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1150714

registered interest
date	18/10/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Children: Poverty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the number of children under five years old living in poverty.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	1891
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2019 answer text <p>HM Treasury use the ‘Household below average income (HBAI)’ statistics published by the Department for Work and Pensions to determine the number of children living in low-income households.</p><p> </p><p>Tackling child poverty will always be a priority for the government. The government’s view is that work remains the best route out of poverty: children in households where all adults are working are five times less likely to be in relative low income (before housing costs) than those in workless households.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 23/10/2019 14:14:41 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1133907

registered interest
date	21/06/2019
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	Social Services: Children
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 local authorities to improve the provision of services to vulnerable children.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	267714
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2019 answer text <p>My Department has invested £920 million in the Troubled Families Programme. The latest evaluation shows that the programme has helped to reform local services and improve outcomes for vulnerable children and families across a number of measures, including a reduction in the proportion of children on the programme going into care by a third and a 15 per cent reduction of juvenile convictions. The full report is available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/building-resilient-families-third-annual-report-of-the-troubled-families-programme-2018-to-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/building-resilient-families-third-annual-report-of-the-troubled-families-programme-2018-to-2019</a>. My Department is considering these positive evaluation findings as it prepares for the upcoming Spending Review.</p><p>At Autumn Budget the Chancellor also announced an extra £410 million to address pressures on adult and children social care services and, in the run up to the Spending Review, the Government is working closely with local authorities and the wider sector to build the evidence base and help develop a thorough understanding of children’s services costs and pressures.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 26/06/2019 14:21:15 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1133908

registered interest
date	21/06/2019
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	Social Services
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 representations he has made to the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the allocation of additional funding to local authorities for the provision of adult social care services.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	267715
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2019 answer text <p>The Government recognises the pressures facing local government, and this is why we have given councils access to £3.9 billion for adult social care this year. The Secretary of State speaks regularly with the Chancellor on a range of matters, including local government funding. Future funding for local government will be considered by the Government at this year’s Spending Review and work is already underway.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 27/06/2019 09:44:10 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1129116

registered interest
date	03/06/2019
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, what estimate his Department has made of the difference in spending per head between 2009-10 and 2017-18 by local authorities in the five most deprived areas in England and Wales.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	258978
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2019 answer text <p>The definition of spending power is not comparable over the period 2010-11 to 2019-20 due to changes in the finance and function of local government. A consistent measure of core spending power is available for the period 2015 -16 to 2019 -20. The Department does not calculate Core Spending Power per head.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 06/06/2019 15:28:26 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1050082

registered interest
date	28/01/2019
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, what assessment his Department has made of regional trends in the level of funding changes experienced by local authorities since 2010; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	213209
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2019 answer text <p>Local authorities are funded from a mixture of central and local resources, including grants, retained business rates and council tax. Local authorities’ Revenue and Capital Account returns show the amounts from each source of income, and these are available online as follows:</p><p>i) in the 'RS', ‘RSX’ and 'RG' data tables on the 'individual local authority data - outturn' web page for each year at <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-revenue-expenditure-and-financing" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-revenue-expenditure-and-financing</a>, and</p><p>ii) in the 'COR-B and 'COR4' data tables on the 'individual local authority data' web page for each year at <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>.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 31/01/2019 14:44:36 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1039583

registered interest
date	11/01/2019
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	Football: Sportsgrounds
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 his Department has made of the number of football stadiums in the UK nominated for designation as assets of community value under the Localism Act 2011 that have been judged by a local authority not to meet the test for being such an asset.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	207557
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2019 answer text <p>The Department does not collect information or provide estimates on the number of assets of community value unsuccessful nominated.</p><p>Decisions on whether a nomination satisfies the statutory test set out in the Localism Act 2011 are for local authorities to determine. In February 2017 an asset count undertaken by Locality on behalf of the department identified 4,307 assets of community value in England. Information published by Supports Direct has identified 30 football stadiums as Assets of Community Value in England.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 16/01/2019 16:59:52 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1038380

registered interest
date	09/01/2019
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 Health Funerals
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 information his Department holds on the cost to the public purse of local authority funded funerals carried out under section 46 of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	206720
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>The Department does not collect this information from local authorities.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 14/01/2019 16:15:40 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1022932

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 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 estimate he has made of the total number of local authorities that have seen an overall loss in their reserves between 2010 and 2018.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	200543
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2018 answer text <p>Local authorities provide reserves figures in their annual revenue expenditure returns to the Ministry. These can be found in the first individual local authority data table for each of the budget and outturn collections at <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-revenue-expenditure-and-financing" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-revenue-expenditure-and-financing</a>.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 13/12/2018 14:23:51 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1020297

registered interest
date	05/12/2018
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 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 estimate he has made of the change in real terms of central Government funding for local government since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	199289
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2018 answer text <p>Central government funding cannot in isolation provide a true representation of local authority finances. The responsibilities, structure and makeup of local authorities have changed significantly since 2010 and spending power, formula grants and settlement funding assessments are not directly comparable over this period. For example, with the introduction of the Business Rates Retention Scheme local authorities estimate they will keep around £2.4 billion in business rates growth in 2018-19.</p><p>Over the five year period from 2015-16 to 2019-20 council’s will have access to more than £200 billion, after last month’s budget. This recognises both the growing pressure on local government’s services and higher-than-expected inflation levels. In the long term, next year’s Spending Review will determine funding for local government from 2020-21 onwards and will enable us to look at local government spending in the round.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 10/12/2018 17:13:40 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1006922

registered interest
date	14/11/2018
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	Council Tax
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 proportion of houses in the UK are marked as (a) empty and (b) a second home for Council Tax purposes.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	191278
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2018 answer text <p>The Department does not collect this information for the UK. However, figures on the number of dwellings liable for council tax and those that are empty or are second homes in England can be found at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/755950/Local_Authority_Council_Tax_base_England_2018_Statistical_Release.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/755950/Local_Authority_Council_Tax_base_England_2018_Statistical_Release.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 19/11/2018 09:33:12 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham