Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what impact assessments the Government has undertaken on potential impact of free enterprise zones on the local environment in West Yorkshire.
Answered by Lee Rowley
Investment Zones will not be imposed on places, rather we want local leaders to work with local and wider stakeholders to deliver proposals that are right for them. The recently closed EOI process required places to have the support of the Local Planning Authority. Without this, sites would not be taken forward.
DLUHC is currently assessing all sites received and will have further detail once this has been completed.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, who he has consulted on the Government’s plans for free enterprise investment zones in West Yorkshire.
Answered by Lee Rowley
Investment Zones will not be imposed on places, rather we want local leaders to work with local and wider stakeholders to deliver proposals that are right for them. The recently closed EOI process required places to have the support of the Local Planning Authority. Without this, sites would not be taken forward.
DLUHC is currently assessing all sites received and will have further detail once this has been completed.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how much his Department spent on taxi cabs for (a) ministers and (b) civil servants in each of the last three years.
Answered by Lee Rowley
Records show the department spent the following on taxi cabs:
2020 Civil Servants £298.81
2020 Minsters £0
2021 Civil Servants £81.22
2021 Ministers £0
2022 Civil Servants £109.91
2022 Ministers £0
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how much his Department has spent on (a) agency workers and (b) agency retainer fees in (i) 2020, (ii) 2021 and (iii) 2022.
Answered by Eddie Hughes
Please see below the figures for Agency staff spend
2020 - £4,203,377.57
2021 - £7,785,868.09
2022 - £2,369,262.08
We have interpreted your reference to agency retainer fees as the fees charged at the commencement of the provision of a search recruitment service; this is only applicable when recruiting for a permanent or fixed term post. Agency retainer fees are not applicable to the contingent labour market.
The department does not separate the costs of agency workers, contingent labour, or associated agency retainer fees in our accounts. A breakdown could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how much their Department has spent on air travel for (a) Ministers and (b) officials in (i) 2020, (ii) 2021 and (iii) 2022.
Answered by Marcus Jones
Commercial ministerial air travel is captured in the department’s quarterly returns and published on: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dluhc-departmental-spending-over-250.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how much their Department has spent on advertising in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.
Answered by Eddie Hughes
Spend on campaigns is published regularly on the gov.uk website as part of the department's transparency data: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dluhc-departmental-spending-over-250
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how much his Department has spent on consultancy fees in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022; and what the name is of each consultancy contracted.
Answered by Eddie Hughes
Figures for consultancy spend are included each year in the Department's annual report. The corresponding figure for FY2021-22 is expected to be published by the end of July 2022.
Details of contracts awarded valued at £10,000 (inc VAT) or more are published on: https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder.
Information on our spending, including consultancy, is published regularly as part of our transparency information: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dluhc-spending-over-250-march-2022.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how much their Department and its associated agencies spent on legal disputes in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.
Answered by Eddie Hughes
The department only holds data on the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities, the Planning Inspectorate and Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre. The below is spend on litigation, employment and commercial cases managed for the department by the Government Legal Department (GLD).
Sum of Total invoiced (INC VAT) | Year billed |
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Trimmed Client code | Client description | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 (to 30 th June) | Total |
MHCLG/DLUHC | MHCLG & DLUHC | £1,334,235 | £1,584,449 | £1,124,398 | £4,043,081 |
PINS | PLANNING INSPECTORATE | £1,583,987 | £1,538,819 | £700,167 | £3,822,973 |
QECC | THE Q.E.II CONFERENCE CENTRE | £4,868 | £1,439 | £1,572 | £7,878 |
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what the total value has been of contracts held by their Department with (a) G4S, (b) Serco and (c) Capita in each year since 2020.
Answered by Eddie Hughes
Details of Government contracts from 2016 above £10,000, and £25,000 in the wider public sector, are published on Contracts Finder.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many contracts that are worth (a) between £1 million and £3 million and (b) over £3 million their (i) Department and (ii) Department’s agencies and non-departmental public bodies (A) have agreed since 2010 and (B) are due to agree within the next 12 months; how much their Department has spent on monitoring each contract in each year since 2010; and how many officials have been working on that monitoring in each year since 2010.
Answered by Eddie Hughes
a) Details of Government contracts from 2016 above £10,000, and £25,000 in the wider public sector, are published on Contracts Finder. As Contracts Finder was implemented in 2016, not all records before this time are held centrally
b) The information requested is not held centrally. However, the department publishes twice yearly information on the pipeline for contracts above £2 million here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dluhc-procurement-pipeline. Homes England publish their commercial pipeline here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/homes-england-commercial-pipeline.