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Other research expense included ongoing advice from the CLG expert panel and use of the Housing Corporation residents panels through the second half of 2008 totalling around £30,000.

Council Housing: Castle Point

Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many local authority tenants in Castle Point have been evicted from accommodation for non-payment of rent in each of the last 12 months; and what proportion of those tenants had dependants living with them. [280631]

Mr. Ian Austin: This information is not currently available.

Council Housing: Finance

Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer of 7 May 2009, Official Report, column 383W, on council housing (1) what the civil service pay band of each member of the Review of Council Housing Finance team is; [281495]

(2) how much has been spent on the Review of Council Housing Finance on (a) salaries, (b) bonuses and (c) expenses for (i) civil servants and (ii) local authority secondees; [281497]

(3) which local authority provided a secondee to the review; and what the terms of the secondment are; [281525]

(4) what costs related to the Review of Council Housing Finance have been incurred in each of the last three months; [281526]

(5) if he will provide a breakdown of the £186,000 spent by the Review of Council Housing Finance on activity other than external research. [281496]

Mr. Ian Austin: The pay bands for civil servants from my Department working on the Review are Grade 5 (Deputy Director), Grade 6, Grade 7, Senior Executive Officer (SEO), Higher Executive Officer (HEO) and Executive Officer. The civil servants from HM Treasury are Range E (which is equivalent to Grades 6 and 7) and Range D (which is equivalent to SEO and HEO). All civil servants are employed and remunerated on standard departmental terms and conditions.

The local authority secondee is on secondment from Sheffield city council. The council is continuing to pay his wages and expenses, which are reimbursed by my Department in respect of time spent working on the review. The secondment is on standard departmental terms and conditions.

The £186,000 that was spent on other activity includes the reimbursement of the secondee's wages and expenses to Sheffield city council. It cannot be broken down without identifying these payments, which would breach data protection principles in respect of the secondee.

The answer of 7 May 2009, Official Report, column 383W, included details of review expenditure to the end of March 2009. Details of costs incurred by the review since then cannot be provided without breaching data protection principles in respect of the secondee from Sheffield city council.


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Council Housing: Rents

Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the written ministerial statement of 6 March 2009, Official Report, columns 71-72WS, on local authority rents, which local authorities have applied for financial support for reduced rent increases for council tenants; and if he will make a statement. [281328]

Mr. Ian Austin: The authorities which have applied for and accepted additional subsidy support to reduce rent increases are listed as follows:


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