Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much has been spent on refurbishing (a) gymnasium and leisure facilities, (b) cafeteria and (c) interior decoration in (i) his Department and (ii) buildings owned by his Department in (A) 2013 and (B) 2014 to date.

The Department for Communities and Local Government has not spent any money on refurbishing gymnasium and leisure facilities, cafeterias and interior decoration during 2013 and 2014.

This is in contrast to the record of the last Labour Government, which, for example, spent £134,503 in 2009-10 on luxury sofas by the Parisian designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, and a further £83,506 on a ‘serene green’ tranquillity room.