HC Deb 15 June 2004 vol 422 cc852-4W
Mr. Willis

To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how many children were living in temporary accommodation in each year since 1997, broken down by region; and if he will make a statement. [178148]

Yvette Cooper

Information on the number of children living in temporary accommodation is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Information on the number of households that contain dependent children and/or expectant mothers in various types of temporary accommodation has been collected since March 2002. The following table shows this information by Government Office Region for all eight quarters since March 2002.

Liveability Fund for financial year (a) 2004–05 and (b) 2005–06, broken down by region; and what funding plans are in place to continue the work of the Liveability Fund from financial year 2005–06 onwards. [178107]

Keith Hill

The Liveability Fund allocations, by region, for these two years are as follows:

Region 2004–05 2005–06
East of England 4,310,500 4,425,000
East Midlands 4,010,000 4,030,000
London 4,680,000 4,555,000
North East 3,664,730 3,760,000
North West 4,170,000 4,170,000
South East 4,692,400 4,105,000
South West 4,534,640 4,425,000
West Midlands 4,769,636 4,650,000
Yorkshire and the Humber 4,441,000 4,380,000
Total 39,272,906 38,500,000

Funding plans for future years are currently under consideration as part of the on-going 2004 Spending Review.

Mr. Edward Davey

To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what funding from(a) his Department and (b) non-departmental public bodies has been allocated to urban regeneration companies for financial year (i) 2005–06 and (ii) 2006–07. [178149]

Keith Hill

The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister does not provide funding directly to any urban regeneration company (URC). All funding is provided by the partners in each URC. This usually comprises the Regional Development Agency (RDA), the local authority or authorities, and English Partnerships (EP). The following table shows the revenue funding that EP and the various RDAs estimate will be allocated to the individual URCs for 2005–06 and 2006–07, based on current projections. Capital funding for development projects is not normally provided to the URCs themselves; expenditure on projects is incurred by the partners on the basis of agreed strategies in pursuit of URC objectives.

Revenue Allocations to URCs
£
URC 2005–06 2006–07
Bradford City Regeneration 845,000 845,000
CPR Regeneration 544,000 544,000
Catalyst Corby 544,000 544,000
Derby Cityscape 544,000 544,000
Gloucester Heritage 544,000 544,000
Hull Citybuild 693,000 693,000
Leicester Regeneration 540,000 560,000
Liverpool Vision 771,000 771,000
New East Manchester 713,000 736,000
RegencoSandwell 544,000 544,000
Sheffield One 746,000 746,000
Sunderland Arc 660,000 660,000
The New Swindon Company 544,000 544,000

Number of ASBO applications, by result, and the number given on conviction, in Gloucestershire, by local authority area, as notified to the

Home Office, 1 April 19991 to 31 December 2003
ASBOs on application2 ASBOs on conviction
Period/local authority area Total applications Total refused Total issued Total issued Total issued on application/

on conviction
1 June 2000 to 31 December 2000
Cheltenham borough council 1 - 1 n/a 1
Forest of Dean district council 1 - 1 n/a 1
Sub-total 2 - 2 n/a 2
1 January 2001 to 31 December 2001
Cheltenham borough council 2 - 2 n/a 2
Sub-total 2 - 2 n/a 2
Revenue Allocations to URCs
£
URC 2005–06 2006–07
Tees Valley Regeneration 623,000 623,000
Walsall 544,000 544,000
West Lakes Renaissance 200,000 200,000
Total 9,599,000 9,642,000
Note:
The West Lakes URC does not receive revenue funding from English Partnerships (EP). All other figures are collated EP and Regional Development Agency estimates. Where appropriate, the figures include funding to cover non-recoverable VAT.