Grant Shapps: The Government are delivering on the reforms set out in the Williams-Shapps plan for rail, making passengers’ journeys easier, more reliable and more affordable.
Grant Shapps: Authorities in the most deprived areas will, thanks to the banded floors, receive a smaller reduction in formula grant than others. We have given greater weight to relative needs in the formula grant, and our new transition grant will make sure that no council has a spending power reduction of more than 8.8%.
Grant Shapps: My hon. Friend is absolutely right: it is a stunning location. I launched the Williams-Shapps rail review at the York National Railway Museum. I commend it to everybody in this House and I think he is right that York could provide a very attractive location for Great British Railways, although that matter is some way down the line yet.
Grant Shapps: The table shows total allocations of homelessness grant to local authorities and the voluntary sector from 2002-03 to 2009-10. Homelessness grant is not paid through area-based grant. Allocations of homelessness grant, consist of proportionate distribution of the grant across authorities based on levels of rough sleeping, temporary accommodation and B&B usage, along with funding to support...
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) how much funding her Department has provided to local authorities in social housing grant in each region in each year since 1997; (2) how much funding her Department has provided to local authorities in social housing grant payments in each year since 1997 at 2008-09 prices.
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much was spent on (a) planning delivery grant and (b) the housing and planning delivery grant in each year since 2003.
Grant Shapps: We have protected homelessness grant funding, with £400 million over the next spending review period to support the most vulnerable and tackle homelessness. Preventing homelessness grant allocations to local housing authorities for 2011-12 will be announced alongside the provisional local government finance settlement in early December.
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government with reference to page 13 of his Department's Resource Accounts 2008-09, HC 449, whether any delays in awarding grants under new Prevent grant programmes came from (a) potential applicants not having satisfied appropriate checks and (b) the time taken to perform appropriate checks; and which body undertook the checks on...
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) what final allocation criteria are being used for housing and planning delivery grant; what the timetable is for the first payments to be assessed and made; and what performance indicators will be collected from local authorities for the purposes of the delivery grant allocation; (2) how much her Department has...
Grant Shapps: ...property. Social landlords generally meet the costs of new homes from borrowing against the future rental income from letting the home, a contribution from their own resources, including land, and grant funding from the Government. In the Right to Buy replacement scheme, receipts from sales will substitute for grant funding.
Grant Shapps: ...of housing services for local authorities, and we have listened carefully to the points they have raised. I can tell the hon. Gentleman that we have, for example, protected the homelessness grant, providing £400 million; protected the funding for disabled facilities grant; and minimised reductions to the Supporting People programme over the spending review.
Grant Shapps: The spending review has secured almost £1 billion of funding to support the New Homes Bonus and any funding required above that will be top sliced from formula grant. The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, my right hon. Friend the Member for Brentwood and Ongar (Mr Pickles), announced the Government's formula grant proposals for the next two years on 13 December 2010,...
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer of 29 October 2007, Official Report, columns 667-68W, on local authorities: grants, what the grant per capita to each local authority was in (a) 2006-07 and (b) 2007-08; and what the average grant per capita to (i) district councils, (ii) unitary councils, (iii) county councils, (iv) metropolitan...
Grant Shapps: ...back to the railway, but perhaps in a more flexible way, and I can reassure her that we will be setting out more details of our view about how ticketing should work, not least through the Williams-Shapps review.
Grant Shapps: In 2009-10 the Supporting People Programme Grant was paid to the 152 "top-tier" local authorities under section 31 of the Local Government Act 2003, as an unringfenced named grant. The national budget in that year was £1.666 billion. In addition, those local authorities also received a separate Supporting People Administration Grant, which was paid as a contribution towards the cost of...
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer of 29 October 2007, Official Report, columns 667-68W, on local authorities: grants, what the grant per capita was in real terms to each local authority in England in (a) 1998-99, (b) 2005-06 and (c) 2006-07; and what the average grant per capita in (i) district councils, (ii) unitary councils, (iii)...
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what steps he is taking to ensure that awards of grant aid for renewable installations in the public sector to be made under his Department's Low Carbon Building Programme Phase 2 will be widely available to companies of all sizes; and if he will make a statement.
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government for how long the regional assemblies outside London will receive central Government grant.
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much funding regional planning bodies will receive from housing and planning delivery grant; and what targets they will be required to meet to maximise their funding.
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether the re-use of empty domestic dwellings will be incentivised in the allocation mechanisms of housing and delivery grant.
