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827967

registered interest
date	22/01/2018
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	Parking
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 introduce a single code of conduct for private parking operators; and if he will estimate the number of car parking fine appeals that have been processed in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	St Helens North
tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
uin	123927
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>Sir Greg Knight has introduced a Private Members’ Bill that seeks to create an independent code of practice for private parking companies. In line with the Manifesto, the Government fully supports Sir Greg Knight's Bill and seeks to get the fairest deal for motorists whilst helping to tackle rogue private parking companies. Should the Bill progress, there will be an opportunity to consider the obligations on private parking companies. The Bill is due for second reading on 2 February 2018 and I will be speaking in the Commons to voice the Government’s and my personal support. Further information is available here <a href="http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2017-19/parkingcodeofpractice.html" target="_blank">http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2017-19/parkingcodeofpractice.html</a>.</p><p>The number of appeals processed by either private parking companies or local authorities is not data that is collected by the Ministry of Housing, Communities &amp; Local Government.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 29/01/2018 11:34:34 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak previous answer version 37195 answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn

828052

registered interest
date	22/01/2018
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	Councillors: 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, what recent discussions he has had with the Local Government Association on training for councillors.
tabling member constituency	North Swindon
tabling member printed	Justin Tomlinson
uin	124012
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2018 answer text <p>The Department works closely with the Local Government Association (LGA) on a host of issues and through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), provides £21 million of funding to the LGA to deliver a number of activities. Included in this is training and development offers for councillors, for example, the LGA have a target of providing development opportunities for at least 700 councillors and also run a more tailored development offer for ambitious councillors. This MoU is reviewed formally on a quarterly basis by officials and the LGA.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 30/01/2018 15:44:44 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson

828150

registered interest
date	22/01/2018
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 the amount of financial reserves held by each local authority was in England in each year since 2009-10.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	124110
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2018 answer text <p>Information on financial reserves by all local authorities in England are published each year on the Department's website: <br><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> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 25/01/2018 16:36:03 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

828158

registered interest
date	22/01/2018
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: Catering
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 was of contracts for catering services that have been contracted out by each local authority by service service provider for (a) schools (b) local government, (c) adult social care and (d) residential care homes in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	124118
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for their contracts and the Government does not record or hold data on contracts awarded by local authorities. However, the Local Government Transparency Code 2015 requires local authorities to publish details of any contract, commissioned activity, purchase order, framework agreement and any other legally enforceable agreement with a value that exceeds £5,000.</p><p>The Code also recommends that local authorities publish details of every invitation to tender for contracts to provide goods and/or services with a value that exceeds £500 instead of £5,000.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak grouped question UIN 124120 124121 124124 question first answered 29/01/2018 11:36:13 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

828160

registered interest
date	22/01/2018
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 Libraries: Contracts for 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 the cost was of contracted out management services for local authority libraries by service provider, in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	124120
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for their contracts and the Government does not record or hold data on contracts awarded by local authorities. However, the Local Government Transparency Code 2015 requires local authorities to publish details of any contract, commissioned activity, purchase order, framework agreement and any other legally enforceable agreement with a value that exceeds £5,000.</p><p>The Code also recommends that local authorities publish details of every invitation to tender for contracts to provide goods and/or services with a value that exceeds £500 instead of £5,000.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak grouped question UIN 124118 124121 124124 question first answered 29/01/2018 11:36:13 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

828161

registered interest
date	22/01/2018
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 Authorities: Cleaning 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 the cost was of contracted out general cleaning services for each local authority general cleaning services, by service provider, in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	124121
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for their contracts and the Government does not record or hold data on contracts awarded by local authorities. However, the Local Government Transparency Code 2015 requires local authorities to publish details of any contract, commissioned activity, purchase order, framework agreement and any other legally enforceable agreement with a value that exceeds £5,000.</p><p>The Code also recommends that local authorities publish details of every invitation to tender for contracts to provide goods and/or services with a value that exceeds £500 instead of £5,000.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak grouped question UIN 124118 124120 124124 question first answered 29/01/2018 11:36:13 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

828164

registered interest
date	22/01/2018
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	Schools: Cleaning 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 the total value of contracts to provide school cleaning services was for each service provider that secured at least one such contract in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	124124
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for their contracts and the Government does not record or hold data on contracts awarded by local authorities. However, the Local Government Transparency Code 2015 requires local authorities to publish details of any contract, commissioned activity, purchase order, framework agreement and any other legally enforceable agreement with a value that exceeds £5,000.</p><p>The Code also recommends that local authorities publish details of every invitation to tender for contracts to provide goods and/or services with a value that exceeds £500 instead of £5,000.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak grouped question UIN 124118 124120 124121 question first answered 29/01/2018 11:36:14 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

828169

registered interest
date	22/01/2018
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	Carillion
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 the most recent assessment was made of Carillion's ability to fulfil its contractual obligations to local government.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	124129
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2018 answer text <p>Local authorities are independent bodies, elected by and accountable to local communities. It is the responsibility of individual authorities to decide which contracts to let, and who to let them to. They will assess potential suppliers as part of this process. The Government does not intervene in this process.</p><p>We have, however, been working through the Local Government Association to understand whether affected local authorities in England have robust contingency plans in place to manage the impacts of Carillion failing.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 30/01/2018 16:24:40 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

825551

registered interest
date	18/01/2018
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
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 plans he has to allow local authorities to use money raised via the social care precept for both adult and children's social care.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	123686
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>As set out at the Spending Review 2015 the social care precept gives local authorities who are responsible for social care the ability to raise new funding to spend exclusively on adult social care.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 23/01/2018 13:23:02 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

825568

registered interest
date	18/01/2018
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: Enfield
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 many representations he received from business groups in the London Borough of Enfield on the local government finance settlement prior to the announcement of that settlement.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Joan Ryan
uin	123702
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2018 answer text <p>Prior to the provisional settlement, my department held a technical consultation in September 2017 on the planned approach to the 2018-19 local government finance settlement. We received a total of 330 representations of which none were from business groups in the London Borough of Enfield.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 24/01/2018 14:23:59 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	166 label Biography information for Joan Ryan