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Vaccines (Sleeping Contracts)

Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what progress has been made on the placing of sleeping contracts for vaccines for use in the event of an influenza pandemic since her Department’s chief medical officer issued tenders for the sleeping contracts on 19 October 2005. [91115]

Ms Rosie Winterton [holding answer 18 September 2006]: Considerable progress has been made on the subject of sleeping contracts, and the Department is still within the time available to us. Under the procurement directives, before negotiations are required to be completed.

Minister for Women

Official Visits

David Simpson: To ask the Minister for Women and Equality on how many occasions she has visited each region in an official capacity in the last 12 months. [83908]

Meg Munn: Since being appointed in May 2006 the Minister for Women and Equality has visited Yorkshire and the Humber once, the east of England once and the south west once.

Communities and Local Government

Arm's Length Management Organisations

Mr. Rogerson: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much of each of the grants for arm’s length management organisations has been spent. [71026]

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Yvette Cooper: Funding under the arm’s length management organisation (ALMO) programme is allocated in the form of borrowing approvals to enable local authorities to bring their housing stock up to the decent homes standard. This funding is additional to the local authority’s existing resources and is allocated in two year tranches. An ALMO must attain a 2* inspection rating from the Housing Inspectorate in order to qualify for funding.

Since 2001 there have been five bidding rounds for ALMO funding. Funding is confirmed in two year tranches. Most ALMOs accepted onto the first bidding round have received and spent all their allocations. ALMOs on subsequent bidding rounds have yet to receive all their allocations. ALMOs on the most recent bidding round are not yet in receipt of funding as they have hitherto not been inspected by the Housing Inspectorate.

The following table sets out how much ALMO funding each ALMO has spent up to the end of the last financial year and total funding confirmed to date.

Arms length management of local authority housing
£
Authority	Total spend to March 2006	Funding confirmed to March 2006
Ashfield	55,320,000	55,320,000
Derby	97,176,000	97,176,000
Hounslow	99,650,000	99,650,000
Rochdale	106,300,000	106,300,000
Stockton	63,000,000	63,000,000
Westminster	74,000,000	74,000,000
Wigan	137,300,000	137,300,000
Total	632,746,000	632,746,000

£
Authority	Total spend to March 2006	Funding confirmed to March 2007
Kirklees	140,351,274	149,800,000
Barnsley	114,220,283	141,600,000
Blyth Valley	31,429,000	48,358,000
Bolton	92,762,000	132,523,000
Brent	67,997,000	67,997,000
Carrick	15,160,000	23,060,000
Cheltenham	22,500,000	31,440,000
Colchester	24,605,000	35,710,000
Hillingdon	32,259,000	48,000,000
Kensington and Chelsea	33,644,000	43,439,000
Leeds—East	28,951,123	46,782,049
Leeds—North East	21,463,000	33,085,000
Leeds—North West	24,117,000	44,117,000
Leeds—South East	21,929,000	32,539,000
Leeds—South	42,081,000	67,583,000
Leeds—West	37,855,000	58,158,000
Oldham	61,200,000	86,400,000
Total	812,523,680	1,090,591,049

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£
Authority	Total spend to March 2006	Funding confirmed to March 2008
Barnet	19,099,200	48,783,400
Easington	—	26,200,300
Gateshead	13,000,000	104,140,000
High Peak	4,700,000	9,306,000
Islington	24,900,000	84,523,200
Newcastle	84,000,000	190,820,000
Poole	8,686,850	23,792,120
Sheffield	96,361,000	211,851,060
Solihull	20,600,000	50,245,000
South Lakeland	3,450,000	14,132,000
Warrington	18,278,000	30,200,680
Total	293,075,050	793,993,760

£
Authority	Total spend to March 2006	Funding confirmed to March 2007
Bassetlaw	—	12,500,000
Bury	2,120,000	8,640,000
Ealing	20,448,000	63,548,000
Eastbourne	—	3,000,000
Hammersmith and Fulham	21,938,000	66,347,000
Manchester	—	17,570,000
Newark and Sherwood	6,500,000	15,500,000
Nottingham	—	13,000,000
Rotherham	7,500,000	52,500,000
Sandwell	8,800,000	62,600,000
Slough	—	3,101,000
Wolverhampton	—	42,200,000
Total	67,306,000	360,506,000

£
Authority	Total spend to March 2006	Funding confirmed to March 2008
Doncaster	—	72,671,000
Gloucester	—	19,323,000
Hackney	—	88,980,000
Lambeth (part)	—	8,589,000
Newham	—	78,113,000
Sheffield (part)	—	67,513,000
South Tyneside	—	55,812,000
Southend	—	22,073,000
Stockport	—	40,360,000
Wear Valley	—	11,817,000
Total	—	465,251,000
Programme total	1,805,650,730	3,343,087,809

Brownfield Sites (London)

Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many brownfield sites there are in each London borough. [87243]

Yvette Cooper: The information requested is not available centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost. The National Land Use Database of Previously-Developed Land provides estimates of
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total amounts of previously-developed land. The local authorities which provide the data make an allowance for small sites but these are not recorded individually, so that it is not possible to give an estimate of the total number of sites.

Business Rates

Andrew George: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many (a) second and (b) holiday homes were liable for business rates in each collecting local authority area in (i) 1995, (ii) 2000, (iii) 2005 and (iv) 2006. [71604]

Mr. Woolas: I have placed in the Library of the House a table showing the number of properties in the rating lists described as “self catering holiday accommodation” at March each year from 2000 to 2005. Equivalent data for the period before 2000 are not readily available and figures for 2006 are not yet available.

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