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TRANSPORT, LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND

THE REGIONS

Departmental Staff

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
London2,8281,001
Elsewhere72712,808
Total3,55513,809

Street Warden Scheme

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.

Lead agencyBid area
Successful bids
London Borough of RedbridgeHainault Ward
London Borough of BromleyCommercial areas of West Wickham and Hayes
London Borough of HarrowWealdstone Area
Paddington Churches Housing AssociationStamford Hill Neighbourhood
London Borough of CamdenKings Cross
London Borough SouthwarkPeckham High Street
London Borough LewishamCatford Town Centre
London Borough of Greenwich and Greenwich Community Safety TrustSafer Thamesmead and Abbey Wood Wardens Project
Barnet Community Safety PartnershipEast Finchley, High Barnet and Finchley Central
Genesis Housing GroupNorth Addington Neighbourhood Wardens Project
Hyde Housing AssociationLyon street area
Royal Borough of KingstonCouncil housing estates
Hammersmith and Fulham Crime Reduction PartnershipShepherds Bush Green Triangle
Bethnal Green Connecting Communities PartnershipBethnal Green Gateway
Neighbourhood Management ServiceBowes Park street
London Borough of Barking and DagenhamRiver, Village and Goresbrook Wards
London Borough of WandsworthClapham Junction
London Borough of MertonLavender, Pollards Hill, St. Helier Wards and Mitcham and Wimbledon Town Centres
Unsuccessful bids
London Borough of EalingActon Town Centre
London Borough of EalingEaling and West Ealing Town Centre
London Borough of EalingSouthall Town Centre
London Borough of LambethClapham Common and Streatham Neighbourhoods
London Borough of BromleySt. Mary Cray Ward
London Borough of BexleyTown Centres and Residential Areas
London Boroughs of Richmond upon Thames and HounslowButts Farm, Leeson and Hounslow Heath street
London Borough of HounslowHounslow Town Centre
London Borough of HounslowHounslow Neighbourhood
Notting Dale NWPNotting Dale Police Sector, North Kensington
London Borough of HillingdonTown Centres in Hillingdon
The New West End Company (NWEC)Bond street, Oxford street and Regent street
Poplar Area Neighbourhood PartnershipPoplar street
Lilac ProjectSoho, Covent Garden and Bloomsbury
London Borough of Waltham ForestBakers Arms street
London Borough of BarnetVarious towns within LB Barnet
The Circle InitiativeFive areas of central London
Wandsworth CouncilClapham Junction (Added Value Bid)
London Borough of NewhamCommunity Forum street
London Borough of BrentWembley
Kingston Town Centre Management Ltd.Kingston Town Centre
London Borough of IslingtonIslington High street
London Borough of Tower HamletsStepney
High Trees Community Development TrustSt. Martin's Estate and surrounding area
Object X2DWandsworth
Clapton Community Housing TrustUpper Clapton road and Wrenns Park Estate
Croydon CouncilFieldway and New Addington

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Terminal 5

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:





A3. The Study shall be of sufficient scale and scope to provide a methodologically robust re-assessment of the validity of the Leq family of noise indices as a proxy for relative community

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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.

Homeless People

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 1991–92 to 2000–01. [18301]

Ms Keeble: The available information is as follows:

Proportion of local authority and registered social landlord lettings made available to new tenants who were homeless households in priority need; and number of homeless households in temporary accommodation arranged by the local authority at 31 March: by region

1991–921992–931993–941994–951995–961996–971997–981998–991999–2000
North East
LA lettings (percentage)27242018161391311
RSL lettings (percentage)n/an/an/an/a1512665
Numbers accommodated(1)4005005005005005007001,0001,100
North West
LA lettings (percentage)252524211916111010
RSL lettings (percentage)n/an/an/an/a1613876
Numbers accommodated(1)2,7003,1002,8002,3002,2002,1002,4002,2002,000
Yorkshire and the Humber
LA lettings (percentage)293229231915161613
RSL lettings (percentage)n/an/an/an/a21171088
Numbers accommodated(1) 2,3002,2001,9001,6001,4001,0001,2002,2001,400
East Midlands
LA lettings (percentage)414032282620131416
RSL lettings (percentage)n/an/an/an/a2521141210
Numbers accommodated(1)1,9001,6001,4001,6001,5001,4001,3001,6002,000
West Midlands
LA lettings (percentage)414236313027292622
RSL lettings (percentage)n/an/an/an/a2621161414
Numbers accommodated(1)1,9001,7001,5001,2001,2001,1002,0001,5001,800
East of England
LA lettings (percentage)404034343028172321
RSL lettings (percentage)n/an/an/an/a3025161919
Numbers accommodated(1)4,3003,9003,2003,1002,8002,6003,2803,6004,500
London
LA lettings (percentage)646556525149434957
RSL lettings (percentage)n/an/an/an/a5351414144
Numbers accommodated(1)39,50038,00030,10025,80024,60024,00025,60030,50037,700
South East
LA lettings (percentage)414139393834232632
RSL lettings (percentage)n/an/an/an/a3936252625
Numbers accommodated(1)8,3008,1007,3007,3006,7006,4007,7008,8009,700
South West
LA lettings (percentage)404239373532182427
RSL lettings (percentage)n/an/an/an/a3231222631
Numbers accommodated(1)2,9002,8002,7002,8002,6002,2003,3004,7004,800
England
LA lettings (percentage)383935312825202222
RSL lettings (percentage)n/an/an/an/a3026181818
Numbers accommodated(1)64,30062,00051,50046,30043,50041,60046,40056,20064,800

(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 2000–01. [18299]

Ms Keeble: Information for 2000–01 is not yet available. Information on 1999–2000 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:

Table 1: Lettings to homeless households in 1999–2000 as a proportion of all LA new secure lettings and RSL lettings to new tenants by region
Percentage

LA lettingsRSL letting
North East115
North West106
Yorkshire and the Humber138
East Midlands1610
West Midlands2214
East of England2119
London5744
South East3225
South West2731
England2218


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Table 2: Lettings to homeless households in 1999–2000 as a proportion of all LA new secure lettings and RSL lettings to new tenants by size of property in terms of number of bedrooms
Percentage

LA lettingsRSL lettings
One bedroom properties1510
Two bedroom properties    (2)28 23
Three or more bedroom properties 29
Total all properties2218

(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:

Homeless households (and homeless at home) in accommodation at 31 March 2001 in Aylesbury Vale

Number
Total195
of which:
With dependant children or a pregnant woman159
In bed and breakfast accommodation5
Rough sleeping(3)0–10

(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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