Departmental Finance

Communities and Local Government written question – answered at on 27 April 2009.

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Photo of Grant Shapps Grant Shapps Shadow Minister (Communities and Local Government) (Housing and Planning), Co-Chair, Conservative Party

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.

Photo of Sadiq Khan Sadiq Khan The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government

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

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