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As set out in the Homes and Communities Agency's Corporate Plan we are expecting to invest £3,248 million and £2,480 million in 2009-10 and 2010-11 respectively through the Affordable Housing Programme. Schemes bid for grant on a competitive basis. The HCA receive bids on a continuous basis and assess them against set criteria including value for money, as a result grant per unit for any year is not available until after year end.
The number of households registered on local authority housing waiting lists in each local authority, as at 1 April each year from 1997 to 2008, is published on the Communities and Local Government website in Table 600. Where local authorities and registered social landlords operate a common register, households registered with the RSL will be included in the data. However, registered social landlords are independent bodies and can keep their own waiting lists. The link for this table is as follows:
Social Rented Housing: Finance
Mr. Hepburn: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what capital funding his Department has provided for social housing in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) England in each year since 1997. [291543]
Mr. Ian Austin: The following tables show the funding provided through the Homes and Communities Agency's Affordable Housing Programme for social rent and low cost home ownership in South Tyneside local authority, the North East Region, and England in each year since 1997.
| Affordable Housing Programme expenditure in South Tyneside | |||
| £ million | |||
| Social rent | LCHO | Total social rent and LCHO | |
| Affordable Housing Programme expenditure in North East Region | |||
| £ million | |||
| Social rent | LCHO | Total social rent and LCHO | |
International Development
Afghanistan: Lapis Lazuli
Harry Cohen: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development whether his Department's efforts to promote economic development in Afghanistan have included steps to support exploitation for trade purposes of its lapis lazuli resources. [293218]
Mr. Michael Foster: The Department for International Development (DFID) committed almost £4.2 million to a four-year programme (2004-08) aimed at strengthening the institutional capacity of the Afghanistan Geological Survey and establishing a viable minerals industry (including Lapis Lazuli). Further information about this programme is available from:
DFID is also working to improve the wider conditions for trade and investment by supporting Harakat (formerly the Afghanistan Investment Climate Facility). Further information on Harakat is available from
Departmental Information Officers
Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how many press officers his Department employs. [290330]
Mr. Michael Foster: The White Book, published by the Central Office of Information (COI) every six months, contains details of the Department for International Development's press team.
Departmental Travel
Justine Greening: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how much his Department spent on (a) car hire, (b) train travel, (c) air travel, (d) hotels and (e) restaurant meals for (i) Ministers and (ii) staff in his Department in each of the last five years. [289967]
Mr. Douglas Alexander: The information requested is not held centrally and could not be provided without incurring disproportionate cost.
Travel by Ministers and civil servants is undertaken in accordance with the Ministerial Code and the Civil Service Management Code respectively, and all spending on official entertainment is made in accordance with the principles set out in Managing Public Money.
I also refer the hon. Member to the Cabinet Office annual list of overseas travel over £500 undertaken by Ministers. The 2008-09 list was published on 16 July 2009 and can be viewed at:
Overseas Aid
Mr. Crabb: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how much UK bilateral aid he plans to allocate to each of the five fragile states identified in his new aid programme for job creation. [289926]
Mr. Michael Foster: As announced in DFID's 2009 Annual Report, the total planned expenditure by DFID in the next two years of the current comprehensive spending review (CSR) period in each of the five fragile states we identified earlier is as follows:
| £ million | ||
| 2009-10 | 2010-11 | |
Mr. Crabb: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how many jobs he expects to be created in (a) Nigeria, (b) Afghanistan, (c) Nepal, (d) Yemen and (e) Ethiopia by 2013 under his new bilateral aid programme for job creation. [289929]
Mr. Michael Foster: We plan to create up to 1.25 million new economic opportunities across post-conflict and fragile countries in which we work by 2013. These include the five countries that were initially identified: Nepal, Ethiopia, Yemen, Nigeria and Afghanistan. Exact targets for individual countries have not yet been finalised.
Mr. Crabb: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what partners his Department has appointed to deliver his Department's bilateral aid programme for job creation in each of the five fragile states identified in that programme. [289932]
Mr. Thomas: The Department for International Development (DFID) has many programmes in fragile states that deliver job creation. These work with a wide range of partners. We will meet our targets for job creation by expanding existing programmes and by establishing new activities where relevant. Partner selection will depend on specific contexts and will involve partner governments, the private sector and NGOs.
Mr. Crabb: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what proportion of bilateral aid allocated to the five fragile states identified in his Department's new programme for job creation will be delivered to the national exchequers of those five states. [289934]
Mr. Michael Foster: We are currently planning how to scale-up our job creation programmes but it is not possible at this stage to say what proportion will be disbursed through national exchequers.
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