The data are taken from the council tax base (CTB) and CTB (Supplementary) forms completed annually in October by all billing authorities in England and returned to Communities and Local Government.
Details of the number of empty non-domestic hereditaments are not currently available.
Empty Property: Tyne and Wear
Jim Cousins:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many empty properties there were in each tenure sector in each local authority in Tyne and Wear in each April from 2004 to 2009. [302538]
Barbara Follett:
Details of the number of empty domestic dwellings in each of the five local authorities in the Tyne and Wear area for 2004 to 2009 are shown in the following table.
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2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
Gateshead
5,488
6,162
5,180
4,989
5,715
5,583
Newcastle upon Tyne
6,141
5,829
5,595
5,710
4,811
4,385
North Tyneside
2,877
2,818
2,841
2,992
3,186
3,209
South Tyneside
1,997
2,282
2,396
2,411
2,389
2,305
Sunderland
4,114
4,477
4,652
4,431
4,440
4,183
The data are both short-term and long-term empty dwellings as reported annually by all billing authorities in England in October of the year. Data are not collected in April.
No estimates of empty non-domestic properties have been published.
Flood Control: Finance
Mrs. Spelman:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much funding, in cash terms, each local authority in England which applied for Bellwin funding in each of the last three years did not receive back in compensation as a result of the 0.2 per cent. grant threshold in the Bellwin fund limiting the amount of compensation that a council receives. [305929]
Barbara Follett:
The threshold has been set at 0.2 per cent. of a local authority's calculated annual revenue budget. This is because the Government, throughout the lifetime of the Bellwin scheme, has thought it reasonable to expect authorities to cover costs themselves up to a certain level. Every local authority is required to maintain reserves, one of whose main purposes is to meet unexpected costs. Successive Governments have retained the threshold and it has never been waived, even during the 1987 storms, the 2000 floods, the foot-and-mouth crisis or the 2007 summer floods.
The following table shows the threshold applied for each local authority that received Bellwin funding within the last three years:
Local authority
Scheme
Threshold (£)
Babergh District Council
Babergh Storm January 2007
18,879
Shepway District Council
Folkestone Earthquake April 2007
36,395
Barnsley Met Borough Council
Summer floods 2007
579,755
Bassetlaw District Council
Summer floods 2007
31,864
Bridgenorth District Council
Summer floods 2007
11,966
Cheltenham Borough Council
Summer floods 2007
31,321
Chesterfield Borough Council
Summer floods 2007
27,833
City of Lincoln Council
Summer floods 2007
31,337
Cotswold District Council
Summer floods 2007
20,119
Derbyshire Dales District Council
Summer floods 2007
19,232
Doncaster Met Borough Council
Summer floods 2007
745,486
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East Lindsey District Council
Summer floods 2007
41,216
East Riding of Yorkshire Council
Summer floods 2007
758,249
Gloucester City Council
Summer floods 2007
33,470
Gloucestershire County Council
Summer floods 2007
1,209,229
Gloucestershire Police Authority
Summer floods 2007
191,318
Hereford and Worcester Fire And Rescue Authority
Summer floods 2007
56,572
Herefordshire Council
Summer floods 2007
408,526
Humberside Fire and Rescue Services
Summer floods 2007
88,443
Kingston Upon Hull City Council
Summer floods 2007
691,077
Lichfield District Council
Summer floods 2007
21,293
Malvern Hills District Council
Summer floods 2007
17,055
Newark And Sherwood District Council
Summer floods 2007
31,398
North East Derbyshire District Council
Summer floods 2007
25,322
North Lincolnshire Council
Summer floods 2007
396,760
Oxford City Council
Summer floods 2007
54,099
Rotherham Met Borough Council
Summer floods 2007
701,482
Scarborough Borough Council
Summer floods 2007
39,709
Sheffield City Council
Summer floods 2007
1,393,290
Shropshire County Council
Summer floods 2007
599,949
South Shropshire District Council
Summer floods 2007
13,700
South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Authority
Summer floods 2007
109,744
Stratford on Avon District Council
Summer floods 2007
25,692
Stroud District Council
Summer floods 2007
28,257
Tewkesbury Borough Council
Summer floods 2007
15,642
Vale of White Horse District Council
Summer floods 2007
23,261
Warwick District Council
Summer floods 2007
33,890
West Berkshire Council
Summer floods 2007
368,367
West Lindsey District Council
Summer floods 2007
26,026
West Oxfordshire District Council
Summer floods 2007
17,976
Worcester City Council
Summer floods 2007
25,291
Wychavon District Council
Summer floods 2007
23,841
Wyre Forest District Council
Summer floods 2007
28,144
Great Yarmouth Borough Council
Norfolk Storms November 2007
28,704
North Norfolk District Council
Norfolk storms November 2007
27,484
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Barnsley Met Borough Council
January floods 2008
(1)n/a
Newark and Sherwood District Council
January floods 2008
(1)n/a
North Lincolnshire Council
January floods 2008
(1)n/a
Oxford City Council
January floods 2008
(1)n/a
Vale of White Horse District Council
January floods 2008
(1)n/a
West Oxfordshire District Council
January floods 2008
(1)n/a
Castle Morpeth Borough Council
September floods 2008
14,122
Herefordshire Council
September floods 2008
432,525
Shropshire County Council
September floods 2008
631,994
(1) The threshold applies to annual spending and not to spending on each incident. So authorities who report more than one incident in the same financial year take spending on all reported incidents into account in calculating whether they have exceeded the threshold. In the table above, all the authorities affected by the January 2008 floods had already incurred the annual threshold as part of their claims for the 2007 summer floods which was in the same financial year, so it was not applied for this subsequent scheme.
Hotels
Anne Main:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much his Department spent on hotel accommodation for (a) Ministers, (b) special advisers and (c) civil servants in each of the last five years. [305668]
Barbara Follett:
I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Putney (Justine Greening) on 22 October 2009, Official Report, column 1642W.
Figures for earlier years and disaggregating for Ministers, special advisers and civil servant could be achieved only at disproportionate cost.
