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Departmental Public Expenditure
Robert Neill: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what analysis of his Department's expenditure by local authority area has been undertaken in the last 12 months. [295697]
Barbara Follett: No analysis of the Department's expenditure by local authority area has been undertaken in the last 12 months.
Departmental Responsibilities
Mrs. Spelman:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what consideration
he has given to the application of the precautionary principle in relation to the development of public policy. [294521]
Barbara Follett: People's perceptions of public risk often differ from actual levels of risk. These distorted public perceptions may encourage poor policy-making and unnecessary laws, leading people to feel that Government is interfering too much in their lives. Strong leadership from the Government is necessary to counter these trends and to help foster a more considered approach to risk and public policy making. In handling public risk, Communities and Local Government follows the guidance of the Risk and Regulation Advisory Council by placing emphasis on understanding the risk in context, actively engaging with a broad community, and effective communication.
Departmental Staffing
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) what expenditure was incurred on recruitment agency fees in respect of staff recruited to work in (a) his Department's Housing Directorate, (b) the Tenant Services Authority, (c) the Homes and Communities Agency, (d) the National Housing and Planning Advice Unit, (e) Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment and (f) the Homes and Communities Agency Academy in the last five years; [294953]
(2) how much was paid in external consultancy fees by (a) his Department's Housing Directorate, (b) the Tenant Services Authority, (c) the Homes and Communities Agency, (d) the National Housing and Planning Advice Unit, (e) the Homes and Communities Agency Academy and (f) the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment in each of the last five years; [294954]
(3) how much was paid in staff costs by (a) his Department's Housing Directorate, (b) the Tenant Services Authority, (c) the Homes and Communities Agency, (d) the National Housing and Planning Advice Unit and (e) the Homes and Communities Agency academy in each of the last five years. [295096]
John Healey: The following tables provide the financial data requested subject to the following caveat:
Where a cell is blank, no expenditure in the categories specified was incurred;
The "Housing Directorates" lines cover a combination of directorates across the years in question as a result of CLG organisational structure changes.
| Table A : PQ 5490- r ecruitment a gency f ees | |||||
| 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 | 2008-09 | |
| (1 )Relates to the recruitment of HCA Board members. (2 )Relates to the recruitment of NHPAU Board members. | |||||
| Table B: PQ 5491-external consultancy | |||||
| 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 | 2008-09 | |
| (1 )Expenditure inflated by one-off items: HCA set-up and homeowner mortgage support scheme. (2 )The HCA can be answered only at disproportionate cost. | |||||
| Table C: PQ 5493-staff costs | |||||
| 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 | 2008-09 | |
| (1 )For HCA and TSA 2008-09, information on expenditure on staff will be included in the annual reports and accounts which will be published shortly. Prior to 2008-09, neither organisation was in existence. | |||||
English Partnership Public Relations Panel
Mrs. Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what companies and individuals were on the English Partnership Public Relations Panel in each year since the Panel was set up; and what expenditure has been incurred on each (a) corporate and (b) individual member of the Panel to date. [292558]
Mr. Ian Austin: Since 1 December 2008, English Partnership's (EP) functions have passed to the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA). The following table provides a list of the organisations that have formed the membership of the EP/HCA Public Relations Panel since it was established in 2006, and also the net and gross breakdown of expenditure, by panel member.
Public relations spend across the HCA incorporates a wide and varied range of activities, with a particular focus on disseminating news and information on HCA's work to business and local stakeholders, the media and to the general public.
For 2008-09, such costs represented 0.02 per cent. of the HCA's total annual expenditure of £3.9 billion.
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