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The social rent new build figures are from the Homes and Communities Agency Investment Management System (IMS), and Housing Strategy Statistical Appendix (HSSA) returns and P2 house building returns submitted to CLG by local authorities and the National House-Building Council (NHBC).
I have also answered a question for the hon. Gentleman, Official Report, column 70W, showing the number of affordable homes provided in England. The social rent new build figures differ from the number of affordable homes provided because the affordable housing figures include intermediate rent and low cost home ownership as well as social rent, and they include acquisitions as well as new builds. The social rent new build figures in this answer exclude social rent acquisitions, intermediate rent and low cost home ownership.
The following table shows the number of private enterprise house building completions, quarterly, for each region.
Quarter | North East | North West | Yorks and Humber | East Midlands | West Midlands | Eastern | London | South East | South West | England |
The private enterprise completions are from quarterly P2 house building returns submitted to CLG by local authorities and the NHBC.
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the Government's target is for the number of new homes to be built in each of the next three years; and if she will make a statement. [265097]
Mr. Iain Wright: The Housing Green Paper Homes for the Future: more affordable, more Sustainable, published in July 2007, set out the Government's ambition to increase housing supply.
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) what the timetable is for her Department to agree the bids submitted by the Mayor of London on 1 December 2008 under the Targeted Funding Stream; [263148]
(2) when she expects to make a decision on recommendations made by the Mayor of London on 1 December 2008 to allocate (a) £90.7 million to bring empty homes back into use, reduce overcrowding and retrofit affordable housing stock, (b) £290 million to meet the Decent Homes standard, (c) £7.6 million to estate regeneration, (d) £35 million for improvements to the environmental standard of existing housing stock, (e) £9.2 million for improvements to the environmental standard of new affordable housing delivery and (f) £5.5 million to expedite affordable housing delivery in London. [263149]
Margaret Beckett: We have today approved grant allocations to local authorities for private sector renewal in 2009-10. Allocations are in line with the recommendations made by regional assemblies and Mayor of London.
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much her Department spent on (a) the Design for Manufacture Competition and (b) the Competitions website in each year since 2004. [265262]
Margaret Beckett: The Department commissioned English Partnerships (EP) to deliver the Design for Manufacture (DfM) programme on our behalf. The Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) took over responsibility for the programme last December. To date, EP and the HCA have spent £541,154 running the competition. This figure includes the costs incurred by EP for the provision of technical advice, support, monitoring and evaluation, and for the publication of the document Designed for ManufactureLessons Learnt in June 2006. This figure does not include EPs DfM exhibition costs. Since its launch in 2005 the DfM website has cost approximately £19,085.25. This figure does not include the website hosting costs, which are not attributable directly to the DM website.
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