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62823

registered interest
date	19/06/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Passports
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether British passport holders wanted by the police have their details routinely reported to Border Force.
tabling member printed	Lord Marlesford
uin	HL503
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The UK holds a watchlist of adverse information and intelligence drawn from a variety of sources, including the police. The system is used by Home Office staff for the purposes of national security and the detection and prevention of crime. It is longstanding policy not to discuss either the specific data held on the watchlist, the source of the data or how it is used as to do so would be counterproductive.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Taylor of Holbeach question first answered 23/06/2014 12:59:29 answering member 3787 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Holbeach
tabling member	1854 label Biography information for Lord Marlesford

62846

registered interest
date	19/06/2014
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	Right 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 changes have been made to the Preserved Right to Buy since May 2010; and what consultation processes have accompanied such changes.
tabling member constituency	Hyndburn
tabling member printed	Graham Jones
uin	201445
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Helping people to achieve their home ownership aspirations is a central part of the Government's housing strategy. This is why the Government reinvigorated the Right to Buy and, by extension, the Preserved Right to Buy, increasing the maximum cash caps to £75,000 in April 2012. At the same time, the Government committed to keeping the discounts under review to ensure they remain effective.</p><p> </p><p>To reflect the unique nature of the housing market in London, the maximum cash cap for London was increased to £100,000 in March 2013. As part of keeping the discounts under review, the Government is currently legislating to increase annually the maximum cash cap by the Consumer Price Index, and to bring the maximum percentage discount available for houses up, from 60 per cent to 70 per cent, to the same level as that available for flats. We are also legislating, via the Deregulation Bill, to decrease the qualifying eligibility period from five years to three years, bringing it in line with the policy's original intentions.</p><p>My Department consulted widely on changes to the Right to Buy prior to the reinvigoration of the scheme in April 2012. We have held roundtable meetings with key partners, such as the National Housing Federation, the Local Government Association and individual local authorities, on the further changes outlined above.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 24/06/2014 11:32:08 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	3999 label Biography information for Graham P Jones

62847

registered interest
date	19/06/2014
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 Services: Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when he next plans to meet the Fire Brigades Union to discuss the pensions dispute.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
uin	201446
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>I have regular meetings with the Fire Brigades Union. The most recent request for a meeting has come from Matt Wrack, the General Secretary of the Fire Brigades Union, and is dated 20 June. I am content to agree to this request as long as the Union is not in a period of strike action.</p><p>Earlier this year I agreed that the Government Actuary's Department could cost alternative pension scheme designs that the Union had proposed. After constructive discussions, I wrote to the General Secretary on 23 April 2014 stating that their proposals were under consideration. The following day, the Union prematurely called a halt to those discussions by announcing strike action. I have since published draft regulations for consultation to implement the Proposed Final Agreement which was published in May 2012. I would encourage the Union to engage in that formal statutory consultation process which can be found at</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/consultation-on-the-regulations-to-introduce-a-new-firefighters-pension-scheme-from-april-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/consultation-on-the-regulations-to-introduce-a-new-firefighters-pension-scheme-from-april-2015</a></p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis grouped question UIN 201496 question first answered 24/06/2014 11:40:58 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

62849

registered interest
date	19/06/2014
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	Right 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, how many homes have been sold to date through the Preserved Right to Buy; what steps his Department takes to ensure such homes can be replaced; and how many homes sold under Preserved Right to Buy have been replaced to date.
tabling member constituency	Hyndburn
tabling member printed	Graham Jones
uin	201436
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>This Government wants to ensure that as many social tenants as possible are helped to achieve their home ownership aspirations. The Preserved Right to Buy ensures that social tenants who were living in their homes at the time of a stock transfer maintain their important right to home ownership. Figures for Preserved Right to Buy sales are collected by the Department on an annual basis. In the first year of the reinvigorated scheme (2012-13), there were 2,458 Preserved Right to Buy sales. Sales data for previous years (table 648) can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-social-housing-sales" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-social-housing-sales</a></p><p>As housing associations are independent organisations, and stock transfer agreements are private commercial contracts, we do not mandate what they do with receipts they receive from Preserved Right to Buy sales. It is the Department's expectation that these receipts should be used to help fund new homes for affordable rent, and we would encourage housing associations to work in partnership with local authorities, and use other sources of cross-subsidy, to help achieve this.</p><p>For future stock transfers, my Department has recently published a Stock Transfer Manual which sets out our intention to require that, for transfers completing after 30 September 2014, net proceeds from Preserved Right to Buy sales are, within three years, used to fund new affordable housing at no greater subsidy cost than under the main affordable homes programme.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins grouped question UIN 201438 question first answered 24/06/2014 11:34:10 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	3999 label Biography information for Graham P Jones

62850

registered interest
date	19/06/2014
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	Right 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 steps his Department is taking to monitor the effect of the Preserved Right to Buy on the number of affordable homes.
tabling member constituency	Hyndburn
tabling member printed	Graham Jones
uin	201438
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>This Government wants to ensure that as many social tenants as possible are helped to achieve their home ownership aspirations. The Preserved Right to Buy ensures that social tenants who were living in their homes at the time of a stock transfer maintain their important right to home ownership. Figures for Preserved Right to Buy sales are collected by the Department on an annual basis. In the first year of the reinvigorated scheme (2012-13), there were 2,458 Preserved Right to Buy sales. Sales data for previous years (table 648) can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-social-housing-sales" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-social-housing-sales</a></p><p>As housing associations are independent organisations, and stock transfer agreements are private commercial contracts, we do not mandate what they do with receipts they receive from Preserved Right to Buy sales. It is the Department's expectation that these receipts should be used to help fund new homes for affordable rent, and we would encourage housing associations to work in partnership with local authorities, and use other sources of cross-subsidy, to help achieve this.</p><p>For future stock transfers, my Department has recently published a Stock Transfer Manual which sets out our intention to require that, for transfers completing after 30 September 2014, net proceeds from Preserved Right to Buy sales are, within three years, used to fund new affordable housing at no greater subsidy cost than under the main affordable homes programme.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins grouped question UIN 201436 question first answered 24/06/2014 11:34:10 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	3999 label Biography information for Graham P Jones

62851

registered interest
date	19/06/2014
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 Services: Pensions
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 to the hon. Member for Bristol North West, Official Report, column 152W, on fire services: pensions, if he will publish outstanding information requested by the Fire Brigades Union.
tabling member constituency	Blaydon
tabling member printed	Mr David Anderson
uin	201588
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>On 12 June I published all of the costings that the Fire Brigades Union requested the Government Actuary's Department to undertake on their behalf. The costings and related communications can be found at the following link:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/firefighters-pension-schemereforms" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/firefighters-pension-schemereforms</a>.</p><p>I also placed copies in the Library of the House.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 24/06/2014 11:27:44 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	1486 label Biography information for Mr David Anderson

62855

registered interest
date	19/06/2014
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 Services
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 firefighters there are per head of the population in (a) England and (b) Wales.
tabling member constituency	Esher and Walton
tabling member printed	Mr Dominic Raab
uin	201500
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The latest numbers of full time equivalent whole-time, retained duty system and total firefighters per 10,000 head of population are shown in the table below.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>Wholetime firefighters</p><p>(full time equivalent)</p><p>per 10,000 population</p></td><td><p>Retained Duty System Firefighters</p><p>(full time equivalent)</p><p>per 10,000 population</p></td><td><p>Total firefighter</p><p>(full time equivalent)</p><p>per 10,000 population</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>5.09</p></td><td><p>2.12</p></td><td><p>7.21</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>4.94</p></td><td><p>4.63</p></td><td><p>9.57</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Sources: ONS mid-2012 population estimates, DCLG 2012-13 Annual Returns, Wales 2012-13 Annual returns</em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 24/06/2014 11:38:15 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab

62856

registered interest
date	19/06/2014
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 Services: Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans he has to make a new offer to the Fire Brigades Union based on the costings by the Government Actuary's Department.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
uin	201496
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>I have regular meetings with the Fire Brigades Union. The most recent request for a meeting has come from Matt Wrack, the General Secretary of the Fire Brigades Union, and is dated 20 June. I am content to agree to this request as long as the Union is not in a period of strike action.</p><p>Earlier this year I agreed that the Government Actuary's Department could cost alternative pension scheme designs that the Union had proposed. After constructive discussions, I wrote to the General Secretary on 23 April 2014 stating that their proposals were under consideration. The following day, the Union prematurely called a halt to those discussions by announcing strike action. I have since published draft regulations for consultation to implement the Proposed Final Agreement which was published in May 2012. I would encourage the Union to engage in that formal statutory consultation process which can be found at</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/consultation-on-the-regulations-to-introduce-a-new-firefighters-pension-scheme-from-april-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/consultation-on-the-regulations-to-introduce-a-new-firefighters-pension-scheme-from-april-2015</a></p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis grouped question UIN 201446 question first answered 24/06/2014 11:40:58 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

62869

registered interest
date	19/06/2014
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether bidders for the Next Generation Estates contracts were invited to offer a blanket bid for all contracts.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Moor View
tabling member printed	Alison Seabeck
uin	201413
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Next Generation Estate Contracts consist of six separate contracts which were advertised separately. Some companies chose to become involved in bids for more than one but since the procurements were competed separately the Defence Infrastructure Organisation did not encourage a “blanket bid”. It was left for tenderers to make their own commercial judgement in this respect.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 23/06/2014 15:24:15 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	1552 label Biography information for Alison Seabeck

62895

registered interest
date	19/06/2014
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will issue guidance to the West Midlands Waterways, Canal and River Trust and other similar trusts that replies to hon. Members who have written on behalf of their constituents should be signed.
tabling member constituency	Walsall North
tabling member printed	Mr David Winnick
uin	201453
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>As independent charities, handling correspondence is entirely a matter for the Canal &amp; River Trust and other similar trusts. However, I have asked my officials to draw this issue to the attention of the Trust at their next meeting.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 24/06/2014 10:09:29 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
tabling member	316 label Biography information for Mr David Winnick