Home Information Packs: Expenditure

Mr. Pickles
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.

Yvette Cooper
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:

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