Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how much funding his Department (a) budgeted for and (b) spent on advertising in each of the last three financial years.
Answered by Simon Hoare
Departmental advertising expenditure exceeding £250 is regularly published on gov.uk at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dluhc-departmental-spending-over-250.
Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how much funding his Department (a) allocated for and (b) spent on magazine subscriptions in each of the last three financial years.
Answered by Simon Hoare
The information requested is not held centrally.
Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what subscriptions to (a) newspapers, (b) magazines and (c) online journals his Department has paid for in each of the last three financial years.
Answered by Simon Hoare
Details of departmental spend over £250 are published online. The department does not hold a central list of all subscriptions to (a) newspapers, (b) magazines and (c) online journals purchased over the previous three years and this information could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many and what proportion of digital posts in his Department are vacant.
Answered by Simon Hoare
As part of the 2022 to 2025 roadmap for digital and data, all departments made a commitment to reduce their digital and data vacancies to under 10% of total Government Digital and Data headcount by 2025.
This is to drive modernisation and digitisation in Government, improving public services for the British people and saving taxpayer money. Overall good progress has been made, with total vacancies now at 15%.
The Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework, defining the scope of the digital and data profession, outlines capability standards for roles and skills in the profession. It enables professionals, line managers and hiring managers to have a common understanding of roles and provides a strong foundation for recruitment.
DLUHC has a vacancy rate of 11.95%.
Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how much funding his Department has (a) budgeted for and (b) spent on software updates to legacy computer systems in each of the last three financial years.
Answered by Simon Hoare
Details of departmental spend are published online.
Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
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 external recruitment consultants in the (a) 2020-21, (b) 2021-22 and (c) 2022-23 financial year.
Answered by Simon Hoare
This information is not held centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will publish the (a) allocated budget and (b) outturn expenditure for the UK Shared Prosperity Fund in 2022-23.
Answered by Jacob Young
Funding allocations for all years, including 2022-23 are published on Gov.uk. The UK Shared Prosperity Fund is delegated to lead local authorities who manage expenditure locally.
Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many local authorities (a) are providing and (b) plan to provide warm banks in England in the winter of 2022-23.
Answered by Lee Rowley
I refer the Hon. Member to my answer to Question UIN 73903 on 3 November 2022. In recognition of the pressures local government are facing, the Government announced at the Autumn Statement that approximately £6.5 billion will be made available for local government in England to deliver core services in 2023/24 and 2024/25, in addition to what was agreed at the 2021 Spending Review.
Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to page 9 of the Health and Social care document entitled Prevention is better than cure published on 5 November 2018, what estimate he has made of the number of children in each constituent part of the UK that live in homes that are (a) badly maintained, (b) overcrowded, and (c) in areas of high air pollution.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The Department does not publish information on the number of children who live in homes that are badly maintained, overcrowded, and in areas of high air population. The English Housing Survey collects and publishes information about the condition of dwellings and levels of overcrowding, at a national level. The latest results can be found here:https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/english-housing-survey.
Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what information his Department holds on how much and what proportion of the Revenue Account Budget (a) in total and (b) per smoker was allocated to stop smoking services and interventions by each local authority in each financial year since 2010-11.
Answered by Rishi Sunak
MHCLG collects and publishes local authority expenditure data, and this includes a category on “Stop smoking services and interventions”. The data for this since 2010-11 for each local authority can be found in table RO3 among the individual local authority data tables at: www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-revenue-expenditure-and-financing.
Each local authority’s Revenue Account budgets and outturn expenditure can also be found from this page.
The Office for National Statistics publishes estimates of the numbers of smokers for each local authority level. This is available at: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/healthandlifeexpectancies/datasets/smokinghabitsintheukanditsconstituentcountries.