Asked by: Emily Thornberry (Labour - Islington South and Finsbury)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the holding Answer of 20 February 2023 to Question 141390 on Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities: Ministerial Boxes, when he plans to provide a full Answer to that Question.
Answered by Dehenna Davison
I responded to the Rt Hon Member on 3 March 2023.
Asked by: Emily Thornberry (Labour - Islington South and Finsbury)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how much public money was spent by his Department in financial year 2021-22 on the procurement of ministerial red (a) boxes and (b) folders bearing the inscription Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.
Answered by Dehenna Davison
Purchasing and repairing red boxes and folders is a routine Government practice under successive administrations, including the last Labour Government, as part of the Government's Security Policy Framework. Our records show that in the 2021-2022 financial year, the department did not spend any money on red boxes or folders bearing the inscription Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.
Asked by: Emily Thornberry (Labour - Islington South and Finsbury)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to his Department’s Greening Government Commitments for 2021-25, how many tonnes of food waste were produced from his Departmental estate in financial year (a) 2021-22 and (b) 2022-23 up to the end of December 2022.
Answered by Dehenna Davison
The requested information for 2021-2022 will be published in the Greening Government Commitments Annual Report for 2021-2022, due later this year. The data for April 1st 2022 to December 31st 2022 will be published in the Annual Report covering 2022-2023.
Asked by: Emily Thornberry (Labour - Islington South and Finsbury)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many payments were fraudulently charged to his Department’s budget using electronic purchasing cards in the financial years (a) 2019-20, (b) 2020-21 and (c) 2021-22; and what the total value was of fraudulent payments (i) made and (ii) recovered in each of those years.
Answered by Dehenna Davison
Zero.
Asked by: Emily Thornberry (Labour - Islington South and Finsbury)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to his Department’s publication of electronic purchasing card spending for January 2022, for what purpose trivia software was purchased by his Department on 5 January 2022.
Answered by Dehenna Davison
Following the results of the 2020 People Survey which recorded staff feeling isolated during the Covid-19 pandemic, officials determined that software like Trivia could help bring together staff who were working from home in challenging circumstances. The department will not be continuing with the subscription in future, now the pandemic is over.
Asked by: Emily Thornberry (Labour - Islington South and Finsbury)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 21 November to Question 73809 on Planning: Reform, how much of the £477 million budget set out in his Department's portfolio of major projects as the total baseline whole life costs of the Planning Reform programme has been spent as of 25 November 2022.
Answered by Dehenna Davison
I refer the Rt Hon member to the answer given here and to this department’s monthly spending report.
Asked by: Emily Thornberry (Labour - Islington South and Finsbury)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 21 November to Question 73809 on Planning: Reform, whether his Department has agreed any external consultancy contracts relating to the Planning Reform programme other than those with (a) The Dextrous Web, procurement references CPD4121195 and CPD4122140, (b) Made Tech Ltd., procurement references CPD4122071 and CPD4122072, and (c) Version 1 Solutions Ltd., procurement reference CPD4124083.
Answered by Dehenna Davison
The Department has not agreed any other external consultancy contracts relating to Planning Reform. All contract award notices over £10,000 are published on Contracts Finder.
Details of all departmental spend greater than £250 are published on gov.uk.
Asked by: Emily Thornberry (Labour - Islington South and Finsbury)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 21 November to Question 73809 on Planning: Reform, how much money his Department has spent as of 22 November on its contracts with The Dextrous Web, procurement references (a) CPD4121195 and (b) CPD4122140, Made Tech Ltd., procurement references (c) CPD4122071 and (d) CPD4122072, and Version 1 Solutions Ltd., procurement reference (e) CPD4124083.
Answered by Dehenna Davison
The Department has not agreed any other external consultancy contracts relating to Planning Reform. All contract award notices over £10,000 are published on Contracts Finder.
Details of all departmental spend greater than £250 are published on gov.uk.
Asked by: Emily Thornberry (Labour - Islington South and Finsbury)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what was the total value of non-cash vouchers awarded to staff working for his Department as performance-related bonuses in (a) 2017-18, (b) 2018-19, (c) 2019-20, (d) 2020-21, and (e) 2021-22.
Answered by Dehenna Davison
As has been the case under successive administrations, departmental spend over £250 is published on gov.uk as part of the department’s monthly spending report.
Asked by: Emily Thornberry (Labour - Islington South and Finsbury)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, when he plans to answer Question 73809 tabled by the hon. Member for Islington South and Finsbury on 28 October 2022.
Answered by Lee Rowley
I refer the Rt. Hon. Member to the my answer to Question UIN 73809, on the 21 November 2022.