§ Ms Oona KingTo ask the Deputy Prime Minister, pursuant to his answer of 16 May 2002Official Report, column 800W, what information his Department has collated on the levels of under-occupancy in social housing in each borough in London; if he will list the financial compensation package and cash incentives available from each local authority in London to encourage tenants to move from an underoccupied property to more suitably sized accommodation; what assessment he has made of the impact in London of the good practice guidance on managing underoccupation published by his Department in April 2001; and what further action he plans to encourage local authorities in areas of high demand to develop a strategy for addressing underoccupancy. [74155]
§ Mr. McNultyThe information requested is not held centrally, and would only be provided at disproportionate cost; the information on financial compensation package and cash incentives available from each local authority in London to encourage tenants to move from an underoccupied property to more suitably sized accommodation will be available from the House of Commons library; the ODPM has not made an assessment of the impact in London of the good practice guidance on managing under-occupation; the ODPM has no firm plans to take further action to encourage local authorities in areas of high demand to develop a strategy for addressing underoccupancy.
§ Ms Oona KingTo ask the Deputy Prime Minister what the total expenditure by his Department was on each estate action programme in the borough of Tower Hamlets since 1985; and what this was as a percentage of the total cost of each programme. [74146]
§ Mr. RaynsfordThe records of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets show the total expenditure for each of the estate action projects in Tower Hamlets since 1985, and the Department's contribution as a percentage of the total cost of each project are:
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Estate Action Schemes Total Cost of Project £m Departmental contribution as % of Total cost Aberfeldy Estate 0.764 50 All Estates on Isle of Dogs 14.1 100 Anglsey House 0.378 100 Ashpark House 0.32 100 Bancroft 9.556 46 Barken tine 42.46 92 Barkentine 3 22.034 98 Barley Mow Estate 4.466 54 Bazely Estate 0.392 55 Bengal House 5.122 61 Berner Estate 1.766 100 Bethnal Green Estate 3.414 36 Birchfield House 1.301 62 Boundary Estate 1.964 63 Bow Bridge 0.16 100 Brinsley House Tarling East 0.88 100 British Street 2.295 12 Brownfield Estate 2.593 7 Brune House Complex 1.938 61 Burley House 0.6 100 Burnham Estate 0.971 68 Channel House-Ocean Estate 2.265 67 Chicksand Estate 2.418 77 Christenurch 0.511 45
Estate Action Schemes Total Cost of Project £m Departmental contribution as % of Total Cost Cleveland Estate 0.796 69 Coventry Cross East 0.23 100 Coventry Cross West 0.28 100 Cranbrook Estate 4.19 24 Cranford Cottages 0.12 100 Crossways 0.15 100 Cubitt Town-Thermopylae Gate 1.042 32 Digby Greenways 10.57 63 Dorian Estate all blocks in Stepney 0.307 100 Galleon House 4.192 78 Holland 0.712 97 Isle of Dogs 3.5 100 Jefferson Estate.Madison & 50 2.754 John Scurr 4.807 46 Lefevre Walk 9.769 85 Leobold Building 9.544 43 Limehouse Fields 1.347 85 Limehouse Fields 0.705 71 Lincoln Estate 1.3 100 Locton 1.959 52 Maddocks House Tarling West 0.87 100 Malmesbury 0.5 100 Manchester Estate 2.685 98 Mansford 1.83 8 Martinu Estate 0.886 100 Mercers, mountmorres, 0.2 100 Midhurst House 0.32 100 Minerva 2.67 100 Monteith Estate 8.583 52 Newdieate House 0.304 100 Ocean 2.594 73 Ocean (Bothnia, Malaka, Tunis) 1.7 76 Ocean (Play Area) 0.44 9 Ocean Estate Security Works 0.219 100 Ocean(Muslim Prayer facilities) 0.44 9 Parkview/Crankbrook 0.66 100 Perring Estate 1.484 50 Ranwell East 0.356 100 Ranwell West 1.09 69 Ring House-Martineau Estate 2 100 Riverside Estate 0.343 100 Robin Hood Gardens 1.516 77 Robin Hood Gardens 2 0.52 100 Roche Estate 3.003 81 Rogers Estate 2.78 64 Roman Road North 0.677 83 Samuda Estate 2.395 45 Samuda Estate phase 2 0.094 0 Samuda Estate. Hedley House 0.665 79 Samuda Housing Office 1.6 100 Sandhurst House 0.14 100 St Georges Estate 2.428 70 St John 1.844 85 St Peters 0.081 100 St Vincent 0.804 100 Studland House 0.5 100 Teviot Estate 1.07 49 Tredegar Road 0.45 100 Vaugham Estate 1.033 100 Wapping Estate 0 0 Watney market 19.027 85 Wellington 13.997 86 Winterton. 19.948 86 Total/Average 285.688 76