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Written Question
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities: Recruitment
Wednesday 8th February 2023

Asked by: Christine Jardine (Liberal Democrat - Edinburgh West)

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how much his Department spent on recruitment consultants in each of the last three years.

Answered by Dehenna Davison

This information requested is not held centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.


Written Question
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities: Redundancy Pay
Friday 18th November 2022

Asked by: Christine Jardine (Liberal Democrat - Edinburgh West)

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what the cost to the public purse has been of Ministerial severance pay in his Department in each year since 1 January 2016.

Answered by Dehenna Davison

Details of such payments are published in departmental annual reports and accounts, and ministerial salaries are published here.


Written Question
UK Shared Prosperity Fund: Scotland
Monday 19th July 2021

Asked by: Christine Jardine (Liberal Democrat - Edinburgh West)

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

What recent discussions he has had with the (a) Secretary of State for Scotland and (b) Scottish Government on the allocation of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.

Answered by Luke Hall - Minister of State (Education)

The UK Shared Prosperity Fund is a core part of our Levelling Up agenda and I regularly speak to my ministerial colleagues about the fund. My officials regularly engage their counterparts in the devolved administrations to discuss any updates, concerns or queries.

The UK Government will continue to engage the devolved administrations and local partners as we develop the fund's investment framework and in advance of its publication.

I am pleased to be working more directly with local partners and communities across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, who are best placed to understand the needs of their local areas and more closely aligned to the local economic geographies to deliver quickly on the ground.


Written Question
Housing: Domestic Abuse
Monday 4th May 2020

Asked by: Christine Jardine (Liberal Democrat - Edinburgh West)

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if his Department will allocate ring-fenced funding to local authorities for the housing of domestic abuse survivors.

Answered by Luke Hall - Minister of State (Education)

Following an announcement on 17 February, my Department has now paid £16.6 million to 75 local authority-led projects in England for the delivery of support to victims of domestic abuse, and their children, within safe accommodation, helping up to 43,000 survivors.

The Government is providing a total of £3.2 billion to local authorities to help them meet additional pressures arising from the Covid-19 pandemic, such as by supporting survivors of domestic abuse into safe accommodation.


Written Question
Domestic Abuse: Hotels
Wednesday 29th April 2020

Asked by: Christine Jardine (Liberal Democrat - Edinburgh West)

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if his Department will introduce a coordination system, developed in conjunction with specialist Violence Against Women and Girls providers and with local authorities, to allocate hotel spaces alongside specialist support to people deemed in priority need as a result of domestic abuse.

Answered by Luke Hall - Minister of State (Education)

We are looking carefully at all safe and appropriate accommodation options for supporting victims of domestic abuse and their children.

The Government’s priority remains for refuges to stay open, up and running to enable victims of domestic abuse to be able to access the support they need.

My officials have been liaising closely with Refuge and the National Domestic Abuse Helpline, the Office of the Domestic Abuse Commissioner, Women’s Aid and the wider refuge sector as well as other Government Departments, including the Home Office, from the start of the lockdown to monitor how demand is changing.

In England, under homelessness legislation a person who is pregnant, has dependent children, or is vulnerable as a result of having to leave accommodation due to domestic abuse has priority need for accommodation and will be accommodated by the local authority. Local authorities use a range of accommodation options to find appropriate housing for victims, including working with specialist domestic abuse and/or Violence Against Women and Girls providers where appropriate.

The Scottish Government are responsible for setting policy regarding homelessness and domestic abuse in Scotland and will be able to advise further.


Written Question
Aviation: Planning Permission
Wednesday 27th December 2017

Asked by: Christine Jardine (Liberal Democrat - Edinburgh West)

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate his Department has made of the number of airfields potentially due to close as a result of planning permissions; and if he will make a statement.

Answered by Alok Sharma - COP26 President (Cabinet Office)

The Government has a clear planning policy for airfields set out in the National Planning Policy Framework. It recognises the significant contribution that aviation makes to economic growth and requires local authorities, when preparing their Local Plans, to take account of the role of airfields in meeting business, leisure, training and emergency service needs.

Planning guidance supporting the Framework makes clear to local authorities that they should consider the interconnectivity between airfields of different sizes and that they should have regard to the Aviation Policy Framework.