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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/173660/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The Beds in Sheds Taskforce was a specific initiative in 2012 to 2013, to hold a set of summits to bring together councils and central government to ascertain best practice and barriers to be removed to help ensure co-ordinated action against illegal outbuildings.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>Summits took place on 27 November 2012, 30 April 2013 and 1 July 2013. It was not an ongoing working group.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>In July 2013, £2.6 million was subsequently allocated to nine local authorities to deal with the mainly London-based problem of beds in sheds, with a further £4.1 million of targeted funding to 23 local authorities in December 2013 to tackle rogue landlord behaviour (including beds in sheds).<\/p><p> <\/p><p>Thanks to the lessons learnt and best practice adopted from these meetings in 2012 to 2013, we estimate there have been:<\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><ul><li>2,500 streets surveyed<\/li><li>30,000 inspections<\/li><li>1,100 raids<\/li><li>2,800 landlords facing prosecution<\/li><li>530 buildings prohibited, and<\/li><li>145 sheds demolished.<\/li><\/ul><p> <\/p><p>Following our 2012 publication, we will in due course be publishing refreshed guidance to local authorities on tackling beds in sheds and rogue landlords.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>The Immigration Act 2014 contains a raft of measures which puts the law firmly on the side of those who respect it, not those who break it, by:<\/p><p> <\/p><ul><li>stopping migrants using public services to which they are not entitled;<\/li><li>reducing the pull factors which encourage people to come to the UK for the wrong reasons; and,<\/li><li>making it easier to remove people who should not be here.<\/li><\/ul>"}
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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/173661/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The fund will make investments over two years from 2015/16 to 2016/17. The funds must be drawn down by 31 March 2017.<br><br>The shortlisted bids to the Builders Finance Fund are currently undergoing due diligence and have the ability to deliver over 10,000 new homes. We have recently expanded the scope of the fund to enable smaller builders with schemes between 5 and 15 units to access this funding and the Homes and Communities Agency are currently engaging with the market to seek further bids for such schemes. The first contracts are due to be completed in the Spring with the first homes expected to be started in the first half of 2015.<\/p>"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the average (a) output in number of units per annum and (b) annual turnover is of the firms that have been allocated funds through the Builders Finance Fund.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Emma Reynolds"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/173662", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Communities and Local Government"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/173662/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The fund will make investments over two years from 2015/16 to 2016/17. The funds must be drawn down by 31 March 2017.<br><br>The shortlisted bids to the Builders Finance Fund are currently undergoing due diligence and have the ability to deliver over 10,000 new homes. We have recently expanded the scope of the fund to enable smaller builders with schemes between 5 and 15 units to access this funding and the Homes and Communities Agency are currently engaging with the market to seek further bids for such schemes. The first contracts are due to be completed in the Spring with the first homes expected to be started in the first half of 2015.<\/p>"}
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      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4077", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Emma Reynolds"}
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      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Emma Reynolds"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/173663", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Communities and Local Government"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/173663/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The fund will make investments over two years from 2015/16 to 2016/17. The funds must be drawn down by 31 March 2017.<br><br>The shortlisted bids to the Builders Finance Fund are currently undergoing due diligence and have the ability to deliver over 10,000 new homes. We have recently expanded the scope of the fund to enable smaller builders with schemes between 5 and 15 units to access this funding and the Homes and Communities Agency are currently engaging with the market to seek further bids for such schemes. The first contracts are due to be completed in the Spring with the first homes expected to be started in the first half of 2015.<\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4009", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many homes he expects to be built through funding from the Builders Finance Fund; and how many such homes have been started.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4077", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Emma Reynolds"}
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      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Emma Reynolds"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/173664", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Communities and Local Government"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/173664/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The Housing Standards Review consultation set out the Government's intention to introduce, through Building Regulations, the zero carbon homes standard from 2016. This will include an energy performance standard for on-site measures equivalent to the Code for Sustainable Homes Level 4, and a national framework for off-site carbon abatement measures (allowable solutions). The Government expects that any local policies setting requirements for a proportion of energy used in residential development to be from renewable energy sources generated on site to be applied in a way consistent with this approach. The consultation closed on 7 November 2014 and the Government is analysing the responses and will announce its conclusions in due course.<\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1492", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Stephen Williams"}
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      , "date" : {"_value" : "2015-01-14", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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      , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Written Statement of 13 March 2014, Official Report, columns 32-4WS, on building regulations, whether local authorities will remain able to impose reasonable requirements for a proportion of energy used in development to be energy from renewable energy sources generated on-site.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4077", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Emma Reynolds"}
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      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Emma Reynolds"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to the contribution of 13 January 2015 by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, Official Report, columns 218-22WH, on care sector, what discussions his Department has had with the Department for Communities and Local Government and the Department of Health on the effect of commissioning decisions by local authorities on the level of compliance with the national minimum wage in the care sector; and if he will make a statement.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/204", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Paul Burstow"}
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