Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 25 Oct 2021
Oral Answers to Questions
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 25 Oct 2021
Oral Answers to Questions
"I am pleased to report to the House that almost 8,000 new apprentices have been taken on in Harlow since 2010. Does my hon. Friend agree that the best example of levelling up is providing young people with the skills they need to climb the educational ladder of opportunity? To …..."Robert Halfon - View Speech
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Written Question
Thursday 21st October 2021
Asked by:
Robert Halfon (Conservative - Harlow)
Question
to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what plans he has to enable local authorities to place statutory notices with digital-only local news outlets.
Answered by Kemi Badenoch
- Leader of HM Official Opposition
Local authorities have to publish statutory notices that relate to a wide variety of topics in local newspapers. We currently have no plans to change the statutory duty.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 17 May 2021
Antisemitic Attacks
"(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will make a statement on recent antisemitic attacks across the UK...."Robert Halfon - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 17 May 2021
Antisemitic Attacks
"In a 2018 House of Commons debate on antisemitism, I said the air had grown tighter for Jews:
“you feel very hot, you undo a button on your shirt and your mouth goes dry.”—[Official Report, 17 April 2018; Vol. 639, c. 262.]
Sadly, after yesterday’s horrific incidents, …..."Robert Halfon - View Speech
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Written Question
Wednesday 17th February 2021
Asked by:
Robert Halfon (Conservative - Harlow)
Question
to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the uplift in core funding is for Harlow Council in 2020-21 and 2021-22.
Answered by Luke Hall
Under the annual local government finance settlement, Harlow Council saw their Core Spending Power rise from £11.3 million in 2019/20 to £11.9 million in 2020/21, an increase of £0.6 million. Depending on local decisions, Harlow Council may see their Core Spending Power rise from £11.9 million in 2020/21 to £12.5 million in 2021/22, an increase of £0.5 million.
Written Question
Thursday 4th February 2021
Asked by:
Robert Halfon (Conservative - Harlow)
Question
to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much additional financial support the Government has provided to Harlow Council to support its response to the covid-19 outbreak.
Answered by Luke Hall
The Government has allocated over £8 billion directly to councils since the start of the pandemic, and at the Spending Review the Chancellor announced that councils are expected to receive an estimated £3 billion of additional support for COVID-19 in 2021-22. This takes the total support committed to councils in England to tackle the impacts of COVID-19 to over £11 billion.
For Harlow Council, this means over £500k of additional unringfenced grant funding next year, on top of over £2 million of additional funding already allocated, of which over £1.5 million is unringfenced.
For Essex County Council, this means over £28.8 million of additional unringfenced grant funding next year on top of over £153 million of additional funding already allocated, of which over £84.5 million is unringfenced.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 04 Feb 2021
Towns Fund
"I welcome this debate and thank my hon. Friend the Member for Peterborough (Paul Bristow) and the Government for supporting the town fund and Harlow. Harlow has been my home for 20 years. It is a town of achievement, aspiration, community and opportunity. Although Harlow may not yet have enormous …..."Robert Halfon - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 17 Dec 2020
Provisional Local Government Finance Settlement
"Madam Deputy Speaker, may I wish you, as my brilliant constituency neighbour across the border in Epping Forest, a happy Christmas?
My right hon. Friend knows that we are in the process of bidding for the £25 million towns fund to regenerate Harlow. Coupled with the recently announced £50 million …..."Robert Halfon - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 02 Dec 2020
Arcadia and Debenhams: Business Support and Job Retention
"In Harlow, we have an excellent Topshop that has done very well, and clearly the staff are worried about their pensions and their jobs. Surely, the time has come for legislation to stop these robber barons who own these big companies, who plunder the assets, with the taxpayer left to …..."Robert Halfon - View Speech
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