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748081

registered interest
date	04/07/2017
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	Grenfell Tower: Fires
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 people who lost their homes as a result of the Grenfell Tower fire have yet to receive any discretionary payments from the Grenfell Tower Residents' Discretionary Fund.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	2766
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>As of noon on Wednesday 5 July 2017, 117 households who have permanently lost their homes as a result of the Grenfell Tower fire had received one or more payments from the Grenfell Tower Residents’ Discretionary Fund. The Council has made contact with a further 8 households understood to have lost their homes, and is proactively working to seek out and contact any remaining households that are yet to come forward through the key workers team.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 10/07/2017 16:31:42 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Lord Sharma
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

748082

registered interest
date	04/07/2017
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	Grenfell Tower: Fires
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 people who lost their homes as a result of the Grenfell Tower fire have yet to be given (a) temporary and (b) permanent accommodation.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	2767
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>158 families from Grenfell Tower and Grenfell Walk have been identified in need of temporary housing. Offers of appropriate and good quality temporary accommodation have been made to all 139 households who are ready and able to talk to the housing team. As of 5 July, 14 offers of temporary accommodation have been accepted, and 3 families have already moved in. We have already announced a new block of social housing in Kensington Row that will very shortly provide 68 new permanent homes, and we are urgently working with a number of developers to secure similar properties in the same area.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 10/07/2017 16:30:00 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Lord Sharma
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

748084

registered interest
date	04/07/2017
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	High Rise Flats: Fire Prevention
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will take steps to ensure that emergency guidance in high rise blocks is available in a variety of languages to cater for the diversity of the residents in those blocks.
tabling member constituency	Brent Central
tabling member printed	Dawn Butler
uin	2770
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>All residents should understand the emergency fire safety guidance in their buildings. It is for local authorities and other housing providers to ensure that this is the case.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 10/07/2017 16:26:22 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Lord Sharma
tabling member	1489 label Biography information for Dawn Butler

748085

registered interest
date	04/07/2017
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	Grenfell Tower: Fires
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 residents who lost their home as a result of the Grenfell Tower fire have not received an offer of housing.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	2751
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>Every family that is ready to talk to the housing team has been offered a temporary home. As of 5 July, 139 families have received offers of accommodation. 19 families have not yet been ready to engage in this process, and we need to respect that and go at the pace that they want to. The housing team will continue to work with all families to ensure that their individual needs are met.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 10/07/2017 16:30:59 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Lord Sharma
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

748086

registered interest
date	04/07/2017
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	Grenfell Tower: Fires
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what his policy is on ensuring that the survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire of 17 June 2017 are rehoused nearby within three weeks.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	2755
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government committed to make an offer of temporary housing to all those who have lost their homes as a result of the fire, within three weeks. All 139 of the families who are ready to talk to the housing team have already been matched with and offered a quality, appropriate temporary home. All these homes are local - either in Kensington and Chelsea or a neighbouring borough.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 10/07/2017 16:33:40 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Lord Sharma
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

748088

registered interest
date	04/07/2017
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	High Rise Flats: Fire Prevention
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 his Department has made of the effect of removing and reapplying cladding from tower blocks that have failed safety checks on the housing reserves of social landlords that acquired those tower blocks through stock transfer.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	2992
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>Where work is necessary to ensure the fire safety of social housing, we will ensure that lack of financial resources will not prevent it going ahead.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 11/07/2017 09:26:36 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Lord Sharma previous answer version 3142 answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma answering member 4014 label Biography information for Lord Sharma
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

748089

registered interest
date	04/07/2017
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	Fire Prevention
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much financial support his Department will provide to local authorities for assessing the fire safety of insulation.
tabling member constituency	Ogmore
tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
uin	2993
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>The tests currently being carried out are focussed on the combustibility of material in cladding made from Aluminium Composite Material. Where those materials have failed that test, housing providers have had instructions to review all fire safety arrangements in the relevant property, and to check insulation and other materials in the wall construction. Where work is necessary to ensure the fire safety of social housing, we will ensure that lack of financial resources will not prevent it going ahead.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 10/07/2017 16:27:26 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Lord Sharma
tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore

748093

registered interest
date	04/07/2017
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Charitable Trusts
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 her Department is taking to promote charity trusteeship, particularly to those from disadvantaged backgrounds.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	2955
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>Boards of trustees allow charities across the country to improve lives and address some of the most significant challenges we face.</p><p>The Government has been working with the Charity Commission and voluntary sector partners, to carry out research to understand the current makeup of trustees and to identify ways to further strengthen trusteeship.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 10/07/2017 16:33:21 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

748094

registered interest
date	04/07/2017
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Charitable Donations
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 estimate she has made of the amount raised by the Fundraising Regulator's levy on charity fundraising in the latest period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	2957
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>The Fundraising Regulator has said that it is on track to raise at least £1.8m from its voluntary levy for the year September 2016 to August 2017. Almost all of the largest fundraising charities have paid the levy. Some smaller fundraising charities have yet to respond and a few have refused to pay. The Fundraising Regulator is continuing to chase these charities. It will be for the Fundraising Regulator to decide whether to publish the names of those charities that have refused to pay or that have not responded to payment requests.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 11/07/2017 15:32:54 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

748095

registered interest
date	04/07/2017
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Swimming: Public Participation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether (a) she and (b) the Minister for Sport plan to meet (i) Swim England and (ii) British Swimming to discuss increasing participation in (A) swimming for fitness and (B) competitive swimming.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	2962
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2017 answer text <p>Swimming is both an important sport and physical activity, and a key life skill. I am very happy to meet with Swim England and British Swimming, in addition to meetings I already have planned with Swim England’s Swim Group, to discuss increasing participation in swimming for fitness and competitive swimming.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 12/07/2017 11:34:27 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West