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Housing: Expenditure

Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what percentage of capital expenditure on housing was spent in each region in each year since 1997. [277451]

Mr. Iain Wright: Information on current and capital expenditure on services in each region is available from pages 117-31 of Public Expenditure Statistical Analysis 2008 (PESA) published by HM Treasury. In addition, the Department’s annual report carries information on expenditure across different categories by region. Further analysis would demand extra work from officials which would be at disproportionate cost.

Housing: Low Incomes

Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the average right-to-buy discount was as a percentage of average (a) house prices and (b) right-to-buy property sale prices in each region in each year since 1997. [275906]

Mr. Iain Wright: The following table shows the average Right to Buy discount as a percentage of house prices in England, by year and region.

Percentage
	North East	North West	Yorkshire and Humber	East Midlands	West Midlands
1997-98	27	—	26	25	25
1998-99	25	—	25	26	24
1999-2000	17	23	23	23	23
2000-01	19	21	22	21	22
2001-02	17	20	21	20	20
2002-03	16	18	17	19	17
2003-04	16	18	17	16	17
2004-05	16	16	15	15	15
2005-06	16	16	16	14	15
2006-07	15	16	15	15	15
2007-08	14	16	15	14	14

Percentage
	Eastern	London	South East	South West	England
1997-98	28	29	27	26	27
1998-99	26	27	26	25	26
1999-2000	27	24	25	24	24
2000-01	23	21	21	22	21
2001-02	21	20	20	21	19
2002-03	19	17	18	18	17
2003-04	17	16	17	17	15
2004-05	17	14	16	15	14
2005-06	16	11	16	15	13
2006-07	16	8	15	14	12
2007-08	15	6	14	13	11
Source: Right to Buy figures are from P1B returns from local authorities to CLG. Average property prices are from CLG House Price Index figures.

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The following table shows the average Right to Buy discount as a percentage of Right to Buy property prices in England, by year and region.

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Percentage
	North East	North West	Yorkshire and Humber	East Midlands	West Midlands
1997-98	49	49	47	47	48
1998-99	48	48	47	50	49
1999-2000	47	48	47	46	48
2000-01	47	47	46	45	49
2001-02	46	46	46	43	47
2002-03	45	45	44	41	44
2003-04	42	43	43	38	40
2004-05	34	41	40	35	34
2005-06	34	37	35	31	33
2006-07	31	34	31	28	30
2007-08	28	32	28	27	30

Percentage
	Eastern	London	South East	South West	England
1997-98	50	53	49	49	49
1998-99	49	53	50	50	50
1999-2000	47	51	47	48	48
2000-01	45	48	44	46	47
2001-02	43	42	42	44	44
2002-03	39	37	39	40	41
2003-04	35	32	35	36	37
2004-05	33	28	32	34	33
2005-06	30	22	30	31	31
2006-07	27	14	28	28	27
2007-08	25	13	26	27	24
Source: P1B returns from local authorities to CLG.

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