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Housing: Construction

Mrs. Maria Miller: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many new houses were built in each of the five years, broken down by (a) Government Office Region and (b) local authority area; and how many were built on windfall development sites. [129159]

Yvette Cooper: A table showing the number of new build dwelling completions in each Government Office Region and local authority in England, in each year from 2000-01 to 2005-06, has been placed in the Library of the House. These are as reported by local authorities and the National House Building Council, and therefore are not comparable with other measures which include conveyancing and demolition.

Information is not held centrally on numbers built on windfall sites.

Housing: Disabled

Martin Horwood: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer of 21 March 2007, Official Report, column 988W, on housing: disabled, whether there will be a national mutual exchange scheme which provides its services free of charge to replace those schemes run by Scout Solutions Ltd. which her Department has recently terminated. [130828]

Yvette Cooper: The Government have replaced the mutual exchange scheme, which was facilitated by Scout Solutions Projects Ltd., with a number of alternative providers offering a free of charge service. These services can be accessed via the Governments’ website www.direct.gov.co.uk/socialhousing. This link also provides information on a wide range of housing related matters.

Mr. Iain Wright: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what total amount her Department allocated to Hartlepool Borough Council for disabled facilities grants in each of the last five years; and if she will increase in real terms the amount provided in each of the next three years. [131394]

Mr. Woolas: The following table details Hartlepool council’s allocations from central Government funding for the last five years.


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Hartlepool—disabled facilities grant (DFG) allocation
£

2003-04

168,000.00

2004-05

180,000.00

2005-06

192,000.00

2006-07

553,000.00

2007-08

264,000.00


DFG funding for the next three years will be decided as part of the comprehensive spending review (CSR). I cannot pre-empt any funding decisions ahead of the CSR.

Housing: Energy

Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much has been allocated to the Energy Performance Certificates scheme for (a) start-up costs and (b) 2007-08. [124839]

Yvette Cooper: The Department has allocated some £1.96 million to start-up costs for the Energy Performance Certificates scheme. This money is required to put into place the necessary systems and calculation methodologies to support introduction of energy certificates and to develop guidance, qualifications and quality assurance frameworks for energy assessors. The allocations for 2007-08 are currently under consideration.

Housing: Finance

Mr. Austin Mitchell: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government which local authorities (a) had a surplus on their housing revenue accounts and (b) received a subsidy for that account in each of the last 10 years; and how much that (i) surplus and (ii) subsidy was in each case. [107486]

Yvette Cooper: Data for the years 1990-93 inclusive can be obtained only at disproportionate cost. Details of housing revenue account subsidy entitlements for individual authorities separated by main income and expenditure items for the years 1994-95 to 2004-05 inclusive are included in a table that has been deposited in the Library of the House.

Housing: Greater London

Stephen Hammond: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many homes for sale on the open market have been built in (a) the London borough of Merton, (b) South West London and (c) London in each of the last five years. [121563]

Yvette Cooper: Communities and Local Government do not collect data on homes for sale on the open market. However, we do collect data on the number of private dwellings that are built and these are presented in the following table.

Communities and Local Government do not define an area for South West London so we have provided figures on the number of new properties for each London borough for 2002 to 2006 as follows:


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Number of private enterprise units completed
2002 2003 2004 2005 2006( 1)

Merton

330

Barking and Dagenham

214

294

217

198

Barnet

496

813

892

509

300

Bexley

309

474

345

70

133

Brent

244

Bromley

Camden

108

305

154

City of London

128

291

56

49

2

Croydon

358

291

245

272

513

Ealing

115

425

405

447

Enfield

219

371

208

307

372

Greenwich

1,336

723

1,188

871

834

Hackney

Hammersmith and Fulham

45

110

112

108

Haringey

63

Harrow

367

262

235

284

Havering

285

374

457

Hillingdon

260

233

189

Hounslow

712

433

631

433

Islington

208

141

164

309

427

Kensington and Chelsea

246

484

117

41

107

Kingston upon Thames

194

410

389

187

111

Lambeth

519

164

Lewisham

219

542

179

135

Newham

671

Redbridge

548

345

690

804

438

Richmond upon Thames

253

331

347

317

224

Southwark

1,690

1,132

Sutton

191

302

376

260

Tower Hamlets

1,045

1,660

2,648

715

Waltham Forest

38

55

89

175

157

Wandsworth

608

749

293

433

Westminster

620

854

London

11,302

14,962

17,694

13,048

13,289

(1) Data for 2006 is provisional.
Source:
Local Authority P2 housebuilding return and NHBC figures.

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