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Written question asked by Peter Bone (Conservative) on Wednesday, 4 February 2009, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 9 February 2009. It was answered by John Healey (Labour) on Monday, 23 February 2009 on behalf of the Audit Commission.

Departmental Standards

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the cost to her Department of conducting comprehensive performance assessments has been each year since the assessments were introduced.
Answer

The cost of the Audit Commission's work on comprehensive performance assessment (CPA) was covered by income from fees paid by local authorities, along with grant to the Audit Commission from the Department. The cost to local authorities of Audit Commission fees was offset by the revenue support grant paid to them by the Department.I have asked the chief executive of the Audit Commission to write to the hon. Member directly with an estimate of the costs of conducting CPA since its introduction in 2002.Letter from Steve Bundred, dated 23 February 2009:"Parliamentary Question: what the cost to the Department for Communities and Local Government of conducting comprehensive performance assessments has been each year since the assessments were introduced""I have been asked to follow up your Parliamentary Question on what the cost to the Department for Communities and Local Government (CLG) of conducting comprehensive performance assessments has been each year since the assessments were introduced, with some further information.""For local authorities, the Audit Commission's work on comprehensive performance assessment (CPA) has been funded by a mixture of direct grant from CLG and fees charged to the local authorities being assessed. For fire and rescue authorities, CPA work is wholly funded by CLG grant. I attach two schedules providing the details of this funding since the respective frameworks started.""I trust this information is helpful.""A copy of this letter will be placed in Hansard."

Funding for CPA of local authorities
£ million
CLG grant Inspection fees Total
2002-03 21.7 18.7 40.4
2003-04 21.7 15.5 37.2
2004-05 20.0 14.7 34.7
2005-06 18.4 8.0 26.4
2006-07 17.8 10.8 28.6
2007-08 18.2 11.7 29.9
Funding for CPA of fire and rescue authorities
CLG grant (£ million)
2003-04 0.4
2004-05 2.8
2005-06 1.4
2006-07 1.5
2007-08 1.9

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
488 c104-6W; 255592
Session
2008-09
Subjects
Standards Department for Communities and Local Government
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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