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Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Housing: Greater London (12 Nov 2009)

Karen Buck: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what discussions (a) he and (b) the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) have had with the Mayor of London on (i) the HCA's Public Land Initiative and (ii) the Mayor's audit of surplus Greater London Authority (GLA) land; how much of the surplus GLA land falls under the Public Land Initiative; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Children, Schools and Families: Youth Services: Greater London (12 Nov 2009)

Karen Buck: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what the expenditure per head of the 14 to 19 year old population was on youth services in each London borough in (a) 1997 and (b) 2007-08.

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Temporary Accommodation (9 Nov 2009)

Karen Buck: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government which local authorities apply a flat rate charge to tenants of temporary accommodation; and what the amount of that charge was in each such local authority.

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Karen Buck: Is my hon. Friend also aware that a number of leading Conservative councils have chosen not to back the 10:10 campaign and not to give local leadership on climate change? In fact, on Wednesday night, Westminster city council refused to support a motion accepting 10:10.

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Karen Buck: May I return the hon. Gentleman to the subject of error, as mentioned in his quotation from Hayek? Does it not worry him just a little that the international consensus that we need to establish, not just for Copenhagen but beyond, requires working with partners who understand and accept the reality of climate change? Has not his party, worryingly, put itself in a position in Europe where it...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (4 Nov 2009) has video

Karen Buck: With quality child care being essential both to allow parents to work and for child development, and given the huge investment that the Government have made in the national child care strategy over the years, can my right hon. Friend help me to understand why some local councils, such as Kensington and Chelsea, are proposing to close their nursery schools? What can we do to block this...

Public Bill Committee: Child Poverty Bill: Clause 20 (3 Nov 2009)

Karen Buck: If the picture in local government is as consistently innovative and rosy as Conservative Members would have us believe, will the Minister cast light on how many local authorities of different political persuasions had developed a strategy for investigating and tackling child poverty before the performance indicators were introduced and before the Bill was produced? I suspect that the answer...

Public Bill Committee: Child Poverty Bill: Clause 19 (3 Nov 2009)

Karen Buck: The point about such emergencies, which we all experience, is important. Although charitable enterprises can be vital in helping people, if I was confronted with the case of a parent and children who had no money to feed themselves over the weekend—as I have been on occasion—I would get in touch with the duty social worker and ensure that there was a guarantee of help, rather than...

Public Bill Committee: Child Poverty Bill: Clause 19 (3 Nov 2009)

Karen Buck: I can certainly see my hon. Friend’s point. I am sure that everyone here has experienced constituency casework involving a lack of communication and a lack of data that would allow policy to be shaped on prisoners’ children and many other issues. The two agencies that I want to add to the list are particularly important and germane. The regional development agencies have a driving...

Public Bill Committee: Child Poverty Bill: Clause 19 (3 Nov 2009)

Karen Buck: As we have heard, the danger of having a list of partner authorities is that we focus on the partners that are not in the list, but the danger of having a comprehensive list of dozens of partner agencies is that everybody feels that responsibility lies elsewhere. It is then hard to focus, and some of the work at local-area-partnership level reflects that. I have a strong view that it makes...

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Social Security Benefits (2 Nov 2009)

Karen Buck: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate she has made of the number of people affected by a marginal withdrawal of benefit rate of more than (a) 90 per cent., (b) 70 per cent. and (c) 50 per cent. in each of the last 10 years.

Public Bill Committee: Child Poverty Bill: Clause 9 (29 Oct 2009)

Karen Buck: I beg to move amendment 51, in clause 9, page 5, line 16, at end insert— ‘(3A) If after receiving advice from the Commission the Secretary of State lays before Parliament a strategy or a revised strategy, he shall lay with the strategy or the revised strategy a copy of the advice from the Commission and a statement showing: (a) the extent to which he has, in framing the strategy,...