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1145829

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date	25/09/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Food and Fuel: Prices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to Operaton Yellowhammer HMG reasonable worst case planning assumptions chapter 17, what steps his Department is taking to protect low income groups from price rises in food and fuel.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	290700
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/09/2019 answer text <p>HM Treasury routinely monitors economic conditions and risks, and the Government has a range of mechanisms available to support vulnerable people from price rises in food and fuel.</p><p> </p><p>Furthermore, officials estimate the direct impact of spending decisions on household living standards, and this is a central consideration when allocating public funds.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 30/09/2019 15:20:06 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1144802

registered interest
date	04/09/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of per head of population spending on contingency plans in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal in each (a) nation and (b) region of the UK.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	286656
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>This Government would prefer to leave with a deal and will work in an energetic and determined way to get that better deal.</p><p> </p><p>But the Treasury stands ready to provide funding to prepare for leaving without a deal. That is why the Chancellor and I have made over £2bn available for no deal preparations this year (2019-20) since taking office. All parts of the UK have benefitted from this funding, with the Barnett formula being applied in the usual way.</p><p> </p><p>Should the UK leave without a deal, the Treasury will consider the appropriate response. The Government and the Bank of England have fiscal and monetary policy tools available, and are ready to respond as appropriate to support the economy should the circumstances require.</p><p> </p><p>The government has already guaranteed that UK organisations who get EU programme funding will continue to do so should the EU cease to fund these organisations after exit.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 09/09/2019 09:31:20 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1134245

registered interest
date	24/06/2019
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	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, if he will list the 10 local authorities with the greatest real terms reduction in central government funding since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	268408
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2019 answer text <p>Due to changes in the finance and function of local government, there is no consistent measure of central government funding since 2010. The Department’s preferred measure of local government funding is Core Spending Power. Core Spending power is comparable over the period 2015-16 to 2019-20 and published in cash terms on the Department's website:<br> <br> <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/core-spending-power-final-local-government-finance-settlement-2019-to-2020" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/core-spending-power-final-local-government-finance-settlement-2019-to-2020</a> <br> <br> The 10 local authorities with the greatest reduction in Core Spending Power over the period 2015-16 to 2019-20 are listed below:</p><p> </p><p>Basingstoke and Deane</p><p>Brentwood</p><p>East Cambridgeshire</p><p>Epsom and Ewell</p><p>Forest Heath</p><p>Gedling</p><p>Huntingdonshire</p><p>North Dorset</p><p>St Albans</p><p>Watford</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 27/06/2019 09:43:18 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1010741

registered interest
date	20/11/2018
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	Loneliness
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 his Department is taking to incorporate the Government's new loneliness strategy into its policy formulation process.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	193407
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2018 answer text <p>The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) is one of nine Government departments contributing to the cross-government work on loneliness. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/a-connected-society-a-strategy-for-tackling-loneliness" target="_blank">‘A connected society: a strategy for tackling loneliness - laying the foundations for change’</a>, sets out the Department’s commitment to tackling loneliness across a range of areas, including funding research into the impact of community-led housing and cohousing solutions on loneliness and working with the Local Government Association (LGA) and National Association of Local Councils (NALC) to explore an effective means of sharing learning and good practice.</p><p>The loneliness strategy takes action on the Jo Cox Commission’s recommendation for a family test: it requires government departments to report on their work on tackling loneliness in their annual Single Departmental Plans from 2019/20 and commits to including loneliness in the guidance for the Family Test.</p><p>The Inter-Ministerial Group on Loneliness will be continuing to explore additional options to ensure social relationships are considered across Government’s wider policy-making. The Ministerial Group will publish an annual progress report on the loneliness agenda, recognising that this is just the start of government’s work on this issue.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 23/11/2018 11:03:07 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane