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63190

	registered interest
	date	23/06/2014
	answering body	Church Commissioners
	answering dept id	9
	answering dept short name	Church Commissioners
	answering dept sort name	Church Commissioners
	hansard heading	Apprentices
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the right hon. Member for Banbury, representing the Church Commissioners, how many apprentices the Church Commissioners have employed in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	201920
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2014 answer text <p>The Church Commissioners currently directly employ one member of staff on an apprenticeship scheme; this role is designed to give experience of supporting the administrative work of the national institutional structures of the Church of England. There is an intention to roll out apprenticeships more widely should this trial proves successful.</p><p>Within the Church of England there are jobs and opportunities for skilled professionals and their students to undertake apprenticeships, training, or conservation work on and within its buildings, stone/carpentry yards and stained glass workshops choir and organ schools.</p><p>There are also some more informal apprenticeship and paid internship opportunities within the local and national structures that are organised locally by those concerned.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Sir Tony Baldry question first answered 27/06/2014 11:46:58 answering member 93 label Biography information for Sir Tony Baldry
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

857659

	registered interest
	date	08/03/2018
	answering body	Church Commissioners
	answering dept id	9
	answering dept short name	Church Commissioners
	answering dept sort name	Church Commissioners
	hansard heading	Churches: Infrastructure
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the right hon. Member for Meriden, representing the Church Commissioners, what funding is available for church infrastructure projects.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	904239
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2018 answer text <p>The Church Commissioners provide financial and administrative support to cathedrals and dioceses. It is up to each self-governing church or cathedral to raise funds for development projects, and the National Church Institutions provide advice and support.</p><p>The changing priorities and declining budget of the Heritage Lottery Fund is a matter of concern, as this is where much fundraising money comes from; officers at national level continue to work with the Heritage Lottery Fund on the specific issues churches face. The HLF is currently reviewing its strategic priorities and I would encourage all Hon. members to consider sending in a response, making the importance of churches as community assets clear.</p><p>The Church of England has been in discussions with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and HM Treasury about the current underspend of the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme, realocating the underspend would enable the Church to deliver a number of the recommendations in the Taylor Review.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Meriden answering member printed Dame Caroline Spelman question first answered 08/03/2018 14:53:55 answering member 312 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Spelman
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

1007043

	registered interest
	date	14/11/2018
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Domestic Abuse: Restraining Orders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, whether he has had any discussions with the CPS on introducing tighter restrictions on the circumstances in which a restraining order may be varied to prevent the situation whereby a perpetrator of domestic abuse is granted a variation that permits them to work within a one mile radius from their victim.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	191386
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2018 answer text <p>The Attorney General and Solicitor General meet the director of Public Prosecutions regularly to discuss CPS priority areas which includes ensuring that the CPS continues to protect vulnerable victims of crime. However, the Law Officers do not intervene on individual cases; judges have discretion to make decisions based on the evidence before them.</p><p>Section 12 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 enables courts to make restraining orders at the conclusion of a case. These are civil orders; however, breach of an order is a criminal offence. The Crown Prosecution Service takes domestic abuse seriously and in 2017 in England and Wales 19,216 restraining orders were issued on conviction and 1,932 were issued on acquittal. The Government sees the response to domestic abuse as a top priority and is committed to securing justice for all victims.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 27/11/2018 16:10:18 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

62824

	registered interest
	date	19/06/2014
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Apprentices
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many apprentices have been hired under the Law Officers' Department's new contract for procurement.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	201525
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2014 answer text <p>The Law Officers' Departments do not hold any central records of the number of apprentices who may have been hired by its suppliers. To provide this information would involve contacting numerous companies and would therefore incur a disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Oliver Heald question first answered 26/06/2014 13:43:26 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

166952

	registered interest
	date	01/12/2014
	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	Affordable Housing
	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 he is taking to encourage the building of affordable housing; and how many affordable homes have been built in Essex since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	216636
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2014 answer text <p>Almost 217,000 affordable homes have been delivered in England since April 2010. Our Affordable Homes Programme is on track to deliver 170,000 new affordable homes between 2011 and 2015, with £19.5 billion of public and private funding. Over 144,000 homes have already been delivered</p><p> </p><p>This Government has demonstrated its continued commitment to the building of affordable housing. The Government’s National Infrastructure Plan announced an extension of affordable housing capital investment to 2018-19 and 2019-20, of £1.9 billion to ensure that an average 55,000 new affordable homes a year continue to be delivered. This will bring the delivery total to 275,000 across 2015-20. This means over the next Parliament we will build more new affordable homes than during any equivalent period in the last twenty years.</p><p> </p><p>Statistics on additional affordable housing, including both newly built housing and acquisitions, provided in each local authority area in England are published in the Department’s live tables 1006, 1006a, 1007 and 1008, which are available at the following link:</p><p><br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-affordable-housing-supply" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-affordable-housing-supply</a></p><p> </p><p>A table giving figures, by local authority, for affordable housing delivery in England between April 2010 and September 2014 is attached.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 08/12/2014 17:09:36 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis attachment 1 file name 216636 Halfon - Affordable Housing Delivery Table.xlsx title Affordable Housing Delivery Table
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

63202

	registered interest
	date	23/06/2014
	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	Housing: Harlow
	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 new homes have been built in Harlow constituency in each of the last 15 years.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	201699
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Statistics on house building completions in Harlow District are published in the Department's live table 253, which is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-house-building" target="_blank">http://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-house-building</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 26/06/2014 15:00:16 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

782664

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2017
	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	Retail Trade: Urban Areas
	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 has been spent on regeneration of town centres in England since 2010; and in which such towns.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	111103
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2017 answer text <p>This Government is committed to supporting the regeneration of our town centres.</p><p>We have confirmed the permanent doubling of Small Business Rate Relief, meaning that 600,000 small businesses now pay no business rates at all; we launched the High Street Pledge and a digital high street pilot scheme; and we are celebrating our high streets and town centres through the hugely successful Great British High Street Awards.</p><p>Since 2010, we have given over £18 million to towns – funding and upskilling local teams of people through the Town Team Programme, boosting struggling town centres with the High Streets Innovation Fund and launching successful initiatives such as “Love Your Local Market”.</p><p>Town centres have also benefited from funding that we have made available for local economic development, including the Coastal Communities Fund, which has invested over £132 million in 131 coastal projects across England since 2012. The Government has awarded £9.1 billion to Local Enterprise Partnerships in Growth Deals since 2014.</p><p>The Government is committed to communities establishing Business Improvement Districts and the positive impact they have on their local areas, including town centres.</p><p>We are working with Local Enterprise Partnerships to strengthen their role in town centres and coastal communities, and collaborating with the Local Government Association to assist local authorities in supporting their town centres.</p><p>Further information on the town centres supported may be found at - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/policies/high-streets-and-town-centres" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/policies/high-streets-and-town-centres</a></p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 09/11/2017 14:23:11 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

79221

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2014
	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	Travellers: Caravan Sites
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what powers his Department has made available to councils to deal with illegal Traveller sites; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	206832
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2014 answer text <p>Through the Localism Act we have strengthened enforcement measures, supporting local authorities to tackle unauthorised development by those who choose to ignore planning rules. These measures include powers to deal effectively with retrospective and misleading planning applications and an increase in the maximum fine for non-compliance with a notice requiring the conditions on planning permission to be met.</p><p>We have also lifted the previous Administration’s restrictions on the use of Temporary Stop Notices to enable councils to take early and effective action against unauthorised sites.</p><p>Our planning policy for traveller sites, issued in March 2012, removed the last Administration’s planning guidance (Circular 01/06) which restricted the ability of councils to initiate enforcement action. We are currently consulting on, amongst other matters, whether further improvements can be made to planning policy and guidance to deter intentional unauthorised occupation of land and to assist councils faced with large unauthorised developments.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/planning-and-travellers-proposed-changes-to-planning-policy-and-guidance" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/planning-and-travellers-proposed-changes-to-planning-policy-and-guidance</a></p><p>There are a range of powers available to deal with unauthorised sites and encampments. We have reviewed those powers and in August 2013 sent all council leaders updated guidance, reminding them to act swiftly against unauthorised occupation of public and private land. This was published on our website at: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dealing-with-illegal-and-unauthorised-encampments-a-summary-of-available-powers" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/dealing-with-illegal-and-unauthorised-encampments-a-summary-of-available-powers</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 18/09/2014 16:18:30 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

91918

	registered interest
	date	26/09/2014
	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	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, what proportion of completed new houses were built on brownfield land in the latest period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	209511
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2014 answer text <p>The proportion of new dwellings in England built on previously-developed land can be found in Table P211 of the Live Tables on Land Use Change Statistics, which is available from:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-land-use-change-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-land-use-change-statistics</a></p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 14/10/2014 16:08:33 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

993624

	registered interest
	date	23/10/2018
	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	Estate Agents: Disclosure of Information
	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 estate agents are required to disclose the criminal convictions of a previous occupant of a property to a potential new occupant.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	182744
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2018 answer text <p>National Trading Standards Estate Agency Team have published guidance in this area. It would depend on the type, seriousness and age of the convictions. The estate agent would need to determine whether the conviction would have a material impact on the purchaser's future in the property. For example, would they have paid the asking price, or bought the property in the first place had they known.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 26/10/2018 13:19:17 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon