https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/employment-allowance-take-up-2014-to-2015-full-year-estimate<\/a><\/p> <\/p>
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At the Summer Budget 2015 the Chancellor announced the Employment Allowance will be rising from £2,000 to £3,000 from April 2016.<\/p>
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This Government is committed to increasing housing supply and home ownership. We have already made progress - housing completions in the quarter to March 2015 are up 21% on the same quarter in the previous year; starts on new homes in the year to March 2015 totalled 140,500, the highest annual total since 2007; and planning permissions were granted for 261,000 homes in the year to March 2015 \u2013 but there is more to be done.
This year we will introduce a Housing Bill to unlock brownfield land to build new homes; provide the framework to deliver starter homes and extend Right to Buy to housing association tenants.
We will help builders to build: Public sector land has already been released to deliver over 109,000 new homes and over 100,000 homes have been supported through the £1.3 billion Large Sites programme. Over this Parliament we have ambitions to release public sector land for 150,000 homes; kick-start development in 20 Housing Zones outside London, which with 8 other shortlisted sites has the potential to deliver up to 45,000 new homes; create a £1 billion Brownfield Fund; and provide capacity funding to support the development of new garden settlements. We will support small and medium sized enterprises through the Builders\u2019 Finance Fund (2015-17) and the £100 million Housing Growth Partnership with Lloyds Bank. We want to double the number of custom and self-built homes through \u2018Right to Build\u2019 and a £150 million fund for serviced plots.
Nearly 2 million households have been helped to realise aspirations to own their homes through Government-backed schemes. This Government will build 200,000 Starter Homes exclusively for first-time buyers under 40 years old, at a minimum of 20 per cent below open market value; extend Help to Buy Mortgages to 2020; and introduce a Help to Buy ISA to help people save for a deposit. Finally, we will give more people the chance to own their home by extending Right to Buy discounts to tenants of housing associations.<\/p>"}
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The Home Secretary regularly meets her French counterpart to discuss the current situation in Calais. The Home Secretary and French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve set out a number of commitments in a joint declaration, on 20 September 2014, to tackle problems at the port of Calais. This included £12 million from the UK Government to help reinforce security. We continue to work with the French Government to implement the practical solutions that have been agreed. On 2 July, the Home Secretary and the French Interior Minister reaffirmed the determination of both countries to strengthen and complete their joint strategy to deal with this common challenge, including by increasing the intervention fund to secure access to the Channel Tunnel.<\/p>
Driver safety is paramount; and it is in all our interests that goods are able to be transported to the UK secure against the harm that can be caused by clandestines. To that end the Home Secretary announced on 14 July the creation of a new secure buffer zone at the port of Calais for UK-bound lorries. This will provide a secure waiting area for 230 vehicles \u2013 the equivalent of removing a two-and-a-half mile queue from the approaching road.<\/p>"}
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Understanding the full cost to business would require a detailed analysis of their supply chains. This information can only be provided at disproportionate cost.<\/p>
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