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Adjournment debate on experimentation in local government

Adjournment debate on experimentation in local government.

Lead member

Phyllis Starkey

Answering member

Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top

Department

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Type

Adjournment debates

Date

23 March 1998

Reference

309 c153-60

House

House of Commons

Dept of the Environment Transport and the Regions

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what representations he has received about Circular 18/94, in relation to the Police and Criminal Justice Act 1994.

Asked by

Andy Reed (Labour; Co-operative Party)

Answering body

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

22 January 1998

Reference

23831; 304 c614W;304 c608W

House

House of Commons

Dept of the Environment Transport and the Regions

Statement on what plans the Government has to allow local authorities to use their own housing stock for asylum seekers where the authority is under a statutory duty to provide accommodation.

Asked by

Keith Hill (Labour)

Answering body

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

17 December 1997

For answer on

18 December 1997

Answered on

18 December 1997

Mr. Hill: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what plans the Government have to allow local authorities to use their own housing stock for asylum seekers where the authority is under a statutory duty to provide accommodation. [22012] Ms Armstrong: The Government is currently undertaking a comprehensive spending review of asylum policy, including a review of the policy for providing support to asylum seekers. We recognise that some local authorities, particularly in London, are experiencing difficulties in accommodating asylum seekers to whom various statutory duties are owed. Consequently, in response to a request from the Association of London Government, the Government proposes to make an Order under section 9 of the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996 which will allow local housing authorities in England and Wales to grant non-secure tenancies and licences in their own housing stock to asylum seekers to whom they owe a statutory duty to provide accommodation. Authorities will also be able to let their housing stock to other landlords who intend to sub-let the accommodation, on a temporary basis, to asylum seekers who are owed a duty. Additionally, I intend to invite the Housing Corporation to consider relaxing its guidance, in respect of the use of registered social landlords' long-term stock, to allow them some flexibility in supporting local authorities which owe a statutory duty to accommodate asylum seekers. These proposals will form temporary arrangements only, and are without prejudice to the outcome of the comprehensive spending review.

Legislation

Asylum and Immigration Act 1996

Date

18 December 1997

Reference

22012; 303 c273W

House

House of Commons

Dept of the Environment Transport and the Regions

Statement on what approach he will adopt when considering applications for sanction by local authorities under sections 19 and 20 of the Local Government Act 1982. - A departmental note setting out the basis on which applications for sanction under sections 19 and 20 of the Local Government Financial Act...

Asked by

David Kidney (Labour)

Answering body

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

25 July 1997

Reference

11144; 298 c786W;298 c784W

House

House of Commons

Dept of the Environment Transport and the Regions

Statement on response received to the proposals for changing the homelessness legislation contained in the consultation paper issued on 23rd May.

Asked by

Roger Casale (Labour)

Answering body

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

26 June 1997

Reference

5941; 296 c595W;296 c597W

House

House of Commons

Local Authorities (Contracting Out of Tax Billing Collection and Enforcement Functions) Order 1996;Local Authorities (Contracting Out of Investment Functions) Order 1996

Draft SIs on local authorities (contracting out of tax billing collection and enforcement functions and contracting out of investment functions). Debate on motion to approve. Agreed to on question.

Lead member

Paul Beresford

Answering member

Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top

Department

Department of the Environment

Type

Debates on delegated legislation

Date

15 July 1996

Reference

281 c913-8;281 c909-14

House

House of Commons

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