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Written Question
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Senior Civil Servants
Tuesday 27th October 2020

Asked by: Baroness Kramer (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)

Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many BAME civil servants there are at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government at (1) SCS1, (2) SCS2, (3) SCS3, and (4) SCS4, grade.

Answered by Lord Greenhalgh

The Department collects this information from employees who declare their ethnicity on a voluntary basis. Due to the number of SCS declaring and the data protection risk this creates, we are unable to breakdown this information by SCS grade from 1 to 4, as requested.

Published Annual Civil Service statistics include BAME representation by Department and can be found (attached) here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/civil-service-statistics-2020

Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 24 Jul 2020
Insolvency Act 1986 Part A1 Moratorium (Eligibility of Private Registered Providers) Regulations 2020

"My Lords, I first thank the noble Lord, Lord Agnew of Oulton, for alerting me that the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 might throw up some problems for the social housing, charitable, mutual and social enterprise sectors and that these would be dealt with through statutory instruments, of which …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 14 Jul 2020
Business and Planning Bill

"My Lords, it was always my intention to speak only to Amendment 73, to which I have added my name. I thank the Minister for coming forward with what we all hope will be a resolution to what was, I am sure, an oversight in the drafting of the Coronavirus …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 14 Jul 2020
Business and Planning Bill

"My Lords, as employers bring back employees, even observing all the government guidelines scrupulously only reduces the risk of Covid—it does not eliminate it. That brings me to the issue of employers’ liability insurance and Covid, which I raised at Second Reading. I thank the noble Earl, Lord Howe, for …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 13 Jul 2020
Business and Planning Bill

"My Lords, I support Amendments 46, 47 and 48 and regard all three as exceedingly important. I will start by picking up on an issue described by my noble friend Lord German. We know now that the major banks, which have been able to participate in the bounce-back scheme because …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 13 Jul 2020
Business and Planning Bill

"My Lords, I will be exceedingly brief. I only wanted to address Clause 14(2)(b), which is basically about HGV licence applications. The Government have, in effect, temporarily waived the requirement for medical certificates, which I find entirely appropriate in light of the pandemic and the difficulty of requiring the medical …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 13 Jul 2020
Business and Planning Bill

"My Lords, I shall be brief. I just want to pick up on a point made earlier by my noble friend Lady Bowles: that the opening up promoted by this Bill—which I support, particularly given some of the safeguards embedded in amendments —should not extend to supermarkets and convenience stores. …..."
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Written Question
Local Government Finance: Richmond upon Thames
Monday 14th November 2016

Asked by: Baroness Kramer (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)

Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the total block grant given to Richmond Council in each of the last five years for which figures are available.

Answered by Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

It is not possible to directly compare the figures across years due to changes in the services funded through the block grant for each year. However, I will place the figures in question in the libraries of both Houses.

Revenue Support Grant

Redistributed Business Rates

Estimated Retained Business Rates

Formula Grant

Settlement Funding Assessment

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)=(1)+(2)

(5)=(1)+(3)

2012-13

572,601

29,538,726

30,111,328

2013-14

29,642,189

19,720,137

49,362,326

2014-15

25,785,909

20,104,296

45,890,205

2015-16

21,584,278

20,488,454

42,072,732

2016-17

12,333,794

20,659,191

32,992,985