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The Government has not withdrawn funding for local welfare assistance. In this regard I draw attention to my speech in reply to the question for short debate of 10 February 2015, Official Report<\/em>, Columns 1188-1192, which sets out what the Government is doing to support local welfare provision.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4210", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon"} } , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2015-02-20", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2015-02-20T10:58:51.453Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "7"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Communities and Local Government"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Communities and Local Government"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2015-02-04", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Local Government Finance"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "2"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25277", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Lords"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty\u2019s Government what analysis they have undertaken to determine the ultimate costs of remedial action necessary to deal with the effects of withdrawing funding for local welfare assistance schemes and the fall in the spending on care for people aged over 65 years.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/2170", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Ouseley"} } , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Lord Ouseley"} ], "uin" : "HL4689"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/177979", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Communities and Local Government"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/177979/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "

Local authorities in England collect and report data on the levels of homelessness on a quarterly basis which are published in the homelessness live tables at:
www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness<\/a>.

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Homelessness remains lower than in 27 of the last 30 years and figures for 2013-14 show that homelessness acceptances in England fell 3% compared to 2012-13.<\/p>

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England has one of the strongest safety nets in the world, protected in law, requiring local authorities to secure accommodation for any eligible person who finds themselves homeless through no fault of their own and who is in priority need. This Government has increased investment to £500 million to support local authorities and voluntary sector agencies to prevent and tackle homelessness and since July 2010 this has helped prevent 700,000 cases of homelessness by finding new accommodation or helping people stay in their own home. We fund the National Practitioner Support Service to help local authorities continuously improve their frontline housing services so to better support and protect homeless households. We have also invested over £10 million in the National Homelessness Advice Service that ensure that frontline staff receive the support they need to provide a professional service, as quickly and efficiently as possible.<\/p>

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The £8 million Help for Single Homeless Fund is supporting 34 local authority partnerships to improve services for 22,000 individuals with multiple needs across 168 local authorities. We are helping vulnerable single homeless such as ex-offenders and rough sleepers to find and sustain accommodation in the private rented sector through our £13 million funding to Crisis. By 2016 we expect the Crisis scheme to have helped 10,000 single homeless people since it started in 2010. This Government is also doing more to combat youth homelessness through the new, innovative £15 million Fair Chance Fund programme that will help turn the lives around of 1,600 high needs young people.<\/p>

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The Ministry of Justice publishes quarterly statistical data on employment tribunals and summary data for employment tribunal appeal cases. The latest statistics can be found at the following link:<\/p>

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-and-gender-recognition-certificate-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2014<\/a><\/p>

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Detailed statistics on employment appeal tribunal cases are still published annually but no longer released as a standalone publication. They are included within annual tables published in September each year alongside the Tribunal Statistics Quarterly Bulletin. The latest statistics can be found at the following link in the spreadsheet named Employment and EAT tribunal statistics: 2013 to 2014.<\/p>

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The Ministry of Justice publishes quarterly statistical data on employment tribunals and summary data for employment tribunal appeal cases. The latest statistics can be found at the following link:<\/p>

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-and-gender-recognition-certificate-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2014<\/a><\/p>

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Detailed statistics on employment appeal tribunal cases are still published annually but no longer released as a standalone publication. They are included within annual tables published in September each year alongside the Tribunal Statistics Quarterly Bulletin. The latest statistics can be found at the following link in the spreadsheet named Employment and EAT tribunal statistics: 2013 to 2014.<\/p>

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The Government makes no apologies for seeking to safeguard Green Belt protection and trying to bring a sense of fair play to the planning system. The Government\u2019s planning policy is clear that both temporary and permanent traveller sites are inappropriate development in the Green Belt. The judgment does not question that principle.<\/p>

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It is quite wrong to say that the High Court ruled that the Government discriminated against travellers by automatically banning them from pitching camps in the Green Belt. The Court\u2019s Judgment is around a technical matter, namely how policy relating to the recovery of appeals for Ministerial decision was operated with regard to traveller appeal cases in the Green Belt. The Judgment did not criticise the Government\u2019s policy stating that traveller sites in the Green Belt are inappropriate development in any way.<\/p>

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Indeed, there have been a number of recent legal cases where the courts have upheld the planning appeal decisions of the Secretary of State in relation to traveller development in the Green Belt, dismissed the claims, and awarded costs in favour of DCLG, including:<\/p>

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