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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

825571

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: Greater London
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 account is taken by his Department of trends in population growth when determining the local government finance settlement in London.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Joan Ryan
uin	123705
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>The most recent assessment of local authorities’ relative needs and resources took place in 2013-14 alongside the introduction of the 50 per cent business rates retention system. At this point the demand for local services was assessed through funding formulae that used projected local population in 2013, as well as the relative needs of those populations including factors such as deprivation.</p><p>At present the Government is carrying out a fair funding review of local authorities’ relative needs and resources, and we are working closely with the Local Government Association and representatives from across local government to ensure that we consider all the issues that impact on authorities’ relative need to spend on services and their capacity to fund these from local resources.</p><p>Amongst the issues we will consider are the impact of population growth, deprivation, as well as specific geographical factors such as rurality and area-related costs.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 23/01/2018 14:05:32 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	166 label Biography information for Joan Ryan

825572

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: Greater London
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 consideration he gives to relative levels of deprivation in determining the local government finance settlement in London.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Joan Ryan
uin	123706
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>The most recent assessment of local authorities’ relative needs and resources took place in 2013-14 alongside the introduction of the 50 per cent business rates retention system. At this point the demand for local services was assessed through funding formulae that used projected local population in 2013, as well as the relative needs of those populations including factors such as deprivation.</p><p>At present the Government is carrying out a fair funding review of local authorities’ relative needs and resources, and we are working closely with the Local Government Association and representatives from across local government to ensure that we consider all the issues that impact on authorities’ relative need to spend on services and their capacity to fund these from local resources.</p><p>Amongst the issues we will consider are the impact of population growth, deprivation, as well as specific geographical factors such as rurality and area-related costs.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 23/01/2018 17:08:16 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	166 label Biography information for Joan Ryan

822989

registered interest
date	15/01/2018
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, what plans he has to maintain services supplied by Carillion plc to local councils.
tabling member constituency	Bassetlaw
tabling member printed	John Mann
uin	122672
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>Continuity of services is the Government and local councils’ top priority. All public sector services continue to be delivered and minimal disruption to public services has been reported.</p><p>We have been working through the Local Government Association over the past few weeks to ensure that affected English local authorities had robust contingency plans in place to manage the impacts of Carillion failing.</p><p>Councils have now put those plans into action, and will continue to deliver all public sector services. And all staff engaged on these public sector contracts will continue to be paid.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 23/01/2018 17:09:19 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	1387 label Biography information for Lord Mann

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