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923037

	registered interest
	date	13/06/2018
	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	What steps his Department is taking to ensure fairness in the allocation of funding to local government.
	tabling member constituency	Clacton
	tabling member printed	Giles Watling
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	905895
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2018 answer text <p>We are undertaking a Fair Funding Review of local authorities’ relative needs and resources to address concerns about the fairness of the current system.</p><p>We are making good progress, in collaboration with the sector, in order to introduce a simpler, fair and transparent funding formula.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 18/06/2018 14:40:11 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
	tabling member	4677 label Biography information for Giles Watling

1022408

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2018
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What recent steps his Department has taken to support local government.
	tabling member constituency	Mid Worcestershire
	tabling member printed	Nigel Huddleston
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	908107
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2018 answer text <p>At the Autumn Budget the Government announced over £1 billion of extra funding for local authorities, this year and next, to help them deliver the services their communities need and support their most vulnerable residents.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 10/12/2018 16:38:55 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
	tabling member	4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston

818794

	registered interest
	date	08/01/2018
	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	English Language: Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans he has to publish a strategy for English as a Second Language provision in England.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol West
	tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	121558
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2018 answer text <p>The manifesto committed the Government to bring forward a new integration strategy, which will include proposals to teach more people to speak English. We are working closely with other government Departments, including the Department for Education, in preparing the integration strategy, which we will publish for consultation shortly.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak grouped question UIN 121784 question first answered 16/01/2018 17:57:30 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
	tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

818967

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2018
	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	Social Services: Telephone Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Department for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of response times for callers contacting local authority emergency social worker duty teams with suicidal thoughts.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	121644
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2018 answer text <p>Every local area is required to have a multi-agency suicide prevention plan in place to implement tailored approaches to reducing suicides in their communities. We expect multi-agency groups to include all relevant organisations and professionals who may come into contact with someone at risk of suicide such as social care services and social workers. Guidance published by Public Health England on developing suicide prevention plans, Local suicide prevention planning: A practice resource, sets out how local data collections are important in developing effective action plans to reduce suicides and that data should be collected across a wide range of services including social care: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/suicide-prevention-developing-a-local-action-plan" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/suicide-prevention-developing-a-local-action-plan</a></p><p>The Government launched the Mental Health Crisis Care Concordat in 2014 which has been signed by a wide range of organisations including the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, Association of Directors of Children’s Services and the College of Social Work. Every local area has a Mental Health Crisis Care Concordat action plan in place which should set out how local services such as health services, social services and the police should work together to respond to someone experiencing a mental health crisis.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 19/01/2018 13:35:04 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

856972

	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
	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 guidance he has issued to local authorities on the timescale for responding to correspondence from hon. Members on constituency casework.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	131484
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2018 answer text <p>How local authorities manage correspondence, from all sources, is a matter for local authorities.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 23/03/2018 16:19:15 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

901309

	registered interest
	date	10/05/2018
	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,whether his Department encourages the use of local authority reserves to pay for the delivery of local services.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	142796
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2018 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for managing their budgets in line with local priorities. They are free to determine the level of reserves they hold and are accountable to their electorate for the decisions they make.</p><p>Many local authorities have built up substantial reserves over recent years. It is right that they use them where necessary to protect high quality services for taxpayers.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak grouped question UIN 142795 question first answered 17/05/2018 14:22:30 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

868400

	registered interest
	date	21/03/2018
	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: Reorganisation
	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 written statement of 7 November 2017, Official Report, HCWS232 on Local Government Improvement, what public consultation preceded the policy announcement on the criteria against which further locally led merger proposals would be assessed.
	tabling member constituency	Christchurch
	tabling member printed	Sir Christopher Chope
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	133620
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2018 answer text <p>The Secretary of State’s written statement of 7 November (Official report HCWS232) indicated his intention, on which representations could be made, to assess any further locally led merger proposals received against the criteria which were the basis on which he had reached his “minded to” decision on the proposal from Suffolk Coastal and Waveney district councils. The Secretary of State has, to date, assessed all further such proposals against these criteria, having had regard to all the relevant information and representations available to him.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 26/03/2018 15:01:40 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
	tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

838501

	registered interest
	date	07/02/2018
	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, with reference to the section 114 notice brought in by Northamptonshire County Council, what assessment he has made of whether other local authorities face similar financial risks in (a) the 2017-18 financial year and (b) 2018-19.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
	tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	127321
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2018 answer text <p>Local authorities are independent of central government, and circumstances within an individual authority can change. Every statutory finance officer within each council must make their own determination whether to act to restrain unaffordable spending if they deem the situation requires it.</p><p>However, the Department constantly reviews the challenges facing the sector and individual authorities. In our discussions with councils during the consultation on the provisional finance settlement no authorities have raised concerns of this kind.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 20/02/2018 11:39:52 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
	tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

927036

	registered interest
	date	19/06/2018
	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 Reduction Schemes
	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 review by Eric Ollerenshaw entitled Three Years On: An Independent Review of Local Council Tax Support Schemes, published in 2016, whether his Department has issued guidance to local authorities to collect data on the effect of their local council tax support schemes as by that review.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	155396
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>The Government has not issued guidance to local authorities to collect data on the effect of their council tax reduction schemes.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 25/06/2018 16:29:01 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

926760

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2018
	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	Mental Health: Alcoholic Drinks
	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 report, Alcohol and Mental Health: Policy and Practice in England, published by the Institute of Alcohol Studies and Centre for Mental Health in April 2018, what assessment he has made of the relevance for his Department's policies of the gaps in the provision of services for those with co-morbid alcohol use and mental health difficulties identified by that report.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	154692
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2018 answer text <p>I refer the Hon Member to the answer given by my Hon Friend, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Public Health and Primary Care, to Question UIN 146211, on 24 May 2018.</p><p><br></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 21/06/2018 16:12:30 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger