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852659

registered interest
date	01/03/2018
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: Training
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 15 January 2018 to Question 120654, on Local Government: Training, what direct funding his Department offers for training for (a) leaders of local authorities and (b) local authority cabinet members; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	130655
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2018 answer text <p>Through Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government grant funding, the Local Government Association (LGA) provides broad support to the local government sector, including training and support for members and officers, and policy briefings.</p><p>This includes: one-to-one mentoring for elected Leaders and Cabinet Members by other member peers, elected members attending LGA Leadership Academy programmes, and corporate peer challenges.</p><p>Corporate peer challenges involve a team of senior members and officers from other areas spending time in a council to review and challenge an aspect of its activity.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 07/03/2018 15:29:16 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

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
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

850640

registered interest
date	27/02/2018
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	Holiday Accommodation: Non-domestic Rates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate his Department has made of the number of owners of holiday properties who have registered for the small business rates relief.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	129894
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2018 answer text <p>The Department does not collect data on the number of holiday properties that are registered for, or receive, small business rate relief. Decisions on whether a property qualifies for small business rate relief rest with local councils.</p><p>The Valuation Office Agency ratings list data shows that there are 41,000 properties classed as self-catering holiday homes with a rateable value of up to £15,000, which is the upper limit for small business rate relief. However, not all of these properties will receive this relief, for example where owners have more than one property.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 06/03/2018 13:24:09 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

849976

registered interest
date	26/02/2018
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	Land Drainage: Lancashire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much funding has been allocated by Lancashire County Council gully cleaning; what proportion of that funding was allocated to West Lancashire, and how that compares with the funding allocated by other local authorities.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	129544
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2018 answer text <p>This year’s settlement will see a real terms increase in resources to local government over the next two years moving from £44.3 billion in 2017-18 to £45.6 billion in 2019-20.</p><p>Lancashire County Council will have available £1.4 billion in Core Spending Power between 2017/18 to 2019/20.</p><p>Data on either planned or actual expenditure on specific activities such as gully clearing are not held centrally. Figures on broader activity categories are provided to the Department by local authorities and these are available in revenue account budget and revenue outturn individual authority data at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-revenue-expenditure-and-financing" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-revenue-expenditure-and-financing</a></p><p>As democratically elected organisations, local authorities are independent of central government and are responsible for managing their budgets in line with local priorities.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 06/03/2018 13:27:43 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

850165

registered interest
date	26/02/2018
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: Pensions
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 plans to harmonise the actuarial methodology which determines the level of employer pension contributions for local authorities.
tabling member constituency	Cheltenham
tabling member printed	Alex Chalk
uin	129733
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2018 answer text <p>Contributions for Local Government Pension Scheme employers are set locally and principally reflect variations in membership and accumulated experience within the fund. The level of employer contributions is for funds to determine based on local actuarial advice.</p><p>The Public Service Pensions Act 2013 provides in section 13 for a review of the triennial local fund valuations, including employer contribution rates, to ensure that they are set at an appropriate level to ensure solvency and long term cost efficiency. The Department has appointed the Government Actuary to carry out the section 13 review following the 2016 valuations and it will be published later this year.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 06/03/2018 13:23:37 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk