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DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER

Brent Council Properties

Sarah Teather: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what has been the cost to the London borough of Brent of vouchers given to tenants for refurbishment of Brent homes in each year since the scheme has been in operation; and for how many properties the vouchers were given each year. [186299]

Keith Hill: The London borough of Brent does not provide vouchers to tenants for the refurbishment of Brent owned homes. Vouchers for the decoration of council owned properties are issued in two instances:

1. Void property—assistance can be given to a tenant moving into a new property.

2. Decoration following Repair—in cases where we have damaged decorations whilst carrying out repairs.

This scheme has been running since the late 1970s. Information on the costs of maintaining properties prior to 2001–02 is not available.
 
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The cost of the scheme and the numbers of properties refurbished over the last three years are as follows:

2001–02: 553 properties at a cost of £54,450

2002–03: 648 properties at a cost of £62,900

2003–04: 591 properties at a cost of £52,700.

Sarah Teather: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what the cost of refurbishing and redecorating Brent council-owned homes was in each of the 10 years before the voucher scheme was introduced; and how many properties were refurbished and redecorated in each year. [186300]

 
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Keith Hill: London Borough of Brent have advised that no records are held that could provide that information.

Departmental Buildings

Mr. Llwyd: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what (a) renovation and (b) maintenance projects on buildings (i) owned and (ii) rented by his Department were undertaken in each of the last five years; and what the associated costs were of each. [163957]

Phil Hope [pursuant to the reply, 4 May 2004, Official Report, c. 1433W]: The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister was established in May 2002. Since that date the following renovation and maintenance projects have been undertaken at the properties (i) owned and (ii) rented by the office. All figures are exclusive of VAT.
£

	2002–03		2003–04
	Renovation	Maintenance	Renovation	Maintenance
(i) Owned
Burlington House	0	83,400	0	55,000
QEIICC	29,000	139,418	1,853,300	3,127,511
Fire Service College	230,257	108,097	956,008	182,151
Government Office Network	0	0	0	0
(ii) Rented
ODPM—HQ:
Eland House	1,777,879	0	655,862	79,174
Ashdown House	0	0	70,343	570,220
Portland House	311,062	0	0	0
PINS	0	0	0	109,316
Fire Service Improvement—Marchington	0	42,416	13,318	52,766
Valuation Tribunal	42,822	255,204	115,166	193,059
Government Office Network	101,496	214,000	803,820	256,311
Rent Service	976,000	89,500	118,000	218,500

With regard to the maintenance figures, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister records an item of work as a project if it exceeds £15,000. Work of lower value is funded from bulk maintenance. The number of projects has prevented detailing each, as this could have been provided only at disproportionate cost.

The figures provided are gross expenditure and do not reflect receipts from other building occupants. Although the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister has overall responsibility for the buildings occupied by Government offices, they carry out functions on behalf of 10 Departments.

Departmental Costs

Mrs. Spelman: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how much his Department spent on (a) refurbishment and (b) office furniture in the last year for which figures are available. [185777]

Phil Hope: For information in respect of refurbishment, I refer the hon. Member to the answer given today in respect of parliamentary question 180362.

The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister does not collect data on its expenditure on office furniture.

Mrs. Spelman: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what the (a) running costs and (b) total expenditure of (i) the Greater London Authority, (ii) each of the Government offices for the regions, (iii) the regional observatories and regional intelligence groups and (iv) the regional housing boards was in each year since each was established. [185009]

Phil Hope: The Greater London Authority's net expenditure on services (excluding reserve transfers) since its establishment in May 2000 is as follows:

	£ million
2000–01	(24)20.5
2001–02	32.9
2002–03	45.5
2003–04	(25)50.1
2004–05	(26)63.3

⁽²⁴⁾ Part year only.
⁽²⁵⁾ Provisional outturn.
⁽²⁶⁾ Budget.



 
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Information about how much of this expenditure is specifically for running costs are not held by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.

The running costs for each Government Office for the period 1995-/96 until 2003–04, and their budgets for the current year, are detailed in the following table. The Government Offices now carry out activity on behalf of 10 Government Departments compared with four Departments in 1995–96. In 2002–03 they managed or influenced around £9 billion of Government expenditure broken down by region as follows: North East—£664 million; North West—£1,430 million; Yorkshire and the Humber—£l,036 million; West Midlands—
 
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£l,285 million; East Midlands—£428 million; East of England—£349 million; South West—£499 million; South East—£876 million; and London—£2,592 million.

Regional observatories obtain their resources from a number of different sources and information about their running costs and expenditure are not held by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.

Regional Housing Boards' running costs are funded from the budgets of the core Board members: Government Offices, Regional Chambers/Assemblies, Regional Development Agencies, the Housing Corporation and English Partnerships. Information about their running costs are not held by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.
Government Office administrative running costs £000

Government Office	1995–96	1996–97	1997–98	1998–99	1999–2000
North East	8,842.76	8,687.15	8,616.75	8,618.84	8,312.05
North West	9,983.71	9,839.09	9,442.59	13,690.13	13,048.58
Merseyside	4,753.84	4,349.95	4,199.53	12.24	—
Total NW/M	14,737.55	14,189.04	13,642.12	13,702.37	13,048.58
Yorks and Humber	9,060.51	8,765.04	8,475.01	8,683.92	8,888.68
West Midlands	10,435.73	10,040.37	9,757.79	9,474.35	9,330.15
East Midlands	7,116.85	6,616.67	6,436.24	6,754.39	6,951.28
East	6,122.84	6,168.97	6,270.62	6,269.43	7,005.47
South West	7,574.14	7,140.74	6,825.73	6,985.03	7,796.87
South East	8,331.06	8,406.18	8,544.99	8,561.40	8,658.61
London	11,106.26	14,106.47	13,458.82	13,238.12	13,715.79
Total	83,327.70	84,120.63	82,028.07	82,287.85	83,707.48

Government Office	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04	2004–05 1
North East	8,197.33	9,002.29	9,954.46	12,164.59	14,771.21
North West	13,651.03	15,344.87	15,523.52	16,744.59	18,111.38
Merseyside	—	—	—	—	—
Total NW/M	13,651,03	15,344.87	15,523.52	16,744.59	18,111.38
Yorks and Humber	9,357.48	10,036.85	10,943.77	12,344.06	13,352.37
West Midlands	9,960.76	10,295.51	10,662.85	13,378.54	14,035.18
East Midlands	7,335.77	8,244.80	8,713.24	10,955.39	11,461.01
East	7,542.48	8,631.95	9,355.85	12,607.17	13,534.69
South West	8,711.38	10,666.90	11,860.77	13,858.05	14,398.06
South East	9,477.26	10,326.44	10,874.74	14,105.96	14,402.24
London	13,860.98	13,161.20	14,038.84	16,649.56	18,141.31
Total	88,094.47	95,710.81	101,928.04	122,807.89	132,207.45

⁽²⁷⁾ Allocations for 2004–05.
Note:
GO-North West and GO-Merseyside merged during 1998–99.





 
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Mrs. Spelman: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how much his Department spent on replacing light bulbs in the last year for which figures are available. [185774]

Phil Hope: The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister does not collect data on this.

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