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Written Answers to Questions

Wednesday 23 May 2007

Communities and Local Government

Departments: Marketing

Andrew Stunell: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what factors underlay her decision to change the branding of her Department from DCLG to Communities and Local Government; and if she will make a statement. [138727]

Angela E. Smith: The legal name of the Department remains the Department for Communities and Local Government.

In order to emphasise the mission of the Department, we use the term Communities and Local Government to refer to the Department wherever possible.

Andrew Stunell: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if she will list the meetings that she or her Ministerial colleagues attended where the re-branding of her Department from DCLG to Communities and Local Government was discussed. [138728]

Angela E. Smith: I refer the hon. Member to the answer today (138727). The Department was not re-branded from DCLG, so there have been no such meetings.

Housing

Mr. Milburn: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) what her estimate is of (a) the number of people who have participated in and (b) the level of public expenditure on Government initiatives to increase home ownership in each year since 1997, broken down by (i) local authority area and (ii) region; [105729]

(2) what her estimate is of the number of people in each region who will participate in Government initiatives to increase home ownership in future years. [105730]

Yvette Cooper: The following table shows completions and expenditure through the Housing Corporation’s Affordable Housing Programme (AHP) and Local Authority Social Housing Grant on low cost home ownership programmes. This investment reflects the overall public expenditure levels established by the previous administration and set for 1997-98 to 1999-2000 and the priority first given to tackling the backlog of £19 billion in council housing investment to
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provide decent homes. From 2004, investment decisions have reflected the priorities set by the regional housing boards for investment in their areas and since 2006-07, the Government’s priority of providing more social rented homes.

	Completions	Expenditure (£ million)
1997-98	11,684	172
1998-99	8,874	125
1999-2000	5,112	94
2000-01	4,775	117
2001-02	4,352	118
2002-03	4,487	161
2003-04	6,912	343
2004-05(1)	11,409	459
2005-06	16,534	544
(1) Completion figures do not include VPG.

For the two years, 2006-07 and 2007-08, we plan to assist some 35,000 households into low cost home ownership through the Housing Corporation’s AHP.

We have a target to assist 120,000 people into home ownership by 2010 and the homes being provided by the Housing Corporation will contribute to this. The number of homes to be provided from 2008-09 will be the subject of the comprehensive spending review 2007.

A table has been placed in the Library of the House displaying information on the homes provided for low cost home ownership and expenditure on these programmes from 1997-98 to 2005-06 through the Housing Corporation’s Affordable Housing Programme (AHP) and Local Authority Social Housing Grant (LASHG) by local authority and region.

Neither table includes spend or completions through Starter Home Initiative, Thames Gateway or Right to Acquire figures. Funding and completions are not directly comparable, as funding will relate to projects running, not necessarily units completed, in any one year.

Housing: London

Frank Dobson: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) how many permanent dwellings were completed by registered social landlords in (a) Camden and (b) London in each year since 1990-91; [122934]

(2) how many permanent dwellings were completed by councils in (a) Camden and (b) London in each year since 1990-91. [122935]

Yvette Cooper [holding answer 23 February 2007]: The numbers of additional homes provided by local authorities and registered social landlords in Camden and Greater London in each year since 1991-92 are tabulated as follows. Information for the financial year 1990-91 is not available. Homes provided through new build as well as acquisitions have been included. Figures are as reported by local authorities and the Housing Corporation.

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Affordable housing provision in Camden and Greater London: 1991-92 to 2005-06
	1991-92	1992-93	1993-94	1994-95	1995-96	1996-97	1997-98	1998-99
Local authority house building completions
Camden	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
London	580	169	146	223	45	23	52	35
Additional( 1) social rent homes: Registered social landlords
Camden	168	373	524	611	471	436	284	183
London	3,745	11,767	9,914	10,852	12,785	9,247	7,310	6,952
Additional( 1) intermediate homes( 2) : Registered social landlords
Camden	59	81	128	82	152	137	112	96
London	1,601	3,023	4,162	4,971	4,318	3,598	3,142	2,796
Affordable housing provision( 1) (total)
Camden	227	454	652	693	623	573	396	279
London	5,926	14,959	14,222	16,046	17,148	12,868	10,504	9,783

	1999-2000	2000-01	2 001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06
Local authority house building completions
Camden	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
London	0	79	27	71	12	0	4
Additional( 1) social rent homes: Registered social landlords
Camden	323	158	164	126	81	188	72
London	5,846	5,858	6,279	5,163	5,045	4,876	5,123
Additional( 1 ) intermediate homes( 2) : Registered social landlords
Camden	19	25	34	103	253	149	242
London	1,793	1,755	1,479	3,003	6,018	4,600	6,113
Affordable housing provision( 1 ) (total)
Camden	342	183	198	229	334	337	314
London	7,639	7,692	7,785	8,237	11,075	9,476	11,240
(1) Includes both new builds and acquisitions (2) Intermediate housing includes both low cost homes ownership schemes and homes provided for intermediate rent. Source: Housing Corporation, statistical returns from local authorities.

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