Communities and Local Government written question – answered at on 27 April 2009.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government on how many occasions the approval of her Department has been sought for spending by one of its non-departmental public bodies in excess of £10 million in the last five years; how many such projects also required approval from the Treasury; and which projects were concerned.
Over the last five years, the approval of this Department has been sought for spending by its non-departmental public bodies in excess of £10 million on 116 occasions; 56 of these projects also required approval from the Treasury. A list of the projects is tabled as follows.
NDPBs cases to CPRG/Treasury 2004-09 | |
Approval sought from Treasury | |
34 Marshgate Lane, London | — |
Abacus Park 'Innogy' | Yes |
Advanced Seasons Innovation Project | — |
Agenda for Change | — |
Ailsa Street, E14 | Yes |
Ancoats | Yes |
Ashford Junction | Yes |
Avenue Coking Works (x2) | Yes |
Barking Town Centre | — |
Beckton Gas Works | Yes |
Bickershaw Colliery | — |
Bickershaw North | — |
Bilston Urban Village | — |
Blackhorse Road | — |
Blue Triangle site | — |
Bow Industrial Park | Yes |
Brownfield Joint Initiative, Northampton | — |
Canning Town Centre | Yes |
Central Milton Keynes | Yes |
Chatsworth Gardens, Morecombe | — |
Chatterley Whitfield | — |
Childcare Affordability | Yes |
Combe Down | Yes |
Connaught Barracks, Dover | — |
Corby Parkland Gateway | — |
Daresbury Science Park | Yes |
Design Centre for the North | — |
Digital Media Programme | — |
Dowry Transfers to LRT | Yes |
E Campus, Sheffield | — |
Epsom Cluster, Epsom | Yes |
Essex University, Southend | — |
Fair Mile Hospital | Yes |
Fenwick Eccles | — |
Fruit Market, Hull | — |
Fryerns and Craylands | Yes |
Fryston and Wheldale, Castleford | — |
Gloscat Campus, Gloucester | — |
Golden House, Waterden Road, London | — |
Graylingwell Hospital, Chichester | Yes |
Greenwich Hospital | — |
Gyosei School | — |
Harlow Gateway (x2) | Yes |
Hastings MC | — |
Hattersley | Yes |
Havelock Road, Hastings | — |
Heart of Slough, Berkshire | — |
Hesley Wood Tip, Sheffield | — |
HMS Daedalus site, Lee on Solent | — |
Holbeck Urban Village, Leeds | — |
Holmeside Triangle, Sunderland | — |
Kidbrooke, Greenwich | Yes |
Kings Waterfront, Liverpool | Yes |
Kings Waterfront, Liverpool | — |
Leybourne Grange Hospital | Yes |
Lime Street, Liverpool | — |
Longbridge | Yes |
LRT Coalfield Dowries | — |
Luton Innovation Centre | — |
Mann Island, Leicester | Yes |
Meden Valley | Yes |
Media City, Salford | Yes |
Middlehaven, Tees Valley | Yes |
Milford Hospital, Surrey | Yes |
Millbay Docks, Plymouth | — |
Milton Keynes Prospectus | Yes |
NCP Dowry Transfers | — |
New Retail Quarter, Sheffield | Yes |
Northampton Joint Initiative | Yes |
Northfleet | — |
Oakgrove MC | Yes |
Oakington Barracks, Cambs | Yes |
Osprey Quay | Yes |
Oxley Park Milton Keynes (x2) | — |
Park Hill, Sheffield | — |
Park Prewitt Hospital, Basingstoke | Yes |
Powerlines (Olympics) | Yes |
Project Access | Yes |
Prologis (Olympics) | Yes |
Public Transport, Milton Keynes | — |
Regional Property Strategy | Yes |
Roussillion Barracks, Chichester | Yes |
Royal Mail Group | Yes |
Royal Shakespeare Estate | Yes |
Scottish and Newcastle Breweries | — |
SEEDA | — |
Severalls Hospital, Colchester | Yes |
Silverdale Colliery | — |
Silvertown Way | — |
Sortex (Olympics) | — |
South Lynn MC | — |
St. Francis Hospital, Haywards Heath | — |
St. Margaret's Hospital, Epping | Yes |
Staff College, Bracknell | Yes |
Stonebridge | — |
SW District, Northampton | Yes |
Tattenhoe Park, Milton Keynes | — |
Thames Wharf, Stratford | — |
Think London | — |
Three Mills | Yes |
Trenchard House | — |
University Campus, Suffolk | — |
Vaux Brewery, Sunderland | Yes |
Visit London (x2) | Yes |
W Yorkshire Skills Programme | — |
Walsall Waterfront | — |
Wembley Stadium | Yes |
West Bedford Infrastructure | Yes |
West End, Milton Keynes | Yes |
West Middlesex Hospital | — |
Whittingham Hospital, Preston | Yes |
Woolston Riverside | — |
Yes2 people think so
No0 people think not
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