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968201

registered interest
date	05/09/2018
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 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, if he will undertake an assessment of the provision of public toilets throughout England and Wales.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	170835
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>The Government has no plans to make such an assessment. Local authorities are best placed to decide on provision of public toilets locally, to meet the needs of their local communities.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 11/09/2018 15:02:34 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

968375

registered interest
date	05/09/2018
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	Non-domestic Rates
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 it is the Government's policy to enable local authorities to retain business rates collected.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	170922
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>In 2020/21 the Government aims to increase local government’s retention of business rates from 50 per cent to 75 per cent.</p><p>Increasing the level of business rates retention to 100 per cent remains the Government’s long-term ambition.</p><p>That is why, this year we are operating 100 per cent business rates retention pilots in 16 areas across the country. Next year we will also pilot 75 per cent business rates retention to aid understanding of how we transition into the proposed new system in 2020/21. Moving to greater rates retention will give local authorities more control of the money they raise locally.</p><p>The current 50 per cent business rates retention scheme is yielding strong results with local authorities estimating that in 2018/19 they will keep around £2.4 billion in business rates growth.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 11/09/2018 15:02:09 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

968423

registered interest
date	05/09/2018
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	Council Tax: Dorset
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 16 July to Question 162973 on council tax: Dorset, whether representations have been received in response to the consultation; and on what date the Government plans to announce its decision.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Sir Christopher Chope
uin	170684
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2018 answer text <p>The Secretary of State is currently considering the local preferences on council tax harmonisation that have been received from shadow authorities responsible for setting council taxes in 2019-20, including those views from the Shadow Dorset Council and the Shadow Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council. He intends, as soon as practicable, to reach a preliminary view on the approach to be adopted, and on which he will invite any further comments from the shadow authorities before taking a final decision and making any new secondary legislation.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 10/09/2018 16:03:58 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

967748

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	Local Government Finance: East Sussex
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 make an assessment of the effect on the provision of services by East Sussex County Council of the imposition of a statutory minimum budget by that council.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
uin	170405
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2018 answer text <p>The majority of the funding available to East Sussex through our Local Government Finance Settlement is non-ringfenced. This allows East Sussex to manage their budgets in line with local priorities, and they are accountable to their local electorate for the decisions they take over the provision of services.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 10/09/2018 16:17:18 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

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
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
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

964311

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
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	East Sussex County Council: Bankruptcy
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 he is taking to prevent East Sussex County Council going bankrupt.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
uin	169715
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2018 answer text <p>Through the Local Government Finance Settlement, East Sussex Council will have available over £1.8 billion of core spending power over the spending review period (2015/16 to 2019-20). Funding provided through the settlement is largely unringfenced. Decisions about funding priorities for local services are rightly for local areas to take.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 06/09/2018 14:56:53 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

964312

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
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	East Sussex County Council: 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 recent discussions he has had with representatives of East Sussex Country Council on that council's financial situation.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
uin	169716
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2018 answer text <p>We have regular discussions with local authorities on a range of issues.</p><p>As part of the 2019-20 Local Government Finance Settlement, and more broadly, all councils including East Sussex have the opportunity to engage with the Department.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 10/09/2018 16:18:32 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

964962

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
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	Local Government Finance: Leisure
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 trends in the level of Government funding for local authorities on local authority spending on sports and recreation.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Dr Rosena Allin-Khan
uin	169644
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>Local authorities are the single biggest investors in community sport, spending around £1 billion a year. Sport England works with a wide range of local authorities, providing expert advice and funding to sustain and increase the number of people playing sport regularly.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 11/09/2018 15:00:48 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4573 label Biography information for Dr Rosena Allin-Khan

964972

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
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	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, when he plans to publish the local authority revenue expenditure and financing England: 2017 to 2018 provisional outturn.
tabling member constituency	Oldham West and Royton
tabling member printed	Jim McMahon
uin	169625
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2018 answer text <p>The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government published the provisional outturn estimates of local authority revenue expenditure and financing for 2017 to 2018 on 23 August 2018.</p><p>Figures are available from:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/local-authority-revenue-expenditure-and-financing-england-2017-to-2018-provisional-outturn" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/local-authority-revenue-expenditure-and-financing-england-2017-to-2018-provisional-outturn</a></p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 06/09/2018 14:56:20 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4569 label Biography information for Jim McMahon