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Communities and Local Government

Business Improvement Districts

Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer of 12 March 2009, Official Report, columns 726-30W, on business improvement districts, when each business improvement district (BID) was first approved; how many times each BID has been re-approved; what the result of each ballot held on BID approval has been; for what purposes each BID was established; how much revenue each BID has generated since its establishment; and if she will make a statement. [266505]

John Healey: The following BIDs have been re-approved for a second term:

Government do not hold the other information requested.

The National BIDs Advisory Service provided by the Association for Town Centre Management publishes BID ballot results which are available at:

Coastal Areas

Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what her Department's definition of a principal seaside town is; and whether this category is sub-divided. [266822]

Mr. Khan: The definition of a principal seaside town is provided within “England’s Seaside Towns: A ‘benchmarking’ study”, which was commissioned by CLG and published in November 2008. Although the Department uses the definition of the 37 principal seaside towns for analytical purposes, it is not restricted to using this definition for either analytical or policy purposes.

These seaside towns are accurately defined at ward level, generally by their built-up area, which have also been accurately matched to lower super output areas (LSOAs) and have a population of at least 10,000. No sub-divisions of this definition are employed.

Community Relations

Patrick Mercer: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government with reference to the Prevent strand of Project Contest, in which boroughs the Pan-London Somali Youth Forum is operating; how much each borough implementing the forum project was allocated in 2007-08; what the budget is for the project for 2008-09; and what mechanisms are in place to assess whether the Pan-London Somali Youth Forum is effective in preventing radicalisation amongst Somali youths. [263170]

Mr. Coaker: I have been asked to reply.

The Home Office has made a grant of £57,511 available to the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) in 2008-09 to support the Pan-London Somali Youth Forum project as part of the Prevent strategy.

The Metropolitan Police Service is working with the Pan-London Somali Youth Forum so that it will have a representative from 16 London boroughs: Barnet, Bromley, Camden, Ealing, Greenwich, Hammersmith and Fulham, Hackney, Haringey, Harrow, Hounslow, Islington, Kensington and Chelsea, Lambeth, Southwark, Tower Hamlets and Wandsworth.

The Home Office is monitoring progress under the terms of the grant agreement with the MPS.

Mr. Dhanda: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether her Department has plans to rename the Preventing Violent Extremism programme. [267682]

Mr. Khan: There are no plans to rename the Preventing Violent Extremism Programme. We are in constant dialogue with communities on how this programme is developed and taken forward.

Community Relations: Finance

Mr. Dhanda: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the budget for Preventing Violent Extremism projects is for 2009-10. [267487]

Mr. Khan: The Department has allocated £27.5 million on Prevent-related projects in the financial year 2009-10. In addition, other Government Departments will be supporting projects in this area, principally the Home Office which plans to spend £34 million in 2009-10.


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Council Housing: Cambridgeshire

Mr. Paice: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the level of Housing Revenue Account subsidy in (a) East Cambridgeshire District Council area and (b) South Cambridgeshire District Council area is; and how many households in social housing there are in each of those areas. [265656]

Mr. Iain Wright: East Cambridgeshire district council’s housing stock was subject to a large scale voluntary transfer to a Registered Social Landlord (RSL) on 31 March 1993. They do not therefore operate a housing revenue account. It is currently estimated that South Cambridgeshire need to make negative housing revenue account subsidy payments of £11,851,560 for 2008-09.

Communities and Local Government does not collect data on the number of households in social housing, but the level of social housing stock in each council’s area is shown in the following table:


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Social housing stock as at 1 April 2008

Council h ousing RSL h ousing

East Cambridgeshire

4,959

South Cambridgeshire

5,542

2,250


Council Housing: Waiting Lists

Mr. Waterson: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many people are on local authority housing waiting lists in (a) Eastbourne and (b) East Sussex; and what the equivalent figures were (i) five and (ii) 10 years ago. [267210]

Mr. Iain Wright: Local authorities in England report the numbers of households on their housing waiting list as at 1 April in their annual Housing Strategy Statistical Appendix returns. Information on local authority housing waiting lists is collected in respect of households rather than individuals. The number of households on the local authority housing waiting lists in all local authorities including Eastbourne and East Sussex is given in the following table:


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1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

South East

111,425

115,901

129,924

129,234

146,880

168,725

181,196

195,700

208,419

203,161

Bracknell Forest UA

1,308

1,302

1,331

1,413

1,604

2,812

3,019

4,076

4,067

4,122

Brighton and Hove UA

3,610

3,168

3,304

3,274

4,307

7,500

8,056

8,056

10,667

9,046

Isle of Wight UA

1,122

1,475

1,451

1,609

2,403

2,865

3,967

3,508

4,955

4,388

Medway UA

3,708

4.570

7,624

3,462

7,452

8,039

6,544

11,870

8,338

7,885

Milton Keynes UA

2,835

1,733

3,173

2,482

3,490

2,951

4,180

3,534

3,973

0

Portsmouth UA

4,759

4,389

4,838

4,810

5,525

8,960

7,965

6,661

6,751

4,562

Reading UA

3,343

3,827

4,348

3,160

3,231

3,428

4,330

5,162

5,242

4,504

Slough UA

1,739

1,931

2,225

2,097

1,945

2,437

3,190

3,759

3,909

3.780

Southampton UA

3,699

4,522

5,148

5,811

6,697

8,128

9,225

11,126

10,117

11,662

West Berkshire UA

887

781

1,014

1,008

1,640

1,820

2,242

2,785

2,893

4,259

Windsor and Maidenhead UA

2,419

2,363

2,375

2,301

2,357

2,418

2,353

1,690

1,674

1,922

Wokingham UA

1,359

1,497

1,851

2,564

2,372

2,457

2,116

2,294

2,699

3,036

Buckinghamshire

3,568

3,523

3,751

4,153

4,783

5,494

5,774

7,299

8,084

7,830

Aylesbury Vale

841

785

842

965

1,165

1,394

1,804

2,191

2,545

2,899

Chiltern

667

631

698

763

1,034

1,182

967

1,125

1,207

1,130

South Bucks

1,064

1,030

1,115

1,102

1,120

1,161

917

1,641

1,787

1,701

Wycombe

996

1,077

1,096

1,323

1,464

1,757

2,086

2,342

2,545

2,100

East Sussex

6,096

6,777

7,711

7,100

9,044

10,026

10,497

10,969

12,416

11,068

Eastbourne

1,753

2,184

2,596

2,041

2,806

3,000

3,354

4.481

5,225

3,404

Hastings

1,490

1,763

1,921

1,734

1,866

1,482

1,575

1,296

2,175

1,730

Lewes

818

818

872

809

927

1,203

1,312

1,485

2,041

2,207

Rother

1,176

1,138

1,383

1,539

1,825

2,387

2,037

1,398

1,362

1,542

Wealden

859

874

939

977

1,620

1,954

2,219

2.309

1,613

2.1B5

Hampshire

19,127

22,070

22,634

24,071

24,558

28,635

30,357

32,361

39,846

37,905

Basingstoke and Deane

4,245

4,046

4,652

4,281

4,497

4,761

4,937

5,083

5,543

5,633

East Hampshire

1,828

2,403

1,789

1,890

2,238

2,115

2,229

2.890

2,763

2,153

Eastleigh

1,200

1,361

1,481

1,623

3,424

4,446

4,515

5,014

5,528

5,604

Fareham

929

1,184

1,152

1,146

1,625

2,353

735

1,448

1,158

1,717

Gosport

1,167

1,130

1,204

1,375

1,412

1,668

1,833

2,013

2,597

3,076

Hart

588

645

816

923

970

1,074

1,163

1,344

1,267

1,882

Havant

2,714

3,264

3,735

3,138

2,349

2,480

2,256

2,202

4,198

4,232

New Forest

1,383

1,672

1,615

2,686

2.428

3,339

3,891

4,241

4,969

5,228

Rushmoor

2,221

3,616

3,514

4,101

2,189

3,264

4,151

3,634

5,693

3,102

Test Valley

1,723

1,611

1,440

1,645

2,189

2,092

2,698

2,885

3,925

3,048

Winchester

1,129

1,138

1,236

1,263

1,237

1,043

1,949

1,607

2,205

2,230

Kent

19,738

20,385

21,042

23,257

24,875

26,502

29,833

30,706

28,543

30,523

Ashford

2,201

2,151

1,691

1,438

2,077

2,665

2,482

1,174

1,508

1,762

Canterbury

1,920

2,164

2,185

2,738

2,484

2,814

3,330

3,039

3,398

3,758

Dartford

1,575

1,557

1,794

2,042

1,997

2,582

2,652

3,728

3,502

3,225

Dover

2,231

2,186

1,998

1,895

1,808

1,850

2,229

2,534

2,869

3,033

Gravesham

1,847

906

1,173

1,291

1,439

2,085

1,977

2,141

1,479

1,610

Maidstone

959

926

1,756

1,512

2,173

1,254

2,562

1,764

2,079

2,290

Sevenoaks

1,444

1,377

1,534

1.475

1,613

1,736

2,160

2,625

1,132

916

Shepway

2,595

2,759

2,144

3,027

2,539

1,886

2,311

2,652

2,213

2,118

Swale

2,106

2,461

2,215

2,070

2,545

3,328

3,805

4,311

3,352

4,432

Thanet

1,528

1,997

2,356

3,444

3,659

3,242

3,419

3,394

3,757

3,255

Tonbridge and Malling

658

920

1,168

1,330

1,460

1,913

1,727

1,897

1,858

2,350

Tunbridge Wells

674

981

1,028

995

1,081

1,147

1,179

1,447

1,396

1,774

Oxfordshire

10,381

10,520

11,824

12,539

14,256

14,821

14,163

14,550

14,433

13,926

Cherwell

2,422

2,520

2,676

2,560

3,023

2,450

3,767

3,436

3,415

3,072

Oxford

3,099

3.121

3,378

3,217

3,572

3,991

3,525

3,816

3.965

3,313

South Oxfordshire

1,488

1,836

2,244

2,354

2,270

2,169

2,043

2,253

1,719

1,770

Vale of White Horse

1,919

1,802

2,292

2,698

3,313

3,717

1,981

2,817

3,185

3,640

West Oxfordshire

1,453

1,241

1,234

1,710

2,078

2,494

2,847

2,228

2,149

2,131

Surrey

13,774

12,775

13,635

13,797

15,577

16,867

19,080

19,591

23,337

25,517

Elmbridge

1,976

1,317

1,839

1,704

1,901

1,894

2,054

2.206

2,242

2,086

Epsom and Ewell

537

526

427

462

525

659

382

677

962

1,165

Guildford

1,603

1,802

1,806

1,698

1,902

2,100

2,247

2,455

2,802

2,898

Mole Valley

1,177

1,080

1,211

1,372

1,620

1,357

1,318

1,805

1,933

2,373

Reigate and Banstead

1,155

1,164

1,136

1,062

1,173

1,391

1,751

2,073

2,563

2,540

Runnymede

694

725

427

383

945

1,582

1,715

851

1,493

1,984

Spelthorne

2,284

2,538

2,571

2,681

2,767

2,865

3,314

2,983

3,552

4,494

Surrey Heath

436

525

529

528

536

681

1,174

1,512

1,583

1,757

Tandridge

1,077

806

816

825

836

1,122

1,272

1,107

1,220

1,350

Waverley

1,288

1,066

1,201

1,269

1,389

1,569

1,680

1,719

1,743

2,267

Woking

1,547

1,226

1,672

1,813

1,983

1,647

2,173

2,203

3,244

2,603

West Sussex

7,953

8,293

10,645

10,326

10,764

12,565

14,305

15,703

16,475

17,226

Adur

1,162

853

1,060

873

1,262

1,551

1,888

1,711

1,520

1,548

Arun

689

834

852

933

905

1,385

2,309

2,389

3,882

3,318

Chichester

2,148

2,106

2,187

2,220

2,167

2,280

2,126

2,762

2,678

3,779

Crawley

465

633

2,046

1,755

1,930

2,250

2,208

2,562

2,445

2,599

Horsham

710

908

1,154

1,262

1,450

1,424

1,437

1,504

1,413

1,204

Mid Sussex

1.418

1,494

1,407

1,468

1,476

2,027

2,121

2,113

2,176

2,313

Worthing

1,361

1.465

1,939

1,815

1,574

1,648

2,216

2,662

2,361

2,465

Note: As reported by local authorities. As at 1st April. Source: Housing Strategy Statistical Appendix (HSSA) return.

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