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It is responsible for largely the same issues listed on the ODPM website (from June 2005). They are:


On its creation it also assumed the community policy function of the Home Office and has since established the Commission On Integration And Cohesion and the Commission For Equalities And Human Rights .

In January 2007, Ruth Kelly announced proposals to bring together the delivery functions of the Housing Corporation , English Partnerships and parts of Communities and Local Government to form a new unified housing and regeneration agency, Communities England , which is likely to become operational during 2008 or 2009.

The department has many offices including 26 Whitehall , Eland House and Ashdown House in London . It is in charge of the Government Office s in the nine Regions Of England .


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The Permanent Secretary is Peter Housden .


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