Communities and Local Government

written question – answered on 25 October 2007.

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  • Council Tax Benefits: Hampshire (1 annotation)

    To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what council tax benefits were paid in each local authority in Hampshire in each year since 2000-01; what estimate she has made...

  • Council Tax: Parish Councils

    To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much parish precepts on council tax are estimated to raise across England in 2007-08.

  • Council Tax: Valuation

    To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what research, including opinion research and polling, her Department has (a) undertaken in-house and (b) commissioned from...

  • Departments: Contracts

    To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many invitations to tender her Department and its predecessor have issued since 2002; and for what purpose in each case.

  • Departments: Disadvantaged People

    To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if she will give examples of the use her Department has made of the Compact Codes of Good Practice on Community Groups and on...

  • Departments: Discrimination

    To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many claims have been made against (a) her Department and (b) its agencies under the Sex Discrimination Act since 2002;...

  • Departments: Official Hospitality

    To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much her Department spent in total on travel, subsistence and hospitality in the last year for which audited figures are...

  • Departments: Standards

    To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many of her Department's public service agreement targets (a) take and (b) do not take account of rural proofing.

  • Elections: Bedfordshire

    To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) whether district, town and parish council elections will be held in South Bedfordshire District in May 2008 following the...

  • Emergencies: Planning

    To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what consideration has been given to potential (a) enhancement of multi-agency response resilience and (b) financial...

  • Ethnic Groups: Equal Opportunities

    To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government when her Department plans to produce the proposed race equality duty toolkit.

  • European Regional Development Fund: Fines

    To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what risk and contingent liabilities her Department has allowed for in relation to potential fines from the European Commission...

  • Fire Services

    To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what delays have occurred in meeting (a) milestones and (b) targets in relation to the Firelink contract.

  • Fire Services: Contracts

    To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what account was taken of her Department's policy of encouraging small and medium-sized enterprises to participate in public...

  • Fire Services: Firebuy

    To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what process was followed by Firebuy Limited in setting the technical specifications for procurement on behalf of the Fire and...

  • Fire Services: Firebuy

    To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much Firebuy Limited has spent on determining the (a) items and (b) item specifications of procurement on behalf of the...

  • Fire Services: Procurement

    To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if she will place in the Library a copy of the Stage 3 Review of the Integrated Clothing Project by 4ps (Public and Private...

  • Floods: Council Tax

    To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what assessment her Department has made of the potential effect on council tax bills of the recent flooding in the worst...

  • Floods: Grants

    To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether councils receiving 100 per cent. Bellwin contributions following the recent flooding will have to pay for the Bellwin...

  • Gardens: Heating

    To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if she will make an assessment of the merits of powers for local authorities (a) to regulate and (b) to ban the use of...

  • Homelessness: Expenditure

    To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) how much homelessness grant was paid to each London local authority in each of the last five years; (2) how much...

  • Housing Market: Regeneration

    To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what research has been commissioned by (a) Housing Market Renewal Pathfinders and (b) her Department into property speculation...

  • Housing: Grants

    To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much housing renewal grant funding was allocated to the demolition of properties in each Pathfinder area in each year since...

  • Housing: Peterborough

    To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if she will make a statement on the impact of immigration on (a) new house building and (b) previously occupied housing, with...

  • Housing: Voluntary Organisations (1 annotation)

    To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what guidance she is giving to local authorities on the implications of the Government's policy of promoting the role of the...

  • Lee Valley Regional Park Authority: Finance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) what the precept was on Band D council tax bills set by the Lee Valley Regional Park Authority in each year since 1997-98;...

  • Lee Valley Regional Park Authority: Finance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether she plans to amend the Levying Bodies (General) Regulations 1992 in relation to the precept set by the Lee Valley...

  • Local Authorities: Pensions

    To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether each local authority pension fund in the East of England is in surplus or in deficit; and by how much in each case.

  • Local Government Finance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer of 3 September 2007, Official Report, column 1683W to the hon. Member for Beckenham, on local government...

  • Local Government Finance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the (a) total budget and (b) estimated administration costs are of each Government Office for the Region in England in...

  • Local Government Finance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate her Department and its taskforces have made of the (a) direct and (b) indirect costs of local government...

  • Parish Councils: Audit

    To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what representations her Department received from the Audit Commission to reform sections 15 and 16 of the Audit Commission Act...

  • Parliament Square

    To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if she will take steps to ensure the use of land in Parliament Square as a campsite complies with the provisions of the Public...

  • Regional Development Agencies: Planning

    To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the date is for the transfer of regional planning responsibilities from the regional chambers to the regional development...

  • Renewable Energy: Valuation

    To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether the presence of ground source heat pumps would be taken into account in the valuation of a property for business rate...

  • Sand: Lancashire

    To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what sand reserves there are in Lancashire.

  • Sand: Lancashire

    To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what guidelines are issued to Lancashire County Council on the amount of sand it is expected to produce each year.

  • Training: Expenditure

    To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what total public expenditure was on the (a) Pathways to Work and (b) Train to Gain programmes in 2006-07.