Asked by: Tom Pursglove (Conservative - Corby)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much Northamptonshire County Council received under the New Homes Bonus in each year since 2010.
Answered by Brandon Lewis
The New Homes Bonus was introduced in 2011. To date the total New Homes Bonus payments allocated to Northamptonshire County Council is £4,737,550. The annual breakdown is shown in the table below:
Year 1 | £647,233 | |
Year 2 | £783,561 | |
Year 3 | £674,225 | |
Year 4 | £659,096 | |
Year 5 | £931,180 | |
Year 6 | £1,042,255 | |
Total | £4,737,550 |
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Asked by: Tom Pursglove (Conservative - Corby)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many civil servants in his Department are members of trades unions; how much working hours facility time is claimed by each such civil servant; and what the cost of that facility time is to his Department.
Answered by Brandon Lewis
Trade union membership levels are a matter for the trade unions.
The Cabinet Office publishes data relating to Civil Service facility time on a quarterly basis. The latest data is Quarter 4, 2014 at and is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/trade-union-facility-time
In the Department for Communities and Local Government, during 2014/2015 total spend on facility time was £73,667 and 2,571 hours of facility time was claimed by trade union representatives.
Facility time spend during 2015/16 (April to September) currently stands at £46,851 and 1,581 hours of facility time was claimed by trade union representatives.