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Departmental Finance

Volume 491: debated on Monday 27 April 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government on how many occasions the approval of her Department has been sought for spending by one of its non-departmental public bodies in excess of £10 million in the last five years; how many such projects also required approval from the Treasury; and which projects were concerned. (270643)

Over the last five years, the approval of this Department has been sought for spending by its non-departmental public bodies in excess of £10 million on 116 occasions; 56 of these projects also required approval from the Treasury. A list of the projects is tabled as follows.

NDPBs cases to CPRG/Treasury 2004-09

Approval sought from Treasury

34 Marshgate Lane, London

Abacus Park ‘Innogy’

Yes

Advanced Seasons Innovation Project

Agenda for Change

Ailsa Street, E14

Yes

Ancoats

Yes

Ashford Junction

Yes

Avenue Coking Works (x2)

Yes

Barking Town Centre

Beckton Gas Works

Yes

Bickershaw Colliery

Bickershaw North

Bilston Urban Village

Blackhorse Road

Blue Triangle site

Bow Industrial Park

Yes

Brownfield Joint Initiative, Northampton

Canning Town Centre

Yes

Central Milton Keynes

Yes

Chatsworth Gardens, Morecombe

Chatterley Whitfield

Childcare Affordability

Yes

Combe Down

Yes

Connaught Barracks, Dover

Corby Parkland Gateway

Daresbury Science Park

Yes

Design Centre for the North

Digital Media Programme

Dowry Transfers to LRT

Yes

E Campus, Sheffield

Epsom Cluster, Epsom

Yes

Essex University, Southend

Fair Mile Hospital

Yes

Fenwick Eccles

Fruit Market, Hull

Fryerns and Craylands

Yes

Fryston and Wheldale, Castleford

Gloscat Campus, Gloucester

Golden House, Waterden Road, London

Graylingwell Hospital, Chichester

Yes

Greenwich Hospital

Gyosei School

Harlow Gateway (x2)

Yes

Hastings MC

Hattersley

Yes

Havelock Road, Hastings

Heart of Slough, Berkshire

Hesley Wood Tip, Sheffield

HMS Daedalus site, Lee on Solent

Holbeck Urban Village, Leeds

Holmeside Triangle, Sunderland

Kidbrooke, Greenwich

Yes

Kings Waterfront, Liverpool

Yes

Kings Waterfront, Liverpool

Leybourne Grange Hospital

Yes

Lime Street, Liverpool

Longbridge

Yes

LRT Coalfield Dowries

Luton Innovation Centre

Mann Island, Leicester

Yes

Meden Valley

Yes

Media City, Salford

Yes

Middlehaven, Tees Valley

Yes

Milford Hospital, Surrey

Yes

Millbay Docks, Plymouth

Milton Keynes Prospectus

Yes

NCP Dowry Transfers

New Retail Quarter, Sheffield

Yes

Northampton Joint Initiative

Yes

Northfleet

Oakgrove MC

Yes

Oakington Barracks, Cambs

Yes

Osprey Quay

Yes

Oxley Park Milton Keynes (x2)

Park Hill, Sheffield

Park Prewitt Hospital, Basingstoke

Yes

Powerlines (Olympics)

Yes

Project Access

Yes

Prologis (Olympics)

Yes

Public Transport, Milton Keynes

Regional Property Strategy

Yes

Roussillion Barracks, Chichester

Yes

Royal Mail Group

Yes

Royal Shakespeare Estate

Yes

Scottish and Newcastle Breweries

SEEDA

Severalls Hospital, Colchester

Yes

Silverdale Colliery

Silvertown Way

Sortex (Olympics)

South Lynn MC

St. Francis Hospital, Haywards Heath

St. Margaret’s Hospital, Epping

Yes

Staff College, Bracknell

Yes

Stonebridge

SW District, Northampton

Yes

Tattenhoe Park, Milton Keynes

Thames Wharf, Stratford

Think London

Three Mills

Yes

Trenchard House

University Campus, Suffolk

Vaux Brewery, Sunderland

Yes

Visit London (x2)

Yes

W Yorkshire Skills Programme

Walsall Waterfront

Wembley Stadium

Yes

West Bedford Infrastructure

Yes

West End, Milton Keynes

Yes

West Middlesex Hospital

Whittingham Hospital, Preston

Yes

Woolston Riverside