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Housing: City of Westminster
Ms Buck: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what funding her Department has provided for housing to (a) Westminster City Council and (b) City West Homes in each of the last five years; from what budgets such funding has been drawn; and for what purposes her Department disbursed. [276277]
Mr. Iain Wright: The following table sets out the Housing Revenue Account expenditure allowances and capital allocations that the Department has provided to Westminster city council in each of the last five years. All funds were allocated for the repairs, maintenance and upkeep of properties in Westminster.
Westminster city council provides funding directly to its ALMO City West Homes via an annual management fee. The Department does not provide funding direct to City West Homes.
| Westminster city council housing funding allocations | |||||||
| £ | |||||||
| Housing Revenue Account allowances | |||||||
| Management | Maintenance | Major Repairs | Regional Housing LA Decent Homes | ALMO Capital | HRA subsidy payments | Private Sector Renewal (Capital Grant) | |
Housing: Floods
Miss McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what progress has been made in updating the Housing Corporation’s publication Insurance for All for providers of social housing in light of the recommendations of the Pitt report on flooding. [277443]
Mr. Iain Wright: Recommendation 30 of Sir Michael Pitt’s report was that the Housing Corporation’s publication ‘Insurance for All’ should be updated. This recommendation is being taken forward in line with the Government’s response to the report, which was published on 17 December 2008—see page 67 of the following link:
The timetable for completing this work will be consistent with the TSA’s wider responsibilities for monitoring the overall health of the housing association sector and for establishing the new regulatory framework for social housing during 2010.
Housing: Low Incomes
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what receipts her Department and its predecessors received from (a) Social Homebuy, (b) Right to Buy and (c) Right to Acquire sales in each year since 1997; and what percentage of each annual receipt was used to provide more social lettings. [274850]
Mr. Iain Wright: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 27 April 2009, Official Report, column 1118W. Prior to 1 April 2004, receipts arising from the disposal of dwellings under right to buy (RTB) were retained by the local authorities, although authorities with debt set aside 75 per cent. of that receipt to repay their housing debt.
Social homebuy sales have only been made since February 2007. Receipts arising from right to acquire (RTA) sales and social homebuy sales by housing associations are retained by registered social landlords (RSLs) and are reinvested in the provision of affordable housing. Local authorities are allowed to retain all social homebuy sales receipts, provided these are used for the purposes set out in statutory instrument 2006/521.
The following table shows for each financial year since 2004-05 the total housing receipts received by the Department. Data on RTB and local authority social homebuy receipts received by the Department are not collected separately, but most of these arise from RTB sales. The table also shows the amount of those receipts received by the Department which were then passed on to the Exchequer.
| £ million | ||
| Receipts received by the Department | Receipts passed on to the Exchequer | |
| (1) Figures for 2008-09 are estimates. | ||
The following table shows the amount invested by central Government in housing capital projects. It also shows how much of that was expenditure through the Home and Communities Agency’s Affordable Housing Programme on new build and acquisitions on both social rent and low cost home ownership schemes.
| £ million | ||
| Total Department’s capital investment in housing | Total expenditure through the Affordable Housing Programme | |
| (1) Figures for 2008-09 are estimates. | ||
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many (a) new-build and (b) existing private sector homes were purchased for social rent by (i) local authorities and (ii) registered social landlords in each year since 1997. [274854]
Mr. Iain Wright: The following table shows the number of homes purchased for social rent by registered social landlords or through private finance initiative in England, from 1997-98.
| Registered social landlord acquisitions | Private finance initiative acquisitions | Total social rent acquisitions | |
| Source: Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) Investment Management System (IMS) and Private Finance Initiative figures from local authority returns. | |||
CLG do not have complete figures on the number of acquisitions by local authorities or categorised according to whether they were new build homes or existing private sector homes.
Mr. Sanders: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if she will estimate the levels of supply and demand for social homes of three or more bedrooms. [275815]
Mr. Iain Wright: Communities and Local Government have commissioned a team from Heriot-Watt university, led by Professor Glen Bramley, to develop a model that is capable of estimating the number of households with an unmet need for social or affordable housing, or other housing related support. The contract was awarded in August 2008 and developing the model is expected to take around 12 months.
The new research will expand the evidence base on housing need, going beyond the estimates used by Kate Barker in her 2004 Review of Housing Supply to allow
greater disaggregation of housing need by household type and region, as well as taking more account of the behavioural relationships that underpin household formation and tenure choice decisions.
In recognition of the need for more family sized homes, for the 2008-11 Affordable Housing Programme (AHP) we set the Homes and Communities Agency, a new target to increase the national percentage of larger homes of three bedrooms or more provided through the AHP from 25 per cent. to 30 per cent. in 2008-09, rising to 33 per cent. in 2010-11.
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Meriden of 8 May 2009, Official Report, column 450W, on housing: low incomes, how many completed new build homes each percentage figure in the table represents. [277344]
Mr. Iain Wright: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave him on 1 June 2009, Official Report, column 198-200W.
Andrew Stunell: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many affordable homes have been built in (a) Stockport and (b) Greater Manchester in each year since 2001. [277528]
Mr. Iain Wright: The information in the following table has been supplied to the Department by local authorities and shows the number of affordable homes that have been built in (a) Stockport, (b) in the nine other authorities in Greater Manchester and (c) the combined total for Greater Manchester for each year since 2001.
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