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There were no Rent to HomeBuy sales recorded in 2008-09. New Build HomeBuy and Social HomeBuy purchasers are able to purchase a share of the property value from 25 per cent. upwards.
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many households renting under the Rent to HomeBuy scheme have subsequently acquired a share in their home. [292482]
John Healey: The Rent to HomeBuy scheme was introduced in July 2008 to help eligible households benefit from an affordable rent while they save for a deposit for a pre-specified period (up to five years). There were no sales returns from registered social landlords recorded on the CORE (continuous recording) database held by the Tenants Services Authority as at 31 March 2009.
Housing: Public Expenditure
Mrs. Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the central Government expenditure on housing was in (a) cash terms and (b) real terms in each year since 1996-97. [292635]
Barbara Follett: Data on public expenditure by function are published annually in "Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses". The latest edition was published in June 2009 (Cm 7630) and includes data from financial year 1987-88 up to and including 2008-09.
Housing: Standards
Mrs. Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) what obligations local authorities have to (a) undertake a private sector housing condition survey and (b) provide resulting information to his Department; [292554]
(2) what the timetable is for the completion of the latest round of private sector housing condition surveys. [292878]
Mr. Ian Austin: All local authorities are expected to have in place a local housing strategy. This provides an analysis of the housing needs of an area, covering housing across all tenures and provides a framework for ensuring that all parties act in a co-ordinated way to tackle housing problems. It is in local authority's interests to collect information across all housing tenures through housing condition surveys, including those privately owned, to ensure it has a plan in place for its current and future housing needs for all local residents. The Government do not stipulate either the precise detail of local housing condition surveys, the timetable of these or that local authorities share the information collected with Communities and Local Government. It is for local authorities to decide the best way to take this forward.
Housing: Valuation
Mrs. Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether the Valuation Office Agency takes into account the potential for planning permission, where such permission has not been explicitly granted, when its district valuer arm values homes for right to buy purposes. [292552]
Barbara Follett: The Valuation Office Agency reflects any realistic potential for further development when valuing dwellings for right to buy purposes. This is required under the statutory basis of valuation, as contained within section 127 Housing Act 1985 and is in full accordance with the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors' code of practice, "Valuations for Right to Buy, Right to Acquire and Equity Sharing of Social Housing".
Mrs. Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many domestic dwellings in England have been assigned the notification code CL26 by the Valuation Office Agency in each year since 2006-07. [292731]
Barbara Follett: The number of properties, in England, reviewed and cleared with notification change code CL26 is as follows.
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Mrs. Spelman:
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 26 June 2007, Official Report, on housing: valuation, what method the Valuation Office Agency uses to establish how much a permanent greenhouse is worth. [293024]
Barbara Follett: The Valuation Office Agency uses the comparison method to value domestic property for council tax purposes, whatever features it may have. Individual items would not be considered in isolation but by reference to the effect they have on the value of the whole.
Institute of Revenues Rating and Valuation Wales Conference
Mrs. Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if he will place in the Library a copy of the speech, presentation and handouts made by the representative of the Valuation Tribunal Service at the Institute of Revenues Rating and Valuation Wales conference held in Bournemouth on 30 September 2009. [292879]
Barbara Follett: I have placed in the Library a copy of the presentation given by Anne Galbraith OBE, Chairman of the Valuation Tribunal Service, entitled "The Modern Appeals Service" given at the Institute of Revenues Rating and Valuation's Annual conference in Bournemouth on 30 November 2009.
Land: Databases
Mrs. Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) which organisations have subscribed to the new Pan-Government Agreement on geographical information; [292752]
(2) which public sector organisations have purchased data from the colour infra-red product through the new Pan-Government Agreement. [292753]
Mr. Ian Austin: The following government organisations are members of the PGA.
Organisations annotated with * have licensed aerial photography and therefore have access to the colour infra-red product.
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Advantage West Midlands*
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales*
Arts Council of Wales*
Association of North East Councils
Audit Commission
Boundary Commission for England (BCE)
Boundary Commission for Wales
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)*
British Council
British Geological Survey (BGS)
British Waterways*
Cabinet Office
Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH)
Charity Commission
Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission
Church Commissioners*
Coal Authority (The)
Commission for Rural Communities
Communities and Local Government*
Consumer Council for Water
Consumer Focus
Countryside Council for Wales (CCW)*
Crown Estate (The)*
Deer Commission for Scotland (DCS)*
Defence Estates (DE)*
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS)
Department for Children, Schools and Families
Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS)
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)*
Department for Transport (DfT)
Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC)
Department of Health (DH)*
East Midlands Development Agency (EMDA)*
East Midlands Regional Assembly
East of England Development Agency*
East of England Regional Assembly*
Electoral Commission (The)*
English Heritage*
Environment Agency (EA)*
Food Standards Agency (The)
Forensic Science Service
Forestry Commission
Government Offices for the English Regions (GON)
Health and Safety Executive (HSE)
Health Protection Agency*
Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC)*
High Speed Two*
Higher Education Funding Council for Wales*
Highways Agency
Historic Scotland*
Home Office
Homes and Communities Agency*
House of Commons Library
Information Centre for Health and Social Care
Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC)
Land Registry
Local Government Boundary Commission for Wales*
London Thames Gateway Development Corporation*
Maritime and Coastguard Agency
Met Office
Ministry of Defence*
Ministry of Justice
National Assembly for Wales Parliamentary Service*
National Audit Office
National Housing and Planning Advice Unit
National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA)*
Natural England*
NHS Connecting for Health
NHS Counter Fraud and Security Management Service
North West Regional Development Agency*
Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA)
Office for National Statistics (ONS)*
Office of Communications (Ofcom)
Office of Government Commerce (OGC)*
Oil and Pipelines Agency*
Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA)*
One North East
Potato Council Ltd*
Royal Commission for Ancient and Historical Monuments Scotland (RCAHMS)*
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