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750535

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date	11/07/2017
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	Troubled Families Programme
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth on 20 March (HL 5929), (1) how many local authorities, through the Troubled Families Programme, have included within their aims (where appropriate) the prevention of parents' relationship instability, and (2) what plans they have to ensure that the Troubled Families Programme takes into account the findings set out in Improving lives: Helping Working Families on the impact of parental worklessness, and associated conflict, on families.
tabling member printed	Lord Farmer
uin	HL667
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>We do not routinely collect information about how many local Troubled Families programmes include the prevention of parents' relationship instability. My department is working closely with the Department for Work and Pensions to help local authorities delivering the Troubled Families Programme do more to tackle worklessness and parental conflict.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 19/07/2017 15:28:20 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	4321 label Biography information for Lord Farmer

748873

registered interest
date	05/07/2017
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	Sex and Relationship Education
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government whether they plan to audit the emergency plans of local authorities to ensure that they are up–to–date and robust.
tabling member printed	Lord Shipley
uin	HL536
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government currently does not plan to audit local authorities’ emergency plans. Local authorities, as category 1 responders under the Civil Contingency Act 2004, are subject to the full set of civil protection duties and are best placed to develop appropriate emergency plans based on local risks and needs.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 19/07/2017 16:14:24 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	4176 label Biography information for Lord Shipley

748876

registered interest
date	05/07/2017
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	Peat
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the costs and benefits of implementing paragraphs 4A and 4B of Schedule 1 of the Building Act 1984, as amended by the Sustainable and Secure Buildings Act 2004, in the light of emerging findings relating to the Grenfell Tower fire.
tabling member printed	Lord Stunell
uin	HL539
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>Paragraph 4A of Schedule 1 to the Building Act 1984 has been used a number of times to authorise the operation of competent person schemes through amendments to the Building Regulations. Each time it has been used the Department has published an impact assessment setting out the costs and benefits of the additional authorisations.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 19/07/2017 15:09:15 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	445 label Biography information for Lord Stunell

748877

registered interest
date	05/07/2017
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	Neighbourhood Plans
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government what budgetary provision has been made for grants to Neighbourhood Forums in the year 2018–19, and what distribution mechanism will be used.
tabling member printed	Lord Stunell
uin	HL540
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government’s Housing White Paper, Fixing our Broken Housing Market, commits to further funding for neighbourhood planning groups after 2018 so they can access the additional support they might need. Details of the funding arrangements will be announced in due course.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 19/07/2017 15:08:50 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	445 label Biography information for Lord Stunell

747385

registered interest
date	03/07/2017
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
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth on 31 October 2016 (HL2373) which stated that, since the last full review of Part B (Fire safety) of the Building Regulations for England in 2006 an impact assessment of subsequent changes to the governance has only been conducted in 2013, whether they will consider the economic and societal impacts of fire when drafting the fire safety provisions of the Building Regulations (Approved document B), given that the Building Act 1984 and the Sustainable and Secure Building Act 2004 allow for regulations covering the design, construction and fittings of buildings to include the health, safety and welfare of persons in the building.
tabling member printed	Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town
uin	HL349
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>Changes to the Building Regulations or associated Approved Documents are accompanied by an impact assessment as a matter of course. Including assessment of economic and where relevant, social cost and benefits.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 19/07/2017 15:27:24 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	4159 label Biography information for Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

747386

registered interest
date	03/07/2017
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
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth on 31 October (HL2374) that they have made no estimate of the economic and environmental costs of fires in domestic buildings, and in the light of the Grenfell Tower fire, whether they will now estimate these costs.
tabling member printed	Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town
uin	HL350
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>There will be wide ranging reviews of the wider issues emerging from the Grenfell Tower fire, including a public inquiry.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 19/07/2017 15:28:44 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	4159 label Biography information for Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

747410

registered interest
date	03/07/2017
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
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government whether they have assessed the extent to which the Department for Communities and Local Government Approved Document B, which sets down the functional requirements of fire safety, meets present day British Standards; and if not, why not.
tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
uin	HL374
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>Neither Approved Document B nor any other Approved Documents are designed to meet British Standards. Rather, Approved Document B points to British Standards as a means by which its requirements might be met.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 19/07/2017 15:27:48 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark