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Mr. Cousins: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what the (a) nature and (b) value was of contracts, consultancies and other services placed with (i) Deloitte and Touche, (ii) Ernst and Young, (iii) KPMG and (iv) Pricewaterhouse Coopers since 200001 by the former Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions and its agencies. [177506]
Yvette Cooper: The value of contracts placed by the former Department for Transport Local Government and the Regions and its agencies for the years 200001 and 200102 with the suppliers detailed in the question was as follows.
£ | |
---|---|
PWC | 4,239,936 |
Ernst and Young | 112,000 |
Deloitte & Touche | 860,831 |
KPMG | 2,292,625 |
The nature of such contracts across the Department and its agencies can be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Mr. Flight: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what the total expenditure on consultants and contractors for the Government Office of the West Midlands was in each year since 1997. [176900]
Yvette Cooper:
Detailed expenditure of this type is no longer available for 199798. Also, expenditure on "contractors" is not recorded separately from a wide range of general administrative costs. "Consultants" costs are recorded under the heading of professional
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services for which total expenditure was as follows:
£ | |
---|---|
199899 | 41,000 |
19992000 | 115,000 |
200001 | 119,000 |
200102 | 68,000 |
200203 | 58,000 |
200304 | 560,000 |
The 200304 data involves a change of definition and is not compatible with previous figures.
Ms Oona King: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how many Homebuy loans were made in each local authority area in London in 200304. [178691]
Keith Hill: A total of 1,061 home purchases were completed with Homebuy loans, funded by the Housing Corporation through its Approved Development Programme, in London in 200304. The following table shows a breakdown of the total by local authority area.
Local authority | Number |
---|---|
Barking and Dagenham | 38 |
Barnet | 27 |
Bexley | 48 |
Brent | 21 |
Bromley | 57 |
Camden | 3 |
Croydon | 61 |
Ealing | 42 |
Enfield | 57 |
Greenwich | 91 |
Hackney | 23 |
Hammersmith and Fulham | 12 |
Haringey | 41 |
Harrow | 13 |
Havering | 36 |
Hillingdon | 52 |
Hounslow | 34 |
Islington | 16 |
Kensington and Chelsea | 3 |
Kingston upon Thames | 27 |
Lambeth | 20 |
Lewisham | 46 |
Merton | 25 |
Newham | 24 |
Redbridge | 41 |
Richmond upon Thames | 10 |
Southwark | 17 |
Sutton | 51 |
Tower Hamlets | 15 |
Waltham Forest | 71 |
Wandsworth | 29 |
Westminster | 10 |
Total | 1,061 |
Ms Oona King: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how many Homebuy loans were made to (a) those in social housing, (b) those on housing waiting lists and (c) key workers in London in 200304. [178732]
Keith Hill: 1,061 home purchases with Homebuy loans were completed in London during 200304. From a Housing Corporation survey, CORE Sales, at least 211 of these Homebuy loans were given to tenants in social housing and at least 59 to people on housing waiting lists. The Housing Corporation's investment system shows that over 400 of the loans were made to key workers in London.
Mr. Berry: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how the Government are tackling access barriers to disabled people on local government websites. [177020]
Phil Hope: Under the local e-Government programme the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister is supporting a national project called LAWSLocal Authority Websites, to develop guidance for local authorities on best practice for designing and managing websites. One of the issues addressed is website accessibility, including for disabled people. Ensuring that their websites are accessible to all their citizens is fundamental to the design of individual authorities' websites. Another national project, e-SBthe Standards Body, will incorporate website accessibility information into the forthcoming website standards for local authorities.
Mrs. Curtis-Thomas: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how much public funding has been spent from the Housing Corporation Programme in Crosby. [177854]
Keith Hill:
The following table shows the Housing Corporation Social Housing Grant expenditure in Sefton for the past five years.
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£ million | |
---|---|
199900 | 6.711 |
200001 | 4.768 |
200102 | 3.816 |
200203 | 6.000 |
200304 | 4.663 |
The Housing Corporation gathers information at local authority level, therefore information for the constituency of Crosby is not available. Crosby is within the local authority of Sefton.
Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister on what date the proposed referendums on regional assemblies will take place; and whether the voting will be all-postal. [178719]
Mr. Raynsford: The Government intend to hold the referendums this autumn by all-postal ballot. We will be laying orders to that effect this summer.
Ms Oona King: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how many (a) local authority and (b) housing association lettings were made in each Government Office Region in each year since 1980. [178734]
Keith Hill: The number of local authority and housing association lettings made in each Government Office region are tabled as follows.
In the table, information on local authority lettings is provided for the years 197980 to 200203 and on housing association lettings for the years 199596 to 200304.
Ms Oona King: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what proportion of new social housing for rent built in each year since 1990 had three or more bedrooms. [178735]
Keith Hill: The percentages of registered social landlord (RSL) new build completions in England that had at least three bedrooms are shown in the table. Equivalent figures for local authority new build are not readily available.
Percentage | |
---|---|
199091 | 20 |
199192 | 20 |
199293 | 26 |
199394 | 31 |
199495 | 34 |
199596 | 35 |
199697 | 36 |
199798 | 39 |
199899 | 38 |
19992000 | 37 |
200001 | 35 |
200102 | 33 |
200203 | 38 |
200304 | 32 |
Ms Oona King: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister if he will add to his Department's Public Service Agreement 5 a performance indicator for the number of families with children living in overcrowded housing. [178736]
Keith Hill: No. The Office's Public Service Agreement 5 underpins the Government's commitment to improve the balance between supply and demand for housing. In this context, the main function of a performance indicator for overcrowding would be to monitor progress in alleviating the position of those at the bottom of the housing ladder. However, PSA5 already incorporates such an indicator number of statutory homeless households with children in temporary accommodation. The further indicator proposed here would simply cover the same ground, albeit from a slightly different perspective.
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