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Mr. Andrew Turner: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions how many employees of (a) his Department and (b) agencies
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sponsored by his Department work in (i) London, (ii) areas benefiting from EU objective 1 status, (iii) areas with objective 2 status and (iv) other areas. [16111]
Dr. Whitehead [holding answer 19 November 2001]: The number of permanent and casual civil servants employed by DTLR(C) at 1 October is given in the table. The numbers for the agencies are based on the Departmental annual report for 2001. The information on the number of staff working in areas benefiting from EU objective 1 and objective 2 status is unavailable due to the disproportionate cost of collection.
DTLR(C) | Agencies | |
---|---|---|
London | 2,828 | 1,001 |
Elsewhere | 727 | 12,808 |
Total | 3,555 | 13,809 |
Ms Buck: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions which areas in London were successful in their bids under the street warden scheme; and which were unsuccessful. [17775]
Ms Keeble: The Government Office for London received 45 street wardens bids. 18 bids, totalling more than £4.2 million, were approved.
Organisations other than local authorities, for example, housing associations, were eligible to apply under this DTLR funded pilot scheme. The table shows the successful and unsuccessful bids, the lead agency and the bid area.
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Mrs. May: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, pursuant to his statement of 20 November, on Terminal 5, if he will set out the terms of reference of the research study to reassess attitudes to aircraft noise. [17792]
Mr. Byers [holding answer 23 November 2001]: The initial terms of reference are as follows:
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annoyance; and in particular the relative weightings on average event noise level and number of events.
This project was announced by my hon. Friend the Member for Coventry, North-East (Mr. Ainsworth) in May and is not directly connected with the planning decision on Heathrow Terminal 5. The project consists of two phases and is expected to last approximately three years. The contract has recently been awarded to a consortium led by The MVA Consultancy.
I will also ensure that all available research into sleep disturbance and attitudes to aircraft noise by day and by night will be taken into account in the consultation about the bight noise regime at the designated London airports to be undertaken by 2003.
Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions what proportion of lettings were made available to homeless households in priority need by local authorities; what proportion of lettings were made available to homeless households in priority need by housing associations; and how many homeless households were in temporary accommodation by region at the end of each year from 199192 to 200001. [18301]
Ms Keeble: The available information is as follows:
(1) Homeless households in temporary accommodation arranged by local authorities
Note:
Homeless households are households in priority need for whom a statutory duty has been accepted by a local authority under homelessness provisions of Housing Acts. Lettings to these households have been expressed as a percentage of all secure LA lettings and all RSL lettings to new tenants, ie excluding transfers and exchanges between existing tenants of social landlords
Sources:
DTLR Housing Investment Programme returns (annual):
Housing Corporation "CORE" returns
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Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions if he will list (a) by region and (b) by size of property in terms of number of bedrooms the proportion of (i) secure lettings made available by local authorities to homeless households and (ii) lettings made available to homeless households by housing associations in 200001. [18299]
Ms Keeble: Information for 200001 is not yet available. Information on 19992000 lettings reported by local authorities on their 2000 Housing Investment Programme (HIP) returns, and corresponding data in respect of registered social landlord lettings collected through the CORE data systems are given in the tables:
LA lettings | RSL letting | |
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North East | 11 | 5 |
North West | 10 | 6 |
Yorkshire and the Humber | 13 | 8 |
East Midlands | 16 | 10 |
West Midlands | 22 | 14 |
East of England | 21 | 19 |
London | 57 | 44 |
South East | 32 | 25 |
South West | 27 | 31 |
England | 22 | 18 |
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LA lettings | RSL lettings | |
---|---|---|
One bedroom properties | 15 | 10 |
Two bedroom properties | (2)28 | 23 |
Three or more bedroom properties | 29 | |
Total all properties | 22 | 18 |
(2) Data only available for two or more bedrooms
Note:
Homeless households are households in priority need for whom a statutory duty has been accepted by a local authority under homelessness provisions of Housing Acts. Lettings to these households have been expressed as a percentage of lettings to new tenants ie excluding transfers and exchanges between existing tenants of social landlords.
Sources:
DTLR Housing Investment Programme (HIP) returns (annual):
Housing Corporation "CORE" returns.
Mr. Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions how many homeless people there are in the Buckingham constituency. [20132]
Ms Keeble: The information is as follows:
Number | |
---|---|
Total | 195 |
of which: | |
With dependant children or a pregnant woman | 159 |
In bed and breakfast accommodation | 5 |
Rough sleeping | (3)010 |
(3) Local authority estimate of the typical number of people currently sleeping rough in the area on any single night.
Note:
There are a high number of people in temporary accommodation at 125 in Aylesbury Vale, but the proportion in bed and breakfast accommodation is relatively low at 2 per cent.
Source:
Housing Investment Programme 2001 Housing Strategy Statistical Appendix
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Malcolm Bruce: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions how many (a) permanent and (b) temporary homeless people there were in rural areas broken down by local authority in (i) 1996, (ii) 1997, (iii) 1998, (iv) 1999, (v) 2000 and (vi) 2001. [19647]
Ms Keeble: I have placed the information requested in the Library.
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