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- Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Audit Commission (23 Nov 2009)
Barbara Follett: We have made no such assessment. It is for the independent Audit Commission, after consultation, to set the fees charged by them for auditing the annual accounts of town and parish councils.
- Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Departmental Correspondence (23 Nov 2009)
Barbara Follett: The average cost of answering a written question is £149, as set out in the written ministerial statement made by my hon. Friend the former Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury (Angela Eagle) on 8 December 2008, Official Report, column 24WS. The estimated cost of answering the 250 questions tabled by the hon. Member for Meriden (Mrs. Spelman) on 9 October 2009 would therefore be...
- Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Departmental Disciplinary Proceedings (23 Nov 2009)
Barbara Follett: No departmental officials have been reprimanded, had their contract of employment terminated or been prosecuted for theft of departmental property in any of the previous three years.
- Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Departmental Pay (23 Nov 2009)
Barbara Follett: The information requested is not held centrally.
- Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Departmental Pay (23 Nov 2009)
Barbara Follett: The following table shows the number of year end performance bonuses that were paid to staff in Communities and Local Government over the last three years. Category of Employee 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 Senior Civil Service (SCS) 83 104 102 All staff below SCS 301 391 570 Total Cost (£) 838,250 1,018,350 1,284,547 The Department also has a Special Bonus Scheme...
- Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Departmental Property (23 Nov 2009)
Barbara Follett: The following table identifies the number of laptops and mobile phones that have been reported lost or stolen from this Department in each of the last three years, together with the approximate value of each item. Stolen Value (£) Lost Value (£) Lap top computers 2006-07 7 2,100 0 0 2007-08 9 5,600 0 0 2008-09 5 1,500 0 0 Mobile...
- Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Government Hospitality Unit (23 Nov 2009)
Barbara Follett: This information is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
- Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Housing: Prices (23 Nov 2009)
Barbara Follett: In England, the Valuation Office Agency is responsible for ascribing a property to a council tax band, based on its expected sale price on 1 April 1991. Therefore, a property built in 2009 would be banded for council tax by reference to: (1) sales of newly built properties of a similar size, character and location that were sold on or around 1 April 1991: (2) the council tax band of similar...
- Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Local Government: Pay (23 Nov 2009)
Barbara Follett: In the latest year for which figures are available, 2007-08, total pay including employers National Insurance and Pensions contributions for all local government staff including teachers, police and fire fighters, was £58.8 billion. Further information is available from: http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/statistics/pdf/12400 28.pdf No estimate has been made of the proportion paid...