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registered interest
date	05/12/2018
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: Standards
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 his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of reintroducing a standards board for local councils.
tabling member constituency	North Cornwall
tabling member printed	Scott Mann
uin	199456
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2018 answer text <p>We abolished the Standards Board regime as it was a top down, centralist regime which had unfortunately become a vehicle for petty, malicious and politically motivated complaints. In its place the Localism Act 2011 created a robust framework for local authority standards arrangements. This requires local authorities to promote and maintain high standards of conduct and adopt a code that is consistent with the seven ‘Nolan’ Principles.</p><p>The Government is awaiting early in the New Year the publication of the Committee on Standards in Public Life’s Review of Local Government Ethical Standards. The Government will consider the CSPL report carefully, and we will publish our response in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 13/12/2018 14:26:36 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4496 label Biography information for Scott Mann

867390

registered interest
date	20/03/2018
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: 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, if he will introduce discretionary business rate relief for public toilets.
tabling member constituency	North Cornwall
tabling member printed	Scott Mann
uin	133365
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2018 answer text <p>The Government recognises the importance of public toilets as a valuable community amenity and has encouraged local authorities to keep them open to the public. We will keep under review the need for any further action to support local authorities in doing so.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 26/03/2018 16:52:10 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4496 label Biography information for Scott Mann

851755

registered interest
date	28/02/2018
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
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 he plans to encourage local authorities to avoid raising council tax.
tabling member constituency	North Cornwall
tabling member printed	Scott Mann
uin	130518
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2018 answer text <p>Council tax decisions are a matter for local authorities. However, we continue to ensure that council tax-payers can veto excessive increases via a local referendum. We expect council tax to remain lower in real terms in 2018-19 than it was in 2010-11.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 05/03/2018 08:47:14 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4496 label Biography information for Scott Mann

824686

registered interest
date	17/01/2018
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: Cornwall
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 has received from Cornish business groups prior to the announcement of the local government finance settlement.
tabling member constituency	North Cornwall
tabling member printed	Scott Mann
uin	123487
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2018 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 Cornish business groups.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 25/01/2018 18:05:12 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4496 label Biography information for Scott Mann