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Costs prior to FY 2001-02 and the purpose of legal representation and advice sought cannot be provided due to disproportionate cost.

The Planning Inspectorate has provided the following figures. They are unable to provide the reason for the expenditure as it is confidential.

	£
2004-05	640,906
2005-06	887,811
2006-07	1,007,750
2007-08	1,108,333
2008-09	1,417,017
2009-10	967,922

Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre uses the in-house legal team at CLG for its routine legal requirements. No external legal representatives used since beginning FY 2007-08. Information for earlier years could be supplied only at disproportionate cost.

Local Government: Pensions

Steve Webb: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many (a) current, (b) retired and (c) deferred members of the local government pension scheme in each scheme administering authority (i) were members prior to 1 April 2008 and (ii) have joined the scheme since 1 April 2008. [300687]

Barbara Follett: Details of the number of (a) current members, (b) retired members including flexible retirees or the dependants of former members, and (c) deferred members in the Local Government Pension Scheme in each scheme administering authority in England as at 31 March 2008 and 31 March 2009, and the net change in the numbers, are given in the following table. It is not possible to identify those that have joined the scheme since 1 April 2008 as these data are not collected.

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	Data as at 31 March 2008			Data as at 31 March 2009			Difference
	Number of contributing members	Pensioners (retired employees (inc flexible retirees)or dependants)	Number of former scheme members entitled to deferred benefits	Number of contributing members	Pensioners (retired employees (inc flexible retirees)or dependants)	Number of former scheme members entitled to deferred benefits	Number of contributing members	Pensioners (retired employees (inc flexible retirees)or dependants)	Number of former scheme members entitled to deferred benefits
Barking and Dagenham	5,333	4,216	3,298	5,414	4,340	3,524	81	124	226
Barnet	6,933	5,052	5,443	7,093	6,041	5,812	160	989	369
Bath and North East Somerset	34,681	19,509	20,473	35,264	20,395	22,579	583	886	2,106
Bedfordshire	17,025	10,432	12,122	17,288	10,772	15,825	263	340	3,703
Bexley	4,594	3,569	3,067	4,744	3,727	3,216	150	158	149
Brent	5,849	5,024	5,159	6,075	5,269	5,713	226	245	554
Bromley	4,938	4,123	3,153	5,216	4,271	3,338	278	148	185
Buckinghamshire	19,288	10,778	13,333	19,724	11,428	14,789	436	650	1,456
Cambridgeshire	22,308	11,054	20,620	23,071	11,604	22,780	763	550	2,160
Camden	5,637	5,424	6,392	5,544	5,580	6,784	-93	156	392
Cheshire	31,839	18,558	16,988	32,503	19,011	18,843	664	453	1,855
City of London	3,858	3,027	2,731	3,918	3,091	2,788	60	64	57
Cornwall	15,855	7,815	10,715	16,621	8,229	11,989	766	414	1,274
Croydon	6,367	5,514	4,625	6,636	5,557	5,327	269	43	702
Cumbria	17,057	10,894	9,873	17,695	11,449	10,512	638	555	639
Derbyshire	36,473	19,376	16,445	37,221	20,081	17,331	748	705	886
Devon	36,322	21,230	19,293	38,246	22,171	20,242	1,924	941	949
Dorset	24,246	12,086	11,950	24,652	12,704	13,241	406	618	1,291
Durham	19,249	14,353	7,997	19,297	14,628	9,823	48	275	1,826
Ealing	6,286	5,730	4,511	6,467	5,913	5,752	181	183	1,241
East Riding of Yorkshire UA	35,285	19,078	24,962	35,531	19,839	29,215	246	761	4,253
East Sussex	21,633	13,113	16,138	21,550	13,685	17,357	-83	572	1,219
Enfield	5,771	3,577	3,761	6,015	3,685	4,004	244	108	243
Essex	43,126	27,118	24,994	46,857	28,037	26,272	3,731	919	1,278
Gloucestershire	17,470	9,472	10,523	17,306	9,941	11,850	-164	469	1,327
Greenwich	6,510	5,147	3,594	6,694	5,225	4,584	184	78	990
Hackney	4,291	5,551	6,107	5,447	5,653	6,159	1,156	102	52
Hammersmith and Fulham	4,572	3,813	4,343	4,297	3,904	4,714	-275	91	371
Hampshire	46,218	27,387	30,025	47,417	28,378	33,549	1,199	991	3,524
Haringey	6,954	5,662	5,487	6,814	5,771	6,122	-140	109	635
Harrow	5,483	3,949	4,088	5,065	3,916	4,574	-418	-33	486
Havering	5,803	4,587	3,094	5,723	4,746	3,463	-80	159	369
Hertfordshire	27,464	18,529	20,843	28,610	19,224	22,557	1,146	695	1,714
Hillingdon	6,192	4,663	4,158	6,249	4,834	4,541	57	171	383
Hounslow	5,820	4,621	4,916	5,740	4,820	5,217	-80	199	301
Isle of Wight UA	4,808	2,716	2,955	4,835	2,843	3,327	27	127	372
Islington	5,838	4,850	4,992	5,978	5,107	5,341	140	257	349
Kensington and Chelsea	3,386	2,100	2,890	3,519	2,162	3,116	133	62	226
Kent	42,077	26,714	23,990	43,385	27,950	26,607	1,308	1,236	2,617
Kingston upon Thames	4,298	2,861	2,871	4,332	2,472	3,084	34	-389	213
Lambeth	4,468	6,019	7,309	4,771	6,093	6,238	303	74	-1,071
Lancashire	53,572	33,419	33,905	53,663	34,711	38,199	91	1,292	4,294
Leicestershire	31,782	16,309	17,456	33,097	17,256	18,047	1,315	947	591
Lewisham	6,380	6,005	5,815	6,436	6,085	6,237	56	80	422
Lincolnshire	20,221	11,592	17,831	20,200	12,179	19,831	-21	587	2,000
London Pensions Fund Auth	20,476	32,064	22,037	19,920	32,534	23,138	-556	470	1,101
Merseyside Pension Fund	50,367	39,024	26,328	50,543	39,880	28,108	176	856	1,780
Merton	3,355	2,800	2,548	3,395	2,879	2,679	40	79	131
Middlesbrough UA	26,976	16,101	13,512	25,718	16,736	16,044	-1,258	635	2,532
Newham	6,781	5,713	4,820	6,943	5,904	5,115	162	191	295
Norfolk	25,868	14,714	14,616	27,659	15,457	14,568	1,791	743	-48
North Yorkshire	27,535	12,491	17,246	28,372	13,333	19,953	837	842	2,707
Northamptonshire	20,180	10,477	10,084	20,124	10,946	11,461	-56	469	1,377
Northumberland	9,258	6,077	5,828	9,031	6,312	5,933	-227	235	105
Nottinghamshire	40,408	22,434	24,352	41,409	23,255	26,660	1,001	821	2,308
Oxfordshire	20,307	8,850	11,970	20,859	9,462	13,373	552	612	1,403
Redbridge	5,296	3,692	4,162	5,581	3,793	3,397	285	101	-765
Richmond upon Thames	3,253	2,740	3,029	3,364	2,839	3,330	111	99	301
Shropshire	14,975	7,084	8,309	14,846	6,320	9,335	-129	-764	1,026
Somerset	19,841	9,751	10,897	20,092	10,157	12,469	251	406	1,572
South Yorkshire Pension Fund	54,645	32,530	28,679	54,053	34,034	30,903	-592	1,504	2,224
South Yorkshire PTA	534	1,128	555	466	1,184	553	-68	56	-2
Southwark	6,699	5,823	5,608	6,777	6,016	5,752	78	193	144
Staffordshire	37,751	20,265	22,710	38,043	21,599	25,445	292	1,334	2,735
Suffolk	18,299	9,892	10,161	18,796	10,471	13,023	497	579	2,862
Surrey	26,955	16,501	20,451	28,200	17,203	22,400	1,245	702	1,949
Sutton	3,769	2,609	2,536	4,004	2,646	2,786	235	37	250
Tameside	103,172	76,241	69,864	102,016	78,521	76,193	-1,156	2,280	6,329
Tower Hamlets	5,530	3,644	4,508	5,395	3,639	4,847	-135	-5	339
Tyne and Wear Superannuation Fund	48,186	31,890	23,696	50,002	33,024	24,526	1,816	1,134	830
Waltham Forest	6,542	5,531	3,163	6,435	5,650	3,448	-107	119	285
Wandsworth	5,097	4,241	5,548	5,022	4,415	6,072	-75	174	524
Warwickshire	15,775	7,863	7,510	16,569	8,224	8,515	794	361	1,005
West Midlands Pensions Fund	107,845	61,206	66,321	108,224	63,840	70,783	379	2,634	4,462
West Midlands PTA	1,054	3,206	1,058	982	3,270	1,030	-72	64	-28
West Sussex	21,440	12,822	14,667	22,250	13,393	15,802	810	571	1,135
West Yorkshire Superannuation Fund	92,732	57,961	60,382	94,646	60,282	60,459	1,914	2,321	77
Westminster	4,232	4,700	4,895	4,319	4,753	5,073	87	53	178
Wiltshire	19,055	9,530	14,022	19,130	10,066	15,366	75	536	1,344
Windsor and Maidenhead UA	18,324	10,400	13,001	19,409	10,888	14,577	1,085	488	1,576
Worcestershire	20,269	11,606	10,425	20,282	12,184	11,100	13	578	675
England	1,656,341	1,050,217	1,054,733	1,685,096	1,089,886	1,148,629	28,755	39,669	93,896

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