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| Table B: Number of households in temporary accommodation( 1) in local authorities within Cornwall, March 1998-March 2007 | |||||||||||
| Cornwall | 1997-98 | 1998-99 | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 |
| (1 )Households in accommodation either pending a decision on their homelessness application or awaiting allocation of a settled home following acceptance. Excludes those households designated homeless at home that have remained in their existing accommodation and have the same rights to suitable accommodation as those in accommodation arranged by the authority. (2) Regional figures are rounded to the nearest 10. Source: CLG P1E Homelessness returns (quarterly) | |||||||||||
The regional data on acceptances and temporary accommodation can also be found in our published quarterly statistical release on Statutory Homelessness. This is published on our website and placed in the Library each quarter. The latest release was published on 11 September 2008, and provides national and regional acceptance figures in table 3, and temporary accommodation figures in table 7, both back to 1997:
Housing
Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what reports on housing policy her Department and its predecessors have (a) commissioned and (b) issued in each year since 1997; and what the cost of (i) drafting and (ii) producing each was. [237264]
Mr. Iain Wright: Departmental reports are published in accordance with the Communities and Local Government Publications scheme, details of which can be found on the departmental website at:
A list of publications can be found on the departmental website at:
The information requested is not available in the form requested and could be issued only at disproportionate cost.
Housing: Construction
Andrew George: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what assessment she has made of the effect of changes in the (a) market for housing, (b) availability of mortgage finance and (c) projected house completion rates on her Department's (i) targets for annual house building and (ii) estimates of housing need in each Government region. [235977]
Mr. Iain Wright: The Government recognise that current international credit conditions pose serious difficulties for all housing sectors.
However, the Government remain committed to the delivery of the homes we need over the long-term to accommodate our ageing, growing population. We remain committed to achieving an annual completion rate of 240,000 net additions per year, and continue to work with regional partners to ensure that there is capacity in the planning system to achieve this.
Housing: EC Law
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 3 November 2008, Official Report, column 125W, on housing: regeneration, for what reasons the Government Office was found not to have complied with the European Commission’s regulations. [236015]
John Healey: In 2007, the European Commission suspended payments on the 2000-06 North West ERDF Objective 2 and Urban programmes because of deficiencies in aspects of the recording of actions taken by intermediate bodies engaged in the delivery of the programme in the amount of on-site checking of project expenditure that had been carried out to the end of 2006. There was no suggestion of financial impropriety and vigorous action has been taken since to rectify the problems identified.
Housing: Elderly
Miss McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimates she has made of the number of over-80s households in (a) the Vale of York, (b) North Yorkshire and (c) the UK. [237118]
Mr. Iain Wright: The following table shows the projected number of ‘over-80s’ households in York local authority, North Yorkshire and England for mid 2008.
| Number of over 80s households for mid 2008 (Thousand) | |
The figures are from the Communities and Local Government Household Projections (revised 2004-based). These provide figures for England only, not UK.
Housing: Low Incomes
Andrew George: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether she has assessed the merits of revising her targets for the creation of new (a) social and (b) intermediate market housing in the light of recent changes in the housing market and house building sectors. [235976]
Mr. Iain Wright: We remain committed to the delivery of affordable housing for social rent and low cost home ownership. Our aspiration is to reach 70,000 homes a year by 2010-11, of which, 45,000 are for social rent with 50,000 a year during the next Spending Review period, our long-term aspiration. This is still some time away and it remains too early, given current market conditions, to predict outputs with certainty.
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 3 November 2008, Official Report, columns 124-5W, on housing: low incomes, what data her Department and its predecessors have transferred to the Valuation Office Agency from the National Register of Social Housing. [236146]
John Healey: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Beckenham (Mrs. Lait) on 3 September 2007, Official Report, column 1700W.
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 3 November 2008, Official Report, columns 124-54W, on housing: low incomes, and with reference to the December 2004 letter to local authority directors of housing from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister’s Divisional Head of Housing Data and Statistics, how many local authorities provided data to the Valuation Office Agency to assist with the council tax revaluation (a) directly and (b) via her Department’s predecessor. [236149]
John Healey: No data were provided directly. 134 local authorities provided information via the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.
Mrs. Curtis-Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much her Department has allocated for affordable housing in Crosby constituency in the next three years. [236710]
Mr. Iain Wright: Over the three years, 2008 to 2011, an indicative total of over £830 million is being made available through the regional housing pot for the north west region, of this around £525 million has been earmarked for use through the Affordable Housing programme. Allocations are not made to constituency levels.
Housing: Valuation
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 6 November 2008, Official Report, column 628W, on housing: valuation, if she will place in the Library information that identifies the geographical extent of each locality for the Valuation Office area of Hammersmith and Fulham. [235861]
John Healey: The extent of any locality is the intellectual property of an arm of government, and as such, is commercially sensitive. It is not appropriate to place this in the public domain.
Local Government Finance
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer of 30 October 2008, Official Report, column 1279W, on local government finance, which (a) district councils, (b) metropolitan councils, (c) unitary council and (d) London boroughs will receive the lowest possible increase in grant from her Department in 2008-09. [235862]
John Healey: The information is as follows:
(a) 94 district councils will all receive a 1 per cent. increase in formula grant in 2008-09. This is the minimum percentage increase for district authorities in 2008-09. The authorities are as follows:
Adur
Allerdale
Alnwick
Arun
Berwick-upon-Tweed
Blyth Valley
Brentwood
Bridgnorth
Broxbourne
Cambridge
Carlisle
Castle Morpeth
Cheltenham
Chester
Chester-le-Street
Chichester
Chiltern
Christchurch
Cotswold
Crawley
Dacorum
Derbyshire Dales
Derwentside
Dover
Durham
Easington
East Dorset
East Hampshire
East Hertfordshire
Eastbourne
Ellesmere Port and Neston
Elmbridge
Epping Forest
Epsom and Ewell
Fareham
Gosport
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