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Departmental Procurement
Robert Neill: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government with reference to the answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar, of 23 June 2008, Official Report, column 24W, on departmental procurement, if he will place in the Library a copy of the list of names and addresses of each organisation that supplied goods or services to his Department in 2008-09. [279798]
Sarah McCarthy-Fry: The information that has been requested has been deposited in the Library of the House.
Departmental Training
Mr. Philip Hammond: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what training courses have been attended by special advisers in his Department in the last 12 months; and at what cost. [279404]
Energy Performance Certificates
Robert Neill: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what guidance his Department has issued on the provision of energy performance certificates in (a) hard and (b) electronic copy. [277033]
Mr. Ian Austin: The principal guidance on the provision of energy performance certificates published by my Department is as follows:
Improving the energy efficiency of our buildings: A guide to energy performance certificates for the construction, sale and let of non-dwellings;
Improving the energy efficiency of our buildings, Local weights and measures guidance for Energy Certificates and air-conditioning inspections for buildings;
Improving the energy efficiency of our buildings, A guide to Display Energy Certificates and advisory reports for public buildings;
Improving the energy efficiency of our buildings, an overview of Energy Certificates and Air Conditioning inspections for buildings;
Energy performance certificates for dwellings in the social and private rented sectors;
Energy performance certificates for dwellings in the social and private rented sectors, A guide for landlords.
All of these publications are only available online. There is a considerable list of supporting guidance and other documentation that have been published by my Department in support of energy performance certificates and related documents. A copy of this list has been placed in the Library of the House.
Homebuy Scheme
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether Homebuy agents are permitted to bring forward expected funding from one financial year into another under the terms of their contracts with his Department. [276739]
Mr. Ian Austin: Homebuy Agents cannot bring forward funding from one financial year to another under the terms of their contract with the Homes and Communities Agency.
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many registered Homebuy agents there are in each region. [276746]
Mr. Ian Austin: The Homebuy Agents operating in each region are as follows:
North East—Time2Buy, Isos Group
North West—HomesHub, Riverside, Plumlife
Yorkshire and Humberside—My4walls, Plumlife
West Midlands—Orbit
East Midlands—East Midlands Housing
East—Orbit, Moat, Lea Valley Homes
South East—Moat, Catalyst, Swaythling Housing
South West—Home2own
London—Metropolitan Housing Group/Housing Options, Tower Homes.
Homes and Communities Agency: Olympic Games 2012
Robert Neill: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what funds the Homes and Communities Agency has allocated to the development of the Olympic village for the London 2012 Olympic Games; and whether the sums allocated have been amended since the agency first agreed to provide funding for the village. [276914]
Mr. Ian Austin: In April 2008 an allocation for the Olympic Village site of £85.9 million funding was agreed by the Department.
In February 2009 the London Board of the Homes and Communities Agency agreed additional funding for affordable housing up to a total cap of £110 million and provided that the total amount of affordable housing was no more than 50 per cent. of the residential on the Olympic Village.
Following the finalisation of the negotiation of the additional affordable housing units and a change in the mix of units agreed in the original proposal through the planning obligation, a total of £110 million in social housing grant was agreed. (£85.8 million for the units originally proposed plus £24.2 million for the additional units).
Housing
Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many local authorities operate choice-based housing allocation schemes. [278674]
Mr. Ian Austin: As at April 2009 the Choice Based Lettings housing allocations schemes were being operated in 211 local authorities in England.
Housing Revenue Accounts
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much each local authority allocated for its Housing Revenue Account for (a) maintenance, (b) management, (c) Decent Homes, (d) major repairs, (e) arm’s length management organisations, (f) private sector renewal and (g) subsidy payments in each of the last five years. [278607]
Mr. Ian Austin: Communities and Local Government does not hold information about allocations made by local authorities for the categories requested.
Housing: Carbon Emissions
Robert Neill: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change on the definition of zero carbon for homes and non-domestic properties; and if he will make a statement. [277014]
Mr. Ian Austin: The Department is working closely with the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) on the development of our policies on zero carbon homes and non-domestic buildings. DECC is represented at ministerial level on the 2016 task force, which is jointly chaired by the Minister for Housing and Planning and the Executive Chairman of the Home Builders Federation and which brings together key stakeholders at senior level to oversee development and implementation of the zero carbon homes policy.
Housing: Low Incomes
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many Homebuy homes designated in each Homebuy scheme were available in (a) Welwyn Hatfield and (b) Hertfordshire in each of the last 12 months. [276376]
Mr. Ian Austin: We do not hold centrally the number of homes available for Open Market Homebuy in Welwyn Hatfield and Hertfordshire in each of the last 12 months. This scheme enables purchasers to buy any property on the open market with the help of an equity loan. Ownhome and My Choice Homebuy are subsets of Open Market Homebuy.
Again for Homebuy Direct we do not centrally collect the number of homes available to purchase at local authority level.
The number of completed homes each month for New Build Homebuy for Welwyn Hatfield and Hertfordshire has been provided in the following table. The total for Hertfordshire includes those homes completed
within Welwyn Hatfield. In each month there are likely to be more homes available than just those newly completed, as some homes can take a few months to sell and others come back on the market as occupants change.
| Welwyn Hatfield | Hertfordshire total | |
| Source: Homes and Communities Agency. | ||
For Rent to Homebuy the following table shows the number of completions in each month for Welwyn Hatfield and Hertfordshire. The total for Hertfordshire includes those homes completed within Welwyn Hatfield. In each month there are likely to be more homes available than just those newly completed, as some homes can take a short time to rent.
| Welwyn Hatfield | Hertfordshire total | |
| Source: Homes and Communities Agency. | ||
We do not hold centrally data on the number of properties on which Social Homebuy is offered by landlords participating in the scheme.
Throughout this answer Hertfordshire has been interpreted as covering the following local authorities: Broxbourne, Dacorum, East Hertfordshire, Hertsmere, North Hertfordshire, St. Albans, Stevenage, Three Rivers, Watford and Welwyn Hatfield.
Robert Neill:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Welwyn, Hatfield of
8 May 2009, Official Report, columns 448-9W, on housing: low incomes, how many households have moved into dwellings under the New Build Homebuy Scheme to date. [276924]
Mr. Ian Austin: The following table shows the number of initial sales recorded through the New Build Homebuy scheme since 1997-98, the earliest date for which New Build Homebuy is separately identified.
| New Build Homeb uy initial sales | |
| Source: Continuous Recording (CORE) returns to the Tenant Services Authority (TSA) from registered social landlords | |
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