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| GO | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 |
| Notes: 1. GO-North West and GO-Merseyside merged during 1998/1999. 2. Expenditure for 2005-06—as at April 2006 (before production of final accounts). 3. Figures for 2006-07 relate to initial GO budgets as at end-March 2006. | ||||||
Housing
Sir Nicholas Winterton: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if she will make it a priority to increase the supply of quality affordable housing. [74895]
Ruth Kelly: Yes. We have committed to provide 75,000 additional social rented homes between 2004-05 and 2007-08, and social housing will be a Government priority in the current comprehensive spending review.
This is in the context of our ambition, as announced in the Government’s response to the Barker review last December, to increase the overall supply of housing in England—market as well as affordable homes—to 200,000 per year over the next decade.
Mixed Communities Initiative
Ms Diana R. Johnson: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what assessment she has made of the Mixed Communities Initiative pilot schemes. [74903]
Meg Munn: The Department for Communities and Local Government is committed to tackling poverty and social exclusion in the most deprived areas of the country. Successful mixed communities bring together the economic, social and physical aspects of renewal and development to create sustainable change in communities.
The Department for Communities and Local Government is working with a number of demonstration projects around the country to test the mixed communities approach. The projects are all at early stages of development and we are working with them to evaluate progress and learn lessons. Where appropriate the approach will be rolled out more widely across other deprived areas.
Standards Board for England
Mr. Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if she will estimate the cost of legal advice sought by the Standards Board for England in pursuit of its duties and responsibilities in each year since 2001; and if she will make a statement. [73731]
Mr. Woolas: I have asked the chief executive of the Standards Board to write to you on this matter. I shall arrange for a copy of his reply to be placed in the Library of the House.
Treasury
Departmental Pension Liability
Mr. Rob Wilson: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will estimate the pension liability of his Department over the next 30 years. [75275]
Mr. Timms: A technical note by HM Treasury was placed in the Library of the House on 2 March 2006 following an oral statement in Parliament by the then Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Official Report, columns 388-90. Pension liabilities are not estimated for individual Departments, they are estimated for individual pension schemes, as shown in the breakdown of liabilities per pension scheme given in table 1 of the technical note.
Income Growth
Mr. Laws: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what his latest estimate is of the rate of growth of incomes for (a) the top 1 per cent. of income earners, (b) the top 10 per cent. of income earners, (c) the bottom 10 per cent. of income earners and (d) the bottom 20 per cent. of income earners (i) for each year from 1978-79 and (ii) for the period as a whole; and if he will make a statement. [41443]
Mr. Jim Murphy: Information on the top 1 per cent. of income earners is not available.
To give a more detailed and informed view of the income distribution, DWP provides measures by both deciles and quintiles. The available information is in the tables.
Median income and the rate of income growth for the bottom 10 per cent., the top 10 per cent., the bottom 20 per cent. and the top 20 per cent. of the Before Housing Costs (BHC) income distribution are presented in the following tables in 2004-05 prices from 1979 to 2004-05:
| Bottom 10 per cent. (BHC) | Top 10 per cent. (BHC) | Bottom 20 per cent. (BHC) | Top 20 per cent. (BHC) | |||||
| Median Income | Annualised growth (Percentage) | Median Income | Annualised growth (Percentage) | Median Income | Annualised growth (Percentage) | Median Income | Annualised growth (Percentage) | |
| Source: Family Resources Survey. | ||||||||
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