---

21 May 2009 : Column 1542W—continued

21 May 2009 : Column 1543W

21 May 2009 : Column 1544W

£ million
Product	Open market 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	2.87	1.93	0.02	0.00
North West	1.70	0.00	0.00	29.53	6.69	0.04	0.00
Yorkshire and Humberside	0.94	0.00	0.00	14.48	6.57	0.11	0.00
East Midlands	1.12	0.00	0.00	22.98	0.00	0.03	0.00
West Midlands	2.77	U00	0.00	23.59	10.94	0.01	0.00
Eastern	8.32	0.00	0.00	24.31	7.76	0.00	0.00
London	33.37	0.00	0.00	202.67	15.88	0.31	0.00
South East	26.85	0.00	0.00	64.00	36.02	0.03	0.00
South West	2.05	0.00	0.00	18.80	15.47	0.00	0.00
Total	77.11	0.00	0.00	403.23	101.26	0.55	0.00
2007-08
North East	0.20	0.00	0.00	2.38	5.05	0.06	0.00
North West	3.81	0.00	0.00	17.47	15.56	0.32	0.00
Yorkshire and Humberside	2.28	0.00	0.00	12.69	1.06	0.06	0.00
East Midlands	1.30	0.00	0.00	22.05	9.69	0.02	0.00
West Midlands	2.56	0.00	0.00	20.14	0.98	0.04	0.00
Eastern	12.60	0.00	0.00	27.39	9.37	0.05	0.00
London	21.78	0.00	0.00	176.67	39.14	1.09	0.00
South East	28.00	0.00	0.00	69.73	21.94	0.27	0.00
South West	7.21	0.00	0.00	24.72	9.89	0.02	0.00
Total	79.75	0.00	0.00	373.24	112.68	1.93	0.00
2008-09
North East	0.63	0.29	0.19	2.80	1.75	0.06	0.99
North West	5.69	2.24	1.23	12.65	3.55	0.20	9.31
Yorkshire and Humberside	7.20	2.74	1.14	2.34	1.97	0.01	5.72
East Midlands	5.96	2.03	0.91	9.97	1.18	0.00	11.58
West Midlands	10.00	3.97	1.57	16.92	5.80	0.09	6.18
Eastern	32.08	11.82	2.17	17.25	7.26	0.03	14.46
London	68.81	52.10	5.49	92.30	10.91	0.43	61.51
South East	59.38	33.19	6.09	36.93	1.41	0.12	7.06
South West	19.27	8.96	3.77	12.08	3.00	0.00	6.71
Total	209.04	117.34	22.55	203.24	36.83	0.95	123.53
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 were no approved allocations on HomeBuy Direct in any of these years as the scheme was only introduced towards the end of 2008-09.

Homes and Communities Agency: Contracts

Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer of 5 May 2009, Official Report, column 131W, on the Homes and Communities Agency: Finance, (1) for what reason the Homes and Communities Agency let each of the six contracts identified by single tender; which organisation received each contract; and what the purpose of each contract was; [274880]

(2) for what reason the Academy for Sustainable Communities let each of the five contracts identified by single tender; which organisation received each contract; and what the purpose of each contract was. [274881]

Margaret Beckett: Pursuant to the answer of 5 May 2009, Official Report, column 131W, the contracts entered into by the Homes and Communities Agency on a single tender basis were as follows:

Organisation contracted	Purpose of contract	Reason given for single tender action
Terry Farrell and Partners	Specialist advice to the Chief Executive of the Homes and Communities Agency	Recognised provider of specialist advice (unique provider)
KPMG	Specialist advice on developing a new delegations framework	This contract had previously been let by competitive tender under the Department for Work and Pensions framework. This new time-limited appointment was made to extend this contract pending a competitive process under the HM Treasury framework
Sheffield Hallam University	HCA Academy provision and completion of foundation degree	Time limited extension of arrangement previously competitively procured but with no option to extend (unique provider and IPR issues)
Dr. Simon Bell	HCA Academy provision of modular training	Time limited extension of arrangement previously competitively procured but with no option to extend (unique provider)
John Langford	Executive management coaching and support	Services required to facilitate a number of workshops with the new Executive Management team of the recently established Agency. Appointed on an interim basis in order to ensure timely delivery. A subsequent competitive procurement process has been undertaken. At the time of writing no appointment has been made

---