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895256

registered interest
date	01/05/2018
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 Revenue Accounts
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 restrictions he places on the type of housing that is included in local authorities' housing revenue accounts.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	139954
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2018 answer text <p>The type of housing that is included in local authorities' housing revenue accounts is prescribed by the terms of Section 74 of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 08/05/2018 16:37:06 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

895305

registered interest
date	01/05/2018
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, with reference to the oral evidence given by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the Treasury Committee on 25 April 2018, on the work of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will break down the £23 billion in reserves held by local authorities and identify the proportion of those reserves that are unearmarked or not ring-fenced.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	140087
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2018 answer text <p>Of the £23.1 billion in revenue reserves held by English local authorities as of 31 March 2017, non-ringfenced reserves make up £21.0 billion and have increased by 47 per cent since 31 March 2011.</p><p>Of this, unallocated reserves amount to around £4.2 billion. It is for individual local authorities to decide on the level of unearmaked reserves that they should hold, based on their known financial commitments and risk appetite.</p><p>Reserves data is published in Table 7 as part of MHCLG’s Local Authority Revenue Expenditure and Financing:2016-17 Final Outturn, England data publication.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 08/05/2018 16:06:00 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

894657

registered interest
date	30/04/2018
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	Antisemitism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps his Department is taking to tackle antisemitism.
tabling member constituency	Orkney and Shetland
tabling member printed	Mr Alistair Carmichael
uin	905038
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2018 answer text <p>Anti-semitism must be understood for what it is – racism against Jewish people. There can be no excuses for anti-semitism. My Department has led the way across government in tackling anti-semitism, as my Rt Hon Friend, Sajid Javid, highlighted in this House on 17 April. This requires actions, not just words, as this government is doing.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 30/04/2018 16:50:42 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1442 label Biography information for Mr Alistair Carmichael

894658

registered interest
date	30/04/2018
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: Construction
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps his Department is taking to reduce the time taken to build new homes.
tabling member constituency	Sittingbourne and Sheppey
tabling member printed	Gordon Henderson
uin	905040
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2018 answer text <p>New homes should be built out as soon as possible once planning permission is granted. Under this Government, new house building starts are at their highest levels for nine years – we are building on progress by revising the National Planning Policy Framework, diversifying the market to increase the pace of development, and have commissioned my Rt Hon Friend, the member for West Dorset, to lead a review of build out rates.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 30/04/2018 16:45:13 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	4050 label Biography information for Gordon Henderson

894659

registered interest
date	30/04/2018
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	Leasehold: Unfair Practices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps his Department is taking to tackle unfair practices in the leasehold system.
tabling member constituency	Hazel Grove
tabling member printed	Mr William Wragg
uin	905044
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2018 answer text <p>We are committed to tackling unfair leasehold practices, which is why we are working with the Law Commission to make buying your freehold or extending your lease easier, faster, fairer and cheaper.</p><p> </p><p>We want to ensure leaseholders have the right support to deal with onerous ground rent and will consider further action if developer’s schemes to compensate individuals don’t go far enough.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 30/04/2018 16:20:48 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	4429 label Biography information for Mr William Wragg

894794

registered interest
date	30/04/2018
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	Temporary Accommodation
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 27 April 2018 to Question 137467, on Temporary Accommodation, how much of the £100 million programme for low-cost move on accommodation to enable people leaving hostels and refuges to make a sustainable recovery from a homelessness crisis into independent living has been allocated to each local authority area.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
uin	139392
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2018 answer text <p>We are carefully considering the design of the programme outside of London, including allocation of the remaining funding, to ensure strategic alignment with the Rough Sleeping Strategy, which we will publish in July.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 03/05/2018 09:38:51 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

894836

registered interest
date	30/04/2018
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: Staffordshire
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 (a) he and (b) officials of his Department have had with (i) Stoke-on-Trent City Council, (ii) Staffordshire County Council, (iii) Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council, (iv) Staffordshire Moorlands District Council and (v) Stafford Borough Council on local government reorganisation in Staffordshire.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent Central
tabling member printed	Gareth Snell
uin	139576
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2018 answer text <p>Whilst Ministers and officials regularly have discussions with councils, including those in Staffordshire, on a wide range of issues that may include local government reorganisation, no specific discussions on reorganisation have been held during this Parliament with Stoke-on-Trent City Council, Staffordshire County Council, Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council, Staffordshire Moorlands District Council or Stafford Borough Council.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 03/05/2018 14:56:56 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4595 label Biography information for Gareth Snell

894897

registered interest
date	30/04/2018
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	EU Grants and Loans
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 the (a) the Secretary of State for Wales and (b) Welsh Government on the design and implementation of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Arfon
tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
uin	139401
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2018 answer text <p>The Government continues to work on the design and priorities of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF). We will consult with the Devolved Administrations in due course regarding how the UKSPF might work in their nations, recognising their expertise in delivering the structural funds.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 03/05/2018 12:55:35 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

892283

registered interest
date	26/04/2018
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, with reference to Questions 245 to 259 of his evidence to the Treasury Committee on 25 April 2018 on local authorities, how he defines the term at risk to categorise that level of financial sustainability of local authorities in England; what terms other than at risk he uses to categorise the levels of financial sustainability of local authorities in England; and how many local authorities in England have been defined as (a) at risk and (b) any other level he uses to categorise levels of financial sustainability.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	138439
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2018 answer text <p>MHCLG has processes in place to provide assurance about the sustainability of individual local authorities. We consider a range of information about individual authorities in order to form judgements about the potential challenges they may face.</p><p>While important, finance is often not the determining factor in an authority’s ability to deliver effective services, as noted for example in Max Caller’s independent inspection of Northamptonshire. The assessment made at a sector and individual level is nuanced, and therefore MHCLG does not place authorities into fixed categories.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 01/05/2018 12:32:45 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

892284

registered interest
date	26/04/2018
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, with reference to Questions 245 to 259 of his evidence to the Treasury Committee on 25 April 2018 on local authority funding, whether he has conducted a risk assessment of the (a) short-term and (b) long-term financial ability of local authorities to meet the need for local services.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	138440
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2018 answer text <p>MHCLG has processes in place to provide assurance about the sustainability of individual local authorities. We consider a range of information about individual authorities in order to form judgements about the potential challenges they may face.</p><p>As part of the 2018 local government finance settlement, this Government has also shown its commitment to supporting services by giving local authorities:</p><ul><li><p>the ability to increase their core Council Tax requirement by an additional one per cent without a local referendum; and</p></li><li><p>a further £150 million at final settlement for Adult Social Care in 2018-19 to support local care markets.</p></li></ul><p>In addition, the Government will undertake the next Spending Review in early 2019, so that budgets can be set out in advance for 2020 onwards.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak grouped question UIN 138443 question first answered 01/05/2018 12:32:09 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell