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House of Commons Official Report Monday Volume 613 18 July 2016 No. 27 HOUSE OF COMMONS OFFICIAL REPORT PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES (HANSARD) Monday 18 July 2016 © Parliamentary Copyright House of Commons 2016 This publication may be reproduced under the terms of the Open Parliament licence, which is published at www.parliament.uk/site-information/copyright/. 525 18 JULY 2016 526 Sajid Javid: We want councils to take bold decisions House of Commons and to use the benefits of this measure to boost local growth. Some redistribution will be necessary among Monday 18 July 2016 authorities to ensure that no council loses out if it collects lower business rates, but I can reassure my hon. Friend—who already does a lot to boost business in her The House met at half-past Two o’clock local area—that where that is done, it will keep the extra revenue. PRAYERS Daniel Zeichner (Cambridge) (Lab): For business rates to keep flowing, we need our top companies to [MR SPEAKER in the Chair] keep prospering. The Secretary of State might be aware that ARM Technology, a major Cambridge company, Mr Speaker: Order. I am sure that the whole House has today been acquired by a major Japanese company. will join me in expressing sympathy and solidarity with What conversations has he had with the former Business the French people following Thursday’s horrific events Secretary on ensuring that guarantees are maintained in Nice. A short silence was held at 11 o’clock across the and that the jobs involved are retained in the UK? parliamentary estate to remember those involved. I have written to my counterpart, Claude Bartolone, this morning expressing condolences. I should also like to Mr Speaker: Very tenuous—ingenious, but tenuous. inform the House that I have received a letter from the President of the Chamber of Deputies of Italy telling Sajid Javid: I warmly welcome investment in our me that her Chamber has established a cross-party local communities—including in Cambridgeshire— committee on intolerance, xenophobia, racism and hate wherever it comes from. I have not had a conversation crime and has decided to name it the Cox Committee with the Business Secretary, given that this news was after our colleague, Jo Cox. In the President’s words: announced only recently, but I know that the Chancellor “Through this act, we will contribute to keeping the memory has already issued a statement. of Jo Cox, and of what she stood for, alive”. Mr Mark Prisk (Hertford and Stortford) (Con): At present, the way in which business rates work imposes rates on empty properties. This is holding back many Oral Answers to Questions urban regeneration schemes. Will the new Secretary of State therefore reform the way in which those rules work before the whole scheme is transferred to local COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT authorities? That would make a crucial difference to the modernisation of our housing estates in particular. The Secretary of State was asked— Sajid Javid: My hon. Friend raises an important Business Rates point, and I know that he speaks from experience as a former housing Minister. I will certainly take a fresh 1. Lucy Allan (Telford) (Con): What progress his look at that. Department has made on enabling local authorities to retain 100% of business rates. [905883] Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish) (Lab): I welcome the Secretary of State to his new post. May I politely The Secretary of State for Communities and Local say to him that not every area has the same ability to Government (Sajid Javid): I should like to associate raise income from business rates or council tax, and it is myself with your comments about the tragedy in Nice, often the poorest areas that are disadvantaged as a Mr Speaker. I am sure that the thoughts and prayers of result of lower income generation from both sources? the whole House are with the victims and their families Will he look at the example of Tameside Metropolitan and friends. I also warmly welcome the establishment of Borough, which would need an additional 16 Ikea stores the Cox Committee. just to break even on its business rate retention? Will he The full retention of business rates is a reform that ensure that, when he looks at redistribution, he ends up councils have long campaigned for, and it will shape the with a fair settlement for areas such as Tameside? role and purpose of local government for many decades to come. To deliver this commitment, we have already Sajid Javid: The hon. Gentleman makes a valid point. published an open consultation inviting councils, businesses The needs of each area are different, which is why at the and local people to have their say on how the system same time as launching the consultation we launched a should operate. fair funding review to look at the issues that the hon. Gentleman raises. Lucy Allan: I congratulate the Minister on his new appointment and I really look forward to working with him. Businesses want to move to Telford all the time, Grahame M. Morris (Easington) (Lab): May I also and for that reason the move to 100% business rate associate myself and Labour Front Benchers with your retention will mean welcome extra revenue for our remarks about the atrocity in Nice, Mr Speaker? council. Are there any plans to top-slice business rate I welcome the Secretary of State for Communities income from councils with higher levels of business and Local Government and his team to their new rate income to subsidise those with lower levels? positions—it is an important brief. 527 Oral Answers 18 JULY 2016 Oral Answers 528 I point out to the Secretary of State that his Government Huw Merriman (Bexhill and Battle) (Con): Commuters have broken the post-war cross-party consensus on the returning home to the glories of Milton Keynes can do equalisation of resource allocation. Toecho the comments so in just over 30 minutes. Travelling the same distance of my hon. Friend the Member for Denton and Reddish to Bexhill takes almost 2 hours. Is the Secretary of State (Andrew Gwynne), does the Secretary of State realise willing to work with me and my neighbour, my right that the most deprived communities with the greatest hon. Friend the Member for Hastings and Rye (Amber needs often have the lowest tax bases and the least Rudd), to try to bring High Speed 1 trains down from ability to raise their own business rates? Ashford to Hastings and Bexhill? Sajid Javid: I warmly welcome the hon. Gentleman’s Sajid Javid: My hon. Friend makes a good point. I words. As I have said, as we approach the policy of am more than happy to listen to his case and to work 100% business rates retention, there will of course be with the Secretary of State for Transport, because the some redistribution to ensure that no council loses out issue will involve both Departments. if it has a low business rate funding base. The fair funding review will look at just that—fair funding—to Homelessness ensure that every local area gets the funding it deserves. Coastal Regeneration 3. Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East) (Lab): What assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing legislative proposals to extend local authorities’ duty of 2. Peter Aldous (Waveney) (Con): What steps his care in homelessness cases. [905885] Department is taking to regenerate the Great British coast. [905884] The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (Mr Marcus Jones): The Secretary of State for Communities and Local We are committed to putting prevention at the heart Government (Sajid Javid): The Government recognise of our approach to homelessness. We have committed that coastal communities face particular challenges but £315 million to local authority homelessness prevention have huge economic potential. We have already invested funding and will work with local authorities, charities £120 million in 211 coastal communities fund projects and Departments to consider further reforms, including and have provided £10,000 to each of the 118 coastal legislation. community teams. Peter Aldous: I welcome the Secretary of State to his Kerry McCarthy: I thank the Minister for that reply, place. While a great deal is taking place to regenerate but Bristol City Council’s budget for preventing coastal towns such as Lowestoft, there is a concern, as homelessness was cut by 20% between 2011 and 2015. highlighted by the British Hospitality Association last What extra funding will the Government make available week, that such initiatives are not co-ordinated. In the to local authorities such as Bristol, which has experienced first full week of the new Government, I urge the a significant recent rise in homelessness, to cope with Secretary of State to appoint a Minister to work across the scale of the problem—particularly if their duty of Departments to address that concern. care is extended under the metro mayor model? Sajid Javid: My hon. Friend works hard on his Mr Jones: Homelessness acceptances remain less than constituents’ behalf and has already helped to secure half what they were under the peak of the Labour almost £2 million from the coastal communities fund Government in 2003-04. That said, one person without for his area, but he makes an excellent point about a home is one too many. Last year, we provided Bristol cross-Government co-operation. I am pleased to announce with £1 million of homelessness prevention funding, that my hon. Friend the Member for Brigg and Goole which will be maintained each year across this Parliament. (Andrew Percy) is the Minister who will take responsibility I know that Bristol is starting to do some innovative for this area, so we can all be assured that it is in very things in homelessness prevention, and I would very safe hands.
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