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Departmental Estate
David Howarth: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what the total floor space is of buildings (a) owned and (b) leased by (i) his Department and (ii) its agencies. [15953]
Mr. Davey: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what the total floor space area is of buildings (a) owned and (b) leased by (i) his Department and (ii) its agencies. [16280]
Jim Fitzpatrick: The total floor space of buildings owned and leased by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and its agencies as at September 2005 is as follows:
| Owned | Leased | |
|---|---|---|
| ODPM | 11,756 | 82,076 |
| Agencies | 38,349 | 13,160 |
Of the figures given for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, one of the freehold buildings is Burlington House which is leased to the Royal Academy and five Learned Societies. The data include the space that other Government Departments occupy in buildings owned or leased by ODPM but do not include space that the office occupies in other Government Departments' buildings.
These figures do not include buildings occupied by Government offices which perform functions on behalf of 10 Government Departments.
Departmental Publications
Sarah Teather: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how many publications his Department has produced in each year since 1997. [15572]
Jim Fitzpatrick: The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister was created on 29 May 2002.
In the year 2002–03 we produced 422 new publications, in the year 2003–04 455 new publications and in 2004–05 521 new publications.
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Websites
Sarah Teather: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what websites come under his Department's responsibility. [16005]
Jim Fitzpatrick: The answer is as follows:
Disabled Access
Mrs. Spelman: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what percentage of his Department's buildings are accessible to disabled people. [15231]
Jim Fitzpatrick: 88 per cent. of the buildings occupied by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister are accessible for disabled people. This represents 15 out of 17 buildings.
The two buildings, both of which are inaccessible to people with ambulatory difficulties, are a small office in Glossop, which is situated on the first floor above a high street bank, and a small office facility adjacent to the main storage hangers at Marchington. The former is nearing the end of its lease.
This answer does not include the buildings occupied by Government Offices, who carry out functions on behalf of 10 Government Departments.
Disabled Employees
Mrs. Spelman: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what the percentage of disabled employees in his Department is. [15230]
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Jim Fitzpatrick: ODPM have recently carried out a diversity survey of its staff. The results of this survey show that 5 per cent. of staff, who responded to our Race Equality Survey, declared themselves as being disabled.
Empty Properties (Suffolk)
Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister howmany empty properties there have been in each local authority area in Suffolk for each of the last four years. [15131]
Yvette Cooper: The available information on empty homes in each local authority area in Suffolk is given in the following table. This comes from a combination of data supplied by local authorities on the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's (ODPM's) housing strategy statistical appendix return and the housing corporation's regulatory and statistical return.
Sources:
ODPM's annual housing strategy statistical appendix (HSSA) returns and the housing corporation's annual regulatory and statistical return (RSR).
Energy Efficiency
David Howarth: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what targets he has set for improving energy efficiency; and how he intends to achieve these targets. [16161]
Jim Fitzpatrick: The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister has adopted the energy targets as set out in the Framework for Sustainable Development on the Government Estate. These include to reduce energy consumption by 15 per cent. by 2010–11 over the 1999–2000 baseline (as measured by fuel/electricity used per m 2 .)
Projects are under way to increase energy efficiency and achieve the targets. These include working in partnership with The Carbon Trust, who are undertaking energy audits in the Office's HQ buildings. The results of these audits have been included in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's Energy Efficiency Action Plan, which outlines short, medium and long-terms projects to be implemented in order to achieve the required energy targets. These actions were agreed with the ODPM Management Board earlier this year.
These actions are included within the certificated and independently audited ISO 14001 Environmental Management Systems which the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister has developed to manage our response to the Framework for Sustainable Development on the Government Estate".
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Equality and Diversity
David T.C. Davies: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how much the Department has spent promoting equality and diversity in each of the last five years for which figures are available. [14668]
Jim Fitzpatrick: ODPM is fully committed to promoting equality and diversity within all policy areas in support of the Government's commitment to a diverse and integrated society. It has a number of policies and processes in place to ensure that there is no unfair discrimination on any grounds. Equality and diversity lie at the heart of creating sustainable communities and the Office seeks to embed these principles into all of its activities.
It should be noted that ODPM was created in May 2002 therefore data are not available before this date. The figures supplied are for staff and project costs identified within ODPM's equality and diversity unit (EDU) and equality and diversity-related costs within the Department's neighbourhood renewal unit (NRU).
| Total | |
|---|---|
| 2002–03 | 462,000 |
| 2003–04 | 921,000 |
| 2004–5 | 951,000 |
| 2005–06 (forecast) | 1,105,000 |
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