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date	12/12/2017
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	Local Government: Conditions of Employment
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 effectiveness of assurance mechanisms operated by local authorities on the employment practices of contracted-out staff.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	118846
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2017 answer text <p>Local government matters are devolved and therefore it is for individual councils to make their own decisions about how their local workforces are organised and monitored. In doing so, we expect councils to take into account their duties and responsibilities as employers under employment law and other relevant legislation; and to undertake due diligence on the employment practices of staff whom they have contracted out.</p><p>Suppliers must comply with all applicable human rights and employment laws in the jurisdictions in which they work and have robust means of ensuring that the subcontractors in their supply chain also comply. This includes complying with the provisions of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (see Government’s own supplier code of conduct at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/323930/CM8888_Web_200614.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/323930/CM8888_Web_200614.pdf</a> )</p><p>Business Energy and Industrial Strategy is the lead department for national employment legislation that local authority employers, along with UK employers, should follow.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 19/12/2017 14:12:39 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

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date	06/10/2017
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	Homelessness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to facilitate access to private rented housing for homeless people.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	106226
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>The Government is committed to preventing and reducing homelessness.</p><p>It is essential that good quality private rented sector accommodation is accessible for everyone. To help to tackle homelessness, we have allocated to local authorities £315 million for homelessness prevention funding until 2020 and £402 million of Flexible Homelessness Support Grant up to 2019. This can be used to pay for rent deposit schemes and other strategies to support access to the private rented sector.</p><p>We have also brought forward a range of measures to build a better private rented sector. This includes ensuring local authorities effectively tackle rogue landlords who let unfit properties and, in the Queen’s Speech, we announced our proposals to put a stop to tenants having to pay letting fees. A ban will mean tenants require less money up-front, making it easier for people to access and move around the private rented sector.</p><p>We are bringing forward a package of measures to bring fairness and consistency to people in the private rented sector. We are determined to rebalance the relationship between tenants and landlords and ensure tenants have access to effective redress.</p><p>But homelessness is not just a housing issue. That is why we are implementing the most ambitious legislative reform in decades, the Homelessness Reduction Act, which will ensure that more people get the help they need earlier to prevent them from becoming homeless in the first place.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 16/10/2017 15:55:23 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds