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673444

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date	16/01/2017
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	Credit Unions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 12 January 2017 to Question 58730, on credit unions, what steps he plans to take to complete the expansion project for credit unions; how the £38 million will be allocated; and over what time period that allocation will take place.
tabling member constituency	Bolton North East
tabling member printed	Sir David Crausby
uin	59997
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2017 answer text <p>The Contract to deliver the Credit Union Expansion Project was scheduled to end in December 2016. The Association of British Credit Unions Ltd (ABCUL) are delivering the Contract and has provided a proposal to extend the delivery timeline. To allow the proposal to be considered the Department has agreed an interim Contract extension to February 2017.</p><p> </p><p>To the end of December 2016, £30.8.m has been spent. Any remaining expenditure is subject to agreement on ABCUL’s proposal to extend the Contract and delivery of specific outcomes.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 23/01/2017 14:54:45 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	437 label Biography information for Sir David Crausby

673445

registered interest
date	16/01/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Fossil Fuels: Capital Investment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect of fiscal changes made in the Budget 2016 on capital investment in the oil and gas sector.
tabling member constituency	Aberdeen South
tabling member printed	Callum McCaig
uin	60017
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2017 answer text <p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Office" target="_blank">The Office</a> for Budget Responsibility’s Economic and Fiscal Outlook (November 2016) includes the latest forecasts for oil and gas. The November Outlook indicates a downward trend in planned capital expenditure in the oil and gas sector, from £10.1 billion in 2016 to £3.7 billion in 2021. This reflects a lower oil price and its consequential effect on overall production.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has taken unprecedented action to support jobs, investment and activity in the UK and UK Continental Shelf. Budget 2016 announced a £1 billion package of fiscal reform, supporting the industry through the challenging commercial conditions caused by the steep fall in oil prices. Lower tax rates will improve the economics of new investment and future discoveries. The basin-wide Investment Allowance, introduced in 2015, further reduces the effective rate of tax for many companies, including at the exploration stage.</p><p> </p><p>As a result of these changes, the UK now has one of the most competitive tax regimes for oil and gas in the world, supporting jobs and investment.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 60018 60019 60020 question first answered 19/01/2017 15:26:23 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4364 label Biography information for Callum McCaig

673446

registered interest
date	16/01/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Fossil Fuels: Exploration
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect of fiscal changes made in the Budget 2016 on exploration in the oil and gas sector.
tabling member constituency	Aberdeen South
tabling member printed	Callum McCaig
uin	60018
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2017 answer text <p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Office" target="_blank">The Office</a> for Budget Responsibility’s Economic and Fiscal Outlook (November 2016) includes the latest forecasts for oil and gas. The November Outlook indicates a downward trend in planned capital expenditure in the oil and gas sector, from £10.1 billion in 2016 to £3.7 billion in 2021. This reflects a lower oil price and its consequential effect on overall production.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has taken unprecedented action to support jobs, investment and activity in the UK and UK Continental Shelf. Budget 2016 announced a £1 billion package of fiscal reform, supporting the industry through the challenging commercial conditions caused by the steep fall in oil prices. Lower tax rates will improve the economics of new investment and future discoveries. The basin-wide Investment Allowance, introduced in 2015, further reduces the effective rate of tax for many companies, including at the exploration stage.</p><p> </p><p>As a result of these changes, the UK now has one of the most competitive tax regimes for oil and gas in the world, supporting jobs and investment.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 60017 60019 60020 question first answered 19/01/2017 15:26:23 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4364 label Biography information for Callum McCaig

673447

registered interest
date	16/01/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Fossil Fuels: Exploration
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to boost oil and gas exploration in the UK continental shelf.
tabling member constituency	Aberdeen South
tabling member printed	Callum McCaig
uin	60019
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2017 answer text <p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Office" target="_blank">The Office</a> for Budget Responsibility’s Economic and Fiscal Outlook (November 2016) includes the latest forecasts for oil and gas. The November Outlook indicates a downward trend in planned capital expenditure in the oil and gas sector, from £10.1 billion in 2016 to £3.7 billion in 2021. This reflects a lower oil price and its consequential effect on overall production.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has taken unprecedented action to support jobs, investment and activity in the UK and UK Continental Shelf. Budget 2016 announced a £1 billion package of fiscal reform, supporting the industry through the challenging commercial conditions caused by the steep fall in oil prices. Lower tax rates will improve the economics of new investment and future discoveries. The basin-wide Investment Allowance, introduced in 2015, further reduces the effective rate of tax for many companies, including at the exploration stage.</p><p> </p><p>As a result of these changes, the UK now has one of the most competitive tax regimes for oil and gas in the world, supporting jobs and investment.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 60017 60018 60020 question first answered 19/01/2017 15:26:23 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4364 label Biography information for Callum McCaig

673448

registered interest
date	16/01/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Fossil Fuels
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect of fiscal changes made in the Budget 2016 on levels of employment in the UK oil and gas sector.
tabling member constituency	Aberdeen South
tabling member printed	Callum McCaig
uin	60020
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2017 answer text <p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Office" target="_blank">The Office</a> for Budget Responsibility’s Economic and Fiscal Outlook (November 2016) includes the latest forecasts for oil and gas. The November Outlook indicates a downward trend in planned capital expenditure in the oil and gas sector, from £10.1 billion in 2016 to £3.7 billion in 2021. This reflects a lower oil price and its consequential effect on overall production.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has taken unprecedented action to support jobs, investment and activity in the UK and UK Continental Shelf. Budget 2016 announced a £1 billion package of fiscal reform, supporting the industry through the challenging commercial conditions caused by the steep fall in oil prices. Lower tax rates will improve the economics of new investment and future discoveries. The basin-wide Investment Allowance, introduced in 2015, further reduces the effective rate of tax for many companies, including at the exploration stage.</p><p> </p><p>As a result of these changes, the UK now has one of the most competitive tax regimes for oil and gas in the world, supporting jobs and investment.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 60017 60018 60019 question first answered 19/01/2017 15:26:24 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4364 label Biography information for Callum McCaig

673449

registered interest
date	16/01/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Gift Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what (a) guidance and (b) regulations apply to the allocation of Gift Aid funds by charities in receipt of such funds.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	60155
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2017 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is responsible for ensuring charities and donors claim only the reliefs to which they are entitled. The legislation on Gift Aid is at sections 413 to 430 Income Tax Act 2007. Guidance for donors can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/donating-to-charity/gift-aid" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/donating-to-charity/gift-aid</a>. Guidance for charities can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/claim-gift-aid/overview" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/claim-gift-aid/overview</a>.</p><p> </p><p>It is the role of the Charity regulators to ensure charities are publicly accountable for the management of their funds (including Gift Aid) and have used them for their stated charitable purposes. The Charity Commission is responsible for the regulation of all charities in England and Wales. Charities in Scotland and Northern Ireland are regulated by the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator and the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland respectively.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 24/01/2017 10:19:53 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

673450

registered interest
date	16/01/2017
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	Private Rented Housing: Homelessness
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 Answer of 12 January 2017 to Question 58921, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of re-introducing funding for private rented sector access schemes to support single homeless people to access private rented housing.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	60156
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2017 answer text <p>Policy proposals to help vulnerable people and low income households to access and maintain tenancies in the Private Rented Sector were discussed at recent meetings of the Affordability &amp; Security Working group. The group is made up of representatives from across the housing sector to look at what more we can do to improve affordability and security within the private rented sector. The working group’s final report is due to be submitted to ministers for consideration by the end of January.</p><p>We are committed to preventing homelessness. That is why we have protected £315 million for local authority homelessness prevention funding, secured £149 million central government funding in this Parliament, and we are supporting Bob Blackman’s Homelessness Reduction Bill, which will ensure that everyone who needs it, is supported to prevent a homelessness crisis.</p><p>We recently announced the allocation of our £50 million Homelessness Prevention Programme which is supporting 84 projects covering 225 areas all over England to provide an innovative approach to tackling homelessness, with prevention at its heart. This includes £20m for those at imminent risk of sleeping rough to secure accommodation and get them back on their feet.</p><p>We are also investing £100 million to deliver low-cost accommodation for those ready to move on from a homelessness crisis – including rough sleepers leaving hostel accommodation. Details of the bidding process outside London will be announced by the Homes and Communities Agency in the spring.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 02/02/2017 14:43:19 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones previous answer version 31252 answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

673451

registered interest
date	16/01/2017
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	Universal Credit: Homelessness
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 are registered with local authorities in England as being homeless receive universal credit payments.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	60168
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2017 answer text <p>The Department for Communities and Local Government does not collect ths information.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 24/01/2017 13:41:11 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones previous answer version 31254 answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

673452

registered interest
date	16/01/2017
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	Garden Communities: Construction
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how his Department plans to measure whether proposed new garden cities, towns and villages are attractive and well-designed; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Welwyn Hatfield
tabling member printed	Grant Shapps
uin	60145
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2017 answer text <p>We do not want to impose a set of design or development principles on communities. We want to support local authorities and communities in developing their own vision for locally-led garden towns and villages, taking account of local plans. We expect to see ambitious proposals that set high standards for design, quality and the provision of green space.</p><p>We are working with local areas to establish how best to measure and ensure those ambitions are being delivered.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon Central answering member printed Gavin Barwell question first answered 20/01/2017 14:39:45 answering member 3955 label Biography information for Lord Barwell
tabling member	1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps

673453

registered interest
date	16/01/2017
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	Garden Communities: Construction
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 garden towns of more than 10,000 homes his Department plans to fund in the next 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Welwyn Hatfield
tabling member printed	Grant Shapps
uin	60124
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2017 answer text <p>We are currently supporting the development of ten new locally led garden communities of more than 10,000 homes at Ebbsfleet, Bicester, Didcot, Basingstoke, Otterpool Park in Kent, Aylesbury, Taunton, Harlow &amp; Gilston, North Essex and North Northamptonshire.</p><p>We do not have a pre-set view of how many more garden communities of more than 10,000 homes we may support. We are encouraging local areas to be ambitious and want to see proposals that will provide high quality, transformational housing growth.</p> answering member constituency Croydon Central answering member printed Gavin Barwell question first answered 20/01/2017 14:38:13 answering member 3955 label Biography information for Lord Barwell
tabling member	1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps