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778113

	registered interest
	date	26/10/2017
	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	Affordable Housing: Construction
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many affordable homes he plans to build in each region of England in each year until 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	109787
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2017 answer text <p>Building more affordable housing is a Government priority. That is why we are investing over £9 billion in our Affordable Homes Programme 2016-21 to deliver a wide range of affordable housing, including social rent homes, by March 2021.</p><p>The Programme is flexible and sets no ring fences on particular forms of tenure. The precise number of homes and where they are built will depend on the bids that are received. This allows providers to have the flexibility and agility to respond to local needs and markets – building the right homes in the right places.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 02/11/2017 17:28:19 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

786338

	registered interest
	date	07/11/2017
	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	Coastal Communities Fund
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much funding from the public purse his Department has allocated to each coastal town from the Coastal Communities Fund in each year for which information is available.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	112088
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2017 answer text <p>We have funded 102 projects in 79 individual coastal settlements and 27 projects that cover multiple coastal locations in England. The total value of all these projects is £132 million. I will place a table in the Library of the House showing the amount of grant awarded in each bidding round and the coastal locations they cover.</p><p>The Welsh Government is responsible for Coastal Community Fund grant awards in Wales and can provide details of grants awarded to coastal locations there.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 16/11/2017 17:36:29 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

758651

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2017
	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 Tax Reduction Schemes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much each local authority spent on council tax reduction schemes in each year for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	9351
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2017 answer text <p>This is published in the ‘individual local authority data – outturn’ sections each financial year at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-revenue-expenditure-and-financing" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-revenue-expenditure-and-financing</a></p><p>The cost of local council tax support scheme figures are recorded in the Revenue Summary (RS) tables. Costs of council tax discounts locally funded can be found in the table for central, protective and other services (RO6).</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 15/09/2017 12:56:57 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

809831

	registered interest
	date	19/12/2017
	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	Department for Communities and Local Government: Social Mobility
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department has taken to improve social mobility in each of the last seven years.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	120451
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/12/2017 answer text <p>My Department is driving forward the devolution agenda in England. Across government we are making huge strides towards rebalancing the economy and empowering local government. 33 per cent of England’s population now has a directly elected mayor, with new powers to create jobs, improve skills, build homes and make it easier to travel. Across the whole of England we are devolving over £9 billion between 2015 and 2021 to Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) through our Growth Deal programme to spend on their priorities for growth. We have also agreed City and Growth Deals in Scotland and Wales and are in the process of negotiating more, including in Northern Ireland, making sure all parts of the UK benefit from the benefits of devolution.</p><p>Our place-based Industrial Strategy sets out a bold vision for the future of the UK. We are strengthening the role of LEPs and agreeing new local industrial strategies that build on local strengths and deliver on economic opportunities. We have also committed to replacing EU Structural Funds when we have left the EU, delivering the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, which will be aimed at reducing inequalities between communities across all four nations.</p><p>My Department is also fixing the broken housing market, supporting first time buyers to get on to the housing ladder while ensuring the housing market works for all parts of our community, getting more of the right homes get built in the places people want to live. The reforms my Department has announced put us on track to raise housing supply by the end of the current Parliament to its highest annual level since 1970.</p><p>The Troubled Families Programme commits £920 million from my Department to make sure local services intervene early to support families with multiple problems, including for example those affected by domestic abuse, parental conflict, drug, alcohol or mental health problems and where children are in need of help. This programme makes sure children are in education, parents in work and families have better outcomes and are able to be socially mobile.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 29/12/2017 12:06:43 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

786936

	registered interest
	date	10/11/2017
	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	Department for Communities and Local Government: Working Conditions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to improve the (a) physical and (b) mental wellbeing of staff employed in his Department.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	112402
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>My Department is committed to the health and wellbeing of all its staff. The Civil Service has set out five priorities for the health and wellbeing - both physical and mental - of its employees and has committed to being a leading employer on mental health support, in line with the recommendations set out in the recently published independent review, Thriving At Work.</p><p>My Department is committed to meeting all the appropriate standards in the Thriving at Work report. As part of that commitment we will benchmark how the support we offer to employees compares to the recommendations set out in the review and will take additional action if and as required.</p><p>One of the key priorities in my Department's People Plan is Inclusion and Wellbeing. We published a comprehensive Health and Wellbeing Plan in July 2017, which sets out a series of measures and actions to improve the physical and mental wellbeing of our staff, e.g. the development of a mental health toolkit for line managers.</p><p>In addition we actively promote the specialist services of our Employee Assistance Programme, the Occupational Health Service and the Civil Service Workplace Adjustment Team to ensure our employees are supported appropriately in the workplace. Over 150 DCLG staff have received Mental Health First Aider training and over 50 of them have gone on to become volunteer Mental Health Ambassadors, providing a confidential listening and advice service. The Department also operates a Mental Health Support Group and offers a number of health and well being training events to improve awareness and understanding, such as Building Resilience.</p><p>My Department is also taking part in Mind's Workplace Wellbeing Index which will help us identify where we are doing well and when we could improve. We intend to use the outcome of our benchmarking activity, against the recommendations in the Thriving at Work report, to further develop our action plans and help us to build on our existing good practice.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 20/11/2017 15:23:50 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

806065

	registered interest
	date	13/12/2017
	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	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, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of her Department's Answers to Written Parliamentary Questions have advised that the requested information was not available on the grounds of disproportionate cost associated with data collection and collation in the current session.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	119163
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2018 answer text <p>Less than 1 per cent.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 05/01/2018 11:38:32 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

809694

	registered interest
	date	19/12/2017
	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	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, how many and what proportion of his Department's Answers to Written Parliamentary Questions in the 2017-18 Session to date have referred to the information requested not being (a) collected or (b) collated centrally.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	120314
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/12/2017 answer text <p>In the current parliamentary session the Department answered 58 written parliamentary questions on the grounds that some or all of the information requested was not collected or held centrally. This is out of a total of 1529 written parliamentary questions answered (as of 21 December 2017) or 3.8 per cent.</p><p> </p><p><br></p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 29/12/2017 11:59:45 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

750055

	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	High Rise Flats: Fire Extinguishers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many meetings his Department has had with representatives of house building companies on the introduction of fire sprinklers in each year for which information is available.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	3911
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>Officials and Ministers regularly meet with representatives of house building companies to discuss a wide range of issues. We are not aware of any meetings specifically to discuss the introduction of fire sprinklers.</p><p>The Department did write to all social housing providers in 2013 following the recommendations in a Coroner’s report into firefighter deaths which occurred at Shirley Towers in Southampton in April 2010. That letter encouraged providers to consider the retrofitting of sprinklers in older residential tower blocks. The Department then reinforced the content of that letter in its response to the Coroner’s report into the Lakanal House Fire – a copy of which can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/205567/Annex_B_-_SoS_DCLG_Rule_43_response.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/205567/Annex_B_-_SoS_DCLG_Rule_43_response.pdf</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 19/07/2017 14:26:44 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

750057

	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	High Rise Flats: Sheffield
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the unit costs of retrofitting sprinkler fire protection in Callow Towers high rise flats in Sheffield.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	3913
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>The decision to retrospectively install sprinklers in Callow Towers in Sheffield in 2011 was taken by the local authority. The Department did not make an estimate of the costs.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 20/07/2017 15:05:04 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

759212

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2017
	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	Local Government Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what level of central government funding each local authority area of England received in real terms in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	9742
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2017 answer text <p>Central government funding, as defined in the Local Authority Revenue Expenditure and Financing Outturn publication, comprises Specific Grants inside Aggregate External Finance, Revenue Support Grant and Police Grant.</p><p>This information is collected in cash terms each year from each local authority in the Revenue Summary (RS) tables. It is available each financial year in the ‘individual local authority data – outturn’ sections on the Department’s website here:<br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-revenue-expenditure-and-financing" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-revenue-expenditure-and-financing</a></p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 18/09/2017 14:17:37 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane