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HomeBuy Scheme: Finance

Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much has been spent on (a) HomeBuy Direct, (b) OwnHome, (c) OpenMarket HomeBuy, (d) the First Time Buyers Initiative, (e) MyChoice HomeBuy, (f) New Build HomeBuy, (g) Social HomeBuy and (h) Rent to HomeBuy in each region in each of the last three years. [273898]

Margaret Beckett: The following table shows the spend through the Homes and Communities Agency’s Affordable Housing Programme for Open Market HomeBuy which includes on OwnHome and MyChoice HomeBuy; New Build HomeBuy; First Time Buyers Initiative; Social HomeBuy; and Rent to HomeBuy in each region in 2006-07, 2007-08 and 2008-09. Figures for 2008-09 are provisional.

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£ million
Product	Open m arket HomeBuy	Of which : OwnHome	Of which : MyChoice HomeBuy	NewBuild HomeBuy	First Time Buyers Initiative	Social HomeBuy	Rent to HomeBuy
2006-07
North East	0.00	0.00	0.00	3.13	1.93	0.02	0.00
North West	1.84	0.00	0.00	18.38	4.19	0.04	0.00
Yorkshire and Humberside	0.94	0.00	0.00	9.54	5.29	0.11	0.00
East Midlands	1.16	0.00	0.00	16.76	0.00	0.03	0.00
West Midlands	3.33	0.00	0.00	16.97	8.27	0.00	0.00
Eastern	8.61	0.00	0.00	18.50	7.76	0.00	0.00
London	44.63	0.00	0.00	167.03	15.43	0.31	0.00
South East	26.96	0.00	0.00	56.23	31.22	0.03	0.00
South West	2.02	0.00	0.00	13.95	13.85	0.00	0.00
Total	89.48	0.00	0.00	320.49	87.93	0.54	0.00
2007-08
North East	0.20	0.00	0.00	2.23	4.65	0.06	0.00
North West	3.81	0.00	0.00	16.85	8.78	0.32	0.00
Yorkshire and Humberside	2.28	0.00	0.00	11.03	2.31	0.06	0.00
East Midlands	1.30	0.00	0.00	20.85	9.57	0.02	0.00
West Midlands	2.58	0.00	0.00	20.35	2.00	0.05	0.00
Eastern	12.65	0.00	0.00	24.44	7.16	0.05	0.00
London	21.52	0.00	0.00	141.24	34.40	1.06	0.00
South East	27.48	0.00	0.00	59.00	11.74	0.27	0.00
South West	7.05	0.00	0.00	20.96	9.03	0.02	0.00
Total	78.87	0.00	0.00	316.96	89.63	1.91	0.00
2008-09
North East	0.63	0.19	0.29	1.70	1.29	0.20	0.65
North West	5.69	1.23	2.24	8.32	5.57	0.01	7.74
Yorkshire and Humberside	7.20	1.14	2.74	3.46	1.94	0.06	4.44
East Midlands	5.94	0.89	2.03	1.09	1.15	0.00	9.44
West Midlands	9.93	1.49	3.97	17.33	2.90	0.09	4.71
Eastern	32.05	2.21	11.73	15.43	5.02	0.03	9.32
London	69.13	5.60	52.26	93.91	6.31	0.46	42.04
South East	57.40	5.76	31.29	35.67	7.00	0.12	4.91
South West	19.27	3.68	8.85	11.43	3.39	0.00	4.58
Total	207.24	22.18	115.40	188.34	34.56	0.97	87.83
Source: Homes and Communities Agency.

OwnHome and MyChoice HomeBuy are subsets of the Open Market HomeBuy scheme and did not commence until 2008-09. Rent to HomeBuy was also introduced in 2008-09.

There has been no spend on HomeBuy Direct in any of these years as the scheme was only introduced towards the end of 2008-09.

Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what funding has been provided to the (a) HomeBuy Direct, (b) OwnHome, (c) OpenMarket HomeBuy, (d) First Time Buyers Initiative, (e) MyChoice HomeBuy, (f) New Build HomeBuy, (g) Social HomeBuy and (h) Rent to HomeBuy scheme in each region in each of the last three years. [273899]

Margaret Beckett: The following table shows the approved allocations through the Homes and Communities Agency’s Affordable Housing Programme for Open Market HomeBuy which includes that on OwnHome and MyChoice HomeBuy; New Build HomeBuy; First Time Buyers Initiative; Social HomeBuy; and Rent to HomeBuy in each region in 2006-07, 2007-08 and 2008-09. Figures for 2008-09 are provisional.

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