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861129

registered interest
date	13/03/2018
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	Local Government: Elections
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will permit people running in local council elections to put their electoral ward as their address for personnel security reasons.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	132278
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2018 answer text <p>In its Response (Cm9578) published on the 14 March 2018, to the Committee on Standards in Public Life Review of Intimidation in Public Life, the Government accepts the Committee’s recommendation to remove the requirement for candidates standing as local councillors to have their home address published on the ballot paper, and will look to bring forward secondary legislation to achieve this at a suitable opportunity with the aim of effecting this change in time for the 2019 local elections. The intention is for this secondary legislation to replace the requirement for a specific address with an option to include a statement of residence based on an electoral area where the candidate lives.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 16/03/2018 14:20:50 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

861282

registered interest
date	13/03/2018
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	Troubled Families Programme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many local troubled family co-ordinators there were working as part of the Troubled Families Programme in each year from 2012 to 2017.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	132431
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2018 answer text <p>Councils participating in the Troubled Families programme are required to dedicate sufficient coordination and analytical resource to delivering the programme locally.</p><p>In every year from 2012 to 2017 there has been a Troubled Families coordinator in each of 150 upper-tier councils participating in the Troubled Families Programme.</p><p>In addition to Troubled Families Coordinators who are responsible for the local implementation of the Troubled Families programme, there are also Troubled Families Employment Advisers, specialist data analysts and family key workers in every upper-tier local council who support delivery of the programme. A wide range of other specialist support will also be commissioned or called upon to provide support for families when they need it.</p><p> </p><p /><p /> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 16/03/2018 14:18:42 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

856996

registered interest
date	07/03/2018
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	Council Tax: Empty Property
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 the timetable is for measures to allow councils to charge a 100 per cent council tax premium on empty homes will come into force.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	131508
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2018 answer text <p>The Government has confirmed that it will bring forward measures to double the 50 per cent cap on the council tax empty homes premium to allow local authorities to strengthen the incentive for owners of long-term empty properties to bring them back into use. This will require amendments to primary legislation. We will introduce the necessary legislation as soon as possible.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 12/03/2018 17:48:56 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

857055

registered interest
date	07/03/2018
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	Housing: Dorset
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 5 March to Question 130546, if he will place in the Library a copy of the evidence to which he has had regard of the extent to which the area as a whole is currently meeting its housing needs.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Sir Christopher Chope
uin	131567
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2018 answer text <p>I will place in the Library of the House a copy of the evidence to which the Secretary of State had regard, which is drawn from published data on net additional dwelling statistics available at <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/collections/net-supply-of-housing" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/collections/net-supply-of-housing</a> and on the levels of housing need in area, available at <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/planning-for-the-right-homes-in-the-right-places-consultation-proposals" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/consultations/planning-for-the-right-homes-in-the-right-places-consultation-proposals</a>.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 12/03/2018 17:46:53 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

857062

registered interest
date	07/03/2018
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	Local Government: Dorset
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 5 March to Question 130545 on Local Government: Dorset, whether the financial estimates to which he referred in his Answer have been adjusted since their production to take account of (a) changes in Government policy and (b) savings made between August 2016 and 8 January 2018.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Sir Christopher Chope
uin	131574
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2018 answer text <p>Whilst the financial estimates in the Dorset councils’ proposal have not been adjusted since their production, the representations received from councils, and which I have placed in the Library of the House, set out the councils’ views of the impact of changes in circumstances on the case for the unitary proposal.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 12/03/2018 17:47:42 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

857063

registered interest
date	07/03/2018
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	Local Government: Dorset
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 5 March to Question 130265 on Local Government: Dorset, to what extent local consent changed among the (a) citizens of Christchurch and (b) their elected councillors between 7 November 2017 and 8 January 2018.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Sir Christopher Chope
uin	131575
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2018 answer text <p>The issue of consent is a matter for each council, and as I set out in my answer to Question UIN 130265, since 7 November two councils have withdrawn their opposition to the proposal. This means that across the whole of Dorset nearly 80 per cent of councillors are now in favour of the proposal.</p><p>As to the level of support for the Dorset unitary proposal from the citizens and elected councillors of Christchurch, this has shown no evidence of significant change.</p><p>The representative household survey which formed part of the public consultation undertaken by all nine Dorset councils in 2016 showed that across the whole area 65 per cent of the public support the proposal and there was an absolute majority of respondents to the open consultation questionnaire in support of the proposal. The same open questionnaire also showed that 57 per cent of respondents in Christchurch opposed the proposal. In the local advisory poll that Christchurch undertook in November and December 2017, 84 per cent of a 54 per cent turnout opposed the proposal – equivalent to 45 per cent of the electorate.</p><p>In Christchurch, in January 2017 eight councillors supported the proposal, and in January 2018 eight councillors made representations in support of the proposal.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 12/03/2018 17:46:09 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

857067

registered interest
date	07/03/2018
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	Council Tax: Dorset
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 5 March 2018 to Question 130267 on Council Tax: Dorset, when he plans to publish his decision on the latest date by which new unitary authorities in Dorset must equalise council tax over the whole of that unitary authority area; and if he will make his decision provisional and subject to consultation against criteria set out in his answer.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Sir Christopher Chope
uin	131579
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2018 answer text <p>All Dorset councils are currently working together to develop council tax harmonisation proposals through their Joint Committees and may make representations to the Secretary of State as to any approach they might wish him to take.</p><p>Thereafter the Secretary of State intends to bring forward before the Summer Recess secondary legislation on council tax harmonisation, having regard to local preference, and to the other matters indicated in my answer to Question UIN 130267 on 5 March 2017.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 12/03/2018 17:48:27 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

857086

registered interest
date	07/03/2018
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	Local Government: 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, pursuant to the Answer of 1 March 2018 to Question 129890, and the Answers of 5 March 2018 to Questions 130263, 130547 and 130266, for what reason none of that material had been placed in the House of Commons Library as of 4pm on 7 March 2018; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Sir Christopher Chope
uin	131598
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2018 answer text <p>The responses from Dorset councils referred to in Question UIN 129890 and Question UIN 130547 have been placed in the Library of the House. With regard to the material referred to in Question UIN 130263 and Question UIN 130266 my officials are checking the responses to ensure we do not disclose sensitive personal information and once that has been done, copies will be placed in the Library of the House.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 12/03/2018 17:50:21 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

852659

registered interest
date	01/03/2018
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	Local Government: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 15 January 2018 to Question 120654, on Local Government: Training, what direct funding his Department offers for training for (a) leaders of local authorities and (b) local authority cabinet members; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	130655
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2018 answer text <p>Through Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government grant funding, the Local Government Association (LGA) provides broad support to the local government sector, including training and support for members and officers, and policy briefings.</p><p>This includes: one-to-one mentoring for elected Leaders and Cabinet Members by other member peers, elected members attending LGA Leadership Academy programmes, and corporate peer challenges.</p><p>Corporate peer challenges involve a team of senior members and officers from other areas spending time in a council to review and challenge an aspect of its activity.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 07/03/2018 15:29:16 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

851616

registered interest
date	28/02/2018
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	Local Government Finance
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 his Department has issued instructions to local authorities to build up reserves.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	130379
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2018 answer text <p>Councils are free to determine the level of reserves they hold and are accountable to their electorate for the decisions they make. They are required by statute to hold a level of unallocated reserves commensurate with sound financial risk management.</p><p>No specific instructions have been issued to local authorities in relation to building up their reserves. Nor is there any national guidance on the minimum or maximum level of reserves, either as an absolute amount or as a percentage of the budget. To ensure prudent management, some authorities will maintain reserves at higher levels than others</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 07/03/2018 15:30:01 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell