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Transport Improvement - Junction 13 Interim works - £1,480,000, of in-kind private sector contributions

Transport Improvement -Kingston Roundabout Preliminary Work - £246,000

Transport Improvement - Ml Junction 14/Northfield - £3,072,254 plus £8,400,000 from the Community Infrastructure Fund

Transport Improvement road junction Pineham and FoxMilne - £5,618,855 plus £2,500,000 from the Growth Area Fund

Transport Improvement - A5 Portway/North Grafton - £1,943,515 plus £2,915,273 from Central Milton Keynes planning obligations.

Empowering the Voluntary Sector - Community Foundation Projects - £965,000

Minorities

Mr. Rogerson: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government which minority groups are recognised by her Department under the terms of the Council of Europe Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities. [119513]

Mr. Woolas: The Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities does not define the term “national minority” nor is “national minority” a legally defined term in the United Kingdom.

The Government therefore ratified the Framework Convention on the understanding that its principles
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should apply to members of “racial groups” as set out in the Race Relations Act 1976. Section 3(1) of that Act defines a racial group as:

“a group of persons defined by reference to colour, race, nationality or ethnic or national origins”.

New Build: Flats

Mr. Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what proportion
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of new build domestic properties in England were flats in each year since 1997. [111943]

Yvette Cooper: Estimates on the percentage of new build dwellings that were flats are in the following table.

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Table 251 Housebuilding: permanent dwellings completed, by house and flat, number of bedroom and tenure( 1)
Financial year		1991-92	1992-93	1993-94	1994-95	1995-96	1996-97	1997-98
Private enterprise houses
	1 bedroom	4	3	3	3	2	1	1
	2 bedrooms	22	23	23	22	21	19	17
	3 bedrooms	30	33	34	35	35	37	38
	4 or more bedrooms	23	22	24	26	27	30	32
	All	79	81	84	86	85	87	88
Flats	1 bedroom	11	10	8	7	7	5	5
	2 bedrooms	9	8	7	7	8	7	7
	3 bedrooms	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
	4 or more bedrooms	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
	All	21	19	16	14	15	13	12
Houses and flats	1 bedroom	15	13	11	9	8	6	5
	2 bedrooms	31	31	30	29	28	26	24
	3 bedrooms	31	33	35	36	36	37	38
	4 or more bedrooms	23	22	24	26	28	31	32
	All	100	100	100	100	100	100	100
Registered social landlords
Houses	1 bedroom	4	3	3	4	3	3	3
	2 bedrooms	21	26	32	32	34	31	31
	3 bedrooms	17	22	27	30	30	31	32
	4 or more bedrooms	2	3	3	4	4	4	5
	All	44	54	65	69	71	68	71
Flats	1 bedroom	35	31	22	18	17	18	17
	2 bedrooms	19	13	13	12	11	13	11
	3 bedrooms	2	1	1	1	1	1	1
	4 or more bedrooms	—	—	—	—	—	—	1
	All	56	46	35	31	29	32	29
Houses and flats	1 bedroom	39	34	25	21	20	21	19
	2 bedrooms	41	40	45	45	45	44	42
	3 bedrooms	18	23	28	30	31	32	33
	4 or more bedrooms	2	3	3	4	4	4	6
	All	100	100	100	100	100	100	100
All tenures
Houses	1 bedroom	4	3	3	3	2	1	1
	2 bedrooms	22	24	25	24	24	21	19
	3 bedrooms	28	31	33	34	34	36	37
	4 or more bedrooms	20	18	19	21	23	26	28
	All	74	76	80	82	82	84	85
Flats	1 bedroom	15	14	11	9	9	7	6
	2 bedrooms	10	9	8	8	8	8	7
	3 bedrooms	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
	4 or more bedrooms	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
	All	26	24	20	18	18	16	15
Houses and flats	1 bedroom	19	17	14	12	11	8	7
	2 bedrooms	32	33	33	32	32	29	27
	3 bedrooms	29	31	33	34	35	36	38
	4 or more bedrooms	20	19	19	22	23	26	28
	All	100	100	100	100	100	100	100

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