The Key Worker Living programme operated in three regions, London, East and South East of England. From 2008 the Government gave key workers in all regions priority access to the HomeBuy programme as a whole. A further 1,377 key workers were assisted where there are more than one key worker living in a household. In total 21,513 key workers have been helped through the Key Worker Living and HomeBuy programme.
The following tables show the data available on the number of households who have been assisted into a home through the First Time Buyers Initiative and London Wide Initiative.
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First T ime Buyers I nitiative
Calendar year
Region
2006
2007
2008
South East
0
20
38
London
6
23
27
South West
0
13
24
East
0
2
21
Yorkshire and Humberside
0
13
12
West Midlands
0
25
31
North West
0
10
26
East Midlands
0
0
1
North East
0
2
0
Total
6
108
180
294
London Wide Initiative
2007-08
2008-09
London
72
98
Total
72
98
170
From the data available, in total 294 key worker have been helped through the First Time Buyers Initiative and 170 key workers have been helped through the London Wide Initiative.
Grant Shapps:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate he has made of the median (a) house price and (b) income in each (i) region and (ii) local authority area in each year since 1997. [296579]
Mr. Ian Austin:
Median house prices by local authority area are available on the Communities and Local Government website at:
