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524192

registered interest
date	09/06/2016
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Post Offices: Paisley
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential effect on (a) businesses and (b) the local community in Paisley of the decision to close the Post Office branch and replace it with a franchise.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
tabling member printed	Ian Murray
uin	40139
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2016 answer text <p>Post Office Limited runs and operates its directly managed Crown post offices. Changes to its network and proposals to franchise of some of its Crown branches are the operational responsibility of the Post Office. The Post Office’s proposals for franchising some of its Crown branches are part of its work to ensure its branch network is sustainable in the long term and ensure that Post Office services remain on our high streets across the country. The change from a Crown to a franchise branch has been undertaken successfully in many locations across the UK and helps sustain Post Office services in these locations, and each change is subject to local consultation.</p><p> </p><p>Over 97% of the UK’s post office network is run on a franchise or agency basis.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman grouped question UIN 40136 question first answered 15/06/2016 08:39:17 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray

524193

registered interest
date	09/06/2016
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Post Offices: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment his Department has made of the effect on (a) businesses and (b) local communities in Scotland of the decision to allow the closure of Post Office branches in Scotland and their replacement by franchises.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
tabling member printed	Ian Murray
uin	40136
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2016 answer text <p>Post Office Limited runs and operates its directly managed Crown post offices. Changes to its network and proposals to franchise of some of its Crown branches are the operational responsibility of the Post Office. The Post Office’s proposals for franchising some of its Crown branches are part of its work to ensure its branch network is sustainable in the long term and ensure that Post Office services remain on our high streets across the country. The change from a Crown to a franchise branch has been undertaken successfully in many locations across the UK and helps sustain Post Office services in these locations, and each change is subject to local consultation.</p><p> </p><p>Over 97% of the UK’s post office network is run on a franchise or agency basis.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman grouped question UIN 40139 question first answered 15/06/2016 08:39:17 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray

524198

registered interest
date	09/06/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electronic Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the customer satisfaction ratings were for the gov.uk website related to (a) content accuracy, (b) ability to find information, (c) proportion of users who found the website search tool good or very good and (d) proportion of users who got everything or most of what they wanted when visiting the website since 2012.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	40094
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2016 answer text <p>Over 100,000 people have taken user satisfaction surveys on the <a href="http://h/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a> website since 2013. The most recent information is as follows;</p><p>On content accuracy, 69.5% they agreed or strongly responded that they “Trust the information on <a href="http://h/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a>&quot;.</p><p>On the ability to find information, in 2016 52% responded that they agreed or strongly agreed that <a href="http://h/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a> was “easy to use”, up from 42% in 2015</p><p>On the question of the proportion of users who got everything or most of what they wanted when visiting the website, in 2016 46% responded that they agreed or strongly agreed with this statement up from 36% in 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 15/06/2016 07:43:29 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 3884 answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

524203

registered interest
date	09/06/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Proof of Identity: Internet
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the proportion of people aged (a) 16 to 24, (b) 25 to 44, (c) 45 to 54, (d) 55 to 64, (e) 65 to 74 and (f) 75 years and older who have the (i) evidence and (ii) technology needed to verify their identity online.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	40125
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2016 answer text <p>We do not differentiate between ownership of technology and evidence in our assessments of who can use <a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a> Verify.</p><p><a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a> Verify works for 90% of working adults in the UK, which is the main user group for most of the services currently using <a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a> Verify. Coverage is lower amongst very young people and older people - we continue to improve coverage for those age groups.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 15/06/2016 09:05:24 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

524204

registered interest
date	09/06/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 8 June 2016 to Question 39272, what proportion of the cohort of Civil Service Fast Streamers who joined in April 2013 have already undertaken a regional placement.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	40168
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2016 answer text <p>The 2013 cohort for the Fast Stream joined over the course of 6 months between May and October with a final single joiner in December. At April 2016 there were 185 fast streamers on the first cohort of the Corporate Fast Stream Programme, 120 (65% of total) have completed a posting outside of London ‎to date. The Corporate Fast Stream programme lasts 4 years so full data for this cohort will not be available until the end of 2017 when all participants have completed the programme.</p><p>The Fast Stream aspiration is to have 100% of corporately managed Fast Streamers experience at least one posting outside of London during the 4 year scheme.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 17/06/2016 10:28:45 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

524213

registered interest
date	09/06/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	State Retirement Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Answer of 24 May 2016 to Question 37689, if he will indicate where in that document details are provided on the (a) potential effect on the triple lock pension policy and (b) value of state pensions for people who retire before 6 April 2016 of a potential reduction in economic growth in the event of the UK voting to leave the EU.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	40148
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2016 answer text <p>The document entitled<em> HM Treasury analysis: the immediate economic impact of leaving the EU </em>provides more detail on the impact that leaving the EU would have on GDP, CPI inflation and on average real wages, in Section 2, Part 3 of the document.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Treasury has published further analysis of the impact that leaving the EU would have on pensioner incomes in <em>Effects on pensioners from leaving the EU</em>. Details on the effect on the value of State Pension and the triple lock are included in the section entitled <em>Effects on pensioner incomes</em> on pages 2-3.</p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 15/06/2016 16:07:30 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

524215

registered interest
date	09/06/2016
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	Social Rented Housing: Standards
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 and what proportion of (a) local authority and (b) housing association homes in each English local authority area have not met the decent homes standard in each year since 2001.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	40126
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2016 answer text <p>Estimates at England level of the numbers and proportions of homes ‘not meeting the decent homes standard’ by tenure are available from the English Housing Survey, 2014/15 Headline Report, Housing Stock, Annex Table 2.2 at the following link <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/english-housing-survey-2014-to-2015-headline-report" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/english-housing-survey-2014-to-2015-headline-report</a> Figures for years prior to 2006 are summarised in Live Table 119 at this link <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-dwelling-stock-including-vacants" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-dwelling-stock-including-vacants</a></p><p>Some information at local authority level is available from 2010 from various data returns from local authorities and private registered providers (housing associations) as follows:</p><p>Local authority housing data<br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-housing-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-housing-data</a></p><p>Local Authority Business Plan Statistical Annex<br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/business-plan-statistical-appendix-bpsa-data-returns-for-2010-11" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/business-plan-statistical-appendix-bpsa-data-returns-for-2010-11</a></p><p>Private Registered Providers:<br>Homes and Community Agency (HCA), Statistical Data Return<br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistical-data-return-statistical-releases" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistical-data-return-statistical-releases</a></p><p>HCA Regulatory and Statistical Return<br>http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20120419011320/http:/www.tenantservicesauthority.org/server/show/nav.15039</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 17/06/2016 15:21:22 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

524216

registered interest
date	09/06/2016
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	Local Growth Deals: Tees Valley
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 provide additional resources to the Tees Valley Combined Authority and Local Enterprise Partnership to assist them in the key role envisioned for them in the independent report, Tees Valley: opportunity unlimited, published on 7 June 2016.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
tabling member printed	Tom Blenkinsop
uin	40129
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2016 answer text <p>Officials in the Cities and Local Growth Unit will continue to work with the Tees Valley to implement their current devolution deal – including additional resources of £15 million per year, and over £100 million in already agreed growth deals. Tees Valley Combined Authority is already putting in place plans for implementing Lord Heseltine’s report. Government is committed to work coherently with local leaders to support the economic growth opportunities that have been identified.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stockton South answering member printed James Wharton question first answered 16/06/2016 17:32:15 answering member 4123 label Biography information for Lord Wharton of Yarm previous answer version 3853 answering member constituency Stockton South answering member printed James Wharton answering member 4123 label Biography information for Lord Wharton of Yarm
tabling member	4037 label Biography information for Tom Blenkinsop

524220

registered interest
date	09/06/2016
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	Vacant Land
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 applications there were by developers for housebuilding on brownfield sites in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	40176
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Communities and Local Government does not hold information on the numbers of planning applications made on previously developed (brownfield) land.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 15/06/2016 15:28:02 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

524221

registered interest
date	09/06/2016
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	Hull City Council
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Oral Answer of 6 June 2016, Official Report, column 825, what the source is for the comments attributed to the Leader of Hull City Council.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	40188
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2016 answer text <p>The source was the Hull Daily Mail on the 4th February 2016. The full article can be found through the following link:</p><p><a href="http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Hull-people-happy-UK-average-official-statistics/story-28672567-detail/story.html" target="_blank">http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Hull-people-happy-UK-average-official-statistics/story-28672567-detail/story.html</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 21/06/2016 13:31:39 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark previous answer version 3912 answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson