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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 13 May 2019
Domestic Abuse

"I, too, welcome this statement, which will be very welcome in my constituency. I have often raised concerns about Jane’s Place in my constituency, which opened in 2017 to provide specialist support for victims of the most horrendous domestic abuse, which affected those victims in a very serious fashion. Since …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 24 Apr 2019
Local Government and Social Care Funding

"Let me begin by putting my speech in context. Some of the wards in my constituency are among the most deprived in the country, and feature regularly in the index of multiple deprivation. Thirty per cent. of children in my constituency are growing up in poverty, and in some wards …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 04 Mar 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"T9.   Labour leaders of Burnley and Hyndburn Borough Councils have joined Conservative leaders of Pendle Borough Council and Lancashire County Council to raise their serious concerns about the Government’s proposal to remove deprivation as a factor when determining local authority funding. Will the Minister listen to that cross-party call for …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 31 Oct 2018
Shale Gas Development

"I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for securing this important debate. Would he comment on the fact that Lancashire County Council voted against the planning application, but that was overruled by the Government?..."
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Written Question
Microgeneration: Non-domestic Rates
Thursday 26th January 2017

Asked by: Julie Cooper (Labour - Burnley)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will make it his policy to make the microgeneration exemption from business rates permanent in order to assist companies in investing in clean energy.

Answered by Marcus Jones

Business rates are based on valuations from the Valuation Office Agency and we do not intervene in their independent assessments. We have put in place a £3.6 billion transitional relief scheme for England to ensure no ratepayer is unfairly penalised at the 2017 revaluation.

Written Question
Solar Power: Non-domestic Rates
Thursday 26th January 2017

Asked by: Julie Cooper (Labour - Burnley)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will take steps to ensure that proposed changes in business rates do not have an adverse effect on the solar industry.

Answered by Marcus Jones

Business rates are based on valuations from the Valuation Office Agency and we do not intervene in their independent assessments. We have put in place a £3.6 billion transitional relief scheme for England to ensure no ratepayer is unfairly penalised at the 2017 revaluation.

Written Question
Solar Power: Non-domestic Rates
Thursday 26th January 2017

Asked by: Julie Cooper (Labour - Burnley)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will make it his policy to deem solar panels as excepted plant and machinery for the purposes of business rates in a similar way to gas-powered combined heat and power boilers.

Answered by Marcus Jones

Business rates are based on valuations from the Valuation Office Agency and we do not intervene in their independent assessments. We have put in place a £3.6 billion transitional relief scheme for England to ensure no ratepayer is unfairly penalised at the 2017 revaluation.

Written Question
Department for Communities and Local Government Select Committee
Wednesday 27th April 2016

Asked by: Julie Cooper (Labour - Burnley)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many times he has attended public meetings of the Communities and Local Government Committee since his appointment.

Answered by Marcus Jones

The Secretary of State has attended four meetings of the Communities and Local Government Select Committee since his appointment.

Written Question
Floods: Lancashire
Wednesday 9th March 2016

Asked by: Julie Cooper (Labour - Burnley)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 25 February 2016 to Question 26199, on flooding insurance, how much of the funding provided to support businesses has been allocated to (a) Lancashire and (b) Burnley and Padiham.

Answered by Lord Wharton of Yarm

To support local authorities impacted by Storms Desmond and Eva, the Department has provided Lancashire County Council with £4.3 million to date under the Community and Business Recovery Scheme. The Scheme has been designed to support local authorities across the country, such as Burnley, to develop and deliver their own locally tailored support packages for impacted businesses and communities. Burnley Borough Council has also received a further £56,070 for Business Rates relief to support flooded businesses.

Written Question
EU Grants and Loans: Burnley
Wednesday 9th December 2015

Asked by: Julie Cooper (Labour - Burnley)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much Burnley received from the European Regional Development Fund and the European Social Fund in each year from 2010 to 2015.

Answered by Lord Wharton of Yarm

The European Regional Development Fund during 2010 – 2015 has provided over £5 million in funding for Burnley.

The breakdown of European Rgional Development Fund projects in Burnley are as follows;

  • £3.8 million invested into Burnley Bridge Business Park. The Fund undertook activity to remediate the brownfield site, provide infrastructure and deliver a first phase of commercial development totalling 9,309 sqm.
  • £940,000 invested into Weavers Triangle. The funding was allocated to support high quality civic and infrastructure work in a strategic area of Burnley.
  • £500,000 invested into Princess Way Gateway for civic improvements linked to the Burnley Education and Enterprise Park.

In addition to the above direct capital investments, small and medium enterprises in Burnley have also benefitted from a number of business support projects operating at county and regional level. Not least the £7.8 million BOOST Lancashire Growth Hub of which the Fund has invested £3.4 million.

The European Social Fund was managed as a national programme by the Department for Work and Pensions over that period.