Departmental Public Expenditure
Communities and Local Government
Grant Shapps (Shadow Minister (Housing), Communities and Local Government; Welwyn Hatfield, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what capital projects his Department expects to have in 2010-11; and what the budget for each will be in that year.
Barbara Follett (Minister of State (the East of England), Regional Affairs; Stevenage, Labour)
Capital expenditure is incurred by my Department and its executive agency the Planning Inspectorate either to support its day to day running (mainly of the estates and IT systems), and that of its agency, or on key national fire resilience projects where the Department manages procurement for the fire service generally (Firelink and FiReControl). The budgets allocated to these projects for 2010-11 are set out in table A.
However, the majority of the Department's capital programmes are delivered through arm's length bodies (the Homes and Communities Agency and the regional development agencies) and local authorities. The budgets allocated to these programmes for 2010-11 are set out in table B.
Finally, my Department contributes to the funding of the infrastructure for the 2012 Olympic Games for which there is a budget of £442 million in 2010-11.
| Table A-Capital projects in the Department and its Executive agency-the Planning Inspectorate | |
| Financial year 2010-11 plans | |
| Projects | Capital budgets( 1) (£ million) |
| Investment in Ordnance Survey | 14.800 |
| Control Rooms equipment | 9.199 |
| Planning Inspectorate equipment and computers | 6.331 |
| Strategic information technology | 7.034 |
| Investment in Coalfields Enterprise Fund | 5.000 |
| Enhanced Local Government Accrual Reporting System | 3.500 |
| Firelink equipment | 2.200 |
| CLG building improvements | 2.180 |
| Electronic Data Records Management System | 2.000 |
| Government Offices building improvements | 2.860 |
| Fire and Rescue Services Improvement | 1.083 |
| Accounting system enhancements | 1.350 |
| New Dimension equipment | 1.582 |
| E-Planning information technology | 1.000 |
| Total | 60.119 |
| Table B-Capital grants | |
| Financial year 2010-11 plans | |
| Programmes | Capital budgets( 1) (£ million) |
| Homes and Communities Agency | 3,538.396 |
| Arm's Length Management Organisations | 594.000 |
| Regional Development Agencies-CLG Support | 543.322 |
| Regional Housing Pot Grant | 301.752 |
| Housing Market Renewal Fund | 286.000 |
| Local Authority Supported Capital Expenditure (Decent Homes) | 258.755 |
| Disabled Facilities Grants | 168.800 |
| Gap Funding for Large Scale Voluntary Transfers | 139.000 |
| Community Infrastructure Fund | 135.025 |
| Fire Credit Approvals | 70.824 |
| Public Service Agreement Performance Fund | 47.000 |
| Fire and Rescue Services Improvement programme | 45.694 |
| Improvement, Transformation and Efficiency | 42.870 |
| New Deal for Communities | 43.340 |
| Thames Gateway-London Urban Development Corporation | 33.000 |
| Support for Voluntary and Community Sector Sustainability | 27.283 |
| Growth Areas New Growth Points and Eco Towns | 25.000 |
| Thames Gateway-Thurrock Urban Development Corporation | 20.000 |
| Local Enterprise Growth Initiative | 18.649 |
| Other Growth Areas: West Northants Urban Development Corporation | 7.065 |
| Coalfields Regeneration Trust | 6.650 |
| Renewing Neighbourhoods | 6.425 |
| General Greater London Authority Grant | 1.600 |
| Valuation tribunals | 0.400 |
| Fire Service Statistics | 0.271 |
| Local Government Standards Board | 0.230 |
| Leasehold Advisory Services | 0.132 |
| Housing Defects Grants | 0.070 |
| Total | 6,361.553 |
| (1) These budgets are current, and may be subject to change through the Supplementary Estimates process based on decisions by Ministers. | |