§ Mr. HobanTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what financial and operational criteria will have to be met before the proposed relocation of the Office of National Statistics office in Titchfield receives approval. [165051]
§ Mr. BoatengThe information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Len Cook to Mark Hoban, dated 19 April 2004:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking what financial and operational criteria will have to be met before the proposed relocation of the Office of National Statistics office in Titchfield receives approval. (165051)
An initial assessment of these issues was discussed with the Lyons Review team. A fuller assessment will be considered as part of the Spending Review, to inform Government decisions on the allocation of resources. We will be able to present this when those criteria are fully settled.
§ Mr. HobanTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish the Office for National Statistics quantification of the impact of aligning its employees' pay with market conditions outside London as it applies to those employees currently based in(a) London and (b) Titchfield (i) at present and (ii) once the relocation proposals are implemented. [164724]
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§ Mr. BoatengThe information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Len Cook to Mark Hoban, dated 19 April 2004:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent question concerning publication of the Office for National Statistics quantification or the impact of aligning its employees' pay with market conditions outside London as it applies to those employees currently based in (a) London and (b) Titchfield (i) at present and (ii) once the relocation proposals are implemented. (164724).
This information was provided to the Lyons review team on a confidential basis and will not be published.
§ Mr. HobanTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) who owns the Office for National Statistics offices in Titchfield; [164732]
(2) how much has been spent on the (a) maintenance and (b) refurbishment of the Office for National Statistics office at Titchfield in each of the last five years. [164738]
§ Ruth KellyThe information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Len Cook to Mark Hoban, dated 19 April 2004:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent questions concerning the Office for National Statistics (ONS) site at Titchfield. (164738, 164732)
The Titchfield site is a Crown freehold held by ONS under the name of the First Secretary of State.
The amount of money spent on the office at Titchfield for maintenance and refurbishment in each of the last five financial years is given below.
£000 Maintenance Refurbishment Total 1998–99 219 238 457 1999–2000 247 354 601 2000–01 186 233 419 2001–02 299 412 710 2002–03 307 783 1,089 Total 1,258 2,018 3,276 Significant work was undertaken to refurbish the Titchfield accommodation occupied by the Neighbourhood Statistics and reprographics teams during 2003/04. The total forecast expenditure on these two projects during the year is £1.6 million, although final accounts for 2003/04 are not yet available.