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The Housing Corporation has a target to assist 35,000 households into low-cost home ownership between 2006-08 at an estimated cost of £970 million.
Mr. Austin Mitchell:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many individuals have taken up each Government initiative to supply housing to key workers; and what the cost of each initiative has been in each year since its introduction. [99546]
Yvette Cooper:
Since 2001 we have helped more than 22,500 key workers into home ownership through key worker housing initiatives. 10,322 were helped under the Starter Home Initiative which ran from April 2001 to April 2004. By August 2006, 12,200 had exchanged or completed under the Key Worker Living programme since its launch in April 2004.
The following table shows the expenditure by year on the Starter Home Initiative and the Key Worker Living Programme.
| £ million |
| | Starter Home Initiative | Key Worker Living( 1) |
|
2001-02
|
2.2
|
0
|
|
2002-03
|
66.9
|
0
|
|
2003-04
|
172.3
|
121.8
|
|
2004-05
|
7.3
|
285.1
|
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|
2005-06
|
0
|
343.5
|
|
2006-07
|
0
|
74.9
|
(1) Includes investment through Affordable Housing Programme. Challenge Fund Figures for 2006-07 shows spend to end October 2006.
|
Ms Buck:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much has
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been spent on the Decent Homes initiative in each London local authority since its inception; and how much she expects to be spent in (a) 2006-07 and (b) 2007-08. [99700]
Yvette Cooper:
The total capital investment in local authority housing for the financial years 2002-03 to 2004-05 and the planned expenditure for the financial years 2005-06 to 2007-08 is shown in the table. The data are from the Housing Strategy Statistical Appendix 2005.
| £000 |
| | | Planned |
| | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 |
|
Barking and Dagenham
|
31,687
|
46,785
|
27,872
|
36,235
|
25,700
|
20,600
|
|
Barnet
|
9,632
|
11,947
|
19,947
|
28,668
|
27,679
|
29,628
|
|
Bexley
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
|
Brent
|
11,576
|
23,003
|
52,160
|
48,936
|
27,589
|
10,300
|
|
Bromley
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
|
Camden
|
49,422
|
64,705
|
40,864
|
51,852
|
58,163
|
43,033
|
|
City of London
|
1,264
|
656
|
1,582
|
1,649
|
1,633
|
867
|
|
Croydon
|
16,390
|
14,423
|
15,875
|
24,503
|
19,585
|
17,296
|
|
Ealing
|
27,955
|
20,463
|
23,878
|
32,706
|
16,200
|
16,100
|
|
Enfield
|
13,489
|
13,920
|
10,996
|
13,089
|
14,260
|
15,361
|
|
Greenwich
|
39,948
|
28,873
|
43,860
|
57,867
|
46,000
|
34,800
|
|
Hackney
|
21,176
|
39,317
|
65,672
|
77,056
|
68,338
|
48,210
|
|
Hammersmith and Fulham
|
26,688
|
28,162
|
24,964
|
52,571
|
64,343
|
64,758
|
|
Haringey
|
23,593
|
26,524
|
25,272
|
22,056
|
22,056
|
65,056
|
|
Harrow
|
5,441
|
7,491
|
6,860
|
7,475
|
9,905
|
10,425
|
|
Havering
|
7,249
|
14,430
|
10,885
|
11,464
|
10,293
|
10,293
|
|
Hillingdon
|
13,687
|
12,668
|
28,850
|
31,871
|
30,850
|
24,305
|
|
Hounslow
|
23,019
|
38,901
|
51,496
|
68,413
|
17,700
|
17,100
|
|
Islington
|
44,915
|
62,687
|
56,296
|
94,608
|
99,206
|
99,726
|
|
Kensington and Chelsea
|
9,366
|
13,449
|
20,844
|
21,724
|
22,171
|
20,940
|
|
Kingston upon Thames
|
4,624
|
3,876
|
4,670
|
7,262
|
7,262
|
7,262
|
|
Lambeth
|
48,010
|
52,126
|
60,333
|
59,588
|
60,926
|
56,707
|
|
Lewisham
|
40,741
|
42,953
|
38,720
|
55,248
|
35,124
|
31,846
|
|
Merton
|
6,211
|
5,195
|
6,210
|
5,372
|
5,047
|
4,897
|
|
Newham
|
33,465
|
37,882
|
31,288
|
36,155
|
54,271
|
84,229
|
|
Redbridge
|
4,855
|
5,963
|
5,183
|
6,278
|
6,882
|
14,114
|
|
Richmond upon Thames
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
|
Southwark
|
76,059
|
69,291
|
82,921
|
107,639
|
78,440
|
77,656
|
|
Sutton
|
9,765
|
6,722
|
6,558
|
8,090
|
5,505
|
5,505
|
|
Tower Hamlets
|
39,915
|
42,157
|
40,597
|
34,054
|
26,806
|
18,560
|
|
Waltham Forest
|
19,343
|
19,101
|
21,597
|
24,454
|
39,443
|
37,757
|
|
Wandsworth
|
27,026
|
35,529
|
36,608
|
29,266
|
31,616
|
28,675
|
|
Westminster
|
46,277
|
29,249
|
53,437
|
82,200
|
55,858
|
25,286
|
