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821528

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	Local Government Pension Scheme: Pay
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 publish the (a) pay and (b) other benefits of the (i) chair, (ii) vice chair, (iii) non-executive and (i) executive directors of each Local Government Pension Scheme pool.
tabling member constituency	Bootle
tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
uin	122446
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2018 answer text <p>The pay and benefits of directors of the pool operating companies established to manage local government pension scheme assets are a matter for the participating funds as shareholders. However the Government expects that publicly-owned pool operating companies will provide full disclosure of directors’ remuneration in their annual reports.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 17/01/2018 16:58:17 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

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

821526

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 for what reasons the scale criteria of £25 billion for pooling local government pension scheme assets has been dropped; and what evidence was used to inform the lowering of that threshold.
tabling member constituency	Bootle
tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
uin	122444
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2018 answer text <p>The Government continues to believe that investment pools of at least £25 billion are required to deliver the full potential for reduced costs in the local government pension scheme. However, the Government has accepted that the Welsh pool, established by, and for the Welsh pension funds, is in a special position, taking account of the possibility of eventual devolution.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 17/01/2018 16:55:06 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

820692

registered interest
date	11/01/2018
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
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 proportion of time spent dealing with individual local authority matters and combined authority matters by (a) all chief executives of local authorities which are part of a combined authority and (b) the Chief Executive of Walsall Council.
tabling member constituency	Walsall South
tabling member printed	Valerie Vaz
uin	122110
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2018 answer text <p>The working patterns of council Chief Executives are entirely local matters which are the responsibility of the council concerned.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 16/01/2018 17:57:51 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak previous answer version 34623 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

820874

registered interest
date	11/01/2018
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 Services: EU Law
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 made an assessment of the potential effect on (a) funding for and (b) services delivered by local authorities if the UK repeals EU laws and directives after the UK has left the EU.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	122292
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2018 answer text <p>All Government departments are planning for EU exit. This includes a number of scenarios. The purpose of the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill is to provide a functioning statute book on the day we leave the EU, and ensure that it is for our sovereign Parliament (and in some cases for the devolved legislatures) to make any future changes. If the UK repeals EU laws and directives after the UK has left the EU, the Government will, where necessary, undertake assessments on the potential effect on local authorities.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 19/01/2018 13:28:52 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

819107

registered interest
date	09/01/2018
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	English Language: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Casey Report of December 2016, what plans the Government has to improve the provision of English as a second language courses.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	121784
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2018 answer text <p>The manifesto committed the Government to bring forward a new integration strategy, which will include proposals to teach more people to speak English. We are working closely with other government Departments, including the Department for Education, in preparing the integration strategy, which we will publish for consultation shortly.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak grouped question UIN 121558 question first answered 16/01/2018 17:57:30 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts