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1000274

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2018
	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	Pocket Parks Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much funding will be allocated to the second round of pocket parks; and if any of those parks will be located in South Yorkshire.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	187343
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>The Secretary of State recognises the importance of parks and green spaces in building safer, stronger and more integrated communities. We announced on 7 October that Government would invest £1 million in a second pocket parks programme to create new parks and also provide support to maintain and improve existing parks to help bring existing parks back into safe and regular use.</p><p>The Government will shortly be publishing a prospectus, inviting bids for funding from across the England. Following closure of the application process, bids will be reviewed and announcement of successful applicants will be announced in spring 2018.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 12/11/2018 17:21:10 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

931127

	registered interest
	date	25/06/2018
	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	Homelessness: Young People
	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 he is doing to tackle levels of youth homelessness.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	157167
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2018 answer text <p>This government remains clear that one person without a home is one too many and we are committed to preventing and reducing homelessness and rough sleeping.</p><p>As well as allocating over £1.2 billion to tackle all forms of homelessness over the spending review period, the government has also taken forward a number of important actions to specifically prevent and reduce the levels of youth homelessness.</p><p>The Homelessness Reduction Act, which came into force in April this year, bolsters the support offer for families, care leavers and 16-17 year olds by ensuring that there are more opportunities for local authorities to put in place bespoke interventions to either prevent homelessness from happening in the first place, or relieve them from a homelessness crisis where it does occur.</p><p>Alongside legislative changes, we have also published revised guidance to make clear the respective duties of children’s services and housing services to secure or provide accommodation for 16 and 17 year old children who are homeless or in need of accommodation.</p><p>In addition, the government’s rough sleeping strategy, which will set out how the government will meet its manifesto commitments of halving rough sleeping by 2022, and ending it by 2027, will include specific action around tackling youth homelessness. The strategy will be published by July this year.</p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 28/06/2018 16:17:18 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

931128

	registered interest
	date	25/06/2018
	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 Authorities: Accountability
	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 steps his Department has taken to ensure local authority planning boards are accountable to local residents.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	157168
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2018 answer text <p>Planning board or committee members are usually local elected councillors and therefore accountable to the local electorate. They have to abide by the code of conduct each planning authority is required to adopt under Section 27 of the Localism Act 2011. The code of conduct must be consistent with the “Nolan” principles.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 28/06/2018 16:09:44 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

990375

	registered interest
	date	18/10/2018
	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: Devolution
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when he plans to publish his new devolution framework.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	181259
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2018 answer text <p>Later in the Autumn we plan to publish a document that will set out our future approach to devolution, providing a framework that will give clarity to local areas.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 23/10/2018 13:56:10 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

990376

	registered interest
	date	18/10/2018
	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: Devolution
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whom his Department has consulted in preparing its new devolution framework.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	181260
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2018 answer text <p>We engage with local areas, including councils, metro mayors, and Local Enterprise Partnerships, regularly, including on the future of devolution.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 23/10/2018 13:56:34 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

990377

	registered interest
	date	18/10/2018
	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: Devolution
	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 the aim is of the new devolution framework.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	181261
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2018 answer text <p>In line with the Conservative manifesto, we are committed to providing clarity across England on what devolution means for different administrations and how devolution can benefit communities.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 23/10/2018 13:57:02 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

990378

	registered interest
	date	18/10/2018
	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: Devolution
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the new devolution framework will require legislation.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	181262
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2018 answer text <p>It is not anticipated that a devolution framework will require primary legislation.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 23/10/2018 13:57:19 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

999343

	registered interest
	date	31/10/2018
	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: South Yorkshire
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department’s press release entitled Government announces new housing measures, published 1 October 2018, how many houses of the 300,000 houses are planned to be built in South Yorkshire.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	186322
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to delivering 300,000 homes per year by the mid-2020s, and ensuring the housing market works across the country. Since 2011, we have allocated over £1.6 billion from the Affordable Homes Programme to deliver affordable homes in the North East, North West and Yorkshire.</p><p>In England, planning is the responsibility of the relevant local authorities. National planning policy provides a framework within which local authorities should plan, but it is the responsibility of local authorities to produce plans appropriate to their circumstances.</p><p>In July we introduced a new standard approach to assessing local housing need, which authorities will use to establish the minimum number of homes that need to be planned for to ensure that the starting point in the process is a realistic reflection of the number of homes the country needs.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 05/11/2018 17:33:09 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

167712

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2014
	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	Holocaust Memorial Day
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans the Government has to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day and the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	217040
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2014 answer text <p>The Government funds the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust to deliver the annual Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration and local activities across England, Wales and Scotland. Given the significance of the 70<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, we have increased our funding to the Trust to ensure that Holocaust Memorial Day 2015 is commemorated with dignity and in a way that honours survivors and ensures that as a nation we remember.</p> answering member constituency Bristol West answering member printed Stephen Williams question first answered 08/12/2014 17:39:25 answering member 1492 label Biography information for Stephen Williams previous answer version 32332 answering member constituency Bristol West answering member printed Stephen Williams answering member 1492 label Biography information for Stephen Williams
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

169415

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2014
	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	Homelessness
	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 number of people aged under 18 who were homeless in each month of 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	218246
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2015 answer text <p>Figures on those housed in temporary accommodation are published in Live Table 775 on my Department’s website at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness</a></p><p> </p><p>This includes figures for households in temporary accommodation with dependent children, and households in temporary accommodation headed by a 16 or 17 year old.</p><p><br>We do not collect information by month.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 05/01/2015 14:41:35 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins previous answer version 33692 answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis