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485503

	registered interest
	date	23/03/2016
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: Sheffield
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether his Department has undertaken a cost-benefit analysis of retaining his Department's office at St Paul's Palace, Sheffield.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
	tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
	uin	32390
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>I refer the Hon Member to the answer I gave to Question UIN <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2016-02-11/27113/" target="_blank">27113</a> from the Hon Member for Sheffield Central.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 11/04/2016 16:40:25 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

485500

	registered interest
	date	23/03/2016
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: Cost Effectiveness
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how the proposed cost savings outlined in the BIS 2020 programme have been calculated; and what estimate he has made of projected savings of relocating staff from the office in Sheffield to London.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
	tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
	uin	32384
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has committed to delivering 30-40% reductions in the Department’s operating expenditure which equates to around £350m by 2020. Savings of this magnitude can only be delivered by changing the Department’s overall business model so that it is simpler, cheaper and better for users of BIS services. This involves reducing the number of offices, our number of partner bodies, and our headcount as well as rationalising customer support, grant giving and digital service delivery. The proposed move of policy teams into a single centre and proposed closure of the Sheffield office forms part of a larger programme to change our business model.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 11/04/2016 16:38:46 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

687924

	registered interest
	date	09/02/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	EU Grants and Loans
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what mechanism has been put in place to assess whether the Government will guarantee funding for specific ESF and ERDF projects signed after the Autumn Statement; how such projects will be assessed against the two criteria of value for money and alignment with domestic priorities; and whether such assessments will be undertaken before or after agreements have been signed.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
	tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
	uin	63865
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2017 answer text <p>Each government department will take responsibility for the allocation of money to projects in line with the stated criteria and the wider rules on public spending. These conditions will be applied in such a way that the current pipeline of committed projects is not disrupted.</p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 20/02/2017 12:33:35 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
	tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

690201

	registered interest
	date	17/02/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Cash Dispensing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what engagement his Department has had with the working group set up by LINK scheme members to consider how to place the LINK system on a sustainable footing.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
	tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
	uin	64270
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2017 answer text <p>The Government believes that widespread free access to cash remains extremely important to the day-to-day lives of many consumers in the UK. To this end, the Government is engaging with LINK and its members, including banks and Independent ATM Deployers, to ensure that widespread free access to cash is maintained. The Government is encouraged to hear that LINK’s members have committed to further work to find a solution to the dispute.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is also working closely on the issue with the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR), which was established in 2015 to promote competition, innovation and the needs of end users within payment systems. The PSR is in regular contact with LINK, and is monitoring the situation closely.</p><p> </p><p>The PSR has the power to act if LINK or any of its members act in a way that conflicts with any of its objectives.</p> answering member constituency Brighton, Kemptown answering member printed Simon Kirby grouped question UIN 64271 64272 question first answered 27/02/2017 14:06:51 answering member 3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby
	tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

690202

	registered interest
	date	17/02/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Cash Dispensing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with banks and independent ATM operators on steps being taken to place the LINK system on a sustainable footing.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
	tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
	uin	64271
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2017 answer text <p>The Government believes that widespread free access to cash remains extremely important to the day-to-day lives of many consumers in the UK. To this end, the Government is engaging with LINK and its members, including banks and Independent ATM Deployers, to ensure that widespread free access to cash is maintained. The Government is encouraged to hear that LINK’s members have committed to further work to find a solution to the dispute.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is also working closely on the issue with the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR), which was established in 2015 to promote competition, innovation and the needs of end users within payment systems. The PSR is in regular contact with LINK, and is monitoring the situation closely.</p><p> </p><p>The PSR has the power to act if LINK or any of its members act in a way that conflicts with any of its objectives.</p> answering member constituency Brighton, Kemptown answering member printed Simon Kirby grouped question UIN 64270 64272 question first answered 27/02/2017 14:06:51 answering member 3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby
	tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

644291

	registered interest
	date	25/11/2016
	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, with reference to paragraph 3.5 of Autumn Statement 2016, how many affordable homes to rent will be built in each year from 2017 to 2020; and how many of those homes will be built with a central government grant.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
	tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
	uin	54973
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2016 answer text <p>The additional £1.4 billion investment in the Affordable Homes Programme will deliver an estimated additional 40,000 affordable housing starts by 2020/21, increasing the overall capital budget to £7.1 billion up to 2021 to deliver an estimated 225,000 affordable homes.</p><p>The flexible programme will fund a mix of affordable housing including affordable homes for rent and low cost home ownership. The actual split of tenures will depend on bids received, based on the assessment of local needs and local housing markets. All homes provided under the programme will be part-funded by a central government grant; this is in addition to other affordable homes delivered without grant and those delivered with Right to Buy receipts.</p><p><br></p> answering member constituency Croydon Central answering member printed Gavin Barwell question first answered 22/12/2016 15:44:02 answering member 3955 label Biography information for Lord Barwell previous answer version 23748 answering member constituency Croydon Central answering member printed Gavin Barwell answering member 3955 label Biography information for Lord Barwell
	tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

654313

	registered interest
	date	07/12/2016
	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	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, with reference to paragraph 3.11 of the Autumn Statement 2016, in what way restrictions on grant funding will be released in order to allow providers to deliver a mix of housing types; and whether the Homes and Communities Agency's (a) whole programme, (b) affordable rented homes programme and (c) social rented homes is available for bids.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
	tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
	uin	56665
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2016 answer text <p>An addendum to the Shared Ownership and Affordable Homes Programme (SOAHP) 2016-21 will be published shortly, providing details of the bidding process. The expanded, more flexible, programme will open to new bids early in the new-year through continuous market engagement.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon Central answering member printed Gavin Barwell question first answered 12/12/2016 17:41:07 answering member 3955 label Biography information for Lord Barwell
	tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

485565

	registered interest
	date	23/03/2016
	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, with reference to page 2 of Budget 2016, whether the £3.5 billion savings to public spending to be achieved by 2012-20 will affect the four year funding settlement to local councils announced by his Department in December 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
	tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
	uin	32326
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2016 answer text <p>While the Government has not yet completed its departmental efficiency review to help identify further savings in 2019-20, we expect the four year allocations confirmed in the final settlement on 10 February 2016 to be the amounts presented to Parliament each year, should councils choose to accept the offer.</p><p>We look forward to councils publishing efficiency plans by 14 October 2016 that demonstrate how the greater certainty on offer can bring about opportunities for further savings. However, if councils prefer not to have a four year settlement we cannot guarantee their future levels of funding.</p><p>We have been clear that funding allocations in 2019-20 may be subject to the implementation of 100% business rate retention, something councils have asked for over decades and which we are working with the sector to deliver.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 19/04/2016 16:51:42 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
	tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

649429

	registered interest
	date	01/12/2016
	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	Multiple Occupation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the estimated cost to local authorities is of the proposed change to standards for the mandatory licensing of houses of multiple occupation that his Department is consulting on.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
	tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
	uin	55892
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2016 answer text <p>Costs in administering and implementing the licensing regime can be funded through fees charged for consideration of applications for the grant of licences. There will, therefore, be no additional financial burdens on local housing authorities as a result of the implementation of the extension of mandatory licensing.</p> answering member constituency Croydon Central answering member printed Gavin Barwell question first answered 06/12/2016 16:06:27 answering member 3955 label Biography information for Lord Barwell
	tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

649424

	registered interest
	date	01/12/2016
	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: Regulation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the difference there will be in the powers that will be available to the proposed non-departmental public body for the regulation of social housing compared to those powers that were previously available to the Tenant Services Authority.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
	tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
	uin	55938
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2016 answer text <p>Legislation passed in the 2011 Localism Act gave the Social Housing Regulator (part of the Homes and Communities Agency) a stronger, more proactive role in economic regulation, and a more reactive approach to regulation of consumer standards than its predecessor; the Tenant Services Authority. The regulatory framework defines a clear remit with respect to consumer regulation; where a failure to meet consumer standards has caused, or may cause, serious detriment.</p><p>The Regulator’s transition to an independent entity will not change its statutory powers or objectives. This is solely an administrative change.</p> answering member constituency Croydon Central answering member printed Gavin Barwell question first answered 06/12/2016 15:05:45 answering member 3955 label Biography information for Lord Barwell
	tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts