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1179642

registered interest
date	24/02/2020
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of Government funding for local authorities in England.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Withington
tabling member printed	Jeff Smith
uin	900885
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2020 answer text <p>The Government has responded to the pressures councils are facing. The settlement provides access to an estimated 4.4 per cent increase in core spending power; the largest year on year increase in a decade, with a further £1.5 billion to fund adult and children’s social care.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 24/02/2020 16:26:00 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	4456 label Biography information for Jeff Smith

1178938

registered interest
date	21/02/2020
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: Business Rates
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 he plans to bring forward legislative proposals in respect of the non-domestic rating of public lavatories in Parliament 2019.
tabling member constituency	North East Bedfordshire
tabling member printed	Richard Fuller
uin	18506
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2020 answer text <p>The Government recognises that public toilets are valuable community amenities. Primary legislation would be required to provide business rates relief for those public toilets owned by principal local authorities and parish councils, as currently such bodies cannot have their rates bills reduced through reliefs. The Non-Domestic Rating (Lavatories) Bill, which would have enabled this, fell when the last Parliament was dissolved. The Government will consider reintroducing the measure in due course.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 02/03/2020 17:33:49 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	3912 label Biography information for Richard Fuller

1178943

registered interest
date	21/02/2020
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	Help to Buy Scheme: North East Bedfordshire
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 homes have been purchased through the Help to Buy scheme in North East Bedfordshire constituency in each of the last six years.
tabling member constituency	North East Bedfordshire
tabling member printed	Richard Fuller
uin	18511
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2020 answer text <p>The number of homes purchased through the Help to Buy: Equity Loan scheme in North East Bedfordshire in each of the last six years are in the table below. Data for 2019 is not included as it is not complete.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Total number of homes</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>77</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>211</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>248</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>356</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>452</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>399</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 27/02/2020 17:31:14 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	3912 label Biography information for Richard Fuller

1178971

registered interest
date	21/02/2020
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	Business Rates
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 assessment the Government has made of the effect on regional disparities of the proposed move to 100 per cent business rate retention.
tabling member constituency	Leicester East
tabling member printed	Claudia Webbe
uin	18883
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2020 answer text <p>The Government is continuing to work with the sector on the aim to increase retention of locally retained business rates from 50 per cent to 75 per cent from April 2021. The current Local Government Finance system has measures in place to ensure that funds are distributed according to assessed relative needs. Ensuring that the system continues to provide incentives for local growth, while ensuring funding appropriately matches spending needs, is an important objective for the Government.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 02/03/2020 17:34:20 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	4848 label Biography information for Claudia Webbe

1178972

registered interest
date	21/02/2020
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	Business Rates: Leicester
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 discussions he has had with local authority leaders on the effect on Leicester City Council’s budget of (a) the 75 per cent business rate retention pilot and (b) 100 per cent business rate retention.
tabling member constituency	Leicester East
tabling member printed	Claudia Webbe
uin	18884
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2020 answer text <p>Local authorities taking part in the 2019-20 one year business rates retention pilot programme retain an additional level of growth in business rates compared to other authorities. These areas have flexibility over how they spend this additional income. These pilot areas have provided us with useful information which will help inform the future direction of business rates retention reform. There will be no further pilots in 2020-21.</p><p>The Government is continuing to work with the sector on the aim to increase retention of locally retained business rates from 50 per cent to 75 per cent from April 2021. This would give local authorities greater control over locally raised taxes. We are continuing to work collaboratively with the local government sector on the future direction of reform.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 02/03/2020 17:35:53 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	4848 label Biography information for Claudia Webbe

1178973

registered interest
date	21/02/2020
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 Services: Leicester
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 support his Department is providing to meet the demand for social care in Leicester.
tabling member constituency	Leicester East
tabling member printed	Claudia Webbe
uin	18885
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2020 answer text <p>The Government has recognised and responded to the pressures local authorities are facing on social care and other frontline services: the Local Government Finance Settlement for 2020-21 gives them access to the largest year-on-year increase in Core Spending Power (CSP) for almost a decade, an estimated 4.4 per cent real terms increase. <br> <br> This includes an additional £1 billion in grant funding for adult and children’s social care, £10 million of which has been allocated to Leicester City Council. This is on top of the continuation of existing social care grant funding, and the 2 per cent Adult Social Care precept which will enable councils to access a further £500 million. Longer term funding decisions will be made at the next Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 02/03/2020 17:35:19 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	4848 label Biography information for Claudia Webbe

1179071

registered interest
date	21/02/2020
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: Milton Keynes
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 his housebuilding target is for Milton Keynes; and what the timescale is for that target to be met.
tabling member constituency	Milton Keynes North
tabling member printed	Ben Everitt
uin	18922
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2020 answer text <p>The Government does not set targets for housebuilding. It is for local authorities to identify their housing targets, in light of national policy and guidance. In the case of Milton Keynes, this is set out in their current local plan (adopted in March 2019).</p><p>The Housing Delivery Test, measures local authority performance against these locally set targets. Local authorities are rising to the challenge, and the Government publishes these results annually. The 2019 measurement shows that nearly two thirds of authorities have delivered the numbers of homes their communities need.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 27/02/2020 16:46:21 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4836 label Biography information for Ben Everitt

1179094

registered interest
date	21/02/2020
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	Parking: Fees and Charges
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 he has plans to bring forward legislative proposals to require surplus off-street parking revenue to be used in the same way as surplus on-street parking revenue.
tabling member constituency	Stevenage
tabling member printed	Stephen McPartland
uin	18674
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2020 answer text <p>Local authorities currently have strict controls over what they may spend any additional parking income on. Parking should be self-funding but local authorities must ensure that any surplus income from penalty charges (whether issued for on-street or off-street contraventions) plus any revenue from on-street parking fees and charges is used for legitimate purposes as prescribed in Section 55 (as amended) of the Road Traffic Regulations Act 1984.</p> answering member constituency Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland answering member printed Mr Simon Clarke question first answered 02/03/2020 16:25:36 answering member 4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke
tabling member	4093 label Biography information for Stephen McPartland

1179119

registered interest
date	21/02/2020
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	Building Regulations: Fire Prevention
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 it is his Department's policy that the revised scope of Approved Document B of the building regulations will include property protection.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	18681
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2020 answer text <p>As identified in the call for evidence (para 15 and 16), published in December 2018, the Department intends to assess the scope of the fire safety requirements of the building regulations including the need for property protection objectives as part of the technical review of Approved Document B of the building regulations. The Department will be setting out its intention shortly.</p><p>The call for evidence and a summary of the responses to the call for evidence are available at the following:</p><p><a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fconsultations%2Ftechnical-review-of-approved-document-b-of-the-building-regulations-a-call-for-evidence&amp;data=02%7C01%7CWilliam.Richardson%40communities.gov.uk%7Caa30c170be054d24113708d7b9f66666%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637182340234909815&amp;sdata=oV3W3X9taCpnv5a1FbzT8Bdn7KKSLGJMvwnsnYrixic%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/technical-review-of-approved-document-b-of-the-building-regulations-a-call-for-evidence</a>.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher grouped question UIN 18683 question first answered 27/02/2020 17:17:03 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1179120

registered interest
date	21/02/2020
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	Buildings: Insulation
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 plans to take to ensure that cladding does not prevent leaseholders living in buildings below 18 metres in height from selling their properties.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	18682
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2020 answer text <p>Government will continue to support the industry to refine the process for valuing buildings with cladding.  Building owners must be forthcoming with any information on the cladding used, responding promptly to residents and valuer enquiries.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 27/02/2020 17:02:24 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed