Asked by: Valerie Vaz (Labour - Walsall and Bloxwich)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the Government plans to bring forward legislative proposals to change the pitch fee review inflationary index for park homes from the retail price index to the consumer price index.
Answered by Esther McVey
We made a commitment in October 2018 to change the pitch fee review inflationary index from the Retail Price Index (RPI) to the Consumer Price Index (CPI) having considered the responses of residents and site owners to our review of park homes legislation. The required primary legislation will be introduced when parliamentary time is available.
The Government response to the review is available at https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/749771/Park_homes_Review_Government_response.pdf.
Park homes policy is a devolved matter and formal consultation with the devolved Administrations is not required.
Asked by: Valerie Vaz (Labour - Walsall and Bloxwich)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many planning applications on Green Belt land in (a) Walsall South constituency and (b) England have been referred to the National Planning Unit in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
I refer the Hon. Member to the answer to question UIN 277187 on 18 July.
Asked by: Valerie Vaz (Labour - Walsall and Bloxwich)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many planning applications on the Green Belt in (a) Walsall South constituency and (b) England were approved after referral to the National Planning Unit in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
Over the last 10 years, the Secretary of State has not called-in any planning applications on Green Belt land in Walsall MBC.
We do not hold information on the number of planning applications on Green Belt land approved after referral to the Secretary of State.
Over the last 10 years, the following number of planning applications on Green Belt land in Walsall MBC were referred to the Secretary of State:
2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
To obtain accurate data for Green Belt applications in England over each of the last 10 years would involve a disproportionate amount of resource and would not be possible within a reasonable timescale.
Asked by: Valerie Vaz (Labour - Walsall and Bloxwich)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many planning applications on Green Belt land in (a) Walsall South constituency and (b) England were called in by the Secretary of State in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
Over the last 10 years, the Secretary of State has not called-in any planning applications on Green Belt land in Walsall MBC.
We do not hold information on the number of planning applications on Green Belt land approved after referral to the Secretary of State.
Over the last 10 years, the following number of planning applications on Green Belt land in Walsall MBC were referred to the Secretary of State:
2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
To obtain accurate data for Green Belt applications in England over each of the last 10 years would involve a disproportionate amount of resource and would not be possible within a reasonable timescale.
Asked by: Valerie Vaz (Labour - Walsall and Bloxwich)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department has deprioritised any Statutory Instruments in relation to the UK leaving the EU; and if he will publish the criteria his Department uses to deprioritise those Instruments.
Answered by Jake Berry
Our objective has always been to have a functioning statute book in place by Exit Day and to ensure that the most critical secondary legislation was made by this point.
My Department successfully made all of its intended EU exit SIs before April 12. My Department will continue to assess the implications of our departure from the EU on our legislation, and will continue to make the necessary amendments to ensure the a fully functioning statute book.
Asked by: Valerie Vaz (Labour - Walsall and Bloxwich)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Education on outcomes for looked-after children.
Answered by Rishi Sunak
This Government has high ambitions for looked after children and care leavers.
The forthcoming corporate parenting provisions in the Children and Social Work Act will ensure high quality care and support for these vulnerable young people.
Asked by: Valerie Vaz (Labour - Walsall and Bloxwich)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that adult social care is adequately funded.
Answered by Rishi Sunak
The Government provided an additional £2 billion at the 2017 Spring Budget for adult social care, of which £1 billion was provided in 2017-18. This meant that by the start of this financial year, the Government had given councils access to £9.25 billion additional funding for adult social care over the next three years.
Asked by: Valerie Vaz (Labour - Walsall and Bloxwich)
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 effect of the local government finance settlement on the ability of local authorities to meet their statutory responsibilities.
Answered by Rishi Sunak
The Government periodically assesses resourcing requirements for local government as part of each spending review, ensuring a sustainable basis for local authorities to discharge their functions.
Asked by: Valerie Vaz (Labour - Walsall and Bloxwich)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make an assessment of the proportion of time spent dealing with individual local authority matters and combined authority matters by (a) all chief executives of local authorities which are part of a combined authority and (b) the Chief Executive of Walsall Council.
Answered by Rishi Sunak
The working patterns of council Chief Executives are entirely local matters which are the responsibility of the council concerned.
Asked by: Valerie Vaz (Labour - Walsall and Bloxwich)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much his Department received in business rates for each local authority area in 2015-16; and what estimate his Department has made of the amount which each local authority in England will retain from the business rate levy in each of the next five years.
Answered by Marcus Jones
Data on each authority's contribution to the central share in 2015-16 are available at the following link: