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Government Offices for the Regions: Operating Costs

Mr. Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the projected running costs of the Government Office in each region are for 2009-10. [319269]

Ms Rosie Winterton: The projected running costs of the Government Offices for the Regions in 2009-10 are as follows:


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(£)

GO East

8,899,400

GO East Midlands

7,856,600

GO London

11,051,100

GO North East

8,673,300

GO North West

11,051,400

GO South East

10,139,500

GO South West

9,625,000

GO West Midlands

11,373,700

GO Yorkshire and Humber

9,049,700


Green Belt

Mr. Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government with reference to the answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 21 July 2009, Official Report, columns 1655-6W, on the green belt, in which local authority areas regional spatial strategies have recommended a review of the areas which should be designated as green belt. [319323]

Mr. Ian Austin: Regional spatial strategies (RSS) do not express any planning policies which refer to specific sites (local authority areas); they identify broad locations, which may be located in a local authority area or cross a number of local authority boundaries.

Homes and Communities Agency

Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government with which organisations the (a) Homes and Communities Agency, (b) Homes and Communities Agency Academy and (c) Tenants Services Authority share offices; and where each such office is located. [316350]

John Healey: Information can only be provided where the Department or one of its arm's length bodies either (a) owns the freehold or (b) sub-lets space or (c) HCA/HCA Academy/TSA collocates with another body within the CLG group. Where a property is let by a private landlord, it is not for the Department to comment on their commercial arrangements. The available information is as follows:

Buildings with shared occupancy where HCA sub-lets space:

Central Business Exchange II, Milton Keynes

110 Buckingham Palace road, London

Buildings with shared occupancy where CLG is the landlord or sub-lets space:

Belgrave Centre, Nottingham

Lateral, Leeds


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5 St Phillips Place, Birmingham

Rivergate House, Bristol

Eastbrook House, Cambridge

Maple House (6th and 7th floor only)

The addresses for all HCA, HCA Academy and TSA offices are listed on their websites.

Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many staff are employed in each office of the (a) Homes and Communities Agency, (b) Homes and Communities Agency Academy and (c) Tenant Services Authority. [316412]

John Healey: Staff for The HCA and the HCA Academy are given in the table:


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Location Total

Ashford

21

Birmingham

33

Bristol

19

Buckingham Palace Road

81

Cambridge

26

Corby

11

Croydon

19

Exeter

25

Gateshead

108

Leeds

(1)69

Leicester

14

Manchester

17

Maple House

102

Milton Keynes

154

Nottingham

18

Palestra

44

Reading

17

Telford

15

Warrington

110

Wolverhampton

12

Graduate trainees

20

Total

935

(1) Of the 69 staff, 29 of these are Academy staff. This figure stands at 31 December 2009.

Staff for the TSA are as follows:

Location Total

London

127

Manchester

36

Cambridge(1)

16

Leeds(1)

14

Leicester(1)

14

Wolverhampton(1)

4

Total(2)

211

(1) Staff in these locations work in office space belonging to either to Communities and Local Government or the Homes and Communities Agency.
(2) This total excludes the 40 TSA staff who work from home.

Households: Pensioners

Jim Cousins: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate he has made of the number of households with a pensioner head of household in each tenure sector in (a) 2006-07, (b) 2007-08, (c) 2008-09 and (d) 2009-10; and what proportion of such heads of household was an owner-occupier in each of those years. [319337]

Mr. Ian Austin: Estimates of the number and proportion of households with a pension age householder in 2006-07, 2007-08 and 2008-09 are given in the following tables. Data for 2009-10 is not yet available. The 2006-07 and 2007-08 estimates are based on data from the Survey of English Housing; data for 2008-09 is from the English Housing Survey.

Pension age( 1) households by tenure, England
Thousands of households

2006-07 2007-08 2008-09

Owner occupiers

4,127

4,231

4,526

Social renters

1,376

1,316

1,220

Private renters

304

239

294

All tenures

5,806

5,785

6,040


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Percentage of households

Owner occupiers

71

73

75

Social renters

24

23

20

Private renters

5

4

5

All tenures

100

100

100

(1) Male householder aged 65 or over, female aged 60 or over.
Source:
2006-07 and 2007-08 CLG Survey of English Housing
2008-09 CLG English Housing Survey

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