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Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what sums the Homes and Communities Agency and its predecessor charged to their public sector bodies in each of the last three years. [300440]

John Healey: For the last two years this figure can be can found in the HCA's annual report and financial statements, a copy of which was recently laid before the House. For the year ending 31 March 2007, derived from the financial statements of the HCA's predecessor bodies, the figure was £134,000.

Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government with which (a) central Government bodies, (b) local authorities and (c) public corporations the Homes and Communities Agency held balances in each of the last three years. [300453]

John Healey: Overall intra-government balances as at 31 March 2009, and the comparative information as at 31 March 2008, are disclosed in the Homes and Communities Agency's (HCA) annual report and financial statements 2008-09. The entities with which the HCA held balances in the last two financial years are listed as follows. The HCA was set up on 1 December 2008 and under merger accounting principals was required to prepare full year accounts for 2008-09 and comparison accounts for 2007-08 but not for previous financial years.

(i) Creditors

(a) Central Government bodies

31 March 2009

31 March 2008

(b) Local authorities

31 March 2009

31 March 2008


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(c) Public corporations

31 March 2009

31 March 2008

(ii) Debtors

(a) Central Government bodies

31 March 2009

31 March 2008


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(b) Local authorities

31 March 2009

31 March 2008

(c) Public corporations

31 March 2009

31 March 2008

Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) which sites the Homes and Communities Agency has purchased from public sector bodies for development; from which organisations such sites were purchased; and how many such sites have subsequently been sold; [300454]

(2) how much the Homes and Communities Agency paid for each piece of surplus public sector land it purchased in each of the last five years; and for how much each site was subsequently sold. [300599]


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