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Government capital provision through local authorities and the Housing Corporation for both new and existing housing since 1986 is as follows:
| £ million | |
Of this, expenditure through the Housing Corporation's Approved Development Programme on the provision of social rented housing is shown in the following table:
| Expenditure on Social Rent Provision | |
| £ million | |
| Source: Housing Corporation. | |
Expenditure on social rent provision includes both new build and additions to the stock which are acquired and refurbished. Information is not available prior to 1992-93.
Information on the provision to local authorities cannot be sub-divided between new supply and other support for housing.
For the number of social housing units made available I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to the hon. Member for Yeovil, on 21 March 2006, Official Report, column 279W (Mr. Laws).
Hugh Bayley: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how much has been spent on building new social housing for rent in each year since 1990. [62371]
Yvette Cooper: I have been asked to reply.
I refer the hon. Member to the answer to PQ no. 62115.
Sustainable Communities Conference
Mrs. Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the budgeted total cost to public funds was of the 2007 Sustainable Communities Conference. [86780]
Yvette Cooper: The 2007 Sustainable Communities Summit was planned as a self funding event. Forecast expenditures and revenues were both £4.3 million. Expenditures were to be recouped through exhibitor and sponsorship revenues and delegate fees.
Mr. Paice: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many units of affordable housing were provided in rural areas in each year since 1997. [85130]
Yvette Cooper: The numbers of units of affordable housing provided to rural areas in each financial year since 1997-98 are in the table. Affordable housing supply data is available at local authority level therefore it is only possible to measure how many dwellings have been built in local authorities classified as rural using the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) rural definitions. This will include dwellings built in towns that are within a local authority classified as rural, but will not include dwellings built in small towns or villages within local authorities classified as urban.
| Affordable dwellings provided in rural areas( 1) | |
| Number | |
| (1) Figures prior to 2000-01 exclude dwellings provided solely through Section 106 ‘planning’ agreements. Source: Housing Corporation, returns from local authorities to the Department for Communities and Local Government (HSSA and P2). | |
For further information on the DEFRA Rural Definition and Local Authority Classification please see: http://statistics.defra.gov.uk/esg/rural_resd/rural_ definition.asp
Land Classification
Chris Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate she has made of the (a) number and (b) area of sites designated as derelict land, broken down by region; and what the figures were (i) five and (ii) 10 years ago. [84058]
Yvette Cooper: The information available is from the National Land Use Database of Previously-Developed Land, which was carried out on an experimental basis in 1998 and annually from 2001. The estimates of area are shown in the following table. The local authorities which provide the data make an allowance for small sites but these are not recorded individually, so that it is not possible to give an estimate of the total number of sites.
| Trends in amounts of derelict land and buildings | |||||
| hectares | |||||
| 1998 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | |
| Source: National Land Use Database of Previously-Developed Land | |||||
James Duddridge: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much land was designated as (a) brownfield and (b) greenfield site in (i) Rochford district council area, (ii) Southend-on-Sea borough council and (iii) Rochford and Southend East constituency in each year since 1997. [84249]
Yvette Cooper:
Information on amounts of brownfield land in each local authority is available from the National Land Use Database of Previously-Developed Land. There were data collections in 1998 and annually from 2001. The amounts of land reported by the local authorities are shown in the table attached. Information for the constituency, which cuts across
local authority boundaries, is not available except at disproportionate cost. Information on greenfield land
available for development is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
| Amount of brownfield land by land type: Southend-on-Sea and Rochford 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004 | |||||
| hectares | |||||
| Land/building type | 1998( 1) | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 |
| (1) The 1998 specification of land currently in use allocated in the local plan or with planning permission included only housing sites. (2) Not available. | |||||
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