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(b) Cheshire county council
£ million
Programme	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08( 1)	Total
Planning Delivery Grant	—	—	0.059	0.085	0.099	0.025	0.268
Choice Based Lettings	—	—	—	—	0.106	—	0.106
Supporting People Administration Grant	0.414	0.528	0.613	0.580	0.580	0.580	3.295
Supporting People Programme	—	22.577	22.376	21.117	20.709	20.538	107.317
New Dimension—Mass Decontamination Training and Crewing Grant	—	—	0.034	0.070	0.070	0.070	0.244
New Dimension—Urban Search and Rescue Training and Crewing Grant	—	—	0.116	0.150	0.075	0.075	0.416
New Dimension Mass Decontamination—Accommodation Grant	—	—	—	0.005	—	—	0.005
New Dimension—Urban Search and Rescue Accommodation Grant	—	—	—	0.012	—	—	0.012
New Dimension—New Burdens Grant (Misc)	—	—	—	—	0.003	0.177	0.180
Fire Control Rooms—New Burdens Grant	—	—	—	0.015	0.094	—	0.109
Arson Grants	0.037	0.091	0.136	0.124	0.026	—	0.414
SR2002 Challenge Fund	—	0.064	0.064	0.064	—	—	0.192
Audit of Pay Award	—	—	0.017	—	—	—	0.017
Transitional Funding Grant	—	—	0.471	—	—	—	0.471
Smoke Alarms Grant	—	—	0.051	0.051	0.051	0.102	0.255
Fire Prevention Grant	—	—	—	—	0.065	0.065	0.130
Invest to Save “Respect” Project	—	—	—	—	—	0.650	0.650
Fire Fighters Pension Top-up	—	—	—	—	0.385	3.201	3.586
Electoral Law	—	0.002	—	—	—	—	0.002
Local Authority Business Growth Incentives	—	—	—	0.771	2.368	0.189	3.328
LG Capacity Building	—	—	0.006	0.005	—	—	0.011
Local Government Online	0.200	0.200	0.350	0.150	—	—	0.900
Local PSA Performance Fund	1.422	0.050	0.834	5.215	4.928	—	12.449
National Non Domestic Rates	176.658	179.739	169.962	206.565	72.848	75.997	881.769
Private Finance Initiatives Special Grant	—	1.044	1.885	1.389	1.389	1.042	6.749
Revenue Support Grant (a)	144.450	184.761	210.413	199.909	14.062	12.754	766.349
Total	323.181	389.056	407.387	436.277	117.858	115.465	1,789.224
(1) Forecast (2) From 2006-07 Revenue Support Grants were reduced due to the transfer of funding to the Department for Children, Schools and Families for Dedicated School Grant.

For the Department's associated agencies and non-departmental public bodies, complete information is not available other than at disproportionate cost.

Local Government: Reorganisation

Robert Neill: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government for what reason the recent draft statutory instruments on local government restructuring were replaced with new ones in substitution; and what changes were made between the two versions. [183242]

John Healey: There are no differences of substance between the original orders laid on 17 December and the substitute versions. The differences are small textual changes for clarification purposes, and some cross references in essence to provide greater consistency between the orders.

Members: Correspondence

Mr. Beith: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the reasons are for the time taken to reply to the letter from the right hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed of (a) 16 October and (b) 4 December 2007 relating to a freedom of information request from Mr. M. Maud of Ancroft, Berwick-upon-Tweed. [185812]

Mr. Dhanda: My right hon. Friend has now replied to the right hon. Member.

Minister for the West Midlands

Daniel Kawczynski: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government at which high level events and with regard to which high level projects the Minister for the west midlands has championed the region as referred to in paragraph 118 of The Governance of Britain. [181651]

Mr. Dhanda: The regional Minister has undertaken a tour of the region where he set priorities and challenges for the region. He is now developing a programme of visits within the region over the next three months to take these forward. The high level projects the Minister has championed include:

the launch of the joint Regional Economic Strategy and draft Regional Spatial Strategy—the first UK region to do so;

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the development of the regions first Skills strategy due to be launched in March 2008 and work to support proposals for the redevelopment of Birmingham New Street station;

the development of a set of regional transport priorities;

the development of proposals for academic health science centres in response to his challenge to the region's health leaders to join teaching, research and delivery of health services in a single effort;

the promotion of the west midlands as a trading partner including a high level visit to India;

a set of regional challenges to improve the reputation and creative industries of the region.

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