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Whole Day Download the Hansard Monday Volume 681 5 October 2020 No. 113 HOUSE OF COMMONS OFFICIAL REPORT PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES (HANSARD) Monday 5 October 2020 © Parliamentary Copyright House of Commons 2020 This publication may be reproduced under the terms of the Open Parliament licence, which is published at www.parliament.uk/site-information/copyright/. 591 5 OCTOBER 2020 592 House of Commons Local Authorities: Funding Tony Lloyd (Rochdale) (Lab): What recent assessment Monday 5 October 2020 he has made of the adequacy of Government funding for local authorities. [907010] The House met at half-past Two o’clock The Minister for Regional Growth and Local Government (Luke Hall): Wesaid we would support councils throughout this pandemic, and that is exactly what we are doing. PRAYERS We have provided £4.8 billion in additional funding for spending pressures, including £3.7 billion of un-ringfenced [MR SPEAKER in the Chair] funding. This is in addition to councils’ core spending power rising by over £2.9 billion this financial year, Virtual participation in proceedings commenced which is the largest year-on-year real-terms increase in a (Order, 4 June). decade. [NB: [V] denotes a Member participating virtually.] Tony Lloyd [V]: The Minister will know that Rochdale council has lost some £200 million in Government cuts over the last years, and this year it is likely to be Oral Answers to Questions £20 million short of money,even with the extra Government funding. The people who will suffer most from this are those dependent on acute services, children’s services and, of course, the elderly and the vulnerable. How HOUSING, COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL does the Minister intend to make sure that they do not GOVERNMENT suffer? The Secretary of State was asked— Luke Hall: The hon. Gentleman of course knows that this year’s local government finance settlement saw Affordable Homes to Buy Rochdale Borough Council receive an increase of £12 million this year, which he did not object to when Dr Caroline Johnson (Sleaford and North Hykeham) the finance settlement came through the House in February. (Con): What steps he is taking to increase the number of More widely,throughout this pandemic we have supported affordable homes available to buy. [907009] Rochdale with £93 million to local councils, businesses and the local area. If Rochdale council is concerned The Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and about its financial settlements or about the financial Local Government (Robert Jenrick): This Government situation, it should get in contact with my Department are making sure that hard-working families and first-time at the earliest opportunity. I would say that over half of buyers have affordable, quality homes to call their own. the £4.8 billion allocated to local authorities has been Last month, we confirmed over £12 billion of investment spent on social care, but I am always happy to discuss it to build more affordable homes—the most significant with him further. of its kind in living memory. This includes our new affordable homes programme, which will deliver up to Steve Reed (Croydon North) (Lab/Co-op): Councils 180,000 homes from next year. are facing in-year cuts of around £3 billion because the Secretary of State broke his promise to fully fund Dr Johnson: I thank the Secretary of State for his councils for the cost of getting communities through answer. My constituents are keen to see villages grow the pandemic, and that is according to the Conservative-led gently, sympathetically and with a range of larger and Local Government Association. The Minister tries to more affordable homes, and I am pleased to hear him wish this away by bandying around Government funding focus on quality.How will my right hon. Friend’s planning intended for specific purposes that cannot be used to reforms focus on quality and ensure that no new three- plug gaps in the council’s general funds. Since he would storey, densely packed, large developments of identikit not wish to try to pull that same trick again here, would houses are allowed to ruin the edges of small villages? he tell the House which services he now expects councils to cut to plug the funding gap created by his broken Robert Jenrick: Like my hon. Friend, this Government promises? believe that beautiful high-quality homes should be the norm in every area of this country.Our reformed planning Luke Hall: Let us step back and look at the facts here. system will place a much higher regard on quality, If we look at the local government finance settlement—the design and local character, such as that in Lincolnshire, hon. Gentleman did not object to it in February; he than ever before. Local planning authorities already supported it—and at the fact that local government has have the power to set high standards for housing, including reported a £3.1 billion increase in spending pressures setting parameters for density, open space and private for covid, we have supported them with £4.8 billion, gardens. However, to go further, I have announced that including £3.7 billion of un-ringfenced funding. What is we will create a new national design code, and I have not surprising is the hon. Gentleman turning up again asked Nicholas Boys Smith, the founder of Create today and talking down councils and their ability to Streets, to establish a new body to help every local respond to this crisis. Local authorities are proving community to create their own design code and deliver themselves to be a resourceful, dynamic force, and we locally popular architecture for everyone. should be praising them. 593 Oral Answers 5 OCTOBER 2020 Oral Answers 594 Mr Clive Betts (Sheffield South East) (Lab): Could I will involve promoting gentle density, but we will do say that the Government’s decision to help councils everything we can to protect both the green belt and our with loss of funding, particularly for leisure centres, beautiful countryside. parking revenue and such things, is welcome? There is one group of authorities, however, that have not been Places of Worship: Covid-19 compensated—the councils that run their leisure services at arm’slength. I raised this with the Minister’spredecessor Afzal Khan (Manchester, Gorton) (Lab): What steps back in July, and the response I got was that the his Department has taken to help places of worship Government open safely during the covid-19 outbreak. [907012] “are very serious about tackling it.”—[Official Report, 9 July 2020; Vol. 678, c. 1224.] John Spellar (Warley) (Lab): What steps his Department Since then, because Sheffield has lost over £10 million, has taken to help places of worship open safely during which it has not been compensated for, from its leisure the covid-19 outbreak. [907018] centres’ loss of income, we have written as Sheffield MPs to the Secretary of State twice—once in August The Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and and once in September, the second with the local leisure Local Government (Robert Jenrick): As Communities clubs—and we have not had a response. Could the Secretary, ensuring places of worship can reopen and Minister therefore update the House on what is happening remain open has been a priority for me and my Department. in general on this issue, and will he agree to meet Their contribution to our country as places of solace, as Sheffield MPs to discuss this issue, which really affects well as for significant moments such as weddings and our city and its finances? funerals, is clear to us all. Places of worship remain open today for more than six people for communal Luke Hall: I thank the Chair of the Select Committee prayer and services with existing covid-secure requirements for his question. We recognise the vital role leisure continuing to apply. centre facilities play in keeping our communities safe and protecting mental health. We are working closely Afzal Khan [V]: During this pandemic we have seen a with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and sharp spike in Islamophobia, from blaming Muslims Sport on a further package of support for leisure centres. for the spread of covid-19 to fuelling online hate. I am I am happy to meet the hon. Gentleman and other sure the Secretary of State will want to join me in Sheffield MPs to discuss the matter. commending the community for its patience and hard work in these difficult months. Given that the Scientific Brownfield Sites: Development Advisory Group for Emergencies has previously highlighted the good work of the Muslim Council of Britain in Mr Gagan Mohindra (South West Hertfordshire) (Con): reaching minority groups that the Government are unable What steps he is taking to support development on or unwilling to reach, can he outline what discussions brownfield sites. [907023] he has had with the MCB and other Muslim organisations on the safe reopening of mosques? The Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government (Robert Jenrick): Delivering much Robert Jenrick: Like the hon. Gentleman, I want to needed new, higher-quality greener homes across the praise and thank the Muslim communities throughout country is central to the mission of this Government. the country for their forbearance. We have worked To do that, we will continue to prioritise building on closely with them through our places of worship taskforce brownfield sites to deliver the homes that we need while that the Prime Minister and I set up. I have had the also regenerating our towns and cities. As a first step, privilege to meet representatives from mosques, including we have allocated more than £400 million from our the London Central Mosque on the eve of the Eid brownfield fund to seven mayoral combined authorities, celebrations,to thank them once again for their forbearance.
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