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Housing Officers (London)

Sarah Teather: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how many housing officers were employed by each London borough per 1,000 population in the last year for which figures are available. [2486]

Yvette Cooper: The information is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
 
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Leisure Facilities (Brent)

Sarah Teather: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what assessment the Audit Commission has made of leisure facilities in Brent. [2509]

Mr. Woolas: This is an operational matter for the Audit Commission. I will ask the chief executive to write to the hon. Member and to ensure the answer is made available in the Library the House.

Libraries

Sarah Teather: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how many public libraries are maintained by each London borough per 1,000 population; and what the total number of public libraries run by local authorities in London was in each year since 1997. [2483]

Jim Fitzpatrick: The figures for each borough, and the total number of libraries run by local authorities in London in each year since 1997 are set out as follows:
Number of libraries in London 1997–2004

	Static libraries	Mobile libraries	Total
1997	368	37	405
1998	370	36	406
1999	371	34	405
2000	369	33	402
2001	364	33	397
2002	363	32	397
2003	361	30	391
2004	365	30	395

Number of public libraries per 1,000 population in each London borough⁽²²⁾

Borough	Number of libraries	Borough population	Libraries per 1,000 people	People per library
Barking and Dagenham	11	163,944	0.067	14,904
Barnet	17	314,564	0.054	18,503
Bexley	13	218,307	0.059	16,792
Brent	13	263,464	0.049	20,266
Bromley	18	295,532	0.060	16,418
Camden	13	198,020	0.065	15,232
City of London	5	7,185	0.692	1,437
Croydon	14	330,587	0.042	23,613
Ealing	12	300,948	0.039	25,079
Enfield	14	273,559	0.051	19,539
Greenwich	14	214,403	0.065	15,314
Hackney	7	202,824	0.034	28,974
Hammersmith and Fulham	6	165,242	0.036	27,540
Haringey	9	216,507	0.041	24,056
Harrow	11	206,814	0.053	18,801
Havering	10	224,248	0.044	22,424
Hillingdon	17	243,006	0.069	14,294
Hounslow	11	212,341	0.051	19,303
Islington	12	175,797	0.068	14,649
Kensington and Chelsea	6	158,919	0.037	26,486
Kingston Upon Thames	8	147,273	0.054	18,409
Lambeth	9	266,169	0.033	29,574
Lewisham	13	248,922	0.052	19,147
Merton	7	187,908	0.037	26,844
Newham	12	243,891	0.049	20,324
Redbridge	10	238,635	0.041	23,863
Richmond upon Thames	13	172,335	0.075	13,256
Southwark	14	244,866	0.057	17,490
Sutton	9	179,768	0.058	19,974
Tower Hamlets	10	196,106	0.050	19,610
Waltham Forest	12	218,341	0.054	18,195
Wandsworth	12	260,380	0.046	21,698
Westminster	12	181,286	0.066	15,107

⁽²²⁾ These figures do not include mobile libraries.





 
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Litter

Sarah Teather: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how many local authority maintained litterbins there were in each London borough in each of the last five years. [2477]

Jim Fitzpatrick: The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister does not hold this information.

Local Government (Advice Services)

Sarah Teather: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how much was spent by each local authority on (a) in-house and (b) independent advice services in each year since 1997. [2421]

Mr. Woolas: This information is not centrally available and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Overcrowding

Sarah Teather: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what plans he has to change the statutory definition of overcrowding. [2432]

Yvette Cooper: The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister is considering the future of the statutory overcrowding standards and plans to publish a consultation paper in the near future.

Planning (Prosecutions)

Sarah Teather: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how many people were prosecuted for planning irregularities in each London borough in the last five years. [2479]

Yvette Cooper: This information is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Public Sector Land

Sarah Teather: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what the (a) size and (b) value was of the surplus brownfield public sector-owned land in England in the last year for which figures are available, broken down by local authority. [2459]

Yvette Cooper: Information from the National Land Use Database of Previously-Developed Land (NLUD-PDL) on the amounts of vacant or derelict land owned by local authorities and by other public sector bodies has been made available in the Library of the House. The information relates to 31 March 2004 except for a small number of local authorities where it is for an earlier year. Information on the value of the land is not available.

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same land recorded as vacant by NLUD-PDL. At March 2005 the Register held 713 sites covering just under 3,600 hectares. The Register does not currently distinguish between brownfield and greenfield sites.

Public Toilets

Sarah Teather: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how many local authority maintained public toilets there were in each London borough in each of the last five years. [2478]

Yvette Cooper: The information requested is only held by each individual local authority and there is no national central repository detailing up-to-date data of this kind. Up until 2001 the Audit Commission carried out comprehensive surveys, looking at public toilet numbers, but the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister understands that this has now ceased.

Supporting People Programme

Sarah Teather: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how many units of housing support have been provided in each year of the supporting people programme; and how many units are projected to be provided for subsequent years. [2438]

Mr. Woolas: In 2003–04 there were a total of 1,232,889 household units; information for 2004–05 is not currently available. However, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister now gathers data from administering authorities through the supporting people local systems, every quarter. This exercise will provide details of the number of household units for 2004–05 onwards.

Administering authorities are responsible for commissioning local services; therefore, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister is unable to project future service levels.

TREASURY

Alcohol-related Deaths (London)

Sarah Teather: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many alcohol-related deaths there were in each London borough in each year since 1997. [2502]

John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.

Letter from Len Cook to Sarah Teather, dated 9 June 2005:

As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking how many alcohol-related deaths there were in each London borough in each year since 1997. (2502)

The latest year for which figures are available is 2004. The table below shows the numbers of deaths among residents of London boroughs where the underlying cause of death indicated a condition directly related to alcohol use in the years 1997 to 2004.

Alcohol-related deaths⁽²³⁾ to usual residents of London boroughs, registered 1997 to 2004

London borough	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
City of London	—	—	1	1	—	1	2	—
Barking and Dagenham	12	16	23	14	18	19	17	15
Barnet	19	18	17	22	29	23	32	18
Bexley	16	22	20	26	25	27	27	16
Brent	33	40	40	32	30	40	25	33
Bromley	21	24	24	30	27	26	21	30
Camden	40	37	41	28	44	35	27	27
Croydon	32	30	43	34	33	28	43	23
Ealing	33	28	34	31	37	38	44	39
Enfield	17	19	25	22	13	21	28	26
Greenwich	20	29	31	32	29	25	25	26
Hackney	13	21	27	16	19	21	25	29
Hammersmith and Fulham	20	30	23	25	26	24	25	35
Haringey	27	13	23	23	21	20	19	25
Harrow	23	20	20	13	14	17	16	22
Havering	17	13	14	9	14	24	19	18
Hillingdon	34	25	23	16	26	27	30	43
Hounslow	18	38	29	31	29	32	46	28
Islington	25	36	22	25	32	26	22	13
Kensington and Chelsea	16	16	20	28	16	21	14	13
Kingston upon Thames	11	18	18	14	24	19	16	13
Lambeth	33	41	35	40	32	28	34	33
Lewisham	32	28	30	24	29	41	32	32
Merton	18	23	18	22	19	22	21	13
Newham	28	19	33	29	28	33	32	36
Redbridge	27	19	24	26	16	24	16	21
Richmond upon Thames	16	17	19	17	15	29	29	23
Southwark	35	28	28	37	40	31	35	28
Sutton	11	10	21	18	10	17	9	12
Tower Hamlets	23	22	27	30	18	25	26	20
Waltham Forest	15	21	12	21	21	18	19	16
Wandsworth	28	29	31	32	41	24	30	21
Westminster	34	38	33	38	34	32	28	25

⁽²³⁾ For the years 1999–2000 the cause of death was defined using the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9). The codes used by ONS to define alcohol-related deaths are listed as follows:
291—Alcoholic psychoses
303—Alcohol dependence syndrome
305.0—Non-dependent abuse of alcohol
425.5—Alcoholic cardiomyopathy
571—Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis
E860—Accidental poisoning by alcohol
For the years 2001–2004 the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) was used. To maintain comparability with earlier years the following codes were used:
F10—Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of alcohol
142.6—Alcoholic cardiomyopathy
K70—Alcoholic liver disease
K73—Chronic hepatitis, not elsewhere classified
K74—Fibrosis and cirrhosis of liver
X45—Accidental poisoning by and exposure to alcohol
The selection of codes to define alcohol-related deaths is described in: Baker A and Rooney C (2003). Recent trends in alcohol-related mortality, and the impact of ICD-10 on the monitoring of these deaths in England and Wales. Health Statistics Quarterly 17, pp 5–14.





 
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