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Mr. Jeremy Browne: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how many new homes have been built in Taunton constituency in each year since 1997. [64067]

Yvette Cooper: I have been asked to reply.

The number of new house building completions in Taunton Deane local authority district, as reported by the local authority and the National House Building Council are tabled as follows. Figures are not collected by constituency.


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New house building completions

1997

377

1998

323

1999

659

2000

532

2001

532

2002

462

2003

262

2004

317

2005

276

Source: Building control completions—local authority and National House Building Council

Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what plans she has to increase the supply of affordable housing in Bolton. [72423]

Yvette Cooper: The housing corporation’s 2006-08 programme allocates £4,883,609 for social housing schemes in Bolton. This contrasts with £961,694 in 2004-06. In addition, Bolton’s unitary development plan states that the council will negotiate with developers to provide an element of affordable houses in new schemes.

Mr. Drew: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what assessment he has made of the role of electoral service organisations in overseeing ballots on council house sales to ensure propriety. [66342]

Yvette Cooper: I have been asked to reply.

None. Stock transfer ballots are carried out by independent organisations who have their own rules and procedures in place to ensure that the ballot is conducted properly.

Mr. Harper: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister under what circumstances a member of the armed forces is considered to have local connections for the purposes of obtaining social housing on discharge. [55977]


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Yvette Cooper [holding answer 6 March 2006]: I have been asked to reply.

The allocation legislation (part 6 of the Housing Act 1996) allows, but does not require, local authorities to take into account whether a person has a local connection with the district in determining priorities between applicants for social housing. For these purposes "local connection" is defined by s.199 of the 1996 Act which provides that a local connection may be established through residence of choice (either now or in the past), employment, family associations or special circumstances. However, s.199 provides that:

This is intended to safeguard local authorities in areas with large military bases.

We are reviewing the position with the Ministry of Defence.

Mr. Austin Mitchell: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what the total income was of the local authority housing revenue account in each authority in England that retains its own council housing, in the last period for which figures are available; how much of that was (a) spent on repairs and administration of council housing , (b) used for other purposes by councils and (c) taken by central Government for (i) redistribution and (ii) debt repayment. [40351]

Mr. Woolas: The following table shows 2004-05 total income, management and maintenance expenditure, other expenditure (within the housing revenue account), subsidy paid to the authority and “negative subsidy” (i.e. amounts paid by the authority to Government) and total expenditure in 2004-05 for each of the 235 housing revenue accounts which were open on 1 April 2005.

The “negative subsidy” payments made by authorities to Government are used to help fund the subsidy payments required by authorities with deficits. In total the subsidies paid to authorities exceeded the amount paid to Government by some £75 million.


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Housing revenue accounts’ income and expenditure 2004-05
£
Total income Management and maintenance expenditure Other expenditure Negative subsidy transfer to ODPM Total expenditure

Adur

10,709,903

4,540,349

3,629,680

1,420,820

9,590,849

Alnwick

5,487,685

2,182,816

2,186,437

682,119

5,051,372

Arun

16,068,106

7,994,196

2,769,205

1,996,982

12,760,383

Ashfield

24,261,830

10,253,960

9,853,357

0

20,107,317

Ashford

19,864,820

7,779,746

7,099,753

4,465,918

19,345,417

Aylesbury

43,143,906

11,135,660

21,656,649

9,700,287

42,492,596

Babergh

14,671,857

5,231,058

4,428,781

3,439,353

13,099,192

Barking

72,765,930

39,595,830

22,589,129

7,406,543

69,591,502

Barnet

56,519,588

28,669,215

14,420,601

7,489,375

50,579,191

Barnsley

57,493,804

26,166,536

22,711,720

0

48,878,256

Barrow

9,444,202

4,481,935

2,736,983

501,300

7,720,218

Basildon

45,069,926

21,067,071

22,338,404

0

43,405,475

Bassetlaw

20,787,004

11,301,261

8,126,174

1,846,916

21,274,351

Berwick

5,730,791

2,115,059

1,472,711

1,652,799

5,240,569

Birmingham

226,699,616

120,326,014

89,491,302

0

209,817,316

Blaby

6,948,641

3,015,387

2,053,299

1,656,434

6,725,120

Blackpool

16,666,219

10,315,570

5,777,605

0

16,093,175

Blyth Valley

15,781,373

8,187,967

6,781,975

0

14,969,942

Bolsover

12,903,299

5,620,836

3,549,539

2,858,369

12,028,744

Bolton

49,251,100

25,069,100

22,273,500

0

47,342,600

Bournemouth

17,856,891

6,566,842

5,368,973

2,839,879

14,775,694

Bracknell

28,246,815

10,015,594

8,979,659

8,066,322

27,061,575

Braintree

33,292,786

11,937,776

8,622,355

7,114,686

27,674,817

Brent

66,620,000

22,609,000

43,498,000

0

66,107,000

Brentwood

13,437,000

4,653,000

5,149,000

2,862,000

12,664,000

Bridgnorth

10,549,870

3,359,342

4,381,247

2,396,190

10,136,779

Brighton and Hove

49,269,825

21,931,175

23,995,907

0

45,927,082

Bristol

129,541,558

45,493,253

43,224,311

18,823,646

107,541,210

Bromsgrove

395,955

39,371

0

0

39,371

Broxbourne

15,180,389

7,323,508

2,865,861

4,006,115

14,195,484

Broxtowe

16,046,235

5,897,303

7,423,486

0

13,320,789

Bury

27,403,844

13,372,327

6,968,325

3,363,230

23,703,882

Cambridge

37,780,888

10,791,761

9,387,053

8,904,930

29,083,744

Camden

233,419,645

87,888,459

65,269,265

0

153,157,724

Cannock Chase

16,557,215

6,561,881

7,174,584

1,952,602

15,689,067

Canterbury

18,262,974

8,165,087

6,251,568

3,179,832

17,596,487

Caradon

11,408,404

5,435,089

2,905,544

2,379,755

10,720,388

Carrick

12,461,824

5,650,300

26,368,733

1,445,988

33,465,021

Castle Morpeth

5,910,405

2,864,520

5,679,424

756,469

9,300,413

Castle Point

6,908,515

3,170,329

1,751,962

1,495,731

6,418,022

Charnwood

19,175,208

8,192,334

10,283,657

0

18,475,991

Cheltenham

16,933,685

8,388,797

4,573,445

2,445,940

15,408,182

Chester-le-St

13,495,420

5,085,111

5,475,628

1,857,906

12,418,645

Chesterfield

28,618,246

12,818,503

9,040,318

3,557,636

25,416,457

Chorley

7,682,611

3,533,083

2,244,185

1,462,495

7,239,763

City of London

18,211,506

9,591,091

2,805,492

12,745

12,409,328

City of York

31,547,171

11,147,416

10,535,439

5,009,616

26,692,471

Colchester

24,745,271

10,492,447

10,545,946

1,069,049

22,107,442

Copeland

1,994,430

947,226

506,719

400,838

1,854,783

Corby

16,476,937

8,581,592

3,419,782

0

12,001,374

Crawley

39,383,187

14,389,445

11,332,835

10,726,401

36,448,681

Croydon

61,230,161

29,246,142

18,611,540

9,075,638

56,933,320

Dacorum

49,623,620

14,436,434

15,453,801

17,813,382

47,703,617

Darlington

14,965,981

8,189,387

5,099,150

1,200,235

14,488,772

Dartford

25,668,196

7,238,652

13,385,340

4,117,318

24,741,310

Daventry

10,050,493

3,109,466

3,187,782

3,219,500

9,516,748

Derby

49,391,575

22,522,189

20,377,597

0

42,899,786

Derwentside

23,852,996

8,999,713

12,366,163

1,293,483

22,659,359

Doncaster

57,860,273

30,403,420

18,799,608

2,693,262

51,896,290

Dover

19,895,207

7,252,741

4,144,279

3,835,156

15,232,176

Dudley

69,759,710

34,175,588

20,430,569

12,309,260

66,915,417

Durham

15,934,506

7,561,981

6,133,260

0

13,695,241

Ealing

79,204,400

41,928,500

46,633,500

0

88,562,000

Easington

34,683,000

12,835,000

18,773,000

694,000

32,302,000

East Devon

10,986,312

4,305,367

2,589,990

4,090,955

10,986,312

East Riding

35,140,034

13,622,820

8,722,952

8,713,411

31,059,183

Eastbourne

14,025,183

5,937,297

6,307,913

0

12,245,210

Ellesmere Port

14,592,817

6,591,530

4,425,957

2,237,007

13,254,494

Enfield

56,294,897

29,716,003

18,499,285

0

48,215,288

Epping Forest

32,904,447

10,860,629

9,653,467

7,556,081

28,070,177

Exeter

15,285,259

6,350,578

2,982,059

3,554,695

12,887,332

Fareham

10,068,575

4,900,946

3,103,860

919,660

8,924,466

Fenland

12,633,476

5,299,232

4,604,791

1,958,699

11,862,722

Forest Heath

5,199,926

2,048,209

1,599,897

1,205,576

4,853,682

Gateshead

70,600,637

31,234,000

34,671,000

3,172,000

69,077,000

Gedling

12,290,304

4,703,686

3,040,079

3,741,871

11,485,636

Gloucester

14,631,110

8,272,700

4,223,176

710,086

13,205,962

Gosport

10,558,660

4,744,005

2,773,679

1,960,090

9,477,774

Gravesham

21,092,834

10,728,285

4,899,691

3,770,223

19,398,199

Great Yarmouth

16,740,208

8,696,931

4,972,397

1,286,410

14,955,738

Greenwich

132,558,902

59,778,039

54,112,308

0

113,890,347

Guildford

30,497,585

9,697,541

12,471,474

7,228,570

29,397,585

Hackney

170,085,289

80,851,838

68,305,190

0

149,157,028

Halton

17,310,218

8,873,186

4,852,142

3,146,023

16,871,351

Hammersmith

101,762,286

68,285,330

29,302,239

0

97,587,569

Harborough

8,439,067

3,121,400

1,789,540

2,694,708

7,605,648

Haringey

105,107,200

50,042,000

48,106,400

0

98,148,400

Harlow

82,919,410

15,578,669

56,850,566

8,792,697

81,221,932

Harrogate

13,544,129

6,056,406

2,814,288

2,203,008

11,073,702

Harrow

22,329,594

11,930,388

5,594,857

4,108,267

21,633,512

Havering

39,498,994

19,756,576

11,148,608

6,066,145

36,971,329

High Peak

13,012,873

6,442,181

3,417,941

2,139,703

11,999,825

Hillingdon

62,140,447

22,872,135

18,087,651

8,167,650

49,127,436

Hinckley

11,648,172

4,364,867

3,721,105

2,646,829

10,732,801

Hounslow

65,609,883

38,229,721

24,769,208

0

62,998,929

Hyndburn

8,573,248

4,623,582

3,802,164

0

8,425,746

Ipswich

29,646,176

9,352,156

11,517,375

4,273,645

25,143,176

Isles of Scilly

410,326

153,499

97,160

38,563

289,222

Islington

206,596,548

71,932,690

126,522,823

0

198,455,513

Kensington

49,556,978

28,170,252

18,688,484

0

46,858,736

Kettering

10,714,243

5,783,360

2,561,109

1,846,413

10,190,882

Kings Lynn

19,355,424

10,245,215

5,437,438

0

15,682,653

Kingston Upon Hull

87,278,467

36,972,225

33,601,475

0

70,573,700

Kingston upon Thames

24,758,311

14,199,849

5,820,683

4,033,000

24,053,532

Kirklees

85,732,651

34,447,340

25,347,067

0

59,794,407

Lambeth

213,975,000

97,331,000

115,123,000

0

212,454,000

Lancaster

12,174,132

5,770,639

4,615,296

755,195

11,141,130

Leeds

169,485,007

90,488,414

74,390,737

0

164,879,151

Leicester

65,674,168

37,199,380

23,979,926

0

61,179,306

Lewes

13,086,201

4,875,978

4,357,766

1,473,836

10,707,580

Lewisham

160,840,000

73,084,000

79,582,000

0

152,666,000

Lincoln

21,738,044

11,699,227

8,389,761

0

20,088,988

Liverpool

92,330,442

32,729,060

58,055,992

0

90,785,052

Luton

31,560,316

16,380,223

8,392,874

3,414,488

28,187,585

Macclesfield

15,964,501

7,653,705

3,301,134

4,371,187

15,326,026

Manchester

225,312,372

96,967,450

120,550,462

0

217,517,912

Mansfield

24,157,447

15,589,534

7,656,913

0

23,246,447

Medway Towns

10,647,518

4,968,319

6,033,402

851,823

11,853,544

Melton

5,431,867

2,620,031

1,608,763

1,037,454

5,266,248

Merton

29,703,598

17,397,924

7,716,917

3,850,186

28,965,027

Mid Devon

9,857,736

4,212,369

1,846,333

3,032,217

9,090,919

Mid Suffolk

11,601,909

4,781,279

3,806,362

2,408,883

10,996,524

Middlesbrough

26,192,000

12,836,000

10,315,000

856,000

24,007,000

Milton Keynes

50,492,291

16,698,613

15,519,531

12,295,205

44,513,349

Mole Valley

14,327,281

7,321,679

2,784,127

2,383,029

12,488,835

NE Derbyshire

23,700,163

9,144,675

7,209,372

3,964,515

20,318,562

New Forest

22,105,416

8,428,675

4,754,066

5,317,744

18,500,485

Newark

15,986,034

7,057,456

5,451,817

1,596,510

14,105,783

Newcastle upon Tyne

128,251,445

57,543,579

65,526,797

0

123,070,376

Newham

149,383,758

52,699,085

85,147,220

0

137,846,305

North Cornwall

10,571,455

4,953,310

2,328,866

2,324,194

9,606,370

North East Lincoln

19,912,557

8,710,538

9,303,527

527,136

18,541,201

North Kesteven

10,822,584

4,849,643

3,985,580

1,330,224

10,165,447

North Lincoln

25,477,289

12,582,779

11,072,855

1,698,178

25,353,812

North Norfolk

13,480,702

5,503,367

3,804,285

3,377,034

12,684,686

North Shropshire

6,568,503

2,438,425

1,550,990

1,893,862

5,883,277

North Somerset

24,699,436

9,989,753

6,186,631

4,469,715

20,646,099

North Tyneside

60,040,787

22,501,166

28,958,687

262,377

51,722,230

North Warwick

8,952,654

2,989,189

2,242,474

3,081,673

8,313,336

Northampton

44,227,922

18,429,800

14,139,299

8,104,127

40,673,226

Norwich

56,774,944

25,216,273

19,996,425

5,838,249

51,050,947

Nottingham

87,098,378

50,348,926

35,165,944

0

85,514,870

Nuneaton

22,619,699

9,369,200

4,586,512

6,634,828

20,590,540

NW Leicester

12,760,932

5,422,406

3,212,473

3,309,089

11,943,968

Oadby and Wigston

4,406,546

1,557,215

1,463,240

748,013

3,768,468

Oldham

52,504,742

25,828,260

25,143,051

318,714

51,290,025

Oswestry

5,574,293

2,807,817

1,442,326

943,658

5,193,801

Oxford City

43,156,569

12,344,275

19,629,743

6,579,835

38,553,853

Pendle

10,530,316

4,205,179

3,081,361

1,178,541

8,465,081

Peterborough

16,686,768

10,618,936

3,328,304

998,322

14,945,562

Plymouth

49,109,754

24,645,234

22,756,767

0

47,402,001

Poole

15,851,000

7,375,000

3,560,000

3,822,000

14,757,000

Portsmouth

66,023,901

30,210,917

31,135,379

0

61,346,296

Preston

17,950,046

10,373,038

6,969,870

0

17,342,908

Purbeck

2,040,932

866,941

249,573

690,599

1,807,113

Reading

40,266,153

19,350,229

9,365,834

8,923,020

37,639,083

Redbridge

22,113,000

12,352,000

5,188,000

2,362,000

19,902,000

Redcar and Clev

344,039

4,056

374,030

0

378,086

Redditch

17,648,518

7,677,884

5,095,323

4,629,875

17,403,082

Ribble Valley

3,979,899

1,520,408

1,612,080

527,104

3,659,592

Richmondshire

5,191,752

2,584,320

1,179,490

1,027,942

4,791,752

Rochdale

51,495,825

24,701,409

21,753,616

0

46,455,025

Rochford

6,448,857

2,823,420

2,175,712

476,357

5,475,489

Rossendale

10,304,073

4,959,254

4,010,065

964,742

9,934,061

Rotherham

75,736,087

28,549,508

24,271,239

16,645,054

69,465,801

Rugby

12,092,460

4,980,310

4,916,090

2,206,600

12,103,000

Runnymede

14,838,508

4,459,378

7,595,502

0

12,054,880

Rutland

4,231,926

2,078,662

1,015,456

980,593

4,074,711

Salford

91,014,388

47,183,931

39,858,465

0

87,042,396

Salisbury

29,561,686

7,783,113

12,321,836

5,784,745

25,889,694

Sandwell

107,157

64,307

28,640

1,683

94,630

Sedgefield

26,921,982

12,805,518

7,330,176

3,325,992

23,461,686

Sedgemoor

15,282,681

8,674,989

2,688,843

2,818,635

14,182,467

Sefton

43,122,693

18,953,119

11,715,804

10,318,498

40,987,421

Selby

11,906,751

4,014,268

4,513,093

2,652,500

11,179,861

Sheffield

151,540,511

78,612,175

68,139,302

0

146,751,477

Shepway

17,117,000

6,546,000

6,784,000

1,531,000

14,861,000

Slough

28,721,633

12,720,109

6,173,936

5,142,952

24,036,997

Solihull

48,602,744

17,973,237

21,814,090

3,848,852

43,636,179

South Beds

20,013,435

7,778,562

5,282,639

6,111,676

19,172,877

South Cambridge

22,741,446

8,265,942

3,677,469

8,741,944

20,685,355

South Derby

10,513,763

4,333,961

2,974,743

1,854,139

9,162,843

South Gloucs

37,262,465

12,051,315

17,011,933

6,452,032

35,515,280

South Holland

12,338,154

5,555,341

2,674,802

2,265,203

10,495,346

South Kesteven

22,655,682

8,973,468

10,369,589

0

19,343,057

South Lakeland

11,639,894

5,307,981

2,948,693

3,560,276

11,816,950

South Norfolk

179,678

0

138,836

0

138,836

South Northants

11,378,162

3,804,735

2,819,133

3,738,059

10,361,927

South Tyneside

54,948,633

22,094,672

25,855,895

3,600,720

51,551,287

Southampton

51,316,118

26,503,926

22,871,262

0

49,375,188

Southend-on-Sea

33,123,000

13,679,864

6,808,000

309,136

20,797,000

Southwark

311,200,000

151,587,000

132,083,000

0

283,670,000

St. Albans

21,610,336

7,678,453

6,169,509

7,029,484

20,877,446

Stafford

16,011,212

8,655,544

4,353,212

2,484,817

15,493,573

Stevenage

34,431,181

12,518,614

7,438,732

12,235,893

32,193,239

Stockport

33,596,180

18,350,704

39,198,854

602,302

58,151,860

Stockton

33,090,997

15,314,313

16,570,261

0

31,884,574

Stoke-on-Trent

51,593,233

25,285,238

19,811,262

4,429,212

49,525,712

Stroud

21,583,127

7,321,894

6,867,120

4,843,028

19,032,042

Sutton

0

0

0

0

0

Swindon

35,028,510

15,851,560

10,527,468

6,430,831

32,809,859

Tamworth

15,213,387

8,162,560

5,049,726

1,201,696

14,413,982

Tandridge

13,127,073

4,390,262

5,849,388

2,635,997

12,875,647

Taunton Deane

19,588,250

8,570,298

4,468,113

4,264,208

17,302,619

Teesdale

2,382,715

1,195,357

675,438

315,134

2,185,929

Tendring

12,439,331

4,863,400

4,341,077

770,093

9,974,570

Thanet

9,634,347

5,743,408

3,476,242

58,609

9,278,259

Three Rivers

18,058,061

6,471,753

4,855,684

4,508,252

15,835,689

Thurrock

36,834,300

18,093,000

9,491,200

5,810,800

33,395,000

Torridge

5,817,680

2,262,512

1,609,458

1,071,209

4,943,179

Tower Hamlets

164,285,136

87,233,780

70,031,347

0

157,265,127

Trafford

34,523,270

14,929,073

6,926,421

9,053,487

30,908,981

Uttlesford

19,527,000

3,508,000

11,755,000

3,764,000

19,027,000

Wakefield

0

0

0

0

0

Waltham Forest

67,793,005

21,553,808

44,808,614

0

66,362,422

Wandsworth

95,162,697

55,211,256

25,554,763

0

80,766,019

Wansbeck

13,575,630

10,496,776

1,193,764

0

11,690,540

Warrington

24,867,651

11,347,326

7,531,627

4,991,123

23,870,076

Warwick

19,490,073

7,222,075

6,581,657

4,484,211

18,287,943

Watford

18,758,657

7,814,753

4,781,339

5,114,334

17,710,426

Waveney

17,060,277

6,167,771

4,396,590

4,896,479

15,460,840

Waverley

21,181,551

7,549,570

5,463,808

6,962,900

19,976,278

Wealden

11,272,572

4,468,994

4,044,549

1,361,164

9,874,707

Wear Valley

11,375,000

4,840,000

5,241,000

733,000

10,814,000

Wellingborough

13,975,554

5,191,404

5,138,239

2,637,778

12,967,421

Welwyn Hatfield

38,836,709

14,791,694

8,393,369

10,559,546

33,744,609

West Lancashire

19,586,814

10,524,020

14,068,190

3,481,348

28,073,558

Westminster

115,747,320

48,956,500

90,427,321

0

139,383,821

Wigan

73,653,815

28,099,727

34,785,931

0

62,885,658

Winchester

20,227,402

9,278,713

4,299,768

5,703,174

19,281,655

Wirral

35,758,000

16,236,000

11,084,000

2,906,000

30,226,000

Woking

14,438,267

7,316,384

3,561,177

3,033,756

13,911,317

Wokingham

11,227,592

4,510,530

5,970,998

0

10,481,528

Wolverhampton

70,194,558

42,351,194

24,329,068

0

66,680,262

Wycombe

26,335,966

10,212,008

6,216,598

8,319,558

24,748,164



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