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Grants
Mr. McLoughlin:
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister if he will list the grants funded by his Department for which individual members of the public and organisations may apply; and if he will make a statement as to (a) the total of such funding in the last financial year, (b) the total number of awards and (c) their administrative costs. [82195]
Mr. Leslie:
Grant programmes funded by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister for which the public or organisations may apply are listed below, together with the total expenditure outturn for 200102.
| £000
|
New deal for communities | 85,288
|
Community chest | 6,918
|
Special grants programme | 1,731
|
Tenant participation grant | 3,845
|
Rough sleepers | 41,833
|
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In addition funding from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister supports some grants payable by local authorities and some grants payable by the Housing Corporation (the latter mostly to registered social landlords).
The number of awards made under each programme is not held centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost. Many of these grant schemes are administered by intermediaries, such as local partnerships, or voluntary bodies, who are responsible for specific grant allocations.
The administration of grant programmes is carried out by a number of different units within the Office and Government Offices to which a range of staff make a contribution. It is not possible to provide an accurate estimate of these costs centrally. A small proportion of the totals given above may relate to the administration costs of bodies such as partnerships managing programmes.
Housing Market Initiative
Mr. Kilfoyle:
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what criteria were set governing the allocation of pilot projects to given areas under the Housing Market Renewal Fund initiative. [83875]
Mr. McNulty:
The areas invited to establish low demand pathfinder projects were identified in two ways. First, we analysed data from the statistical returns compiled by local authorities as part of the Housing Investment Programme and, where available, local housing market studies undertaken by the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies (Birmingham University). Second, we looked at the scale of the low demand problem across housing markets, rather than individual local authorities. We sought to identify the most acute problems of low demand in terms of scale and intensity of the problem.
Local Authority Housing
Mr. Pickles:
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how many Council households have been transferred under stock transfer in each local authority area, in each year since 1997. [83406]
Mr. McNulty:
The table lists those local authorities that have undertaken large-scale voluntary transfers since 1997 and the number of Council households in each transfer.
List of all large scale voluntary transfers which have taken place since 1997
Date of transfer | Authority | Number of households | Annual total
|
28 February 1997 | Cotswold DC | 4,282 |
|
7 March 1997 | South Staffs C | 5,273 |
|
19 March 1997 | Lichfield DC | 4,921 |
|
7 July 1997 | South Oxfordshire DC | 5,018 |
|
22 September 1997 | Eden C | 1,510 | 21,004
|
5 January 1998 | LB Lambeth(39) Moorlands | 515 |
|
9 February 1998 | LB Bexley | 4,118 |
|
9 February 1998 | LB Bexley | 4,097 |
|
2 March 1998 | Congleton BC | 4,061 |
|
9 March 1998 | Oldham BC(39) Limehurst | 642 |
|
19 March 1998 | Liverpool CC(39) Windermere | 493 |
|
23 March 1998 | LB Merton(39) Pollards Hill | 1,018 |
|
23 March 1998 | LB Tower Hamlets(39) Poplar II | 1,852 |
|
23 March 1998 | Kerrier DC | 3,732 |
|
30 March 1998 | LB Hackney(39) Kingsmead | 951 |
|
30 March 1998 | LB Brent(39) Fortunegate/Church End | 1,481 |
|
30 March 1998 | Basildon DC(39) Vange | 708 |
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30 March 1998 | West Somerset DC | 1,869 |
|
31 March 1998 | Stoke-on-Trent CC(39) Bentilee | 917 |
|
27 April 1998 | Tewkesbury BC | 3,066 |
|
1 May 1998 | Rother DC | 3,058 |
|
20 July 1998 | LB Lambeth(39) Lansdowne Green | 681 |
|
7 December 1998 | LB Tower Hamlets(39) Poplar II | 2,431 |
|
25 January 1999 | Wirral(39) Leasowe | 1,082 | 35,690
|
1 February 1999 | Tameside(39) Westashton | 901 |
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22 February 1999 | West Devon BC | 1,446 |
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1 March 1999 | South Somerset DC | 8,883 |
|
1 March 1999 | East Lindsey DC | 5,102 |
|
5 March 1999 | Liverpool CC(39) Pinehurst | 646 |
|
8 March 1999 | Manchester CC | 1,030 |
|
15 March 1999 | LB Hackney(39) Morningside | 1,084 |
|
22 March 1999 | South Hams District Council | 3,096 |
|
17 March 1999 | LB Hammersmith and Fulham(39)Old Oak | 668 |
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22 March 1999 | LB Hackney(39) Upper Clapton | 1,000 |
|
25 March 1999 | Telford and Wrekin C | 13,081 |
|
29 March 1999 | LB Enfield | 1,194 |
|
29 March 1999 | Worthing BC | 2,525 |
|
29 March 1999 | Bath and North East Somerset C | 9,887 |
|
29 March 1999 | Manchester CC(39) East Wythenshawe | 6,667 |
|
29 March 1999 | LB Greenwich1 Charlton Triangle | 1,280 |
|
29 March 1999 | LB Hackney(39) Haggerston | 661 |
|
31 March 1999 | Allerdale BC | 3,704 |
|
31 March 1999 | Allerdale BC(39) Saiterbeck | 727 |
|
14 June 1999 | Preston BC(39) Avenham | 1,121 |
|
5 July 1999 | LB Lambeth(39) Central Stockwell | 2,358 |
|
21 June 1999 | Birmingham CC(39) Central Areas | 2,813 |
|
26 September1999 | LB Islington(39) Barnsbury | 647 |
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26 September 1999 | LB Islington(39) 10 Estates | 739 |
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4 October 1999 | Liverpool CC(39) Speke Garston | 4,382 |
|
18 October 1999 | West Lindsey DC | 3,929 |
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25 October 1999 | LB Lambeth(39) St. Martins | 1,033 |
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29 November 1999 | Boston BC | 4,871 |
|
20 December 1999 | Tynedale DC | 3,564 | 89,039
|
31 January 2000 | Newcastle under Lyme BC | 9,887 |
|
7 February 2000 | Restormel BC | 3,577 |
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14 February 2000 | Manchester CC (Colshaw Farm) | 600 |
|
21 February 2000 | North Devon DC | 3,293 |
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6 March 2000 | LB Hackney(39) Stamford Hill | 1,095 |
|
6 March 2000 | LB Hackney(39) Pembury Estate | 1,241 |
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8 March 2000 | Burnley BC | 5,330 |
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20 March 2000 | Manchester CC Sale Estate | 1,655 |
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20 March 2000 | Weymouth and Portland C | 3,105 |
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20 March 2000 | Huntingdon DC | 6,650 |
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27 March 2000 | Elmbridge BC | 4,894 |
|
27 March 2000 | Test Valley BC | 5,495 |
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27 March 2000 | Wyre Forest DC | 6,056 |
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27 March 2000 | Manchester CC Whitefield Estate | 1,033 |
|
27 March 2000 | LB Tower Hamlets(39)THCH | 1,551 |
|
27 March 2000 | Tameside | 8,532 |
|
| MBC | 7,934 |
|
17 July 2000 | LB Richmond | 7,139 |
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22 September 2000 | Coventry CC | 20,125 |
|
2 October 2000 | Fylde BC | 1,905 |
|
27 November 2000 | Chester CC | 7,096 |
|
11 December 2000 | Horsham DC | 4,650 | 112,843
|
12 February 2001 | LB Tower Hamlets | 196 |
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19 February 2001 | East Northamptonshire DC | 3,495 |
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19 February 2001 | Torbay C | 2,947 |
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23 February 2001 | Staffordshire Moorlands DC | 3,132 |
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6 March 2001 | Calderdale MBC | 12,759 |
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13 March 2001 | Chichester DC | 5,321 |
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19 March 2001 | Mendip DC | 4,326 |
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26 March 2001 | West Wiltshire DC | 3,284 |
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26 March 2001 | West Oxfordshire DC | 3,643 |
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26 March 2001 | East Staffordshire BC | 5,637 |
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26 March 2001 | Manchester CC Handforth Estate | 659 |
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26 March 2001 | Sunderland CC | 36,356 |
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28 March 2001 | Blackburn with Darwen BC | 9,886 |
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1 October 2001 | Shrewsbury and Atcham BC | 5,500 |
|
5 November 2001 | Mid-Bedfordshire DC | 3,084 | 100,225
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4 March 2002 | Derbyshire Dales | 3,287 |
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11 March 2002 | Chelmsford BC | 6,902 |
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18 March 2002 | East Hertfordshire | 2,687 |
|
| DC | 3,237 |
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25 March 2002 | Erewash BC | 5,847 |
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25 March 2002 | Reigate and Banstead BC | 4,846 |
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24 June 2002 | St. Edmundsbury | 5,947 |
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1 July 2002 | Vale Royal BC | 6,813 |
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1 July 2002 | St. Helens MBC | 14,632 |
|
15 July 2002 | Redcar and Cleveland BC | 11,625 |
|
15 July 2002 | Knowsley MBC | 17,090 |
|
30 September 2002 | LB Waltham Forest | 2,574 |
|
14 October 2002 | LB Hackney CC Sheltered Stock | 954 |
|
14 October 2002 | LB Harrow | 518 | 86,959
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| Total number of dwellings that have been transferred since 1997 | | 445,760
|
(39) Indicated the transfer was an Estates Renewal Challenge Fund scheme
Note:
We have interpreted Mr. Pickles' question to mean Large Scale Voluntary Transfers. These are transfers by a single local authority of 500 or more households to a single landlord within any five-year period.
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