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The cost of nationalisation was calculated in a report published by the Social Market Foundation titled \u2018The cost of nationalising the water industry in England\u2019. The report estimated the costs of nationalising water companies, including Thames Water, would be £90bn. This research draws on a range of existing academic studies, as well as publicly available data from Ofwat, the London Stock Exchange and the annual accounts of the water companies. The research can be viewed on the Social Market Foundation\u2019s website www.smf.co.uk.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4395", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Baroness Hayman of Ullock"} } , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Baroness Hayman of Ullock"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2024-08-08", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2024-08-08T10:51:24.467Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "13"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Environment, Food and Rural Affairs"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Environment, Food and Rural Affairs"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2024-07-29", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Thames Water: Nationalisation"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "2"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25277", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Lords"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Baroness Hayman of Ullock on 23 July (HL Deb col 354) that taking Thames Water into public ownership would \"cost billions of pounds and take years to unpick the current ownership model\", whether they plan to publish a full analysis of those costs.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4297", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb"} } , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb"} ], "uin" : "HL429"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1671298", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1671298/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "
The Government understands rural homelessness presents unique challenges which can differ from urban areas.<\/p>
We support local areas to put in place robust measures to identify people sleeping rough. This includes collecting monthly management information,<\/a> alongside the official annual rough sleeping snapsho<\/a>t statistics, which support local authorities to understand better how people experience rough sleeping in their areas so they can design tailored local services.<\/p> Homeless Link have been funded by DLUHC since 2010 to provide guidance to local authorities who conduct the snapshot and independently verify all local authorities\u2019 snapshots. This includes advice about how areas should take different approaches depending on the characteristics of their area.<\/p> <\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of remarks made to the human rights committee of the General Assembly of the United Nations by the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea on 24 October that 11 million people, including 140,000 children in North Korea remain undernourished and that 30,000 of those people \"face an increased risk of death\".", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "questionText" : "Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the situation facing Bahá'ís and other religious minorities in Yemen.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty\u2019s Government what are the specific criteria for selecting and deselecting target countries for the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty\u2019s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Faulks on 10 June (HL139), what assessment they have made of the report by the Institute for Race Relations, Dying for Justice<\/i>, and in particular the finding that, between 1991 and 2014, over 500 deaths occurred in some form of custody, resulting in 10 verdicts of unlawful killing, five prosecutions, and no convictions.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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