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(e) the reimbursement of excess fares arising from a permanent transfer at public expense.

Expenses must be actually and necessarily incurred and must be supported by receipts. The submission of a claim knowingly containing false or inaccurate information may constitute a disciplinary offence and may lead to disciplinary action. The full detail of the expenses policy is set out in the staff handbook.

The total expenses incurred for each salary band for each of the past 10 years can be provided only at disproportionate cost.

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For each pay band the average age, numbers of men and women, and ethnic composition are given in the following table. In order to avoid disclosing confidential information about individual staff members we have grouped together certain salary bands.

		Sex		Ethnic origin (percentage)
Salary band	Average age (years)	Male (FTE)	Female (FTE)	White	BME	Unknown
Industrial bands	47	14	0	14	0	86
Band 1 & 2	43	118	161	36	22	43
Band 3	40	184	221	42	27	31
Band 4	39	281	277	59	15	27
Band 5	43	185	127	52	9	38
Band 6	42	258	222	61	7	32
Band 7	46	73	35	59	8	33
SCS	46	74	59	71	3	26

Mr. Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much was paid in bonuses to staff in the home information pack division in the last year for which figures are available. [171496]

Mr. Iain Wright: Given the small number of staff in the home information packs division, it would be a breach of confidentiality and therefore inappropriate to give details.

Departmental Public Expenditure

Mr. Letwin: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the Winter Supplementary Estimates (HC 29), if she will break down her Department's (a) main estimate and (b) winter supplementary estimate provision by subhead in (i) near cash and (ii) non-cash terms. [174993]

Mr. Dhanda: The following tables show, for the main and winter supplementary estimates, the split of provision between near cash, non cash and capital grants by estimate line.

(a) Main Estimate Provision 2007-08

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£000
		Near cash	Non cash	Capital Grants	Total
	RfR 1
	Spending in Departmental Expenditure Limits (DEL)
	Central Government Support
A	Housing Supply and Demand	137,825	3,107	51,000	191,932
B	Decent Places to Live	19,729	—	500	20,229
C	Tackling Disadvantage	129,851	—	8,164	138,015
D	Better Services	123,573	20,140	5,000	148,713
E	Development of the English Regions	610,125	—	988,809	1,598,934
F	Central Administration	191,217	18,644	—	209,861
G	Government Office Administration	101,261	455	—	101,716
H	European Structural Funds—net	1	—	—	1
I	European Structural Funds—Communities and Local Government	10,000	—	1	10,001
J	Ordnance Survey	-1,340	1,320	—	-20
K	Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre Executive Agency	-1,409	117	—	-1,292
L	Local Area Agreements	-463,462	—	-73,869	-537,331
	Support for Local Authorities
M	Housing Supply and Demand	118,030	—	1,114,309	1,232,339
N	Decent Places to Live	2,839	—	-108,342	-105,503
O	Tackling Disadvantage	1,927,285	—	252,681	2,179,966
P	Better Services	10,001	—	10,000	20,001
Q	Development of the English Regions	6,000	—	25,000	31,000
R	European Structural Funds—net	0	—	1	1
S	Local Area Agreements	1,139,833	—	146,916	1,286,749
	Spending in Annually Managed Expenditure (AME)
	Central Government Support
T	Decent Places to Live	679,100	—	—	679,100
U	Better Services	—	50	—	50
	Support for Local Authorities
V	Better Services	163,354	—	—	163,354
	Non-Budget
W	Housing Supply and Demand	2,460,297	—	—	2,460,297
X	Better Services	2,040	—	—	2,040
Y	Decent Places to Live	—	—	616,000	616,000
Z	Tackling Disadvantage	34,492	—	—	34,492
	Main Estimate Total RfR 1	7,400,642	43,833	3,036,170	10,480,645
	RfR2
	Spending in Departmental Expenditure Limits (DEL)
	Central Government Support
A	Valuation Services	174,450	—	—	174,450
B	Best Value inspection subsidies to Public Corporations & Best Value Intervention costs	22,720	—	—	22,720
C	Local Government Research and Publicity, Mapping Costs and Electoral Law	3,439	—	—	3,439
	Support for Local Authorities
D	Revenue Support Grants	3,725,931	—	—	3,725,931
E	Non Domestic Rates Payments	18,500,000	—	—	18,500,000
F	London Governance	38,348	—	—	38,348
G	Other Grants and Payments	244,423	—	134,251	378,674
	Spending in Annually Managed Expenditure (AME)
	Support for Local Authorities
H	Non-domestic Rates Outturn Adjustments and LABGIS	809,000	—	—	809,000
	Non-Budget
I	Non-departmental Public Bodies	20,475	—	—	20,475
	Main Estimate Total RfR 2	23,538,786	0	134,251	23,673,037
	Main Estimate Grand Total	30,939,428	43,833	3,170,421	34,153,682

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