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Local Government: Data Protection

Mrs. Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what restrictions there are on the sharing of (a) electoral roll and (b) council tax data between departments within a local authority. [252745]

John Healey: Regulation 107 of the Representation of the People Regulations 2001 places restrictions on use of the electoral register by the local authority. In summary no councillor or employee of the council may

It is a matter for local authorities to decide whether to share council tax data between departments within their organisation.

Local Government: Pensions

Mrs. Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the administration costs of each individual scheme within the Local Government Pension Scheme were in the last year for which figures are available. [251829]

John Healey: Details of the administration costs of each of the 89 individual pension funds within the Local Government Pension Scheme in 2007-08, the latest year for which figures are available, are shown in the following table. The information is taken from annual returns submitted to the Department by scheme administering authorities in England and Wales.


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£000

Administration costs charged to the fund

Barking and Dagenham

617

Barnet

832

Bath and North East Somerset

1,985

Bedfordshire

1,212

Bexley

660

Brent

1,047

Bromley

454

Buckinghamshire

1,315

Cambridgeshire

1,873

Camden

555

Cheshire

1,743

City of London

708

Cornwall

629

Croydon

1,004

Cumbria

1,035

Derbyshire

1,067

Devon

1,346

Dorset

1,184

Durham

1,276

Ealing

640

East Riding of Yorkshire UA

1,748

East Sussex

1,347

Enfield

538

Essex

2,267

Gloucestershire

1,238

Greenwich

905

Hackney

936

Hammersmith and Fulham

995

Hampshire

2,547

Haringey

595

Harrow

1,060

Havering

571

Hertfordshire

1,854

Hillingdon

648

Hounslow

862

Isle of Wight UA

443

Islington

1,323

Kensington and Chelsea

494

Kent

2,768

Kingston upon Thames

521

Lambeth

942

Lancashire

2,590

Leicestershire

1,356

Lewisham

439

Lincolnshire

1,044

London Pensions Fund Authority

5,370

Merseyside Pension Fund

2,490

Merton

214

Middlesbrough UA

1,357

Newham

663

Norfolk

1,494

North Yorkshire

1,189

Northamptonshire

1,717

Northumberland

825

Nottinghamshire

1,164

Oxfordshire

958

Redbridge

492

Richmond upon Thames

830

Shropshire

985

Somerset

698

South Yorkshire Pensions Fund Authority

3,154

South Yorkshire PTA

152

Southwark

1,098

Staffordshire

1,919

Suffolk

1,147

Surrey

1,404

Sutton

493

Tameside

3,588

Tower Hamlets

946

Tyne and Wear Superannuation Fund

3,545

Waltham Forest

633

Wandsworth

372

Warwickshire

1,141

West Midlands Pension Fund

3,760

West Midlands PTA

283

West Sussex

926

West Yorkshire Superannuation Fund

5,212

Westminster

896

Wiltshire

991

Windsor and Maidenhead UA

673

Worcestershire

881

Cardiff UA

1,202

Carmarthenshire UA

765

Flintshire UA

1,079

Gwynedd UA

884

Powys UA

548

Rhondda Cynon Taff UA

1,685

Swansea UA

547

Torfaen UA

1,308

Total

112,891


Mr. Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government with reference to the answer of 6 October 2008, Official Report, column 343W, on local government: pensions, if she will place in the Library a copy of the report on the 2007 valuation exercise produced by each local authority pension fund. [252169]

John Healey: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave him on 25 July 2008, Official Report, column 349W.

Mr. Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate of the unfunded liability in present value terms of the Local Government Pension Scheme was made in each valuation held since 1997. [252386]

John Healey: The funding position of the 89 pension fund authorities in England and Wales is determined by actuaries appointed to carry out each authority’s triennial valuation. There have been three valuations since 1997 in 2001, 2004 and 2007.

Details of funding levels at each valuation are not held centrally but a summary of the 2004 and 2007 exercises undertaken by the Society of County Treasurers can be found at:

Local Government: Public Participation

Mr. Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government with reference to the answer of 21 February 2008, Official Report, column 912W, on surveys, whether a report on the Place Survey pilots has been published; and if she will place in the Library a copy of the conclusions of the evaluation of the pilots. [251773]

John Healey: Two final reports, which summarise the results of two separate pilot phases, were delivered by the external authors in December 2008. I expect to
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publish these reports in due course on the Communities and Local Government website and will place copies in the Library of the House.

Local Government: Reorganisation

Mr. Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many charters conferring the status of a borough have been granted by Her Majesty the Queen through the Privy Council Office since May 1997; and in which local authority areas such charters have been granted. [251775] [Official Report, 2 April 2009, Vol. 490, c. 9MC.]

John Healey: Eight Charters have been granted since May 1997 conferring borough status to the districts of Brighton and Hove, Medway, North Lincolnshire, Telford and Wrekin, Wokingham, Cheshire West and Chester, West Lancashire and Cheshire East.


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