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| East of England Development Agency | ||
| Number | ||
| Properties sold | Properties sold for housing development | |
| East Midlands Development Agency | ||
| Number | ||
| Properties sold | Properties sold for housing development | |
| London Development Agency | ||
| Number | ||
| Properties sold | Properties sold for housing development | |
| North West Development Agency | ||
| Number | ||
| Properties sold | Properties sold for housing development | |
| One North East | ||
| Number | ||
| Properties sold | Properties sold for housing development | |
| South East England Development Agency | ||
| Number | ||
| Properties sold | Properties sold for housing development | |
| South West England Development Agency | ||
| Number | ||
| Properties sold | Properties sold for housing development | |
| Yorkshire Forward | ||
| Number | ||
| Properties sold | Properties sold for housing development | |
The information given for the RDA's are actual buildings mainly for regeneration purposes. It does not include land or larger regeneration sites. The RDAs are not involved in direct housing provision.
Letter from Gareth Jones, dated 13 April 2009:
I am replying on behalf of Companies House to your Parliamentary Question tabled on 23 March 2009, UIN 266497, to the Minister of State for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform.
Companies House has not sold any properties in the last five years.
Letter from Stephen Speed, dated 13 April 2009:
The Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform has asked me to reply to you directly on behalf of the Insolvency Service in respect of your question, what properties (a) his Department, (b) its agencies and (c) the non-departmental public bodies it oversees have sold in each of the last five years; and how many of these have been sold for housing development The Insolvency Service leases its properties and therefore have not been and will not be in a position to sell any.
Departmental Carbon Emissions
Greg Clark: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform with reference to the answer to the hon. Member for Hayes and Harlington of 3 December 2007, Official Report, column 895W, on departmental carbon emissions, whether his Department has adopted the Carbon Trust's Carbon management programme. [269274]
Mr. McFadden: BERR has had two recent reviews carried out by the Carbon Trust, on its headquarters estate. The second, run in April to May 2008, was a follow-on to previous work done under the energy efficiency accreditation scheme (EEAS) which closed in March 2008. As a result of the second review, BERR was given certification under the new Carbon Trust Standard; this was awarded to the Department on 2 July 2008. On the basis that these reviews had been done, the Department did not feel it necessary to take up the Carbon Trust management programme.
Departmental Electronic Equipment
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform how much was spent on (a) the purchase of and (b) bills for (i) Blackberrys and (ii) mobile phones for (A) Ministers, (b) special advisers and (c) civil servants in his Department in each year since 2005. [266328]
Mr. McFadden: The information requested is as follows:
(i) The Department has deployed Blackberry services to staff since 2006 through the Office of Government Commerce’s mobile telecommunication services contract. From the records available the cost of purchasing the Blackberry hardware each year since 2006 has been:
| £ | |||
| Ministers | Special advisers | Other staff | |
The 2009 figure includes the costs of recent hardware upgrades.
The operating costs for BERR’s Blackberry service is only held from 2008 and includes costs for Ministers and special advisors:
| Other staff (£) | |
| n/a = Not available. | |
(b) The Department uses the Office of Government Commerce’s mobile telecommunication services contract to provide official mobile telephones to staff. No cost information is available on the provision of mobile hardware. No detailed information is available on the cost of the services that have been deployed to Ministers and their special advisors. During this period all Ministers and special advisors have had access to mobile telephones from a central pool of handsets operated by the ministerial support office. The only information available is the total cost of the mobile telephones services operated by the ministerial support office and for those services provided to other BERR staff for each year since 2008.
| £ | ||
| Mobile telephone costs for ministerial support office | Total cost of staff mobiles provided | |
Departmental Energy
Greg Clark: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what recent progress his Department has made towards its target for the energy efficiency per square metre of its estate; and if he will make a statement. [266866]
Mr. McFadden: BERR are continuing to work towards achieving the energy efficiency targets expressed in the Sustainable Operation of the Government Estate (SOGE) framework. Our main strategy has been to gain efficiencies through a reduction in the physical size of its estate and the number of buildings occupied. As a result the whole BERR estate has been reduced by 58 per cent. and its overall carbon footprint by 26 per cent. since the baseline year of 1999-2000.
As we are working the remaining buildings harder, through better space optimisation, energy use has risen slightly. We are addressing this through improved utilisation of building management systems; installing new environmental and lighting controls during 2008-09, together with introduction in January 2009 of new automated monitoring and targeting systems, which will give significant savings over the next few years.
Furthermore, in mid-February 2009, BERR installed two sets of photovoltaic arrays on the roof of its 1 Victoria Street HQ building and carried out a thermal imaging study. We are currently evaluating the latter study to see if there are additional means of improving the performance of the HQ building.
BERR's HQ estate recently received the Carbon Trust Standard certification.
Greg Clark:
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform how much (a) electricity, (b) gas and (c)
other fuel was used by (i) his Department and (ii) each of its agencies since the establishment of his Department; and how much was used by each of the regional development agencies in each of the last 10 years. [267342]
Mr. McFadden: Since the inception of BERR in June 2007, the Department has used the following amounts of electricity and gas on its HQ estate up to the end of February 2009.
| kWh | |
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