PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Social Rented Housing: Expenditure (17 January 2017)

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much capital has been spent on social housing in (a) Leeds East constituency, (b) Leeds, (c) West Yorkshire and (d) the UK in each year since 2010.

Asked by:
Richard Burgon (Labour)

The Department for Communities and Local Government does not collect data on capital spent on social housing at constituency level or for the UK.

Central Government’s capital expenditures on social housing through government’s affordable homes programmes are available publicly for the National Affordable Homes Programme 2008-11, the Affordable Homes Programme 2011-2015, the Affordable Homes Programme 2015-2018 and the Shared Ownership and Affordable Homes Programme 2016-21.

Shared Ownership and Affordable Homes Programme 2016-21 initial allocations:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/affordable-homes-programme-2016-to-2021-successful-bidders

Data are only available by Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) operating areas.

Affordable Homes Programme 2015-18 initial allocations: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/affordable-homes-programme-2015-to-2018-guidance-and-allocations#allocations

Data are only available by HCA operating areas.

Affordable Homes Programme 2015-18 quarterly updates:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/affordable-homes-programme-2015-to-2018-quarterly-updates

Data are only available by HCA operating areas.

Affordable Homes Programme 2011-15 initial allocations, signed contracts and quarterly updates:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/affordable-homes-programme-2011-to-2015-guidance-and-allocations

Data are only available for HCA operating areas and by local authorities.

National Affordable Homes Programme 2008-11 – Investment statement, Yorkshire and Humberside

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20071204140632/http://www.housingcorp.gov.uk/server/show/nav.4140

Data are only available by HCA operating areas

Data on local Government’s capital expenditure on social housing are not available before 2013-14. The data for 2013-14 onwards are available in the Housing Revenue Account Capital Expenditure, financing and major repairs reserve which can be found at:

2013-14: ttps://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/396498/2013-14_FINAL_Capital_exp_and_financing_for_HRA.xlsx

2014-15: ttps://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/473580/2014-15_Capital_expenditure_and_financing_for_Housing_Revenue_Account.xlsx

Government is investing £9.4 billion to deliver over 400,000 affordable housing starts by March 2021 - the largest housing programme by any Government since the 1970s.

Answered by:
Lord Barwell (Conservative)
2 February 2017