Mr Clive Betts

16 Jul 2015 · Department of Health

Living Wage

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the cost of paying the National Living Wage for adult social care commissioned by local authorities over the next five years.

16 Jul 2015 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Local Government: Living Wage

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what discussions he has had with the Local Government Association on providing financial support for local authorities to assist meeting any costs of paying staff the National Living Wage

16 Jul 2015 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Local Government: Living Wage

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what research his Department has carried out on the effect of the National Living Wage on local authority staffing costs; and if he will place a copy of such research in the Library.

16 Jul 2015 · Department of Health

Living Wage

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what research his Department has commissioned on the effect on local authority budgets of paying the new National Living Wage to external staff commissioned by local authorities to provide adult social care.

16 Jul 2015 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Local Government: Living Wage

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will estimate what the cost to each local authority in England and Wales will be of paying staff the new National Living Wage in April (a) 2016 and (b) 2020.

16 Jul 2015 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Local Enterprise Partnerships

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he is taking to increase the transparency of the operations of local enterprise partnerships.

16 Jul 2015 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Local Enterprise Partnerships

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the statutory requirements are for local enterprise partnerships on the transparency of their operations and responsibilities; and what guidance he has issued on those requirements.

10 Jul 2015 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Local Government: Living Wage

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether the requirement on local authorities to pay staff the National Living Wage will be treated as a new burden.

9 Jul 2015 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Social Rented Housing: Rents

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what his estimate is of the cost to (a) local authorities and (b) housing associations of the administration involved in charging market rents to higher-earning social housing tenants.

9 Jul 2015 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Local Government: Minimum Wage

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what his estimate is of the cost to local authorities of the increased minimum wage announced in the 2015 Summer Budget payable to (a) local authority employees and (b) employees of priva

8 Jul 2015 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Forests

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will amend National Planning Policy Framework guidance to enable communities to strengthen protection for local ancient woodland.

8 Jul 2015 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Right to Buy Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will estimate what proportion of properties in the right to buy scheme will be family houses with (a) two and (b) more than two bedrooms in each of the five years of the extension o

8 Jul 2015 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Right to Buy Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the selling of vacant council homes to fund the extension of right to buy to housing associations on the ability of young people to

6 Jul 2015 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Social Rented Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 29 June 2015 to the hon. Member for Sheffield South East, Official Report, column 1164, what financial arrangements will be in place to enable housing associatio

6 Jul 2015 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Council Housing: Sales

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of council houses with two or more bedrooms that local authorities will be required to sell in the first five years after the implementation of the

2 Jul 2015 · HM Treasury

Non-domestic Rates

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many challenges to (a) the 2005 Rating List and (b) the 2010 Rating List are yet to be resolved in (i) Barnsley, (ii) Chesterfield, (iii) Doncaster, (iv) North East Derbyshire, (v) Bolsover, (vi) Bassetlaw, (vii)

2 Jul 2015 · HM Treasury

Non-domestic Rates

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when all challenges to the 2005 Rating List for England and Wales will be finally resolved.

2 Jul 2015 · HM Treasury

Non-domestic Rates

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when all challenges to the 2010 Rating List for England and Wales will be finally resolved.

2 Jul 2015 · HM Treasury

Council Tax

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many challenges against council tax banding on the current council tax valuation list are yet to be resolved in (a) total and (b) more than four months after the challenge was lodged in (i) Barnsley, (ii) Chester

23 Jun 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Homelessness

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the effect on the levels of homelessness from the proposed reduction in the benefit cap to £23,000 each year; and what research was undertaken to calculate this estimate.

22 Jun 2015 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Department for Communities and Local Government: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what research reports his Department commissioned from external bodies between September 2010 and December 2014 have not been published; when each such report was commissioned; what the n

9 Jun 2015 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Right to Buy Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential effects of the sale of the most expensive council homes under the proposed extension of the right to buy for housing association tenants on th

9 Jun 2015 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Right to Buy Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of the right to buy for housing association tenants in each of the first five years of that policy.

9 Jun 2015 · HM Treasury

Right to Buy Scheme

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with the Office of National Statistics on the potential effects on the classification of housing association debt of extending the right to buy to housing association tenants.

9 Jun 2015 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Right to Buy Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether funds raised from the sale of council houses under the extension of the right to buy for housing association tenants will be used to cover the cost of discounts for buyers in the

9 Jun 2015 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Right to Buy Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what criteria will be used to determine which council houses will be sold under the proposed extension of right to buy for housing association tenants; and whether those criteria will be

9 Jun 2015 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Right to Buy Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of properties that will be sold in each of the first five years of the right to buy for housing association tenants.

9 Jun 2015 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Right to Buy Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how discounts for buyers under the proposed extension of the right to buy for housing association tenants will be funded in areas where local authorities have no council housing stock to

9 Jun 2015 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Right to Buy Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what discussions he has had with mortgage lenders on the implications for lending of an extension of the right to buy to housing association tenants.

9 Jun 2015 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Right to Buy Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what discussions he has had with the National Housing Federation on the potential effects of the proposed extension of the right to buy for housing association tenants.