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1147740

	registered interest
	date	02/10/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Treasury: Brexit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much his Department budgeted to support (a) other Government departments and (b) the Government’s arms-length agencies in preparation for the UK leaving the EU without a deal in each financial year since 2016-17.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	293645
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/10/2019 answer text <p>The government has provided: over £4.2bn of additional funding from 2016 to the present financial year (2019-20) for departments and devolved administrations to prepare for all EU exit scenarios (a breakdown of these allocations can be found in Table E.6 (page 77) of HM Treasury’s 2018 Annual Statement on European Finances); a further £2bn for the 2020-21 financial year, announced at Spending Round 2019.</p><p> </p><p>For no-deal preparations specifically the Chancellor also: made £2.1bn available on 1 August 2019 for this financial year (2019-20); confirmed the HMG Guarantee on 30 September 2019, which would apply if the UK leaves the EU without a deal and should the EU cease to fund UK organisations after EU exit. This guarantee relates to UK organisations in receipt of certain EU programme funding. The total amount expected to be covered by the guarantee would be £4.3bn for this financial year.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 07/10/2019 12:53:18 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

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
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	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

967763

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2018
	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	Public Health: 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, for what reason public health provision was excluded from Fair Funding Review, published by his Department on 19 December 2017.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	170384
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>The Government is conducting a review of the relative needs and resources of local authorities in England, with a view to setting fresh baseline funding levels in 2020-21. We are working closely with local government representatives and others to consider the drivers of local authorities’ costs, the local resources available to them to fund local services, and how we should account for these in a way that draws a more transparent and understandable link between local circumstances and resource allocations.</p><p>Alongside the provisional local government finance settlement in December 2017, the Government announced its intention to work towards implementing the next phase of business rates retention reforms in 2020-21. This announcement coincided with the publication of a consultation, which set out our proposed approach to the review.</p><p>Whilst the work of the review has focussed initially on the services that are currently funded through the local government finance settlement, we will consider any additional responsibilities that are devolved to local government as a result of business rates retention on a case-by-case basis. We aim to publish a further consultation later this year.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak grouped question UIN 170385 question first answered 11/09/2018 15:03:54 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

967764

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2018
	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	Public Health: 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, what criteria his Department plans to use to calculate public health funding in relation to the roll-out of Business Rates Retention in 2020-21.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	170385
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>The Government is conducting a review of the relative needs and resources of local authorities in England, with a view to setting fresh baseline funding levels in 2020-21. We are working closely with local government representatives and others to consider the drivers of local authorities’ costs, the local resources available to them to fund local services, and how we should account for these in a way that draws a more transparent and understandable link between local circumstances and resource allocations.</p><p>Alongside the provisional local government finance settlement in December 2017, the Government announced its intention to work towards implementing the next phase of business rates retention reforms in 2020-21. This announcement coincided with the publication of a consultation, which set out our proposed approach to the review.</p><p>Whilst the work of the review has focussed initially on the services that are currently funded through the local government finance settlement, we will consider any additional responsibilities that are devolved to local government as a result of business rates retention on a case-by-case basis. We aim to publish a further consultation later this year.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak grouped question UIN 170384 question first answered 11/09/2018 15:03:54 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1129843

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2019
	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
	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 holds records on the number of public toilets in (a) England and (b) Wolverhampton.
	tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
	tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	259976
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2019 answer text <p>The Department does not hold data on the number of public toilets in England. Whilst the provision of public toilets is a matter for local authorities, we encourage councils to keep these important amenities open. At Budget 2018 the Chancellor announced a 100 per cent business rates relief for public lavatories in England, and the Government will introduce legislation as soon as Parliamentary time allows. In addition the Department recently launched a consultation proposing changes to Building Regulations to create more Changing Places toilets for severely disabled people.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 10/06/2019 16:25:56 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
	tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds

987826

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2018
	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: Wolverhampton
	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 total central government grant to City of Wolverhampton Council has been in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
	tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	179208
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2018 answer text <p>The totals of each local authority’s source of finance, including grants from central government, are reported in their General Fund Revenue Account outturn and capital account outturn returns to MHCLG.</p><p>These can be found for the years requested via following the links to individual local authority data from <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-capital-expenditure-receipts-and-financing" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-capital-expenditure-receipts-and-financing</a> (‘RS revenue outturn summary’ data table) and from <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-capital-expenditure-receipts-and-financing" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-capital-expenditure-receipts-and-financing</a> (Table 'B. Resources used to finance capital expenditure' in the ‘COR4’ data table).</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 18/10/2018 13:14:49 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
	tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds

1169006

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2020
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Broadband: Rural Areas
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What fiscal steps he is taking to improve broadband connections in rural communities.
	tabling member constituency	Witney
	tabling member printed	Robert Courts
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	900057
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2020 answer text <p>We want to deliver gigabit-capable broadband across the country as soon as possible.</p><p> </p><p>We have already committed over £1 billion to support the rollout of next-generation digital infrastructure, and, at Conference, the Chancellor announced an ambition to invest £5bn to support gigabit broadband rollout in the hardest to reach areas.</p><p> </p><p>We will set out further details of our approach in our National Infrastructure Strategy later this year.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak grouped question UIN 900054 question first answered 07/01/2020 16:14:13 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
	tabling member	4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts

919957

	registered interest
	date	08/06/2018
	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: Essex
	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 estimate he has made of the maximum acceptable capital borrowing limits for (a) Colchester Borough and (b) Braintree District Council.
	tabling member constituency	Witham
	tabling member printed	Priti Patel
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	151418
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2018 answer text <p>Local authorities can borrow, without prior Government consent subject only to assuring themselves that their borrowing is affordable. In assessing affordability of borrowing local authorities are required to have regard to the Prudential Code published by The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy. Every local authority’s affordable borrowing limit is published as part of the Government's official statistics.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 18/06/2018 14:39:21 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
	tabling member	4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel

1063749

	registered interest
	date	18/02/2019
	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: Northamptonshire
	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 request the Local Government Boundary Commission for England to undertake a structural review under Sections four to six of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 as part of considerations for new local government arrangements for Northamptonshire.
	tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
	tabling member printed	Tim Farron
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	222684
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2019 answer text <p>We have recently undertaken the statutory consultation on the unitary proposal submitted by seven Northamptonshire councils, and my Right Honourable Friend, the Secretary of State, now intends as soon as practicable to decide whether, subject to Parliamentary approval, to implement that proposal. We do not therefore intend to make a request under section 4 of the 2007 Act for the Local Government Boundary Commission to advise on that proposal.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 21/02/2019 13:49:52 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
	tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

1063753

	registered interest
	date	18/02/2019
	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	Unitary Councils
	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 recent discussions he has had with the Local Government Boundary Commission for England on establishing the optimum (a) size of electoral division and (b) number of elected councillors in each county division before the April 2020 vesting deadline for new unitary local authorities; and what the outcome was of those discussions.
	tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
	tabling member printed	Tim Farron
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	222688
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2019 answer text <p>My officials meet regularly with officers of the Local Government Boundary Commission for England where a range of matters are discussed including the Government’s intentions for implementing proposals for new unitary councils. All such discussions are in the context of the Government’s clear recognition of the independence of the Commission and an appreciation of the Commission’s published guidance on electoral matters and its aim that electoral arrangements for councils should seek to be fair and deliver equality of representation for electors.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 22/02/2019 15:09:21 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
	tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron