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1109928

registered interest
date	05/04/2019
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Civil Society: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if he has made an estimate of funds that will be made available to the civil society sector under the Dormant Assets Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	241433
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2019 answer text <p>The dormant assets scheme has already distributed over £600m for the benefit of good causes. The Dormant Assets Commission, which reported on the feasibility of expanding the scheme in 2017, estimated that there may be up to £2bn of additional dormant assets that could be transferred into the scheme. This could significantly increase the quantity of funds available for good causes across the country.</p><p> </p><p>Building on the work of the Commission, and supported by HMT and DCMS, four senior industry leaders published a blueprint in April 2019 for broadening the scheme to include assets from the insurance and pensions, investment and wealth management, and securities sectors. Quantifying dormancy was not within the scope of this work.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 10/04/2019 15:13:55 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1110003

registered interest
date	05/04/2019
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Universal Credit: Croydon
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment she had made of the effect of the roll out of universal credit on child poverty in working families in the London borough of Croydon .
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	241434
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2019 answer text <p>We have not made an assessment at this level.</p><p> </p><p>The best way to help people improve their lives is through employment, and people on Universal Credit move into work faster and stay in work longer. We are committed to helping the most vulnerable to improve their life chances by tackling the root causes of poverty, and ensuring that children have the best possible start in life.</p><p> </p><p>We want to see child poverty falling, and we remain determined to tackle it. We will look at what more can be done to help the most vulnerable and improve their life chances by tackling the root causes of poverty, ensuring that children have the best possible start in life.</p><p> </p><p>That is why we have recently implemented a £1000 increase in Work Allowance rates as part of a package worth £1.7 billion in 2023/24 to some of the most vulnerable low paid working families. It will increase the amount that hardworking families can earn before Universal Credit is tapered away, providing 2.4 million working families with an extra £630 a year.</p><p> </p><p>A child growing up in a home where all the adults work is around five times less likely to be in poverty than a home in which no one is working.</p><p> </p><p>It is also worth noting that absolute and relative poverty rates for children in London are lower than in 2010, on both a before and after housing cost basis.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 15/04/2019 14:44:24 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1110004

registered interest
date	05/04/2019
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Universal Credit: Croydon
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment she had made of the effect of the roll out of universal credit on levels of homelessness in the London borough of Croydon .
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	241435
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2019 answer text <p>We do not track homelessness at Jobcentre level so the assessment asked for is not available, but statutory homelessness and rough sleeping figures for Croydon are available within Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government’s homelessness statistical release: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness</a>.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The causes of homelessness are numerous, varied and complex.. A joint study between the Department and the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government, has shown that there is not a direct causal link between welfare and homelessness. This report was published on 25 March 2019 and can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/causes-of-homelessness-and-rough-sleeping-feasibility-study" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/causes-of-homelessness-and-rough-sleeping-feasibility-study</a>. Attributing homelessness to a single Governmental policy would simplify the issue, and this approach would wrongly deny it the multi-faceted approach which we’re committed to delivering.</p><p> </p><p>It is our priority to ensure that those who are homeless, or at risk of homelessness, get the appropriate support to stabilise their lives and move into work. We have provided around £1 billion in Discretionary Housing Payment funding since 2011 to protect the most vulnerable claimants.</p><p> </p><p>There is a range of support available for people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, such as access to Alternative Payment Arrangements, easements to work-search requirements and partnerships between Jobcentres and homeless charities and housing services. By law, work coaches in England must offer a voluntary referral to claimants they consider may be homeless or threatened with homelessness to a Local Housing Authority.</p><p> </p><p>Data on homelessness by local authority level, provided by the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government, is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/homelessness-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/homelessness-statistics</a>.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 10/04/2019 12:03:09 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1109842

registered interest
date	04/04/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrants: Croydon
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people living in (a) Croydon North constituency and (b) the London borough of Croydon are designated as having no recourse to public funds.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	241042
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2019 answer text <p>The no recourse to public funds (NRPF) condition is applied to the leave of most migrants in the UK as a legitimate means of maintaining and protecting our economic resources.</p><p>In those cases where leave has been, or is being, granted for family or private life reasons the NRPF condition can be lifted on application to the Home Office if that is necessary to meet the welfare needs of children. In addition, immigration legislation specifically provides for children to remain eligible for support from a local authority under section 17 of the Children Act 1989, and an assessment of welfare needs will be part of providing that support.</p><p>Information about NRPF is held on individual case files for applications, which do not indicate whether an individual is part of the UK’s resident population. Wider population data, such as that requested in relation to the London Borough of Croydon, and that requested for all households nationally, is not held by the Home Office.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 241043 241044 question first answered 09/04/2019 09:28:32 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1109843

registered interest
date	04/04/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrants: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the effect on the well-being of children of their parents being subject to no recourse to public funds.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	241043
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2019 answer text <p>The no recourse to public funds (NRPF) condition is applied to the leave of most migrants in the UK as a legitimate means of maintaining and protecting our economic resources.</p><p>In those cases where leave has been, or is being, granted for family or private life reasons the NRPF condition can be lifted on application to the Home Office if that is necessary to meet the welfare needs of children. In addition, immigration legislation specifically provides for children to remain eligible for support from a local authority under section 17 of the Children Act 1989, and an assessment of welfare needs will be part of providing that support.</p><p>Information about NRPF is held on individual case files for applications, which do not indicate whether an individual is part of the UK’s resident population. Wider population data, such as that requested in relation to the London Borough of Croydon, and that requested for all households nationally, is not held by the Home Office.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 241042 241044 question first answered 09/04/2019 09:28:32 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1109858

registered interest
date	04/04/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrants: Croydon
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many British children living in (a) Croydon North constituency and (b) the London Borough of Croydon are looked after by parents who are designated as having no recourse to public funds.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	241044
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2019 answer text <p>The no recourse to public funds (NRPF) condition is applied to the leave of most migrants in the UK as a legitimate means of maintaining and protecting our economic resources.</p><p>In those cases where leave has been, or is being, granted for family or private life reasons the NRPF condition can be lifted on application to the Home Office if that is necessary to meet the welfare needs of children. In addition, immigration legislation specifically provides for children to remain eligible for support from a local authority under section 17 of the Children Act 1989, and an assessment of welfare needs will be part of providing that support.</p><p>Information about NRPF is held on individual case files for applications, which do not indicate whether an individual is part of the UK’s resident population. Wider population data, such as that requested in relation to the London Borough of Croydon, and that requested for all households nationally, is not held by the Home Office.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 241042 241043 question first answered 09/04/2019 09:28:32 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1109380

registered interest
date	03/04/2019
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	Buildings: Insulation
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 materials the term filler material was intended to apply to when that term was added to the 2006 Edition of Approved Document Part B Volume 2.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	240559
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2019 answer text <p>The term filler was included for the first time in the 2006 edition of Approved Document B, first published in 2006. It is a matter for the person responsible for the work and the building control body to consider if the requirements of the regulations have been met. The Department would have held meetings with industry at the time to discuss the new Approved Document B guidance in general. This Government’s view is that set out in the Building Control Alliance technical guidance note 18 which set out that the provisions in paragraph 12.7 relating to limited combustibility, particularly when read in the context of the guidance paragraph 12.5, apply to the whole cladding system other than components specifically excluded, as set out in paragraph 12.7.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 240560 question first answered 09/04/2019 10:00:07 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse previous answer version 112734 answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1109381

registered interest
date	03/04/2019
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	Buildings: Insulation
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 the term filler material was added to the 2006 Edition of Approved Document Part B Volume 2, how his Department communicated to stakeholders that it must be understood as covering the core of Aluminium Composite Material cladding.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	240560
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2019 answer text <p>The term filler was included for the first time in the 2006 edition of Approved Document B, first published in 2006. It is a matter for the person responsible for the work and the building control body to consider if the requirements of the regulations have been met. The Department would have held meetings with industry at the time to discuss the new Approved Document B guidance in general. This Government’s view is that set out in the Building Control Alliance technical guidance note 18 which set out that the provisions in paragraph 12.7 relating to limited combustibility, particularly when read in the context of the guidance paragraph 12.5, apply to the whole cladding system other than components specifically excluded, as set out in paragraph 12.7.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 240559 question first answered 09/04/2019 10:00:07 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse previous answer version 112735 answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1109386

registered interest
date	03/04/2019
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Loneliness: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment his Department has made of levels of loneliness among young people.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	240561
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2019 answer text <p>As announced in last year’s loneliness strategy, ‘A connected society - A strategy for tackling loneliness’, and in addition to DCMS’s annual Community Life Survey, the ONS has undertaken further research on childhood loneliness.</p><p> </p><p>The Community Life Survey results for 2017-18, first published in July 2018, showed that 16-34 year olds were more likely to report feeling often or always lonely than those aged over 50. This survey showed that 8% of 16 to 24 year olds feel often or always lonely. In 2018, the Children’s Society found that 11% of 10-15 year olds feel ‘often’ lonely. The ONS published another report on childhood loneliness on the 3rd April this year.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 08/04/2019 16:30:45 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1109387

registered interest
date	03/04/2019
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Loneliness: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department is taking to tackle loneliness among young people.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	240562
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2019 answer text <p>Jointly with the Co-op Foundation, the Government has invested £3.5m in projects tackling youth loneliness in 2018-19 and 2019-20.</p><p><br> In addition a number of new policies related to loneliness amongst young people were announced in last year’s strategy, ‘A connected society - A strategy for tackling loneliness’, including DCMS allocating £100,000 for research to improve understanding of how to address youth loneliness through uniformed youth groups’ work and the Department for Education’s new relationships education guidance featuring loneliness and social connections.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 08/04/2019 16:31:52 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed