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892297

	registered interest
	date	26/04/2018
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Attorney General: Plastics
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, what steps his Department has taken to reduce its use of single-use plastics.
	tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
	tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
	uin	138539
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2018 answer text <p>In our 25 year environment plan, the Government outlined a range of measures on how we will reduce the amount of plastic in circulation through reducing demand for single-use plastic. This included a commitment to removing all consumer single use plastics from the central government estate offices.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 03/05/2018 16:16:23 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

1005828

	registered interest
	date	12/11/2018
	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	Social Rented Housing: Mental Illness
	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 the Government is taking to ensure that the social housing system supports people with mental health problems.
	tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
	tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
	uin	190549
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2018 answer text <p>I refer the Hon Member to my answer to Question UIN 176245 on 11 October 2018.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 15/11/2018 09:33:47 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

767427

	registered interest
	date	09/10/2017
	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	Loneliness
	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 reduce loneliness in (a) England, (b) West Yorkshire, (c) Kirklees and (d) Colne Valley.
	tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
	tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
	uin	106750
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>Through our policies, including the Supported Housing programme and Disabled Facilities Grant programme, my department is helping those in society get the help and support they need to live independently and be part of their communities.</p><p>Our Near Neighbours, and Community-based English Language programmes will also help to reduce loneliness in target populations through their work.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 16/10/2017 15:50:12 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
	tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

767428

	registered interest
	date	09/10/2017
	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	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 steps he is taking to reduce homelessness in (a) England, (b) West Yorkshire, (c) Kirklees and (d) Colne Valley.
	tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
	tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
	uin	106751
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2017 answer text <p>This Government is committed to preventing and reducing homelessness in England. That is why we are aiming to halve rough sleeping by 2022 and eliminate it altogether by 2027. We will set up a rough sleeping and homelessness taskforce and pilot a Housing First approach to tackle rough sleeping.</p><p>We are implementing the most ambitious legislative reform in decades, the Homelessness Reduction Act, to prevent people becoming homeless in the first place by ensuring more people get the help they need earlier.</p><p>We are also investing over £550 million until 2020 to prevent and reduce homelessness and rough sleeping, including through our £50 million Homelessness Prevention Programme. This is supporting 84 projects working across England to deliver an end-to-end approach to homelessness prevention.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 17/10/2017 10:14:06 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
	tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

773918

	registered interest
	date	19/10/2017
	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	Social Services: Finance
	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 his Department has allocated to adult social care in (a) Kirklees, (b) West Yorkshire and (c) England in each of the last seven years.
	tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
	tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
	uin	108764
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2017 answer text <p>Local authorities' expenditure on services, including on Adult Social Care for previous years, can be found 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><br> <br> Councils have also been able to add a precept for adult social care onto their council tax, which most of them have done. <br> <br> Local authority expenditure is funded through a range of income sources including government grants, council tax, business rates and fees and charges. Many government grants are not ring-fenced, leaving local authorities to determine how much is spent on different services. <br> <br> However, the Government has provided specific funding to councils for adult social care in recent years, most noticeably through the improved Better Care Fund which was supplemented by the additional £2 billion announced at Spring Budget 2017. Details of individual council allocations of the Spring Budget funding can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-allocations-of-the-additional-funding-for-adult-social-care" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-allocations-of-the-additional-funding-for-adult-social-care</a><br> <br> Details of the original improved Better Care Fund allocations along with the potential revenue from the precept (as announced at SR15) can be found with core spending power tables published with the LGFS - <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/collections/final-local-government-finance-settlement-england-2017-to-2018" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/collections/final-local-government-finance-settlement-england-2017-to-2018</a>.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 24/10/2017 14:00:56 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
	tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

797433

	registered interest
	date	29/11/2017
	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	Refuges: Closures
	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 women’s refuges have closed in (a) Kirklees, (b) West Yorkshire and (c) England in each of the last 7 years.
	tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
	tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
	uin	116396
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2017 answer text <p>My Department does not hold information on refuge closures. We expect local areas to assess their need of services and support for victims of domestic abuse and to provide for that need, for this reason the Government has devolved power and responsibility accordingly.</p><p>In our Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy the Government committed to review the local approach to refuge provision, two years after the launch of the £20 million Fund (by November 2018). We have launched a tender for an audit of local authority commissioning of domestic abuse services, including refuge, which will inform our review.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 07/12/2017 12:17:37 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
	tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

805323

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2017
	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	Homelessness: Kirklees
	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 the £28 million funding for Housing First pilot schemes he plans to allocate to projects in the Kirklees local authority area.
	tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
	tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
	uin	118995
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2017 answer text <p>At Autumn Budget 2017, the Chancellor announced £28 million of funding to pilot the Housing First approach for some of the country’s most entrenched rough sleepers. The pilots will cover the West Midlands Combined Authority, Greater Manchester, and the Liverpool City Region.</p><p>This action builds on wider action that we have taken to achieve our manifesto commitment of halving rough sleeping by 2022 and eliminating it altogether by 2027. This includes:</p><ul><li><p>establishing the Rough Sleeping and Homelessness Reduction Taskforce, to drive forward the implementation of a cross-Government strategy;</p></li><li><p>allocating over £1 billion to prevent homelessness and rough sleeping through to 2020; and</p></li><li>implementing the most ambitious legislative reform in this area in decades: the Homelessness Reduction Act.</li></ul><p>The Department for Communities and Local Government publishes regular statistics on rough sleeping which are published at national, London and local authority level. The latest statistics can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/homelessness-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/homelessness-statistics</a></p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones grouped question UIN 118997 question first answered 20/12/2017 17:24:11 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
	tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

805325

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2017
	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	Sleeping Rough: Kirklees
	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 rough sleepers in the Kirklees local authority area in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
	tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
	uin	118997
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2017 answer text <p>At Autumn Budget 2017, the Chancellor announced £28 million of funding to pilot the Housing First approach for some of the country’s most entrenched rough sleepers. The pilots will cover the West Midlands Combined Authority, Greater Manchester, and the Liverpool City Region.</p><p>This action builds on wider action that we have taken to achieve our manifesto commitment of halving rough sleeping by 2022 and eliminating it altogether by 2027. This includes:</p><ul><li><p>establishing the Rough Sleeping and Homelessness Reduction Taskforce, to drive forward the implementation of a cross-Government strategy;</p></li><li><p>allocating over £1 billion to prevent homelessness and rough sleeping through to 2020; and</p></li><li>implementing the most ambitious legislative reform in this area in decades: the Homelessness Reduction Act.</li></ul><p>The Department for Communities and Local Government publishes regular statistics on rough sleeping which are published at national, London and local authority level. The latest statistics can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/homelessness-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/homelessness-statistics</a></p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones grouped question UIN 118995 question first answered 20/12/2017 17:24:12 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
	tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

831120

	registered interest
	date	26/01/2018
	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	Private Finance Initiative
	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 paragraph 1.25 of PFI and PF2, published by the NAO on 18 January 2018, HC 718, what plans his Department has to start recording data on the cost effectiveness of PFI deals.
	tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
	tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
	uin	125128
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2018 answer text <p>My Department supports Public Finance Initiatives (PFI) Housing and Joint Service Centre projects contracted directly by local authorities. The majority of PFI projects date back to 1999-2010 and no PFIs have been set up since 2014. They were subject to extensive value for money assessments before authorities entered into them and, in 2011, the Department ran a savings exercise on projects still within their procurement stage which identified over £531 million of savings over the lifetime of remaining projects.</p><p>All PFI projects are now operational and authorities are expected to continue to seek to improve the value for money of their projects wherever possible. The Department offers advice and support directly to individual local authorities and holds network events to share best practice between local authorities on making savings on its supported Housing and Joint Service Centre PFI projects.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 05/02/2018 14:14:58 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
	tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

887088

	registered interest
	date	19/04/2018
	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	Public Lavatories: Disability
	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 he is taking to monitor the compliance of organisations and companies with their duty to provide accessible toilets under Document M of the 2010 Buildings Regulations 2010; and if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of those provisions in respect of that duty.
	tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
	tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
	uin	136655
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2018 answer text <p>The Department itself does not monitor the compliance of organisations with Building Regulations' requirements. The responsibility for monitoring compliance with all aspects of the Building Regulations, including Part M, rests with the building control bodies - local authorities or approved inspectors. They cannot give a compliance certificate to building work until they are satisfied that all relevant requirements have been complied with.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 27/04/2018 11:08:21 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
	tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker