 2013, published in July 2013, and is a snapshot of the notional allocations at that point in time; in turn, it reported on changes from the 2012-13 Supplementary Estimate.</p><p> </p><p><em>Explanatory Memorandum 2013-14 Main Estimates: Budget Allocations</em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><em>£ million</em></p></td><td><p><em>2011-12</em></p></td><td><p><em>2012-13</em></p></td><td><p><em>2013-14</em></p></td><td><p><em>2014-15</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Integration</p></td><td><p>10.7</p></td><td><p>15.0</p></td><td><p>10.8</p></td><td><p>4.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Big Society and Community Rights</p></td><td><p>8.9</p></td><td><p>19.5</p></td><td><p>27.8</p></td><td><p>23.1</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>For the latest outturn estimates for integration, I refer the rt. hon. Member to the Written Ministerial Statement made by my rt. hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Communities and Lcoal Government (Eric Pickles) today. The figure for Big Society and Community rights are as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><em>£ million</em></p></td><td><p><em>2011-12</em></p></td><td><p><em>2012-13</em></p></td><td><p><em>2013-14</em></p></td><td><p><em>2014-15</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>8.9</p></td><td><p>12.3</p></td><td><p>18.9</p></td><td><p>23.7</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>We received unbudgeted income of £2 million in 2012-13 and £1.6 million in 2013-14 (a legacy of the New Deal for Communities); in turn, this has reduced the outturn figures for Big Society and Community Rights allocations, but not the actual spending (as the income reduces the request for funding for the Department from the public purse).</p><p> </p><p>The Community Rights programmes are part of our Big Society agenda. Some funding was re-classified after the 2011 Spending Review moving to the ‘Integration’ heading. These accounting categories are somewhat arbitrary – as many of our integration projects are about putting the Big Society principles in practice: empowering individuals, neighbourhoods and communities to solve problems and improve quality of life. I refer the rt. hon. Member to the Written Ministerial Statement made by my Rt hon Friend, the Secretary of State (Eric Pickles) today, which lists the integration projects we have funded to illustrate this point.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bristol West answering member printed Stephen Williams question first answered 18/12/2014 15:17:39 answering member 1492 label Biography information for Stephen Williams previous answer version 21551 answering member constituency Bristol West answering member printed Stephen Williams answering member 1492 label Biography information for Stephen Williams
	tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

92905

	registered interest
	date	13/10/2014
	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	Radicalism
	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 Annex B of his Department's Explanatory Memorandum to its main Estimate 2013-14, how the savings in the resource budget for Integration and Tackling Extremism in 2013-14 and 2014-15 were achieved.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
	tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
	uin	210273
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p>As is the norm for departmental spending under this and previous Administrations, actual outturn estimates will vary from initial allocations, reflecting the activity of the individual programmes within the budget headings and the profile of how money is spent.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Explanatory Memorandum was prepared in February 2013, published in July 2013, and was a snapshot of the notional allocations at that point in time; in turn, it reported on changes from the 2012-13 Supplementary Estimate.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>Explanatory Memorandum 2013-14 Main Estimates: Budget Allocations</em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><em>£ million</em></p></td><td><p><em>2011-12</em></p></td><td><p><em>2012-13</em></p></td><td><p><em>2013-14</em></p></td><td><p><em>2014-15</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Integration</p></td><td><p>10.7</p></td><td><p>15.0</p></td><td><p>10.8</p></td><td><p>4.1</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>I also refer the rt. 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><p> </p> answering member constituency Bristol West answering member printed Stephen Williams question first answered 18/12/2014 15:22:43 answering member 1492 label Biography information for Stephen Williams previous answer version 22311 answering member constituency Bristol West answering member printed Stephen Williams answering member 1492 label Biography information for Stephen Williams
	tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn