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Homes and Communities Agency

Volume 506: debated on Tuesday 2 March 2010

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government with which organisations the (a) Homes and Communities Agency, (b) Homes and Communities Agency Academy and (c) Tenants Services Authority share offices; and where each such office is located. (316350)

Information can only be provided where the Department or one of its arm’s length bodies either (a) owns the freehold or (b) sub-lets space or (c) HCA/HCA Academy/TSA collocates with another body within the CLG group. Where a property is let by a private landlord, it is not for the Department to comment on their commercial arrangements. The available information is as follows:

Buildings with shared occupancy where HCA sub-lets space:

Central Business Exchange II, Milton Keynes

HCA

sub-let: Milton Keynes Economic Learning Partnership

110 Buckingham Palace road, London

HCA

sub-let: Environment Agency

Buildings with shared occupancy where CLG is the landlord or sub-lets space:

Belgrave Centre, Nottingham

HCA

Government Office

Care Quality Commission

Public Health

Food Standards Agency

National Offender Management Service

Equality and Human Right Commission

National Treatment Agency

CLG Secondees

Lateral, Leeds

HCA

HCA Academy

Government Office

DCLG Secondees (auditors)

National Offender Management Service

Equality and Human Right Commission

Highways Agency

National Treatment Agency

Regional Public Health

Contractors: Amey, Fujitsu

5 St Phillips Place, Birmingham

HCA

Youth Justice Board

Cabinet Office

Department of Health

Natural England

National Offender Management Service

National Treatment Agency

National TUS

Health Protection Agency

Rivergate House, Bristol

HCA

Government Office

HM Revenue and Customs

Vehicle and Operator Services Agency

Equality and Human Right Commission

National Treatment Agency

Food Standards Agency

Department of Health

National Offender Management Service

Youth Justice

Care Services Improvement Partnerships

Health Protection Agency

Eastbrook House, Cambridge

TSA

Government Office

Department of Health

National Treatment Agency

Equality and Human Rights Commission

East of England Regional Assembly

Regional Cities East

Care Service Improvement Partnerships

Regional Offender Management Office

HM Prison Service

National Probation

National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders

Youth Justice Board

Maple House (6th and 7th floor only)

HCA

TSA

The addresses for all HCA, HCA Academy and TSA offices are listed on their websites.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many staff are employed in each office of the (a) Homes and Communities Agency, (b) Homes and Communities Agency Academy and (c) Tenant Services Authority. (316412)

Staff for The HCA and the HCA Academy are given in the table:

Location

Total

Ashford

21

Birmingham

33

Bristol

19

Buckingham Palace Road

81

Cambridge

26

Corby

11

Croydon

19

Exeter

25

Gateshead

108

Leeds

169

Leicester

14

Manchester

17

Maple House

102

Milton Keynes

154

Nottingham

18

Palestra

44

Reading

17

Telford

15

Warrington

110

Wolverhampton

12

Graduate trainees

20

Total

935

1 Of the 69 staff, 29 of these are Academy staff. This figure stands at 31 December 2009.

Staff for the TSA are as follows:

Location

Total

London

127

Manchester

36

Cambridge1

16

Leeds1

14

Leicester1

14

Wolverhampton1

4

Total2

211

1 Staff in these locations work in office space belonging to either to Communities and Local Government or the Homes and Communities Agency.

2 This total excludes the 40 TSA staff who work from home.