Homes and Communities Agency

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much (a) the Homes and Communities Agency, (b) the Homes and Communities Agency Academy and (c) the Tenant Services Authority spent on (i) advertising and (ii) marketing in (A) 2008-09 and (B) 2009-10 to date; and how much has been budgeted for such expenditure in 2009-10. (316431)

The following table provides information on advertising and marketing spend by the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA), the Homes and Communities Agency Academy and the Tenant Services Authority (TSA) in 2008-09. Full details of spend for 2009-10 will be available once the Annual Report and Accounts are published later this year.

*2008-09 spend*
£000
	HCA	HCA academy	TSA
Advertising	92	7	5
Marketing	515	62	18
Notes: 1. All figures are subject to rounding. 2. The 2008-09 spend relates to the costs incurred since HCA and TSA’s inception on 1 December 2008 and include the one offset up costs of both bodies.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much was spent by the (a) Finance and Corporate Services, (b) Strategy, Performance and Research, (c) Investment and Regeneration, (d) Land and Development, (e) New Ventures and Partnerships and (f) Skills and Knowledge division of the Homes and Communities Agency in 2008-09; how much has been budgeted for each division in 2009-10; and what proportion of each figure is attributable to staff costs. (316432)

The Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) was launched on 1 December 2008 but some time passed before its directorates were fully established, and for this reason it is not possible to provide a break-down of costs by division for 2008-09.

For 2009-10, the planned budgets for 2009-10 for these directorates, including how much is attributable to staff costs, is set out as follows:

*2009-10 Budgets*
£000
	Finance and Corporate Services	Strategy	Investment and Renewal	New Ventures and Partnerships	Academy (Skills and Knowledge)
Total staff costs	9,715	7,463	3,543	7,876	1,771
Other costs¹	1,477	1,027	770	676	157
Total	11,192	8,490	4,313	8,552	1,928
¹Includes travel and subsistence, regional training and where applicable, programme fees. Excludes agency-wide costs which cannot be disaggregated, such as accommodation costs and office facilities, IT, legal and records, national training.

Volume 506: debated on Tuesday 23 February 2010