Office of Public Sector Information

1. Protecting and promoting public health in relation to food

Administration, inspections, surveillance, managing research and development, education, publicity and publications, funding for non-cash items; funding of the Meat Hygiene Service.

1. Offering the opportunity of a decent home, promoting sustainable economic development through integrated regional and local action and improving health and safety

Housing revenue account subsidy; homelessness and rough sleepers; payments to the Housing Corporation; renewal of private sector housing; home selling; rent and leasehold services; national approved letting scheme; social housing mobility; council tenant participation; payments to housing action trusts; Estate Action; the starter homes initiative; the Supporting People programme; choice-based local authority lettings; the Rent Service Agency; payments to the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment; disabled facilities grant; Housing Improvement Agencies; charges by Valuation Offices in respect of Right To Buy; refurbishment of gypsy sites; deprived neighbourhoods, including the New Deal for Communities programmes; payments to the Urban Regeneration Agency; payments to the Department of Trade and Industry for regional development agencies and the London Development Agency; Groundwork; payments made as agency for the European Union, including those for ports and railways in Wales; exchange rate losses and other losses relating to European regional development fund projects; coalfields regeneration; planning, including minerals programmes; planning-aid; the Planning Inspectorate; fire services, payments and loans to the Fire Service College (trading fund); fire service superannuation; payments to Ordnance Survey (trading fund); regional chambers; compensation for sufferers, or their dependants, of certain dust-related diseases; payments for the Mersey Basin Campaign; payments in respect of the Commonwealth Games at Manchester; Golden Jubilee medals for emergency services personnel; minor grants and payments in support of housing, regeneration, building regulation, fire initiatives research, development, surveys, monitoring, statistics, advice and consultancies; publicity, promotion and publications; special payments; administration; Special Grants Programme support to voluntary bodies; subscriptions and contributions to international organisations; and associated non-cash items.

2. Promoting modern, integrated and safe transport and providing customer-focused regulation

Ports and shipping services; the National Ports Council Pension and Compensation Schemes; water freight grants; the Maritime and Coastguard Agency; civil and international aviation services; assistance to airlines to compensate for losses arising from the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 in the United States of America; support for and loans to National Air Traffic Services; the Highways Agency; payments to private consortia for design, build, finance and operate schemes; transport grants to local authorities, including the Greater London Authority; payments to local authorities for the maintenance of de-trunked roads and promotion, publicity and publications in support of the Highways Agency operations; the operation of the Dartford River crossing; rebates of fuel duty to bus operators; support for the haulage industry; support to nationalised transport industries; Powershift and cleaner vehicles programmes; royal travel; transport security; the Commission for Integrated Transport; trans-European network funds; support for other minor transport services; driver and vehicle licensing and registration and the collection of revenue; compensation and pensions costs relating to pre-DVLC local authority driver and vehicle licensing staff; the development and operation of systems associated with registration and licensing; the provision by DVLA of anonymised data and other services; the Vehicle Certification Agency; grants and loans to the Vehicle Inspectorate and Driving Standards Agency (trading funds); vehicle and traffic enforcement; speed and red light camera enforcement; grants to Railtrack, British Rail and London Underground; payments and loans under section 63 of the Railways Act 1993 to Railtrack plc (in administration); grants to the Strategic Rail Authority; the Channel Tunnel Rail Link; National Freight Company travel concessions; railway industry and National Freight Company pensions funds; research, development, statistics, censuses and surveys, safety and mobility, publicity, promotion and advice and publications, monitoring, consultancies; selling into wider markets, including export opportunities; subscriptions and contributions to international organisations; compensation; special payments; administration; and associated non-cash items.

3. Promoting a system of elected government responding to the needs of local communities

Payments to the Valuation Office Agency for rating and valuation services; the expenses of valuation tribunals; payments to the Audit Commission for work in connection with best value inspection; revenue support grant and redistributed non-domestic rates to receiving authorities in England; repayments of excess contributions made by local authorities in respect of non-domestic rates in 2001—02 and previous years; preparation for the Greater London Authority and related bodies; Greater London Authority General grant; intervention action in local authorities; local Public Sector Agreement (PSA) performance fund payments; special grants paid under section 88B of the Local Government Finance Act 1988; grants to beacon councils; emergency financial assistance to local authorities; payments to bodies specified by the Secretary of State under section 78 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988, as amended, and to the Commission for Local Administration in England; mapping revised administrative and electoral boundaries following Parish and Electoral Commission reviews; grant-in-aid to the Standards Board for England; payments to the Parliamentary Boundary Commissions; electoral functions in the United Kingdom; payments in respect of the capital element of contracts let under the private finance initiative; research, development, surveys, monitoring, statistics, advice and consultancies; publicity, promotion and publications; special payments; and associated non-cash items.

4. Providing for the administration of the Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions and the Health and Safety Commission in meeting their objectives.

The Health and Safety Commission (HSC); grants paid by HSC to small businesses; the residual functions of Property Services Agency (PSA) services; residual payments concerning the privatisation of the Building Research Establishment; loans to the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre executive agency (trading fund); other government departments, agencies and non-departmental public bodies; the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit; the Teenage Pregnancy Unit; the administration and operation of the Department; the purchase, acquisition, hire, lease and rent of land, buildings, plant, equipment, machinery, vehicles and capital assets; research; special payments; and associated non-cash items.