Homes and Communities Agency Grant Shapps 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. John Healey 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |£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.| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Grant Shapps 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. John Healey 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: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |£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| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |1 Includes 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.| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------