Kevin Cahill on her highness' tax havens & 2016 Queen's Speech

[Tony Gosling]

Above the law: Queen's Speech 2016 - Ex-Sunday 
Times Rich List Journalist Kevin Cahill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD4riqirb-0


[audio] Crown Estate 'not' the Queen's? Palace 
call Rupert Murdoch, Queen slides 228 down Sunday 
Times Rich List – JFK author Mark Lane passes away – 100 years of Sykes-Picot

https://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2016/05/20/bcfms-weekly-politics-show-presented-by-tony-gosling-32/


Homelessness duty 'would cost councils £44m'
10 May 2016 0:01 am | By Heather Spurr
<http://www.911forum.org.uk/board/viewtopic.php?p=172583#172583>http://www.911forum.org.uk/board/viewtopic.php?p=172583#172583
Introducing a new homelessness prevention duty
would initially cost English councils £44m a year in total, a report has found.
A panel of housing experts, organised by Crisis,
last month officially published its
recommendations calling on ministers to introduce
new duties on councils to prevent people becoming homeless.
Inside Housing revealed in January that the
Department for Communities and Local Government
(DCLG) is considering changing the law to bring
in the new duty, which has already been implemented in Wales.
Today’s provisional research findings, undertaken
by academics and published by Crisis, found that
local authorities would spend in total £43.9m a
year on homelessness prevention under the new scheme.
However, it found that these extra costs would
eventually be offset by £46.8m a year due to
fewer full homelessness duty cases, because people would get help quicker.
The DCLG has not confirmed whether or not it
would match new legislation with extra money for councils.
Last year, the Welsh Government imposed a duty on
councils to prevent homelessness within 56 days, backed with £4.9m for 2015/16.
English councils’ responses to the expert panel’s
conclusions have been mixed, with many warning
that they will need additional investment and
housing in order to implement the recommendations.
Labour mayor of Newham Sir Robin Wales said last
month: “If you say somebody’s homeless and I have
to house them, I have to have a place to house them. I can’t magic things up.”
The DCLG has been contacted for comment.
<http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/policy/health-and-care/homelessness/homelessness-duty-would-cost-councils-44m/7015149.article>http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/policy/health-and-care/homelessness/homelessness-duty-would-cost-councils-44m/7015149.article 

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