Department for Communities and Local Government Indicator Data
Input indicators
The indicators set out in this section are just a subset of the data gathered by the Department which will be made transparently available as outlined in the Information Strategy.
| Input indicator | When will publication start? | How often will it be published? | Where will it be published?* | To what level is data available? |
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| Affordable rent payment per dwelling by the HCA | During 2012 | Every 6 months | DCLG/HCA Website | London, rest of England |
| Percentage of local authority revenue expenditure funded by central government grants, broken down by class of authority | Already published | Annually | DCLG Website | Local authority |
| Expenditure per head on the fire and rescue service | During 2011 | Annually | DCLG Website | Fire and rescue authority |
| Average New Homes Bonus grant payable per dwelling per year to different classes of authorities. | During 2011 | Annually | DCLG Website | Housing authority |
| Formula Grant per head as a percentage of England average | During 2011 | Annually | DCLG Website | Local authority |
Impact Indicators
Our impact indicators are designed to help the public to judge whether our policies and reforms are having the effect they want. Further detail on these indicators can be found in our full list of datasets. The Department will adopt the following indicators:
| Impact indicator | When will publication start? | How often will it be published? | Where will it be published?* | To what level is data available? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total number of housing starts and completions (as a leading indicator of net additions) | Already published | Quarterly | DCLG Website | Housing authority and by tenure |
| Number of net additions to the housing stock | Already published | Annually | DCLG Website | Housing authority |
| Number of affordable housing starts and completions delivered through the Homes and Communities Agency | Already published | Every 6 months | HCA Website | Housing authority and by type of ownership |
| Energy efficiency of new build housing (average Standard Assessment Procedure energy rating score) | Already published | Quarterly | DCLG Website | Housing authority & by dwelling type |
| Households in temporary accommodation | Already published | Quarterly | DCLG Website | Housing authority, household type and ethnicity |
| Fire-related casualties | Already published | Quarterly | DCLG Website | Type of casualty, any geographical level |
| Decentralisation of central government funding through percentage of un-ringfenced grants | During 2011 | Annually | DCLG Website | Local authority |
| Decentralisation of central government funding through percentage of un-ringfenced grants | During 2011 | Annually | DCLG Website | Local authority |
| The number of planning permissions granted as a percentage of all applications for major and minor schemes | Already published | Annually | DCLG website | Planning Authority |
Other data
We have published a full range of datasets and our departmental organogram on our website
http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/corporate/pdf/1742035.pdf
| Data which will help people to judge the progress of structural reforms: |
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| Spending held in community budgets, by local authority from April 2013, subject to further work being done to test the feasibility of this measure |
| Spending on infrastructure via the Community Infrastructure Levy, by local authority, from December 2012. This information will be published online by each authority |
| Number of neighbourhood plans by local authority from April 2013. Neighbourhood plans will indicate the number of people involved in the process of their production. They will be published on line by each local planning authority |
| List of government grants to local government, by local authority (published at the time of the local government finance settlement) |
| Information on Local Enterprise Partnerships is published on our website http://www.communities.gov.uk/localgovernment/local/localenterprisepartnerships; and the website of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills http://www.bis.gov.uk/policies/economic-development/leps |
| Information on the Regional Growth Fund is published on the Department for Business, Skills and Innovation website http://www.bis.gov.uk/policies/economic-development/regional-growth-fund |
| The results of individual mayoral elections are usually available on the website of the local authority for which the election took place |
| Information on planning permissions, including those for residential developments and major projects, is collected from local planning authorities by DCLG. Summary figures are published in a statistical release (available at: http://www.communities.gov.uk/planningandbuilding/planningbuilding/planningstatistics/housingplanningstatistics) |
| Detailed information is also published in a series of live tables which are available at: http://www.communities.gov.uk/planningandbuilding/planningbuilding/planningstatistics/livetables/livetablesondevelopmentcontrolst. These include tables on planning decisions at local authority level by development size (Table P131/P132) and on planning decisions on residential developments (Table P135/P136) |
| Data which will help people make informed choices (collected and published by local authorities): |
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| Items of spending, contracts and tenders above £500, by local authority |
| Job titles and salaries of senior council officers, by local authority |
| Other Key data |
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| The Department collects information on numbers of non-decent homes from local authorities to on the Business Plan Statistical Appendix (BPSA); and the Tenant Services Authority collects corresponding information from registered social landlords on the Regulatory Statistical Return (RSR). Figures for England taken from both sources are published in a live table of non-decent homes in the social sector at http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/housing/xls/table119.xls |
| Further details of the key data sets used by the Department are given at http://www.communities.gov.uk. The table includes about seventy categories of data that are important to the Department. They include the data sets used for the Department’s input and impact indicators and other data sets used for policy-making purposes. The categories include data published by the Department and some key sources published by other bodies, such as the Office for National Statistics. The main categories are ones for which the Department publishes several key statistical series, including ones relating to housing, planning, local government finance and fire |