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Battersea Power Station
Tom Cox: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister if he will make a statement on his Department's proposed redevelopment of Battersea Power Station. [198950]
Phil Hope: The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister has no proposals to redevelop Battersea Power Station. Planning applications from Parkview Limited, owners of Battersea Power Station, for refurbishment of the building and redevelopment of the site, were considered by the London borough of Wandsworth in October 2004. The Government Office for London issued a holding direction to enable a last minute request for call-in from a third party to be considered. The holding direction was subsequently removed and the applications were not called in, leaving the council free to determine them.
Compulsory Purchase Orders
Mr. Dismore: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister if he will (a) remove and (b) limit the liability of sheriffs for damages claims in the event of improper enforcement of compulsory purchase orders. [199248]
Keith Hill: My right hon. Friend the Deputy Prime Minister has no such proposals in hand. This is a matter which is normally dealt with through indemnity insurance.
Fire Service
Mr. Clifton-Brown: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister (1) if he will establish an independent review into the future of regional fire control centres; [199333]
(2) how many representations (a) for and (b) against a regional fire control centre he has received from Gloucestershire residents. [199334]
Mr. Raynsford: It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Government Buildings (Disabled Access)
Tom Cox: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister whether all Government buildings in his Department within the Greater London area are fully accessible to disabled people; and if he will make a statement. [199321]
Keith Hill: The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister has had an independent accessibility audit carried out in each of its Greater London Buildings.
Where deficiencies were highlighted by these audits, reasonable adjustments have been made to make the buildings accessible to disabled staff and visitors.
Housing
Helen Jones: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how many homeless households are awaiting accommodation in each local authority in the north-west. [193048]
Keith Hill:
A breakdown of homeless households in various forms of temporary accommodation at the end of June 2004, either pending a decision on their application or awaiting the allocation of a settled home, as reported by local authorities in the North West Government Office region is tabled as follows. As can be seen from the table, around half of households in temporary accommodation at the end of the quarter were either in local authority/Housing Association stock or accommodation leased from the private sector.
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(6) Households in temporary accommodation pending completion of inquiries into their application, or after being accepted, under homelessness legislation.
(7) Households designated as "Homeless at Home" have remained in their existing accommodation and have the same rights to suitable alternative accommodation as those in accommodation arranged by authorities.
3 Data not reported.
Source:
ODPM P1E homelessness returns (quarterly)
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The latest quarterly Statistical Release on statutory homelessness, published by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister on 13 September, presented analyses up to the end of the second quarter of 2004. Information on households in temporary accommodation at local authority level is contained in an associated Supplementary Table. These are available in the Library of the House, and via the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's website.
Mr. Love: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister (1) if he will break down the low cost home ownership units planned for (a) Enfield and (b) Greater London in the Housing Corporation's 2004 to 2006 approved development programme by (i) conventional shared ownership, (ii) key worker shared ownership, (iii) homebuy and (iv) other forms of low cost home ownership; [199222]
(2) if he will break down the low cost home ownership units planned for (a) Enfield and (b) Greater London in the Housing Corporation's 2004 to 2006 approved development programme by (i) one-bed, (ii) two-bed, (iii) three-bed and (iv) four-bed and more. [199223]
Keith Hill: It has not proved possible to respond to my hon. Friend in the time available before Prorogation.
Mr. Love: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how many shared ownership properties were sold in (a) Enfield and (b) Greater London in each year since 1997; and how many of those properties were purchased by someone (i) already in social housing in that area, (ii) on the single housing register in that area and (iii) a key worker. [199226]
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Keith Hill: A table containing this information (for every local authority in England) has been made available in the Library of the House.
The table includes, for each financial year from 1997–98 to 2003–04 and for every English local authority and for each Government office region:
how many shared ownership sales were to people who were registered on a local authority waiting list/common housing register.
Note that the figures relate to the sales of initial shares only. Subsequent purchases of additional equity are not included.
It should be noted that figures on the number of key workers that bought shared ownership properties during the period 1997–98 to 2003–04 are not available. This is because the purchaser's occupation was not collected as part of CORE Sales during this period.
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