Graham Jones: I am glad that you have mentioned that there are 738,000 empty properties, many of them long-term empty. Can you give some quantitative indication of-
Graham Jones: Sorry, Mr Speaker. Can the Minister give a quantitative indication of the extent to which he hopes to reduce the figure over the period-100,000 or 200,000? By how much will he reduce it?
Graham Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what progress he has made in implementing his policy on houses in multiple occupation in deprived areas; and what assessment he has made of the likely effects of implementation of this policy on the number of such houses in such areas.
Graham Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many private landlords in (a) England, (b) Hyndburn and (c) Haslingden have been required to pay council tax arrears by local authorities in the latest period for which figures are available.
Graham Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what recent discussions he has had on the effect of the New Homes Bonus Scheme on areas with high numbers of empty properties in (a) Hyndburn constituency and (b) elsewhere; and what steps he is taking to bring such empty properties into use.
Graham Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many properties in (a) England, (b) Hyndburn and (c) Haslingden do not meet the Decent Homes standard.
Graham Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what steps the Export Credits Guarantee Department is taking to support local businesses to compete in international export markets.
Graham Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what estimate he has made of the financial benefit to the UK of loans underwritten by the Export Credits Guarantee Department in 2010-11.
Graham Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what the total risk liability of overseas loans guaranteed by the Export Credits Guarantee Department is.
Graham Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills how much the Export Credits Guarantee Department has allocated to support loans from British banks in 2010-11.
Graham Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the annual change was in the level of council tax precepts for (a) Hyndburn Council and (b) Rossendale Council in each year since 1999.
Graham Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what assessment he has made of the likely effects of his proposal to offset numbers of demolitions against the number of new build homes planned on (a) areas with high numbers of empty properties, (b) areas in respect of which local authorities have proposed demolition programmes and (c) incentives to (i) undertake...
Graham Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many homes in the (a) private rented, (b) social and (c) owner-occupied sector in (i) England, (ii) Hyndburn and (iii) Haslingden (A) are unfit for habitation and (B) do not meet his Department's minimum guidelines on insulation.
Graham Jones: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many landlords in the private rented sector in (a) Hyndburn, (b) Haslingden and (c) England have been required by HM Revenue and Customs to settle taxation arrears in the latest period for which figures are available; what the monetary value of such arrears was; and how many such landlords are resident (i) in the UK and (ii) overseas.
Graham Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what proportion of the budget of the Export Credits Guarantee Department for 2010-11 has been allocated to expenditure on default by debtors.
Graham Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills how many banks are willing to lend in support of British exports in partnership with the Export Credits Guarantee Department.
Graham Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport what plans he has for the future of arrangements for music licences in respect of public performances.
Graham Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what assessment he has made of the likely effects on levels of housing benefit payments of the implementation of his Department's decision to merge high rental and low rental areas; and if he will make a statement.
Graham Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the evidential basis is for the estimate in his Department's White Paper on welfare reform that his proposed benefit reforms will take 300,000 people out of poverty; and over what period he expects this to be achieved.
Graham Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the number of people who will no longer be in poverty in (a) Haslingden and (b) Hyndburn as a result of implementation of his proposed reforms to the welfare system.