The government will continue to support rural communities, and has guaranteed structural and investment funds which are signed before we leave. These will be honoured for their lifetime, even after we have left the EU. The government has also guaranteed existing levels of CAP Pillar 1 funding across the UK until the end of the Multi-annual Financial Framework in 2020. This provides direct support to farmers, giving needed certainty while we develop a new British agricultural policy. I have written to each devolved administration to give a similar level of assurance to that offered to UK government departments.<\/p>
The government is considering how best to support the farming industry after our exit from the EU. Defra will shortly publish a Green Paper setting out our ambitions for food and farming. We will then work with the industry, rural communities and the wider public to shape our plans and future arrangements outside of the EU.<\/p>
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Many local churches across the country are closely involved in tackling indebtedness in their community. In September 2014 of the 1,812 clergy who responded to a Church Urban Fund social action survey, 22% said their church offered debt or money advice. This includes 306 Christians Against Poverty (CAP) debt centres and over 140 Community Money Advice centres, many of them run and/or hosted by Anglican churches. The report can be found here: www.cuf.org.uk/church-in-action-2015<\/a><\/p> At national level, the Archbishop of Canterbury\u2019s Just Finance Foundation has been set up by the Church of England and Church Urban Fund in order to implement his vision of a more just financial system. The JFF works with credit unions, churches, employers, schools and other community organisations to help strengthen the financial resilience of communities through financial education and improved access to responsible credit and savings opportunities and free debt advice services. Following successful pilots, the Just Finance Network and LifeSavers (school savings club) programme are being rolled out nationally.<\/p> <\/p> <\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the right hon. Member for Meriden, representing the Church Commissioners, what work the Church of England is undertaking to tackle indebtedness.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/674195/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " The assessment of the changes to affordable housing funding, including the availability of the funding for affordable homes for rent, was carried out as part of the Autumn Statement process. The fiscal impact of the changes on public finances was included as part of the OBR\u2019s policy costings for Autumn Statement 2016 which can be found at:<\/p> https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/571402/Policy_Costings_AS_2016_web_final.pdf<\/a><\/p> Affordable Rent was introduced in 2011 to maximise taxpayers\u2019 money, providing more homes for every pound of Government investment, so more people in housing need can have access to a good quality home at a sub-market rent. An Impact Assessment was carried out when the policy was introduced, and is publicly available at:<\/p> https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/6021/1918816.pdf<\/a><\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department made of the potential merits of funding homes for social rent in advance of the publication of the Shared Ownership and Affordable Homes Programme 2016 to 2021: Addendum to the Prospectus, published in January 2017; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the modelling, workings and data on which that assessment was based.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much capital has been spent on social housing in (a) Leeds East constituency, (b) Leeds, (c) West Yorkshire and (d) the UK in each year since 2010.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/674197/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " The Department\u2019s latest English Housing Survey provides information on the rates of home ownership in England. In 2014/15, home ownership stood at 64%. The Department does not provide a breakdown of the rates of home ownership by regions or constituencies. The Survey is available through the following link:<\/p>
<\/a>
Government is investing £9.4 billion to deliver over 400,000 affordable housing starts by March 2021 - the largest housing programme by any Government since the 1970s.<\/p>