Asked by: Kate Green (Labour - Stretford and Urmston)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many Travellers who conform to the revised definition of Gypsy Travellers as set out in the Planning Policy for Traveller Sites 2015 have been successful in obtaining a pitch in the last year for which data is available.
Answered by Alok Sharma - COP26 President (Cabinet Office)
The Government has made no such estimates. It is the responsibility of local authorities to assess all local housing needs through their local plan.
Asked by: Kate Green (Labour - Stretford and Urmston)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department's August 2015 Planning Policy for Traveller Sites (PPTS), how many local planning authorities have set pitch targets for Gypsies and Travellers using the revised definition as set out in Annex 1 of the PPTS 2015.
Answered by Alok Sharma - COP26 President (Cabinet Office)
The Government has made no such estimates. It is the responsibility of local authorities to assess all local housing needs through their local plan.
Asked by: Kate Green (Labour - Stretford and Urmston)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment of need for Traveller sites has been made for each minimum geography area for each of the next five years.
Answered by Alok Sharma - COP26 President (Cabinet Office)
The Government has made no such estimates. It is the responsibility of local authorities to assess all local housing needs through their local plan.
Asked by: Kate Green (Labour - Stretford and Urmston)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans he has to introduce an implement the recommendations on Supported Housing Allowance published by the Communities and Local Government Committee and the Work and Pensions Committee in its joint report Future of Supported Housing, HC867 of Session 2016-17.
Answered by Marcus Jones - Treasurer of HM Household (Deputy Chief Whip, House of Commons)
Developing a workable and sustainable funding model for supported housing is a priority for the Government. We will set out further details on our plans in the autumn. The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government wrote to Clive Betts, chair of the Communities and Local Government Select Committee, on 16 August about our plans to respond to this report.
Asked by: Kate Green (Labour - Stretford and Urmston)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when his Department plans to publish its social integration strategy; and what assessment that strategy will make of the effect of youth full-time social action on social integration.
Answered by Marcus Jones - Treasurer of HM Household (Deputy Chief Whip, House of Commons)
In December 2016, Dame Louise Casey published her independent review of how to boost opportunity and integration in isolated and deprived communities. Since then the Department for Communities and Local Government has been reviewing the available evidence on the main causes of poor integration. In the coming months we will bring forward plans for tackling these issues through a new integration strategy.
There is currently an independent Review of Full Time Social Action by Young People, which is being led by Steve Holliday CBE. This aims to establish how many young people are engaged in full-time social action, as well as making recommendations to Government for how full-time social action can be supported in the future.
Asked by: Kate Green (Labour - Stretford and Urmston)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the oral Answer of 2 November 2016, Official Report, column 879, what steps his Department has taken to use 2011 census classifications, including on Gypsies and Travellers, to audit racial disparities in public service outcomes.
Answered by Marcus Jones - Treasurer of HM Household (Deputy Chief Whip, House of Commons)
I refer the Hon Member for Stretford and Urmston to the answer given by my Rt Hon Friend the Member for Ashford in response to Question UIN 3079 on 11 July 2017.
Asked by: Kate Green (Labour - Stretford and Urmston)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 18 November 2016 to Question 52441, if he will take steps to promote the use of EU structural funds to support greater Roma involvement in the labour market.
Answered by Andrew Percy
No. Roma, Gypsy and Traveller groups and local authorities can engage in European Structural and Investment Funds through their Local Enterprise Partnership.
Asked by: Kate Green (Labour - Stretford and Urmston)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 18 November 2016 to Question 52441, if he will issue supplementary guidance to local enterprise partnerships on focussing programmes at local level on ensuring greater Roma participation.
Answered by Andrew Percy
It is for local areas to decide on how best to engage their population and meet local needs.
Asked by: Kate Green (Labour - Stretford and Urmston)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the conclusions of the 2011 EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies.
Answered by Marcus Jones - Treasurer of HM Household (Deputy Chief Whip, House of Commons)
The Government is committed to creating a fair society in which all people, of whatever ethnic origin or background, are able to participate fully in society and realise their full potential. The United Kingdom has a strong and well-established legal framework, which protects all individuals, including Roma, against discrimination and hate crime. The UK is taking forward Roma integration through wider social inclusion policies, which is fully in line with our commitments under the 2011 EU Council Conclusions on an EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies up to 2020.
Asked by: Kate Green (Labour - Stretford and Urmston)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the Institute for Public Research report on Roma communities and Brexit: integrating and empowering Roma communities in the UK, published on 24 October 2016.
Answered by Marcus Jones - Treasurer of HM Household (Deputy Chief Whip, House of Commons)
The Government has noted the conclusions of the report by the Institute for Public Policy Research report on Roma communities. The UK does have a strong legal framework which protects all individuals, including Roma, from racial and other forms of discrimination and hate crime, and will continue to do so after the United Kingdom leaves the European Union.