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Taxation (Wales)
Mr. Martyn Jones: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much money was raised through taxes in Wales in each of the last 10 years. [177351]
Dawn Primarolo: The following table from the ONS 2002 publication of household income shows estimates of income taxes, council taxes and vehicle taxes paid by households in Wales and the United Kingdom for the period 1995 to 1999. These figures were produced by ONS for the estimation of sub-national gross disposable household income and were published in March 2002.
| 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wales | 3,062 | 3,036 | 3,068 | 3,384 | 3,743 |
| United Kingdom | 86,527 | 87,932 | 89,734 | 106,069 | 113,455 |
(5) Taxes paid by households and non-profit institutions serving households
No corresponding information is available on taxes paid by organisations although an estimate of the VAT paid was given in my answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Wrexham (Ian Lucas) on 16 December 2002, Official Report, column 613W.
DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER
Housing Stock
Mr. Austin Mitchell: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what the total costs of grants to Arm's Length Management Organisations, and the amount paid to each, has been since 1999. [176757]
Keith Hill: The Housing Revenue Account Subsidy paid to local authorities which have set up qualifying Arms Length Management Organisations (ALMOs) to manage and improve their housing stock includes an allowance to support borrowing by the local authorities for capital expenditure by their ALMOs. This allowance was first paid in 2002–03. The sums paid to each qualifying local authority in 2002–03 and 2003–04 are tabled as follows:
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Mr. Austin Mitchell: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister if he will place in the Library the evidence he has collated on the benefits that arise from (a) separating housing management from housing strategy and (b) the financial effect of the separation. [177007]
Keith Hill: The Audit Commission's Best Value Inspection Reports indicate that stock owning local authorities primarily see their housing role as that of a landlord. This reduces their focus on strategic housing functions. In explaining why they had published best practice on how local authorities that had transferred their stock deliver their strategic housing role, the Audit Commission said that:
"Having set up a housing association to run its rented homes, a council is able to concentrate on area-based regeneration, including private sector housing. In other areas, councils have used stock transfer as an opportunity to work more effectively with planning services to provide more affordable housing and more mixed-tenure developments".
The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister does not have information of the financial effects of the separation of strategic and landlord services.
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Mr. Austin Mitchell: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how much investment to fund stock improvements has been secured via transfer, private finance initiative and Arm's Length Management Organisations since the Housing Green Paper was published in 2000, broken down by local authority; and how much of the backlog of repairs and improvement remains to be funded. [176756]
Keith Hill: The following tables show the level of additional investment secured by ALMO PFI and LSVT since 2000.
These figures do not include mainstream housing funding paid to stock owning local authorities including those that have established ALMOs or PFI contracts.
The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister is not in a position to update or estimate the reduction since 2001 of the repairs and improvement backlog until we have sufficient data from the English House Condition Survey, the next report of which will be published by the end of this year.
The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister needs this independent assessment, as we cannot determine the remaining backlog by simply deducting the sums spent from the previous backlog estimate. This is because the expenditure is used both to reduce the backlog and to stop the backlog increasing.
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| ALMO allowance (£) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Local authority | 2002–03 | 2003–04 |
| Round 1 ALMOs | ||
| Ashfield | 1,012,603 | 2,400,000 |
| Derby | 1,312,164 | 3,110,000 |
| Hounslow | 1,179,452 | 3,500,000 |
| Kirklees | 1,917,808 | 6,250,000 |
| Rochdale | 835,397 | 2,420,000 |
| Stockton-on-Tees | 1,353,288 | 4,450,000 |
| Westminster | 745,260 | 2,030,000 |
| Wigan | 1,788,932 | 5,830,000 |
| Round 2 ALMOs | ||
| Barnsley | — | 1,856,885 |
| Blyth Valley | — | 1,329,235 |
| Bolton | — | 2,619,654 |
| Brent | — | 2,342,213 |
| Carrick | — | 109,098 |
| Cheltenham | — | 422,131 |
| Hillingdon | — | 86,175 |
| Kensington and Chelsea | — | 1,580,334 |
| Leeds—North East | — | 447,072 |
| Leeds—West | — | 778,210 |
| Oldham | — | 3,033,211 |
| Total | 10,144,904 | 44,594,218 |
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| Authority | PFI credits (£ million) |
|---|---|
| Manchester | 36.64 |
| Islington | 74.69 |
| Reading | 49.65 |
| Total | 160.98 |
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