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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.

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Quarter	North East	North West	Yorks and Humber	East Midlands	West Midlands	Eastern	London	South East	South West	England
January to March 2004	1,150	3,680	2,890	3,180	2,720	3,380	2,610	4,840	3,220	27,670
April to June 2004	1,770	3,850	4,080	3,470	3,240	4,280	4,690	6,220	4,130	35,730
July to September 2004	1,560	5,660	3,780	3,390	3,010	4,390	5,520	4,820	4,000	36,120
October to December 2004	1,760	4,290	3,180	4,360	3,690	5,180	4,880	6,180	4,290	37,810
January to Mar 2005	1,550	3,460	2,780	3,440	3,050	3,930	2,800	4,980	3,470	29,470
April to June 2005	1,740	4,350	3,700	3,830	4,200	4,240	3,450	6,380	4,820	36,710
July to September 2005	1,740	4,130	3,410	4,070	3,610	4,300	2,830	5,760	3,700	33,550
October to December 2005	2,140	6,580	4,780	4,470	4,000	5,340	3,970	6,310	4,420	42,010
January to March 2006	1,520	4,810	3,880	3,210	3,090	3,710	3,360	5,120	3,990	32,670
April to June 2006	1,850	4,200	3,630	4,610	3,740	5,180	4,490	6,570	4,070	38,350
July to September 2006	1,430	3,320	3,720	3,580	3.670	4,390	3,480	4,760	4,000	32,340
October to December 2006	2,110	5,170	3,750	4,120	3,450	5,250	2,630	5,750	4,330	36.550
January to March 2007	2,110	4,480	4,660	4,350	3,290	4,780	3,830	5,800	5,160	38,450
April to June 2007	2,230	5,420	4,370	4,180	3,520	5,250	3,260	5,800	4,470	38.490
July to September 2007	1,630	4,090	3,860	3,870	2,650	4,740	4,050	5,460	3,610	33,950
October to December 2007	2,430	5,030	3,690	4,710	3,440	5,050	3,370	8,670	4,830	41,210
January to March 2008	1,190	5,010	3,240	3,250	2,360	3,810	2,280	5,140	3,680	29,940
April to June 2008	1,150	4,030	2,940	3,260	2,820	3,980	3,200	6,910	3,500	31,790
July to September 2008	930	2,710	2,860	2,000	2,110	3,070	2,880	5,470	3,810	28,630
October to December 2008	1,090	3,680	2,770	2,320	2,120	3,750	3,540	5,020	3,850	28,140

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.

Housing: Greater London

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.

Housing: Low Incomes

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 Competition’s 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 Manufacture—Lessons Learnt” in June 2006. This figure does not include EP’s 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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