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communities and local governments, and later the matter of transfer to | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
deal with later in the chamber. In order, order! The title for | :00:00. | :00:25. | |
private bill, set down for this day. Further consideration for the bill | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
as amended. For the consideration, what date? Tuesday, the 12th of | :00:30. | :00:41. | |
April at 4pm. Order. Questions for communities and local governments. | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
Good afternoon, thank you Mr Speaker. One please. LAUGHTER I | :00:48. | :00:56. | |
would like to answer question one and four together. Consuls retained | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
till billion pounds of the rates they collect. As a result of reforms | :01:03. | :01:10. | |
we estimate that consuls will retain ?26 billion raised by business | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
rates. I thank him for his response. Local confidence is rock-bottom in | :01:15. | :01:23. | |
the budget setting. It shows a huge funding gap. Doesn't the Minister | :01:24. | :01:30. | |
agree that this budget will help consuls take control of their | :01:31. | :01:38. | |
finances, and help local business? I do agree, and I enjoyed meeting with | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
a number of counsellors from my friend's constituency. I've seen the | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
excellent work being done to attract businesses to the local enterprise | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
partnership, and the investor meant in beastly college. | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
the prospect of more business rates will be a great help to her counsel. | :01:58. | :02:10. | |
Chamber of Commerce has declared delight at the announcement that a | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
small business rate will be doubled. Any Secretary of State confirm that | :02:17. | :02:18. | |
the budget measures ensure that rural areas in East Sussex who | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
aren't not receivers of business rates will not be worse off as a | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
result of this change? By friend can have that reassurance. The package | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
that was in the budget for small businesses has been warmly received | :02:35. | :02:36. | |
by small businesses across the country. It must to reduction of | :02:37. | :02:43. | |
nearly ?7 billion over four years. Every penny of that will be made up. | :02:44. | :02:56. | |
Can he explain precisely how that is going to happen? The Institute for | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
Fiscal Studies said that was perfectly possible to commentate for | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
changes or there is great in play. They said it would be nearly | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
impossible to do it after 2020, when there is no grant for the government | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
to use. Also, how precisely with the comments the change from RPI to CGI, | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
given that is a variable that changes year-to-year. How will work? | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
The the compensation will be made in the way that it always has been when | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
we have reduced business rates. Will be paid as a section 31 grant from | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
to local authorities that is tried and tested, and that is the way that | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
these sums are always paid. He will also know that when it comes to the | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
full retention of business rates by 2020, the forecast is that there is | :03:51. | :03:59. | |
26 billion revenue. Consuls retained 13, so there are transfers that need | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
to be made in which will be taken into account by the end of the | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
process. I know that his committee, as with local government generally | :04:07. | :04:14. | |
will want to revise it. As the secretary of state scenic, any | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
weekend in the Sunday papers that poorer areas of the country are | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
going to be doubly disadvantaged? What is the point of mucking around | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
with the finance of local governments if we continue to rob | :04:25. | :04:33. | |
them of powers and taking away the responsibility for education. --? | :04:34. | :04:42. | |
For generations local governments have said that they should be | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
financed by their local funds. We have said that every amount of money | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
raised by local government should be used by local government. He will | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
know, and many members of his party have welcomed devolution of powers | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
that this government has given to local government, and it is | :05:06. | :05:12. | |
something that I am very proud of. The Secretary of State has reflected | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
on the importance of protecting local authorities from the garage of | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
the tax base. With the setting the baseline for business reproduction, | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
measures are included so that there is incentives to encourage local | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
authorities? Small businesses just as much as large ones, to ensure a | :05:33. | :05:39. | |
mixed? That is one of the reasons for the retention, 100% retention of | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
business rates. There is a connection between them, and the | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
best authorities have always seen as their duty and responsibility to | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
promote and attract businesses. In this way, they will get their reward | :05:55. | :06:03. | |
for it. Karim thank you Mr Speaker. Will the former cabinet minister | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
openly admit that the government is -- now that he has admitted the | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
government is dividing us, will they admit that this will hit the poorer | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
councils for the Times harder than the richest? He is wrong on this. | :06:18. | :06:27. | |
The decision that we have made to reduce spending would have been made | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
by any party they came into party at -- power after the election. The | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
difference between this party is that we have devolved the powers so | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
that local authorities can have a greater concern for their own | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
future. In terms of the change in the methodology that we have made, | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
this is something that the Institute of fiscal studies has said is an | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
improvement and a fairer system that took place in previous years. The | :06:53. | :07:02. | |
local government financial settlement reflects a detailed | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
assessment of the need to challenge -- and challenges of each area. We | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
have really save you, and will work with government to move toward 100% | :07:13. | :07:22. | |
as its retention by 2020. Did he want to meet that question with a | :07:23. | :07:35. | |
question 17? Yes, I will. Funds for local governments are going to | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
conservative governments. We agree that it doesn't matter, because | :07:41. | :07:47. | |
those areas don't vote for us? IMs prize to hear this question from | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
him, given that his county of Norfolk has benefited from 14 6 | :07:53. | :07:59. | |
million. -- 1.6 million. I would have thought that in terms of | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
reflecting on his party colleagues, he should take advice from dairy | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
Council, who said that the methodology is a welcome improvement | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
for allocating RSD reductions and goes toward some reductions of | :08:16. | :08:28. | |
unequal funding. They can't have escaped the secretary of state's | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
attention that towns have been hit, those that have been hit hardest | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
haven't had a penny from the local transitional fund. This government | :08:40. | :08:41. | |
feels it's duty is only toward wealthier governments that only | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
voted Tory. Is he ashamed of his callous and unfair treatment of his | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
hometown? He should inform himself better as to what is happening in | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
the Middlesboro local authority. For a start, as a result of the change | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
of methodology, Middlesboro gets an improvement of nearly ?4 million in | :09:05. | :09:11. | |
resources. If I quote from the response to the consultation that | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
had from the council that I thought he might have read before, it says | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
"Do you agree with the proposed methodology for the calculation?" It | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
says yes, on the basis that it does not have a disproportionate impact | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
across local authorities. He should inform himself before he comes to | :09:29. | :09:36. | |
the house and asks questions. Our city Council have been proactive to | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
attracting new business and are looking forward to a greater | :09:40. | :09:41. | |
retention and business rates, but one of the things they lack is | :09:42. | :09:49. | |
certainty. Will there be an additional relief on business rates, | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
can he clarify the compensation available to local authorities that | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
would lead to that happening? He is corrected to raise the transition to | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
100% retention needs to have in place checks and balances that would | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
assure that no authority loses out. The government, with the local | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
Government Association, has agreed to work together to design the | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
system. I look forward to the responses to the consultation, | :10:20. | :10:21. | |
including taking advice from members of this house the select committee, | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
and other bodies. The government has cut millions upon millions of pounds | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
from consuls yet dropped asylum-seekers in our town. Globals | :10:33. | :10:41. | |
are not happy. What is he going to do in terms of funding us? They have | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
benefited from the change to the methodology that we put in place, | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
and the representative organisation for the Metropolitan authorities | :10:53. | :10:54. | |
have welcomed the change. I would say to them that the council has | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
benefited from the local government settlement, and he should be | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
welcoming that. Following this week's revelation that the | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
government has targeted the working poor because they do not vote Tory, | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
will the secretary of state admit that the same thinking I -- funds | :11:15. | :11:31. | |
were channeled into wealthier for he voted constituents these? One of the | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
consuls that she mentioned have benefited from the change in | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
methodology. The Council that her colleague used specifically, Labour | :11:44. | :11:50. | |
last time I checked, called for this transitional measure. What they said | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
was that the measures are usually employed when a new methodology is | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
introduced to ensure that significant shifts are not | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
experienced. The Council believes this is a sensible on the basis that | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
those benefiting are not adversely affected. That is what we have done. | :12:07. | :12:15. | |
Thank you Mr Speaker. I am pleased that we were able to finish the last | :12:16. | :12:18. | |
parliament with more affordable housing than when we finished. We | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
did a bit beyond our target with 276,000 affordable homes which | :12:25. | :12:31. | |
80,000 of were believed shared ownership. Homeownership among young | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
people under the age of 35 is down by over a fifth by 21%. What will | :12:36. | :12:43. | |
every definition of affordable housing to under ?450,000 due to | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
address that problem? I would say that if he looks at some of the | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
papers published over the last couple of weeks, he will see that | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
having had a false since 2003 in homeownership, that has now stalled, | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
and it is our fear determination to increase homeownership. That is what | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
this is about, so I would rather he would help and support us to deliver | :13:05. | :13:16. | |
those homes. One of the keys to the government policy is neighbourhood | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
planning. The Minister will be pleased to hear that an Oakley in my | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
constituency, if then went to referendum and received 95% | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
approval. Given that, does he agree that it is an outrage, therefore, | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
that seven days before the referendum, the planning Inspector | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
allowed an appeal which largely rendered the planet pointless after | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
two years of work? What he going to do about the inspector bulldozing | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
government policy in my constituency? This is a matter I | :13:47. | :13:59. | |
feel -- I think it is important that a verbal homes are delivered in | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
areas that plans have been worked out. I would inspect the inspector | :14:04. | :14:12. | |
to respect the plan. I think the Minister for his response. North | :14:13. | :14:24. | |
Irish households are in need. We need to build 11,000 a year, can I | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
ask the Minister what help will there be to help us purchase even | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
more? He raises a good point, and we are clear that we want to deliver | :14:34. | :14:44. | |
400,000 affordable homes, and a in co-ownership, a fantastic model that | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
allows people for affordability to access the home affordability model. | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
Can he outlined what a couple living in Cornwall below the age of 40 can | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
expect to borrow under the new initiative that this government has | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
implemented for a family home of around ?200,000 a year? I think he | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
makes a good point about how starter homes can help people get onto the | :15:09. | :15:15. | |
housing market in terms of ownership. When you take the money | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
home, apply the discount of at least 20% a break at 260,000 with a 5% | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
deposit, a gift accessibility to a whole new age of people who have | :15:26. | :15:28. | |
been trapped out since Labour's great recession. We have provided up | :15:29. | :15:41. | |
to the 5p of funding to meet the demographic pressures on social | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
care. This is more than a to .9 billion that the local Government | :15:46. | :15:53. | |
Association estimated. The budget reveals a black hole of four million | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
deaths billion pounds of social care alone. What is this government make | :16:00. | :16:06. | |
a priority of giving tax cuts to the wealthy and refuse to give tax cuts | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
to disabled and elderly people? During the process of the spending | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
review, we listen extremely carefully to local government, and | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
they explained the priority that social care was. We responded to | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
that by providing local authorities with up to three by 5 billion | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
pounds, which was in excess of what they were asking for, to .9 billion. | :16:29. | :16:35. | |
The honourable gentleman, I am sure, will acknowledge that the extra | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
support is going well with the additional preset for adult social | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
care. What discussions have taken place between communities and local | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
governments and the department of health regarding the integration of | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
health and social care? I can assure the honourable lady that we have | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
significant and ongoing discussions with the department of health. We | :17:01. | :17:08. | |
both share the same outlook, and we want to fully integrate health and | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
social care by the end of this decade. That is what we are setting | :17:12. | :17:20. | |
out to do with each department. Thank you. Reports that 300,000 | :17:21. | :17:28. | |
unruly people are suffering from chronic loneliness, which leads to | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
early death. -- elderly. The that have been imposed are letting our | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
utterly people die. Is the Minister Pranab this? I would say to her that | :17:39. | :17:48. | |
we are doing a significant amount to support social care. We have put | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
into a preset that has allowed councils to raise up to an | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
additional ?2 billion. We have put in place additional funds into the | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
better care fund, and we are committed to working with the NHS to | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
make sure that health and social care is properly integrated. Part of | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
that integration is making sure that the issues that she mentioned are | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
properly dealt with. I can assure that that is happening. With | :18:16. | :18:23. | |
permission, Mr Speaker, I will take this in conjunction with question | :18:24. | :18:26. | |
seven and 19 following the devastating effects of storms | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
Desmond and Eva. We made available over ?2 million to the areas | :18:32. | :18:44. | |
affected. This government, from the first day of flooding, should have | :18:45. | :18:51. | |
applied to the European fund, but it took the 25th of February to find | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
out that they would apply. If the government so much fighting with | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
itself that they held the process for so long, and why the delay? Is a | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
complex fund, and the application process is complex. You need to | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
determine eligibility and damage, and the process still ongoing as we | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
inform the commission as to the extent of the damage taken place. We | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
started early in January, applied by the deadline, and we are pursuing it | :19:21. | :19:27. | |
now. The flooding was exceptional, and there was impact across the UK | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
and Scotland. Will the Minister confirm that should the bid to the | :19:34. | :19:40. | |
European Solidarity fund be successful, the Scottish Government | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
will receive a fair and proper share of that funding? We do not yet know | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
how long the process will take, ultimately what the quantum of any | :19:50. | :19:57. | |
award might be. The government is already making available significant | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
funds and we continue to work with local authorities and with devolved | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
authorities and governments to assure that this is properly done. | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
We'll make appropriate announcements when more information is available. | :20:10. | :20:16. | |
Since 2002, EU Solidarity fund has helped communities and people from | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
24 countries. I ensure the Minister agrees with me that that is it an | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
excellent example of the positive affects by a membership of the EU. | :20:27. | :20:33. | |
Can he confirm that those severely affected by flooding will receive a | :20:34. | :20:48. | |
Fisher of support. As I have made it clear, we are pursuing this, and it | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
will take some time to pay out. We are in discussion with the | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
commission about the information that they needed to process the | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
application. We will be any position to further announcements about what | :21:00. | :21:07. | |
will be eligible for it to be used for, and we will keep the house | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
updated. And I thank my honourable friend for the help that his | :21:14. | :21:20. | |
department provided to our counsel under the no wind scheme that has | :21:21. | :21:22. | |
been an assistant to my constituents. Can you confirm that | :21:23. | :21:29. | |
his department will continue to provide help to consult to repair | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
the damaged infrastructure which remained damaged to this day, such | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
as roads and bridges? I thank him for his question. It is important | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
that we are clear that although flooding happens over short periods | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
of time, recovery is a longer process. The government is committed | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
to support local authorities and it made available over ?200 million of. | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
We are making available support any of grants where if someone's | :21:58. | :22:04. | |
property has been damaged they can claim. We work with local | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
authorities to deliver assistance and help them recover. Thank you Mr | :22:10. | :22:23. | |
Speaker. 21% terms of completion, the highest level we have seen since | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
2007. There has been over 4000 new housing starts in Cheshire, housing | :22:30. | :22:37. | |
starts are up 91% compared to 2009. To my honourable friend reminded the | :22:38. | :22:45. | |
House who was housing minister when the numbers were so low? The right | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
honourable gentleman, the current shadow Minister was the Minister. We | :22:52. | :23:03. | |
have seen record numbers of housing starts and a large portion are | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
affordable housing. What more can my honourable friend do to make sure | :23:08. | :23:10. | |
that the strong recovery we have seen in housing that that continues, | :23:11. | :23:23. | |
and he continues to deliver on that record? He gives an example of a | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
something I hear time and time again. We are the party that has | :23:27. | :23:33. | |
gotten us building moving again since 2010. I am proud to be housing | :23:34. | :23:42. | |
minister, and it is thanks to the Chancellor. It is the opposite of | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
what we inherited. You are an estate agent! Housing starts rely on | :23:48. | :24:01. | |
housing need. There was an appealing one of my constituencies on the | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
basis that the local authority could not demonstrate housing need -- | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
housing need -- supply for five years. There is an assessment by the | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
local authority that shows an A+ supply. -- eight year. Is there more | :24:17. | :24:25. | |
needed? It is important that local authorities are planning for the | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
future of housing delivery. That is what the local plans are about, and | :24:30. | :24:32. | |
I would encourage local authorities that are working to plans to make | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
sure that they make that provision. He makes a good point around the | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
confidence of having a five-year supply, and we will be responding to | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
the evidence from the expert panel that reported last week. Question | :24:48. | :24:58. | |
number nine. With permission I will answer questions nine and ten | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
together. Since 2010 we have enabled local authorities to help prevent | :25:03. | :25:09. | |
homelessness. One person without a home is too many. We have increased | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
central funding 239 million over the next four years. -- 139 million. I | :25:15. | :25:25. | |
would be grateful if the Minister could answer the question, and in | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
particular why do we have a doubling of street homelessness since 2010, | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
and there are currently 370,000 households with no permanent home? | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
Does the Minister not see that these are a direct result of a series of | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
government policies introduced in 2010, and it's sad to get worse. The | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
removal of the funding, the bedroom tax, housing benefit tax, the kind | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
funding for housing benefits for supportive housing, and a sale of | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
hundred thousand councils? I would suggest that she seek an adjournment | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
debate, but I realised she had just had it. | :26:06. | :26:15. | |
This is an extremely important issue, this conservative party | :26:16. | :26:22. | |
recognises that and we changed the methodology on the rough sleeping to | :26:23. | :26:25. | |
give a more accurate picture of the challenges. The issues with from | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
sleeping or not is about housing, they are about other things like | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
mental health, and issues in relation to other matters, such as | :26:33. | :26:39. | |
trade and drug dependency. What I can say is, the Chancellor work | :26:40. | :26:50. | |
with... Confirmed an additional ?100 million to help move for sleepers | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
out of hostels that they are put into into accommodation so that we | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
can help even more rough sleepers get off of the streets. Thank you Mr | :26:59. | :27:05. | |
Speaker, the Albert Kennedy present report found that 24% of homeless | :27:06. | :27:15. | |
youth are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, abuses their primary | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
reason for homelessness. That the Minister support their cause that | :27:20. | :27:22. | |
vulnerable young people aged 18 to 21 face rejection and abuse at home | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
should be treated as a group except from the housing benefit changes? I | :27:29. | :27:35. | |
spoke to over 100 and people that have been through the problems | :27:36. | :27:42. | |
caused by the issues that the Honorable Lady refers to. I spoke to | :27:43. | :27:47. | |
them just last week, what I can assure her of, is that this | :27:48. | :27:52. | |
government is committed to protecting the most vulnerable | :27:53. | :27:56. | |
through the changes that she mentions, we are looking very | :27:57. | :27:59. | |
carefully at how those changes take place to make sure that the most | :28:00. | :28:03. | |
vulnerable are detected. The Minister as of right to say that the | :28:04. | :28:11. | |
best way to tackle the whole of the people sleeping on our streets is | :28:12. | :28:15. | |
about attacking the underlying causes that he mentions. Can I | :28:16. | :28:20. | |
encourage them minister to use the new ?10 million social impact bond | :28:21. | :28:24. | |
to specifically focus on the underlying causes, so that we don't | :28:25. | :28:26. | |
to stop people going onto the streets we keep them off of the | :28:27. | :28:32. | |
streets altogether. That is a sensible suggestion, I know that my | :28:33. | :28:36. | |
Honorable friend has significant knowledge and expertise in this | :28:37. | :28:40. | |
area. I would say to him that I am working across government, of cross | :28:41. | :28:46. | |
departmental, working group where we are working through these issues to | :28:47. | :28:49. | |
try to bring forward that social impact bond which will help get | :28:50. | :28:55. | |
rough sleepers off of our streets. Can I welcome the hundred million | :28:56. | :29:01. | |
and that the budget for the accommodations for rough sleepers | :29:02. | :29:04. | |
and domestic abuse victims. What work can be done to encourage social | :29:05. | :29:09. | |
and private landlords to take those who find themselves in the | :29:10. | :29:13. | |
situation? Thank you, my Honorable friend makes a extremely important | :29:14. | :29:21. | |
point. This department has supported organizations such as crisis, to | :29:22. | :29:26. | |
deliver support to people to allow them to get into the private rented | :29:27. | :29:31. | |
sector through things such as bond schemes and things such as deposit | :29:32. | :29:34. | |
schemes so that people who otherwise would not be able to afford the | :29:35. | :29:40. | |
deposit to get into private rented accommodation had been able to do | :29:41. | :29:45. | |
so. Last week the communities and local Government committee took all | :29:46. | :29:48. | |
evidence from the crisis would suggest that an estimated 3600 | :29:49. | :29:52. | |
people sleeping rough on a typical night in England. That figure is up | :29:53. | :30:00. | |
in the last year. Why is that of rising so quickly in England and | :30:01. | :30:03. | |
what is he doing to get a grip of this? We are taking serious | :30:04. | :30:10. | |
consideration into making sure that we prevent homelessness before the | :30:11. | :30:13. | |
happen. If homelessness that happen we have to help. As I said earlier | :30:14. | :30:18. | |
we are taking significant steps to help rough sleepers off of the | :30:19. | :30:23. | |
streets. Homeless prevention is key, we are looking at our options, we | :30:24. | :30:27. | |
are looking at what goes on across the world in existence and in the | :30:28. | :30:32. | |
devolved administrations. We are looking at all options working with | :30:33. | :30:36. | |
homeless charities and as I've said before, cross ministerial working | :30:37. | :30:40. | |
group to make sure that we tackle homelessness and because of it. | :30:41. | :30:46. | |
Shelter also giving evidence last week that there have been a few | :30:47. | :30:50. | |
hundred 50% increase in people becoming homeless over the past five | :30:51. | :30:55. | |
years, as a result of their private tendencies pending. Discuss | :30:56. | :30:57. | |
government left the proud when that pass the private... Will the | :30:58. | :31:03. | |
Minister look at what Scotland has done to see what can be brought to | :31:04. | :31:08. | |
benefit homeless people in England? As I said, and my previous answer, | :31:09. | :31:14. | |
we will not ignore good practice for it is happening. We are looking very | :31:15. | :31:19. | |
closely at how we can improve homelessness prevention. If the | :31:20. | :31:22. | |
Honorable Lady would like to contact me with information I would be more | :31:23. | :31:26. | |
than willing to see what they have done in Scotland. I welcome the | :31:27. | :31:35. | |
announcement last the Chancellor of the million pound extra to help | :31:36. | :31:40. | |
tackle from sleeping. It has been happening in my consistency due to | :31:41. | :31:44. | |
high levels of tourist. How will my Honorable friend ensure that | :31:45. | :31:48. | |
journeys to us his truck and Julian house was benefited under the last | :31:49. | :31:51. | |
parliament will be able to benefit from this new fund? I think my | :31:52. | :31:57. | |
Honorable friend and I am delighted to hear his welcome for the changes | :31:58. | :32:03. | |
that have been made in the budget to support homelessness and rough | :32:04. | :32:07. | |
sleeping. I was also pleased to hear from him about the work that Genesis | :32:08. | :32:11. | |
trust has done and the Chilean house. We will be working with the | :32:12. | :32:15. | |
home inspector and local authorities to design the fund to help people | :32:16. | :32:19. | |
that are on the street come off of the street. Last Wednesday, the | :32:20. | :32:27. | |
Chancellor announced money to support the homeless and reduce | :32:28. | :32:31. | |
rough sleeping. But the treasury has indicated that the money announced | :32:32. | :32:35. | |
at the budget is not extra money but comes from DC LGA existing budget | :32:36. | :32:41. | |
amounts and the Autumn Statement. We have an ever-growing... No solution | :32:42. | :32:50. | |
and no extra money. Is this another example of a unfair budget by a | :32:51. | :32:56. | |
deeply flawed Chancellor. I think the Honorable Lady is misguided | :32:57. | :32:59. | |
because some of this money is extra money that is coming in. What she | :33:00. | :33:05. | |
does identify is that we are working very closely with my right | :33:06. | :33:07. | |
honourable friend the Chancellor and the treasury to put right the mess | :33:08. | :33:11. | |
that the auto related party left when they were in government. Number | :33:12. | :33:22. | |
11 Mr Speaker. With permission I what answer questions 11 and 15 | :33:23. | :33:28. | |
together. Since 2010 we have delivered 270,000 affordable homes | :33:29. | :33:42. | |
and 2000 rental homes. To respond specifically on new build social | :33:43. | :33:46. | |
housing, my local authority and housing associations say that they | :33:47. | :33:52. | |
cannot afford to develop social housing. They will develop up to | :33:53. | :33:58. | |
2000 high-value units. We have a social housing crisis, how will the | :33:59. | :34:02. | |
Minister and so that councils and housing associations can afford to | :34:03. | :34:06. | |
build for social friend to match local needs? I would say to the | :34:07. | :34:13. | |
Honorable Lady, and she looks back between 1997 and 2010 and compares | :34:14. | :34:18. | |
it to our record we have seen double the number of council homes built | :34:19. | :34:23. | |
under the conservative government. This is the fastest rate we have | :34:24. | :34:28. | |
seen in 20 years. Housing a float is and is at 824 ?4 billion surplus and | :34:29. | :34:32. | |
local authority has a very bland town. We are encouraging them to use | :34:33. | :34:36. | |
the money to use the homes want to see built. And has been reported | :34:37. | :34:45. | |
that private developers continued to hold many thousands of acres on | :34:46. | :34:49. | |
which they refuse to build and sell housing prices rise to maximise | :34:50. | :34:54. | |
their profits. Can I suggest that a sensible government would take | :34:55. | :34:58. | |
public ownership allocated to local authorities and require and enable | :34:59. | :35:01. | |
them to build the counsel homes to house those in desperate need of a | :35:02. | :35:08. | |
home. I would say, we do want to see developers get on with building. We | :35:09. | :35:11. | |
want to see build-up races and creeds and we want to see local | :35:12. | :35:14. | |
authorities dealing with conditions so that they can get onside quickly | :35:15. | :35:19. | |
and get building more quickly. We want to make that land agents are | :35:20. | :35:29. | |
holding up. Question number 12. Thank you Mr Speaker, measures of | :35:30. | :35:32. | |
the housing and bill to improve conditions. Our proposal includes a | :35:33. | :35:43. | |
database of landlords, introducing orders for serious or repeat | :35:44. | :35:47. | |
offenders and a tougher fit and proper person to extending payment | :35:48. | :35:50. | |
orders and introducing new and higher civil penalties. The majority | :35:51. | :36:01. | |
of the Grammys are in the private -- families renting sector and facing | :36:02. | :36:04. | |
increased in rent every six months. If they complain about repairs and | :36:05. | :36:10. | |
so on they often face eviction. I understand that that will be dealt | :36:11. | :36:15. | |
on an future legislation but will not come into force until 2018, this | :36:16. | :36:20. | |
is not a way to bring up a family, what does the government going to do | :36:21. | :36:23. | |
to get more security to these families. I would say that she has | :36:24. | :36:29. | |
her facts flatly wrong because the interest can buy an October 2000 15. | :36:30. | :36:39. | |
We want to see attendance -- ten minutes, we should pay in mind that | :36:40. | :36:47. | |
the average Tennessee is getting on. She is fried. People should not | :36:48. | :37:00. | |
Thank you Mr Speaker, my Honorable friend is a passionate advocate when | :37:01. | :37:05. | |
it comes to local government matters and took an active part in the | :37:06. | :37:11. | |
devolution of Bill. I know he's Eagle to see things progress. We saw | :37:12. | :37:18. | |
and the budget, announced three new devolution bills. That recruited the | :37:19. | :37:24. | |
deal with better ligature, -- greater ligature. We want to do | :37:25. | :37:33. | |
more. Will he note that six District councils have voted not to be part | :37:34. | :37:38. | |
of the devolution deal. Would he confirmed that he would not impose a | :37:39. | :37:42. | |
deal without their consent and what advice does the half-full. And | :37:43. | :37:52. | |
devolution is to last and make a real solution, it must be done by | :37:53. | :37:56. | |
agreements and a bottom-up process. That's what the legislation at this | :37:57. | :38:00. | |
house past allows, that is what the government of Phils to do. Women are | :38:01. | :38:07. | |
forcing this on any area. It is a welcome sign that so many more areas | :38:08. | :38:11. | |
continues to sign up to continue to have those talks with government. | :38:12. | :38:21. | |
Why is the Chancellor, insisting, that the price of devolution to | :38:22. | :38:25. | |
Lincolnshire is an elected mayor which nobody asked for. Mayors are | :38:26. | :38:31. | |
for a not for large rural areas Word District councils work perfectly | :38:32. | :38:36. | |
well together. Let's have a true devolution and true choice. My right | :38:37. | :38:45. | |
honourable friend is never backwards with coming forward and I have had | :38:46. | :38:48. | |
many discussions with him about this deal. The government does not | :38:49. | :38:52. | |
enforce deal and does not impose mayors. This is a matter of consent | :38:53. | :38:59. | |
local areas. Powers are passed down from government to local areas to | :39:00. | :39:04. | |
drive for the economy and improve life for that community. Question 14 | :39:05. | :39:13. | |
Mr Speaker. We are putting a further ?8.6 billion with investment for the | :39:14. | :39:16. | |
ability for another hundred and 45,000 people to buy their own home | :39:17. | :39:22. | |
by 2020 and 2021. This scheme has made sure that about 43% of the | :39:23. | :39:27. | |
homes sold were built and they would have not been built but we are | :39:28. | :39:35. | |
driving up housing supply. The great city of Lincoln is one of the most | :39:36. | :39:39. | |
successful cities and our country. More people want to live and work | :39:40. | :39:46. | |
there. With my Honorable friend like to remind Lincoln Council that they | :39:47. | :39:53. | |
need to support private house building and public house building | :39:54. | :39:58. | |
to ensure that residents have a choice? It is important that they | :39:59. | :40:03. | |
look at their housing needs and plan to what they need to deliver. Eight | :40:04. | :40:07. | |
is 6% of our population want the chance to own their own home. We | :40:08. | :40:11. | |
encourage that they take on a work actively. They should have a 20% | :40:12. | :40:21. | |
discount. Question number 16 Mr Speaker. Thank you Mr Speaker, and | :40:22. | :40:28. | |
December 2015, the reform planning system has given permission for | :40:29. | :40:34. | |
another 253,000 new homes. That is excellent news. There is a 53% | :40:35. | :40:38. | |
increase on the year until December 2000 ten. -- 2010. What and the | :40:39. | :40:47. | |
government do to ensure that houses that had been given planning | :40:48. | :40:50. | |
permission are built out so that we do achieve our target of 1 million | :40:51. | :40:55. | |
homes? There are a range of things we are doing, they are in the | :40:56. | :40:59. | |
housing impending bill and we have had the winning and this is approved | :41:00. | :41:02. | |
which will make it easier to get into finances. My Honorable friend | :41:03. | :41:06. | |
will be aware that the budget last week, we outlined our plans to make | :41:07. | :41:09. | |
sure that we are dealing with users around preconditions -- | :41:10. | :41:16. | |
precondition. We are speeding up the process and getting developers on | :41:17. | :41:19. | |
site and getting them to build out the clerk -- quick learner -- | :41:20. | :41:33. | |
quicker. Thank you very much Mr Speaker. Before the recess I would | :41:34. | :41:39. | |
like to update the house on the recovery from storm -- in an storm | :41:40. | :41:45. | |
either. The government has restored 21,000 properties. There are hundred | :41:46. | :41:57. | |
millions spent to prepare roads and bridges. Moore was built to announce | :41:58. | :42:10. | |
future floods. The Chancellor offered to have a match funding, we | :42:11. | :42:17. | |
are announcing a one for one match for every pound that has been raised | :42:18. | :42:20. | |
by those community foundations during the floods. The local | :42:21. | :42:26. | |
government pension scheme provides future security and retirement for | :42:27. | :42:30. | |
millions of public service workers. It is funded and financed by the | :42:31. | :42:35. | |
contributions of the workers. The government seems to interfere and | :42:36. | :42:41. | |
the way those funds are invested. Mr Speaker, what legal powers of the | :42:42. | :42:46. | |
government have to do this? Are they intending to invest and strategies | :42:47. | :42:50. | |
of other UK pension funds and why treat them differently? What I would | :42:51. | :42:54. | |
say is that there is a consultation that he knows, I'm not sure if he | :42:55. | :42:58. | |
has contributed to it, that competition has closed. We are | :42:59. | :43:01. | |
reflecting on the response and I will update the house and we have | :43:02. | :43:06. | |
had a chance to do so. I have many towns and my constituency that are | :43:07. | :43:10. | |
formally adopting the neighbourhood plans. They have had their plans in | :43:11. | :43:14. | |
place for a long time and are constantly challenged by developers | :43:15. | :43:26. | |
putting in applications Forsyth outside of their plan. Will the | :43:27. | :43:28. | |
Minister uphold the status of neighbourhood plans of the planning | :43:29. | :43:30. | |
process and return local democracy to villages and towns? My Honorable | :43:31. | :43:32. | |
friend makes a good point, we do absolutely hold plants and portends | :43:33. | :43:36. | |
and neighbourhoods. I would say, we are congratulating them for creating | :43:37. | :43:40. | |
their plans. I know she appreciates, I cannot comment on a particular | :43:41. | :43:44. | |
case but I want to stress that the national planning part of policy | :43:45. | :43:50. | |
framing may conflict with what has been brought forward. Planning | :43:51. | :43:59. | |
permission should not be granted. My question is for the Secretary of | :44:00. | :44:02. | |
State who clearly lacks the clout to argue his Department case with the | :44:03. | :44:07. | |
Chancellor, because there is nothing in the budget on housing. Nothing to | :44:08. | :44:12. | |
reverse six years of failure to writhing homelessness and falling | :44:13. | :44:17. | |
home on a ship. Despite the global banking collapse and the profession, | :44:18. | :44:21. | |
we saw hundred 20,000 new homes built and the profession, we saw | :44:22. | :44:23. | |
hundred 20,000 new homes built in this country, five years later, that | :44:24. | :44:29. | |
total is only 5000 higher. At this rate, the Secretary of State will | :44:30. | :44:36. | |
not hit his health target and 2079. Why so little in the budget on | :44:37. | :44:42. | |
housing? Mr Speaker I would stay to the Honorable gentleman with great | :44:43. | :44:46. | |
respect, he may want to have a look at the buds and it outlines a bunch | :44:47. | :44:52. | |
of matches on planning. That's a it gives is the biggest building | :44:53. | :44:58. | |
programme. That's a contrast of his own record. Joining government is | :44:59. | :45:09. | |
the hundreds of thousands. I well thought through June 20, 2000 is a | :45:10. | :45:21. | |
good news. That's 120,000. On the contrary, this brings the total tool | :45:22. | :45:26. | |
around and about half that labor was investing when I was the last labor | :45:27. | :45:29. | |
housing minister and building new homes in this country. The truth is | :45:30. | :45:34. | |
there was little in the budget on housing, there was nothing in the | :45:35. | :45:37. | |
budget that will deal with the causes of the housing crisis those | :45:38. | :45:42. | |
six years of the year is that the stress to ten. Will the Minister now | :45:43. | :45:49. | |
admit that on housing, the sensors credibility is an Saturday. -- | :45:50. | :45:58. | |
Saturday. He was the Minister that saw the lowest level of house | :45:59. | :46:03. | |
building since 1993. I'm happy to work with the Chancellor who had | :46:04. | :46:06. | |
given the country the biggest building of houses. It's the number | :46:07. | :46:17. | |
of first-time buyers have doubled. We are delivering affordable housing | :46:18. | :46:20. | |
at the fastest rate in over 20 years. We deliver doubled in number | :46:21. | :46:26. | |
of council housing over the last five years. I'm proud of our track | :46:27. | :46:30. | |
record and we continue in and to continue to deliver faster than | :46:31. | :46:31. | |
labor ever did. My Honorable friend, would take time out of his very busy | :46:32. | :46:48. | |
schedule to come and visit this outstanding counsel. I am very happy | :46:49. | :46:55. | |
to join my Honorable friend on a visit. The last time I was visiting | :46:56. | :46:59. | |
it was great to see the ambition and hard worker lab coat Lee Mack local | :47:00. | :47:07. | |
pouncing is putting in. I will look forward to visiting very soon. Once | :47:08. | :47:16. | |
I is that the final award under the EU Solidarity award has not been | :47:17. | :47:20. | |
decided, can I nevertheless lacked the Minister to ensure that however | :47:21. | :47:27. | |
it is a portion ensure that it reaches the community. A simple | :47:28. | :47:31. | |
population share going to discover discover the mountains sure that | :47:32. | :47:35. | |
enriches my constituency. Mr Speaker, the intention of the | :47:36. | :47:38. | |
government is to support those communities affected by the terrible | :47:39. | :47:41. | |
impact of storm that Desmond and Eva. We are talking about what we | :47:42. | :47:50. | |
can do to help Scotland and what the impact is to inform the bit is that | :47:51. | :47:53. | |
we are making for the Solidarity fund. Can the Minister of State the | :47:54. | :48:04. | |
house on the future of the community fund and readers sure the future | :48:05. | :48:09. | |
rounds will focus on the social problems? Thank you Mr Speaker. The | :48:10. | :48:23. | |
hundred 19 coastal community teams across England are taking control of | :48:24. | :48:30. | |
their own areas for generations. One team was earlier doctors of the CCT | :48:31. | :48:37. | |
concept. They received ?2 million from the fund for a project that was | :48:38. | :48:48. | |
successfully launched in 2015. In December 2015, they received ?50,000 | :48:49. | :48:51. | |
for coastal revival for emergency work in the... This is the first | :48:52. | :48:58. | |
step and dreading a museum in popular culture. -- creating. I was | :48:59. | :49:13. | |
the audible member good luck for any bits that may emanate from this | :49:14. | :49:20. | |
constituency. Rather than cutting support for people with disabilities | :49:21. | :49:22. | |
would it be better for the government to cut the housing | :49:23. | :49:26. | |
benefit bill Woods is up by 4.4 billion over the last four years. Is | :49:27. | :49:32. | |
it a failure of the government the build another house was his driving | :49:33. | :49:36. | |
upgrades, heavy reliance on the private sector and isn't not a | :49:37. | :49:39. | |
disgrace of the budgets do not put any money in the budgets do not put | :49:40. | :49:42. | |
any money into building social housing? I would say that he wants | :49:43. | :49:50. | |
to look back to the spending review. I would also just point out, the | :49:51. | :49:55. | |
problem that we have had is that under Labour, one 870 homes were | :49:56. | :50:00. | |
sold under Right to Buy they only built one. That's important that we | :50:01. | :50:05. | |
build more homes, and London, which I know is dear to his heart we are | :50:06. | :50:09. | |
look at two-for-one. That is good for delivering new homes. Thank you | :50:10. | :50:16. | |
Mr Speaker, last exposes are welcome news for small businesses and | :50:17. | :50:19. | |
perhaps across my constituency to form the Times is the business | :50:20. | :50:23. | |
rates. What will my Honorable friend give Torbay Council sold my concern | :50:24. | :50:30. | |
the benefits? I thank the Honorable friend, the government has announced | :50:31. | :50:35. | |
the biggest cutting business rates were 61 ?7 billion over five years | :50:36. | :50:42. | |
were prominently doubling and increasing thresholds. I'm sure that | :50:43. | :50:48. | |
will help many of the small businesses that the honourable | :50:49. | :50:56. | |
gentleman sets out to support. Thank you Mr Speaker, the financial cost | :50:57. | :51:00. | |
of homelessness is going up to nearly ?1 billion. Research on the | :51:01. | :51:06. | |
charity crisis is selling that tackling single homelessness early | :51:07. | :51:09. | |
can save the government between PayPal from ?18,000 for each person | :51:10. | :51:14. | |
that they help. I would like to ask the Minister what work the | :51:15. | :51:18. | |
government is doing to work with charities? We are working with | :51:19. | :51:22. | |
prizes and a number of other homeless charities, and local | :51:23. | :51:26. | |
authorities and we are working across government because we | :51:27. | :51:29. | |
absolutely recognise that prevented people from becoming homeless is the | :51:30. | :51:35. | |
key to this issue and I hope that we come forth in the not-too-distant | :51:36. | :51:39. | |
future with announcements to this important issue. Construction of the | :51:40. | :51:46. | |
middle which is the bypass would open up substantial opportunities. | :51:47. | :51:53. | |
Will the Minister meet with me to discuss how this can be progressed? | :51:54. | :51:58. | |
My Honorable friend is one of the most passionate and committed | :51:59. | :52:03. | |
advocate for her position that I haven't counsel. I know how much the | :52:04. | :52:08. | |
investment that she craves matters to her. I will be delighted to meet | :52:09. | :52:12. | |
her in any representatives that she wishes to bring to see what the | :52:13. | :52:20. | |
government can do to help? The Secretary of State said he would | :52:21. | :52:23. | |
re-examine the fact that these also care preset would help the areas | :52:24. | :52:30. | |
that needed the most. The lease. Would he tell the House sticking has | :52:31. | :52:34. | |
updated because the areas that have relied on the sum of the most are | :52:35. | :52:39. | |
not giving what they need? I'm very happy to meet him because that is | :52:40. | :52:45. | |
not true. The better care from goals provides to those authorities to | :52:46. | :52:48. | |
have fewer resources through the present. I'm happy to meet him to | :52:49. | :52:55. | |
update him. Thank you Mr Speaker, I welcome the Garda of Lincolnshire | :52:56. | :52:59. | |
devolution deal that has been finalised. Can the Minister assured | :53:00. | :53:10. | |
me that he will look at this and redesignate the whole of ligature to | :53:11. | :53:15. | |
the Smolensk with clue what I would say to my Honorable friend is that I | :53:16. | :53:20. | |
don't have any regard to these artificial previous expired | :53:21. | :53:24. | |
administrative boundaries. The Lincoln share is proud, my Honorable | :53:25. | :53:36. | |
friend is a big champion. And only six years the government has taken | :53:37. | :53:40. | |
away many pounds from my counsel. How does the Minister think that | :53:41. | :53:49. | |
this has existed? What I would say is that in representations, councils | :53:50. | :53:57. | |
across the country including groups like physical studies have been | :53:58. | :54:01. | |
selected of this is a better way to allocate resources and councils will | :54:02. | :54:07. | |
this as a fairer means. My right honourable friend I have quite | :54:08. | :54:14. | |
rightly been concerned about these effectiveness of local government in | :54:15. | :54:18. | |
Birmingham, this is not a party political point because those | :54:19. | :54:22. | |
concerns have extended under both conservative and Labour | :54:23. | :54:25. | |
administrations and his negotiations, with the Birmingham | :54:26. | :54:29. | |
improvement panel, under the excellent John Crabtree, what he | :54:30. | :54:32. | |
bear in mind the importance of giving the new new Labour leader | :54:33. | :54:37. | |
these days to implement the necessary reforms? I will, and I | :54:38. | :54:45. | |
would like to pay to do to John Crabtree and his final panelist. I'm | :54:46. | :54:50. | |
pleased that of the city Council has made progress on the | :54:51. | :54:55. | |
recommendations, the panel has done a lot of work in helping the council | :54:56. | :55:00. | |
to become more responsive, to a of towns at the council will have to | :55:01. | :55:04. | |
overcome to overcome to translate his vision into reality. The | :55:05. | :55:09. | |
palindromic today suggesting that they step back and return in the | :55:10. | :55:15. | |
autumn report on how the Council has progressed. I'm very happy to accept | :55:16. | :55:20. | |
that recommendation, and I was the well for the month ahead. | :55:21. | :55:26. | |
With your permission, I am inquiring about the report of Islam's | :55:27. | :55:33. | |
afternoon for a better devolution and the unit during the evidence | :55:34. | :55:36. | |
session the Secretary of State was kind enough to send he would engage | :55:37. | :55:42. | |
in a discussion for Belfast for a city deal. Can I ask them to | :55:43. | :55:46. | |
reaffirm his commitment to engage in those discussions? I will do with | :55:47. | :55:50. | |
great pleasure and I'll look forward Most common visitors, was pubs | :55:51. | :56:03. | |
cannot be webs of as assets of community values because the wells | :56:04. | :56:07. | |
Labour government opted out, what can Minister Tommy to do to help | :56:08. | :56:09. | |
protect? Mamba friend is trying to get the | :56:10. | :56:20. | |
same protections that we have been able to get an inkling. We can work | :56:21. | :56:25. | |
together to convince the boss government that they should be | :56:26. | :56:27. | |
protected in To ask the Chancellor of the | :56:28. | :56:45. | |
Exchequer if you will make | :56:46. | :56:46. |