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Carbon Emissions: Departmental Coordination
Gregory Barker: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office pursuant to the answer of 10 February 2009, Official Report, column 1847W, on carbon emissions, what cross-departmental co-operation her Department is supporting. [281306]
Angela E. Smith: The Department for Energy and Climate Change is responsible for the formulation of Government policy on addressing carbon emissions.
The Cabinet Office’s role is to support the co-ordination of Government policy. It does so by supporting Cabinet and Cabinet Committee system, which provides a framework for the collective consideration of, and decisions on, major policy issues and questions of significant public interest.
Information relating to the proceedings of Cabinet Committees, including when and how often they meet, is generally not disclosed as to do so could harm the frankness and candour of internal discussion.
Lord Paul of Marylebone
Mr. Graham Stuart: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office whether Lord Paul of Marylebone has a security pass for 10 Downing Street; and if she will make a statement. [281911]
Public Sector: Pay
Mr. Maude: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office if she will take steps to ensure that all increases in senior executive pay in the public sector are below the rate of inflation. [271953]
Mr. Byrne: I have been asked to reply.
Government policy is that all public sector pay settlements should reflect the individual labour market position of each work force, particularly their recruitment and retention position; be consistent with achievement of the Bank of England’s CPI inflation target of 2 per cent.; be affordable for Departments and; represent value for money for taxpayers.
Senior staff have an important role to play in showing leadership in exercising pay restraint. In March 2009, the Government announced that pay awards for senior public sector groups for 2009-10 would be limited to 1.5 per cent. This covers senior civil servants, judges, very senior managers in the NHS and chief executives of non-departmental public bodies.
Children, Schools and Families
Schools: Sports
Mr. Hunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families when he expects the results of the School Sport Survey for 2008-09 to be published. [282252]
Mr. Iain Wright: The 2008-09 School Sport Survey is expected to be published in the early autumn.
Communities and Local Government
Community Development
Mrs. Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government which proposals in his Department’s White Paper, Communities in control: real people, real power are not planned to be implemented. [282389]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The White Paper Communities in Control was published in July 2008. We currently do not have plans to take forward a number of minor proposals from the White Paper, namely on remote attendance and voting by councillors, payments for councillors on loss of office, and incentives to vote in local elections.
On June 1 2009 we published the “Communities Progress Report” which recorded the substantial progress achieved in the implementation of “Communities in Control”. We will continue to review the implementation programme for the White Paper as it develops.
Demos
Mr. Watson: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what (a) private meetings and (b) public engagements Ministers in his Department have attended at which representatives from the think-tank Demos were present in the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement. [279514]
Mr. Malik: Ministers and officials have meetings with a wide variety of organisations in the public and private sectors as part of the process of policy development and delivery. As was the case with previous Administrations, it is not the Government’s practice to provide details of all such meetings.
Departmental Billing
Mr. Oaten: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many days on average (a) his Department and (b) each of its agencies has taken to pay invoices from suppliers in each month since November 2008. [278910]
Mr. Malik: The average time in days taken to pay suppliers by the Department in each month since November 2008 is as follows:
| (b) Agency | ||||
| (a) Department—CLG (including GOs) | Planning Inspectorate | Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre | Fire Service College | |
Mr. Philip Hammond: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer of 18 May 2009, Official Report, column 1192W, on departmental billing, how much his Department’s non-departmental public bodies paid in interest under the Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998 in the last three years. [282333]
Mr. Malik: This information is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Departmental Carbon Emissions
Mr. Paice: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate he has made of the volume of carbon dioxide emissions from offices in his Department in (a) 2006-07 and (b) 2007-08 (i) in total and (ii) per full-time equivalent member of staff. [280955]
Mr. Malik: The Department for Communities and Local Government produced the following quantities of carbon dioxide emissions in 2006-7 and 2007-8:
| Com munities and Local Government— Central Offices | ||
| Total carbon dioxide (tonnes) | Total carbon dioxide per FTE (tonnes) | |
Mr. Paice: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate he has made of the volume of carbon dioxide emissions arising from road-based transport of administrative operations by his Department in (a) 2006-07 and (b) 2007-08 (i) in total and (ii) per full-time equivalent member of staff. [281007]
Mr. Malik: The Department for Communities and Local Government generated the following quantities of carbon dioxide from road-based transport through administrative operations in 2006-07 and 2007-08:
| Tonnes | ||
| Communities and local Government—central offices | 2006- 07 | 2007 - 08 |
Mr. Paice: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate he has made of the volume of carbon dioxide emissions arising from air travel by staff in his Department in (a) 2006-07 and (b) 2007-08 (i) in total and (ii) per full-time equivalent member of staff. [281008]
Mr. Malik: The Department for Communities and Local Government generated the following quantities of carbon dioxide arising from air travel in 2006-07 and 2007-08:
| Tonnes | ||
| Communities and local Government —central offices | 2006-07 | 2007-08 |
Departmental Electricity
Mr. Paice: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate he has made of the percentage of electricity used by his Department which was derived from renewable sources in (a) 2006-07 and (b) 2007-08. [280957]
Mr. Malik: The Department for Communities and Local Government derived the following amounts of electricity from renewable sources between 2006 and 2008:
| Percentage | ||
| Communities and local Government—central offices | 2006-07 | 2007-08 |
The Department obtains its renewable energy through the office of Government commerce’s green tariff energy contract.
Departmental Energy
Mr. Paice: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate he has made of the energy consumed per full-time equivalent member of staff in his Department in (a) 2006-07 and (b) 2007-08. [280956]
Mr. Malik: The Department for Communities and Local Government consumed the following quantities of energy per full-time equivalent member of staff in 2006-07 and 2007-08:
| Communities and Local Government - Central Offices | 2006-07 | 2007-08 |
Departmental Waste
Mr. Paice: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate he has made of the amount of waste arising from his Department in (a) 2006-07 and (b) 2007-08 (i) in total and (ii) per full-time equivalent member of staff. [281006]
Mr. Malik: Communities and Local Government generated the following quantities of waste in 2006-07 and 2007-08:
| Tonnes | ||
| Communities and local Government—central offices | 2006-07 | 2007-08 |
Departmental Water
Mr. Paice: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate he has made of the water consumption on his Department's office estate in (a) 2005-06 and (b) 2006-07, (i) in total and (ii) per full-time equivalent member of staff. [280954]
Mr. Malik: The Department for Communities and Local Government used the following quantities of water in 2005-06 and 2006-07:
| Communities and Local Government—Central Offices | ||
| Total water consumption (m( 3) ) | Water consumption per FTE (m( 3) ) | |
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