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1168793

	registered interest
	date	20/12/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Planning Permission
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what guidance he issues to local planning authorities on the consideration of controversial planning applications during purdah.
	tabling member constituency	Chatham and Aylesford
	tabling member printed	Tracey Crouch
	uin	279
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2020 answer text <p>To date, Government has issued no guidance to local planning authorities about consideration of planning applications during the pre-election period. <br> <br>Within my Department, caution is exercised during both general and local election periods, with no substantive decisions issued. During these periods, where I receive a request to intervene in a case, or a case is referred to me by an authority, I am able to delay a grant of planning permission while I consider whether or not to call-in an application, by means of a holding direction issued under section 31 of the Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 2015.</p><p>Local authorities should exercise good judgement about whether it is appropriate to determine cases of local or national significance or controversy during a pre-election period of sensitivity. I intend to work with the Local Government Association to ensure they provide suitable guidance to councils to this effect.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 13/01/2020 17:46:01 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch

1170093

	registered interest
	date	13/01/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Urban Areas
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps his Department is taking to support towns.
	tabling member constituency	Burnley
	tabling member printed	Antony Higginbotham
	uin	900118
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2020 answer text <p>This Government’s £3.6 billion Towns Fund will support an initial 100 Town Deals, unleashing towns’ economic potential and sharing prosperity across the country. We are forming a Towns Hub to make Whitehall work for towns and communities and have provided places with over £16 million capacity funding – to prepare their plans and secure up to £25 million each.</p><p>We will be investing in town centres and high streets to help them evolve – with more housing, safer streets, culture and transport to make them more accessible.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 13/01/2020 16:25:33 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4833 label Biography information for Antony Higginbotham

1203405

	registered interest
	date	15/06/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Local Government: Coronavirus
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What recent steps his Department has taken to support the clinically extremely vulnerable during the covid-19 outbreak; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Lichfield
	tabling member printed	Michael Fabricant
	uin	903184
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2020 answer text <p>At the start of this pandemic we advised Clinically Extremely Vulnerable people to shield - to not leave their homes and avoid face-to-face contact – and we set up the National Shielding Service; a huge logistical exercise unprecedented since the Second World War.</p><p>This has included delivering over 3 million free food boxes to date, securing priority supermarket slots, getting people’s medicines delivered to their doorstep, and social contact.</p><p>On 1 June, following clinical advice, we announced that clinically extremely vulnerable people in England can spend time outdoors with members of their household, or with one other person from another household if they live alone, while continuing to follow social distancing guidelines.</p><p>The next review will take place this week. As part of this, the Government will consider the next steps for shielding beyond 30 June. The Government will write to all individuals on the shielded patient list with information about next steps on shielding advice and the support that will be available to them after this review point.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 16/06/2020 08:30:28 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	280 label Biography information for Michael Fabricant

1226135

	registered interest
	date	20/07/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Religious Buildings: Coronavirus
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	Whether his Department plans to provide financial support to (a) places of worship and (b) faith organisations to help them to reopen safely as covid-19 lockdown restrictions are eased.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
	tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
	uin	904965
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2020 answer text <p>I am very grateful to faith leaders across the country for the leadership they have shown on behalf of their communities during this crisis.</p><p>I am also grateful to the Places of Worship Taskforce, which met again last week, and which has been extremely productive. There are still issues we are working through together, including music for services and singing.</p><p>As of the 4<sup>th</sup> of July, places of worship were allowed to re-open with social distancing in place. Today they are able to hold services, or lead communal worship, and important events in the lives of their communities, such as weddings and funerals. Faith organisations have been able to apply for a range of Government-backed financial packages which support charities and businesses.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 20/07/2020 16:24:46 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1226137

	registered interest
	date	20/07/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Planning: Reform
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps he is taking to reform the planning system in England.
	tabling member constituency	South Suffolk
	tabling member printed	James Cartlidge
	uin	904969
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2020 answer text <p>Our seven-decade old planning system is in need of an overhaul, and we will shortly be publishing a planning Policy Paper in the summer setting out our proposals for comprehensive reform.</p><p>These reforms will deliver more high-quality, well-designed homes, and beautiful and greener communities for people to live in.</p><p>Alongside this we continue to create new planning freedoms to support the high street and create new homes – including new Permitted Development Rights and Use Class Order reform.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 20/07/2020 16:25:23 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge

1226146

	registered interest
	date	20/07/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	First Time Buyers: Government Assistance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What plans he has to help first-time buyers to purchase their own homes.
	tabling member constituency	Warrington South
	tabling member printed	Andy Carter
	uin	904982
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2020 answer text <p>This Government will reset our national homeownership offer – ensuring local people and key workers have the opportunity to build a life in their own community.</p><p>First Homes, our new homeownership programme, will discount homes by at least 30 per cent for key workers, local people, and first-time buyers – including those who have done so much to respond to the Covid-19 outbreak. We recently closed our consultation on First Homes and will publish our response soon.</p><p>At the same time our new £12 billion investment in affordable homes will create thousands of new homes for Shared Ownership.</p><p>And all of this adds to other Government-backed schemes, including Help to Buy, which have supported over 627,000 households into homeownership since 2010.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 20/07/2020 16:26:21 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4791 label Biography information for Andy Carter

1251769

	registered interest
	date	16/11/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Housing: Construction
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps his Department is taking to promote housebuilding.
	tabling member constituency	Lincoln
	tabling member printed	Karl McCartney
	uin	908798
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2020 answer text <p>One of the key priorities for my Department has been ensuring that house building continues and the housing market stays open.</p><p>This Government cares deeply about building more homes and we have gone to great lengths to ensure the industry is kept open, in turn sustaining hundreds of thousands of people in numerous roles.</p><p>That is why I have written to the housing industry, alongside the Home Builders Federation and Federation of Master Builders, to make it clear that housebuilding, and the supply chains that support it, should continue during the current lockdown.</p><p>That means estate and lettings agents, show homes and sales suites can remain open; and property viewings, home repairs and maintenance, mortgage valuations and surveys can all continue to take place.</p><p>At the same time this Government is unlocking hundreds of thousands of homes through our £12 billion investment in affordable homes – the biggest investment for a decade; delivering much-needed new homes on brownfield land through our £400 million Brownfield Fund; and stimulating the market through our Stamp Duty cut.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 16/11/2020 17:23:53 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4028 label Biography information for Karl McCartney

999162

	registered interest
	date	31/10/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Universities: Enterprise Zones
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, where the new University Enterprise Zones announced in Budget 2018 will be; and by what process that decision was reached.
	tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent North
	tabling member printed	Ruth Smeeth
	uin	186409
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>The Government announced £5m towards University Enterprise Zones in the Budget. The locations of these have not yet been decided. The process for awarding funding is currently being developed by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 12/11/2018 17:48:35 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4508 label Biography information for Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent

999313

	registered interest
	date	31/10/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Treasury: Brexit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much his Department has spent on consultancy fees relating to the UK leaving the EU since July 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	186208
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>The Treasury does not hold this data in a way that would allow us to extract the information requested from existing accounting records or central searchable databases. Therefore to locate, retrieve and extract this data would exceed the disproportionate cost threshold</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 12/11/2018 17:47:54 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

999629

	registered interest
	date	01/11/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Infrastructure: Clacton
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent steps he has taking to invest in infrastructure in the Clacton region.
	tabling member constituency	Clacton
	tabling member printed	Giles Watling
	uin	187158
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>We are committed to making sure every area of the country has modern and efficient infrastructure. By the end of the parliament, public capital investment will reach levels not sustained in 40 years.</p><p> </p><p>Essex will receive £19 million for local roads maintenance in 2018/19, and DfT has provided £4 million to Essex County Council for development funding for improvements to the A120. In the last 5 years access to Superfast Broadband in Clacton has risen from 77% to 98%.</p><p>The Budget announced new programmes delivered at the local level to address barriers to productivity and increased funding for existing programmes, including an additional £420 million in 2018/19 to tackle potholes, repair damaged roads, and invest in keeping bridges open and safe. The £675 million Future High Streets Fund will support and fund local areas’ plans to make their high streets and town centres fit for the future, and the Budget also announced £150 million funding pot for a new competition for small improvements projects such as roundabouts.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 12/11/2018 17:47:02 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4677 label Biography information for Giles Watling