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Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

Answer

Matthew Green: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister if he will list the (a) total budget, (b) departmental funding and (c) administration costs for (i) rent assessment panels, (ii) The Ordnance Survey, (iii) The Standards Board for England, (iv) The Housing Corporation, (v) Housing Action Trust, (vi) The Boundary Commission for England, (vii) The Boundary Commission for Wales, (viii) The Property Advisory Group, (ix) The Audit Commission, (x) English Partnerships, (xi) The Rent Service, (xii) The Advisory Panel on Standards for the Planning Inspectorate, (xiii) Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, (xiv) The Fire Service College, (xv) The Planning Inspectorate, (xvi) The Advisory Panel on Beacon Councils, (xvii) The Building Regulations Advisory Committee, (xviii) The Community Forum, (xix) The Residential Property Advisory Group and (xx) Valuation Tribunal for this financial year. [150099] Yvette Cooper: For 2003-04, figures are tabled as follows: £ _________________________________________________________________________________________________. (a) Total budget (b) Departmental funding (c) Administration costs (i) Rent Assessment Panels 9,720,000 9,720,000 17,288,000 (ii) Ordnance Survey 111,100,000 Nil Not defined within total budget (iii) Standards Board for England 8,944,000 8,944,000 7,891,000 (iv) Housing Corporation 1,898,900,000 1,897,800,000 38,200,000 (v) Housing Action Trusts 101,398,345 76,268,000 12,021,217 (vi) Boundary Commission for 2,086,000 2,086,000 1,208,000 England (vii) Boundary Commission for 314,000 314,000 192,000 Wales (x) English Partnerships 136,108,000 2235,000,000 29,100,000 (xi) The Rent Services3 46,100,000 46,100,000 46,100,000 (xiii) Queen Elizabeth II 8,060,000 Nil Not defined within total budget Conference Centre (xiv) Fire Service College 20,000,000 7,634,000 Not defined within total budget (xv) Planning Inspectorate4 51,737,000 41,759,000 48,976,000 (xx) Valuation Tribunals 10,793,000 10,793,000 10,793,000 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 Includes elements for travel and subsistence paid to tribunal members and cost of hire of hearing rooms. 2 English Partnerships' total budget figure is the Departmental Expenditure Limit (DEL) which applies to accrued net expenditure for the year. Under resource accounting policy, site acquisitions do not score against DEL when purchased but at the time of disposal. Departmental funding by way of grant-in-aid provides EP with the funds to acquire land which is held on the balance sheet but will not score in DEL until the time of disposal. 3All figures for TRS include £5.510 million capital 4 All figures for PINS include £4.119 million capital. On (ix), the Audit Commission, the Controller of Audit will write to you separately. The remaining bodies are all classified as advisory NDPBs: (viii) the Property Advisory Group, (xii) the Advisory Panel on Standards for the Planning Inspectorate, (xvi) the Advisory Panel on Beacon Councils, (xvii) the Building Regulations Advisory Committee, (xviii) the Community Forum, and (xix) the Residential Property Advisory Group do not receive Government funding other than the internal costs to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister of sponsoring these bodies.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

419 c1267-8W;419 c1270W; 150099

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Housing Corporation English Partnerships Public expenditure Non-departmental public bodies Ordnance Survey Fire Service College Rent Service Office of the Deputy Prime Minister Housing action trusts Boundary Commission for England Boundary Commission for Wales Standards Board for England Planning Inspectorate Valuation Tribunal Service Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre

Contains statistics

Yes

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