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date	29/08/2014
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	EU Law
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many new EU directives and regulations have been transposed into UK law by his Department since May 2010.
tabling member constituency	Wokingham
tabling member printed	Mr John Redwood
uin	207254
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>The Recast of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive came into force on 19 May 2010, with a transposition date of 9 January 2013.</p><p>The Departmental portfolio includes EU Regulations that do not require transposition such as the EU Construction Products Regulation which was adopted in March 2011 and came fully into force in July 2013 and the European Structural and Investment Funds Regulations.<br><br>It is the Department's policy under this Government to avoid and reverse the gold-plating of EU directives by the Labour Government; for example, we have done this on the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive by scaling back the rules on Energy Performance Certificates to the minimum requirements of the directive and scrapping Home Information Packs.<br><br>We also wish to renegotiate powers back to the United Kingdom where appropriate; as a small but pertinent example, my Department has successfully removed the legal requirement in the European Regional Development Fund Regulations (introduced in 2006 under the Labour Government) to fly the EU flag outside our building for one week a year after Europe Day.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 13/10/2014 15:18:10 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	14 label Biography information for Sir John Redwood

78890

registered interest
date	18/07/2014
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	EU Law
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many times the UK has lost EU infraction proceedings since May 2010 which relate to matters that fall within his Department's responsibility.
tabling member constituency	Wokingham
tabling member printed	Mr John Redwood
uin	206651
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Department has never lost an EU infraction case.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 10/09/2014 16:12:43 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	14 label Biography information for Sir John Redwood

48155

registered interest
date	10/04/2014
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what levels of stock his Department holds of (a) stationery, (b) printer cartridges, (c) treasury tags and other fasteners and (d) other office consumables.
tabling member constituency	Wokingham
tabling member printed	Mr John Redwood
uin	196199
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>My Department does not routinely record this information in the format requested. However, this Administration has cut spending significantly on office supplies, cutting expenditure from £480,180 (inc VAT) in 2009-10 to £73,738 in 2013-14.</p><p>In 2010, we conducted an internal review of the Department's spend on office supplies which highlighted several opportunities to achieve savings. A rationalised list of stationery items was created which:</p><p>· reduced the available catalogue of items from around 3,500 to approximately 220;</p><p>· replaced higher value branded items, with non-branded equivalents; and</p><p>· adopted recycled printer toners and copier paper.</p><p>Significant savings were also achieved by aggregating the spend of all Departments and awarding a single Cabinet Office contract for stationery items and one for electronic office supplies (printer toners and other consumables). These contracts were awarded in September 2011 and DCLG were among the first departments to adopt them in November 2011.</p><p>As part of our planned move of office accommodation this summer (to share with the Home Office to save taxpayers' money), stationery across the department will be surrendered and pooled, with the potential to save money by not ordering items locally and preventing a build-up of surplus stationery stock.</p><p>I hope this illustrates how every bit of the public sector has the potential to deliver sensible savings on back office costs.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 30/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	14 label Biography information for Sir John Redwood