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606744

registered interest
date	20/10/2016
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Non-domestic Rates: Solar Power
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the viability of amending the Valuation for Rating (Plant and Machinery) (England) Regulations 2000 in relation to the 2017 business rates revaluation that is being conducted by the Valuation Office Agency; and how that revaluation will affect rooftop solar.
tabling member constituency	Poplar and Limehouse
tabling member printed	Jim Fitzpatrick
uin	49659
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2016 answer text <p>Business rates are based on valuations from the Valuation Office Agency and we do not intervene in their independent assessments. Well established principles, as set out in the Valuation for Rating (Plant and Machinery) Regulations 2000, determine when plant and machinery, such as rooftop solar, should be rateable and included in assessments. We have no plans to change these principles. However, we have proposed a £3.4 billion transitional relief scheme to ensure that no ratepayer is unfairly penalised by the 2017 revaluation.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 27/10/2016 16:00:34 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	197 label Biography information for Jim Fitzpatrick

606745

registered interest
date	20/10/2016
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Solar Power: Non-domestic Rates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if his Department will examine the effect of the revaluation of business rates for self-owned rooftop solar power on the solar industry taking account of the draft list of rateable values, published by the Valuation Office Agency.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	49675
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2016 answer text <p>Business rates are based on valuations from the Valuation Office Agency and we do not intervene in their independent assessments. We have proposed a £3.4 billion transitional relief scheme to ensure that no ratepayer is unfairly penalised by the 2017 revaluation.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 14/12/2016 16:33:38 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

605790

registered interest
date	19/10/2016
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Solar Power: Non-domestic Rates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the effect on the UK solar power market of the proposed 2017 business rate rise for organisations investing in roof top solar power for their own consumption.
tabling member constituency	Na h-Eileanan an Iar
tabling member printed	Angus Brendan MacNeil
uin	49391
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2016 answer text <p>Business rates policy in Scotland is devolved to the Scottish Government. In England, business rates are based on valuations from the Valuation Office Agency and we do not intervene in their independent assessments. We have proposed a £3.4 billion transitional relief scheme for England to ensure that no ratepayer is unfairly penalised by the 2017 revaluation.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones grouped question UIN 49392 question first answered 24/10/2016 15:48:41 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	1546 label Biography information for Angus Brendan MacNeil

605792

registered interest
date	19/10/2016
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Solar Power: Non-domestic Rates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether he plans to review the planned business rate increase for organisations that seek to own or supply their energy with roof top solar panels in the light of carbon emissions targets agreed at the Paris Climate Change Conference.
tabling member constituency	Na h-Eileanan an Iar
tabling member printed	Angus Brendan MacNeil
uin	49392
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2016 answer text <p>Business rates policy in Scotland is devolved to the Scottish Government. In England, business rates are based on valuations from the Valuation Office Agency and we do not intervene in their independent assessments. We have proposed a £3.4 billion transitional relief scheme for England to ensure that no ratepayer is unfairly penalised by the 2017 revaluation.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones grouped question UIN 49391 question first answered 24/10/2016 15:48:41 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	1546 label Biography information for Angus Brendan MacNeil

605816

registered interest
date	19/10/2016
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Troubled Families Programme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether his Department plans to respond to the findings of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research evaluation study, No evidence Troubled Families Programme has any significant impact on key objectives, published on 17 October 2016.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	49557
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2016 answer text <p>The National Institute of Economic and Social Research Impact Study was just one of 6 reports comprising the independent evaluation of the first Troubled Families Programme. The evaluation found that the programme had many positive achievements. These include:</p><ul><li>Families feeling more confident and optimistic about being able to cope in the future</li><li>Joining up local services for families by encouraging a single keyworker approach to work with the whole family on all of its problems</li><li>Raising the quality and capacity of local data systems</li><li>Better joint working with partners such as Jobcentre Plus</li></ul><p>The data shows that nearly 120,000 of the families on this programme saw their lives improve – more children attending school, youth crime and anti-social behaviour significantly cut and, in more than 18,000 families, an adult holding down a job. The evaluation does not dispute this fact.</p><p>Unsurprisingly, the ambitious and innovative impact study which used national administrative datasets to track changes in families circumstances over comparatively short time periods, was unable to specifically attribute positive outcomes achieved in employment, youth crime or school attendance to the Troubled Families Programme.</p><p>This was because at that time the level of change achieved was not significantly different from that seen in a group of families not on the programme with whom comparisons were made. This is not the same, however, as saying that the evaluation shows family outcomes did not improve, as some have wrongly inferred.</p><p>Of course, we will continue to review all evidence of how the programme is working, to learn from it and see if there's more we can do to help families facing such multiple problems. In fact, we have already adapted the new programme in a number of ways, including extending the length of time over which family outcomes will be tracked – from 12 months to 5 years.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones grouped question UIN 49361 question first answered 25/10/2016 16:25:39 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones previous answer version 16224 answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

605817

registered interest
date	19/10/2016
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Troubled Families Programme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what definition is used under the Troubled Families programme for a family being turned around; and on what criteria a family is released from the programme.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	49444
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2016 answer text <p>‘Turning around’ a family was a phrase used in the first Troubled Families Programme (2012 – 2015) and meant that real change was achieved to improve the lives of families in the programme:</p><ul><li>children back in school for three consecutive terms; AND significant reduction in youth crime by a third and anti-social behaviour by 60%</li></ul><ul><li>OR an adult previously on benefits must be back in work for at least three consecutive months.</li></ul><p>The new Troubled Families Programme (2015 – 2020) reaches out to families with younger children and a broader range of problems – including families affected by domestic abuse or with children in need. The new Programme has different criteria for claiming a results payment. Local authorities can claim results payments for families when they can demonstrate that significant and sustained progress has been made against every problem a family is facing, or that continuous employment has been achieved.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 27/10/2016 15:43:41 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

605818

registered interest
date	19/10/2016
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Troubled Families Programme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many families in (a) England, (b) Greater Manchester, (c) Tameside and (d) Stockport found continuous employment as a direct result of the Troubled Families programme in each financial year between 2012 and 2015.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	49440
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2016 answer text <p>The table below shows, for the financial years 2012/13 – 2015/16, the number of claims made by local authorities in the Troubled Families Programme for achieving a result of continuous employment with a family.</p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p><strong>Local authority</strong></p></td><td colspan="4"><p><strong>Continuous employment results claims by financial year</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/2013</p></td><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>2015/16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stockport</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>60</p></td><td><p>66</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tameside</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>104</p></td><td><p>93</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greater Manchester</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>273</p></td><td><p>532</p></td><td><p>164</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>26</p></td><td><p>3715</p></td><td><p>10,939</p></td><td><p>3550</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 27/10/2016 16:01:08 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

605819

registered interest
date	19/10/2016
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Troubled Families Programme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans his Department has for continuation of the Troubled Families programme.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	49441
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2016 answer text <p>At the Spending Review 2015, £720 million was allocated to fund the remaining four years of the new Troubled Families Programme (2015 – 2020).</p><p>We are absolutely committed to continuing to help this group of people, to help these vulnerable families that have some of the most complex needs of people in the country.</p><p>We are looking at the evidence from the evaluation of the first Troubled Families Programme (2012-2015) to see how things could be done differently, to learn from it and see if there is even more we can do to improve the lives of troubled families</p><p>We have already learnt lessons from the first Troubled Families Programme and reflected them in the design of the new programme. We have published an overview of the first programme which highlights the improvements that have been made:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-first-troubled-families-programme-2012-to-2015-an-overview" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-first-troubled-families-programme-2012-to-2015-an-overview</a></p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 27/10/2016 15:58:11 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

605820

registered interest
date	19/10/2016
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Troubled Families Programme: Domestic Abuse
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what data his Department has that demonstrate the effect of the Troubled Families programme on rates of domestic violence and abuse in (a) England and (b) the Greater Manchester authority area in each year since 2012.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	49442
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2016 answer text <p>Domestic violence was not included in the target outcomes of the first Troubled Families Programme (2012-15). Given this, we did not have a robust national or local measure to assess prevalence of domestic violence families for the first programme.</p><p>Domestic abuse has now been included as one of the six key headline problems of the new Troubled Families Programme (2015 - 2020). As part of the evaluation of the new programme, we are collecting data from all local authorities on police recorded incidents of domestic violence. This includes the Greater Manchester authority areas. We are also measuring self-reported domestic abuse through a survey of over 1,000 families using the same measure as the Crime Survey for England and Wales. The evaluation will report, in due course, the changes in these measures once sufficient families have progressed beyond intervention to make a robust assessment.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 27/10/2016 15:59:59 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

605822

registered interest
date	19/10/2016
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Troubled Families Programme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many families in (a) England, (b) Greater Manchester, (c) Tameside and (d) Stockport have been identified as challenging and are subject to persistent visits under the Troubled Families programme.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	49443
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2016 answer text <p>In Stockport, the local authority achieved outcomes with 565 families in the first Troubled Families Programme; in Tameside with 620 families; in Greater Manchester with 8,090 families. Across England local authorities achieved outcomes overall with 116,654 families. We expected that local authorities would work with more families than they claimed results for in order to achieve their targets.</p><p>In the new programme, Greater Manchester, including Stockport and Tameside, is delivering the programme as a whole. Greater Manchester has engaged 13,228 families in the new programme so far; across England, 164,481 families have been engaged.</p><p>The programme promoted but did not mandate a whole family intervention approach. It was not appropriate to do so: all local authorities are different, and the problems faced by each local authority and each family are different. The intensity of the intervention, and the number of visits made by key workers to each family, was dependent on the particular needs of each family and the approach agreed by the family and the key worker.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 27/10/2016 15:57:49 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne