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Deprivation (Somerset)

Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if she will list the local authority wards in (a) Yeovil constituency and (b) Somerset which are in the top 30 per cent. of wards in England by multiple deprivation indicators; and if she will make a statement. [68496]

Mr. Woolas: The Index of Multiple Deprivation 2004 (IMD 2004) was constructed at lower layer super output area (SOA) level and not at ward level. The new geographical unit was introduced to overcome the problems associated with wards—frequent boundary changes and differences in population sizes. With an average population of 1,500 people, SOAs are far better than wards at picking up small pockets of deprivation.

The following table includes the list of SOAs in Yeovil constituency and Somerset that fall within the 30 per cent. most deprived SOAs in England. The data shows that of the 74 SOAs in Yeovil constituency only seven (9.5 per cent.) fall within the 30 per cent. most disadvantaged SOAs in England and all seven of these are located in the borough of South Somerset. In total there are 327 SOAs in the local authorities that make up Somerset (including Yeovil). Of these 40 (12 per cent.) are among the 30 per cent. most deprived in England. The most deprived SOA (EO1029106) is located in Bridgwater Sydenham in Sedgemoor.


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SOA code Local authority name Government office region Rank of IMD( 1)

E01029046

Mendip

South West

4,318

E01029062

Mendip

South West

5,071

E01029042

Mendip

South West

8,270

E01029048

Mendip

South West

8,944

E01029106

Sedgemoor

South West

2,580

E01029100

Sedgemoor

South West

4,344

E01029132

Sedgemoor

South West

4,545

E01029109

Sedgemoor

South West

5,611

E01029107

Sedgemoor

South West

5,982

E01029112

Sedgemoor

South West

6,755

E01029111

Sedgemoor

South West

7,280

E01029095

Sedgemoor

South West

7,321

E01029110

Sedgemoor

South West

7,717

E01029098

Sedgemoor

South West

7,947

E01029099

Sedgemoor

South West

8,588

E01029105

Sedgemoor

South West

8,959

E01029097

Sedgemoor

South West

9,086

E01029096

Sedgemoor

South West

9,310

E01029116

Sedgemoor

South West

9,513

E01029131

Sedgemoor

South West

9,605

E01029234

South Somerset(2)

South West

5,363

E01029247

South Somerset(2)

South West

5,715

E01029239

South Somerset(2)

South West

5,855

E01029236

South Somerset

South West

7,883

E01029233

South Somerset

South West

8,442

E01029170

South Somerset

South West

8,974

E01029237

South Somerset

South West

9,065

E01029293

Taunton Deane

South West

3,349

E01029297

Taunton Deane

South West

4,923

E01029292

Taunton Deane

South West

4,928

E01029299

Taunton Deane

South West

7,840

E01029311

Taunton Deane

South West

8,606

E01029280

Taunton Deane

South West

8,623

E01029286

Taunton Deane

South West

9,112

E01029307

Taunton Deane

South West

9,628

E01029344

West Somerset

South West

7,397

E01029339

West Somerset

South West

8,303

E01029341

West Somerset

South West

8,835

E01029326

West Somerset

South West

9,504

E01029333

West Somerset

South West

9,655

(1) Where one is most deprived. (2) All in Yeovil Parli.

Disability Equality

Roger Berry: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what advice she has issued to local authorities on how they should implement their disability equality duty under the Disability Discrimination Act 2005. [68590]

Mr. Woolas: The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister has not issued advice to local authorities on how to implement their disability equality duty—that is a matter for them. The Disability Rights Commission has produced a code of practice on how to implement the duty.

E-Government

Mr. Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what targets the Government have set local authorities in each Implementing Electronic Government round with regards to the (a) National Land and Property Gazetteer and (b) Local Land and Property Gazetteer; and what the outturn results have been in each relevant year. [66224]

Mr. Woolas: There are no statutory Implementing Electronic Government (IEG) targets for the National Land and Property Gazetteer and Local Land and Property Gazetteer, although information is collected through the IEG return to inform national policy. In December 2005, 87 per cent. of local authorities in England had established a regularly-maintained link from their Local Land & Property Gazetteer (LLPG) to the National Land & Property Gazetteer (NLPG), with 13 per cent. in the process of implementing this link.

Fire Stations

Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if she will list the fire stations where (a) closures and (b) appliance reductions are currently planned, broken down by parliamentary constituency. [68500]

Jim Fitzpatrick: These are matters decided locally through a fire and rescue authority's integrated risk management plan and as Ministers have no role to play in the determination of appropriate fire cover and the level of service in any fire and rescue authority, this information is not held centrally.

GLA Precept

Mrs. Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what was the Greater London Authority precept, and its predecessor fire/police precepts in London, on an average band D property in each year since 1996-97; and what the figure is for 2005-06. [60132]

Jim Fitzpatrick: The Greater London Authority precept, and its predecessor fire/police precepts in London, on an average band D property since 1997-98, are shown in the following table.

£
Metropolitan police London Fire and Civil Defence GLA

1996-97

56

21

1997-98

63

25

1998-99

76

26

1999-2000

83

28

2000-01

123

2001-02

151

2002-03

174

2003-04

224

2004-05

241

2005-06

255


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The data are as reported on BR2 and BR3 forms submitted by the respective authorities to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister each year.


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