§ Ms ShipleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if she will name the projects the departmental Design Champion has sponsored as part of the Better Public Buildings initiative; and if she will make a statement on the extent of her personal input in respect of each. [73644]
§ Mr. WilsonI am currently identifying the projects to be put forward by the DTI as sponsored projects for the Better Public Buildings initiative. I have written
198W
Department/Agency England Per cent. of Dept/Agency Greater London Per cent. of Dept/Agency Northern Ireland Per cent. of Dept/Agency Scotland Per cent. of Dept/Agency Wales Per cent. of Dept/Agency Grand Total DTI HQ (a) 219 5 3695 90 0 124 3 55 1 4093 Companies House (c) 4 0 10 1 35 4 941 95 990 Employment Tribunals Service (c) 633 73 143 17 0 62 7 27 3 865 Insolvency Service (c) 970 71 354 26 0 6 0 39 3 1369 National Weights and Measures Lab (c) 56 100 0 0 0 0 56 Patent Office (c) 0 2 0 0 0 922 100 924 Radiocommunications Agency (c) 167 30 361 65 6 1 12 2 9 2 555 Small Business Service (c) 213 92 18 8 0 0 0 231 Grand Total 2262 25 4583 50 6 0 239 3 1993 22 9083 separately to the Regional Development Agencies and the other DTI Agencies and NDPBs and expect to announce the first DTI sponsored projects in the autumn.
I welcome the agreement by my Ministerial colleagues that all the sponsored projects put forward by Government Departments will be Rethinking Construction Demonstration Projects. They will also act as trailblazers for the new Design Quality Indicator, which has been developed by CABE and the Construction Industry Council with DTI funding. This will help to ensure that the sponsored projects will be examples of best practice in public sector procurement, design and delivery.