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Ministerial Corrections

Tuesday 26 February 2008

Communities and Local Government

Housing: South West Region

Steve Webb: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer of 25 January 2008, Official Report, column
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2330W, on housing: South West region, what estimate she has made of the increase in dwellings in each local authority area under the Independent Panel’s proposals, expressed as a percentage of the current housing stock in that area. [183499]

[Official Report, 6 February 2008, Vol. 471, c. 1182-83W.]

Letter from Iain Wright :

An error has been identified in the written answer given to the hon. Member for Northavon (Steve Webb) on 6 February 2008. The answer should have been:

Mr. Iain Wright [holding answer 31 January 2008]: The following table sets out the information requested.

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	Total d wellings as at 2006	Overall net increase in dwellings (number) for period 2006-26 recommended by the Independent Panel in their report on the draft Regional Spatial Strategy	Percentage increase in dwellings for period 2006-26 recommended by the Independent Panel in their report on the draft Regional Spatial Strategy
Bath and North East Somerset UA	73,205	18,800	26
Bournemouth UA	80,973	16,100	20
Bristol, City of UA	176,987	30,000	17
Caradon	39,316	6,500	17
Carrick	42,403	10,900	26
Cheltenham	50,798	8,100	16
Christchurch	22,520	3,450	15
Cotswold	38,108	6,900	18
Dartmoor National Park(1)	—	1,000	—
East Devon	61,684	17,100	28
East Dorset	38,313	6,400	17
Exeter	48,296	12,000	25
Exmoor National Park(1)	—	400	—
Forest of Dean	34,786	6,200	18
Gloucester	49,445	11,500	23
Isles of Scilly(1)	1,193	100	8
Kennet	33,558	6,000	18
Kerrier	42,621	14,400	34
Mendip	46,086	8,300	18
Mid Devon(3)	32,047	7,400	23
North Cornwall	40,076	13,400	33
North Devon(2)	41,949	10,900	26
North Dorset	29,011	7,000	24
North Somerset UA	85,581	26,750	31
North Wiltshire	55,071	13,700	25
Penwith	32,148	7,800	24
Plymouth UA	111,317	24,500	22
Poole UA	64,032	10,000	16
Purbeck	21,122	5,150	24
Restormel	44,513	15,700	35
Salisbury	49,429	12,400	25
Sedgemoor	47,378	10,200	22
South Gloucestershire UA	105,035	30,800	29
South Hams(3)	41,274	11,800	29
South Somerset	69,660	19,700	28
Stroud	47,711	9,100	19
Swindon UA	82,530	34,200	41
Taunton Deane	46,859	21,800	47
Teignbridge(3)	55,673	10,400	19
Tewkesbury	34,090	14,600	43
Torbay UA	62,211	20,000	32
Torridge	28,362	10,700	38
West Devon(3)	22,561	4,400	20
West Dorset	46,787	12,500	27
West Somerset(2)	17,013	2,500	15
West Wiltshire	54,100	12,300	23
Weymouth and Portland	29,714	5,600	19
Total	2,277,546	569,450	25
(1 )Estimated strictly local needs provision only. (2 )Housing stock data includes part in Exmoor National Park. (3 )Housing stock data includes part in Dartmoor National Park.

We have written to the hon. Member to advise him of this error and the correction.

Defence

Military Equipment: Iraq

Nick Harvey: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) what military equipment the UK gifted to Iraqi forces in each year since 2003; [163033]

(2) what military equipment the Government plan to gift to Iraq over the next 12 months. [163034]

[Official Report, 21 January 2008, Vol. 470, c. 1601-03W.]

Letter from Des Browne:

An error has been identified in the written answer given to the hon. Member for North Devon (Nick Harvey) on 21 January 2008. The final paragraphs should have read:

2007 military equipment

300 L109 hand grenades

Our records indicated that no military or security-related equipment was gifted to Iraq in 2003 or 2004. Currently, we have no plans to gift military equipment in future.

Work and Pensions

Poverty

14. Mr. Clifton-Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate the Government has made of levels of poverty among disadvantaged groups. [186559]

[Official Report, 18 February 2008, Vol. 472, c. 221W.]

Letter from Stephen Timms:

An error has been identified in the written answer given to the hon. Member for Cotswold (Mr. Clifton-Brown) on 18 February 2008. The answer should have been:

Mr. Timms: The number of children in poverty has fallen by 600,000 in the past decade, the number of pensioners by over a million and the number of individuals living in households containing a disabled person by 900,000. We are determined to make further progress.

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