HC Deb 29 March 2004 vol 419 c1269W
Mr. Edward Davey

To ask the Deputy Prime Minister which consultants have been used by(a) his Department and (b) each New Deal for Communities partnership on the New Deal for Communities in each financial year since 1999–2000; and at what cost. [160345]

Yvette Cooper

A list of consultants 35 New Deal for Communities (NDC) Partnerships have used from the period 1999–2000 to date has been made available in the Library of the House. Unfortunately due to the time restriction we were unable to obtain data for four NDC partnerships, I will write to the hon. Member once the information is collated and wall make a copy of the letter in the Library.

The spreadsheet also contains information on the consultants that the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister NDC Programme team have used from the period of

£
(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 England 2,086,000 2,086,000 1,208,000
(vii) Boundary Commission for Wales 314,000 314,000 192,000
(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 Conference Centre 8,060,000 Nil Not defined within total budget
(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.