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Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Inland Waterways: Ports (12 Nov 2009)

Caroline Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) whether his Department has issued guidance on the development of marinas on canals; (2) what recent discussions he has had with British Waterways on the development of marinas on canals.

Written Answers — Treasury: Non-Domestic Rates (12 Nov 2009)

Caroline Spelman: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the (a) total and (b) average rateable value for hereditaments in each special category code is on (i) the 2005 Rating List and (ii) the draft 2010 Rating List.

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Departmental Recruitment (12 Nov 2009)

Caroline Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Robert Neill) of 1 September 2009, Official Report, column 1834W, on departmental recruitment, if he will publish the job specification of the (a) Policy Adviser—Local Government Restructuring, (b) Policy Adviser—Strategy and Performance and...

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Departmental Recruitment (12 Nov 2009)

Caroline Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 1 September 2009, Official Report, column 1834W, on departmental recruitment, which posts filled by his Department in the nine months up to the end of May 2009 were not advertised on either his Department's public website or on the public part of the...

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Departmental Recruitment (12 Nov 2009)

Caroline Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Robert Neill) of 1 September 2009, Official Report, column 1834W, on departmental recruitment, which individuals were employed in the positions of (a) Policy Adviser—Local Government Restructuring and (b) Policy Adviser—Strategy and Performance.

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Departmental Recruitment (12 Nov 2009)

Caroline Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Robert Neill) of 1 September 2009, Official Report, column 1834W, on departmental recruitment, for what reasons the position of (a) Policy Adviser—Local Government Restructuring and (b) Policy Adviser—Strategy and Performance, was not...

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Departmental Recruitment (12 Nov 2009)

Caroline Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Robert Neill) of 1 September 2009, Official Report, column 1834W, on departmental recruitment, what processes are used to hire staff through limited competition on a time-limited basis; and how this recruitment process differs from usual practice.

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Monuments: Armed Conflict (12 Nov 2009)

Caroline Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if he will make it his policy to ensure that the revised Planning Policy Statement 15 on the historic environment makes specific reference to the protection of war memorials.

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Non-Domestic Rates (12 Nov 2009)

Caroline Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many individual hereditament (a) betting shops and offices, (b) bingo halls, (c) public houses, licensed restaurants and wine bars, (d) night clubs and discotheques and (e) casinos and gambling clubs were on the Valuation Office Agency's 2005 Rating List in the most recent period for which figures are available.

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Non-Domestic Rates: Valuation (12 Nov 2009)

Caroline Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the textual description is of each SCAT code used by the Valuation Office Agency.

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Non-Domestic Rates: Valuation (12 Nov 2009)

Caroline Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the policy of the Durham Valuation Office is on whether Durham road user charge and a material change for the purposes of (a) calculating rateable value of business premises within and near the charging zone and (b) domestic valuations of dwellings for council tax within and near the charging zone.

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Non-Domestic Rates: Valuation (12 Nov 2009)

Caroline Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many hereditaments were on the Valuation Office Agency's Rating List with SCAT code 030 in each year since 1997; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the Agency's methodology and guidance for valuing bowling greens.

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Ports: Planning Permission (12 Nov 2009)

Caroline Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether his Department has made an assessment of the merits of monitoring planning applications for marina developments.

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Regional Planning and Development: Thames Gateway (12 Nov 2009)

Caroline Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what (a) central Government departments, (b) public corporations, (c) local authorities, (d) executive agencies, (e) non-departmental public bodies, (f) partnership bodies, (g) regional quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisations and (h) other public sector bodies are involved in the Thames Gateway development.

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Social Rented Housing: Foreigners (12 Nov 2009)

Caroline Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what entitlement to social housing each category of non-UK born migrant to the UK has.

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Business Improvement Districts (11 Nov 2009)

Caroline Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether an improvement in the environment due to expenditure and activity undertaken by a business improvement district is deemed by the Valuation Office Agency to be a material change of circumstance when assessing the rateable values of the hereditaments within the improvement district.

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Departmental Recruitment (11 Nov 2009)

Caroline Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 1 September 2009, Official Report, column 1834W, on departmental recruitment (1) what additional expertise and capacity was required for the two Policy Adviser roles that could not be delivered through (a) offering the job to existing departmental...

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Housing (11 Nov 2009)

Caroline Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many first-time house buyers there have been in each year since 1996.

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Local Government: Contracts (11 Nov 2009)

Caroline Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the timetable is for the extension of the Joint Statement on Access to Skills, Trade Unions and Advice in Government Contracting to local government.

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Non-Domestic Rates: Valuation (11 Nov 2009)

Caroline Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what assessment has been made of the effect of the 2010 non-domestic rate revaluation on the level of revenue raised from business rates on empty property; and whether transitional rate relief is to apply to empty properties.