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10 Dec 2007 : Column 118W
Mr. Dhanda:
The corporate identity guidelines for Communities and Local Government are an evolving document available to staff through the Department's intranet. I have placed a copy of the relevant pages in the Library of the House.
For costs relating to corporate identity, I refer the hon. Member to the answers I gave him today to PQs 167310 and 167352.
Information for our agencies is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Mr. Philip Hammond:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many full-time equivalent staff are responsible for brand management and marketing in her Department and its agencies. [165232]
Mr. Dhanda:
The members of the Department’s Communications directorate are listed in The White Book, published by COI, which is available in the Library of the House. Information for our agencies is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Mr. Philip Hammond:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much her Department and its agencies spent on staff working on (a) marketing and (b) branding in the last 12 month period for which figures are available. [167310]
Mr. Dhanda:
In the financial year 2006-07 Communities and Local Government spent (a) £533,414.52 on staff working on publicity and (b) £35,474.96 on staff working on re-branding following machinery of government changes.
Figures for our agencies are not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Mr. Philip Hammond:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much her Department and its agencies spent on managing their corporate identities in the last 12 month period for which figures are available. [167352]
Mr. Dhanda:
I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Meriden (Mrs. Spelman) on 27 March 2007, Official Report, column 1420W. Information for our agencies is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Departmental Standards
Mr. Hoban:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government when she expects to publish her Department’s autumn performance report. [164878]
Mr. Dhanda:
We published the Departmental autumn performance report on 7 December. Copies are available in the Libraries of the House.
Departmental Visits Abroad
David Simpson:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much her Department spent on overnight accommodation for Ministers overseas in the last year. [171337]
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Mr. Dhanda:
Details of the cost of overseas travel, including the cost of travel and accommodation are contained in the “Overseas Travel by Cabinet Ministers” list. The latest list for the period 1 April 2006 to 31 March 2007 was published on 25 July 2007. Details for the 2007-08 financial year will be published as soon as possible after the end of the financial year. All travel is made in accordance with the “Ministerial Code”.
Elderly People
Bill Wiggin:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if she will rank local authorities in order of those with the highest proportion of their populations aged 65 years and over; and if she will make a statement. [170875]
Angela Eagle:
I have been asked to reply.
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 10 December 2007:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your question asking for the rank of local authorities in order of those with the highest proportion of their populations aged 65 years and over. (170875).
The latest population estimates available are for mid-2006. The attached Table 1 shows the percentage of the population aged 65 and over by Local/ Unitary Authority.
Christchurch has the greatest proportion of the population aged 65 and over at 30%, whilst Tower Hamlets has the lowest proportion (8%).
| Table 1: Percentage of the population of local/unitary authorities in England and Wales aged 65 and over in mid-2006 in descending order |
| Local/unitary authority | Percentage of the population aged 65+ |
|
Christchurch
|
30
|
|
Rother
|
28
|
|
West Somerset
|
28
|
|
East Devon
|
27
|
|
North Norfolk
|
27
|
|
East Dorset
|
26
|
|
Tendring
|
26
|
|
Arun
|
26
|
|
West Dorset
|
25
|
|
Berwick-Upon-Tweed
|
24
|
|
South Shropshire
|
24
|
|
Conwy UA
|
23
|
|
Chichester
|
23
|
|
East Lindsey
|
23
|
|
New Forest
|
23
|
|
Eastbourne
|
23
|
|
Fylde
|
23
|
|
Lewes
|
23
|
|
Torbay UA
|
23
|
|
Wyre
|
23
|
|
Isle of Wight UA
|
22
|
|
Purbeck
|
22
|
|
South Holland
|
22
|
|
Waveney
|
22
|
|
South Lakeland
|
22
|
|
Teignbridge
|
22
|
|
Kings Lynn and West Norfolk
|
22
|
|
Scarborough
|
22
|
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|
Penwith
|
22
|
|
Malvern Hills
|
22
|
|
Worthing
|
22
|
|
Wealden
|
21
|
|
Adur
|
21
|
|
Torridge
|
21
|
|
Suffolk Coastal
|
21
|
|
South Hams
|
21
|
|
Thanet
|
21
|
|
Isles of Scilly
|
21
|
|
Carrick
|
21
|
|
North Cornwall
|
21
|
|
Ryedale
|
21
|
|
Powys UA
|
21
|
|
Craven
|
21
|
|
Poole UA
|
21
|
|
Alnwick
|
21
|
|
West Devon
|
21
|
|
Denbighshire UA
|
21
|
|
Herefordshire UA
|
20
|
|
North Devon
|
20
|
|
Broadland
|
20
|
|
Shepway
|
20
|
|
Boston
|
20
|
|
Great Yarmouth
|
20
|
|
Pembrokeshire UA
|
20
|
|
Castle Morpeth
|
20
|
|
South Somerset
|
20
|
|
Cotswold
|
20
|
|
Teesdale
|
20
|
|
Derbyshire Dales
|
20
|
|
Havant
|
20
|
|
South Norfolk
|
20
|
|
North Dorset
|
20
|
|
Breckland
|
20
|
|
Bournemouth UA
|
20
|
|
Isle of Anglesey UA
|
20
|
|
Eden
|
20
|
|
Sefton
|
20
|
|
Weymouth and Portland
|
20
|
|
Carmarthenshire UA
|
20
|
|
Bridgnorth
|
20
|
|
Caradon
|
20
|
|
Fenland
|
20
|
|
Mole Valley
|
20
|
|
Kerrier
|
19
|
|
Ceredigion UA
|
19
|
|
Gwynedd UA
|
19
|
|
Sedgemoor
|
19
|
|
Stratford-on-Avon
|
19
|
|
Dover
|
19
|
|
Restormel
|
19
|
|
East Riding of Yorkshire UA
|
19
|
|
North Somerset UA
|
19
|
|
Hambleton
|
19
|
|
Taunton Deane
|
19
|
|
Allerdale
|
19
|
|
Babergh
|
19
|
|
North Kesteven
|
19
|
|
Blackpool UA
|
19
|
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|
Monmouthshire UA
|
19
|
|
Castle Point
|
19
|
|
North East Derbyshire
|
19
|
|
Fareham
|
19
|
|
Salisbury
|
19
|
|
Tynedale
|
19
|
|
Macclesfield
|
19
|
|
Mid Devon
|
19
|
|
Wychavon
|
19
|
|
Staffordshire Moorlands
|
19
|
|
Tewkesbury
|
19
|
|
West Lindsey
|
19
|
|
North Shropshire
|
19
|
|
Wirral
|
19
|
|
Rochford
|
18
|
|
Forest of Dean
|
18
|
|
Brentwood
|
18
|
|
Oadby and Wigston
|
18
|
|
Southend UA
|
18
|
|
South Staffordshire
|
18
|
|
Shrewsbury and Atcham
|
18
|
|
Oswestry
|
18
|
|
Neath Port Talbot UA
|
18
|
|
Wyre Forest
|
18
|
|
Mid Suffolk
|
18
|
|
Swansea UA
|
18
|
|
Carlisle
|
18
|
|
Bromsgrove
|
18
|
|
Stroud
|
18
|
|
West Wiltshire
|
18
|
|
South Tyneside
|
18
|
|
Canterbury
|
18
|
|
Waverley
|
18
|
|
Stafford
|
18
|
|
Harrogate
|
18
|
|
Rutland UA
|
18
|
|
South Bucks
|
18
|
|
Chester
|
18
|
|
Wear Valley
|
18
|
|
Redcar and Cleveland UA
|
18
|
|
Gedling
|
18
|
|
Ribble Valley
|
18
|
|
Chiltern
|
18
|
|
Mendip
|
18
|
|
Newark and Sherwood
|
18
|
|
Derwentside
|
18
|
|
Chesterfield
|
18
|
|
Gateshead
|
18
|
|
Wansbeck
|
18
|
|
North Tyneside
|
18
|
|
Sevenoaks
|
18
|
|
Havering
|
18
|
|
Torfaen UA
|
18
|
|
Winchester
|
18
|
|
Barrow-In-Furness
|
17
|
|
Dudley
|
17
|
|
South Kesteven
|
17
|
|
Ellesmere Port and Neston
|
17
|
|
Copeland
|
17
|
|
North Lincolnshire UA
|
17
|
10 Dec 2007 : Column 122W
|
Easington
|
17
|
|
St. Edmundsbury
|
17
|
|
Lichfield
|
17
|
|
Congleton
|
17
|
|
Hastings
|
17
|
|
Solihull
|
17
|
|
Horsham
|
17
|
|
Blaenau Gwent UA
|
17
|
|
Newcastle-Under-Lyme
|
17
|
|
Bath and North East Somerset
|
17
|
|
Sedgefield
|
17
|
|
Cheltenham
|
17
|
|
Tandridge
|
17
|
|
Spelthorne
|
17
|
|
The Vale of Glamorgan UA
|
17
|
|
Stockport
|
17
|
|
Bolsover
|
17
|
|
North East Lincolnshire UA
|
17
|
|
Chester-Le-Street
|
17
|
|
West Lancashire
|
17
|
|
Darlington UA
|
17
|
|
East Hampshire
|
17
|
|
Melton
|
17
|
|
Mid Sussex
|
17
|
|
Amber Valley
|
17
|
|
Bassetlaw
|
17
|
|
Lancaster
|
17
|
|
Bridgend UA
|
17
|
|
Walsall
|
17
|
|
Wolverhampton
|
17
|
|
Maldon
|
17
|
|
Epping Forest
|
17
|
|
Gosport
|
17
|
|
West Oxfordshire
|
17
|
|
East Cambridgeshire
|
17
|
|
Broxtowe
|
17
|
|
Bromley
|
17
|
|
Doncaster
|
17
|
|
Hinckley and Bosworth
|
17
|
|
Rushcliffe
|
17
|
|
Mansfield
|
17
|
|
Crewe and Nantwich
|
17
|
|
Tunbridge Wells
|
17
|
|
Blaby
|
17
|
|
Harborough
|
17
|
|
South Ribble
|
17
|
|
York UA
|
16
|
|
Merthyr Tydfil UA
|
16
|
|
Rugby
|
16
|
|
Erewash
|
16
|
|
Rhondda, Cynon, Taff UA
|
16
|
|
South Oxfordshire
|
16
|
|
Vale Royal
|
16
|
|
Epsom and Ewell
|
16
|
|
St. Helens
|
16
|
|
Wrexham UA
|
16
|
|
Kennet
|
16
|
|
Hartlepool UA
|
16
|
|
Sunderland
|
16
|
|
North Hertfordshire
|
16
|
10 Dec 2007 : Column 123W
|
Three Rivers
|
16
|
|
Warwick
|
16
|
|
Maidstone
|
16
|
|
Barnsley
|
16
|
|
Newport UA
|
16
|
|
East Staffordshire
|
16
|
|
Trafford
|
16
|
|
North West Leicestershire
|
16
|
|
Vale of White Horse
|
16
|
|
North Warwickshire
|
16
|
|
Rotherham
|
16
|
|
Uttlesford
|
16
|
|
Flintshire UA
|
16
|
|
Ipswich
|
16
|
|
Sandwell
|
16
|
|
Ashford
|
16
|
|
High Peak
|
16
|
|
Test Valley
|
16
|
|
Ashfield
|
16
|
|
Bexley
|
16
|
|
Reigate and Banstead
|
16
|
|
Stoke-on-Trent UA
|
16
|
|
Hertsmere
|
16
|
|
Plymouth UA
|
16
|
|
Sheffield
|
16
|
|
Runnymede
|
16
|
|
Wakefield
|
16
|
|
Caerphilly UA
|
16
|
|
Gravesham
|
16
|
|
Derby UA
|
16
|
|
Richmondshire
|
16
|
|
Welwyn Hatfield
|
16
|
|
Tonbridge and Malling
|
16
|
|
Elmbridge
|
16
|
|
Dacorum
|
16
|
|
Eastleigh
|
16
|
|
Blyth Valley
|
16
|
|
Swale
|
16
|
|
Broxbourne
|
15
|
|
Burnley
|
15
|
|
Salford
|
15
|
|
South Gloucestershire UA
|
15
|
|
Nuneaton and Bedworth
|
15
|
|
Newcastle Upon Tyne
|
15
|
|
South Cambridgeshire
|
15
|
|
Pendle
|
15
|
|
Calderdale
|
15
|
|
North Wiltshire
|
15
|
|
Selby
|
15
|
|
Braintree
|
15
|
|
Bury
|
15
|
|
Norwich
|
15
|
|
Hyndburn
|
15
|
|
Wellingborough
|
15
|
|
Knowsley
|
15
|
|
Kettering
|
15
|
|
Wigan
|
15
|
|
Windsor and Maidenhead UA
|
15
|
|
Basildon
|
15
|
|
Chelmsford
|
15
|
10 Dec 2007 : Column 124W
|
Tameside
|
15
|
|
Middlesbrough UA
|
15
|
|
Bolton
|
15
|
|
Lincoln
|
15
|
|
Bedford
|
15
|
|
Warrington UA
|
15
|
|
Chorley
|
15
|
|
Guildford
|
15
|
|
Exeter
|
15
|
|
Harlow
|
15
|
|
Gloucester
|
15
|
|
East Northamptonshire
|
15
|
|
Charnwood
|
15
|
|
Brighton and Hove UA
|
15
|
|
Coventry
|
15
|
|
Liverpool
|
15
|
|
Stockton-on-Tees UA
|
15
|
|
St. Albans
|
15
|
|
Wycombe
|
15
|
|
Woking
|
15
|
|
Surrey Heath
|
15
|
|
Worcester
|
15
|
|
Durham
|
15
|
|
Leeds
|
15
|
|
South Bedfordshire
|
15
|
|
Cannock Chase
|
15
|
|
Kirklees
|
15
|
|
Corby
|
15
|
|
Colchester
|
14
|
|
Oldham
|
14
|
|
Preston
|
14
|
|
Crawley
|
14
|
|
East Hertfordshire
|
14
|
|
Kingston Upon Hull, City of
|
14
|
|
Dartford
|
14
|
|
Forest Heath
|
14
|
|
Rochdale
|
14
|
|
Rossendale
|
14
|
|
Stevenage
|
14
|
|
South Derbyshire
|
14
|
|
Harrow
|
14
|
|
Cherwell
|
14
|
|
Sutton
|
14
|
|
Swindon UA
|
14
|
|
Huntingdonshire
|
14
|
|
Portsmouth UA
|
14
|
|
Peterborough UA
|
14
|
|
West Berkshire UA
|
14
|
|
Daventry
|
14
|
|
South Northamptonshire
|
14
|
|
Barnet
|
14
|
|
Cardiff UA
|
14
|
|
Bradford
|
14
|
|
Hart
|
14
|
|
Halton UA
|
14
|
|
Birmingham
|
14
|
|
Aylesbury Vale
|
14
|
|
Northampton
|
14
|
|
Telford and Wrekin UA
|
14
|
|
Hillingdon
|
13
|
10 Dec 2007 : Column 125W
|
Bristol, City of UA
|
13
|
|
Mid Bedfordshire
|
13
|
|
Southampton UA
|
13
|
|
Medway UA
|
13
|
|
Enfield
|
13
|
|
Basingstoke and Deane
|
13
|
|
Watford
|
13
|
|
Wokingham UA
|
13
|
|
Thurrock UA
|
13
|
|
Redditch
|
13
|
|
Redbridge
|
13
|
|
City of London
|
13
|
|
Barking and Dagenham
|
13
|
|
Blackburn with Darwen UA
|
13
|
|
Croydon
|
13
|
|
Richmond upon Thames
|
13
|
|
Tamworth
|
13
|
|
Rushmoor
|
13
|
|
Nottingham UA
|
12
|
|
Reading UA
|
12
|
|
Leicester UA
|
12
|
|
Luton UA
|
12
|
|
Kingston Upon Thames
|
12
|
|
Kensington and Chelsea
|
12
|
|
Merton
|
12
|
|
Greenwich
|
12
|
|
Cambridge
|
12
|
|
Brent
|
12
|
|
Manchester
|
12
|
|
Bracknell Forest UA
|
12
|
|
Slough UA
|
11
|
|
Ealing
|
11
|
|
Oxford
|
11
|
|
Hounslow
|
11
|
|
Westminster
|
11
|
|
Waltham Forest
|
11
|
|
Milton Keynes UA
|
11
|
|
Hammersmith and Fulham
|
10
|
|
Lewisham
|
10
|
|
Wandsworth
|
10
|
|
Southwark
|
9
|
|
Haringey
|
9
|
|
Islington
|
9
|
|
Camden
|
9
|
|
Hackney
|
9
|
|
Lambeth
|
9
|
|
Newham
|
8
|
|
Tower Hamlets
|
8
|
Source:
Office for National Statistics.
|
