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Economic Situation
Grant Shapps: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what (a) summits, (b) conferences and (c) seminars his Department has hosted since January 2008 at which a primary subject of discussion was the effect of the economic situation on matters within his Department’s responsibility. [258861]
Mr. Byrne: Units within the Cabinet Office use conferences and other types of events as one of a number of ways of engaging with stakeholders to support a range of Cabinet Office policies and activities.
The Cabinet Office does not keep a central record of summits, conferences and seminars and to obtain this information would incur disproportionate costs.
Government Departments: Pay
Mr. Maude: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (1) what the wage bill of each Government department was in (a) 1996-97 and (b) the most recent year for which figures are available; [258600]
(2) what the wage bill of each executive agency was in (a) 1996-97 and (b) the most recent year for which figures are available. [258601]
Yvette Cooper: I have been asked to reply.
Information on central government pay spending is published in Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses (PESA) 2008 at:
Information on individual agency paybills is not held centrally; agency paybills are included within the paybills of their parent departments.
Hospitality Received by Departmental Board Members
Mr. Maude: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster if he will place in the Library a copy of the Cabinet Office’s (a) document entitled Hospitality Received by Departmental Board Members and (b) List of Ministers’ financial interests. [249958]
Mr. Byrne: Copies of both documents can be found in the Library of the House or on the Cabinet Office website at:
News Distribution Service: Press Releases
Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how many press releases the News Distribution Service has issued in each year since 1997. [258821]
Mr. Byrne: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the Central Office of Information. I have asked the chief executive to reply.
Letter from Peter Buchanan, dated 16 March 2009:
As Chief Executive of the Central Office of Information (COI), I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question [258821] on numbers of News Distribution (NDS) press releases.
The Central Office of Information's News Distribution Service distributes press releases on behalf of the Departments and maintains a record of press releases since 1997 at:
Personal Income
Mr. Roger Williams: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what the average annual income of (a) an urban and (b) a rural household was in each region in each of the last three years; and if he will make a statement. [266451]
Kevin Brennan: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated March 2009:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking what the average annual income of (a) an urban and (b) a rural household was in each region in each of the last three years. (266451)
This information is not available from statistical surveys or administrative sources held centrally.
PR Week
Mrs. Spelman: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how many copies of PR Week are purchased each week by the Media Monitoring Unit. [258278]
Mr. Byrne: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the Central Office of Information. I have asked the chief executive to reply.
Letter from Peter Buchanan, dated 16 March 2009:
As Deputy Chief Executive of the Central Office of Information (COI), I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question [258278] on how many copies of PR Week are purchased each week by the Media Monitoring Unit (MMU).
I can confirm that the MMU purchase one copy per week.
Communities and Local Government
Community Relations
Mr. Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the written answer by Baroness Andrews of 9 March 2009, Official Report, House of Lords, WA212-13, on the Preventing Violent Extremism Pathfinder Fund, if her Department will adopt a policy requiring all local authorities that have received additional funding from it to prevent violent extremism through the non-ring-fenced area-based grant to report annually (a) to which community groups and individuals they have allocated funding and (b) on the work they have undertaken and how they plan to monitor its effectiveness. [266853]
Mr. Khan: Funding has been provided to local authorities through the area based grant—a non-ring fenced grant fund which allows local authorities to decide the most effective and efficient routes to invest their resources for the delivery of local priorities.
Authorities are measured on the outcomes they achieve using this funding through the national indicator set.
All authorities, including those who have received area-based grant funding in support of their work to prevent violent extremism, must therefore report to Government annually against national indicator 35, an indicator in the national indicator set which measures progress in building resilience to violent extremism. Work to prevent violent extremism is included in the comprehensive area assessment process, led by the Audit Commission, which assesses how well local services are working together to improve the quality of life for local people.
We continue to work closely with local authorities to deliver this agenda and the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government wrote to the Speaker of the House of Commons on 17 March, copied to the hon. Member for Wycombe (Mr. Goodman), agreeing to provide information about the groups that local authorities are working with.
Community Relations: Islam
Mark Pritchard: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if she will commission research into allegations of physical violence against people attending mosques in England and Wales. [262889]
Mr. Alan Campbell: I have been asked to reply.
The Government take all allegations of physical violence seriously. However there are currently no plans to commission work in this area.
Departmental Art Works
Mr. Vara: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government which works of art from the Government Art Collection each Minister in her Department has selected for display in a private office. [259440]
Mr. Khan: The works of art selected are as follows:
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Departmental Buildings
Mr. Hunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what (a) grade II, (b) grade II* and (c) grade I listed buildings have been owned by her Department in each of the last three years. [266850]
Mr. Khan:
Communities and Local Government has held responsibility for two freehold Grade II* listed
buildings. They are Old Burlington House and New Burlington House situated in Piccadilly, London.
Departmental Public Appointments
Julia Goldsworthy: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government which former (a) hon. Members who left Parliament since 1997 and (b) Members of the House of Lords from each party have been appointed to positions on public bodies within her Department’s responsibility; and who made each appointment. [266791]
Mr. Khan: This information is not held centrally. Information on board membership and remuneration is published in individual bodies’ annual reports and accounts.
Departmental Recruitment
Justine Greening: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer of 9 February 2009, Official Report, column 1689W, on departmental recruitment, what estimate she has made of the annual salary cost of the new (a) permanent, (b) temporary and (c) agency staff recruited by her Department in each year since 2005-06. [264303]
Mr. Khan: The estimated annual salary cost of (a) permanent, (b) temporary and (c) agency staff recruited in each year since 2005-06 is as follow:
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Digital Britain
Harry Cohen: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate she has made of the level of affordability of individual access to broadband internet which will be achieved under the Digital Britain plan. [259642]
Mr. McFadden: I have been asked to reply.
This Department has made no specific estimate of the level of affordability of individual access to broadband internet which will be achieved under the Digital Britain plan.
Under Digital Britain, we will be looking at the costs and benefits while setting out our plans for the level of service which we believe should be universal under the Universal Service Commitment.
Currently, telcos and ISPs offer broadband packages with a range of options costing from under £20 a month at the lower end to over £40 a month at the higher end.
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