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750001

registered interest
date	10/07/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Official Residences
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will provide a list of ministerial residences and their authorised occupants.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	3866
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2017 answer text <p>Official residences are assigned to ministers at the discretion of the Prime Minister, either on the grounds of security or to allow them to better perform their official duties. The current allocations are as follows: the Prime Minister has No 11 Downing Street; the Chancellor has No 10 Downing Street and the Foreign Secretary has No 1 Carlton Gardens. The flats in Admiralty House are not occupied. In addition, the Prime Minister has use of Chequers, the Chancellor has use of Dorneywood; the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland has use of Hillsborough Castle and the Foreign Secretary, the Secretary of State for International Trade and the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union have joint use of Chevening.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 18/07/2017 14:12:36 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

750002

registered interest
date	10/07/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Annual Reports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he plans to publish his Department's Annual Report and Accounts 2016-17.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	3867
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2017 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office 2016-17 Annual Report and Accounts will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 18/07/2017 15:11:05 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

750004

registered interest
date	10/07/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Chequers: Grants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what grant in aid was awarded to the trustees of Chequers in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	3868
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2017 answer text <p>Grant in aid payments to the Chequers Trust are published in the Cabinet Office Annual Report and Accounts.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 18/07/2017 14:13:53 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

750064

registered interest
date	10/07/2017
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	Leasehold
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent meetings he has attended on leasehold reform.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	3832
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>The Secretary of State has regular meetings to discuss housing matters, including leasehold reform. The Secretary of State made his views clear at the Home Builders Federation’s Policy Conference of 28 March 2017.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 20/07/2017 14:58:00 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

750069

registered interest
date	10/07/2017
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	Leasehold
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the proportion of leasehold properties affected by contracts specifying the periodic doubling of ground rent.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	3834
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government does not hold this information but is aware of this issue and is determined to act to address any abuses within the leasehold system.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 19/07/2017 14:33:25 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

750070

registered interest
date	10/07/2017
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	Help to Buy Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the proportion of help to buy properties which are (a) leasehold and (b) freehold.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	3833
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>The Department’s statistics on the Help to Buy: Equity Loan scheme are published and available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/help-to-buy-equity-loan-scheme-and-help-to-buy-newbuy-statistics-april-2013-to-march-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/help-to-buy-equity-loan-scheme-and-help-to-buy-newbuy-statistics-april-2013-to-march-2017</a></p><p>This includes Tables 9, 9b and 9c with completions by property type and tenure (freehold and leasehold) on a cumulative, quarterly and local authority basis.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 19/07/2017 14:30:34 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

750071

registered interest
date	10/07/2017
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	Affordable Housing
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 planning appeals have been made on affordable housing allocations in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	3831
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>The Planning Inspectorate does not hold the information requested.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 19/07/2017 14:28:37 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

750139

registered interest
date	10/07/2017
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	1 Carlton Gardens: Operating Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the annual running costs of No. 1 Carlton Gardens were in each of the last seven years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	3849
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2017 answer text <p>The annual running costs for 1 Carlton Gardens are shown below:</p><p>Financial year 2010/11 £751,802</p><p>Financial year 2011/12 £766,524</p><p>Financial year 2012/13 £721,231</p><p>Financial year 2013/14 £740,332</p><p>Financial year 2014/15 £933,736</p><p>Financial year 2015/16 £850,099</p><p>Financial year 2016/17 £984,491</p><p>The rise between 2013/14 and 2014/15 was due to an increase in annual rent (following a Crown Estates rent review). The rise between 2015/2016 and 2016/17 was primarily due to increased security costs.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 18/07/2017 15:42:29 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

750178

registered interest
date	10/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Department of Health: USA
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what meetings he had on his visit to Houston, Texas in February 2017; and what the (a) purpose and (b) cost to the public purse was of those meetings.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	3830
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2017 answer text <p>My Rt. Hon. Friend the Secretary of State did not visit Texas in February 2017.</p><p> </p><p>The former Parliamentary under Secretary of State (Nicola Blackwood) attended the Arab Health Conference on 30 and 31 January 2017 to promote British business, in order to help achieve the Prime Minister’s stated goal of close collaboration and partnership in healthcare. The Minister held meetings with a number Government Ministers and officials from the United Arab Emirates, Dubai and Saudi Arabia, and engaged with representatives from numerous British companies, trade bodies and healthcare suppliers as part of the conference.</p><p> </p><p>Further information on Ministerial overseas visits and meetings, including costs, is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ministerial-gifts-hospitality-travel-and-external-meetings-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ministerial-gifts-hospitality-travel-and-external-meetings-2017</a></p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne grouped question UIN 3886 question first answered 13/07/2017 12:32:55 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

750179

registered interest
date	10/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Department of Health: Incentives
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, (a) how many officials in his Department received a performance-related pay bonus and (b) what the cost of those bonuses was to the public purse in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	3828
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2017 answer text <p>Non-consolidated performance related pay is only paid to reward excellence, for example to recognise and incentivise those responsible for delivering high quality public services and savings to the taxpayer. These one-off payments are not pensionable.</p><p> </p><p>The table below shows how many officials in the Department received a performance related payment and the cost of those payments in each of the last five complete financial years.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Senior Civil Servants (SCS)</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Delegated Grades (AO to Grade 6)</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Total Cost</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>*Year</p></td><td><p>Headcount</p></td><td><p>Cost</p></td><td><p>Headcount</p></td><td><p>Cost</p></td><td><p>Headcount</p></td><td><p>Cost</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>36</p></td><td><p>£ 381,664</p></td><td><p>410</p></td><td><p>£ 396,868</p></td><td><p>446</p></td><td><p>£ 778,532</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>40</p></td><td><p>£ 434,744</p></td><td><p>351</p></td><td><p>£ 335,705</p></td><td><p>391</p></td><td><p>£ 770,449</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>37</p></td><td><p>£ 405,000</p></td><td><p>386</p></td><td><p>£ 373,857</p></td><td><p>423</p></td><td><p>£ 778,857</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>46</p></td><td><p>£ 495,082</p></td><td><p>404</p></td><td><p>£ 388,378</p></td><td><p>450</p></td><td><p>£ 883,460</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>46</p></td><td><p>£ 388,450</p></td><td><p>503</p></td><td><p>£ 487,566</p></td><td><p>549</p></td><td><p>£ 876,016</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Note: *End of year non-consolidated performance related payments paid in each of the financial years relates to performance in the previous year.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 13/07/2017 12:24:59 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders