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Local Authorities: Standards
Tom Brake: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the minimum number of national indicators is that local authorities will be able to select to set targets for their performance. [162166]
John Healey: The Local Area Agreement (LAA) will consist of local improvement targets which have been designated by the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and non-designated local improvement targets which the local authority and its partners may decide to include in the agreement if they consider it necessary. All designated targets will be drawn from the national indicator set and based on the priorities agreed for the local area. The minimum number of designated targets in each agreement has not been specified, but will be subject to negotiation. However, there will be a maximum of 35 in each LAA.
Local Government: Manpower
Ian Lucas: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many employees of local government in England reside in Wales. [162498]
John Healey: The information requested is not held centrally, and can be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Quarrying: Hampshire
Mr. Swayne: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government when she plans to issue Hampshire County Council with revised tonnages for sand and gravel extraction for the purposes of formulating the Hampshire Regional Plan; and if she will make a statement. [163152]
Mr. Dhanda: The South East England Regional Assembly, as the relevant regional planning body, is currently preparing a revised sub-regional apportionment of primary land-won aggregates as a partial review of the draft South East Plan. The Regional Assembly's present timetable envisages that this policy review would be subject to a pre-submission public consultation between May and July 2008, envisages and a final submission of the recommended policy to the Secretary of State in December 2008. There would then be a further public consultation followed by an examination in public in 2009. The date on which the approved revised sub-regional apportionment will be published will depend upon how long this process takes, but we would expect to do so in the second half of 2009.
Schools: Finance
Mr. Harper: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what guidance she has issued to schools Forums on the proportion of a local authority's Bellwin threshold costs which they ought to meet from the dedicated schools grant. [162612]
John Healey: No separate guidance has been issued to Schools Forums.
Thames Gateway Bridge: Finance
Mr. Evennett: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what recent estimate she has made of the cost of the proposed Thames Gateway Bridge. [162072]
Mr. Iain Wright: Transport for London’s evidence to the public inquiry into the proposed Thames Gateway Bridge estimated that the total funding requirement for the project would be £640.7 million; and that the annual operational cost of the scheme would be between £4.379 million and £5.250 million.
There will be an opportunity to consider any revised evidence that is presented on the cost of the proposed Bridge at the reopened public inquiry, the earliest anticipated date for which is in spring 2009.
Work and Pensions
Children: Maintenance
Andrew Selous: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the costs of setting up the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission as a non-departmental public body. [162495]
Mr. Plaskitt: Officials are currently developing plans to establish the commission. As these plans are still under development, cost estimates are subject to change and it is therefore not possible to provide the requested information at this time. We expect to have robust cost estimates by the time the Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill receives Royal Assent.
Jobseeker’s Allowance
Mr. Mark Field: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many jobseeker's allowance claimants stopped claiming benefit in each month since 1992. [162783]
Mr. Plaskitt: The information is in the following tables.
| Number leaving unemployment benefits and jobseeker's allowance in Great Britain: January 1992 to September 2007 | ||||||||
| 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | |
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