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For the National Affordable Housing Programme (NAHP), bidding for the 2006-08 programme took place between July and October 2005. The initial bid round for the 2008-11 programme ran from September to early November 2007. This was followed by two
Regular Market Engagements (RME). The first RME bid round ran from mid-April to mid-May 2008 and the second ran in July 2008. From September 2008 we moved to Continuous Market Engagement under which there are no longer pre-defined bid rounds and bidding is always open.
New Build HomeBuy and Rent to HomeBuy are part of the NAHP.
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much his Department has spent on Rent to HomeBuy in 2009-10 to date. [286422]
John Healey: Up to the end of June £26,954,819 had been spent on Rent to HomeBuy in 2009-10.
Robert Neill: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what effect the decision to end the Open Market HomeBuy scheme will have on other HomeBuy schemes. [286811]
John Healey: The Government remain committed to helping households who could not otherwise afford to buy into homeownership and the HomeBuy Direct, New Build HomeBuy and Rent to HomeBuy schemes remain available to help those who cannot afford to purchase without Government assistance.
Jim Cousins: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what his plans are for the future operation of OpenMarket HomeBuy; and if he will make a statement. [287726]
John Healey: I refer my hon. Friend to my written statement to the House on 30 June 2009, Official Report, columns 8-10WS.
Jim Cousins: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what his most recent estimate is of the level of take-up of OpenMarket HomeBuy in each region; and how many purchases were made under what scheme in (a) 2007-08, (b) 2008-09 and (c) 2009 to date; and what the monetary value of those purchases was in each period. [287727]
John Healey: I refer the hon. Member to my written statement to the House on 30 June 2009, Official Report, columns 8-9WS. Since 1997, we have helped over 35,000 households through the Open Market HomeBuy scheme. However, we want to maximise our efforts behind building of new affordable homes, so we are closing the open market homebuy scheme to new applicants and in future our low cost home ownership programme will be directed to schemes which support new build homes.
The following table shows the take-up of, and number of purchases made through Open Market HomeBuy by scheme and region for 2007-08, 2008-09 and the first quarter of 2009-10.
| Number | ||||||
| 2007-08 | 2008-09( 1) | 2009-10( 1) | ||||
| eOMHB | Mychoice homebuy | Ownhome | eOMHB( 2) | Mychoice homebuy | Ownhome | |
The following table shows Government investment on open market homebuy by scheme and region for 2007-08, 2008-09 and the first quarter of 2009-10.
| £ | ||||||
| 2007-08 | 2008-09( 1) | 2009-10( 1) | ||||
| eOMHB | Mychoice homebuy | Ownhome | eOMHB( 2) | Mychoice homebuy | Ownhome | |
| (1) 2008-09 and 2009-10 figures are provisional. (2) eOMHB: Transitional arrangement for those households who had already been approved in 2007-08. Source: Homes and Communities Agency. | ||||||
Mrs. Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many potential homebuyers have been informed that their applications to the MyChoice Homebuy scheme have been refused as a result of all the scheme's funding having been allocated. [288227]
John Healey: The total number of people contacted is not held centrally.
Funding for the MyChoice HomeBuy scheme is confirmed only at the point when the equity loan provider has approved an applicant's purchase in writing. Applicants are always advised not to incur any costs until they have received written confirmation from the equity loan provider stating that their chosen property is eligible, that funding has been reserved for them and confirming that the applicant can proceed with their purchase.
Applicants who have not received confirmation have been contacted by MyChoice HomeBuy providers informing them that funding has been fully committed and that the scheme is now closed.
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many homes for (a) intermediate low cost ownership and (b) social rent he expects to be (i) started and (ii) completed in each local authority area in each of the next three years. [288491]
John Healey: We do not make future estimates of the number of intermediate affordable homes and social rented homes started and completed by local authority area.
Improvement and Development Agency: Finance
Mr. Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much direct funding his Department has allocated to the Improvement and Development Agency in each year since 2000. [286576]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The Improvement and Development Agency receives revenue support grant (RSG) funding from my Department to provide core services for local government improvement. We give additional money for specific projects from CLG allocations. Since 2000 they will have received the following amounts
| Improvement and Development Agency funding allocated (£) | |
Knowledge Network Project
Mrs. Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Peterborough of 11 May 2009, Official Report, column 538W, on the Knowledge Network project, if he will place in the Library a copy of the guidance provided for staff in his Department on using the Knowledge Network. [284765]
Mr. Malik: Communities and Local Government has no specific guidance relating to staff using the Knowledge Network.
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