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821508

registered interest
date	12/01/2018
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	Children in Care
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 Secretary of State for Education on outcomes for looked-after children.
tabling member constituency	Walsall South
tabling member printed	Valerie Vaz
uin	122426
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2018 answer text <p>This Government has high ambitions for looked after children and care leavers.</p><p>The forthcoming corporate parenting provisions in the Children and Social Work Act will ensure high quality care and support for these vulnerable young people.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 17/01/2018 18:16:49 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak previous answer version 34923 answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4076 label Biography information for Valerie Vaz

821511

registered interest
date	12/01/2018
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	Social Services: 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 steps his Department is taking to ensure that adult social care is adequately funded.
tabling member constituency	Walsall South
tabling member printed	Valerie Vaz
uin	122429
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2018 answer text <p>The Government provided an additional £2 billion at the 2017 Spring Budget for adult social care, of which £1 billion was provided in 2017-18. This meant that by the start of this financial year, the Government had given councils access to £9.25 billion additional funding for adult social care over the next three years.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 17/01/2018 17:04:24 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4076 label Biography information for Valerie Vaz

821514

registered interest
date	12/01/2018
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 assessment he has made of the effect of the local government finance settlement on the ability of local authorities to meet their statutory responsibilities.
tabling member constituency	Walsall South
tabling member printed	Valerie Vaz
uin	122432
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2018 answer text <p>The Government periodically assesses resourcing requirements for local government as part of each spending review, ensuring a sustainable basis for local authorities to discharge their functions.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 17/01/2018 16:55:36 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4076 label Biography information for Valerie Vaz

821525

registered interest
date	12/01/2018
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 Pension Scheme
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 evidence used to calculate the minimum threshold for pooling assets under the local government pension scheme.
tabling member constituency	Bootle
tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
uin	122443
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2018 answer text <p>The Government 's expectations for the minimum threshold for the pooling assets under the local government pension scheme, and a summary of the evidence taken into account when setting that threshold, are set out in the 'Local Government Pension Scheme: Investment reform criteria and guidance' (November 2015).</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 17/01/2018 16:59:07 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

821527

registered interest
date	12/01/2018
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 Pension Scheme
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 cost to the public purse of establishing each local government pension scheme pool has been to date; and what costs to the public purse his Department has forecast for each local government pension scheme pool in each year until 2020.
tabling member constituency	Bootle
tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
uin	122445
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2018 answer text <p>The final proposals for the development of the pools in July 2016 estimated set up costs excluding transition of assets of around £20 million, and initial running costs of around £11 million per annum, in order to achieve estimated total net savings of £1-2 billion by 2033. The costs of establishing each pool in the local government pension scheme, and future costs, will be met by the participating funds and will be published in the annual reports of the pools.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 17/01/2018 16:56:18 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

821531

registered interest
date	12/01/2018
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	Northamptonshire County Council
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 and by whom he was first informed of the financial difficulties at Northamptonshire County Council.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	122449
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>The situation in Northamptonshire has been developing for some time. However as a result of recent documentation from the external auditor and the Local Government Association, as well as the council’s own publicly available budget documents, it is now appropriate to take a detailed view of the authority to ascertain its compliance with its best value duty.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 22/01/2018 16:59:29 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

821534

registered interest
date	12/01/2018
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 recent discussions he has had with the Health Secretary on the effect of changes in public health grants on council budgets.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	122452
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>My Department and the Department of Health and Social Care are in regular contact about public health policy and funding, including in relation to Public Health Grant.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 22/01/2018 17:05:55 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

821537

registered interest
date	12/01/2018
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 meetings (a) Ministers in his Department and (b) officials in his Department have had with Public Health England on the public health grant in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	122455
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2018 answer text <p>Officials from my Department attend a monthly meeting hosted by both Public Health England (PHE) and the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) which specifically focuses on matters relating to the Public Health Grant. In addition to such meetings, officials from my Department have frequent ad-hoc dialogue on the Public Health Grant with their counterparts from PHE and DHSC.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 25/01/2018 16:36:40 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

821539

registered interest
date	12/01/2018
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: Pension Funds
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 his policy is on local government pension funds being used to invest in fossil fuels; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	122457
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>The government does not prescribe centrally where local government pension funds should invest their assets. Funds are responsible and accountable for their own decisions, provided that they act reasonably and follow the Local Government Pension Scheme Investment Regulations 2016 and associated guidance. <br> <br> Local government pension funds should make the pursuit of a financial return their predominant concern but they may also take into account purely non-financial considerations provided that doing so would not involve a significant risk of financial detriment and they have good reason to believe that scheme members would support their decision. <br> <br> Funds are required to set out their policy on how environmental, social or corporate governance concerns are taken into account in their Investment Strategy Statement. The Regulations also require this statement to be published and kept under review.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 22/01/2018 16:55:52 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

821540

registered interest
date	12/01/2018
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 number of (a) county and (b) district councils which have overspent on their budgets in each of the last three financial years.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	122458
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>Local authorities may incur more expenditure than they have budgeted for a range of reasons, including increases in demand for services and unforeseeable events. This is why every local authority is required to maintain a level of unallocated reserve commensurate with sound financial risk management.</p><p>The Department collects and publishes individual local authority expenditure data for both budget and outturn, and these are available 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 23/01/2018 14:04:46 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne