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Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much was spent on affordable housing in each of the last 20 years. [93797]
Yvette Cooper: The following table shows the amount of expenditure through the Housing Corporation on affordable housing since 1992-93. This does not include expenditure through English Partnerships for example on the first time buyers initiative or the London Wide initiative. Nor does it include investment in affordable housing through section 106 agreements.
| £ million | ||||||
| Affordable Housing Programme | Local Authority Social Housing Grant | Safer Communities Supported Housing Fund | Starter Home Initiative | Other | Total | |
| (1) Provisional (2) Forecast | ||||||
This table represents the investment the Government have made via the Housing Corporation to registered social landlords for the provision and repair of affordable housing for both rent and low cost home ownership.
Mrs. Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer of 4 September 2006, Official Report, column 1664W, on housing, (1) in which local authority areas transactions have been completed under the Social Homebuy scheme; and how many transactions have been completed in each area; [94555]
(2) which (a) housing associations and (b) local authorities participate in the Social Homebuy scheme; [94572]
(3) how many housing associations are participating in the Social Homebuy scheme; [94659]
(4) how many social tenants are eligible for the Social HomeBuy scheme. [94758]
Mr. Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many completed transactions of the sale or part-sale of homes have taken place under the Social Homebuy scheme. [95841]
Yvette Cooper: The Social Homebuy scheme is anew programme for secure and assured tenants of participating local authorities and housing associations. To qualify individuals must have been public sector tenants for at least two years (five years for tenancies granted on or after 18 January 2005).
Four housing associations (Notting Hill Housing Trust, Guinness Trust, Sovereign Housing Group and Places for People) and one local authority, the London borough of Southwark, have begun to pilot the new Social Homebuy scheme. The pilots were launched in late 2005 by inviting expressions of interest. The next stage was for landlords to supply key information to the potential purchasers who have expressed an interest on property values and likely costs, so that they could decide whether they wished to make a formal application. The first applications and sales are now starting to come through. Transactions typically take longer than house sales because landlords also carry out affordability checks to ensure purchasers can sustain home ownership. Over 150 applications are in the pipeline, with five sales completed and more expected shortly.
Of the five sales completed so far, three have been in the London borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, one was in the London borough of Kensington and Chelsea and the remaining one was in Chorley in Lancashire.
A further 38 housing associations intend to offer the Social Homebuy scheme from April 2007. The names of these housing associations are set out as follows. In addition the Housing Corporation announced details on 13 October of a further bidding round for housing associations to be funded to offer the scheme which will start on 30 October. A number of local authorities in London and elsewhere are also working up plans for pilots.
RSLs offering Social HomeBuy in 2006-08
Broomleigh Housing Association
Catalyst Housing Group
Circle Anglia
Dominion Housing Group
Downland Housing Association
Family Housing group
Gallions Housing Association
Genesis Housing Group
London and Quadrant
Metropolitan Housing Partnership
Moat Housing Group
Mosaic Housing Association Ltd.
Notting Hill Housing Group
Peabody Trust
Places for People Group
Presentation Housing Association
Southern Housing Group
Sentinel
Testway Housing
Southern Housing Group
Places for People
Moat
Sovereign Housing Association
Aldwyck
Dominion Housing Group
Oxford Citizens Housing Association
Aldwyck
Genesis
Nene Housing Society
Western Challenge
Evesham and Pershore Housing Ass.
Gloucestershire Housing Association
Somer Community Housing Trust
Devon and Cornwall Housing Association
Knightstone Housing Association Ltd.
Sovereign Housing Group
Places for People
Nene Housing Society
Bromford
Evesham and Pershore
Mercian
West Mercia
Places for People
Three Rivers Housing Association
CDS Housing Association Ltd.
Cosmopolitan
Greater Hornby
Places for People
William Sutton Housing Association
Riverside
Knowsley Housing Trust
Places for People Group
William Sutton
Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Notting Hill Housing Group
Places for People
Sovereign Housing Association
Guinness
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