Home Information Packs: Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much has been spent from the public purse on home information packs including (a) administration costs, (b) legal fees, (c) external advisers, (d) websites, (e) research and area trials, (f) communications, publicity and publishing, (g) agency staff and (h) other costs in relation to the home information packs. (173336)

An update on programme spend was given in the House on 29 October 2007, Official Report, column 653W. Since then HIPs and EPC expenditure has been as follows:

	HIP programme spend (£)
Admin costs¹	124,591
Legal fees	—
Outside expertise	—
Website costs	4,211
Area trials	—
Research	188,757
Comms, publicity and publishing	598,046
Agency staff	17,402
Other costs	5,264
Total	938,271
¹ Includes departmental staff working on HIPs and EPC development, management and implementation.

Volume 470: debated on Tuesday 22 January 2008