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1437380

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date	02/03/2022
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	Housing Benefit: Overpayments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the level of overpayment of housing benefit in each year since 2019.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	133186
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2022 answer text <p>Statistics on Housing Benefit fraud volumes and incorrectly overpaid benefits are published 6 monthly.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/housing-benefit-recoveries-and-fraud-data" target="_blank">Housing Benefit: debt recoveries and fraud data - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p>These figures are based on data from Local Authorities.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 07/03/2022 17:55:42 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1437445

registered interest
date	02/03/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Local Skills Improvement Plans: Carbon Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking with the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on ensuring that local skills improvement plans contribute to the UK's net zero targets.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	133258
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2022 answer text <p>The government introduced an amendment to the Skills and Post-16 Education Bill which ensures that skills required in relation to jobs that support compliance with the UK net zero emissions target are considered in the development of Local Skills Improvement Plans. The Department for Education will work closely with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy as we develop statutory guidance on this to ensure we have the right skills to meet the requirements of the net zero transition.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 07/03/2022 14:46:33 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1437542

registered interest
date	02/03/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Second Homes: Refugees
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to encourage (a) landlords and owners of (i) holiday let and (ii) second home owners to make their properties available to incoming refugees.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	133219
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2022 answer text <p>Accommodation for refugees is offered by Local Authorities. Before committing to offering resettlement places a local authority should think about whether they have, or are able to put in place, the accommodation, infrastructure and support networks needed to ensure the appropriate care and integration of people in need of our help.</p><p>We work on a daily basis with local government to ensure we meet our international and statutory obligations to provide accommodation for asylum seekers and refugees, encourage greater participation, and to understand and address reasons for not doing so.</p><p>The current global pandemic, an increased influx of small boat arrivals and the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan has presented us with significant challenges when it comes to the provision of asylum accommodation. During these unprecedented times, the Home Office acted quickly to source contingency accommodation, including several hotels and former MoD sites, to create additional capacity to ensure our obligations can continue to be met in full. The accommodation at Napier was set up in response to these enormous pressures placed on our asylum system. These pressures remain, and we will continue our use of Napier Barracks as contingency asylum accommodation until March 2025.</p><p> </p><p>The New Plan for Immigration includes proposals to introduce new asylum accommodation centres to provide accommodation and support while processing the claims of asylum seekers. Accommodation Centres will ensure that asylum seekers can be provided with basic, safe and secure accommodation while their claims are processed.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Secretary recently announced a humanitarian sponsorship pathway, which will provide those fleeing the conflict in Ukraine with a route to the UK. Under the scheme, sponsor groups – which may include those who have capacity to accommodate people in their properties - will provide housing and integration support to those eligible.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 09/03/2022 17:26:15 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1437741

registered interest
date	02/03/2022
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Public Houses: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to specifically support the recovery of public houses, within the hospitality sector, from the impact of the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Cynon Valley
tabling member printed	Beth Winter
uin	134098
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2022 answer text <p>In response to the pandemic, we put in place one of the world’s most comprehensive economic responses worth £400 billion, including business grants, loans, business rates relief, and VAT discounts.</p><p> </p><p>This Department has also published a comprehensive strategy to help the wider hospitality sector recover. The Hospitality Strategy focuses on domestic solutions to support the sector’s recovery post-Covid and we aim to build on the sector’s strengths and address its challenges to create a resilient, dynamic, innovative, and green sector which plays a leading role in local communities, high streets and city centres across the country.</p><p> </p><p>The recently established Hospitality Sector Council (HSC) has also been set up to support delivery of the commitments set out in the Hospitality Strategy and identify wider measures to improve the resilience of the sector.</p><p>Officials in the Department and I continue to speak regularly with representatives from across the hospitality sector so that we can understand the challenges they face and work with them to boost demand and enabling businesses to trade more flexibly.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 11/03/2022 15:00:08 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4809 label Biography information for Beth Winter

1437742

registered interest
date	02/03/2022
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Public Houses: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he will take to review the impact of measures undertaken to support the recovery of public houses, within the hospitality sector, from the impact of the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Cynon Valley
tabling member printed	Beth Winter
uin	134099
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2022 answer text <p>Since the start of the pandemic I have worked closely with representatives from across the hospitality sector, listening to their concerns and representing their interests across Government. That close working relationship helped shape the Government’s £400 billion package of support for businesses, which included business grants, loans, business rates relief, and VAT discounts.</p><p> </p><p>In July 2021, the Government published a Hospitality Strategy, which aims to support the sector’s post-Covid recovery and create a resilient, dynamic, innovative, and green sector that plays a leading role in local communities, high streets and city centres across the country.</p><p> </p><p>BEIS officials and I continue to work closely with the sector, including through the newly-established Hospitality Sector Council, to address current challenges and help it improve its resilience against future challenges.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 11/03/2022 15:01:00 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4809 label Biography information for Beth Winter