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Home Information Packs: Europe Economics
Mrs. Lait: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the cost to the public purse is of commissioning Europe Economics for its work on home information packs. [152416]
Yvette Cooper: Europe Economics were commissioned, under competitive tender, to carry out two short-term pieces of work on home information packs.
Their economic analysis of Energy Performance in Buildings Directive (EPBD) Impact Assessment totalled £18,841.
Their research of housing market analysis in the context of the introduction of Home Information Packs amounted to £39,684.
Mrs. Lait: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if she will place the research by Europe Economics on home information packs in the Library. [152417]
Yvette Cooper: A copy of their report will be placed in the Library once the project is finalised.
Home Information Packs: Pilot Schemes
Mr. Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) what independent assessments there have been of the home information pack dry-runs and pilots; [157454]
(2) if she will place in the Library a copy of the evaluation reports for the dry-runs and pilots of the Home Information Pack. [157474]
Yvette Cooper: Ipsos MORI were commissioned, under competitive tender, to conduct independent research into the HIPs area trials which are looking particularly at the Home Condition Reports.
Full conclusions will not be available until the completion of transactions involving properties in the trials and buyers have been approached as part of the qualitative research. A copy of the research report will be placed in the House Library once the project has been finalised.
Mr. Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the names and positions are of the members of the stakeholder working party set up for the home information packs pilot schemes; and on what dates the working party met. [157490]
Yvette Cooper: Industry participation in the area trials was on a voluntary basis and stakeholder groups were not formed to work on the pilot schemes.
Home Information Packs: Prices
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the average market price, including VAT, has been of a home information pack for a (a) four and (b) three bedroom (i) freehold and (ii) leasehold home. [159133]
Yvette Cooper: Early indications show that the current average market price of a HIP is £300 to £350 plus VAT. This includes both three and four-bedroom leasehold and freehold properties.
Homelessness: Greater London
Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many persons aged (a) under 16, (b) 16, (c) 17, (d) 18 and (e) over 18 were (i) registered homeless with and (ii) on the housing waiting lists of each London borough in the latest period for which figures are available. [161524]
Mr. Iain Wright: The information is as follows.
(i) Information about local authorities’ actions under homelessness legislation is collected in respect of households rather than persons. The number of households accepted by local authorities as eligible for assistance, unintentionally homeless and in priority need, and therefore owed a main homelessness duty, is not collected by specific ages, but data are provided by the age band into which the applicant falls, the first of which is those applicants who are aged between 16 and 24 years old (all applicants must be 16 or over).
The following table shows the total number of acceptances where the applicant was aged (a) between 16 and 24 years old, and (b) 25 years old and over, by each London borough, for the most recent quarter for which information is available—April to June 2007.
| Table 1: Households accepted as owed a main homelessness duty, by age of applicant, April-June 2007 | ||
| Applicant aged 16-24 years old | Applicant aged 25 or over | |
| Source: P1E Quarterly Homelessness returns | ||
Data on acceptances are also collected by the priority need category of acceptances, and include those applicants accepted as in priority need primarily through being 16 or 17 years old. However it is important to note that some 16 and 17 year olds applicants may have been accepted in alternative primary priority need categories, for example through
having dependant children or being a pregnant woman, and so will not show up in these figures. Some authorities report secondary priority need categories of applicants (when they fall into more than one priority need group), and these figures are also presented.
The following table presents 16 or 17 year old priority need acceptance data, both primary and secondary (when reported), for each London borough, for the most recent quarter for which information is available—April to June 2007. Note that there will be overlap with those households reported in table 1.
| Table 2: Households accepted as owed a main homelessness duty, by priority need category, April-June 2007 | ||
| Applicant in priority need primarily through being 16 or 17 years old | Applicant with a secondary priority need of being 16 or 17 years old | |
| ‘—’Denotes data not reported by LA Source: P1E Quarterly Homelessness returns | ||
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