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Board Member Gifts and Hospitality
The following table summarises the detail of gifts and hospitality declared by Audit Commission Board members:
A record of gifts and hospitality received by the Chairman and Chief Executive is available on our website at:
Benefits in Kind
Audit Commission Board Members receive no benefits in kind, but are entitled to claim travel and subsistence expenses incurred on business, in accordance with the arrangements made for the senior staff of the Audit Commission.
A copy of this letter will be placed in Hansard.
Mr. Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what declaration of political activity has been made by each board member and Commissioner of the Audit Commission. [315554]
Ms Rosie Winterton: This is an operational matter for the Audit Commission and I have asked the chief executive of the Audit Commission to write to the hon. Member direct.
Letter from Steve Bundred, dated 5 February2010:
Your Parliamentary Question outlined above has been passed to me to reply.
Three of the Audit Commission Board's members are local government Councillors and represent the three main political parties:
Cllr Merrick Cockell (Conservative), elected Member for the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea;
Cllr Stephen Houghton (Labour), elected Member for Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council;
Cllr Chris White (Liberal Democrat), elected Member for St Albans City and District Council and Hertfordshire County Council.
On appointment by the Secretary of State, Board members receive Cabinet Office guidance on Codes of Practice for Board Members. The guidance covering political activities, sections (a)-(c), states:
(a) Members of Boards, whether whole-time or part-time, should not serve as officers carrying out executive duties in any political party.
(b) Full-time members should abstain from controversial political activity.
(c) Subject to (a) above, part-time members are free to engage in any political activities, provided that they are conscious of their general public responsibility and exercise proper discretion, particularly in regard to the work of the Boards of which they are members. On matters affecting that work, they should not normally make political speeches or engage in other political activities.
Beyond the political activities carried out by the Commissioners named above in their role as elected Members, there have been no declarations of political activity made by any member of the Audit Commission Board.
A copy of this letter will be placed in Hansard.
Building Alterations
Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many people were on local authority waiting lists for independent living adaptations and equipment in (a) the latest period for which figures are available and (b) each of the last five years. [315461]
Mr. Ian Austin: The information requested is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Council Housing: East Sussex
Norman Baker:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much has been spent on improving social housing stock owned
by each district council in East Sussex in each year since 1997. [315761]
Mr. Ian Austin: Expenditure allowances within the Housing Revenue Account Subsidy system for each authority in East Sussex with housing stock are given in the following tables. Information on actual expenditure by year on improving council owned social housing is not available.
| Major repairs allowance (MRA)( 1) | |||||||
| £ | |||||||
| 1997- 98 | 1998- 99 | 1999-2000 | 2000- 01 | 2001- 02 | 2002- 03 | 2003- 04 | |
| £ | |||||||
| 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 | 2008-09 | 2009-10 | 2010-11 | |
| (1) MRA was not introduced until 1 April 2001 | |||||||
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