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Peter Viggers: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what factors relating specifically to fire control led the Government to decide that the south east regional government area is the most appropriate area to be controlled from a single fire control centre. [47995]
Jim Fitzpatrick: The report The Future of Fire and Rescue Control Rooms in England and Wales: Update 2003" by consultants Mott McDonald concluded that a regional approach is the optimal way of delivering fire and rescue control services. Government office for the regions boundaries have been chosen because they help maximise benefits and simplify issues such as funding, ownership and accountability. A further benefit is that the regional resilience teams, with whom the control centres will work, follow the same boundaries.
John Bercow:
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what measures have been taken by his Department to incorporate the proposed housing expansion and
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development within the Buckingham constituency into the new Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes Fire Authority budget. [47759]
Jim Fitzpatrick: The Local Government Finance Settlement for 200607 and 200708 that was laid before the House by my hon. Friend the Minister for Local Government on 31 January 2006 took account of projected population growth in each authority's area. This grant combined with council tax, specific grants and reserves determine the annual budget of an authority.
However, the population projections do not take into account events that have not yet occurred, such as population change as a result of proposed housing expansion, as these are affected by future policy changes or local decisions. There is no additional specific grant available to fire and rescue authorities relating to housing expansion.
Mrs. Spelman: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister if he will deposit in the Library a copy of the Gershon efficiency submission from each (a) local, (b) police and (c) fire authority in England. [47144]
Mr. Woolas: Annual Efficiency Statements from each local authority are already in the public domain on the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's website at: http://www.odpm.gov.uk/index.asp?id=l134484. The 43 territorial police forces in England and Wales publish information about their efficiency plans in their annual policing plans. All English fire and rescue authorities have provided Annual Efficiency Statements but the figures are provisional and currently subject to revision. These will also be published on the ODPM website in due course.
Lynne Jones: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how many (a) council tenancies, (b) registered social landlord tenancies and (c) private landlord tenancies there were in (i) England, (ii) the West Midlands and (iii) Birmingham in each of the last 20 years. [42222]
Yvette Cooper: Information is not collected centrally on the number of tenancies although estimates for social tenancies can be made using stock figures. The number of private tenancies can only be estimated from housing surveys and is not available at local authority level.
Stock figures by local authority district and region are published for the local authority sector for 1994 to 2005 and the registered social landlord sector for 1997 to 2005 on the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's website in tables 116 and 115 respectively. Figures are also given for England and for the Government Office Regions. The links for these tables are at:
The number of private sector tenancies can be estimated from housing surveys and the estimates for West Midlands and England are tabled as follows. Due to the size of these surveys it is not possible to obtain reliable estimates at local authority level.
2 1992 to 2005: ONS Labour Force Survey 3 1996 figures adjusted because of change in methodology
Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister (1) how many hectares of (a) greenfield and (b) brownfield land have been developed in each London borough in each year since 1997; how many new homes have been built in each development; and if he will make a statement; [42635]
(2) what percentage of new housing development in each London borough has been on brownfield land in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement. [42949]
Yvette Cooper: The available estimates are from Land Use Change Statistics, shown in the following tables. Amounts of land changing to residential uses are shown up to 2003. Estimates of percentages of dwellings on previously-developed land are also shown for 2004 on a provisional basis. Numbers of new dwellings built on all individual developments could be provided only at disproportionate cost. Total numbers of dwellings built in each London borough are published in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's Housing Statistics.
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