Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many homes have been purchased through the Help to Buy scheme in each Nottinghamshire parliamentary constituency in each year since the scheme's inception.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
Data on Help to Buy: Equity Loan completions is published by local authority, but not by constituency.
Completions each year through Help to Buy: Equity Loan in each Nottinghamshire district from April 2013 to December 2018 are as follows:
District | 2013* | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
Ashfield | 91 | 194 | 139 | 232 | 174 | 100 |
Bassetlaw | 48 | 35 | 66 | 104 | 95 | 120 |
Broxtowe | 6 | 1 | 10 | 51 | 39 | 54 |
Gedling | 34 | 80 | 53 | 22 | 27 | 58 |
Mansfield | 38 | 90 | 83 | 56 | 57 | 57 |
Newark and Sherwood | 39 | 75 | 94 | 137 | 135 | 142 |
Rushcliffe | 34 | 36 | 60 | 109 | 166 | 199 |
*April to December
The latest official quarterly release of Help to Buy: Equity Loan statistics to December 2018 can be viewed here:
Completions by local authority are listed on Table 1 in the section Tables.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the availability of discretionary business rate relief for childcare providers offering funded places; and which local authorities offer that relief.
Answered by Rishi Sunak
Decisions on whether to grant discretionary business rates reliefs are taken by individual local authorities, and the Government does not hold data on whether local authorities award that relief to childcare providers.
Since Budget 2016 the Government has introduced business rates measures in England worth £13 billion over the next five years. This includes switching the indexation of business rates from the retail price index to the consumer price index, representing a cut in rates to all ratepayers, including childcare providers, worth over £6 billion over the next five years. The Government has also doubled the threshold for 100 per cent small business rate relief meaning that 655,000 businesses including many childcare providers now pay no business rates at all.
The Government monitors the childcare provider market closely through a range of research projects and plans to spend around £3.5 billion on our early education entitlements this year alone.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of effect of the cost of business rates on the financial sustainability of the childcare sector in England.
Answered by Rishi Sunak
Decisions on whether to grant discretionary business rates reliefs are taken by individual local authorities, and the Government does not hold data on whether local authorities award that relief to childcare providers.
Since Budget 2016 the Government has introduced business rates measures in England worth £13 billion over the next five years. This includes switching the indexation of business rates from the retail price index to the consumer price index, representing a cut in rates to all ratepayers, including childcare providers, worth over £6 billion over the next five years. The Government has also doubled the threshold for 100 per cent small business rate relief meaning that 655,000 businesses including many childcare providers now pay no business rates at all.
The Government monitors the childcare provider market closely through a range of research projects and plans to spend around £3.5 billion on our early education entitlements this year alone.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to Answer of 21 February 2019 to Question 222603 on Homelessness: Nottinghamshire, how much funding (a) Ashfield District Council and (b) Broxtowe Borough Council has received from (i) homelessness core funding and (ii) flexible homelessness support grant funding in each year since 2010.
Answered by Heather Wheeler
This Government is committed to reducing homelessness and rough sleeping, which is why we have now committed over £1.2 billion to tackle it over the spending review period, including the £75 million Rough Sleeping Initiative (RSI). We are particularly encouraged that across the 83 RSI areas rough sleeping numbers have fallen by almost a fifth. In its first year, councils have used the investment to create an additional 1,750 beds and provide 500 rough sleeping support staff – this means there are more people in warm beds tonight as a direct result of government funding.
(i) homelessness core funding started in 2013/14 and (ii) flexible homelessness support grant commenced in 2017/18.
The record we hold shows Ashfield and Broxtowe has received the funding below:
Ashfield | 13/14 | 14/15 | 15/16 | 16/17 | 17/18 | 18/19 | 19/20 |
Homelessness Core Funding | £50,000 | £49,252 | £49,235 | £49,180 | £49,263 | £49,371 | £49,338 |
FHSG |
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| £51,501 | £54,762 | £91,632 |
Total | £50,000 | £49,252 | £49,235 | £49,180 | £100,764 | £104,133 | £140,970 |
Broxtowe | 13/14 | 14/15 | 15/16 | 16/17 | 17/18 | 18/19 | 19/20 |
Homelessness Core Funding | £87,772 | £86,459 | £86,430 | £86,332 | £86,478 | £86,667 | £86,610 |
FHSG |
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| £72,895 | £77,510 | £117,384 |
Total | £87,772 | £86,459 | £86,430 | £86,332 | £159,373 | £164,177 | £203,994 |
Details of flexible homelessness support grant can be found at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/flexible-homelessness-support-grant-2019-to-2020.
Details of homelessness core funding can be found at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/core-spending-power-visible-lines-of-funding-2019-to-2020.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much funding (a) Ashfield District Council and (b) Broxtowe Borough Council have received from the Homelessness Relief Fund.
Answered by Heather Wheeler
Local authorities, including both Ashfield District Council and Broxtowe Borough Council, receive funding to prevent and relieve homelessness from my Department. This includes preventing homelessness core funding and flexible homelessness support grant funding. However, we do not operate a fund called the Homelessness Relief Fund and are therefore unable to provide the specific information you request.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to page 23 of the Victims Strategy, published in September 2018, Cm. 9700, whether the spending commitment of £18.8m on domestic abuse accommodation services will come from existing budgets.
Answered by Heather Wheeler
Domestic abuse is an abhorrent crime that nobody should have to suffer. The Government is committed to protecting victims of domestic abuse. In the 2015 Spending Review, my Department secured £40 million to support victims of domestic abuse. Funding for the 2018-20 £18.8 million fund for accommodation-based domestic abuse services comes from this £40 million. The fund was open to all local authorities across England to bid for a share and we will be announcing the successful projects in due course.
Our 2016-18 £20 million fund was also delivered with Spending Review 2015 funding. This supported 80 projects across 258 local authorities in England, helping to create more than 2,000 bed spaces in safe accommodation, including refuge, and giving support to over 19,000 victims and their families.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to page 23 of the Victims Strategy, published in September 2018, Cm. 9700, whether the spending commitment of £18.8m on domestic abuse accommodation services will come from existing budgets.
Answered by Heather Wheeler
Domestic abuse is an abhorrent crime that nobody should have to suffer. The Government is committed to protecting victims of domestic abuse. In the 2015 Spending Review, my Department secured £40 million to support victims of domestic abuse. Funding for the 2018-20 £18.8 million fund for accommodation-based domestic abuse services comes from this £40 million. The fund was open to all local authorities across England to bid for a share and we will be announcing the successful projects in due course.
Our 2016-18 £20 million fund was also delivered with Spending Review 2015 funding. This supported 80 projects across 258 local authorities in England, helping to create more than 2,000 bed spaces in safe accommodation, including refuge, and giving support to over 19,000 victims and their families.