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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 22 Jul 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"Does the Secretary of State think that modular building methods could play a bigger role in helping us to increase the supply of housing?..."
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Written Question
Families: Disadvantaged
Wednesday 13th March 2019

Asked by: Alex Burghart (Conservative - Brentwood and Ongar)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans his Department has to continue the Troubled Families programme beyond 2020.

Answered by Rishi Sunak

The Government remains committed to helping local authorities support vulnerable families. We will review the Troubled Families Programme’s impact on families, services and taxpayers as part of our planning for the Spending Review.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 05 Nov 2018
Oral Answers to Questions

"The Housing First initiative has clear potential to prevent homelessness. What is the Department doing to monitor the effectiveness of pilots in Manchester and other cities, and what are its plans for taking the evidence forward?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 01 Nov 2018
Budget Resolutions

"Before I come to my main speech, I wish to refer to some comments made by my hon. Friend the Member for Aldershot (Leo Docherty) about Marxism and sausages. During my hon. Friend’s speech, the hon. Member for Bootle (Peter Dowd), of whom I am perpetually fond, shouted from a …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 16 Oct 2018
Rating (Property in Common Occupation) and Council Tax (Empty Dwellings) Bill

"I strongly welcome the Minister’s comments. There are a number of empty properties in my constituency that I would very much like to see come back on the market. Will the Minister tell us what effect the Government’s action has had in this policy area? By what proportion has the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 16 Oct 2018
Rating (Property in Common Occupation) and Council Tax (Empty Dwellings) Bill

"I sorry to ask the Minister this question; it is ignorance on my part. How do councils ascertain that properties are empty? Might we need to give councils additional powers so that they can identify which properties are truly empty?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 10 Sep 2018
Gypsies and Travellers

"My hon. Friend is being extremely generous with his time. I fully support his comments about extending the trespass law in the UK as it has been in Ireland. It is currently possible for travelling families to come to an agreement with private landlords so that they can settle on …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 30 Apr 2018
Windrush

"I welcome the Secretary of State to his position. My constituents want to know not only that the taskforce is doing its job and reaching out to encourage people to get in touch with the Home Secretary, but that the Government are using all the resources at their disposal to …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 12 Mar 2018
Oral Answers to Questions

"T5. What recent assessment has the Department made of the success of the troubled families programme?..."
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Written Question
Children: Disadvantaged
Monday 5th March 2018

Asked by: Alex Burghart (Conservative - Brentwood and Ongar)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many and what proportion of families on the Troubled Families Programme had one or more children who were categorised as Children in Need in each of the last 12 months for which data is available.

Answered by Rishi Sunak

We track the characteristics of families on the Troubled Families Programme through our National Impact Study, which uses national administrative datasets. In our latest dataset 43.9 per cent of the 79,616 families for whom we have linked data had at least one child categorised as a Child in Need.

This means that children in families on the programme were eleven times more likely to be classified as a Child in Need than those in the general population. The latest Children in Need data we have access to is for families who joined the programme before the end of March 2016, and so our results are subject to time lags.