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Mr. Letwin: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if she will break down by programme the expenditure on the European Regional Development Fund initiative in the (a) East Midlands and (b) Eastern region in the most recent year for which figures are available. [112629]
Yvette Cooper: East Midlands and the Eastern region both have two European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) programmesObjective 2 and Community Initiative Urban II. The total ERDF expenditure by programme for 2005-06 is as follows:
Total ERDF programme spend by region2005-06 | |
Programme | Amount (£ million) |
Mr. Letwin: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if she will break down by programme the expenditure from the European Regional Development Fund initiative in the (a) South West, (b) West Midlands, (c) Yorkshire and Humberside, (d) South East, (e) North West, (f) North East and (g) London regions in the most recent year for which figures are available. [118101]
Yvette Cooper: The total European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) expenditure by programme for 2005-06 is as follows:
Total ERDF spend by programme: 2005-06 | |
Programme | £ million |
Mrs. Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many home inspectors (a) are fully qualified, (b) are in training and (c) have withdrawn from training. [114493]
Yvette Cooper: Figures on the number and status of candidates are reported regularly by the individual assessment centres on a voluntary basis.
(a) there were 650 home inspectors who had completed their training, of whom 230 had been issued with their certificate
(b) there were 4,470 candidates still in training
(c) it is not currently possible to provide figures on numbers withdrawing from training as these are collated separately by centres. They are currently dealing with large changes in their candidate pool, with an increase in those joining, together with many wishing to transfer between the courses offered by new awarding bodies and also to the new Domestic Energy Assessor qualification.
Figures for December were not complete and figures for January are still being collated.
Rosie Cooper: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many vacant dwellings there were in West Lancashire in the latest period for which figures are available. [112215]
Yvette Cooper: At October 2005 West Lancashire district council reported a total of 1,471 vacant homes. This includes properties which have been vacant for less than six months.
Chris Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if she will break down the Governments objective for a 200,000 net increase in the number of homes by 2016 by (a) rural and (b) non-rural areas; and if she will make a statement. [118690]
Yvette Cooper: In their response to Kate Barkers review of housing supply, the Government outlined their ambition to increase housing supply to 200,000 homes per year by 2016.
How the ambition will be achieved across the country at regional, sub-regional and local level is determined through statutory planning processes.
Mrs. Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether (a) new and (b) higher taxes which increase the costs of providing local authority services will be compensated for by additional central Government funding under her Department's new-burdens principle. [114748]
Mr. Woolas: The Government look at all pressures on local government, including any increased costs through tax changes, and the extent to which they can be managed, when setting the overall level of funding for local authorities. The specific new-burdens principle applies only to policies which impact solely or disproportionately on local government.
Mr. Lancaster: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what her plans are for the level of the contribution made under the Milton Keynes tariff. [118737]
Mr. Woolas: The Milton Keynes Prospectus, commonly known as the tariff, is a planning obligation, under the Town and Country Planning Act and covers part of Milton Keynes. The final agreement has yet to be signed by all concerned parties, and until this has been completed the full details of the tariff will not be available.
The Milton Keynes Partnerships Business Plan 2006-07 to 2010-11 explains that Communities and Local Government agreed to English Partnerships forward funding projects within the tariff to a maximum peak funding of £80 million. The business plan also sets out that it expects to raise £311 million from developers of the relevant expansion areas.
Mr. Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government which Minister in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister took the decision not to call in the planning application for the Minerva Park Place shopping development in Croydon. [111971]
Meg Munn: Lord Rooker, the then Minister for Planning, Housing and Regeneration, took the decision not to call in the planning application for the Croydon Park Place retail development.
Mr. Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what privacy impact assessments have been produced by her Department and its predecessors since 2002. [112083]
Angela E. Smith: I am unaware of any privacy impact assessments having been produced by Communities and Local Government and its predecessors during this period.
Mr. Todd: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if she will make a statement on her Department's response to the Office of Fair Trading's report The commercial use of public information. [112014]
Angela E. Smith: I refer the hon. Member to the answer by the Minister of State for Trade and Industry on 8 January 2007, Official Report, column 315W.
Daniel Kawczynski: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much was allocated to (a) regional assemblies and (b) Government offices for the regions for 2006-07, broken down by budget heading. [117138]
Angela E. Smith: The total estimated Communities and Local Government allocation to (a) regional assemblies and (b) Government offices for the regions for 2006-07 are tabled as follows:
(a) Regional assemblies | |||
£ | |||
Regional assembly | Single pot | Planning delivery grant (PDG) | Total |
(b) Government offices for the regions | |||
£ | |||
Government office | Administration funding | Programme funding | Total |
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